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Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1895-11-21
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I'm Johnny Smith, he said, land
my pops detective"
''Oh," exclaimed the doctor, run
along, little boyl There's no need
to vaccinate you. You'll never catch
anything."-Detroit Free Presa
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EurekCh emna Wis
physician told
meImutHv o. ot fort
Cure ana a
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No Blanks in this Competition.

No Blanks in this Competition.
This is competition Of rather an unusual
nature 1t 10 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 a
stimulus to do something that would be we'll
worth doing 1t. The architect whose com.
peti:ive 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-
rice in the Press Claims Companp's Compe-
tltion, need not worry If he fail to secure the
prize. He has q substantial result TO show
for his work-one that will command its 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 it than the mechanical expert who
studies it only from the theoretical point Of
view. Get rid of the rid of the idea that an
Improvement can be too simple to be worth
patenting TIE simbler the better The
person who best succeeds In combining
simplicity and popularity, will get the Press
Claims Companys twenty five hundred dol
ars.
The responsibility of this company may be
judged from the fact that Its stock Is held by
about three hundred of the leading newspa-
pers of the United States.
Address the Press Claims Comaany, John
Weddsburn. managing attorney, 8lsF street
y Washington D. 6. may
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-01-18
sosroN.s WEALTHY WOMEN.
Several MillIonaires Among Them. Includ-
Ing One With an Estate of S22,0O0,o00.


Several MIllIonaires Among Them, Inelud-
Ing One with an Estate of S22,000,oo0.
One of the wealthiest women in Bos-
ton is undoubtedly the widow OF the
late Augustus IIcmengway, as she was
the chief heir TO an estate valued at
So, 600, 900. Mrs Hemengway resides
in one of the grand old houses on
Mount Vernon street, and from her
home dispenses a wide hospitality that
includes the poor as we'll as the rich,
and the charities and philanthropic en-
terprises in which she has long been
quietly interested can only be num-
bered by her nearest friends. Her nor
NAL cooking school and her gymnasium
are described by the Journal as two of
her most successful undertakings.
Mrs. Quincy A. Shaw, daughter of
Prof. Louis Agassiz, has q private for
tune which enables her TO dispense
royal bounty. Her kindergarten"
work alone is said to cost her about
$4,000 year.
Mrs. Sears, the wife Of j. Mont
gomery Sears, and daughter of Charles
r. Choate, of Southboro, also has
worthy fortune in her own name
Mrs. Sears reputation as an artist has
been established since her notable tri-
umph in winning the $500 Evans prize,
awarded by the jury of the New York
water color exhibition last year.
Mrs. $. d. Warren, of Mount Vernon
street, is credited with at least $1,000
900. She owns the Androscoggin mills
and great deal of other property.
She is exceedingly philanthropic, and
her love for pictures has led her to in
dulge in many by the most eminent
artists of the time. Mrs. Alpheus
Hardy is worth nearly 81, 100000. She is
very fond of flowers, cultivating them
with great success. A superb chrys-
anthemum is named for her. Mrs w. II.
Slocum, daughter of Moses Williams,
is worth SS00,000, and Miss Eliz abeth
Brigham enjoys share in the use of
her late brothers large estate, which.
when the last legatet shall have died,
will endow q hosyital TO be called by
the name of its founder There are
many women whose names do not ap-
pear in the tax list because their money
is invested in government and corpora
tion bonds. In the latter case the cor
poration pays the taxes, and the names
of individuals do not appear. There
is, however, long list of names of
women who pay taxes on very large
sums ranging from 500, 900 to $500, 900
or more.
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an investigation Of the money, this

an investigation of the money, this
dollar is counterfeit"
You're certainly mistaken" replied
Lawyer Reinhard, II just took 1t as
part of fee from a man whom am
confident is honest and perfectly relia-
BILE. / am not easily mistaken in my
estimate of the character of my clients"
'That may all be so," replied the
friend; "but this money is spurious
Just the same, and to prove it we will
Just 90 over to the bank"
Thereupon the gentlemen went to
the bank, not far away, and laid down
the dollar, asking for change. The
teller, an elderly and conservative
man, adjusted monocle to his eye,
gazed long and earnestly at the coin
and then showed it back through the
window with the remark:
Gentlemen, we don't take such
money as that here. 1t is q rank coun-
terfeit."
Judge Reinhard at that time, as now,
was very gentlemanly in diction and
manner, but he couldn't help himself,
and with the one expression: "Well,
I'll be DID, turned on his heel and
went out on the street. Every last one
of the silver dollars he had worked so
hard to earn was counterfeit, and
within short time thereafter his hon
est client was sent to the prison south
for five years for making and circulat-
ing crooked money.
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SHORT BUT QUEER RAILROAD.
A Line In California Where the Grade Is
Six Feet in u Hundred.

A Line In California Where the Grade Is
Six Feet in u Hundred.
California has railroad so unique
that the most expert railroad man" in
the world would be unable TO name it
should he accidentally happen upon it
at time when the ears and engine
were not in sight. The word engine"
is used advisedly, for, according to the
st. Louis Republic, there is no danger
of cncountering more than one piece
of machinery of that class upon this
extraordinary ''thoroughfare, and
should You come in contact with the
entire force of men with which the
road is equipped you could count the en-
tire gang" on the fingers Of one hand.
This west coast curiosity lies in. or
rather runs up and down, portion of
San Benito county, extending from
Burts lime kiln to Tres Pines, in what
is known as the Gavilan range. The
road is of the bicycle" or single track
variety, the engines and cars sitting
very low upon the rail The rail is of
the slot pattern, not unlike that seen
ON cable railways, the wheels of both
the engine and the cars having a
tongue of steel which works in the
groove, In addition TO this each wheel
has a hange ON both sides, and, the
whole track being of but one rail, the
wheels are, in reality, tongued rollers
with ilangelille projections on eachend
Every wheel IN the who.e outfit belong
ing to this curious railroad is thus pro-
vided with four bearings, which pre-
vent It from jumping the track on any
OF the numerous short curves. At
last accounts there were but nine
miles of road operated by this "sys-
tenn When completed it will be four
teen miles from one terminal station
to the other, In ono place there is an
eight hundred foot grade, mounted at
the rate Of six feet to the one hundred,
and on another section OF the road
there is q grade between quarter and
q half milo in length in which the
average ascent is fonr feet to each one
hundred feet of track.
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lines after fashion that would be
ridiculous were it not lucrative. There
is no real harm in all of this, according
to the detectives, except that once in
awhile particularly idle and foolish
old woman permits one of these sharps
to get the best of her so far as to ex-
tort sums of money, on one pretext
or another, beyond the usual three
dollar limit for consulta ton. Some
times the pretext is an enlargement
of his business, his desire to
buy a beautiful picture, or some
other trinl1et of value to him, but
as often as not the man succeeds in
wheedling sums of money varying from
five dollars to twenty-five dollars
purely as ''loan." 1t is when the
''loan" gets to be of unusual proper
tions that the police are called in.
They know the. fortune tellers very
well, and there is never any difficulty
in getting back the money, but the
elderly. foolish woman in the case is
usually in a state of tremendous men,
tai perturbation while it is all go
ing on.
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a TERRIBLE TEMPTATION.
An English Physicians Hungry Experi-
ence In Africa.

A real. fine old English gentleman
was DIR. Thomas Gunton. who, while
confabbing with number of friends
in a prominent Washington resort re-
Gently, related a number of interesting
experiences in his career. His later
years have been passed looking out for
sick people in the Canadian wilds, but
his younger days were marked with ac-
tivity and no little adventure.
"What do you regard as about the
most perilous position you were ever
in, doctorP" asked writer for the
Post.
'Well," nusingly replied the doctor,
al am sure a circumstance that hap
pened when, as young mani had the
double office of supercargo and surgeon
of an English trading vessel on the
African coast, left deeper and more
painful impression on my mind than
any other event in my life"
His listeners gathered somewhat
closer, and the doctor went on:
sour captain and the ships company
generally were pretty well acquainted
with the natives, and various kings
and priests and other men in authority
would frequently come aboard to get
bite of salt pork and once in awhile a
glass of rum, etc, so it was not con-
sidered dangerous to go ashore and
make little excursions into the interior.
The natives were calnibals, but they
knew whom to eat, and interest for
their personal welfare prevented their
mouths watering for the blood of an
Englishman. l went ashore one day
with the mate, who got the notion into
his head that he wanted to kill two or
three gorgeously plumaged birds, cure
and dress their wing feathers and take
them home to his sweetheart. We got
separated in the jungle and / became
lost. ! had left my pocket compass
aboard the ship and TO save my life
couldn't locate myself. Well, was in
that forest for two days without a thing
to eat before ! was lucky enough to
strike the coast, from which had at
no time been three miles distant.
was starving. / think for the first
time in my life realized what hunger
was"
Here the doctor made grimace.
"Boys,' he said, "as ! got near the
coast my nostrils met most savory
odor. 1t increased my torment OF
hunger tenfold, while my heart re-
joiced at the prospect of food; but to
my horror and fright / walked right
into group of niggers boiling a man.
The remembrance of the temptation
offered me clings to me yet. Weak as
l was, however, ran from the place
lest |, too, should become cannibal.
If i had remained with those niggers
in my starved condition / should have
partalxen of their awful broth. But ]
was safe, for party from the shir
soon found me, and when saw them
tainted away. That terrible tempta.
tion," the doctor continued, was the
one event OF all my career that makes
me gloomy whenever / think of it,
and almost always think of It,"
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-01-18
CLUMSY DANCERS.
The Kaiser Forced to Bar Them at Im-
peria1 Entertainments.

The Kaiser Forced to Bar Them at Im-
peria1 Entertainments.
Clumsiness in dancing has for long
time been regarded as most unpar-
donable sin at the various royal and
imperial courts of Europe, where the
highly-polished and parquetted floors
of the palaces and the spurs. which
form part and parcel of every full
dress uniform render waltzing mat
ter of some danger. At Berlin acci-
dents of this character are said by
Vogue to have been so frequent until a
wear ago that shortly after Christmas
Emperor William summoned the gen.
eral commanding the various troops
stationed in and around Berlin and in
structed him to direct those officers
who were not able to dance properly to
abstain from attempting to do so at
imperial entertainments. Since then
young officers are put through their
PAGES by their seniors and are obliged
to display a certain proficiency in pas
seuls around the messroom billiard
table before being allowed to dance at
court. On one occasion--a court ball
at Berlin--a young cavalry subaltern
incurred the anger of the late Prince
Frederick Charles by tripping up
his partner. The prince assailed the
young officer so bitterly that the late
Emperor Frederick, then only crown
prince, was obliged to intervene. At
the Viennese court, young secretary
of the Roumanian legation once fell so
unfortunately while dancing with one
of the archduchesses that he came
down in sitting position on her face,
causing her Hapsburg nose to bleed.
1t is scarcely necessary to add that he
left Vienna the next day, and, a
week later, obtained his transfer to
another post. The duke OF Aosta,
nephew of King Humbert of Italy,
broke his ankle last winter while
waltzing at ball given at Rome by
the popular Nine. le Glait, the wife of
the Belgian minister at Washington,
and, few weeks before the tragedy at
Meyerling, the now widowed Crown
Princess Stephanie had nasty fall,
| due to the gaucherie of cavalry Off
Ger with whom she was waltzing. EN-
peror Francis Joseph was much an
noyed, and so, too, was the late Crown
Prince Rudolph, who spoke his mind
| in no measured terms to the culprit.
Far more polite was Emperor Ma
poleon III, when at Tuileries ball, a
middle-aged officer and his fair part
ner came to grief. AS the mortified
lancer scrambled to his feet, the en-
peror kindly extended a hand to help
him and, turning to the lady,remarked:
| Madam, this is the second time that |
have seen the colonel fall the first
time it was on the battle field Of Ma
| rentan
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An AFRIoAN KING.
HO Was Jealous of the Talents of His
Subjects.

subjects.
After Emin Pasha had learned of the
fall Of Khartoum and the conquest of
the Soudan by the Mahdists, he gaveup
hope of being able to defend the equa-
torial province with the force at his
disposal, says Youths Companion.
TO rescue the Egyptians who gar
risoned the various posts was now his
first duty, and he began to make his
plans for march to the sea. The only
practical route appeared to lie through
The kingdom of Unyoro, which bounds
the province ou the southeast. Ac-
cordingly he sent his medical officer,
Vita Hassan, with valuable presentsof
ivory and other things, to the king of
the country to obtain permission for
the paasage of the troops through his
dominions
This African monarch, who was
named Kabarega, though in outward
appearance mere savage, showed
that he possessed some of the qualities
of succcssful'ruler.
Among the presents sent him was q
little box which had come from Mann
Settu, n country in the extreme west
,rn part of the province. When the
sing noticed that it was made of
ingle piece OF wood he was very much
pleased with it ard asked the envoy
whether he thought that his subjects
were capable OF initiating such work.
81 answered him" says Vita Hassan,
"that the Wanyoro had no experience
in such wori; and that it would he very
difficult for them to do it as well as
the Mambettu, who were skilled in
fashioning out Of block Of wood the
most varied and difficult objects. In a
really artistic manner they are able to
make dishes. plates, bowls, stands and
even Turkish jugs with their long and
crooked nee,:s.
THE Wanyoro, on the other hand,
understand the preparation of skins.
This is their speciality, as woodwork
ing is that of the Mambettu. My words
aroused the jealousy of Kabarega, and
he counted on his fingers to FIVE and
then said: On this day. pointing to
the fifth finger, come here again, and
/ will show you whether or not my peo-
pie can maze box like this
"On the Gith day the Wanyoro had
succeeded, under the most frightful
threats of the king, in manufacturing
a similar box of perhaps even better
construction. Full of pride, lSabarega
showed it to me with the words: What
use Is it being king if cannot get
NV Suhiaats tn malse avarvt hing which
l wishw
"'But what if you desire something
which is beyond their ability or their
bnowledge?'
"'Thcre is noneed of that, for have
not lost my head; shall never bid
them fetch me the moon, but if it is a
thing wh;t! is rot beyond our power,
cannot permit that they should give
apat the iri difficulty.
''Por Il he 10 king this seemed to be
'cry reasonable, and / bowed my as
;enth
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ANTIQUITY OF SHORTHAND.
1t Was In Use Before the Beginning OF
the Christian Era.

1t Was In Use Before the Beginning OF
the Christian Era.
Cicero is said to have been the in
ventor of shorthand writing, and the
freedman, Marcus 'Tullius Trio, his
friend, the first stenographer, and he
undoubtedly did use method of short
hand writing as early as 60 d. c. The
first English treatise was by Timothe
Bright, entitled, SAN Arte of Shorte
Swifte and Secrete Writing by Charac-
ture, Inuented by Timothe Bright,
Doctor of Phisike, Imprinted at Lon
don by l. Windet, the assignee of Tim
Bright, 1888. Cum priuilegie Regiae
Maiestatis. Forbidding all others to
print the same" DIR. Bright in this
work says: tCicero did account it
worthie his labour, and no less profita-
Bile to the Roman common weale Most
Gracious Soueraigne) to inuent a
speedie kinde of wryting by character,
as Plutarch reporteth in the life of Cato
the younger. This inuention was in
creased aftsrward by Seneca that the
number of characters grue to 1000.
Whether through inure of time, or that
the men gaue it over for tediousness of
learning, nothing remaineth extant of
Cicero's inuention at this day."
The stenographer who recalls the
efforts required to properly master the
few characters used in the art to-day
will wonder that of Cicero's system,
with its 1000 characters, nothing re-
mains at this day. 1t was not until
1912, according to the New York World,
that the art became of any practical
use, and it was first used in the house
Of lords in 1900 in taking testimony in
divorce suit. Stenographers were
not regularly employed in parliament,
however, until 1902.
In many of the public schools of the
country stenography is part of the
training An evidence Of its recent re-
markable growth is shown by circu-
lar issued by the bureau of education
issued at Washington. Here 1t Is
shown that from July 1, 1889, TO June
80, 1900, 57,375 persons received instruc-
tion in the art of shorthand in schools
and colleges in the United States Five
thousand five hundred and fifty of
these were in New York and Brooklyn.
A like circular was issued by the bu-
reau in 1884, in which it was shown
that during the year 1882 the number
of pupils receiving instruction was r.
47O 1t is therefore quite safe to say
that the number for 1893 exceeded u.s.
OO0 But this number does not take
into consideration an army probably
equally large who receive instruction
from some other source or from pro.
fessional stenographers. Out of this
vast army, however, but very small
minority are either physically or men
tally qualified to become court report
ers or even office amanuenses.