Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1900-06-28
Miss Ruha Willhide Of this place is visiting
Mrs. Frank Pa lmor and family in Uniontown
The Anti.Sal0On League

Mrs. Frank Pa lmer and family in Uniontown
The Anti.Sal0on League
will hold a meeting in the NJ. E.. church,
Thurmon., on Friday evening, June 29th, at
8 o'clock r. m The object of the meeting is
to complete the organization, and give an
opportunity to those who have not as yet
connected themselves with 1t to do so. 1t is
hoped that large congregation will be pres
ent and that many will lend their intluen ce
in this important work.
AGirl's College Education.
A graduate of Cornell University will tell
in carefully detailed article in the August
Ladies' Home Journal, "How Girl Can
Work Her Way Through College" There
are almost innumerable methods by which a
girl can pay for her education while she is
studying. Colleges and universities make
most generous provisions for young women
and young men who are without money, but
who have brains and energy. So no apt,
worthy girl need be without college educa.
ton If she wants one and is determined to
have it. This article will tell how it Is TO be
obtained through personal effort.
THE WARS.
OF the several storm centres in the east,
that in China is now not only the most
clearly defined, but gives evidence Of much
the greatest energy.
Great Britain seems to have ended the real
war in South Africa and there will probably
not be another engagement there worthy to
be callnd a battle, but the scattered small
bodies of Beers will necessitate active work
and heavy garrisoning of the two con-
quered States and discomfort in Cape Colony
will require like care and vigilance for
some years to come.
Our troubles in the Philippines are yet re.
quiring the presence of more than sixty
thousand troops, as Of the sixty three thous-
and there, Gen. Macarthur does not agree to
see more than one or two regiments taken
for service in China.
The "cosed door" in China ia operating
now to prevent the egress Of information as
well as the lngress of foreign articles OF COM
merce, and just what the condition of affairs
there is, is far from being known. 1t is not
even certainly known whether the troubles
are chargeable to an insurrectionary party,
or that the Chinese government is IN sympa-
thy with the movement against foreigners;
1t is not known whether those bearing arms
and doing the fighting are the Boxers" only,
or that the imperial armies have been en-
gagged in it,
1t is not known certainly that any consid
cradle number OF missionaries have been
killed nor that any of the foreign ambassa-
doris, consus or other officials have been
harmed, nor is 1t certain that hundreds Of
these people may not have been murdered.
It is in every way most distressing condi
ton of affairs in the matter of uncertainty
and grounds for grave fears.
That stubborn fighting has been doneihat
many Americans and European soldiers
have already been slain and that the equip.
ment and fighting qualities of the Chinese
have been underestimated- these things are
about all that arc known with any degree Of
certainty.
1t is probably too early yet and informa
ton is too meaCre to be able to predict either
the length or consequences Of the Chinese
troubles; on their face there Is serious look
yet they may be brought to an early end and
without any extraordinary results, either in
the matter of war or ofafter complications.
POLITICAL.
The republican ticket has been named
President Mckinley and Coy. Roosevelt OF
New York The platform is just that ex.
pected and raises no new issues other than
those of the foreign policy Of the present ad'
minIsration.
Next week the democracy will meet IN
convention at Kansas City. Just rs at Phil
adclpha to nominee for the presidency has
been predetermined; that Mr.. Byran will be
nominated by the democracy is as safe to
predict, as was President McKinlcy's nomi-
nation.
1t was necessary, or was thought to be so,
tina, New York man be named on the re.
publican ticket and it is more necessary that
an eastern man be named along with Mr.
BRYAN. If however the money question is
to be kept in the foreground by the democ
racy it will be very difficult undertaking
to find an eastern man of prominence against
whom the charge of inconsistency might not
be successfully laid, for the eastern demo-
Gratis that favored the 16 to plank of the
platform of 1896 and were pronounced in its
advocacy, that may be rated as vice pres-
dental timber are few, if not non existent.
If on the other hand, later issues are to be
made prominent by the Kansas City plat
form builders, there will be no difficulty ex-
pericnced in finding strong eastern running
mate for MIR, Bryan; the ablest eastern men
in the party will be in full accord with Mr..
BRYAN if he and his friends (who are unques
toned masters Of the sltuation) agree to the
proposition that there are problems ofgroater
magnitude and questions more momentous
than that relating to the nations metal coin,
that have arisen since 1895 and are oVershad.
owing all others If he does not agree to
this proposition, but persists in clingins to
the DID, ignoring the new issues, he will have
the South and West to look to for his election
hence should look to those sections for his
Vice Presidential candidate.
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