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American Legion Of Honor.

The Supreme Council of the American Legion
of Honor. at its eleventh session, held in De-
troit, Mich, elected the following officers for
the term ending June 80, 1897: Supreme COM
mander, John M. Grinnell, Newark, N. j.;
supreme vice-eommander, William N. Daven-
port Marlboro, Mass; supreme orator, w. D.
Mansfield, San Francisco, CAL; past supreme
commander, Michael Nisbet, Philadelphia, Pa;
supreme secretary, Adam Warnock, Boston,
Mass; supreme treasurer, George sW. Ken
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the order, but to members of other organ1za-
tions that have under consideration the adop-
ton of some such plan:

Sec. 2S7. Every applicant for beneficiary mem
bershp before initiation or if already initiated, on
application therefor shall pay to the council one
assessment, according TO the following table, to be
applied TO the first assessment due after the date
he or she becomes beneficiary, and the same
amount for each assessment thereafter due accord
ing to law while beneficiary member OF the order
until the full sum of $500 shall have been paid
relief-fund certificate for $1,000, and pro
rata on certificate for greater or less sum:
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A Great Compliment to a Supreme
Body-A Past Chancellor
Honored.
Official Assessment Table.

[Offieia1 assessment notices of any legitimate
fraternal society will be published free of cost
matters of Importance, by Friday, addressed
FraternaI Society Editor CALL, San Francisco
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KNIGHTS and Ladies' of Honor,

The Supreme Lodge of the Knights and
Ladies of Honor at its tenth session, held in
st. Louis, Mo-, reelected all its supreme officers
with the exception of the lowest, compliment
seldom paid by al grand body. The officers
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VIII Wear BIoomers.

May Nannery will appear on Monday
evening as Rosa Colombier, the Circus
rider, in 1.-THE Arabian Nights" and will
wear striking bloomer costume. May
Nannery has been exceptionally successful
at The Oakland and has been secured for
the balance of the season.
Pauline Hall at the Macdonough.
Pauline Hall will open three-night en-
gagement at the Macdonough Monday
night. There will be a souvenir matinee
Wednesday afternoon.
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Ancient Order of Foresters.

The Atlantic Subsidiary High Court assem-
bled in City Mission Hall on September 2, in
Meriden, Conn. Seventy-nine courts were rep
resented, with a membership of 5203 and
tant amendments were adopted, among which
is provision requiring that all new courts, in
stituted on and after January l. 1896, shall
adopt graduated scale of contributions, ac-
cording TO age of members.
II. C. r. William eastman has returned from
his visit to the courts in Mendocino County, and
reports that every court is in fourishing con-
dition. The cordial reception extended was
tar beyond his most sanguine expectation and
his trip will long be remembered with pleasure.
Court Fremont No. 1910 is busy making ar
rangements fer benefit, to be rendered TO the
widow of late member, on November 2 at
Social Hall, 102 O'Farrell street. Brothers
Kaufman, Fitzpatrick, Preston and Fuetcher
will use every proper means to realize q hand
some sum for the widow and fatherless.
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Workmen's Guarantee Fund.

There will be one assessment on the mem
bers of the Workmen's Guarantee Fund dur
ing the month of October.
marked increase in the membership of this
organization is noted of late
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After the ceremony a meeting was held
and chapter formed for the Church of the
A duapt
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been paid, being the twenty-first payment this
year. The death was reported on the 18th of
August and payment made within five we eks
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T. O. B. B.

Grand President Jonas of District No. 4 is
sending out to all the lodges q circular calling
upon the members to celebrate in an appro-
pirate manner, on each recurrence, the ami
versary of the birth of the order on the 18th
of October. OF as near the date as possible, or
convenient. He suggests that the lodges OF
the jurisdiction observe the anniversary by
open meetings or entertainments of such
character that they will be "a fitting testimo-
NAL of the good work already done and pleas
ing forecast OF what will be accomplished in
the future"
The lodges in San Francisco have been in
vited to meet the committee on intellectual
Improvement, at 10 o'clock on Sunday next,
in the office OF the grand secretary, for the pur-
pose OF taking steps to hold union celebration
on the 18th.
In spite Of the opposition OF certain direc-
tors OF the Hall Association to paying divi-
dend, as decided upon at a recent meeting,
the dividend has been paid to nearly all the
shareholders, the current expenses have been
paid, and there is q surplus, a report that is
satisfactory to those who hold stock in the
association.
The beneficiary certificate in favor of the
heirs OF John Levinsky OF Yosemite Lodge has
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Companions of the Forest A. o. F.
Supreme Chief Companion Mrs. M. Asher is
busy among the various circles, encouraging
fast becoming apparent; the reports for the
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District Attorney? When the suit was
brought to prove that the Supervisors had
no jurisdiction at the time they made the
reduction Mr.. Shook interposed demurrer
on technicality on behalf OF the Supervis-
ors. l, for one, am sorry / helped to in
crease his salary"
Judging from the remarks one hears on
the streets it is very evident that many
people in this city are of the opinion that
the Council has recently passed large num-
Der of ordinances regulating public morals
AS matter of fact there has not been such
an ordinance passed since the present
Council took Office. The ground for such
opinion consists OF their enforcement. For
the first time in many years the Oakland
policemen have been made to realize that
they are not municipal ornaments hired to
adorn the city at an expense OF 500 per
month. Much fun has been poked at
Chief Lloyd because he is often seen with
a choir book under his arm and has his
name on the church roll. Such point IS
not well taken, and the best proof is the
prison docket. The law regulating lot
terles, immoral houses, vagrancy, keeping
clear sidewalks. illegal liquor selling and
cycling, are as old as any other, but they
were never enforced till two months ago,
and their enactment came as surprise.
Councilman Hoffman was quoted during
the past week as saying: "Why does not
the Chief of Police enforce the ordinance
forbidding the collection of fares on
Seventh street?' And the question will
bear repeating.
Now that the fame of OakIand's water
front has been noised abroad all over the
land 1t is very natural that many legiti-
mate manufacturers should desire informa-
ton as to the best means of locating here.
There is, therefore, an important duty
before the Board of Trade and the Mer-
chants Exchange. There is also need of
great caution and judgment to see that
these bodies are not made use OF as free
advertising mediums. Within the past
few months several agents representing
Eastern manufacturers have been in Oak
land seeking information about localities.
incidentally, these agents produced
samples of their wares, and in one instance
the Mayor called a meeting of leading
citizens to confer with the agents. His
goods were passed around the City Hall,
their merits were explained and their
beauty extolled and the local papers gave
considerable space to the possibility of
securing the new industry. Altogether the
agent extensively advertised his wares at
the expense of his hotel bill. The Gin
dustry' has not come here, but the news
has come that the same agent has made
the same display in dozens of other cities
on the coast. This needs guarding against
or Oakland will soon be christened-like
her metropolitan sister-a LAY town."
STUART W. BOOTH.
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George Riddle.

cooked pistol!and calling halt to passers-
by, saying, 'Stop Have you seen Josh?"
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The overruling of demurrer is ordina-
rily one of the most Insignificant actions of
a court. The overruling of the District
Attorneys demurrer to the suit brought
against the Supervisors to determine the
legality of the reduction of corporation as
sessments is full of significance 1t is best
expressed in the words of an Alameda
County Assemblyman:
when the Legislature YVES in session.
; said yesterday, "Charey Shook was up
, Sacramento pleading for an increased
Larry. One of his most powerful argu-
ments was that he would be put to much
extra expense during this year, as it was a
certainty that many of Dalton's assess
sments would have to be defended in the
courts. Some of Dalton's assessments do
need defending, but where do we find the
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1895-12-12
Patents
Notice to Inventors.

There was never time in the history OF
our country when the demand for inventions
and improvements in the arts and sciences
generally was SO great as now. The con-
veniences of mankind IN the factory and
work shop, the household, on the farm, and
In official life, require continual accessions
to the appurtenances and implements to each
in order 10 save labor, time ard expense
The political change in the administration
of government does not affect the progress
OF the American inventor, who being on the
alert, and ready to perceive the existing
deficiencies, does not permit the affairs VI
government to deter him from quickly con.
eeiy,ng the remedy to overcome existing
discrepancies. Too great care cannot be
exercised in choosing competent and skill
full attorney to prepare and prosecute an
application for patent Valuable interests
have been lost and destroyed in lnnumerable
instances by the employment of incompe-
tent counsel, and especially Is this advice
applicable to those who adopt the mo pat
ent, no pay" system. Inventors who entrust
their business to this class OF attorneys 10
30 at imminent risk, as the breadth ana
strength of the patent is never considered in
view of quick endeavOr to get an allowance
and obtain the fee then d. THE PRESS
CLAIMS COMPANY, John Wedderburn.
General Manager, 81S F street, N. w., Wash
ington, D. c., representing large number
of important daily and weekly papers, as
well as general periodicals of the country,
was instituted to protect its patrons from
the unsafe methods heretofore employed In
this line of business The said Company is
prepared to take charge ofall patent business
entrusted to 1t for reasonable fees, and pre-
pares and prosecutes applications generally,
including mechanical Inventions design pat
erts, trade marks, labels, copyrights, inter
ferences, infringements, validity reports, and
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1t is also prepared to enter into competition
with any firm in securing foreign patents.
Write for instructions and advice
JOHN WEDDERBuRN,
6l8 F Street,
P. O. Box 1856. Washington, d. G.
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No Blanks in this Competition.

This is a competition of rather an unusual
nature 1t is common to offer prizes for the
best story, or picture, or architectural plan,
all the competitors risklng the loss of their
labor and the successful one merely selling
his for the amount of the prize. But the
Press Claims Company's offer is something
entirely different Each person is asked
merely to help himself, and the one who
helps himself to the best advantage is to be
rewarded for doing it. The prize is only
stimulus to do something that would be well
worth doing It, The architect whose com.
peti:lve plan for club house on certain
corner is not accepted has spent his labor on
,methng of very little use TO him But the
erson who patents simple and useful de-
,ice III the Press Claims Companp's Compe-
tItion, need not worry if he fail to secure the
prize. He has a substantial result to show
for his work-One that will command it's val,
de in the market at any time.
The plain man who uses any article in his
daily work ought to know better how to I'M
prove 1t than the mechanical expert who
studies it only from the theoretical point of
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The responsibility Of this company may be
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Address the Press Claims COMPANY. John
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n WASHINGTON ID 6. may
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The BrOWn.SoQuard Elixir.


The BrOwn-Sequard Elixir.
The Riforma Medica, an Italian
journal, gives results of long series
of experiments with the Brown-Se-
Guard elixir and concludes that the
liquid, injected hypodermically, has
not the slightest lasting effect upon
the human organism; that the tri-
fling and transitory notifications Of
circulation, respiration, temperature
and muscular power are applicable
by the excitement and tension of the
subjects mind; that any rare and
transient improvement observed in
the treatment of various organic dis
eases by this method was due to sug-
gestion and the influence Of imagina-
ton, to which causes alone is to be
attributed the cure of some cases of
hysteria and neurasthenia.
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National Airs.

II Is strange thing that the ma
tional airs of great countries are
short, while those of little countries
are very long. For instance, God
Save the Queen" is IA bars, the Rus
sian hymn 16 bars, and Hail, Column
bia," the foremost among the Ameri-
can airs, has % bars. On the other
hand, Slams national hymn has rs
bars, that Of Uruguay 70, Chili's 46,
and so on. San Marine, the smallest
republic in the world, has the long
est national hymn. The national
hymn of China is so long that, when
people want to hear it, they have
to take half a day off to be ablo to
listen to its strains. London Million.
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Visit From tho Baylcys.
The servant at No. told the serv-
ant at No. that her master expected
his old friends, the Bayleys, to pay
visit, and No. 2 told No. that No. 1
expected to have the Bayleys in the
house every day, and No. 8 told No.
4 that it was all up with No. and
that they couldn't keep the bailiffs
out, whereupon No. 4 told No. that
the officers were after No. 1, and that
it was as much as he could do 70 pre-
vent himself from being taken in ex-
ecution, and that it was nearly killing
his poor, dear wife, and so it went on
increasing and increasing until it got
to No. 80 that the detective police
had taken up the gentleman who
lived at No. for killing bis poor,
dear wife with arsenic. and that 1t
was confidently hoped and expected
that he would be executed at Horse.
monger Lane Jail, as the facts Of the
care were very clear against him.
London Nt-Bits.
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Inherit0d.

The small boy who applied to the
Chicago physician to be vaccinated
was so bright faced the doctor asked
him who he was.
I'm Johnny Smith, he said, land
my pops detective"
"Oh," exclaimed the doctor, run
along, little boy! There's no need
to vaccinate you. You'll never catch
enything."-Detroit Free Press
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eentler sex, every one Of whom should subscribe 70
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II submit the within described invention
In competition for the Twenty Hundred
Dollar Prize offered by the Press Claims
Company
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The Wilmington daily Republican., 1895-10-22
CAPTAIN LoTHAlRE's BRUTALITY
An American Victim OF the Tyrannicai
Belgian On1ssr.


GBEENouK, OCT. 22.-Thomas Bradley,
who has been employed as a fireman in the
service OF tho Congo FREQ State, has Just
roturned to this place, and In an interview
relates some of his experiences in that
eopntry. He had for comrades there, he
eAid, the overseers of his work, a number
* black navvies, two Norwegians and one
American.
I'VE were all treated very badly" he
continued, land when we asked for our
wages Captain Lothaire, who was in COM
mand Of the station, informed us that pay-
fnents would be made at Bona. Captain
Lothaire accompanied us to Bona, where
tho two Norwegians, the American and
myself were quartercd in a hut We
awoke In the middle of the night and
found the hut on fire and ourselves sur
rounded by flames, the work Of Captain
Lothaire and four black policemen.
I'VE made our escape from the hut, and
the American accosted Lothaire, asking;
lis this our thanksr Lothaire drew hie
sword and struck the American on the
back with 1t, and the black policeman, by
Lothaire's ORDERS bound him to tree with
leather thongs The American being fast
sned securely, Lothaire walked up to him
and slashed him with his sword, wound
ing him terribly.
"As soon us possible we liberated the
American, but he died two days later
Soon ~ntterward the Norwegians and
escaped In canoe, but the Norwegians
were killed on the journey"
Taylor declares that Bishop Taylor, the
American missionary ut Stanley Pool, told
him the real cause Of Lothaire's hanging
Of the British trader Stokes was that Lo
thaire was jealous of Stokes superior
abilities In dealing with the natives.
The Wilmington daily Republican., 1895-10-22
On living B.ynna ones NleOns,

DR.. George C. Lorimer. In an article In
The Golden Rule OIL" Living Beyond Ones
Means." says:
Some one has suid thnt our children de-
sire to begin where these children leave
oil. Consequently. II they can procure
the elegancles OF life IN no other way.
thoy will secure them on the credit eys.
ten, and pay Interest OH cnt'throat chat.
tel mortgage. form of finance that
would bankrupt the Rothschiids and load
to a panic on every exchange In the world.
For II Is fact that the poor pay far
higher for the accom- M odation they re-
ceive than 10 the ricn fer theirs. Tho not
unusual outcome OF this kind OF house
Keeping il that tho debtor falls behind In
Ills paymenta, Ia annoyed by duns, Dor
rows Il trile from friend TO ward of
tile evil day. ard at last abandous hops.
losing fnrniturs and all that has been
paiu as interest and principal.
In happy contrast waS the course adop
ted by blight eyed wife In Chlngo.
Calling at the house l remarked. Your
home looks very pratty." Sho replied
EN- phutically 1t is pretty for wo have
paid for everything in It," lhen she
told me that before her marclnge her in-
tended requested her 10 select carpet
and hn would buy it on trust; but thnt
she stoutly refused, and assured him that
tho bare floor was good enough for her
until he could afford to pay for what he
purchased. l exclaimed. "bruvo!" and l
am persuaded Tho little woman has made
good business man OF her husband by
thie tlme.
The Wilmington daily Republican., 1895-10-22
CATCHING A CHICKEN THIEF.
whe Neat Way In Which a Vermont Farm.
er Did the Trick.

er DID the Jricks
"The neatest case OF catching chicken
thief l ever heard OF, F" says NJ aino mer-
chant, occurred where l used to live in
Vermont. There was fellow round there
who was a wonderful horse trainer, but
good for nothing else, boipg shady In 9TH
or ways. People hired hi!A to break colts,
and no had the peculiar habit Of hitohing
up at night and driving off, nobody knew
where, He was thought to be thief, and
shat his night trips were for that purpose.
He was engaged by an old farmer to brealt
q colt, and as soon as the trips began the
old mans chickens began to disappear.
"1he old man thought hard over the
subject. Then no said to the horse trainer
one evening, Johnny, somebody is stoal-
ing Any chickens. and I'm going to set q
bear trap for 'im.' Best thing you can
40, deacon replied Johnny, picking his
teeth with straw. Its pretty hard to
sct, said the farmer. Won't you help
mef 'Yes, indeed Johnny answered.
with alacrity. So they went and set the
lFap very carefully at the back Of the hen
Ruse. Il think the thief gets in this
", said the man, and guess I'll get
II he ZONES tonight Guess you will,
kon,' Johnny ehuokled.
After Johnny had driven of at night
n as usual the deacon hustled out and
hoved the bear trap around to the front
eoor of the henhouse. Johnny thought he
Nas all right when few hours later he
erept siyly up to the place. Deacon thinks
Sell get the chap tonight, he laughed to
himself, but l guess l won't go in the
hack way this time.' Tho deacon heard
his terrific yell when tho trap sprung and
knew well enough who was in his trap.
T.. Al..k l.
IN nook seriousness. Told you I'd get
the thief tonight, didn't Ip'
".Iohnny was high tempered follow
and desperate when trifled with. He lived
around thore afterward, and sometimes the
boys, when they wore safely out Of his
reach, on the other side of tho river OIL
something of that sort, would sing out tO
him, Catching any bears now, Johnny
But they never dared to say bear to him
n he had any chance to get at them. -
Lewiston journal.
The Wilmington daily Republican., 1895-10-22
Gener al Strike of Gold Beaters.

NEW Yong, Oct. 2s.-The strike of the
Gold Beaters' Protective association be-
came general throughout the country yes
terday. There arc about 800 members in
the Organization, and at the headquarters
of the local union 1t is said that at least
700 men arR out. The strike was lnaugu-
rated here three weeks ago for an increase
of wages from 50 20 to s5 beating" or
an increasd for salaried men from "a to tl2
week. The majority Of the employers in
this city and vicinity are willing to grant
the increase but two firms who employ
about eighteen hands, would not yield,
aud the men quit work, having received
assurance from their brethren in Chicago,
Philadelphia and Boston that they would
go out in sympathy with them. Nearly all
the gold beating is done in tho cities mem
TONED
The Wilmington daily Republican., 1895-10-22
Turtey's Promised Reforms.

CoNsTANTINoPLE, Oct. 2s.-oficial COM
munication embodying the Armenian re-
forms has been made public through the
Turkish press. 1t is carefully worded, in
order to show that the reforms are in per-
feet harmony with the existing laws so as
TO avoid exciting the Turks. In addition
70 the reforms already known to have been
approved by the sultan the oommunica-
tion says that the inhabitants will be pro-
tscted by troops when they visit the noun
tain pastures, and that they will thus be
able to obey the law which provides that
they are not to carry arms. The nomadic
tribes will be settled upon lands which
will be granted to them by tho govern