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Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1907-09-12
Nairobi, the "Tin CITY"

Tin City," from its nickname,
should be an American boom town."
situated in Nebraska or the Klondike;
but it is not. 1t Is a creation of our
British cousins, who seem to have
found timed things so good to live
on that they are trying them to live
in. Nairobi, which Is Tin City's
proper name, Is new railway town
in the British East African protecto-
rate, and consists of street after street
of houses, each built entirely Of
sheets of galvanized iron, put up in
London and then knocked down and
shipped to Africa.
The new city is fiat town." that
Is, it was made by governmental de-
cree. Sir George Whitehouse, chief
engineer of the Uganda railroad, was
responsible for it. He was out with
his construction party in the field.
and camped one night on great plain
beside Nairobi Creek. The ground
for a long way round was level. 1t
was on a plateau, well-drained and
healthful. About 1t were gracefully
ascending hills, well-wooded and wa
tered.
Here" said Sir George, will be
the headquarters Of the railway. We
will build the shops here and the
houses of the workmen. This is the
ideal location. The creek furnishes
good water, the place Is on the bor->
ders of the Nasal and the Kikuyu, and
offers vantage-ground from which
to govern them"
His assistants demurred to the To-
cation. 1t was dreary waste to
them, and they urged him to set up
his tents in the hills; but to this he
replied that the hills would do for
the officers villas and bungalows,
but that the city would do better on
the plain, and that there is should
stand.
There, in fact, it does stand, as
odd a sight as Africa can show. The
railway company shipped in the
houses for its employees, and they
we're set up in orthodox, right-angle
fashion. Two Christian churches, two
mosques and Hindu temple are
among the buildings, and there were
in the town last December nearly
five thousand people. 1t Is over three
hundred miles from Mombasa, the
chief seaport and capital Of the pro-
tectorate, and two hundred and fifty
miles from Port Florence, the Lake
Victoria terminus.
o.. -
thing near the town to supply 1t with
provisions, and 1t seems destined to
have q prosperous future.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1907-09-12
WORDS OF WISDOM.

Your best self will be found only
by self sacrifice.
The soul needs deep plowing to
turn under it's weeds.
The only good things we keep are
those we pass along.
The fundamental dignity of hui
manity Is in its divinity.
A man often finds himself when he
looks misfortune in the face.
There can be no recreation in the
indulgence that leads to regret.
You never will develop good in
any SO long as you see no good in
them.
The most important part of our
environment we really carry within
us.
No man is worth much to society
until he learns to make the most of
himself
There never yet was a sermon that
could have any force on head full OF
fashion.
The burdens of earth demand that
our hearts be nourished with the
bread of heaven.
Some folk feel sure they are
building on rock because their hearts
are hard as flint.
The best evidence of any superior
ity Is a recognition of the obligations
which 1t involves.
The safety of little religion lies
in the fact that If it is real 1t Will
take root and grow.
The spirit Of brotherhood never
needs to hire billboards to have its
good deeds made known.
There are too many people hungry
for love for any one ever to talk or
suffering from loneliness
Some men think that the ladder
to heaven has but three rungs, called
wages, salary and income.
1t now is perfectly safe to prove
your charity by giving away your
worn out winters clothes.
There always is tendency to
Judge such things as love by the
divorce records rather than by the
happy homes.
You cannot reach men helpfully so
long as you have sense Of having to
reach to them instead of standing
right by them.-From Sentence
Sermons" in the Chicago Tribune.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1907-09-12
A LESSON IN RESPECT.

One of these old-timers taught the
writer lesson in respect that he new
or will forget. Twas in the days OF
our youth, when an entry clerk, we
we're in the habit Of walking down
town with David Hale, one of the edl-
tors of the New York Journal or
Commerce. The man invited the
bov's confidence, and the boy was re-
garded by his elder.
The boy was an autograph collec-
tor, and along about 1856 he called
on the President, Franklin Pierce, at
the Clarendon Hotel, and felt elated
at his reception and the autograph
secured. AS Hale and the lad walked
down town the next day the boy said:
"Iast night | went up to the Claren-
don TO see Franklin Pierce, and ne
introduced me to his old woman.
Quick as a fash Hale stopped, put
his hand on the boys shoulder
wheeled him around and said: LOOK
here, young man, who arc you talk
ing about? Franklin Pierce is Presi-
dent of these United States, and he
and all connected with him are enti-
fled to be spoken of with respect. l
don't care what your politics are, but
don't let ne hear you speaking OF the
President, or any Of his family, In
that way again. American Grocer.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1907-09-12

DOWN TO PARTICULARS.
Mrs. Slimson - Shall l read you
this animal story, Willie?"
Willie-"With or Without"
"With or without what?"
"Aff1davits, Life.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1907-09-12
The Grizzly.
BY THEODORE ROOSEVELT.

Usually the bears live almost ex-
clusively on roots, berries, insects,
and the like. In fact, there is always
something grotesque and incongru-
GUS in comparing the bears vast size,
and his formidable claws and teeth,
with the uses to which those claws
and teeth are normally put. At the
end of the season the claws some
times become SO much blunted as to
be teyder, because the bear has
worked on hard ground digging roots
and the like.
Bears often Craze on the fresh ten
der spring grass. Berries form their
especial delight, and they eat them
SO greedily when IN season as to be-
come inordinately fat, Indeed,
bear in a berry-patch frequently
grows so absorbed in his work as to
lose his wariness, and as he makes
good deal Of noise himself in break
Ing branches and gobbling down tho
fruit, he is exposed to much danger
from the hunter.
Besides roots and berries, the bear
will feed on any small living thing
he encounters. If in plundering
squirrels cache he comes upon some
young squirrels, down they go in
company with the boarded nuts, He
is continually knocking to pieces and
overturning old dead logs for the
sake of devouring the insects liv-
ing beneath them. If. when such
log Is overturned. mice, shrews, or
chipmunks are found underneath,
the bear promptly scoops them into
his mouth while they are still dazed
by the sudden thrush Of light.
Sometimes, however, bear will
take to killing fresh meat for itself.
Indeed. I think 1t is only its clumsi-
ness that prevents 1t from becoming
an habitual flesh-eater. Deer are so
agile that bears can rarely get them;
yet on occasions not only deer, but
moose, buffalo, and elk fall victims to
them. Wild game, however, are so
shy, so agile, and so alert that it is
only rarely they afford meals to old
Ehpraim--as the mountain hunters
call the grizzly.
Domestic animals are slower, more
timid, more clumsy. and with far dull
er senses. 1t Is on these that the
bear by preference preys when he
needs fresh meat. have never. my
self, known one to kill horses; but l
have been informed that the feat Is
sometimes performed, usually in
spring; and the ranchman who told
me insisted that when bear made
his rush he went with such astound'
ing speed that the horse was usually
overtaken before it got well under
way.
The favorite food of bear, how
ever, IL he really wants fresh meat. is
a hog or sheep-by preference the
former. If bear once gets into the
habit of visiting sheepfold or pig
pen, it requires no slight skill and
watchfulness to keep him out. AS
for swine, they dread bears more than
anything else. A drove of half-wild
swine will made head against wolf
or panther; but the bear scatters
them in panic. This fear is entirely
justifiable. for a bear has a peculiar
knack in knocking down hog, and
then literally eating him alive. in
spite of his fearful squealing. From
Good Hunting "a book recently pub
lished, and consisting of hunting pa
pers written by Mr.. Roosevelt before
he was President.)
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1907-09-12
Some PrOdigies.

Alypius of Alexandria, most ex-
cellent logician and philosopher, was
only one foot and five inches in
height. Augustus Caesar exhibited
in his plays one Lucius, a young man
born of honest parents, who was only
twenty-three inches high and weighed
seventeen pounds; yet ha had a
strong tenor voice and could sing like
a nightingale. In the time of Theo-
dosius there was pygmy in EgyES so
small of body that he resembled a
partridge; yet he exercised all the
functions of a man and could sing
merrily. He lived to be twenty-five.
Julia, niece of Emperor Augustus,
had a dwarfish fellow of the name of
Canopas, to whom she was much de-
voted. He was twenty-eight inches
high. Andromeda, freed maid of
Julia, was of the same height.-NewG
York Press.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1907-09-12

Age Of Angling.
BY PAUL THOMPSON.

The antiquity of angling is buried
In the mist of ages. but from Biblical
illusions we gather that it was
known In the very earliest times. In
the book of Job, written presumably
at least 1900 years B. c., there are
many passages referring to the
"hook," barbed iron, etc. The proph-
ct Amos, writing seven hundred years
later, goes far to draw distinction
between hook" and fish hooks"
while Ezekiel, one hundred and thir-
ty years later, speaks Of putting the
hook into the jaws of the dragon, by
which appellation the King of Egypt
was intended. Turning from the
Scriptures to more mundane history
we f1nd Cambyses, son of Cyrus the
Great, despatching certain Ichthyo-
phagi as ambassadors to the Ethio-
plans (who inhabited the country
now called Abyssinia) to treat with
them before he commenced the dis
astrous expedition which ended in the
destruction Of the greater part Of his
army from sheer starvation. Ira.
dition also says that there was an In
dian nation by whom fish were taken
in such large numbers that the very
walls were built with their bones. So
far back as the second century Of the
Christian era the art of fly-fishing
was known and practiced, as recorded
in the works of the naturalist and
rhetorician, Aelian. surnamed "Melig
lossus" Cor honey-tongued from the
beauty and purity Of bis diction and
style. According to this author che
inhabitants of Macedonia were in the
habit of initiating a horrible fly in.
digenous to the country described as
"in size a hornet and buzzing like Q
bee." This they did by twisting scar.
let wool round the hook, the wings
being obtained from the feathers
which grow under the wattles of a
cock of the game species. The fish
taken by this rough and ready lure
were believed to have been trout.
Unfortunately through the burning
Of the great library at Alexandria by
order of the Caliph Omar, A. d. 642,
many curious records of sports and
one fact in connection with fish and
fishing were in all probability lost to
US forever The vast extent of this
UNIQUE collection of ancient literature
may be inferred from the statement
that was made that the volumes
which perished supplied fuel to four
thousand baths for upward Of six
months. The works on natural his
tory of the elder Pliny are still ex-
tant.-From Recreation.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1907-09-12
CURIOUS.

There was once two young women
who married.
And the question arising, How
were they to spend their spare time?
one of them took up the study of
Greek history while the other
plunged into society.
The sequel is curious.
For their respective husbands were
driven to exactly the same kind OF
drink,-Puck.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1907-09-12
WISE WORDS.

Never forget that when God takes
away the sunlight. He always puts
stars in the sky-Rose Porter.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1907-09-12

catching mice, which they devour
greedily.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1907-09-12

There is nothing so great as to be
capable of happiness, to pluck it out
of every moment and whatever hap
pens.-Anna Gilchrist.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-14
"RYAN,S RARGAINS.n
Phone 3165.

IN1 AN . DAIASfAlANos S50OO-Lot 100X100; on corner of Ave F.; two houses renting for 1925 per month; this Is a fine place to build a store and would be a splendid business corner. $3750-Two-story, 10-room house and G. room cottage, on corner lot 100x140; rents for SAP .50 per month, and is close to school and churches; two blocks of car line; at North Birmingham $3OO0-Two- story, 7-room house with recep- ton hall and store; lot 100 feet front; well located at North Birmingham. $2100-5-room cottage on car line; water and lights; cabinet mantels; one-thlrd cash. balance easy; North Birmingham. S21OO-Neat cottage and servants house; one block of car line, near school and churches; at West End. S1400-5-room house and hall large lot; one block of car line; $4oO cash, balance like rent; West End.
 S14OO-4-room house on easy terms; Avon dale.
 s1O5O-S-room house; $500 cash, balance like rent; Woodlawn; half block of car line $1900-5-room house; half cash, balance easy; on car line at Woodlawn. $S75O-Neat Groom cottage; all modern; corner lot; on Avenue l, city. s1550-5-room house and hall; lot 50x2OO; one block of car line; 800 cash, balance like rent; at East Lake. $2SOO-S-room house; lot S7X200; lovely home; one block of car line; at East Lake.
 s6OO-Two small houses; rent for s11 per month; at North Birmingham snap. We have the most complete list of lots to be found in Birmingham or suburbs. We have some special bargains in this line; would be fine for an investment. Call on the
 RYAN REAL ESTATE COMPANY, 2n2-4 Woodward Bldg. Bell Phone S35.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-14
BARGAINS IN HOMES.

few feet of car line; one of the best bargains on the highlands. $5O00-A 2-story, modern, 7-room residence; lot 5Ox19O; block fo car line; Norwood district; eastern front. $7OO0-A beautiful corner, 60x19O, with eX- cellent, modern, 2-story, S-room, attrac- tive stone residence; beautiful view of city; furnace heat and all modern con- veniences a great bargain. $S0O0-One of the best bargains on the South Highlands; beautifully located; g. story, 10-room, corner home; few rect of Highland avenue and splendid pdr- chase at $So00.
 S36O0-A neat, Groom cottage; central part of Princeton; block of car line; small cash payment, balance easy. $16O0-A neat cottage on lot 50xl4O; near the park; on car line; North Birming- ham; $500 cash, balance like rent monthly.
 $S50O-A 2-story, new, modern, Broom res idence; Princeton; a great bargain; house alone worth the money. $65O0-A corner 100x140, with modern, ? story, Broom residence; choice location; near 10th avenue, in the best part of the South Highlands.
 $1O,OO0-An elegant, modern, 10-room, 2 story corner home; 125x150; 11th avenue, South Highlands.
 100x200-An attractive home; fronts High land avenue car line South Highlands 2-story, 9-room residence with every comfort.
 $11, ,000-2-story, modern, 10-room residence; 1O0x19O; choicest location on the High lands, every modern convenience; a splendid place; stables and outbuilo- ings.
 $6OOO-A 2-story, 7-room. modern brick overlooks the city; Highlands. S575O-A well built, nicely finished 2-story, S-room residence; half block of car line; South Highlands; moderate cash pay ment, balance $40 per month. $5O0O-A choice, S-room residence; near Charles street, South Highlands; 5000 cash will do.
 s5OO-Nice Groom cottage at North Haven one block car line.
 We nave others. To buy, sell or ex- change realty call where you can secure results.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-14
B, F.. BO R N 5O4-7 Brown-Marx Bldg.
FOR. SALE,

s4SO0-7-room new, furnace heated, 18th street, south, near 10th avenue; rents $40 month ss750-2-story. Richmond Place, easy pay ments. s45oo-2-story, Richmond Place, corner lot, terms. s20OO-6-room, 100 feet front, car line, West End. worth 50 per cent more. s55O-Lot near Clairmont avenue, Country club district s325O-Lot 68x200 feet, near 2Oth street. south, well elevated. sl25-only for lots. East Lake Highlands, worth $500. s1s5o-6-room. well shaded. 10O-foot lot Woodlawn. s1sOo-Cottage, North Birmingham, rents well. Valuable business lot North 2Oth street; price on application.
 FOR RENT. Choice new houses on South Highlands
 FRANK M'DONALD.
 2111 First Ave.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-14

s3500-A snap; choice, new, 2-story, attrac- tive, 7-room residence; lot 50x140; half block of car line; splendid location' choice neighborhood; a real bargain; only a quick buyer secures this. S5O0O-An excellent, modern, 2-story, s. room home: near 10th avenue, South Highlands; rents $40 per month; terms S1O00 cash, balance $50 per month. $5O00-A well built, attractive, steam-heat- ed, S-room, modern home; near 11th ave- nue, South Highlands.
 $5OOO-A choice brick; not gold brick; ten rooms, 2-story; and the story is not ended until we tell you 1t is a corner in a frst-class location, South Highlands, and that you only have to shell down 5000 as a cash payment and $50 a month to capture 1t. If this Is not something to call up the mourners with, we do not know what to offer them. Besides all this, 1t Is In easy walk of the center. s6OOo-A very attractive, recently finished, comfortable, 2-story, S-room, modern home: corner with east front; beautiful location; splendid neighborhood; easy walk of the center; pretty elevation South Highlands; 5000 cash, $50 per month will swing it.
 $520o-A pretty new modern, 2-story, l. room residence; well built; attractive ly finished; choice location; fronts cal line. near Edgewood station, South Highlands.
 seOoO@A new, well appointed, modern, 2 story. S-room, corner home; 14th ave nue. west of goth street, South High lands.
 S6OoO-An excellent, 2-story 7-room, new, modern residence; large lot; 14th street, South Highlands; s10o0 cash, balance monthly.
 ssOoO-A splendid bargain a comfortable, 2-story. modern, 7-room home on Charles street near the Eleventh Avenue Meth odist church, South Highlands; Slooo cash, balance $50 per month. s4500-A nice cottage on one of the choicest avenues on the South Highlands; splen- did location on lot 50x24O.
 se5Oo-A pretty. modern 2-story, S-room residence; every convenience; furnace heat; splendid location; it is an excel lent stone building; very attraVtlVe'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-14
BORN'S
Realty Quotations. The Best Realities
 On the Market are Quoted Below

$16,0OO-Rental S15OO 2-story central brick railroad front close in; First avenue $l4,0OO-Rental $14OO; 4Ox100, 2-story brick 75x14O-Corner on 4th Ave, near court house.
 s12,0O0-5O feet front on 9th Ave, near 22nd street, 100x140 S6OOO-Rental s75O prospective business. 75x14O 4th avenue, North $26, 000-Close in business corner; 20th street.
 S6500-40X100, close to the centre. s400O-6Ox100, improved, prospective busi- ness, 22nd street.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-14

s4OOO-Alley corner, 9Ox1Oo. 14th ave, N;
 rents S25 month.
 $3500-5ox140; rented $25 month; 4th ave. $55OO-102x24O; four houses, 10th ave, N.
 rents $50 month.
 $3500-10-room house, West End. $3500-1O-room house, near Ave c. $2750-New broom house; all improve
 ments; Ensley Highlands $1600-4-room cottage, East Birmingham. $22O0-5-room new cottage, 1st ave, East
 Lake, modern.
 $4OO0-6-room modern cottage, 12th st., S.;
 half cash, balance easy. $3150-5 rooms and hall; electric lights;
 bath; cabinet mantels; Princeton ave,
 West End.
 $1500-5 rooms and hall; almost new; large lot; close car line, North Birmingham. $3OOO-Nice broom cottage; corner lot; North Highlands.
 S1100-Corner lot, 100x140; half cash, bal
 ance easy; North Birmingham. $1100-Three lots, 50x140, near pipe works,
 North Birmingham
 $650-Lot Slx140; corner Helena Heights. S2500-25 acres land; two houses; large
 barn; two fine springs; 500 peach trees 100 apples; 100 pears; one acre straw
 berries; in nearby town. 1500 acres timber land; cut 4000 feet per acre; close to railroad, at SIP per acre
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-14

S125O0-100 foot corner close in, on 4th Ave. N.
 S265OO-1OOx140 Central corner, S-story brick.
 $SoOO-Rental $SOO; brick improvement. Ave. c near 26th
 $10000-50X1l0, near the new depot. $lOOOO-Rental $l000, wholesale warehouse property fronts Belt Line, Ave. E, g. story store and 16-room buildings. 40x100 2-story brick, new depot district. $60 a foot-Immense depth, best close in warehouse property on North side. S95OO-Improved, 5Ox14O, 3rd avenue North
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-14
MISCELLANEOUS.

$5000-A splendid 2-story, beautifully locat- ed, S-room modern home, fronting the car line S1500 cash $3S00-S-room residence on 9th Ave, near 17th St., South Highlands. $2300-50x1S5; Ave. II, 2 houses. $12O0-7 choice lots block of car line; near Kingston.
 $2250-A choice Groom home, fronting the park, Avondale, a bargain. $225O-5-room cottage and lot on South Ensey car line; near Fair grounds. $3550-An excellent 5-room cottage in Gen. tral Kingston.
 $250O-A beautiful lot; very choice loca- tion; southern front 11th Ave, South
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-14

Highlands lot being 6ox15O. $2250-A choice 120 foot corner; splendid location near Glen Iris. terms to suit. $2500-Rental S2S per month; 10CXl00; with 3 4-room houses; white tenants; one block north of Ezell Station, Pratt City. S5500-7-room cottage on lot 5OX225; 14tn Ave, near 18th St., South Highlands. $24O0-150x165; good residence; near How ard college, East Lake.
 S15OO-6-room house and lot at Powderly. S16OO-5-room house and lot 52nd St. Woodawn.
 $165O-A good 4-room cottage on 9th Ave, near 3rd St, North Birmingham. $1S5O-5-room cottage, large lot neat build ing; Berney station; West End
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-14
INCOME INVESTMENTS.

$lO,OOo-Rental s12OO, 1OOx1sO, prominent cor ner.
 close in, 10Ox19O. S11000-Rental $1440, store building, Ave. D. $55O0-Rental $780, 120x120, 1 4-room brick buildings. $2000-Rental $23O; lot and dwellings, 18th street. s6O00-Rental $7SO, 1OOx19O. 20,O00-Rental $24O0; high class new brick improvement, gilt edge location. $6000-Rental $6O0 4 broom dwellings, white tenants, on choice corner, 100x190. S42O0-Rental $iSO, 1OOx140, corner, on Ave. E,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-14
FOR SALE

$4000-Fine S0-foot lot on Iroquois street; eastern exposure; ah improvements; splendid neighborhood; terms. $2750-Nice corner, 50x140; all improve ments; close to Highland avenue. $7000-Perfectly new. 8-room house; east of 20th street and close to Highland ave- nue; hardwood floors, furnace, fine plumbing all street improvements; four bed rooms and bath; terms $50 a foot; nice small lot, 45x90 east of 20th street; close to Highland avenue. $450O-Nice cottage home on South High lands; 5000 cash, balance $25 month at 6 per cent interest.
 $5250-Good S-room home on corner facing east; for sale at this price on quick trade; large lot; east of 20th street. $S000-Large house on 100-foot lot; east Of 20th never offered before
 $3600-Beautiful deep lot in Country club district; one block from Highland ave- nue; 60x1S0 feet.
 We make a speciality of South Highlands residence property.
 We have several choice residences for sale east of 20th street and close to Highland avenue; In very best section; one particularly complete home with large frontage; on terms to suit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-14

$4OOO-Rental S4O0; 5Cx19O, 7th Ave, North. $S0O0-Rental S9O0; 1O0xl90, corner on 20th St., north, a good investment. $600O-Rental SG0O; 10 rooms, fronts park, 9th Ave, North. $5OOO-Rental $4SO; S-room residence, 10th Ave, South 5000 down. s15Oc-Rental 800; houses and lots, $500 cash, balance easy. $S5OO-Rehtal s10O0; 1Cox140, Ave. D. $575O-Rental $75O, stone building, close to the centre. S5OOO-Rental $500; 1O0x14O, new stone inn provements, 1st Ave- can make this pay $12O0