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Catoctin clarion., 1898-07-07

Raymond, the two year old son Of Ander
son Eicholtz. near Jimtown, on Monday
morning last fell from porch and broke
an arm. DR.. E G Kefauver reduced the frac.
Catoctin clarion., 1898-07-07
New Advertisements.

Preparatory services will be held at $50
p. nj. on Saturday at Trinity Reformed
church and ON Sunday morning at 10 o'clock
the Sacrament Of the Lords Supper will be
ohaeryed
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s.nupenaauer on Women.

Schopenhauer' mother, Joanna, was
singular woman, with whom he was
perpetually at war. She was lively, he
was grim. She was sentimentalist, he
detested sentiment. She was devoted to
society, to gossip, to the conyenances of
life. He lived for ideas, and with an al
most savage moroseness poured scorn on
the round of cat homes and aesthetic
tea parties. Both were selfish and quar-
relsome. We may judge, therefore, that
Schopenhauer took his notions of wom-
en- partly from his mother 1t goes with
out saying that these notions were vio-
lent in the extreme, yet not without
some aspects of truth.
The new woman would rave at this
satire on her pretensions, and yet it
would do her good to read what Scho-
penhauer has to say with as much calm
ness as she can command. Woman is
here depicted as emphatically "a lesser
Indeed SO far below man as to
be fit only for the role of the old fash
toned German hausfrau.-Self Culture.
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Raleigh Finger Marks.

1t is now 300 years since Sir Walter
Raleigh lived i'll Ireland, but, according
to Sir John Pope of Hennessy many
traces of his residence there can still be
seen. The richly perfumed yellow wall
flowers that he brought to Ireland from
the Azores and the Atfane cherry are
still found where he first planted them,
by the Blackwater.
Some cedars he brought to Cork are
to this day growing at a place called
Tiyio. The four venerable yew trees, the
branches of which have twined and in
termingled into sort of summer house
thatch, are pointed out as having shell.
tered Raleigh when he first smoked to-
bacco i'll his Youghal garden. In that
garden he also planted tobacco. a few
steps farther on, where the town wall
of the thirteenth century surrounds the
garden of the warden's house, is the ia
nous spot where the first Irish potato
was planted by him.-Chicago Record.
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Come collection Plate Figures.

Not long ago Philadelphia clergy
man requested his congregation to re-
frain from putting cents into the collec-
ton baskets, because, as be diplomat
ically explained, they were an incum-
brance to the treasury rather than a
help. Tho Offering that following was
seven times as large as the one at the
previous service 1t WAS assumed that
some of the members of the congrega-
ton had eased their consciences and
gained a reputation for liberality by
dropping a cent in the basket instead of
silver COIN The Church Economist
called attention yesterday to the num-
Der of cents that find their way into col
lection plates by publishing an analysis
of the years collections in the Church
of the Strangers in this city. The
amount collected during 1897, exclusive
of the collections in envelopes, was
So, 439.34 which was distributed as fol-
lows.
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THE CARE FREE VlENNESE,
They Rarely Take Life Seriously Unless Mt
IL Funeral.

IL Funeral.
"The native Viennese is jolly, good
natured, shiftless creature, u writes Ed
ward A. Steiner, discussing Austria
and Her Troubles in The Woman S
Home Companion.
.'No people OIL the earth are SO jolly
or SO easily and so much amused. Go to
the Prater, the largest public park in
Europe, and from 100 different beer
gardens comes the noise of footing brass
bands and stamping feet and beating
drums. Merry go rounds swing old and
young, and dime museums and music
halls are rs full of people as they are
empty of decency. Go to the theaters on
any night and you will find them
crowded by an enthusiastic audience,
the galleries filled by noisy students and
working girls. The court theaters,
which present only Legitimate dramas
and operas, have also their numerous
deyotees. Go to the coffee houses, of
which there is one on every corner, and
you will find them full, especially in
the afternoon, with merchants with
their noses in the newspapers and clerks
slipping their Mocha and officers smok-
ing their cigars and cue pushing and
card shutlling youths. At night these
coffee houses become the rendezvous OF
the lower element. l have never seen
the Viennese serious, unless it be at a
funeral, and I suppose that even out of
that he manages to get some fun. Yet
he is easily excited, and although loyal
and law abiding his good nature may
quickly turn into fiery passion, and a
Viennese riot is serious matter for the
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Jealous of His Bad Writing.

Here is one which shows the dry hu-
NOR that runs through Judge Andrews
soul. While the court was trying the
case against the Great Western Elevator
company in this city the Minneapolis
lawyer who represented the elevator
company, at the conclusion of the hear
ing and before the judge had delivered
his instructions to the jury, sent Up to
the courts desk few paragraphs which
he desired the court to read to the jury
as part Of the instructions. Judge An
drews seemed to be trying to read the
lawyers scribbling for quite awhile,
and finally he said in all soberness, nd
dressing his remarks to tho lawyer in
question, 81 IN sorry, sir, that you came
here at all. +" "Why," said the limb of
the law, whats the matter-what
have done?' We'll, sir, 1 Thoughts 1
enjoyed the distinction of being the
poorest writer in this circuit, but you
have spoiled it, sir. yield the palm to
you. "-Watertown(S. d. Public Opin-
ion.
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The Schoolyard.

To spend large sums of money on
architectural beauties and stone cary
ings of historic ornaments-which have
but little attraction for children-to
make school building look like pal
ace and then to leave the schoolyard
looking like desert or the top of BIZ
luminous lake, without a single attrac-
tive flower or one bit of beauty, are in
constituencies which seem possible only
in the modern system of education.
Weather beaten houses in the country,
log cabins on the frontiers, railroad sta
lions in the Great American desert and
all over our country have their beauti-
full flower gardens, and it refreshes
ones soul to see them, but there is no
such source of refreshment, inspiration
and instruction where children are BE-
ing educated in the essentials. Hen
ry Lincoln Clapp in Popular Science
Monthly.
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Time to Stop.

Among the best stories recorded by q
we'll known angler is one about Scot
fish laird who was one day relating to
his friends at the dinner table the story
of fine fish he had ssught. Donald, )"
said he to the servant behind his chair
an old man, but new servant-"how
heavy was the fish took yesterday"
Donald neither spoke nor moved. The
laird repeated the. question. "Weel, !"
replied Donald, sit was twal' pund at
breakfast, it had gotten to achteen at
dinner time and it was sax and twenty
when ye sat down to supper WI the
captain" Then, after pause, he add
ed, Give been tellin lees a my life to
please the shooters, but I'll be dashed if
I'm going to tell lees moo in my old age
to please the fushers."
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STARTERS OF RESTAURANTS
A Business Operation by Which Some Men
Make Considerable Money.

A Business Operation by Which Some Men
Make Considerable Money.
'It may seem strange to say so, " re-
marked q lawyer the other day, "but it
is true, nevertheless, that there are men
in the city who are getting rich by es-
tablishing restaurants that do not pay.
This is tho way they do it: a cheap
shop is rented and fitted up as a restau-
rant at cost, say, of $3.50. Food val
ued at about 500 is purchased, and
some judicious advertising is done.
More food is sold for the money then
than customers can get anywhere else
in the neighborhood. The result is a
crowded restaurant though the pro-
prietor is losing money steadily. When
he has first class line Of patrons and
he appears to be doing big business,
he advertises the place for sale. Ill
health or a desire to move south, east
or west is one of the excuses. Custom
ers appear promptly, and the proprietor
usually sells his place for $1,000 or
81, 800, half in cash. His investment
has not been more than $500, so he
clears from $500 to 81, 1000. Of course
the place proves failure and the pur-
chaser loses his money. The restaurant
starter, however, moves to another por-
ton of the city and repeats his enter
prise. -
The lawyer said that he recalled one
man in particular who had started no
less than ten restaurants in the last six
months, all of which he sold. With two
exceptions the places did not pay, and
the men who bought them were COM
PEELED to close them.-New York Com
mercial Advertiser.
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NEVER "BRoKE" AGAIN.

An Improvident Young Man Who VIII AL
ways Have Dollar In His Pocket.
Queer things happen at funerals, "
said Clergyman recently who has Off
ciated at many, land remember one
occasion which impressed me greatly
on account of the standing of the family
in which it happened, as we'll as from
the peculiar circumstances surrounding
the incident-the beStowal of money on
q dead man. "
The narrator was urged to relate the
story, and on the promise that no names
would be mentioned he continued:
''It was funeral at the house OF one
of my parishioners, and was greatly
surprised when I received notice to at
tend and conduct the services. 1 had not
heard of any member of the family be-
ing i'll, nor had been summoned to the
deathbed, but jumped to the conclu-
sion that it was an old servant who had
died.
1T proved to be bad son-the black
sheep of the family-whose shadow had
not darkened their doors for years, but
who, it was always believed, had been
supported at distance far enough to
prevent him from disgracing the family
by his misdeeds.
"Now he was brought homo dead,
and 1 was expected to give him as little
blame and as nuch praise as was con-
sistent with the dignity of my office aud
his relation to the family.
II need not go into that part of the
ceremonies, but come to what consider
the real expression of feeling which
consecrated the memory of the man Us
nothing that said could have done.
"Just before the caslSet was closed
his old mother arose from her seat with
the mourners, and, approaching the
dead, slipped silver dollar into his
vest pocket.
"'Jim never liked to be without
money in his pocket, she said, with
low, tremulous voice. Many's the dol
lar I've slipped into his pocket unbe-
known to him, but he always found it
and was thankful. don't expect he's
going to need it now, and maybe he will
never know that mother put it there,
but somehow shall feel better If he
has it.
land I felt that the woman who had
loved much and forgiven much had
preached sermon Of forgiveness and
mercy before which l with my plati-
tudes must remain dumb. Chicago
Times. Herald.
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30 TIE PURITAN,

louise in pinl, and hlmy Taco,
A fay in blue, the sweet Ircne'
Minerva of the classic face,
In glowing red Il stately QUEEN,
a court of bcauty's honor maidsl
The richest robe from. royal loom
Best mates such loneliness, yet aids
Not cheeks that shame cen roses bloom.
But, though them all do admire,
turn from ballroom visions back,
From beauty, colors, jewels fire.
To seek n little girl i'll black.
On, little girl in black, to you,
Aweary Of the gay deceit,
] come to learn what is the true,
Where naught distracts, in calm most
sweet.
Though sparkling glance and bright array
The senses touch with potent charms,
They vanish III the stcely day;
The music dies III harsh alarms
That fill the world Of busy strife.
So in the hard and clodden track
Love lights alone would through life
Walk with the little girl in black.
George Henry Doueherty in Womanllind.
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LIVING IN CITIES.
The Apartment House is Breaking Up
American Homes.

American Homes.
have no mind to harrow UP the
minds of my readers with any explica-
ton Of the miseries and mysteries that
confront the average houselleeper i'll the
daily maintenance of Il simple but COM
Portable existence for hor family. AS for
herself, an existence at all seems
struggle which at times she would glad
~ give over. One might define hero
inc as the average American woman
who does her own housekeeping. But
some hint of the unnatural and unhappy
state of affairs existing at present may
be deduced from the consideration OF
two economic facts.
First, woman is by nature a home
founder and homemaker. This is not
intended as an assertion of personal be-
lief, but as statement of scientific fact.
1t was woman-not man-who opened
the industrial world. 1t was woman
who made tho first rude dwellings and
dressed skins and wove textiles for
clothing. 1t was woman and not man
who made the first fire and the first
utensils for cooking and the first rude
tools for industrial ends. All her activi-
tbs clustered about the hearth and min
istered to the home. If the woman and
the work had not reacted upon each 9th
er so that today women should be by
nature homemakers and home lovers,
there are still depths for tho scientists
to sound in the working of heredity and
of natural selection.
And yet-here is my second fact-the
enormous piles of stone and brick rapid
ly filling tho choice plots of ground in
our large cities and shutting out the
light of heaven with their gabled tops
are mute if not magnificent witnesses to
the fact that the investment of capital
is all against tho perpetuation of the
separate home. The shrewd modern in
weston is willing to put hundreds of
thousands against hundreds of dollars
that for his lifetime at least) women
are going to prefer the ease of the apart
ment hotel to the separate house with
its privacy, its own table, and-alas-
its own service. = Helen Watterson
Moody i'll Scribner's.
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100000 IN A FLASH.
A Klondike Telegraph Line Wrecked by
the Atlantic Cable.

a. hlOuQ1he 3IihS N1CSHSu "
the Atlantic Cable.
Long ago-in 1S63-4-there was no
cable between Europe and America.
Transatlantic news-even during the
exciting episodes of the civil war-was
always about fortnight old. The at
tempt to make a cable connection had
ended disastrously, and in this junction
of affairs was organized a gigantic en-
terprise looking to the connection Of
the United States with Europe via Klon-
dixie and Boring sea. Most electricians
and Geographic experts had made up
their minds that 40 miles-which was
the distance across the strait-represent-
ed the longest submarine cable could
be successfully worked.
a company was formed, and what
was known in those days as Russian
Extension stock went off at premium
of 60 per cent In 1865 the line between
New Westminster and the Yukon river
was surveyed, found to be practicable
and traversed completely the present
Klondike region.
The line was expected to be finished
in 1867. Even the tariff for messages
was fixed at Go $3.50 per message. The
receipts were estimated to yield about
50, 600, 900 per annum. The line was
actually constructed from New West
minister along the present route of the
Canadian Pacific railway to Ashcroft,
where it was continued north toward
Boring sea to Fort Stager, 300 or 400
miles beyond Quesnelle. This line is at
the present moment in operation IN
portion of the Caribou country.
Then, in the midst of the whole bust
ness, after three years of hard work,
came like thunderclap the news that
the Atlantic cable was success. Three
million dollars had been expended, yet
the next day Russian Extension stock
was not worth the printers ink Oh its
surface Mail.
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Flelding,s "Tom Jones."

Fielding, having finished the manu-
script of "Tom Jones" and being hard
pressed for money, took it to second
rate publisher with view of selling it
for what he could get at that moment.
He left it and called the next day for
the decision. The bookseller hesitated
and requested another day for consider
alton, and at parting Fielding offered
his manuscript for e25.
On his way home Fielding met
Thomson, the poet, whom he told OF
the negotiation for the sale of his book.
Thomson, knowing the high merit of
the work, conjured him to give up the
bargain and offered to find better pub
Usher. The next day Fielding fastened
to his appointment with much appre-
pension lest the bookseller should insist
upon making a bargain. To his great
Joy, the ignorant trafficker in literature
declined and returned the manuscript.
Fielding set off with a light heart to
his friend Thomson, who gave the book
to Millar, the great publisher of the
day. Millar handed it to his wife, and
she advised him by no means to let it
slip through his fingers. The publisher
then invited the two friends to meet
him at coffee house i'll the Strand,
where, after dining, he offered Fielding
5000 for his book The author was
amazed at the magnifcence of the offer,
aud, recovering from the surprise of his
unexpected stroke of fortune, said;
"Then, my good sir, give me your
hand. The book is yours. y
Before Millar died be had cleared
Els, 900 by the publication. of "Tom
Jones -
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TIE c.AMEsE GIRL,
Ser Garments Are scanty. and She Ys an
Inrcterate Smoker.


Iurcterate Smoker.
From tho moment Of her birth ST.
amese girl is treated with less consider
alton than & boy. For several years aft
er quitting the realms of "babyland"
she dresses very slightly indeed Il refer
more particularly to the lower classes,
though the rule applies more or less
generality. Next she adopts the sarong,
or waist cloth, and on top of this is
placed a bright colored scarf of consid-
cradle length and breadth, which is Gus
tomarily crossed and recrossed over the
breast and under the arms. These two
garments constitute the whole of ST.
amese girls wearing apparel unless she
chance to wear scanty vest of linen.
Rings and bracelets are inevitable, pro-
vided She be of class enough to afford
them, and in few cases the costume is
finished off with fimsy pair of slip
pers, into which the stockingless feet
are thrust.
The average Siamese girl is IN invet-
crate smoker of cigarettes from very
tender age. When quite baby. too,
she, in common with the rest of the
population, is taught TO chew the leaf
and nut of the betel palm-at least
she does not require to be taught" this
unlovely but Gf Ne may believe what
we see) fascinating pastime. Since,
however, she knows full we'll that she
will be esteemed passee, not to say an
Gent, at the age of 80 she concentrates
the whole of her intellect upon the seri-
Gus business of either entering the pal
ace or getting married. But if it be the
latter, the marriage in Siamese middle
and upper class life is the most elabo-
rate function that an English girl could
imagine The negotiation-what we
should term the "courting" gener-
ally conducted in the first instance
through an old beldame. 1t is this old
woman's business to discover among
other things whether the "stars in their
courses are propitious toward the hap
DIV event and whether the respective
birthdays of the bride and bridegroom
fall suitably to the date fixed for their
union, for i'll all such matters the ST.
amese would appear to be even more su-
perstitious than their Buddhist belief
might reasonably be expected to make
them. Gentleman Magazine.
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C;nralese Children.

The Cingalese children are said to
be more beautiful than those Of any
other race OH the four continents, and
some of the little girls, even of the very
lowest caste, are irresistibly pretty as
they run before you in the streets to
beg. They cry out in the sweetest and
most plaintive of voices, touching the
stomach to signify hunger in a way that
would be awkward and vulgar in any
other being, but in them it is so win
some that before you know it you sacri-
fee q rupee to the bad cause of encour-
aging them in begging-knowiEg quite
we'll that all they want is a good eppor-
tunity to pick your pocket for mors.-
Outing,
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A BEAUTIFUL NEW SILK.
Blade by nCom1nunal Butterflies" but 1t
Cannot BE Spun Yet.

Cannot BE Spun Yet.
Some very remarkable bugs are being
patched and reared just ut present by
the experts of the government bureau OF
entomology at Washington. Most peo-
Pile would suppose that there were
enough insects i'll existence without re-
sorting to artificial propagation, but the
fact is that this kind of scientific work
has very useful purpose in view this,
too, notwithstanding the fact that tho
species selected for breeding are the
most pestiferous that can be found.
The bug hatchery, or "insectary, as
it is called, is brick building close by
the department of agriculture. In con-
Btruction it resembles greenhouse, the
upper part being of glass, SO as to admit
plenty of light for the insects. Its divid-
ed into two compartments, one OF which
is artifcially heated for the benefit OF
tropical and other species that require
warmth, while the other is cold. On
shelves all around the interior and on
the floor as we'll are glass jars and queer
glass sided boxes containing great va
riety of odd looking objects.
The objects i'll the glass jars are parts
of plants fruits, dried up vegetables,
pieces Of branches or roots, etc. One
does not SEQ any bugs at all, and the
reason why is simply that the vegeta-
bles, fruits and so forth are the natural
food of tho insects, and the latter are
either inside of them or else are "done
up" in cocoons for tho winter.
For example, there is huge cocoon
nine inches long hanging from twlg
in a jar of exceptional size. This IS tho
temporary communal dwelling built by
the so called "gregarious butterfly IN
Mexico. More correctly speaking, it is
the observation-disclosures later into
butterhies-that construct the cocoon
for residence while they are undergo
ing their metamorphosis. The cocoon
looks and feels as if made of thick
parchment, and at the lower end OF 1T
is small hole that serves for door.
The labor employed in building it
must be enormous Under q powerful
magnifying glass it is seen to be COM
posed of an infinite number Of shining
and very slender sillien threads, cross
ing each other in every direction When
cut into tho nest is found to contain
100 or more chrysalids, attached to the
walls on the inside-each one represent
ing future butterfly.
The habit of combining together to
build house seems to be peculiar to
this species among butterflies. The silk
composing the nest is exquisite, and
from 20 to 30 sheets of it can be strip
ped off from the great cocoon, looking
as if woven in loom. If the silk could
only be spun, the gregarious butterfly"
would soon displace the silkworm. and
tho silks and satins of commerce would
be of butterfly manufacture. Unfortu-
nately the difficulty remains unsolved,
though many attempts i'll this direction
have been made. Could a solution of
the problem be found, silk would be-
come at once enormously less costly, in
asmuch as the cocoons Of this kind OF
butterfly arc to be gathered in immense
numbers as a wild crop i'll the forests OF
Mexico. -Washington Letter ill Boston
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