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IP* iMidlatjd
published ou Friday morniwgofeach woehat
Rising Sun, Cecil Co., Maryland
—IIY
E. E. EWING & SONS.
Independent in politics and all othei
subjects.
SI.OO A YEAR. IN ADVANCE.
Friday) June 17, 1898
, - ■la in ———~~■ — -
“At last” aud “Spanish phantom
ships” have become by-words
among the newspapers for Mc-
Kiuleyism.
The Army of nammou and the Army
of Mars.
President McKinley received tlie bond
bill as passed by the two Houses on Mon
day at 3 o'clock and signed it at 3:05 p
m. Immediately 4.000,000 circular letters
of instruction to money order offices were
put in the hands of an army of clerks to
send out, directiug postmasters how to
proceed to sell bonds. The Treasury de
partment had at the same time a bid in
its hands from New York from the
National City Bank, the Central Trust
Co., aud Vermylie & Co. offering to take
all or any part of the $200,000,000 bonds.
This rapid movement of the army of
Mammon was all accomplished in a piece
of an afternoon.
Hast week three Spanish canoe gun
boats poked their noses out of the harbor
of Havana, saw an American cruiser and
ran back into the harbor without being
fired at. The newspapers in their jovial
way reported that three Spanish battle
ships were waiting in the Gulf to inter
cept the army transports when they left
Key West for Cuba with troops. At the
same time the festive newspapers called
the little canoe gunboats “phantom”
ships. Valiant McKinley heard the story
and was frightened apparently out of his
wits, aud halted the transports with 15,000
men for seveial days in the boiling waters
of the Gulf and during the hottest days of
last week and up to Monday at noon, till
he had gathered a fleet of ironclads to
protect the transports from the “phan
toms,” a fleet of war ships powerful
enough to sink any navy Spain has ever
had since or before America was discov
ered. 111 those iron ships, and especially
the monitors, the thermometer rose to
150°. The men were parboiled, many of
them entirely exhausted, aud some of
them will probably never recover from
the cooking. The army of Mammon
moves with the celerity of electricity,
while the army of Mars is held in a
tropical furnace for days by a phantom in
the brave McKinley’s brain.
In the meantime a handful of marines
were landed to prepare and hold a place
for the safe landing of the 15,000 men
who should have arrived but were being
porboiled at Key West, while Spanish
guerrillas attacked at night the little baud
and killed four or five of them.
These war movements show the status
of our brave President ever since he pro
nounced the epigram that made him
famous, from his front portico in Canton,
—“Open the mills in place of the mints,”
as tho’ mills could be opened without
money, which was the cause of the mills
closing. The epigram is a worthy motto
to place over a dunce school.
Under Mr. McKinley the soldiers of
Mammon move forward like au army
with banners, conquering aud to conquer,
while he halts the army of Mars in fear
of a “phantom” ship, to be cooked in a
furnace, for ten days !
Alliance With England.
The address of Mr. Geo. A. Blake be.
lore the graduating class of West Notting
ham Academy last week was almost con
fined to the war with Spain, its prospec
tive results, and in favor of an alliance
with England. Mr. Blake strongly ex
pressed himself in favor ot such alliance
in which the two nations would form ties
so close as to become almost one in prin
ciple and policy.
The principles of government on which
the two nations are founded are diamet
rically opposed, to each other; in fact they
are antagonistic. England is a monarchy
with an hereditary aristocracy. The
genius of this republic is a pure democ
racy, or intended to be and claimed to be
such by its 4th of July orators. It has
been warped considerably from its pur
pose aud has been badly corrupted, but
not irretrievably so, by corporation gov
ernment. The great contest now being
waged is between the spirit of pure de
mocracy and class privilege with the latter
in the saddle. That element is over
anxious to form au alliance with the
British government in order to strengthen
its power in the battle it is waging to
overthrow democracy and establish on its
ruins the divine right—not of kings but
of money and privileged class rule, and
Mr. Blake pleads before the young grad
uates the overthrow of popular govern
ment —perhaps unconsciously—and the
erection on its ruins one of a special priv
ileged class when he advocates an alliauce
with Great Britain, which, when the
American republic was weak was ever its
iusiduous or open foe.
The republic has become a young giant
and the selfish aristocracy of England j
would now court its favor to prop its!
threatened oligarchy. The sentiment is
un-American, hut the American mind is
being corrupted by this iusiduous poison
instilled by the great newspapers of the
money centers that are nearly all owned
by and coutrolled in that power's interest.
The United States have advanced to
their present colossal strength aud
wealth, not by any friendly aid and en
couragement from Great Britain but in
spite of them. We need none and want
no closer alliance with Englaud than we
now have.
England’s naval and colonial power is
being disputed by continental nations,
aud their lords of the laud and uiouey
are striving to rope in the United States
to aid that class to hold its ascendency, j
not for the benefit of the human race but |
for the interest of a titled and money own
ing class, the head of the latter being the
great Jew oligarchy of the Rothschilds.
The people of the United States, if wise,
will shun and oppose to the death any
such alliance. This same class of Amer
icans who before the war with Spain
broke out were for peaee-at-any-price, are
now the great war champions and bond
advocates. They have their man Friday
—Gage—in the treasury, who has already
arranged with the bankers to leave the
money paid for bonds remain in the
banks for the use of stock speculators,
until the government is ready to pay it
out. This class of English alliance pro
clivity are for the conquest, not the liber
ation of Cuba, the Philippines and all
other Spanish islands and holding them
as conquered provinces, to be ruled and
robbed by administration carpet-baggers.
This class and their newspapers are in
dust! iously belittling the Cuban insurrec
tionists as unfit for self-goveanment, men
who have submitted to untold privations
and defied the whole power of Spain for
more than three years in a heroic strug
gle for liberty, before which the hardships
of our revolutionary struggle pale. The
marvelous wealth of the Philippines is
attracting their greedy eyes and they are
planning the conquest and permanent
servitude of this far off group in the
Pacific, not for the liberation of the Pltil
- ippiners from the tyranny of Spain, bi t
as a conquered province from which to
draw wealth to aid in corrupting the
home government and politics. The
cliques that run the administration are
I busy -representing the Philippine people
as a race —or several races—of savages
j which will need a carpet-bag government
appointed by the President to hold them
in subjection. In the face of this the
. Philippine insurgents have produced a
; leader whose ability seems to challenge
I fair comparison with the best the United
1 States can show-, as an organizer aud
. general.
It is not the mission of this government
’ to hold in subjection peoples they are
brought in touch with, but to free anil
f give them a helping hand in self-govern
j ment. They will never learn self-goveru
j ment till they are given a chance to
practice it.
I The mission of this nation and poople
r is not alliance with the aristocratic class
of Great Britain and to cramp and con
. strain free government for other peoples,
, but to give their encouragement and aid
f to establish free institutions among all
f peoples they come in contact with. Any
, other policy invites the overthrow of
, of popular government, which is already
struggling for preservation at home.
1 ■
1 The President is to Blame.
In the present issue of this paper we
5 publish an article from the Silver Knight,
; Senator Stewart’s paper, which by the
1 presentation of a few facts, now a part of
’ history, plainly fixes the cause of the war
1 with Spain upon McKinley’s blundering
' and palpable incompetency. Had the
President done the honest thing, the
’ right thing, by Cuba the chances are
many to one that there would have been
1 no war, and had war come it would have
J been of Spain’s making.
Nothing could be more stupid to at
tempt to intervene forcibly to prevent the
Cubans fighting for their liberty, and
’ Spain from fighting to reduce the insur
gents to submission, which they had suc-
cessfully withstood for three years, with
the United States government under both
Cleveland and McKinley aiding Spain.
The President's plan of intervention
‘ could have hut one of two results, that of
assisting Spain to subdue the revolting
Cubans, or a war, with Spain contend
ing that the United States had no bus
iness to interfere with her internal affairs.
A more blundering piece of business,
lacking every semblance ofstatesmansliip,
it is impossible to conceive. AU along
the President has given the Cubans the
cold shoulder. He made no effort to
provide them with arms and supplies, but
rather to avoid doing so. The recon
centrados he succeeded in totally exter
minating by his so-called policy, and to
give some show of grace to his policy,
the administration papers suddenly dis
covered that Gomez had no semblance of
au army and that the insurgents were but
a few bands of guerrillas aud bush
whackers, and this in the face of the fact
that they had successfully resisted 200,000
Spanish solders for three years.
Now that the war is spreading from this
continent to that of Asia, aud threatens
to become a conquest of all the islands
possessed by Spain, and an army of
200,000 men and fleets which are rapidly
assuming gigantic proportions, to com
plete and hold such a conquered territory,
the question is looming up in formidable
proportions, how are these newly acquired
territories of twelve millions or more in
habitants to be governed ? Already the
speculators are swarming round the
capital and planning carpet-bag govern
ments and plunder for political party
favorites, and McKinley's aimless pur
pose and nerveless hand begins to reveal
the danger which threatens the people as
the mountains of debt aud taxation loom
up out of a system ot the most extrav
agant expenditure ever recorded in the
history of any war.
No danger was ever apprehended by
any person from weak and effete Spain,
! but from the opportunity which the war
|is affording the speculative cliques that
use McKinley as a pliant tool to effect
their purpose of fastening their gold
standard and tremendous public debt,
bank and monopoly rul - on every pro
ductive industry and producer.
They paid down $20,000,000 to place a
weak, aimless man in the seat occupied
by a Washington, a Jefferson, a Jackson
and a Lincoln aud are planning to take
out of the toil made wealth of the people
a thousand millions in return.
“One Minute Cough Cure is the best
preparation I have ever sold or used and
I can’t say too much in its praise.”—L
M Kenuon, Merchant, Odell, Ga. Eli
T. Reynolds.
rrZHT-E OTTIRyUST-A_Xj : ■F'ttTTDA.ir, JUITE 17, 1898.
New Time.
The June number of this inag
• azine of the period is britn full of
the doctrine of the new time or the
: new era which the teachers of the
toilers are striving to establish.
The following extracts from the
editorial department reflect the
spirit of the New Time, which is
published by The New Time (Jo.,
: 56 Fifth Ave., Chicago. SI.OO a
year.
I THE NEW TIME ON THE MAINE.
Ten of the dead crew of the
Maine were subscribers to The New
Time and nearly half of the 266
murdered men were its constant
readers Hundreds of the officers
and soldiers of the regular army
: are earnest workers for this mag
! azine, and are doing splendid work
along reform lines. This may come
as a surprise to those who look upon
the members of the army and navy
only as “ hired butchers.” So long
as the competitive system contin
. lies to exist the soldiers and ma
! lines fill useful and important
positions. The soldier is as pro
. ductive as the lawyer, broker,
’ banker or the average middleman,
’ and his profession is equally as
’ honorable. Stern necessity forces
’ men to take employment where
they can find it, aud the soldier is
worthy of his hire. If there were
t proportionally as many advanced
3 thinkers in the ranks of the work
ing classes as there are in the
‘ United States army and navy it
would be cause for rejoicing.
In the last number of The New
e Time a reference was made to the
* death of John A. Kay, one of the
| victims of the Maine. Kay was
oue of the first to take a share of
e stock in The New Time, and he
a sent in a club of ten subscribers
! from the crew of the ill-fated
battleship.
Keep a close watch on the prog
ress of events. The Wall street
i syndicate is actively engaged on its
scheme to bond Cuba for $200,000,-
000 and organize the republic in
the interest of the bond-holders.
0 They are spending money freely.
Subsidized newspapers are printing
e stories to the effect that the insur
s gent army is disorganized and that
the Cuban republic is a myth. One
’ correspondent asserts that Gomez
1 has an “army” of but 167 men,
1 aud that the total number of iusur
f gents does not exceed S,OOO. This
f is |a deliberate lie, but it is being
y widely circulated. If the New
York syndicate can organize Cuba
there are hundreds of millions of
profits for the promoters.
e Every rich man with a second
- hand yacht has sold it to the gov
e eminent. The terms are not known.
f It is safe to assume tint the sellers
r were satisfied. Hanna sold his
T yacht aud probably obtained
’ enough to build a new and better
e one. A second-hand yacht is in
e the same class as a bicycle of the
1 vintage of 1890.
Q
“In order for us to have good
times the people must not only
„ make money, but they must also
J spend it freely. The two things
are reciprocal. It is the market
that keeps the factories and the
, stores going aud pays the wages.”
j This is what John Wauamaker
said recently. Mr. Wanainaker is
] one of the few rich men in this
f country with a glimmer of economic
, sense. The average editorial idiot
is advising the peop'e to save their
money. They must be saving it;
they certainly are not spending
much of it. Nothing will so quickly
breed hard times as an epidemic ol
| economy. There is a circulating
’ medium of but $23 per capita, and
, probably sls of this is in the banks
or otherwise idle. If the people
save the remaining $8 —which is
not much to save—what becomes of
, our circulating medium ? And yet
the people are urged to save their
money. You might as well ask a
- man to save his breath or dam up
the circulation of his blood. Under
our present laughable system of
society the spendthrift is a bene
, factor and the prudent man is an
enemy to the public welfare.
sioo Reward sioo.
The readers of this paper will be pleased
to learii that there is at least one dreaded
disease that science has been able to cure
in all its stages, aud that is Catarrh.
Hall’s Catarrh Cure is the only positive
cure known to the medical fraternity.
Catarrh being a constitutional disease,
requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's
Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting .
directly upon the blood and mucous sur
faces of the system, thereby destroying
the foundation of the disease, and giving
the patient strength by building up the
constitution aud assisting nature in doing
its work. The proprietors have so much
faith in its curative powers, that they
offer One Hundred Dollars for any case ,
that it fails to cure. Send for list of tes
timonials. Address, ‘
F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O.
Sold by druggists, 75c.
Hall’s F'amily Pills are the best.
Constipation
Causes fully half the sickness in the world. It *
letains the digested food too long in the bowels
and produces biliousness, torpid liver, hull-
Hood’s
gestion, bail taste, coated a _ _
tongue, sick headache, in- Krnjt m I I n
somnia, etc. Hood's Pills 111
cure constipation and all its ™ ■■ ■ w
results, easily and thoroughly. 25c. All druggists.
Prepared by C. I. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass.
The only Pills to take with Hood's Sarsajtarilla.
Convention National Educational
Association, Washington, D. C.
BEDUCED KATES VIA PENNSYLVANIA RAJI.KOAD.
For the National Educational
Association Convention to be held
at Washington, D. C., July 7 to 12,
the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. will
sell excursion tickets from points
on its line to Washington aud re
turn at rate of single fare for the
round trip pins $2.00 membership
fee. These tickets will be sold on,
and good going, July 4 to 7, and
good to return leaving Washington
July 8 to 15, when stamped by
Joint Agent at Washington. By
depositing ticket with Joint Agent
on or before July 12 and on pay
ment of 50 cents the return limit
may be extended to August 31.
Tickets for side trips from Wash
ington to Gettysburg, Richmond,
Old Point Comfort, and Southern
battlefields will be on sale at the
ticket offices of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company in Washington
during the continuance of the
Convention.
They banish pain ONE
and prolong
No matter what the matter is, one will do you
* good, and you can get ten for five cents.
B A new style packet containing ten ripans i-abcles in a paper cm ton (without glass) is now for sale
y at some drug st FOR five cnirrs. This low-price l sort is intended rr the poor und the ccoi.omi- B
W cal. Oao do*-n of tho llve-cent cartons U3o tub ties) cun bo hid ov uj.i:l by sending forty eieht cento w
K to the Ripavs Chemical Company, No. U Spruce itroe . Now York—or u s.nplo carton (xen I
■ m . tabulcs) wi:i be sent for nvo cents. Best medic no ever inude aincc the world was created.
f/gjjjAiwafiSSiic
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® J. S. Chapman,
Praflical Watchmaker and
Having Imd 2f yenwexpcrieiice in repairing of every description ol
Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Spectacles,
'j&ffljK ETE OLASSES, MUSIC BCEES, Ac.
All woik guaranteed. Special attention given to Chronograph
Next doer to Post Office.; RISING SUN, MD.
A 7763
TWO GREAT ENEMIES!
iHtiiiiinnmn
Spaniards
AND
Potato Bugs!
Dewey has the remedy for Spaniards and we have
the remedy for Potato Bugs.
PARIS GREEN PARIS GREEN
Call early and get your supply while the season
demands it and save yonr crop. Also SUMMER
TONICS, to make you feel good. That tired feel-,
ing—we can knock it higher than a kite.
Don’t forget the Jewelry Case and that new line of Sta
tionery, those Pocket Books and Purses, Perfumery, Toilet
Articles, etc., at
RISING SUN PHARMACY,
Eli T. Reynolds.
OYSTERS^
The undersigned are prepared to furnish the finest quality Oys
ters, Haw Fried, Fanned, Stewed, or in any style desired, and can
supply them in quantities to suit, by the plate, quart, gallon or
barrel, in the shell or out. Fresh shipments in the shell daily.
—FRESH FISH DAILY.—
ICE CREAM AND FRUITS IN SEASON.
49*Spcclaijattention given to orders for catering for balls, parties or festivals.
TOUCHTON & NT ELIXS,
Restaurant and Grocery,
Town Hall Uuilding. Rising Sun,
Real Estate Transfers.
The following real estate trans
fers have been recorded at the
' Clerk’s office, Elkton :
David G. Hedges to Michael
j Petrie, 14 acres, Seventh district,
i SI9OO.
Stephen W. McKenney to Janies
; D. Alexander, 1.12 acres in North
) East, $325.
, Biaza Lombardo, to Nicholas
l Mele, 14 acres, Third district, $350.
i S. J. Woodrow to William R.
' Gamble, five acres, Fifth district,
' SIOO.
t
Late to bed and early to rise, prepaies
a man for his home in the skies. Early
|to bed and a Little Early Riser, the pill
that makes life longer and better and
J wiser. Eli T. Reynolds.
' One Minute Cough Cure, cures.
I That is what it was made tor.
1
! DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve
Cures Piles, Scalds, Burns.
3
i
Buffingtons!^
l
The unprecedented sales on SHIRT WAISTS,
DRESS SKIRTS and WRAPPERS has caused us
* to add many dozens more this week to the Ladies’
\ Department on second floor, which has grown to be
l one of the busy points.
MUSLIN UNDERWEAR stock enlarged by the
addition of new garments today.
Eighteen styles of FIGURED ORGANDIES add
ed to the already large assortment of wash dress stuff.
Madras in the latest colorings. Dress Linens,
Crashes, &c., &c.
Special for this week:
One case —and one only—
Ladies’ Oxfords, vesting gore,
dongola kid, patent tip; thrown
on the market at 78c per pair,
worth at least $l.OO. Last
only a few days with us.
I
Yours Truly,
E. R. BUFFINGTON & SONS.
WORTHINGTON’S
To he ready for the warm weather which we must soon expect
we are abundantly supplied with such seasonabJe goods as will be
wanted. The latest things in men’s Summer Shirts are soft Madras,
with cuffs of same and white neck bands. We have the “United”
line which we think is superior to most others as to style and flu
ish, and they always fit. A new lot of men’s and boys’ Working
Shirts should claim attention—regular 50c goods at <juile a percent
age under that price.
Men’s and boys’ Straw Hats in greater variety than usual, at
the lowest prices possible. Also the light stylish shades of Soft Hats.
Large additions to the line of Wash Fabrics, Lawns, Dimities,
&c., in latest colorings and effects.
This week’s invoice of Waist Silks are beauties and will make
any young girl happy to possess one. Also novelties in Black Gros
Grain and Taffeta Silks.
GROCERIES—Iine and cheap as usual.
Very truly,
E. H. WORTHINGTON & SON.
SPECIAL
Harvest Notice.
We have completed our stock for this special season, and feel
that our prices are as low as the lowest
wlieu quality is considered.
We have arranged to procure Repairs for all makes of Harvest
Machinery at short notice, and are the authorized agents for Walter
A. Wood Machines and Repairs.
We carry in stock complete Knives, Sections, Guards, Rivets,
Bolts, &c. We have a limited supply of
Binder Twine
which we are offering for !)!c. for
Manila and 10c. lb. for Pure Manila.
Mowing Machine Knife Grinders.
Hay Carriers, Lawn Mowers,
Harpoon Forks, Gasoline Stoves,
Rope and Blocks, Window Screens,
Grain Cradles, Door Screens,
Scythes and Snaths, Paris Green,
Grindstones, Fence Wire,
Machine Oils, Poultry Wire,
ICE CREAM FREEZERS.
Very truly,
HAINES & KIRK.
Esteemed Patronage :
Try our N. O. Molasses of different
grades. Syrups, Canned Goods, Prunes,
Peaches, Evaporated Apples. Apricots,
Raisins.
Brooms, Buckets, Wooden and Willow
Ware, Crockery and Agate Ware.
Dried Beef, Salt Meat, city sugar-cured
Hams and Breakfast Bacon, Lard, Fresh
Beef, Fresh Pork Loin, Smoked Sausage,
Bologna Sausage on our shambles today ;
Chipped Dried Beef in j£-tb. boxes—very
fine, Smoked Herring, Ground Alum Salt
in 56-lb. sacks and in larger sacks, just
received 10 barrels of Worcester Fine Salt
—none better.
Just opened a case ‘‘Hot Time” 10c.
Glassware, large and attractive pieces.
Try our Cream Cheese.
BEfT'Strawberries today.
Prices right.
We are yours, to obey, &c.,
Cor. Queen & Cherry Sts., __ , __
Rising Sun, Mil. ZB_ 3?_ !bJTOTTQT ,
Clothing Department.
Our large room, large stock
and small prices attract the
attention of alert buyers, who
are 011 the lookout for the best
goods for the least money.
A line of Dry Goods.
Ladies’ Shoes 95c, a specialty, in all
sizes. Children’s and Men’s Shoes.
Ready-made Dresses, Skirts, Wrappers,
Silk and Shirt Waists, Children’s Wear
aud Underwear of all kinds.
Outing Flannel, Wrappers, Plaid and
Lancaster Ginghams.
Men’s Overalls and Working Shiits
very cheap and of good quality.
Oil Cloth—good article and low down
in price.