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Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1885-08-27
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DR. HIRAM ELUEMAN,

physician and Surgeon, takes pleasure in an
nuIncing lu tho citizens of Mcchanicsiown
and vicinity that ne has located her" in the
practice If .ncnici!v. Fer ihc present h'
ma> hc found AZ
THE GILBERT iiOt SE,
until hr secures an oNlcc o, . residence Tor
himself and family.
He would further adH that h" ha. r"'"" !
sta. and hc,lc~ by strict ",.d "prMht @,"t
nt,! to merit the cnuflrnc" and sHpi ' u
= discerning ,uhi'e
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1885-08-27
4 MARVELLOUS STORY

FROM THE SON: s Ys;l, a%'"r Ua. = iss,' SSH
"Gentlcmen: My father resides ut Glover,
Vt. He has been great sufferer from S"rof-
ula, and the incloscd letter will tell yon What
n marvellous elect
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1885-08-27

were blue, and such vivid little bit Of
colorng was quite d relief after the sto
lid monotony of the bearded faces round
her. Her ulster was thin and worn
and her gloves were miraculous proof
of how much darnlng one pair could
stand; but it was neither her pretty
face nor her shabby clothes that attract
ed me. No: it was her own exceeding
happiness. She was childishly happy ;
almost diotically So, ] thought at last,
for there she was. with her big eyes
sparkling with fun, and the dimplcs
plnving at hidc-and- seek round her
mouth. What on earth was she think
ins about. She could not have been
more than nineteen or so, and carried
with her Il roll OF manuscript in a busl-
ness like sort of way as if the document
were her own.
When I was put down in Flint street
noticed that She, too, left the omnibus
but | was not prepared to see her pre-
crla me into the office and vanish up
the staircase. All my life had nour-
isheu special dctestation for writing
women: 50 it was with q considerable
amount Of anger that I turned round
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1885-08-27

crably clear of scandal. There were
science papers, ard book papers, and
the only amusing column was one that
was devoted to miscellaneous gossip,
and was signed, "The Man About
Town. The style was clever and easy
and I nourshcd q secret but profound
admiration for my unknown contribu-
tor. Looking over his latest article, it
suddenly struck me had never been
told his narne, and I put my new sec
rotary to her first use by asking it Of
Miss Charity Landor.
Hope said the girl, 'hc never calls.
Mr. blake ucel to write to him.
4 should like to see him. answer
ed. DO you not admire his writings,
Miss Landor?'
Not particularly,' she replied. 1T
reads to me rs If he put in good deal
of rubbish by way of padding
For the first week or 50 | found the
girls presence was irksome, but as the
stranyencas wore otE, it see'ned 10 max"
my work douf,ly attractive. She was
an immense help to me; but, try IS |
would, could not persuade myself that
it was simply her assistance that was
50 valuable to me. began to listen
for the soft voice, and laid manya deep
plot to win frcm her laugh or smile.
One spring morning, when | was
working alone, an open envelope was
brought to me, which knew to con-
tain the weekly ciluslon Of "The Man
About Town." The address was writ
ten in his customary style, bus when
the Ms tumblcl out, to my intense
amaHement it was written i'll the we'll
known rather peculiar hand Of icy sec
retary. Was it possible that Charity
should be the author of these clever
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into the inner room, laid the paper on
the girls desk. and asked her wh.t it
meant. Her answer was so eloquent
Fiat words of r;na are nowrrless 70 de-
.,r;L, =. obo s;,,,l,, ,,n,,ol Of me- and
hu.hrd not)v
n ,,o. royv noo;to,t y,a y,;l +ho,,oh
yho Ala MOT lo,l, Il in +la very least
,h,, # wa. q, casv. Father used to
v.r;,o tha,o Grst and thrn when he
con,ln't took if * we'll as his other
work Mr. rL,kn did not m,n1 hot I
l.,o,, ,o,, ,y,,)1 hon,rvo am = vo,o-
-, so.,r ,r,,l.r ,1wavs co,i.l i for
,on Ito con;od # mi, ,;ue onl muat
l,a,.o ,,,,oJ .ho or;c;ro1 !, .tnn;J
mistake Are Won angry; All. don't
ha -,,lo,.o ,lo,',r
.,na.,, v,hv om nro,,1 If von" T
,ns,vor.l hcr $50 honny foe, ihat I
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III y y Nsnls ~ mnshy; they should be allowed
~ ~ entirely odd h they should bs first
alced; andthen chopped quite fine. Ofcourse
sstMoet my Moat cAnNbe used in making hash,
hut saEiH-odgeds hssh can BE- made Of none but
The sbest a largo proportion should be lean,
20 thASthe hash may not be too greasy itmay
be mesh % OornedL II should be boiled thor
removed from the bone and every par
Sacle Sof gristle should be taken out, and then
AZ q be allowed to become cold. Il should
cut into pieces and chopped fne-not
gronnd - that would leave it full
i9f strings and large, uncut pieces, and Of All
tninga I deeptss atringy or lumpy hash. We
~ now using ct our house ono OF the Enter
prise Misunderstanding CompAny's new meat
choppers, and II works to perfection; it cuts
the meat into little pieces and leaves no strings
or uncut lumps; IL cuts fast and turns easily.
4 do not care TO give the thing q "boom,n but
Say this in simple Justice to > hrst-class ma
chine. Vol, having the potatoes and meat
properly prepared, they should be thoroughly
mixed; the proportion of one-third Of potatoes
TO two-thirde Of meat pleases our people; but,
OF course, this may be varied. II should be
next warmed-not recooked, but warmea-as
hot - it can be eaten, and if too dry, it may be
'raoistened With new milk or the liquid in which
the meat was boiled. Thus propared-and,
with confidence in it's integrity-hash il q dish
70 make . hungry Manor boy either-on q
cold morning, laugh, and it Isl dish easily pre-
pared and one handy to keep ready.-Rural
New York.
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Cleaning Teeth.

The majority of those who clean their
teeth do SO upon getting out of bed in
the morning and upon going to bed at
night. Personal convenience and COM
fort have appointed these times, but it
is better to cleanse them after every
meal. The leaving of remnants of food
between the teeth is what greatly helps
to make work for the dentist. II the
cavities and space between the teeth are
filled with food, the teeth will decay
through the fermenting of the little
remnants, Says a writer OF this topic.
We have now in mind an old gentle
man under whom we worked as second
hand in the weave shop twenty-one
years ago, who cleaned his teeth invaria-
bly, after he left his morning, noon and
evening meal, with a reasonably stiff
tooth brush and the hardest old white
CASTLE soap he could purchase at the
druggists.
Five cents worth of that soap, which
would amount to about q third of an
ounce, for such soap is really valuable,
would last him three months.
His soap and brush were always kept
in an inner vest-pocket rolled up in
clean white fnnel, which was as care
fully washed every week or changed
every week as the week came to its
end.
This man at that time was ffty-fve
years Of age and is still living, and his
teeth two years ago., when we last saw
him, would positively shame those Of
any woman we aver saw. Nv
He is nov upwards of seventy, never
knew what the toothache was, never
had q dentist look in his mouth except
to admire the teeth.
Unconsciously he had been following
the most common-sense practice
possible, avoiding chemical action and
attaining what moi n in twenty
thousand Americans do attain-sound
xQSkf G. N-HLaE "tr.HE-
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Bismarck on Eioquence.

Bismarck is no orator. His speech
is simple and plain. He thinks that the
gift of eloquence has done a great deal
of mischief i'll Parliamentary life. It
tries, by appealing to the feelings, to
settle questions which should be set
tied by common sense.
When the Federal Council began its
work, a few OF. the members made elo-
quent speeches. Gentlemen" said
Bismarck, "there is nothing to be
achieved here by eloquence, because,
every one of you brings his convictions
along with him in his pocket; that is,
his instructions. Oratory is only a
waste of time. Let us limit ourselves to
statements Of fact" After that hint,
no one made a long, much less an elo-
quent speech.
Herr Lasker, whose death in this
country was the occasion of a little I'M
ple~asantness, once delivered an eloquent
speech in the Reicshtag. "These elo-
quent gentlemen" said Bismarck, COM
menting upon the speech, "are like a
good many ladies with small feet, who
always wear shoes too small for
them, and stick out their feet to be
looked ut. When a man has the mis-
fortune to be eloquent, he makes speech
es too often and too long.
On another occasion, RadowitZ. a
great orator. made a speech in the
North German Parliament, which SO
swayed the members that they were
ready to vote as he had urged them to.
One of Bismarck's colleagues, sitting
cal him. was strongly moved by the
%eloquence, and he shed tears.
What are you crying about?" coolly
arked Bismarck.
"You are heartless," answered the
colleague, Indignantly. The next day,
when q copy of the printed speech was
placed in Bismarck's hands, he handed
it to the same gentleman, saying
please point out to me the part of
the speech I ought to have cried over,
yesterday, if I had possessed such a
thing as a heart" "
The gentleman looked it over andthen
said, II do not know how it is, but the
speech does not make the same impress
sion upon me in print. The orators
voice, expression of face, and his majes-
tic personality had carried the colleague
away.
Bismarck used to tell q humorous
story to illustrate the distracting effect
of eloquence. Frederick William l.,
the despotic king who publicly whipped
his son, subsequently Frederick the
Great, once listened to the pleadings
of two lawyers. After the first n had
finished his speech, the king, moved by
the advocates e%loquence. exclaimed
This fellow is in the rightl" The
second lawyer then spoke, and with
such effect that the king said, '"This
man has the right of It'll"
Then recalling that he had contradic-
ted himself, he fell into q furious pas
sion and sent both orators to prison.
E.-
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The value Of Ismous.

The value Of lemons h thoroughly appreci-
sted in the South, and now that lemons and
oranges from ForidaA ara a. common and al
most - cheap ~ apples, their use cannot BIZ,
too much insistsl upon. A leading physician
recommends that the way TO get the better Of
the bilious system without blue pills or aui-
nine is TO . the Juice Of one, two or three
lemons, - appitite Graves, in ~ much cold
water - makes II pleasant to drink without
sugar before going 70 bed. In the morning on
rising, Of least half an hour before breakfast.
TAXA The juice Of one lemon in . goblet Of vat
or. This will clear the system Of humor and
bile with efficiency without any Of the weaken-
ing effect Of cslomel or congress water. Pep
pic should notirritats the stomach by eating
which q sIwsys mot corrosive. ins.ls.%,a,
produces Inflammation after awhile but prop
parly diluted 30 thatit docs mot burn or draw
the throAt j. does it's medical work without
harm, and when the stomach is clear Of food
has abundantg opportunity 70 work over the
systsm thoroughly.
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Diamonds STAINED with blood.

Perhaps there has been more intrigue
and bloodshed on account of the famou.
Oriental diamond, Great Mogul, than
any other. II originally weighed 1877
karats, but by cutting was reduced tc
279. II was apparently the highest aim
of every reigning potentate in Asia to
place that gem in his crown Famous
intrigners had carte blanche from
their sovereigns to get it at any cost.
Finally the Tarters, under Nadir Shah,
invaded the civilized country and
captured it and about 500, 600, 900 in
in treasure bonds. That was q century
and more ago, but not o word has been
heard of the Great Mogul since. 1t is
supposed, however, that it is in one OF
the obscure f~ortreesses Of Asia Minor.
Diligent search is given up. and when
it is found there Will be sharp competi.
ton between royalty and shoddy as tc
who gets it.
Russian potentates have always
wished to make a greater show Of wealth
than any others. The thrones of all the
Russians are miracles of wealth. The
throne of the Empress is completely
covered with plates of gold, and contains
1000 rubies and 5000 torquoises,
besides many other rare and costly gems.
The throne of the Gear, known as the
diamond throne, is truly a marvel. In
it are set over a 900 diamonds of the first
water. 1t is generally conceded that
Russia possesses more precious stones
than any other nation, a majority of
which were procured at the expense of
blood. This Jewels in the Cathedral of
Moscow alone are valued at S12, OOO, 900.
The great Orlof diamond, for which
Count Orlof paid $3.50, coo and $40, 600
. year to the seller for life, and a title
to nobility, was q bloody gem, it having
been the prize at stake in several
skirmishes. The Shah was another gem
on whose every facet could have been
written a bloody story of which it was
the hero.
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They Come High But We Must
Have Them.

A Washington correspondent has been sum-
ming up what it co SITS society people to keep a
genuine British coachman, and claims that q
clever English footman is worth s75 to 800 q
month, and found in best living and clothes,
The ruling price, however, for the imported ar
ticle is from S45 to $50 a month, aud found.
This means fully 81, 200 a year and ismore than
half the commercial hirelingssin the United
States get But the requirements are a little
moro severe than the requirements of other
and ordinary business. 1 say business, for
the secret of the E~nglishman's success
as a servant lies in the fact that he
makes it a business. He is not a sneak.
He is not %insolent, except where it will
do the most good. He must be, first, if
a footnaan or coacilman, Of a good figure. sAn
additional ~ inches in height" said an actor
once, would raise my salary to $1W 8 week. !"
30 . few inches, or o nose, or a pair OF aristo-
cratic de-whiskers, may make a great differ
ense i'll o footman's salary. The better looking
he is, and the more dignifed he is in bearing,
tho better. The next requirement is intelli,
gence, and the next education, mt above all
else, experience in the usages Of good society.
For the English servant is often the hired
coach" or trainer for the American millionaire's
family. He manages, while the American
snob follows his servants programme. Such o
man is worth money. He gets it
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Of

Whom buying fresh pork choose that with
white fat, pale red lean and clear skin; Blu
care in selecting will avail naughtif the meat
"a not we'll cooked It is d etcstable underdone,
totally unfit for any human stomach. TWEEN
W minutes should DO allowed each pound OF
chine or shoulder for roasting in q moderate
oven. As . garnish for roast pork cut some
tart apples in eighths, drop them, after peeling,
into boiling lard; when crisp on the outside
remove them with . SKINNER, drain them well,
and send to the table hot The liver, lungs
and heart are not unpslatable If soaked
several hours in cold water, dried upon q towel
and fried thirty minutes, sailed while cook.
ing. Pigs feet call for patient scraplng, and
four or five hours boiling after being corned;
souced, they are . favorite dish with many
. one. We think our Housekeeping friends
will tind their steaks improved II after they
have cooked fifteen minutes, the fat is nearly
all poured on, the meat dropped in bread
crumbs seasoned with sage snd returned to
the frying pan for another quarter hour. The
directions for sailing meat and reducing leaves
recently given in these columns preclude any
remarks upon such points ut this time,
but we will remind those about laying down
this years stock Of meat that q barrel that has
been used for beef cannot be rendered at for
sailing pork.-Nsw Hampshire Farmer.
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Preserving Gallery for the winter.


New York Horsld.
The methods mostly recommended for win
tering celery, by putting it into pits OF trenches
covered with boards, straw, leaves or soil, may
do very well for tho market gardener or large
grower, who does it in a wholesale way, but it
is not at all adapted to the farmer. He wants
celery often, and but \ limited quantity at q
time, and when it ia put up by this method he
will go without sooner than dig it from under
the snow or frozen earth. Secure some deep
boxes, as deep, or nearly as deep, as the celery
leaf, stalks and all. II thu bottoms are not
watertight make them 30 by mailing battens
over the cracks. Then bore three or four
holes about four inches above the bottom.
When tho waatber becomes 80 cold that
you fear the celery will freeze light
frosts will not injure i} loosen 1t with
q spade and take it up, leaving a small
quantity of soil adhering to the roots of each
plant, and place 1t III boxes rs thickly AZ
the plants can be crowded together until the
box 10 filled, except . littss in one corner.
Then crowd . board down across the corner
which you can our water without wetting the
celery. When thus filed, place it in some dark
cellar, whore it will remain as neer freezing as
possible and not freeze. Down the open cor
ner pour . half pail of warm water, and do
this sufficiently often, 30 that water shall be
always lin the bottom Of the box; the holes
bored in the sides will prevent its rising high
enough to come among the stalks, as this would
cause them to rot Celery is . low-hnd plant,
and will thrive with it's roots in the water, and
when taken out, as wanted will be found to
have made q large amount Of new growth, and
81 will have become nicely bleachod and ten
der.
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A Reassuring Lick.
From Texas Siftings.

From Texas Siftings.
Sam V. Harris lives in Fort Worth.
Neither he nor his wife are very smart,
as will be seen by the following Incl.
dent. One night Sam heard a noise
under his bed.
aThere is somebody under the bed"
said Sam to his wife.
TITS Fido; 1 guess"
"No, 1 think it's a burglar" replied
Sam.
"Just reach your hand down and if it
is Fldo he will lick it,"
The burglar, for it was one after all,
overheard the conversation, and when
Sam reached his hand down the bur-
glar licked it all over very afectionately.
This was entirely satisfactory, and they
both went to sleep, but when they woke
up next morning there was not much
left in the house that was worth carry.
ing off.
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EFFECT OF oP1ArEs.
a Tyranny which Can Hardly Ever 1s
shaken on.

Shaken on.
From the National Review.
The first indulgence is in some sense
legltimate-is almost enforced, either
by acute pain or chronic insomnia. The
latter is perhaps the most dangerous
The pain, if it last for weeks, forces
course to the doctor before the habit
has become incurable. 6leeplessness is
a more persistent and to most people a
much less alarming thing; and it is
moreover one with which the doctors
can seldom deal save through the very
agents of mischief. Neuralgia, relieved
for a time by chloroform or morphia, may
be cured by quinine; sleeplessness adj
mits of hardly any cure but such com
pleta change of life as is rarely possible,
at least to its working victims. And
the n%arcotist habit once formed, Meth
er pain o sleeplessness is all that it's
remuneration would involve. The drunk
ard, it must be remembered, gets drunk,
as a rule, but occasionally. Save in
the last stages of dipsomania he can do,
if not without drink, yet without intox-
icating quantities of drink, for days to-
gether. The narcotist who attempts
to go for a whole day without his ac-
customed dose suffers in twent-four hours
far more cruelty than the drunkard de-
prived of alcohol in as many days. The
effect upon the stomach and other Or
gans, upon the nerves as we'll as on the
brain, is n of indescribable, unspeak-
able discomfort amounting to torture;
a disorder of the digestive system more
trying than sea-sickness, q disorganiza-
ton Of the nerves which, after some
hours of unspeakable misery eliminates
in %convulsive t%witchings, in mental and
physical distress, simply indescribable
to those who have not telt it. Where
attempts have been made forcibly and
suddenly to withhold the accustomed
sedative they have not infrequently
ended in a few days in madness or
death. In other cases the victim has
sought and obtained relief by efforts
and hardships which in his or her best
days would have seemed impossible or
uncomfortable. One woman thus re-
strained escaped in deshabille from her
bedroom on a winter night of arctic Sc
verify; ran for miles through the snow,
and was fortunate enough to find a chem
list who knew something Of the fear
full effect OF such priyation, and had the
sense and courage to give in adequate
quantity the poison that had now be-
come the first necessary of life. In a
word, narcotics. one and all, are to
those who have once fallen I'M
der their power tyrants whose
hold can hardly ever be shaken o
which punish rebellion with the rack
and with all those devices of torture
which medieval and ecclesiastical cruel
ty found eve more tirrible than the
rack itself; while the most absolute SUBJ
mission is rewarded with sufferings only
less uncomfortable than the punishment
of revolt. DeQuincey's dreams under
the influence of opium were to the tor
lures of resistance what the highest cir
Gle of purgatory may be to the lowest
pit of the inferno.
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Governor Hoyt's School Days.

From the Rochester Democrat.
"WhenI went to Lafayette College
in 1S49," says Ex-Governor Hoyt, of
Pennsylvania, speaking of the good old
college days, sit cost me 81 cents a
week for board in the village. The col
lege charged S1.2O, and we boys from
up the country thought we ought to
save a little something, and so we
boarded at the cheaper rate in town.
The fare, as you may imagine, was not
luxurious, but it was coarse and sus-
tanning. Judge Schuyler, of North
ampton, the man now in a contest with
Judge Reeder over the President Judge
ship of the county in which our old
college is situated, was my classmate.
In 1s4s we left the college in harvest
time and went across the country to
work in the field during wheat cutting.
Nice buxom Dutch girls raked and we
bound. We worked a week and each
received Sc more money han
we had eve had before. This
was sc much gain on the allowance from
our parents. Ten millions now would
not look to me as big as that Sc did
then. Schuyler and l set our wits to
work to see how we could invest it.
We could buy a glass ofmead for 2 cents,
an ice cream for a ftp and eight cigars for
a cent. Neither of us could call up
vices enough to consume our fortune.
The $l2 between us lasted. the entire
fall and we had some left when we got
into mischief the same autumn and left.
He took the stage for his home near
C,1p 1,,, r1y or1 r e., Uy.i1.zaI. 49,.