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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 80 great as now. The con.
veniences Of mankind IN the factory and
work shop tho household, on the farm, and
In Official life, require continual accessions
to the appurtenances and implements to each
in order to save labor, time ard expense
The political change In the administration
of government does not affect the progress
OF the American inventor, who beng on the
alert, and ready to perceive the existing
deficiencies, does not permit the affairs Of
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 innumerable
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 do
10 at imminent risk, as the breadth and
strength of the patent is never considered in
view Of quick endeavor to get an allowance
and obtain the fee then Dr. THE PRESS
CLAIMS COMPANY, John Wedderburn.
General Manager, 618 + street, N. W., Wash
inctor. D. c., representing a 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 Of all patent business
entrusted to 1t for reasonable fees, and pre-.
pares and prosecutes applications generally,
including mechanical inventions. design pat.
ents, trade marks, labels, copyrights, inter.
ferences, infringements, validity reports, and
gives especial attention to rejected cases.
It is also prepared to enter into competition
with any firm In securing foreign patents.
Write for instructions and advice
JOHN WEDDERBURN,
8l8 F Street,
p. O. Box 1856. Washington, D. G.
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A Visit From the Bayloya.

A Visit From the Bayleys.
The servant at No. told the serv-
ant at No. 2 that her master expected
his old friends, the Bayleys, to pay a
visit, and No. 2 told No. 8 that No. I
expected to have the Bayleys in the
house every day, and No. 8 told No.
4 that it was all up with No. i and
that they couldn't keep the bailifs
out, whereupon No. 4 told No. s that
the officers were after No. 1, and that
1t was as much as he could do TO 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. SO that the detective police
had taken up the gentleman who
lived at No. for killing his poor,
dear wife with arsenic. and that It
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 NtBits.
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NatiQnA Ain.

It "a a strange thing that the ma
tonal airs Of great countries are
short while those Of little countries
are very long. For instance, God
Save the Queen" is ii bars, the Rus
sian hymn 16 bars, and Hail, Colum-
bia, the foremost among the Ameri'
can airs, has IS bars. On the other
hand, Slams national hymn has rs
bars, that Of Uruguay 70, Chili's As,
and so on. San Marino, the smallest
republic in the world, has the long
est national hymn. The national
hymn of China is 80 long that, when
people want to hear it, they have
10 take half day off to be ablo to
listen to its strains. London Million.
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Tho Brown-Sequard Elixir.


Tho Brown-Sequard Elixir.
The Riforma Medica, an Italian
journal, gives results Of long series
Of experiments with tho Brown-Se-
guard elixir and concludes that the
liquid, injected hypodermically, has
not the slightest lasting effect upon
the human organism; that the tri-
Aing and transitory notifications Of
circulation, respiration, temperature
and muscular power are explicable
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
hyyteria and neurasthenia.
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Inherited.

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
anything."-Detroit Free Press.
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PLEASE REMEMBER

that we send THE CAToCTIN CLARION ioi
one year. The ILLUSTRATED HOME GUEST
for one year, and the book. at wenty Com
pletc Novelties by Popular Authors" al
post paid by mail upon receipt of only $l.9l
This offer applies both to new subscribers anc
renewcls Every loyer of bright and fasc
mating literature should take advantage OF it
Sample copies of The ILLUSTRATED HoMr
GUEST and ofthe premium book may be seer
at this office. Address all letters
The CAToCTIN CLARION,
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No Blanks in this Competition.

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 risk,ng 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 q
stimulus to do something that would be well
worth doing 1t. The architect whose com.
peti:ive plan for club house on a 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 COmpanps COmpe-
t,tion, need not worry If he fail to secure the
prize. He has substantial result to show
for his work-One that will command its val.
ne 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 1t 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 Company's twenty five hundred dol
lars.
The responsibility of this company may be
Judged from the fact that It's stock Is held by
about three hundred of the leading newspa.
pers of the United States.
Address the Press Claims Comaany, John
Weddeburn. managing attorney, 8isF street
wv Washinyton . e. nay
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gentler sex, every one OF whom should subscribe to
6emorest's Magazine. II you are unaeqnainted wit =
il merits. send for specimen copy gree, ana ,
y in tho way OF saving money by finding In one
Magazine everything to satisfy the literary wants ~
the whole family.
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Eureka L 1Wi
NY whole ste a
mend
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II submit the within described invention
In competition for the Twenty-Five Hundred
Dollar Prize offered by the Press Claims
Company
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The Art TOnsOr1al
MR.. AMOS LUCAS,

M II. ANUS UUVIAO,
tot Long Branch)
Having arrived at the conclusion that the
columns of the CLARION are the only means
whereby he can bring his business to the
proper standard gives vent Ms follows:
SHAVING, HAIR CUTTING, SHAM
POONING AND DYEIN6
In the latest style Of the art tonsorial.
SHARP RAZORS AND A CLEAN
SHAVE
ia the motto of this enterprising artist, and
hy strict attention to business can't heip
bit please all Will be IN his shop at 81
times.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-20

Circles and bubbles atop of the waves
Where Jacky plunged through to the
largest of graves,
Down, down, deep down, far under the
Making splash that the sunlight danced
And it's marked in the log book. the hole
in the sea,
Lat. south. 1850; Long; west, So"
Frock coats and blue shirts. SO clean and
And Jack dressed in canvas from his
head 10 his feet.
Sewed up tight with canister, grape and
black shot
To carry him straight to the burial lot:
That's down, deep down. in the deep Oh
Where many sailor and lubber there be,
Man fiyingjib downhaulr' Royal clew-
lines stand byr' .
Weather main and lee cro'jack braces
now haulI''
shake a leg there. my hearties, don't
We hear the pipes call2''
Now the ships all sback with the WIND
And ready for quarters to bury the dead.
Frock coats on the weather, blue shirts
on the lee,
Marines on the poop deck, brave show
And the sky pilots dressed in his Sunday
And Jacks in the canvas. there. served
All ready to plunge the gay sunlight
through
And make bubbles and circles atop of the
New York Sun.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-20
Mems Shirts.


Speaking about shirts, there's moth
ing in the line of these garments, for
business or evening wear, that we don't
show. Our colored Shirts especially are
all the rage in Salt Lake City this sea-
son. The colored ones at soc, with soft
fronts and starched collars and cuffs.
make very neat shirt; the ones at
75c are made of better material, and the
workmanship is much finer, the s1.00
are made by Wilson Bros. and that of
itself is a guarantee that the goods are
right. the making is right and the col
ors are right. We start incur Colored
Shirts with detached collars and cuffs
at 75c, worth more. but that is our
price. The s1.0O and SIPS one will wear
well, look well and wash well. the ones
at s1.50. with three collars and pair
of cuffs, are worth sl.75. and then you
get an extra collar.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-20
DOGS MADE roo MUCH NOISE.
So the Visitor New to Fox Hunting
Couldn't Hear the Music.

San Francisco Argonaut: Colonel
Burr of Virginia was mighty fox
hunter and loved the sport beyond
words. He owned fine pack of
hounds, and during the season,
thought of nothing but his hunters,
his dogs, and the weather. He was
once entertaining an army friend from
Texas. whose ideas of hunting any
animal involved the use of firearms,
and who had never seen a fox hound.
He had been with difficulty persuaded
to go forth one morning with the
colonel and some friends to a meet, and
they were waiting patiently for the
hounds to take the scent.
Presently there burst upon their
listening ears the din of 80 canine
voices in full cry. The coloneTs eyes
cleaned. and, as he settled his feet in
the stirrups and stretched his arm to-
ward the yelping pack, he cried:
Major, listen to that heavenly musici"
The major pricked up his ears for
second or two, and then replied: Il
can't hear a thing. Those damned
dogs are making such a noise,"
The colonel put his spur savagely
into his horses side and dashed away,
leaving his guest to his own devices.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-20
THE WOOD.

Witch hazel. dogwood and the maple here,
Linn, poplar and the beach tree far and
near
As the eased eye can see.
Wild ginger. wahoo. with its roam bal
And brakes of briers of A twilight green.
And fox grapes plumed with summer. and
strung moons
OF mandrake flower between.
Deep gold green ferns and MOSES red
and gray
Mats for what naked myths white feet
And cool and calm cascade far away,
With ever falling beat
Old logs made sweet with death, rough
bits of bark.
And tangled twig and knotted root,
And sunshine splashes, and great pools
of dark.
And many wild BIRDS flute.
Here let me sit until the Indian dusk
With copper-colored feet comes down.
Sowing the wildwood with star fire and
Ard shadows blue and brown.
Then side oy side with some magician
dream
To take the owlet haunted lane.
Half rooted with vines, led by a FREELY
CLEAN.
That brings me home again.
Madison Cawein in .'Undertones."
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-20
TACKLED THE WRONG MAN.
a Farmer Didn't Like the Pugilist's
Method of Training.

Chicago Record: Indeed, men do
strange things while fixing themselves
for athletic contests. Once a party of
US went out to Mission road to visit
Joe Goddard, the Australian, who was
preparing for his meet with Joe Nc
Auliffe Goddard had a bushman's
ideas of training, and one of his
schemes was the jumping of a rope.
just as schoolgirls do it. He explained
how it helped his legs, and went inside
the quarters and got his rope to
demonstrate. He was jumping away
on the gravel and evidently getting
great satisfaction out of it, when we
were all surprised TO hear voice from
the roadway.
We'll. of all the blamed fool things
for a growed man to do Jumpin' a
rope, Why. if I had boy half as big
as you that'd do that I'd lick him half
to death" We looked around and saw
a gnarled old truck gardener sitting
on his wagon and gazing our way with
disgust on his face
Il s'pose. you call that a mans
game?" he snorted. why don't We
piay leap-frog or ack-the-whip an
be done with it? If / had time I'd git
off an give you a good fatherly
thrashin'."
You would?" cried Goddard, in sur
prise. We'll, now. you just get off and
try it," and he went on jumping.
Blamed if I,don't," the gardener re-
torted. It'll do you good-a big, over
grown lummix like you jumDin' the
rope"
He approached Goddard, and the lat
ter picked him up and threw him high
in the air like a ball. catching him
gently as he came down. Then the
prize fighter juggled him and famed
his face with him and did various
tricks with him, always being careful
not to hurt him. Afterward he tossed
him UP on top of a nearby strawstack,
from which. after much labor. the in
terrupter withdrew himself and again
to us.
You don't care if I keep on this
childish game of jumping the rope, do
you?" inquired Goddard.
Mister said the gardener, you can
jump the rope all you know how. I'm
mighty glad I didn't tackle you while
YOU was playin' Observation-Disclosures
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fiat" building at 10 o'clock. and to levy
q tax on all his residents who come home
after that hour.
All OF the constitutional amendments
voted on at the recent election in South
Dakota were carried by large majorities,
but il now appears that through a So
called mistake in the ballots the viii of
the people has been rendered null and
void
A Boston physician has issued a e.rcu-
lar, written in the third person. in which
he says: Sickness is toy in his hands;
IN a most phenomenal way he sheds light
into the darkened eye. life into dying
form and robs the sick room of it's suf-
ferer and the coffin of its prey
Previous to repairing a telephone line
which had been cut. two workmen at
Rock Dell, Mimi, undertook a novel ex-
pertinent Each took hold of an end of
The wire and then Joined hands A mes
sage was then sent over the wire and
clearly heard between points four miles
apart.
The town OF Guanabacoa, which the
Cuban Insurgents have been raid.ng, is
b. no means an Insignificant suburb of
Havana Its population is s0.000, i is
lighted by electricity and has a theater
and numerous public buildings. Its els
lance from the heart OF Havana Is but
six miles,
Il is now proposed that there be con-
gress of Jews who have intermarried with
Gentiles. that the advantage of sucn in
termarriageS may be set forth in a hitting
manner. During the recent convention
OF Jewish women held in New York one
able delegate advocated intermarriage
with Gentiles.
The supreme court OF Virginia has de-
cided in the contested election case in the
Tenth congressional district of that state
that the votes cast for J. Yost and Jake"
4ost shall be counted as il cast for
tho certificate to Mr. Yost, the Republic
an candidate for congress.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-20
Boys 0vercoats
and Refers.

Boys from three to fourteen are apt
to be very hard on Overcoats. We sell
the good kind, the kind that will stand
the hardest kind of wear, and what
is more, we combine style with these
good wearing qualities. We do not
claim our Cape Overcoat at SD is
tailored or lined as well as the $3.50
ones, but we do claim a great deal for
the Cape Overcoats at 81, $3.50 and S..
They are all wool, made very hobby.
braided and fixed up to give the Over
coats a style and finish. You might pay
$3.50 for an Overcoat, but it is ques
ton if you could find anything that
would wear better or look better.
REFERS.
We carry a very large stock of Reef
ers They have come to stay-the boys
like them the mothers admire them.
We have them at 50, So and 81. in blues,
not expensive. are warm and hobby.
The very swell ones at S. and S. are
beauties-how they set off the little
ones. Well. they are young but once,
why shouldn't they look well and dress
warm?
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WORD STUDIES.

st. Louis Globe-Democrat: To in
suit once signified to jump or dance on
dead body.
Scamper originally signifed only ito
go out of field"
Parchment is so called because it
was first made at Pergamus.
Copper has its name from Cyprus,
where ancient mines of this metal were
numerous.
Ballot was once "a little ball" In
many organizations ballots are still
taken with marbles.
Tobacco was so called because it was
first noted by Europeans on the small
island of Tobago.
The cranberry was originally the
crane-berry. the berry growing at the
end of a long stalk, bearing fanciful
resemblance to the leg of a crane.
The word school has its origin in a
Latin expression, signifying leisure. In
earlier ages only the Children of per-
sons of wealth We're able to attend
school.
Miniature was once painting by the
Miniatori monks, who were celebrated
for their skill in doing initial letters
and small pictures on manuscripts.
The word pygmy originally meant
"the fist A human being was a
pygmy when figuratively he was no
higher that the distance from the wrist
to the knuckles.
Perfume once meant scented
smoke 1t was customary in ancient
times, as it still is in the east. to per-
fume rooms by burning certain spices
on a charcoal fire.
Ounce in its original form was the
name of the Scottish philosopher Duns.
whose doctrines were so ill-received
that they expressed mirth at the stu
pidity of persons who believed them.
y M mo NJ
a colonel in the army of Louis XIV. He
was rigid disciplinaTian and re-
modelled and reorganized the army with
such strictness that his name was sub
sequently applied to any severe
disciplinarian.
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HOW WEARY IS OUR HEART.

OF kings and courts: of kingIy, courtly
In which the life of man is bought and
sold.
How weary is our heart these many days.
OF ceremonious embassies that hold
Farley with hell in fine and silken
phrase,
How weary is our heart these many days!
OF wavering counsellors neither hot nor
cold,
Whom, from his mouth. God speweth.
be it told
How weary is our heart these many days.
Yea, forsthe travelled nights is round the
And sick are we of all the imperial
The tramp of Power and its long trail
of pain,
The mighty ,brows in meanest arts
grown hoary;
The mighty hands,
That in the dear. affronted name of
Peace
Bind down a people to be racked and
slain:
The emulous armies waxing without
cease.
All-puissant all in vain;
The pacts and leagues to murder by de-
lays,
And the dumb throngs that on the deaf
The common, loveless lust of territory;
The lips that only babble of their mart
While TO the night the shrieking ham
lets blaze;
The bought allegiance and the purchased
pride,
False honors and shameful glory
OF all the evil whereof this is part
How weary is our heart,
How weary is our heart these many days!
William Watson in the London Chron-
icle.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-20
CHRISTIANS EVE GAMES.
Some JULY Amusement to Follow
Santa Claus and the Christmas
Tree.

Christmas eve Is the cfliIdren's festival.
and this year, if ever. it should be a
merry one for hosts of new and lively
games have been invented by clever peo-
pie for the young folks edsfication.
The Christmas tree may usher in the
merry making or be received for the
grand finale, but there is always d calm.
sooner or later, when What shall We
do next?" is the important question which
demands an answer.
Games" every one cries in concert.
and games it is for merry hour or two,
and one which will be played this year
with much laughter and many shouts of
merriment is PILLOW dex.''
In the first place il is great SPORT to
blow up the little rubber pillows, or bal
One balloon is all that is necessary for
the game, although two or three are kept
in readiness in case of an accident 10
the one in play.
Any number can play pillow-dex, and
ii is game in which the old as we'll as
the young are interested
Where no preparation is made Tor play
and one of the best in this line is HIS
torical Pictures" 1t is a game giving
a little artistic touch. and is very popular;
with a sheet of paper and pencil and is
called upon to try and represent some
well known historical incident Very
bad specimens of draughtsmanship are
sure to be offered and even the very worst
examples will often provide a good bit
of hilarity. Those people VINO fancy they
can do something in the way of sketching
will often have their mind dssabused of
that vanity.
Another enjoyable game goes by the
name of 1.-The Stool of Repentance
One of the party leaves the room; the
others confer together to arrange some
purely imaginary offense with which to
charge the absentee-the more absurd
and malicious the better. The absent one
is called again into the room and placed
on the presidential chair. He must now
defend himself in as witty and sarcastic
a manner as possible. If he spots his
accuser he or she has to leave the room
and in their turn undergo the same or
deal.
For want of better charges. such ac-
cusations as the following can be pre-
ferred: Conceit, modesty. self-esteem,
dyeing the nair, leaving the laundress'
bill unpaid for II weeks. Highest Of
fence of all the culprit may be accused of
writing poetry. The penitent one may
even be asked to give his. impartial oDin-
ion of his mother-in-law after she has
paid him a long visit of two months.
The blind Quadrille' is generally voted
the drollest sort of performance on
record in shouts of uncomfortable laugh
Its plan of procedure is this: Four
couples who are blindfolded attempt to go
correctly through the figures of a quad
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-20
Louisville's Spring stakes.

louisville, Dec. 19.-Secretary Price
)day announced the spring stakes Of
lie new Louisville Jockey club. Includ-
lg the fixed events there are ten
takes, as follows:
Louisville futurity. $4,000, for 2-year-
sis, four and one-half furlongs.
Kentucky DERBY, $4,000, for 3-year-
Ids, mile and a quarter.
Clark stakes. $4,000. for s-year-olds.
lille and one-eighth.
Kentucky oaks, $500, for 3-year-old
lies. mile and one-siXteenth.
Debutante stakes. $1,000, for 2-year-
Id FLIES, four furlongs.
Cadet stakes. $1,000. for 2-year-old
olts and geldings, four and one-haif
Irl5ngs.
kingston stakes. $1,000, selling. for
-year-olds. five furlongS.
Blue grass stakes, $1,000, for 3-year-
Ids. six and one-half furlonGs.
Corncracker stakes. $1,000 selling,
n 3-year-olds, seven furlongs.
Frank Fehr stakes, $1,000, selling, for
,year-olds and upwards. one mile.
With the exception of the fixed
rents entries for these stakes will
lose January Is.