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Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1904-11-10
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic,

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appointed to verify the statements OF
the cotton mill manufacturers that
| they were unable to pay the rate OF
| wages in force before the strike of
nearly 10000 operatives was declared,
| 10 weeks ago.
Lake Shore Railroad officials have
placed an order for 1000 steel ties
| to be used as an experiment, probably
near the eastern terminus ot the road,
at Buffalo.
There was another fire in Upton,
Ga, which burned up the old knit
ting mill, with all its machinery. 1t
is supposed to have been OF incendi-
AIRY origin.
An issue of $I,Ioo,ooo bonds has
been arranged, the proceeds to be
used for extensions of the Georgia,
Florida and Alabama Railroad.
Miss May Irwin said that in her
will she had set aside 100000 to be
used to further the plan OF estab-
fishing national theater.
Judge Holt in the United States
Supreme Court i'll New York, decided
that the son Of Chinese father and
an English mother cannot be dcport,
cd under the Chinese Exclusion Law.
Capt David d. Nullken, Twenty
seventh infantry, is to be court-mar-
tailed for deserving his Filipino wife
and duplicating his pay accounts.
Burglars entered tho bank OF Beck
or, MINI, broke open the the safe with
nitro glyccrin, secured $1,000 III cur
rcncy and escaped on a handcar.
Rear Admiral Chester, OF the Naval
Observatory, submitted a rccommen-
dation for naval expedition to OBJ
serve the solar eclipse III 1905.
John and George Buchanan, sons
OF PoSey county lllD farmer,
fought with knives over a trivial mat
ter John will likely die
The State Bank OF Reading. Mich,
was entered by burglars, who blew
the safe and secured $1,000 in silver.
The Chicago Grand Jury recon-
mended that capital punishment be in
llictcd for highway robbery.
Mason Long, well known Is a tenn
pcrancc lecturer and author, died in
Fort Wayne.
The Cleveland and Cincinnati ex-
press ran into light engine during a
dense Jog at Portage. Pa. The pas
senecrs had a shaking up, but none
was seriously injured
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Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1904-11-10
Germany Wants Treaty,

Berlin, (By Cable).--Thc German
Government is i'll full sympathy with
the proposal OF the United States for
a treaty OF arbitration between the
United States and Germany, and there
seems no doubt that treaty will be
arranged at all early date. The For
eign Office only received the propos.
al from tho American Embassy few
ia,.e
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-02
AUDITORS NEW CLERK
W. R. SAWYER SUCCEEDS W. c.
 HARKINS.
Department Bookkeeper at Capitol Goes to Birmingham, His Place Being Filled by Former
 Banker of Ensley.

Captain W. c. Harkins has resigned as bookkeeper in the office of State Auditor Thomas l.. Sowell, and the Auditor an- nounced yesterday the appointment of W. R. Sawyer of Ensley to the vacancy
 Captain Harkins will move to Birming- ham. where he will enter mercantile busi- ness with his brother. Captain Harkins has held a place in the Auditors office for the past three years. He was a citi- zen of Jasper, the home town of Auditor Sowell. and he came to Montgomery with the Auditor at the beginning of his term.
 Captain Harkins's work has been large ly in connection with the State Pension Department. He has been ex offlcio Sec retary of the State Pension Board and he has sent out the warrants to the State g pensioners.
 He is well known in Alabama military circles. holding the rank of Captain as Instructor of the Guard on the staff of Lieutenant- Colonel F. P Mcconnell com manding the 3rd infantry. He carries with him to his new home in Birmingham the best wishes of wide circle of Mont gomery friends.
 w. R. Sawyer, his successor. is one of the best known. citizens of Ensley. He has, for several years. been in the bank ing business of that little city. He is regarded as a most efficient and valuable office man. He was recently an applicant for the place of State Bank Examiner, and for this place he received a most flat tering endorsement.
 MT. Sawyer will begin the discharge of his duties at once.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-02
Our Daily $bort Story

gather up wat shreds of dignity she had left and x,irn upon him. 'Tf you address another word to me. sir. you will oblige me to give up my seat. and shall report your impotence to the conductor" she said so emphat- ! icaliy that the words carried conviction. He gaxed at her in dumb amusement. Well. I'll be hornswaddledr' he ejac- ulated. finding 1t incredible that anyone could withstand his blandishments. As Miss Kimball showed no sign of relent- ing. he jerlsed himself together and rose to the occasion. . T won't make you give up your seat" he said. magnanimously. m give up mine.''
 That will suit me perfectly" she re- spQnded. with uncompromising severity. Miss Kimball was beginning to breathe more freely and had half composed a most interesting bread and butter'' let ter to the friend whom she had been if one looks for them-the disagreeable experience would afford her friend at least two pages of amusemenD when the unmistakable lisp again sounded in her ear.
 Miss, I've got to get of in a min ute; we're most to Sand-Bur Settlement. I tell you. you might do worse. I'll give you a chance to reconsider
 'T do wonder where the conductor is said Miss Kimball. She must have been talking to herself, for she neither saw nor addressed anyone in particular. The gentleman from Sand-Bur Settlement ev- idently gave up the situation. He shook his head dejectedly, took up his bum de of ''stuff;' cast a last languishing look upon his fellow traveller. and de- parted.
 The last Mss Kimball saw of him. he was trudging down the country road in the direction of a lone. weather-worn house on a sandy plain. and her imagin- ation lent to the picture a strudy growth of sand burs to adorn the lawn.
 That evening Gertrude Kimball, not be- ing able to think of better story. told her afternoons adventure to group of interested friends, while her bunch of led a cheerful accompaniment.
 'Tn these days and at your age. Ger trude?" insinuated one, of the audience at the close of the tale.
 "Yes. and he was undoubtedly dispos- ed to be generous. He was willing to buy a whole quarters worth of candy instead of a measly little ten-cent bag" :" said another.
 "And house and lot all paid for! Just think of it." exclaimed a third.
 Do you suppose can have lost my last chance?" sighed Gertrude.
 And she watched her faggots dreamily as the greedy flames consumed the last of them. In their dying embers her soIi- taire flashed iustrfously.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-02

Save for my daily range
 Among the pleasant fields of Holy Writ I might despair. -Tennyson. Eiref Quarter. Lesson 1. Luke ii, 4O-
 52. January 8, 1904.
 The Boyhood of Jesus. One fncident--One only-of Jesus's youth zs preserved. If analysed, 1t will be Hound to be the whole period in epitome- khe spirit. traits. requirements of Jesus before entrance upon his public career.
 A temple nuncio on his round had ap- nrised Nazareth of the approaching feast. The festai caravan. chanting the psalms of ascent, was soon en route. It may be ulnuee, this sacred journey Mary dis
 b the opening consciousness of her
 things which she had kept and
 a in her heart"
 she prodigious mass of humanity,
 q golden and marble temple that
 accommodate a quarter of a mil
 not even the speaking ceremonial
 h had been performed for a ml-
 um and a half-not these, but the
 ianic idea and the dawning con-
 ,aness s.I am he,'' absorbed Jesus.
 made him obiivious to time and placa
 human relationships. The glowing
 ef burst in flame.
 ae child among the doctors is no ana s2fsua. It is in strictest accord with sfsh custom. The sittings of the Rab- ss were open to all. Sons of Sne law, ehrew youths twelve years and over, ere especially welcome, aad encouraged z show what they knew. The catecheti- sat <yas the favorite method. "What sneanethg'' was on lips of teacher and <aurht. What surprised the doctors in fhIs Ealilean boy was the absence oi &tnreotyped rabbinical phrase. No touch Ff schools or schoolmen was on him. #Iefe was originality divine-the truth fFee from the scholastic barnac!es of gloss and paraphrase. yet a childish gentle 41ss and humility transfusing all. The Wakher,s matters were undoubtedly sub aecf of discourse; the Messiah. when. vghence. what like. effect of his coming? Nanw q doctor must have said that day. eRhence hath this Child this wisdom ?'' They were in an ecstasy of admiration. fshe impression the child made was no 1oubf lively; but the appearance of Cali 9nan peasants who claimed to be his 7saFanfe. and to whom he gave ready eheafence, was calculated to tone it down r,be conversation between mother and <tfl6 casts at least a ray on that mex ~lidable relationship. It is as if Mary haA safd. 'sSon, here is your first act xbak aurpasses my comprehension" There ss more of pathos in 1t than querulous
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-02
DINNER TO BOYS.
New Year Entertainment at the Y.
 M. c. A.

New Year Entertainment at the X.
 M. c. A.
 The Ladies Auxiliary to the Montgom- cry Young Mems Christian Association rendered to the gymnasium class of boys the annual New Years dinner yesterday afternoon at o'clock.
 Three long tables invitingly and tempt ingly arrayed in fruits and flowers filled the spacious second parlor of the Y. M. c. A., on which tables were covers for forty boys.
 Dinner was served by six charming young women attractively gowned. They were: Misses Lucille Washburn. Cassie Washburn. Fannie May Dushin. Katie Roemer. Ellen Jackson and Mabel Hood. The committee of ladies in charge of the dinner was: Mrs. BoOthe. Mrs. Wash burn, Mrs. Ed Gay.
 The committee on table arrangements and decoration was: Mrs. J. Warren Jones and Mrs. Albert Fillmore. These annual New Years dinners are much enjoyed by the boys of the Y. M c. A.. and Is very great pleasure to the members of the Auxiliary who are so untiring and faithful in their efforts | to make each dinner in some way sur pass the one of the previous year. rec ognizing as they do that the "boy of to- day is the man of tomorrow" and the boys of the Y. NJ. c. A. to-day. will, in few years, go to make up the great body of the Young Mems Christian As | sociation of America.
 The following boys participated in the happy event: Charles Alley, Bradley Al ley, Woodfin Cobbs. Dixon Barnett. Cas- ton Barnett, Roy Brewer. Charles Bailey Chillie Boykin, Henry Boykin, Wilkie Ca ter. Robert Chapman, Leo Dreyfus, An drew Carlson George Miles Bradford Hardie, Jr., Willie Elliott, Stanley Fra zier, John Chiffon. James Flowers, Archie Lanier, T. J. Miles, Stuart May George Minnis, Ed Shepard, Theo Shepard, Rob- ert Falkner. Jeff Falkner. Dan Shaw Evert Youngs. Harvey Egg, Lee Gregory Leo Stern, Carey Townsend, Van Han non, Allen Rankin, Gilbert Scott, Gus Knabe, Sam Ellsberry, Cecil Vann, Mo. Gregor Snodgrass.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-02
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INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY-sCHooE LESSON
Copyright, Dayis W. Clark,


 ness. His answer. dutiful and affection. ate. is: Mother, I'm surprised you sought me anywhere but in my Fathers house. where his matters are considered. thought you knew the interest, unknown to others, which would attract me and hold me here"
 But cheerfully, in an instant, and fol eighteen years, he quits this place of ab- sorbing interest, this agreeable assembly exchanges the temple for a carpenter. shop. the Sanhedrin for the provincial neighbore of Nazareth-all at his lowly mothers beck.
 But this incident was, humaniy speak ing, of incalcuiable value to Jesus. Tn, holy consciousness, first quickened in tn, temple, opened and bloomed in his soul While still subject to his parents, ant having a perfectly normal human de velopment of a Character so lovely d. to fairly capitvate his rugged highland neighbors, yet the knowledge of his alvin, nature and vocation ran parallel there with.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-02
COMMITTEE MEETS TO-DAY.
Democrats of Montgomery to Arrange
 For Primary

The Democratic Executive Committed of Montgomery county will meet to-day at noon in the City Court room.
 The meeting will be called to order by Chairman Ray Rushton. The call for the meeting was issued by Chairman Rush. ton, to arrange for a primary for the Democratic voters of Montgomery coun- ty in which the county officers will be nominated. Beyond arranging for the county primary. it is not thought that any other business of importance will be before the committee.
 It is expected that the committee will order an early county primary and go on record as favoring an early State primary.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-02
STATE BANK EXAMINER.
MT. Rutledge Commissioned and Be-
 gins Duties.

gins Duties.
 Hon. T. J. Rutledge. the new State Bank Examiner, was given the first com mission yesterday issued from the Secre- tary Of States office in 1904.
 MT. Rutledge has been one of the Assist ant Examiners of Public Accounts He relinquished that place on the last day of the old year to take up the duties of his new official position on the first day of the new year.
 A commission was also issued yesterday to Judge W. F. Wilkinson of Autauga County. Judge Wilkinson succeeds MT RutIedge as Assistant Examiner of Pub lie Accounts.
 Judge Wilkinson came to Montgomery yesterday to take up the duties of his new position.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-02
The Teacher's Lantern.

This incident, at first blush a pictoral affair, fairly bristles with lessons for parents and children, for teachers and pupils. It is the anatomy of a child's heart for the child himself and for the would-be helper of the ctlld.
 The Child Jesus was the ideal learner. He kept filling with wisdom. He stored his memory with Scripture, and in addi- tion persistently drew from his environ ment, physical and social. The evidences of the accuracy and wilderness of his observations abound in his discourses. It was this that prepared him to be the ideal teacher.
 The home of Jesus had a beautiful set. ting of physical scenery. Nazareth, with its white domes and abundant foliage. has been described as a handful of pearls in a goblet of emerald. Hermon, Tabor Carmel, the Sea, and Esdraelon were in sight. The impression made on Jesus mind is evident from Its reproduction in his parables.
 Social life also was unique. There was art and trafi1c. The teeming population was so infused with Greek spirit as to be called "Gentile.'' It muse have in- fiuenced the youth Jesus.
 In the Jewish household, on the con uary, the sweetest confidence maintained between parent and child. Father, what meaneth this?" was often on the Child s lips, and to describe the intent of cere-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-02
Child-Study and sunday School
 Mefhods.

Peter then dined again. and immedi- ately the cock crew!" The stumbling lit- tie reader flushed when teacher and class laughed. But his error only showed that dinner and ''cooix" were more familiar to him than the apostle and his shame full lapse. Perhaps, too. 1t was natural association of ideas. His mind may have been on the good meal he know was mak.. ing at home. f
 When will 1t be realized ehat the Bible narrative takes young people to for eign land with strange manners and dia- lect? A lady once admitted that until she was a pretty good sized girl she thought that the Scripture scenes were laid. not in this world at all. but in heaven The method will be admitted an unreal one which could have left such an impression. The idea may not havd originated with the teacher, but at least ought to have been discovered and dis abused.
 The Bible story needs to bs Ameri- canized, or the child needs to be fo~- eignized. The alternative isteither to re- cast the story in English phrase and in- fuse it with Occidental spirit or intro. duce the child to Oriental life and the ways of speaking and doing in far away land.
 2 1l ID du Opcu quCotAoh WAtCthCI Lihc pqy who mistook denied" for dinner and cock for ''cook't ought to have been put to reading at all. The common way of verses turn about is vicious at any rate Every mother son Is puzzling ou, which verse will fall to him. and losing the drift of all by trying to get his piece pat.
 One is tempted to a parody on the ap- proved style of constructing. lesson by inc "cock' and cook" incident, namely Il. If the cook set up three dinners in i'm mediate succession. he had a right ts crow. @ If Peter, ate the dinners, no won der that he went sorit and wept. That fl the Gradgrind method. Why do we no eat stones? Because there is no nutri ment in stones. That is why we do no eat stones" It is the saw and hammer way including the mechanical acrostic ant similar wornout devices, by means O. which an average of five and half mora truths are evolved from twelve-vers lesson.
 For an ideal way of teaching take Ma thans parable of the Five Lamb''- Samuel xii.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-02
Free from Oalomel or Poiaon.

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The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-02

Alpine flowers and plants are so quick ly becoming extinct that strong meas ures are to be taken in future for their preservation.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-02

moniai or memorial was the fathers de- light. There were eight weli-denned stages in the religious nurture of He brew youth. The sacred name freeted his eye on the doorpost as he cGsne or went. He must needs learn his sheina and Haiiel. He had his own birthday text, an acrostic from Scripture which spelled his name. The thoroughness of his training is evident from the familiari- ty with every part of tho Old Testament in both Hebrew and Greek which he showed. He was certainly familiar with three languages. possibly with fourth. We know he could write. The surprise of the Jews, expressed in the words. How knoweth this man letters7" was caused by the phenomenal wisdom he showed in interpretation. though to their knowledge he had never attended rab- binical school, the equivalent of going to college" in our day. There is here an incidental hint of the excellent of the advantages afforded to him m his home. and the fidelity with which he avaiied himself of them.
 But home. was chief factor in the evo- luton of Jesus character. The Hebrew home was ai night blooming cereus. Pa ganism knew nothing worthy the name of home. Oriental children were as rule dismissed to the company of slaves.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-12-07
REoisrRlcT THE SOUTH.
Rather Than Have Negro Rule Senator
Bacon Willing to Accept Reduction.

Macon. Ca. Dec. s.-Congressmar
Hardwick. Of the Tenth Georgia dis
trict. few days ago wrote letter to
Senator Bacon asking ais views upon
the present political situation. Sena-
tor Bacon replied at length.
The senator says there is an attempt
to republicanize the south. He de-
clares that white supremacy must be
maintained in the south. and southern
prosperity is due to the white supre-
macy. He advocates the repeal of the
fifteenth amendment to the United
States constitution, and insists that
unless this shall be done the people Of
the south win be forced to maintain
their proposition of white supremacy.
Rather than have negro rule. Sena-
tor Bacon Is willing to accept reduc-
tion of southern representation in the
congress OF the United States. He
adds:
The repeal OF the fifteenth amend
ment. leaving TO each state the power
to regulate for itself the negro ques-
tion, would destroy the sectional bar
rier which the south so greatly de-
plores and for the removal Of which II
knows no other method"
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-12-07
SARCASTIC GOVERNOR.
Says the President Has Il in for Him
on an Old Score.

Memphis. Tenn, Dec. 6.-The Com
mercial Appeal publishes a letter re-
ceived from Jackson, Miss, in which
Governor vardeman declines to be
permanent chairman of the national
cotton boil weavil convention at
Shreveport. After declining to serve
Governor Vardeman says:
"One Of the strong CD arguments
made by an editor Of your city against
permitting Governor vardeman to
serve as chairman Of the convention,
was based upon the fact that Governor
vardeman has incurred the displeasure
Of the present president Of the United
States. who would regard a courtesy to
Governor Vardeman as a discourtesy to
him. and for which discourtesy to him
he would with 'dee-iight punish all the
cotton growers Of the south by with
helding federal aid from their effort to
stamp out the boil weevil. The people
Of the south are indeed in a deplorable
condition IL in the life Of this repub-
lie It has come to pass that in order
to enjoy the privilege Of citizenship
and exercise their rights under the con-
stitution they must kiss the hand that
smites them"
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-12-07

the tavern would really become d
powerful factor IN minlmising the evils
OF drink, and that as all other methods
had failed Il was proper to try this
Bishop potter's defense was greeted
with derision by his critics Hut they
undoubtedly received heavy blow
when the Archbishop OF Canterbury,
the head of the English established
church, Immediately after his arrival
In this country, In response TO a aues-
tion as to what he thought OF Bishop
Potter's attitude. replied that he not
only indorsed Il. but that his own wife
had been the patroness OF tavern like
the subway in London, and that the
results IN reducing drunkenness and
promoting sobrlety had been most ant
isfactory. Bishop Potter In an inter.
view yesterday declared that the New
York experiment was proving success
ful. and gave cougent reasons for his
approval OF it,--pittsburg opst.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-12-07

Bishop Henry C. Potter, who is nov
visiting this city. has long been distin-
guishsd for doing things which appear
to many to be strange and to be incon-
gruous for minister of religion. The
indorsement which he recently gave
to the opening Of the subway tavern in
New York city brought upon him a
storm Of denunciation not only from
those who do not use liquor them
selves, but from many who do and yet
who feel that the church or its minis
ters should not encourage the habit.
Bishop Potter, however claimed that
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-12-07
ANOTHER AUTO ACCIDENT.
Auto Wrecks . Carriage and Injuries q
2 Farmer aad HE wiz.

Auto Wrecks . Carriage and Injuries q
Farmer and HE WIFE
Hgg Harbor City, N. J., Dec. s.-Pred
Schroeder. a prosperous farmer living
Rear this city was struck by an auto
mobile while driving home late this af-
ternoon. His wife was with him. The
machines speed, Schroeder says. must
have been a mile a minute. His
horse shied at the machine. and the
next minute the crash came Schroe-
der and his wife were thrown from the
carriage. and in falling on the hard
road were badly bruised and cut about
the head. The machine was slightly
damaged. It's occupants, after looking
for a moment at the wreck they had
caused, drove rapidly away.
No number was visible on the ma
chine The carriage was totally de-
molished.