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Shingles. SHINGLES. Shingles, j4&'

We bare the very hi shingles—all*A No. 1 quality—finest lorcypress nsadtfllOOO.—all sawed and free mini knots orm Next size, 5x90 “ “ $4.50 pershakes. |IWW.

Flooring I Flooring I • Fooring Ioto*r **‘ Inducements fa Plooring at this time.* W € M-curorJ vfieral hundred thousand feel of

Floortw**a gST.-suv relMe*iAiiareaa# ml—ln one width—aome No, 9 North (fandioa

• Pine at sl3 50 per 1000 square feel, or $I 35 jwr100 feet. It Ik easily equal to what others s*k$11(50 and sl7 50 for.

Doors sll Doors sll Doors $1 each.*

These are made In Wisconsin of I) Inch While Pine snd ready painted, too.

lieKt Lumber ! Host IVlillW ork ALLKINDS.

Mail us your lists. Best bids. Prompt replies. We load to boatsand cars free, and when you ask it, w ; pay the freights Come andspend the day with us at our expense the day we ship your orders.We’ll satisfy you pcrtectly. We are the oldest reliable linn in the Dis-trict. Established IH3O.

FEANS LIBBY & CO. 6th 8. & N. Y. Ave., Washington, D. 0.

./. F. Shaw it Jno. M. Talbert, Halesme. | JoHV M. Paob, Cashier.

The Maryland Gomiission Agency,•r IALTINSU mi.

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IJ’awSSffcST Tobacco. Grain. WoolJohn H. Mitchkli..F. H. Daknall, ..aid..

lohk B. Ghat, *

Farm Prodace Generllj.Da. Qno. VV Dohskv.

*“ Oornor Pratt & Charles streets*.*'

*. .lons M. Talukkt will give his personal attention to the inspection of allTobacco consigned to as

Farmers’ and Planter’s Agency,27 East Pratt Street. Baltimore,

P’or the sale ol 'IV-baeoo. Crain* KViiitand allkinds ot country produce.

Philip H. 7 w'k. President; Judge John P. Bnscoe,Vice-President; Samuel K. George . Treasurer; Sam-

uel M. llinks, Cashier ,

DIRECTORS:Hun. John P, Briscoe, John Shepherd,lohn (?’. (rawford, Samuel if. /huts,lames Alfred Pearce, Samuel A’. George,Kdmm U. Hrown, Phil. H. Tuck, Adrian Posey.

Peruvian Guano,Clover and Timothy Seed anti all Household and barm

supplies burnished.Advances made on consignments.

EDELEN BROS./Commission Merchants,

KOtt TUB SALK OK

Tobacco, Grain and Produce.Special Attention given to the Inspection oj Tobacco.

125 S. SOUTH CHAELSS STREET, BATIMOEE, MB-ALSO DEALERS IN

Btielen Hro. Sfwcial Tobacco Guano, Edelen Bro. Wheat and Grain Nixture , Pure Ground Bone, Pure Dissolved S. U. Bone.

Our •Special Tobacco Guano.* and Wheat and Grain MixtureWR HAVE ADA MANUFACTURED. SPECIAL ORDERS SOLICITED

H. G. 13udley. J. Frank Ford.

DUDLEY & CARPENTER,General Commission Merchants,

12S Light Street, BALTIMORE.

Sell Tobacco Grain and Country Produce.Particular attention given to the careful sampling of Tobacoo.

das- A. Uawklns. W* Bernard IDuke*

DAWKINS A DUKE, jiOeudulM Merchants

FORTUM SALE OF 1i

Tobacco, drain and Country jProdnee-

No. SIQ SOUIH CHARLES STREET, - - BALTIMORE.i

.j;W. H. MOORE. JOHN MUOO.|I

W. H. MOORE & GO.. j!Grocers and Commission Merchants, ItOS 8. Charles Street, BALTIMORE. .

Particular attention given to inspection and sale of 1Tobacco , the sale of Grain and all kinds oi Country iProduce.

Among the chAen is May. asweet-faced, plamlflclad girl joakbudding into mAiitMid. TboEdwardses, whilelsminently re-•pectabie folk*, bsvlboeo frownedupon by fortune. mad because oftheir poverty find friers of aoeialdistinction preveogß| too cloee anintimacy with tbeiSpore opulentneighbors. And tps Miss Brook*honors them wilbMpoinod of re-cognition.

polled to go to Charlotte Hall to-day/' remark* John Bdwards tobis wife. “The lad was so anxiousto attend and would have enjoyedit so much. Seme day be will bea successful rider, for I naught himpracticing last week down at Coop-er's Landing, riding Dexter andusing an old tobacco stick foralance and willow branches for rings.He evidently did not want to beseen, for he "

A bugle call is sounded and awaywhisk the knights to the judges'stand to receive the charge by theorator of the day.

In a semi circle they line up andpiesent indeed, a pretty sight.

The knights, apparelled in medi-eval and modern uniforms, withveri-colored sashes and belts andribbons galore decorating both rid-er* and horsee, and streamers ofribbons waving in the breese fromthe knights’ chapeaus, while thenoble steeds are champing their bit*and pawing the earth, eager to beoff.

Orator Kussell is concluding hisaddress and admonisbibg theknights to go forth as their name-sakes of old, with stout hearts andsteady lances to serve with valorousmight the lady of their choice,when op dashes a youthful knight—a stranger toall-in fulluniform,flings down his entrance fee andenters the contest as the knight ofBartlett Deli.

Then away to the start they go.The chief marshal, his aides, and

the gorgeously decorated heraldsassume their assigned places andthe knight of Bollywood is called

ito make the first charge, leaning| from bis saddle with extended lance> be races over the course—under thearches, and then encircling the

j field, he at last reins in bis horse at{the stand, slides the rings be hassuccessfully taken from his lanceand is greeted with the “Well done.Sir Knight." of a judge, amid theapplause of the assembled multi-tude.

One after another, in quick suc-cession, the knights are called andcourse over the track, snooess crown-ing the efforts of some, failure thefate befalling others.

Now comes the stranger's tornto tilt. Nobody knows him ; he isan absolute stranger to all.

"Knightof Bartlett Dell. Prepareto charge." calls the first herald.

"Knight of Hearty and Well.Prepare to charge." echoes the sec-ond herald, misunderstanding thetitle.

"Knight of 1 Cannot Tell. Pre-pare to charge," oolle the thirdherald, going still farther wrong.

Then the command, "Charge,Sir Knight," from the heralds instentorian voices, and away dashesths stranger—on through the arch-es—one—two—three. He has tak-en every ring. Over tbs course theknights continue for a second, thenthe third and final tilt. £At last itis over—no. The Knight of TheFlaming Sword and Bartlett Dellhave tied for first honors, both hav-ing taken all the rings *t each tilt.The interest and excitement arenow at fever pitch.

Smaller and smaller rings aresubstituted—leas in diameter thanthe lances used, and yet thees de-termined contestants carry themoff successfully on the point *of thelance. Finally an unfortunate dipof the lance loses a ring to theknight of The Flaming Sword, andthus Bartlett Dell is the victor,winning the great queen-crowninghonor.

The coronation address follows,and now the knights range in line,led by the victorious Bartlett Dell,bearing aloft on the tipof his lance,which he bolds erect, the beautifulqueen's crown.

The Toiraamnt it BliotiM.BY J. BENNRTT KOLLIMS.

Frost Milwaukee (Wia.) Badger.

Bloestone Manor is located inone of those remote rural districtsof old Maryland and consists ofbrosd arable fields with a back*ground of dsnss woods—naturalmaiden forest land extending formiles and miles and existing in allits primitive simplicity rad tnxnrv-oneness.

Bloestone, far from ike hum andbustle of town or city, slumberspeacefully on, wrapt in that abso-lute quietude known only to thoseback country districts where stren-uous urban life enteretb not.

But Bloestone today, for thenonce, sweeps aside all these time-honored traditions snd teems withanimation.

An nnosual honor becomes hers,(or her far-stretching, open fieldshave been selected as the battleground whereon upwards of a scoreof valorous Sir Knights shall as-semble and meet together in earn-est conflict to contest their skillwith the lanoe in the name and bythe charm of tboir respective fairDolcineas.

Right nobly has Blnsstone re-sponded to her task, for jammedand crowded together are traps andcarriages, horse carts, ox carts,buggies, wsgons and numerous non-de-script vehicles, incongruouslyintermingling, all striving to se-cure good vantage ground from

.whence to view the knights as theydash over the coarse.

Allalong the roads from the east,

west and north leading to Bine-stone are throngs riding .and onfoot battening to the joust.

Dashing here and there, raisinggreat puffs of dost along the road-way, are gaily oomparisoned steedsboariog determined knights adorn-ed by flowing sashes and ribbons.

At the entrance stern Lew Cookrules supreme, commanding with am; jestic sweep of his arm his as-

, Kisiant, little 'Pom .(ones, when toswing open the gate admitting toihe ground*.

Debarred from entering thereinare highest lord and lowliest beg-gar alike who lacks the requisiteadmisojou fee, which is scaled upand down so as to meet every exi-gency, from the infant in arms tothe crowded old carry-all.

Around this gateway is collecteda motely group—here ragged, bare-footed urchins, with eager, tear-stained faces, begging in vain tobe allowed to enter—there, a groupof little pickaninnies, happinessand contentment beaming fromtheir grinning black faces.

Ever and anon one begins a non-sensical dialect oong, accompaniedby a peculiar swaying to and froof his body. The others circlesrouud him, with clapping of handsand beating time with their barefeet in the dust of the road, theywatch him dance, all joining inwith high-pitched voice* and sing-ing with a vim—

Juber do, an’ Juber don’t;Juber will, an’ Juber won’t;Juber dis, an’ Jober dat;Juber stole a poon’ o’ fat. 1Ob, it’s Jn her, Juber, Ju-ber-ee.But let’s enter the grounds and 1

mingle now with the assembled 1throngs where all the fair maidenswith burning cheeks and flutteringhearts anticipate being made queena ior maids of honor—if Jack or Har-ry are only successful.

Miss Nosmi Brooks, the acknow-ledged belle, leans slightlyover theside of her spick and span carnage,smiling superbly npon the gallantknights hovering shoot her. i

Among them are Joe Marshalland Al Herbert, the tilting expertsof the county. Both are ardent (admirers of Miss Brooks—in fact,they are rivals, and as they now (bask in her smiles and and receiveher words of eocoarsgement, eachis determined that he shall leadher as qoeen of the ball toaight.

Directlyopposite Miss Brooks’ car-riage is farmer Edwards’ old farm iwagon. Every available inch ofthe plain wooden seats ia occupiedby the numerous progeny of JohnEdwards. ,

Suint {Barg's Oracon.LEONARDTOWN. MD., THiytSDAY. SEPTEMBER 19, 1801.

He is followed in like mannernext by the knight of the FlamingSword with the wreath for the firstmaid of honor, then comes theknight of Hollywood, and nextthe kaigbte of Starry Cross andHope, to crown. In order named, theother maids of honor. The longline of unsuccessful contestants fol-lowing complete the procession.They thread their way slowly, wind-ing in and out between the closelycrowded veilides.

This valiant stranger knight isthe cynosure for all eyes, every oneeagerly watching him and wonder-ing where he willstop. At last behalts near the carriage of NoamiBrooks. Then all realise that shehe* been chosen again as queen.He has not addressed her yet, batbe is lowering his lance to presentthe crown.

Haughty Miss Brooks with slight-ly averted face is unable to sup-press a smile of triumph and pleas-ure.

But Bartlett Dell has wheeledhis horse and advanced a few paces,end is it possible ? Yes, he placesthe crown upon head of poor, plainMay Edwards, and throwing off anssk reveals to the surprise of thespectators, Jed Clarke, then bowinglow, be addresses her, saying, "Lit-tie May, great is my pleasure inhaving the honor to now crown you"Queen of Love and Beauty," andMay blushing, replied, "1 thankyou, Jed."

Some lore Gall."After a generation of fraud and

violence at the polle. Republican*gave our people peacejul , /air andJree election*; reassessed propertyand equalized the burden of taxation

ca*e of laborer and farmer ; as-sessed *60,000,000 additionalstocks and bonds ; gave free schoolbooks to our children ,

This plank of the Republics).State platform was constructedsomewhat after the fashion of a-crasy quilt in this, that it is com-posed of several dis’inct and inhar-monious subjects, fitted togetherin a queer sort of way to make agaudy appearance. If there wereno other objection to it than theone just indicated we might wellforbeai to comment upon it; but asit embodies, so far as quoted, not asingle accurate statement, we willsaw and split it. It is astonishingthat such glaring perversions of thetruth should find a place in the for-mal utterances of a political party.But there they are, and the menwho put them there must eitherhave been ignorant that the state-ments thus made were untrue, orelse, knowing them to be untrue,they deliberately incorporated themin their platform with intent to

deceive the voters of the Bute. Ifthe authors of the platform wereignorant that the statements wehave quoted were untrue, no betterreason could be advanced to dem-onstrate the incapacity of the plat-form builders to govern the peopleof Maryland. If, however, know-ing those statements to be untruethey deliberately made them in-

tending them to be belived as true,then, these platform builders havethemselves shown their unfitnessto be entrusted with political power;because one who will resort to de-ception to gain power will misuse

that power when gained. willnot pause to consider which bornof this dilemma these gentlemenshould hang themselves on, because iit is not within the scope of ourpresent purpose to do so ; but wewill content ourselves with a simpleexposure of the inaccuracies of theassertions excerpted from the Re-publican perty’s Bute platform.

It is, to begin with, a littlediffi-cult to tell precisely what is meantby a "generation of fraud and viol-ence." We had supposed that theword "generation." apart from .its ;mathematical and theological sense,

had some sort of relation to indi-viduals or to the measurement ofthe duration of human life, but weare wow told, for the, first time,that there can be a "generation offraud and violence" which ia aboutas intelligible as a generation of

1255bricks, • generation of wheal or ageneration of murder. Panning bythin peculiarity and attuning thatwhat vu meant vat tbit : That•fter fraud and violsnos bad pre-vailed at the polla for the period of• generation, the republican partygtve at peaceful, fair and free elec-tions ; we have a statement whichcan be understood, but which itutterly at Tariaooa with fa<%.^

It cones witli^j^awwdbwipjlatfrom the leaders of the Republicanparty to talk about peaceful, fairand free elections. Have they for-gotten that in this very State beforethey were driven from power in1867, elections were carried in theinterest of Republican candidatesby the most notorious fraud andviolence? Have they forgottenthat a meager minority of the vot-ing population of Maryland con-trolled elections, because the ma-jority were disfranchised by fraudand corruption or were driven fromthe polls by violence ? Have theyforgotten that Federal bayonetskept voters away from the pollsand prevented life-long residentsfrom voting, because by no othermeans could a hopeless minorityretain control of the State govern-ment? Have they forgotten thatRepublican Judges of Election weresued in great numbers for fraud-ulently refusing to allow Democratsto vote and that judgments wererendered in some cases and in theothers there were settlements affect-ed by the Election Judges payingthe coats ? Have they forgottenthat the iniquitous Constitution of1864 was thrust upon the people ofthis State by fraud and violence?That an infamous test oath was ex-acted from every Democratic voter,in flagrant-dilation of the thenexisting Constitution of the State,and that illegal votes cast beyondthe limits of the State by soldiersin the field were counted in defianceof law? By counting 2,633 votes

deposited out of the State and faraway from the regular polling preoiucts, a pretended majority of 375in favor of the adoption of the

I Constitution of 1864- was figuredI up. out of a total vote of 58.878.Have they forgotten the carpet-bagrole of the South during the pre-valence of which fraud and violenceran riot, until an outraged and in-

dignant people were driven almostto desperation ? Have they forgotten the outrageous Force Billand Senator McCumas’ advocacy ofthat scandalous measure when bewas a member of the House ? Havethey forgotten bow the voters ofthe Sixth Congressional Districtturned upon Senator McComatanddefeated him at the polls for bispersistent advocacy of that sameForce Bill? Have they forgottenthat the Republican party securedthe Presidency in 1876 by fraud,and seated R. B. Hayes, thoughSamuel J. Tilden bad been elected.

But who gave us the electionlaw which secured “peaceful, fairaod free elections ?“ It was adopt-ed by a Democratic Legislature in1880. It was amended in 1896when the Republicans bad controlof the House of Delegates and theDemocrats were in the majority inthe Senate. If the existing elec-tion law has given peaceful, fairand free elections, then the creditis doe to the Democratic Legisla-ture of 1890 and to the DemocraticSenate of 1886 no less then to theRepublican Uooseof the last-named ,year, and it is consequently on-1truthful tossy that the Republican* •“gave os peaceful, fair and freeelections.*' So far as the amend-ments adopted in 1896 were con-cerned. the Republicans aod Demo-crats alike were instrumental in

passiog them, and it is manifestlyinaccurate to say the It‘pub'iconsalone gave ns that law. The elec-tion law, like many other statutorysystems, is the result of develop-ment. Assuming, but not admitt-ing. that we now have any morepeaceful, fair or free elections thanwe formerly had, and assuming

that this improvement is doe to thelaw as it stands to day, the originof the improvement must be tracedto the Act of 1890 adopted by aDemocratic Legislators, and what-

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ever of merit tbs amendments of1896 contain could not have beensecured without co-operation of theDemocratic Senate. In the face oftheee patent fads it is rashness, ifnothing worse, to claim that theRepublican party conferred tbsblessings and benefits ascribed tothe election law.

The “Republicans • • • re-sssessed property and equalised theburden of taxation." The reas-sessment was made under severalstatutes passed in 1896. but notone of those statutes ooold havebecome laws had not a DemocraticSenate concurred in their adoption.For the Republican party to claimthe sole credit for this measure isfor it to claim that to which it ismanifestly not entitled.

But the “Republicans • ? •incase of laborer and farmer assessed660,000.000 additional stocks andbonds." Did they? When? How?Was it under the assessment law of1896 ? If so could that have beenpassed without the concurrence ofthe Democratic Senate ? Certainlynot. Then it is not true to saythe Republicans brought about thisresult. But suppose we are wrong,aod suppose the Republican partyalone caused tbe assessment of 660,-000.000 of stocks and bonds. Wasthat in cause of laborer end farmet?Bonds are assessed at three dollarson the thousand for couhty put-poses. Tbe laborer who owns abouse worth a thousand dollars andtbe farmer who owns a parcel ofland worth a thousand dollars, eachpays the full county rate of taxa-tion, which in some oountiee i*more than three times as much andin this couuty is nearly three timesas much as tbe bond holder pays onbis bond. The holder of bonds isthus favored at the expense of (heland owner. To make this a littlemore clear, take this case : A bond •

holder owning ten thousand dol-lars in bonds pays thirty dollarscounty taxes on them. A farmerowning a farm assessed at ten thou-sand dollars pays in some countiesover one hundred and in this coun-ty eiyhty-Jice dollars county tuxeson his farm A bond holder inBaltimore City pays on ten tbous-sand dollars of bonds thirty dollarscity taxes, whilst the man who isassessed with ten thousand dollarsworth of booses pays on that as-sessment unehu >dredand <ixt*-evtndollars, or over five and a halftimesas much as the bond holder pays onidentically tbe same amount ofproperty t Is such a discrimination“in cause of laborer and farmer?"Tbe Republican platform says il is,but we doubt whether tbe toileraod tillerof tbe soil willagree withthat statement.

Tbe “Republicans * • * gavefree school books to our children."No. Tbe bill providing for freeschool books was introduced in theState Senate on January seventh,

1896, by Hon. John Walter Smith,then Senator from Worcester Coun-ty and now (lovernor of the State,and was passed by a DemocraticSenate on March tbe sixth, aod wasconcurred in later on by a Republi-can House. Was it truthful to saythat this measure had been adoptedby Republicans and by so saving to

create the impression that E-pub-licans alone bad enacted it, whenin point of fact it was of Democrat-

I ic origin and could not have becomea law in 1896 without tbe concur-rence of Democrats ?

But enough has been said forto-day. We have exposed some oftbe pretensions of the Republicanplatform, sod we will next weeksplinter other planks that are quit#as wind-shaken, brasb and unsoundas tbe ones we have thus far dealtwith Frederick Citium. August SO.

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