Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1894-11-08

The Election.
BOTH PARTIES ASTOUNDED
by the
REFLEX TIDAL WAVE.
MARYLAND PROBABLY
REPUBLICAN
on the Congressional Vote;
SIXTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT
by about $500;
FREDERICK COUNTY
by more than 500
MECHAN1CSTOWN DISTRICT
by 1913.
On Tuesday the election was for members
of the National House Of Representatlves and
in many states for state officers and leyisla-
lures. We 60 to press at too early an hour
to give detailed returns, but sufficient Is
known to be able to say with positive
certainty that the 54th Congress will have a
Republican majority in the lower House. In
Maryland eight members of Congress were
elected, two to fill unexpired terms. The
Democrats have elected and the Republic
cans 3 members of the 54th Congress, from
this State.
The republican plurality in this district IS
1913. There are Ga registered voters in this
district 543 were poled on Tuesday, as
follows:
Wellington Rep. $50
Williams Dem. 166
Shoemaker Pro. II
Improperly stamped
Wellington's Plurality 1913
Welllngton's Majority 1872
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ALL HALLow ZEN was the occasion of
probably a dozen parties here. Socials,
tatly-pulls, oyster suppcrs and every mag
Unable conceit In the line of sociabllity scryed
to draw the young people together on that
evening.
TRANSIT OF MERCURY-On the 10th of
Nnuar,hnr hnfu yao ha ham nf n1nynr
four, the planet Mercury, which rcvolycs
around the Sun, inside the orbit of Venus,
will be between us and the Sun and we will
haye All opportunity to see what is known
as the Transit of Mercury" that is, the
crossing of that planet, as it were, across the
face of the Sun.
TO see the transit it will be necessary to
use well smoked or deeply colorcd glass.
THE FIRST USE OF SpECTACLEs-Was
probably for the correction ofprcsbyopia, or
old-sight. For many years after the dscov-
cry of spectacles their use was confined to
supplying the deficiencies of the eye consc-
qucnt on age and no special advancement in
their use was made. During the later years
however, the subject has been carefully
studied by specialists, and the greatest adj
yances have been made in the treatment of
the eye and its diseases, and the correction
Of the various optical defects by properly
adjusted glasses and when we compare the
past with the present, few years ago the
whole subject was shrouded in mystery and
uncertainty. Hypermctropia was not known
as the factor in the Causation of SO much
headache, eveach and neuralgia, and of so
many cases of blurred sight and irritable
eyes; these cases were not understood and
hence were looked on as ncurabe or classed
under the general head Of amblyopia. Myo.
pia was recognized by its subjective symp-
toms, but was not known to depend on q
heightened eyeball caused by diseased con-
diton ofthe fundus Of the ball. Astigmatisln
had been heard Of but its true significance
was far from being understood. Strabismus
or diplopia, in all their varieties were rccog-
nized by their objective and subjective symp-
toms but the theory Of binocular vision, the
action of the ocular muscles, and the posi-
blitcs of the benefit to be derived from
glasses, were as yet discovered truths No
age is now exempt from the use of glasses |
They are placed on Il child that is little more
than able to talk, as well as on the aged who
finds them indispensable to his or her happi |
ness and comfort. Indeed it is an indispu.
Fable fact that every person who lives to
reach the age Of forty or more requires glass
es at some period of his or her life either for
reading or distance. To many persons they |
are an absolute necessity at all ages, while
those persons whose eyes are perfectly nor
nal require them for reading in middle fe
on account of changes wrought in their eyes
by age. There are sometimes cases We hear
of, where persons have never worn glasses
and are able to read all their life without
them, are but the exceptions that prove as a
rule; they are almost invarable myopa, but
are not conscious of it, or if they are, they
refuse from mistaken notions, to wear glasses
preferring to sacrifice their distant vision.
Call and haYe your eyes examined free.
Josiah A. Stull,