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Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1920-02-12

PUBLIC SALE
OF
VALUABLE REAL ESTATE,

BY virtne of decree of the Circuit
Court for Frederick county, sitting as
Court of Equity. passed on January IA,
A. D. 1920, in cause No. lOO65 Equity.
on the Docket of said Court, the UNDER
signed. Trustees, will sell at public sale
at Deerfeld station on the Western Ma
ryland railroad in Frederick county, Md,
on
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY IA, 1920.
at o'clock, p. m.
the following described real estate stu
ate in Hauvers District in Frederick
county in the State of Maryland
|. That tract of land containing
So Acres, l Rood and 33 Perches,
more or less. lying about one mile from
Deerfeld on the road leading from Deer
field to Mt. Zion, improved with Two
story frame dwelling house, bank barn,
corn crib wash house, and other neces-
sary ou,buildings, all in good condition.
The place is supplied with good we'll of
water and cistern at the barn, and
variety of fruit trees in good bearing
condition. Part of the land is farming
land in good state of cultivation, the rest
includes woodland set principally in sec
ond growth timber. and land suitable for
pasture This property was occupied as
home by Mrs. Mary S. Lantz, deceas-
ed.
2. That tract of land adjoining the
above, containing
81 Acres and a Perches,
more or lesa. lying about one mile from
Deerfeld OIL the road leading from Deer
field to Foxville. This land is not
improved with any building. Part of it
is farming land in good state of Guilt
walton on which there are number of
apple trees in good bearing condition; the
rest is ell set in young second growth
timber This property was owned at the
time of her death by the said Mary S.
S. Lantz deceased.
The above two tracts of land are con-
tiguous, containing in the aggregate lot
acres, rood and 81 perches of land,
more or less, the whole being under good
fencing, and adjoins the lands of David
M. Brown, Simon Miller, Jesse E. Flohr
and C. W. Lantz. The two tracts will be
offered for sale first separately, then as
a whole, and sold in the way in which the
property brings the highest aggregate
price.
TERMS OF SALE as prescribed by
the Decree:-One-half of the purchase
money to be paid in cash on day of sale,
or on tie ratification thereof by the
Court, the residue in six months, the pur-
chaser or purchasers giving his, her or
their notes with approved security and
bearing interest from the day of sale, or
all cash at the option of the purchaser.
A deps sit of 500. 90 will be required of
the purchaser of each of the said tracts
at the time of the sale.
Convey ancing and revenue stamps at
the expense of the purchaser.
MILTON G. URNER JR,,
LUTHER TRESSLER.
Trustees.
Urine, & Urner. Solicitors. jan 224t
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1920-02-12
Can l Make Cider and Vinegar
Under the Prohibition Law?

Under the Prohibition Law?
Because there is lot Of misunderstanding regard
ing what do under the Prohibition Law,
known the Volstead Law the following ques.
lions answered, and the answers are based on
the law ITSELF
Can make apple. pear any other fruit cider?
Yes. (Secton 8 of Law
Can keep this cider until becomes hard intox
eating for beverage for myself and friends?
No. (scton 81
Can keep cider until it turns into vinegar and
the vinegar for my own consumption or to sell?
Yes provided permit obtained from the Prohibition Com
missioner which permit will be issued request and for which
charge will be made
Can make sweet cider to sell without securing Il
permit?
Can make and use cider without obtaining permit
and and sell the il add to it benZOate Of soda
other substances which will prevent ermentation2
Can whskey distilled spirits, alcohol. brandy,
etc. used bought sold for medicinal purposes?
If own whiskey other intoxicating liquor. can
keep my premises for my and for that
of my bonafde guests?
Yes, provided it is consumed the premises.
Can my home be searched at time to see If have
any liquor stored my premises?
unless proven that have been selling intoxicating
which the right search homes effect
house goods thought to be
hidden it, the liquor it must first be that
you have sold it before search can be made
the Legislatures Maryland does not pass law
vding of Inc prohibition act what will
happen?
The Government will enforce the law with the aid of special -
appointed by them conviction the guilty
ties are subject a the Federal Pentena Atlanta
Lavenwoh.
If Maryland should pass law enforcing the prOhibi
tiOn law what would be the condition?
The regular authorities, such the police shefs and
the law and the could be tried in
local punishment would
be the that of ofnse against law in the State
What would happen If the Maryland Legislature pass
ell the per cent beer law?
Nothing would happen except to make the State and the 1920
Legislature look ridiculous for passing law which would be
stutonal which the Government officials would entirely
noe prosecuting who manufacture 5R beer against the
of an O. Congress.
Read theLaW in Full.
A Copy will be mailed upon request to anyone
wit aha
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1920-02-12
y. s. WEYBRIGHT
ZEE DS,.
GROCERIES, POULTRY SUPPLIES.
THURMONT, MARYLAND.
Gao
Spring is rapidly approaching and along
with il comes the seasons demands. I'VE can
take care of your needs.
FEED.

We carry full line Of Feeds-Bran, Mddngs, Chop DAlKY
FEEDS such Eschemann 20 molasses Dairy Feed
Dairy Feed That Lao Feed for more milk SH H
for those cows and Brady Stock Tonic to tone them Lseed
Meal and Sulphur for the animals blood and this Springs sales 1au
berS Salts.
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had been born upon the same day, played together as children, been chums through happy girlhood. and fast friends at middle age, though Miss Lefty lived in the stately stone house, and Miss Liddy in the humble brown cottage beside 1t.
 A long, lonely, miserable year 1t had been for both of them. They had nev- CT realized before how much they de- pended upon each other. Many of the friends of their own age were gone, and both were now quite alone ia the world.
 Miss Liddy was subject to severe attacks of bronchitis, which no one but Miss Lefty knew how to cure, and Miss Lefty was at times so crippled with rheumatism that she could not walk, and upon these occasions Miss Liddy's touch seemed to possess some wonderful magic which never failed to bring relief to the poor swollen limbs.
 Of course, with the ceasfng of speech between the friends, these mu- tual ministrations also ceased. But luckily for long time neither Miss Liddy or Miss Lefty suffered from their dreaded maladieS.
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I knew your father and mother many years ago, my dear child. but I think you must apologize for the re- mainder of your speech"-and then she made the fatal mistake of explana- tion. "It was naturally a shock to me-pIease forgive me if wound you in saying it-that a woman like you could be the daughter of old friends of mine."
 "A woman like me-" she repeated land woman like you has made me that"
 She settled down in her chair again, and though her small, frail face looked sweetly child-like under the halo of her fair hair, her eyes were the eyes of a woman.
 "I will tell you how that came to be-" she said, in a tone that was coolly impersonal. "You and my father were girl and boy lovers-you were en- gagged in kind of way and then Harold Eliot came to stay with my people for the shooting one autumn, and he promptly fell in love with his
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friends sweetheart.
 After all, it was something to bask in the shadow of an earldom; and a life in London, smart friends, a good time-all these things appeal to an ambitious and pretty girl.
 When men are young, it sometimes happens that they know how to love very deeply; if they do, 1t is love that lasts a lifetime. That was my fa- ther's love for you. It was @ wound that healed in time, but it left its scar.
 "He too married-a gentle, good un- selfish little creature who was faithful to him all her life. He left the army when he married and came to London, where his father-in-law offered him @ partnership in his business-on the Stock Exchange. as you know. He prospered steadily, so that you and and your husband were glad enough to renew an old friendship that was al most forgotten.
 "It Is bad thing, Lady Mansfield, for young and pretty woman with
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Miss Liddy swayed to her feet. After a long time she reached the back door. She wrapped her shawl tightly around her head and shoulders and tottered out into the storm.
 She groped unsteadily through her yard and was entering Miss Letty's ject not more than three feet away
 "Oh, .Liddy," Quavered 8 fearful voice, "fs that you? I saw you sitting by the window and I knew you were sick by the looks of you. You never did know how to take care of your to see to you. Seems as though I'd guess I'll have to g-g-give it up aft CT al1."
 Miss 1etty burst into tears.
 "Oh, Lefty. Lefty" moaned Miss Lid dy, you're soaking wet! You ain't any more 1t to take care of yourself than a baby! There, there, just you lean on me, dearie.. That's right! I'm just going to take you right home and put you to bed. Almost there, almost there, here's the steps, lean on me, dearfe, lean on me-ah, here we are! Now to perk up the fire and get you nice and warm. Don't try to talk. Everything's going to be all right"
 But, Liddy. just want to say about that same abominable Quarrel-!"
 And both glad old voices rang out together in gay little struggle for precedence:
 "It was all my fau1ti"
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fact that he bores me adds to my charm-or whatever you are pleased to call it."
 Then why do you want to marry him?"
 ways be what the papers call an Idol of the Public.' and 50 I might as well be a countess-and rich one, 1 am promised-whi1e I am about it."
 "I wish that he had not a penny then he would be beyond the clutches of such as you"
 Do you really hate me as much as that?"
 Lady Mansfield realized how undig- nif1ed her outburst had been: she felt suddenly mortified that this girl should have witnessed her lack of control, and there was something al- most pathetic in her attempt to re- gain her composure.
 T am sorry if hurt you" she said, with kind of proud humbleness, "but my son Is all the world to me- This marriage would be such a great, such terrible mtstake-a mistake that will be beyond remedy ever again. am an old woman, and he is all I care for; yon are only child, still with your life
 
 why can you wish to make me, an ut ter stranger to you. so unhappy Why do you wish to wreck his life. life that means so little to you, just to satisfy a girlish vanity?"
 Vanity is the wrong word, Lady Man sfield. It is to satisfy a revenge"
 Lady Mansfield stared at her blank 1y.
 You hate me without knowing me, because you hate the type I represent the pretty, brainless, interruptions, ambitious type that understands all the same how to make fools of the dissipated, brainless young men who come to us. But I"-she paused, her eyes full, of a shining hardness-"I hate you, not because of your type and the worlds away it places you fron. me, but because I know you-you yourself!"
 She went to the writing table and took up small velvet case that lay there. She opened 1t with a cool de liberation and then held it close for Lady Mansfield to see.
 This is my fathers picture" she said simply.
 Lady Mansfield was an unemotiona woman All her life she had accept. ed while others gave, but as she lean ed forward, peering wonderingly a the painted face, her own went white and she gave a stided cry that was almost a sob.
 q am Doris Weatherfield, and yo1 are the woman who ruined my father and broke my mothers heart"
 Lady Mansfield strengthened hersel suddenly. It was the first time iE al [ her life that her se1f-possession hat been shaken; she regarded it almos F as breach of good taste that she hat 8 been startled into an exclamation o r dismay. She looked up with unwaver t ing eyes, and her voice was calm agail 3 when she answered.
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A Strengthened Tie
BY WILL STATION

But one cold, rainy morning Miss Liddy arose with all the familiar symptoms of a severe bronchitis at tack. Her head ached. her, chest ached, her limbs ached, her throat was sore, and she groaned miserably at the dismal time which she knew was ahead of her.
 But little Miss Liddy possessed true keep a-going somehow" she kept re- beating bravely, as she dragged her self heavily about her tiny abode, grim1y attempting to render mors spotless the already immaculate little rooms.
 About 10 o'clock she peered out Of the kitchen window, and to her horror espied Miss Lefty come out or ner house and go down the rain-soaked driveway.
 For Miss Lefty to go out at all upor such an indictment morning was indis- erect enough, but it was not this fact which caused Miss Liddy to gasp with dismay, while involuntarily her hand flashed to the window and almost sounded an imperative tap to arrest the departing figure. Miss Lefty was actually going out, on this miserable cold wet morning, at her age, and sub ject to rheumatism as she was, with out a sign of pair of rubbers to her feet!
 It was this terrible discovery and all that 1t involved, flashing through Miss Lddy's brain, punctuated by 8 series of mental exclamation points, that had prompted her to call a shrill summons to her careless neighbor-
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then she remembered that they were not speaking, and her hand dropped Imply away from the window pane.
 As the day wore on, Miss Liddy grew steadily worse. She sat huddled up in the big rocker by the window, wrapped in a shawl, too sick to move, but too stubborn to go to bed. Sometimes she closed her eyes, but more often she peered out of the window in the d1rec- ton of her friends house.
 It was growing dusk when she dis cerned Miss Letty's little figure going slowly up her-walk. She was limping unmistakably. She mounted the long flight of steps stiffly, painfully. Every motion of her body bespoke intense suffering.
 "Oh, Oh, Oh,' moaned Miss L.ddy. rocking miserab1y back and forth, You careless, careless creature! You ought to be shaken!" She continued to scold until Miss Lefty unlocked her front door and went into the house. Then her lips quivered and she began to sob. "Poor girl, poor girl! All sole alone in that big house. all crippled up with rheumatism and nobody to lift a hand!"
 She pressed her face anxiously against the window pane, striving to pierce the darkness between the two houses. But no light appeared at the Stone house windows.
 Five, ten, fifteen minutes dragged by. The fire was nearly out and Miss Liddy shivered convu1sively beneath her shawl Her head whirred and throbbed painfully. And no sign of life appeared in the house opposite.
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around in Keno's face as if askin' what tell had gone wrong. The dark horse rushed up and shot into the lead. And then the storm broke.
 "I felt so bad I didn't care If cy- clone struck, but the next instant l saw something which made me stretch my neck and yelp. The storm was one of that kind which gets big wind behind it and tears along in streaks, and it broke right behind Barbwire. Not rain. It was too cold for that. It was hail. great big, beau tiful haiIstones about the size of a hens egg, and the first one to fall. hit Barbwfre such a p1unk that he nearly jumped out of the saddle. It was a lucky jump, for the wind kept risin' and the storm was tearin' right down the stretch and playfn' the devils tattoo on that plugs hind quarters -
 "As fate would have it, Barbwire went just fast enough that the ad- vance guard of hail kept plunktng him over the Hanks all the time, and he just lit out so enthusiastic that he overhau1ed that dark horse and darker rider something amazin'.
 "On they came down the long home stretch, Go1ddust kickin' it off for all he was worth, with the jockey 1eanfn' so far over his neck you could hardly see him, and EA5 bwire gainin' fast and bringin' the hailstorm right along with him
 "A hundred feet from the wire our horse was right up smelling Golddust's dust, and the stands were yellin' like a football game. At fifty feet Barb wire was at the dark horses flank, and the onrushing hail was trying to knock his poor old tail off. Twenty-Five feet and our nag's nose was right up against Golddust's ears. Then their noses were but an inch apart, then 3 hah-fnch, then a weak quarter, and ten feet from the finish Barbwire drew his neck back like snake getttn' ready to strike, and nearly dropped dead. Deliberately pulled his head back a foot behind the other horse. But foot from the tape, old Rarb- wire let loose like jumping jack. His neck uncoi1ed, and his nose shot out a good fourteen inches ahead of the other horse, and we won bands down.
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more and more.
 That was the end. and so you part ed-he a broken man; you gently tol- erant, sweetly sorry, butt what else was there for you to do? There was no place in your life for the unsuccessful.
 "It was then that your husband came suddenly and unexpectedly into the title and the Mansfield fortune. My father died, and then my mother, and this wretched story was my only in heritance. Perhaps it may interest you to know that still have your let ters to my father-men are like that, Lady Mansfeld-and his old pass books"
 She paused again, but Lady Mans field sat rigid, only her eyes burned, alive and suffering, in the deadness of her face.
 "I came to London to look for po- sftion as governess or companton-I was fit for nothing else; but was too young and too pretty for either, and so I fell in with music hall actor who lived in the same boarding house.
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extravagant tastes to live on the edge of wealth and have none-to have a position, and no money to keep 1t up. You deliberately Hprobed by fathers heart, for when he was not empty handed it was a love worth winning. He gave you all he had to give-and more, for there is no "enough" when woman's wants are to be stilled.
 Your husband must have known; he must have been 8 poor, weak wretch indeed-very like your son to- day-only the world never knew; you were sheltered by his name. But you were no better than any poor remnant of humanity who sells herself in the street in the shadow of night"
 For moment silence hung heavy between them, and then the voice went softly on:
 "This continued for years. My moth CT knew and suffered; but she never complained and she never spoke. She only waited. And then the day came when my fathers luck turned. His specu1ations went wrong; he plunged
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I saw the way Keno was picking the openings and handling things general 1y, cheered up remarkably. He got his quickness from the ring, I sup pose, and he caught onto the new game 50 fast that anybody would think he was an old hand at it if they hadn't seen the rope.
 "Then, as they turned and came down the stretch. every horse was in line. Barbwire second from the pole, and when they passed under the wire a shot rang out. and they were of in a bunch.
 "At the same instant large wet drop of ice water hit me in the neck, and I saw the storm was coming up fast. Then climbed up on the fence and fixed my. eyes on the ponies.
 Keno seemed 8 little rattled when they first lit out, and use his hands to hold on, and before he had taken @ hundred steps Barbwire began to slow up, drop behind. and look sur prised while Go1ddust shot into the lead and stayed. Then all at once Keno remembered. and the whole ed on that old cayuse filled him with so much joy he seemed to say, An, now, we're down to business!' and be- fore the quarter was reached he was up in the bunch again. with Keno yell ing in his ear and playing the club like man mailing shingles.
 "As they came down the stretch our horse was up showing his speed and had left the field behind, but Gold dust still was a good two lengths ahead, and travelling strong. When they hit the three-quarter pole, Barb wire was right up against the dark horses hip. At seven-eighths our horse was a nose ahead, and when they hit the mile Go1ddust was three lengths behind, and the coon jockey began to turn white.
 "They rounded the last curve wftr Barbwire still going and Keno beating it of in six-eight time and then-all at once saw the jockey bring the club down extra hard, Barbwire gave a mighty leap in reply, but the gad had snapped off close to the kids hand
 For 8 minute I felt so weak ] thought I'd faint and had to lean LII against Mac for support. I saw Barb wire slacken his speed and lool
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could get anything out of him with out bustin' him a couple tA1es with an ax as a sort of preliminary hear in.
 "But the critter did have the speed. and as I said, if the rider could fan him long enough, he would burn up the distance remarkable.
 well. in the natural course of things came the first annual fair of Tomahawk county, and what did Mac do but get 1t into his bean to enter Barbwtre in the big free-for-all sweepstake. Yes, sir. that's what he done, and when the entry opened he took me and we went over to Lucky Strike. the county seat, with the dough. Fifty good hard beans 1t cost to get an admission into that speed fest, but 1t was worth the chance, any, way, as 1t was only one heat. and car ried a purse of two thousand. Yep, they done things up right in them days.
 "'Bob.' said the old man to me, T believe we can pull down that kale If no better plugs than these show up. Barbwire has beaten all of them a1- ready, and I believe he can do it again.
 "'Yes,' I answered thoughtful, but rememDer ne peat them only on quar- ter and half-mi1e dashes, and this is for five quarters. which is a whole lot different
 "'How differentr asked Mao.
 "'It's like this,' replied. 'Barbwire will run just as long as the jockeys arm holds out. and then. good ntghtl We'll, you remember. he's only run three half-mile races, and he nearly lost two of them because the jockey couldn't keep up the pace. Now, therefore, where you going to get a rider who can apply the osteopathic treatment for mile and quarter?
 "'Why, that aint such a awful stunt said Mac. "I could do it myself
 "'Sure. sure, but you weigh two hundred and fifty with one hand tied behind you
 "'That's so,' answered Mac, T nev- CT thought of that
 "'It's a terrible and astonishin' thing went on, to stick on the top of streakin' cayuse a mile and a quarter, and at the same time try to play the Anvil Chorus on the plugs