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Catoctin clarion., 1900-11-08

The editor riseth in the morning and
knoweth not what the day may bring
forth. If he telleth all the news he
runneth great risk of haying tin ear
put on him, and If he telleth not the
news the people say heis n. e., and there
is no joy in it. The crafty man cajoleth
him into giving him so cent puff for
a cent cigar, and all fond mothers
frown on him if he fails to flatter their
freckled face broods. And all his ways
are ways Of woe, and his days are full
of sorrow. The insurance man settett
snares for him, and on the whole he
has deuce of time.
Catoctin clarion., 1900-11-08
THURM0NT, Frederick County, Maryland Thursday November 8. 1900


first time her eyes fell upon the ledge
swarming with deadly rattlesnakes
And then--Andy had been foolish for
once in disclosing her peril-she fell
against him in a dead faint.
This is worse than ever. A half
dead girl up in tree. III have to hold
her till she comes to her Senses
Lefty, Lettyl where are you:' broke
in a woman's voice.
'Letty's safe. She's in a freedom 7
come any nearer. The ledge is alive
with snakes. Run as fast as you can
to the nearest house for men and q
rope cried Andy as he espied wide
straw hat rounding the jutting wall.
Nm tree snakesv
'Go quick; she's tainted. Don't stop
second,' yelled Andy, as he held on
to the inanimate girl. 1t seemed as il
his arm would break. The burden was
but slight, but treetop was very un-
handy and precarlous place for boy
of fifteen to hold a little body in his
arms. Will they never come? The girl
begins to tremble in his arms; slowly
her eyes open, she gasps:
'Oh-oh-the horrid thingsv
Hey there, boy-catch ltv came
voice from the summit. A coil of rope
came swirling through the air. Andy
caught in and made it fast to che trunk
Now, I'll fasten it about you under
your arms. Can you stand it?-the
swing down, miss-miss--'
Lefty Falkland said she.
Audy almost fell from the branch.
Falkland was the name Of the city man
who held the mortgage on the mill.
There; now the rope is nicely fast
ened about you-does it pinch?'
No; l think l can hang to the tree
and get down now. I'm brave
YOU are very brave. I've taken 6
turn about the imb to ease the strain
Now, carefully. Catch hold Of The
rough bark and--down you gov
The girl swung from the limb and
slowly swayed In mid air. Then catch
ing hold of limbs and rough bark tc
stay her descent, she slowly went down
She touches the ground, she is safe
Andy quickly followed her; at the base
of the ire e the girl again fell IN faint
The two men who came down the side
path picked her up and carried her tc
the ne Arrest house which chanced to be
the one where she was visiting
Lefty soon recovered from her shock
and it didn't take very long for the
thrilling account of it to reach her faith
er in the city. THE son of the miller.
That was enough.
1t is needless to say that Andy raised
the mortgage from the dear old mill
more, fine mill, with all modern i'm
provements, is being erected near by
-Letty's present to the brave lad
Lefty dearly loves to visit the old mill
and Andy-boy like-likes to have he
ask questions. What the result in 6
few years to come will be, all can plainly
guess, for Mr.. Falkland is a sensible
man, and wants to see Andy go to tn
top because he is worthy.
Catoctin clarion., 1900-11-08
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Catoctin clarion., 1900-11-08

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one way to succeed-by making the
receipts larger than the expenditures.
Catoctin clarion., 1900-11-08
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Catoctin clarion., 1900-11-08
R. A. .DIFPBNDAL,
DEALER IN
WINES and LIQUORS,
ENINITSBURG. MD.
EMMITSBURG, MD.

Buys direct from the Manufac.
turer. Distilled from carefully
selected grain, therefore is strictly
pure and guaranteed free from
any adulteratioD. Sold at reason
able prices.
Catoctin clarion., 1900-11-08

Leave Rocky Ridge for Emmltsburg at
S26 and 10 80 m, and 8 81 and "a p M.
Leave Edgemont for WaynesboIo and
Chambersburg at 705 a m, and for Ship
pensburg at II 40 m, and 7 IS JPN
Leave Hagerstown for Cherry Run and
points on Potomac Valley Railroad at 8 10
m and 10 0S and 8 O5 pm.
Leave Brucevllle tor Frederick at 8 80, 8 35
aud 10 40 M and 80 and 80 p m, and for
Littlestown, Taueytown, Wrightsvlle and
Columbia at 8 AZ m and 345 pm.
Daily-all other daily except Sunday.
ts,ops to land Passengers from Baltimore.
] M. HOOP. B H. GRIswoLD.
Genl, Manager. Genl, Passenger, Agen
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-22

The Stock Al eady Sought After In Europe.
Special Sale If Stock Offered for Only
No Subscription Taken for Less Than 100
Certified Checks Postal Money
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-22
A WOMAN'S AWFUL PERIL.

There is only one chance to save
your life and that Is through an opera
tion,'' were the startling words heard
by Mrs. I. b. Hunt, of Lime Ridge, Wis
from her doctor after he had vatnly
tried to cure her of a frightful Gaze 81
stomach trouble and yellow jaundice.
Gall stones had formed and she con-
stantly grew worse. Then she began
to use Electric Bitters which wholly
cured her. It's q wonderful Stomach,
Liver and Kidney remedy. Cures dys-
pepsia, Loss of Appetite. Try it. Only
so cents. Guaranteed. For sale by
w. A. Irwin & Co.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-22
FOOD CHANGED TO POISON.

Purifying food in the intensitines
produces enects like those of arsenic.
but DrI Kings New Life Pills expel the
poisons from clogged bowels. gently,
easily. but surely, curing Constipation,
Billiousness, Sick Headache, Fevers,
all Liver. Kidney and bowel troubles.
Only rs cents, at W. A. Irwin & Cos.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-22
TO THE PUBLIC.

The new City Directory for 1901 by
the Ell Paso Directory company Cthe
home company will be delivered to
its patrons January 1. This announce
ment is made because a directory is
sued BY another concern is being de-
Hvered The printing of the home di-
rectory is just being finished
Ell PasO Directory Co.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-22

II you are going to California this
winter. or expect to visit Arizona or
Northern New Mexico, 1t will pay you
to make the trip via Trinidad Gateway
using the uneQualled service Of "The
Denver Road" in connection with the
Santa Fee through service to the coast.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-22

FOR RENT:-Two four room houses
on N. Ochoa street. R. w. Spence
Real Estate, lot Texas
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-22
Not Only a Mining En-
erprise, But Manu-
featuring AS Well
with the stockholders as sole owners.
and participating in all earnings. from
the start
Unusual. But Business Like
Features of the Company

No allotted or promoted stock
to be in competition with cash
subscriptions, and no transfers of
such stock until after the work
ing capital and treasury fund is
assured. No salaried officials,
and expenses reduced to the
minimum. No debts can be as
sumed or created by the board of
directors unless the funds are in
the treasury to meet the same.
No debts. Titles incontestable.
In the development no expensive
tunnels, cross-sections, shafts,
ETC., to eat up funds. Every
piece has a money value. Sew
eral carloads of this extensive
and very valuable onyx are on
the dumps and the output will
be largely augmented so as to
supply the demand in the rough
as well as the manufactured pro-
duct. Estimating the rough pro-
duct at minimum figure the
profit shows over IS per cent on
each car load, and this has no
reference, however, to what the
onyx is worth when manufactur-
ed for commercial purposes, all
Of which tends to greatly en-
nance the earning power and en-
large dividends.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-22

Call 587 for Deming water man.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-22
For Profit To Its
Stockholders

and it is the policy and purpose of the
company to sell only enough of its
stock in the treasury to defray the ex-
pense of developing the same and in
stalling the plant for its manufacture.
so as to be able
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-22
To Declare Dividends

from actual net earnings Of the prop
erty, and to bring this about at the
earliest possible date, and Of such
ing to the stockholders; and what is of
vital importance to every investor is
the fact, that the property is being
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-22

kew NON 10 sMBI eqa I9pun sIesH AlJy
IoJ peaeIodLoouI 81 GugdWoo sIuI
leo and capitalized at $3.50 100000 divid-
ed into $50, 900 shares of the par value
of One Dollar, fully paid and non-as-
seSSable.
The officers of the Caballero Onyx
Mining company are: Lew Gilbert,
president; H. E. Runkle, vice-pres-
ident; Chas w. Alexander, secretary
and treasurer; John L. Dyer, Jr., at
torney; and the First National bank
depository. The main office is in Ell
Paso, Texas, and its principal place OF
business in New Mexico, in the Cabal-
lero Canon, Otero county-only seven
miles from the Ell Paso and Northeast
ern rail road, with hauling charges to
railroad nominal.
The Caballero Onyx Mining company
was organized for the purpose of OPP
Grating its valuable onyx properties
The age-herald., 1900-03-04
TWO KIND OF BoERs

W. D. Park an New York Sun.
 The only Boers with whom I have any sympathy are tine real Boers. They are a farming population, brawny, muscular dirty, ignorant and degenerate, and they fight simply because the leaders have told them that if they don't fight fhe English will drive them into the sea, anyway. You could not find enough educated Boers to form a government. Hence they naturally turn ,to their next of kln, the Holland Dutch, who form largely the offlce-holding popula- tion. These bring nothing into the country, they start no enterprises, but fill their pock- cts with corruption money, and get home as soon as they can. To fill their pockets Out landers. English, Americans, French and Germans are taxed heavily.
 The Boers are good marksmen, but their armies with few exceptions are commanded by Germans and Austrfans. They have been preparing for the war for several years. To my knowledge arms and ammunition have been coming into the country in trainloads for four years. The troubles that brought on the war were started by a set of agita- tors who have been stirring up a racial feeling. Hoffmeyer of the Afrikander bund, and Schreiner, in Cape Colony, nave been the most active workers in this direction They have had helpers and abettors all over the country, so that for England 1t is not only a question of the Dutch, but ques- tfon of treason in her own country.
The age-herald., 1900-03-04
PROFITABLE COTTON

From the Phfladetpnla Recoru
 Cotton prices continue to advance and have already reached the highest point that has been touched since 1895. The crop is at least 100000 bales smaller than last year; but European spinners were slow to believe in the deficiency of the yield, and delayed buying until the fact of a senous crop shortage could be no longer ignored. European stocks are about 100000 bales foreign imports from itRris country have yet to increase nearly 100000 bales to equal those for the corresponding period last year. Much of the supply at the ports has been sold, and is aiwahdinlg transportation; but exporters are still eager buyers in the southern markets. It is this belated de- mand from Europe, coupled with strong support from spectators, which has given the recent upward impulse Ito prices. The latter are 8 cents per pound higher than will undoubtedly stimulate cotton planting this season, but increased acreage win not insure a proportionate increase in produc- tion unless weather conditions shah prove favorable.
 Tinls seasons profitable returns for cot- ton planting lasWe had good effect upcn the general bls[lness of the south and the prosperity of that section aecentuates nhe need which 1.-The Record'' had persGstentqy pointed out fer tmproved facilities to en- able the merchants of PhI,adelphia to se- cure larger share Of the trade of the cot ton states.
The age-herald., 1900-03-04
WHY HE CHANGED FRONT

From the Mobile Herald
 Governor Johnston favored constitu- tional convention. both through his official message to the general assembly and also in other ways. He signed the bill submit ting the question of a convention to a vote of the people. His sudden change of opin- ion on this subject was surprise ito the whole state. His refusal to be governed by the action of the democratic state con- vention made him a bolter, and all who aided him to repeal the convention measure were also bolters.
 Why did Johnston change his opinion on the subject of constitutional convention? Because he saw that he could not control the convention. Because he is a small man. and when he saw among tine list of nomina tions for delegate some of the leading men of the state who are opposed ito Johnston ism, he at once became ready to sacrifice the party and anything else to gratify petty pique and animosity
The age-herald., 1900-03-04
Ht OILY DAIlY MEwspApfR IN ALABAMA
Back Taxing the University.

The effort of the back-tax department of the state administration to collect taxes from the lands of the university, is of course an effort to collect taxes from every educational institution in the state This raid is directed against one as the higher educational institutions of the state; for the property of the university cannot be taxed, and the others go untaxed. The taxation of the university's coal lands means that the books in its library are also taxable and also the building that holds them. and when they are listed for taxation purposes, the buildings and libra ries of Auburn and Montevallo and Normal must also be listed. The attack on the part of tine state administration is an attack all along the line. When 1t was determined upon, its meaning and conse- quences were foreseen, for a blind man can see them.
 If lands donated by the people of the United States for educational purposes are taxable, then certainly nothing held by the educational Institutions of the state Is ex- empt. The blow falls first upon the univer>i sitys coal lands because its officers would not accept a policy of sale instead of policy of royalties, but the revenue thus sought to be inflicted extends by necessary implication to every other educational in stitution in the state. As soon as Commits sioner Wetmore's contension is established, it will become the open and imperative duty of the tax officials in all parts of the state to list the properties of the educational institutions without exemptions of any Sort
 The legislature, representing it should the people, cannot intervene, because it cannot change the constitution, although it ean through appropriations, make good the sums that may have been wrested from the states educational institutions; and 1t is not conceivable that the people would per- init their institutions to be wrecked, or even crippled, in any such manner.
The age-herald., 1900-03-04

They win not go except in spirit, aud that will not interfere at all with the movements of Roberts and Kitchener.
 The forces in this war are pretty we'll
 mustered and on the spot. The numbers are no longer a secret. The Boers of the Taansvaal and the Free State have about 60000 men of all ages under arms. They have 11O guns. 16 of which are 15-centimetre Creusot guns, 21 are s7-millimetre automatic gns 42 are 75-milllmetre guns, and 1 are Howitzers of AT inches calspre. Besides they have captured 19 British guns. Against this force England now has in South Af- Iica 1sO6OO regulars. S7,SOO of which are mounted. The South African Colon3als number 26 goo mounted men, while the other colonies have sent 4,69S mounted and 2,S75 unmoumted men. There are now in South Afnca, or en route there. 40 guns. Of these 74 are position guns, intended for the siege of Johannesburg or for forcing of these are sslegeStrain guns and 3S naval guns. Besides these there are 36 5-inch Howdtzers, which arc moved with the troops, throwing a heavy shell carrying fifty pounds of lyddite. In the horse ar t.llery there are 54 guns, and in the field artillery 2% guns. In addition there are two mountain batteries of guns each.
 These are the forces that are ito fight it out," to use an expression of Lord Kitchener. The chief problem on the Brit ish aide is one of transportation. The dis tanees are great, and the rail lines have but one track, and are equipped for a light business only. None of them are adapted to the strain of feeding great armies, to say nothing of moving them. But stIl they are better than oxen and they will be utilized to their fullest extent. AT pres crit Lord Roberts is between the north and-south lines-between the line to Pre- toria, and the line to Kimberley, and his supplies must be drawn by oxen or mules from points near Kimberley. No wonder therefore that his men are on reduced ra- Ions. The wonder is that they have any is about a1l that Is left of the South Afrd- can campaign, and when that is solved, an irresstable forward movement under Roberts and Kitchener will be begun, it's objective points being Prehoria and Johan- nesburg.
The age-herald., 1900-03-04
Gen. Wheeler's Case in Congress.

General wheeler's arrival in San Francis co is daily expected, and in a short time afterwards he will be in Washington, ready to take his seat in the house of represen- tatives. This will raise great constitu- tional question; and as it will not in any way infringe upon the profits of the tariff ties, 1t may be, discussed on its merits. The opposition to his seating will come almost exclusively from his own party friends. The republicans never let the constitution point and even when they cannot they are loose, very loose constructionists.
 Much depends upon the time when Gen eral Wheeler resigned his office in the from the administration of the oath by the speaker. even the time of his resignation is not material. In the last congress the judiciary committee held that the term of a member of congress does date from his swearing-in. If this be the true con- struction, then General Wheeler has yet to begin his term, and he can do that and tender his resignation as brigadier general at his own pleasure.
 In the fifty-hfth congress General Wheeer's case was never reached-never disposed of, much to the disgust of Mir. Bailey and Speaker Reed The sympathies and support of large majority of the house went with the little general, and his opponents were powerless. What this con- gress will do is an open question. General Wheeler has neither taken the oath of office, nor drawn any pay. He has nottherefore held. at least in a technical sense, two off, fees. Precedents are so intertangled and confusing that no one can make much out of them. General wheeler's friends can at least call up many as his opponents can. David B. Hill served ten months as govern or of the state of New York after his sena- torlal term had begun. He was promptly seated, because he had not been sworn in and had not drawn pay as a senator. One held state and the other federal office, but no one insists that a difference in offices changes the effects of the constitutional provision.
 The chances are that General Wheeler will be seated, but the chances are equally good that Mir. Bailey will first exhibit his constitutional lore. and that a good deal of pyrotechnic work will be indulged in. There will, however. be no force behind it.
The age-herald., 1900-03-04
MICROBE OF THE t;KIP

fioiil lue ANtW OTk sun.
 Dr. L. Gaze introduces us to the mierobe of the grip. ''The grip or infiuenza," he says, 'is due to a wandering microbe which, like that of the cholera, travels on land and sea. In November last this re- doubtable insect was in Turkey, where it's presence was noted scientifically. It tray eled along the great lines of commerce and arrived at several points of the old and new world. It was Professor Robert Pfeiffer. of Berlin, who discovered the bacillus in 1892, and since then it is kept in reserve in laboratory cultures, like its relatives of tuberculosis typh1s, malar,a, hydrophobia and yellow fever. The microbe enters the human system through the nose and mouth. The germ in form looks little like an egg. and 1t is covered by a she'll The interior is composed of a cellular white mass. like the white of an egg, and in sse center of this is the protoplasm, which can be com pared to the yolk of an egg. Once in the human body, the bacillus settles down to business and spreads the liquie poison, which causes influenza. 1t is not the germ which produces the malady, but the toxic matter which emanates from it.
 ''The bacillus of the influenza has neither legs nor wings, and, although it can't move along of its own accord, it is constantly travelling It attaches itself to moving bodies of all kinds Certainly the germ may sometimes be carried along in the wind, but in most cases it reaches the hu- man body by contagion. Once installed there, 1t increases and multipiies enorm- ously and in a very short time.' hs