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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-11-22
GIle Sarnler.



We find the following account Of the
management and net profits Of farm Of
go acres, in the Middlstovn Transcript.
and from the initials at the bottom Of Il,
we suppose It to be from the pen Of Hon.
B. 4 Biggs, Of New Castle county, Della
ware, who owns farm and very fine
fruit-tree nursery in the vicinity Of DR..
Cranes property. We should like to learn
Of Mr. Biggs the cost Of his Milliugton
farm and the proceeds of it since it has
been in hispcssession. If we mistake not
he can show as favorable an exhibit as he
has shown for DR.. Crane. We publish
statements Of this character for the en-
couragement Of practical farmers of Carroll:
Nh. EDITOR While the cry Of ahard
times is heard everywhere, produced BY
what is called apanic," desire by this
communication to show the benefits and
profits ACQUIRING from small farm located
in Queen Anne's county and State Of Ma
ryland, near Milliugton, and on the line
Of the Queen Anne's and Kent county
railroad, when properly, intelugently and
economically managed.
DIR. Thomas II. Crane, about seven years
ago, purchased farm Of sixty acres IN the
county above named at cost Of fifty dol
lars per acre. The land is all arabic, but
was very poor when the Doctor bought il.
He planted out peach, pear and apple trees
together with grapes and small fruits
A few days ago he gave me the net re-
ceipts, this year, from this small farm, and
if our farmers would turn their attention
more to fruit raising, and abandon the
practice, to great extent, Of grain grow
ing, and buy less Of the many humbug
fertilizers, and stop paying out such large
sums of money for life insurance, they
would, as class, be the most independent
of al, as the following successful farming
will show, from sixty acre farm:
M e. r.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-11-22

the manufactured s'auperp phoaphatess yiess
phosphorie acid, lime. and suIphgrio aeia
and Lime is abundanily presented to Us as
burnt lime, marine shell, ealcarsous masl,
tuta, etc. Magnesia, also constant eon.
stituept Of plants, has been, like potash, .
good deal neglected, though coming in in.
cidentally with lime IN several Of its forms.
Except as wood asAes, snd In this con
ditiOn but sparingIy, potash can hardly Be
said. until lately to have been included in
the list Of fertilizing materials, though Il
occurs, and in relatively good proportion,
in the article Of that most valuable Of ali
fertilizers, properly saved stable manure.
The obvious reason has been that the
commercial price Of potash was too high
it was practically unattainable upon scale
commensurate with the demands Of the
world.
The discovery Of very large beds Of
mineral salts Of potash over-lying rock-aalt,
at stassfurt, in Prussia, hasgreatly chang
ed this state Of affairs, and nov, aftera few
years of working these deposits, potash,
though still valuable substance, has be-
come accessible to the farmer as wen as
the manufacturer on much larger scale,
and at much reduced prices.
The leading idea to be bornc In mind
is that these potash salts are not or them
selves all-suficient and independent ma.
nures--as not rivals Of bone dust, plaster,
lime, or fertilizers yielding ammonia--but
are simply most valuable additions to these,
supplying that which they DO not contain
and cannot be made 70 yield
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result of your own advice, am not to
blame. You must excuse me, Mr.. Ray,
am going to ride with Count de Beaure-
paire."
And with her sweetest, hollowest smile,
she made a graceful gesture of adieu, and
left him sick at heart, puzzled and dis
gusted.
That afternoon, as Laura and Mary were
about dressing for the evening, Lennox
walked, unannouced, into Laura's little
parlor where they sat alone.
al thought I'd drop in and say good
bye before you went down stairs, said he.
" | leave for London tonight"
Laura elevated her eyebrows little.
Sudden, isn't it2 But since you arc
going | will give you some commissions. 4"
"You needn't / shall only stay in
town for day
Indeed Where are you going2"
"0h, l don't know" was the savage
reply.
Laura gave him look Of cool surprise.
At least you will take a note to George
for me-"
eyes, if you get it ready" said he un-
graciously.
"Very well | will write it now"
Laura went to her room, Lennox stood
moodily at a window. Presently Mary,
who had not spoken one word, came and
stood near him.
Are you really going away?" she asked.
Yes, am" was the short answer.
"And won't you tell me where p
~ don't know myself-neither know
nor care" he growled.
She slipped her hand into his arm with
the old caressing movement he remember
ed so well, and spoke so gently, using his
name for the first time since he came.
But, Lenuox dear, if you go away off
somewhere, what shall l do?"
He turned suddenly and caught her to
his heart.
"Oh, Mary, Mary" cried he passion
ately, " if you would only come back to
me and love me; If l could recover my
lost treasure l would not go anywhere.
Oh, my lost love, is it too late ?"
She laid her face down against his shoul-
der and asked
Lennox, dear, tell me which you love
best, the Mary you used to know, or the
fashionable young lady you found here ?"
"Oh, Mary darlingl" he cried, clasping
her closer, | wouldn't give one precious
toss of your old brown curls for all the
fashionable young ladies in the world.
wouldn't give one careless ring of your
merry laugh for all the polished ladies in
society. | wouldn't"
Mary laid her arms caressingly around
his neck, and said softly, "Then | think
you will have to take your old Mary back
again, and pet her and love her as you
used to do, for am sick and tired of the
fashionable young lady as you can be,
Lennox, dear"
And Lennox, passionately clasped her
to him, begged to be forgiven, and vowed
he would not exchange his precious little
wild rose for all the hot-house flowers in
Christendom.
laura y Lennox called, tapping on
Laura's door little later.
" You needn't write your note Ishan't
60 to town to night"
" Lennox, never saw such fellow for
fancies, cried Laura Are you crazy?"
"No, | have been, but I'm coming to
my senses" said Lennox.
Lennox and Mary have been sedate
married people many years, but l never
heard that Lennox complained in the least
Of his wife's want Of conventionality, or
even wished to pursue the acquaintance
Of the fashionable lady whom he met at
Scarborough.
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American Bellies and Foreign Bsaux.

The young American girls who marry
foreign nobility, usually get an amount Of
good advice from the American press that
it is pity is lost. Apropos of a late mar
riage the Boston Journcl says, and it is
the customary thing:
The fact is that so few Of these mixed
alliances have been fortunate, so far as
mutual happiness goes, that people may
well wonder when they find parties so ven-
turesome as to encounter the risk of such
a union. You see, as rule, the noblemen
who wed the American bellies do SO for a
consideration, and as this is somewhat at
variance with our manners and customs,
we mutually are astonished to find girls
willing to make such barter, and parents
so weak as to allow of such sacrifice.
These European titled young men are. for
the most part dissipated, reckless young
fellows, over head and ears in debt, who
count upon such marriage to get square
and have afresh start. Surely the American
girl must be well aware of all this. and il
must be their pride, and not their reason,
which obtains the mastery when they con-
sent to give up all that which true-heart-
ed woman desires, merely that they may
have a title. Be Mime. la Comtesse or
Baronne, and for that much qualification
be the wife Of a scapegrace, spendthrift,
who sells his title. OF course do not
wish to intimate that the late wedding took
place under such circumstances. l do not
know any Of the parties, and merely re-
feet generally upon marriages Of the kind
which have taken place already with such
deplorablc results. In fact, am simply
repeating the comments / have been list
ening to lately upon the above subject.
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Selrtt 4uetrp,
From the Macon Telegraph.
Au,umn,-A Practical View of the Question.

ny A. r. WATSON.
Nita, sitting in this cleaning,
Do you feel that winters coming?
See the sky
Wears the dull hues of October,
Aud the trees, they're very sober
30 am !.
Gone the lark is from the meadow.
And there falls longer shadow
From the hills;
Gone the plaintiye whip.poor-will is
Know you where that quinine pill is
For my chills7
From the marsh have gone the lilies,
And the steep side of the hill is
Very bare.
Nita, It's the mid of Autumn,
And those woolens-have you bought EN-
They were dear.
In the hickory sits the squirrel
Where there's not leaf to stir; he'll
Shortly go.
But there's comfort forus, Nita,
For the diligent Mosquito
Slngeth low.
There's dullsh glow this even
Yonder where the earth and heaven
Seem TO join,
When the day is nigh-o' ertaken--
And we turn from lamb to bacon
When we dine.
Weary winds, with solemn moaning,
Like dying soul are groaning
Through the trees,
Waking saddest thought Of physic,
Lest the baby may have phthisic-
Hear him wheezel
But, what though the winds are wailingl
And this Autumn scene is failing
In its glow
There's happy thought comes upper
That the bell has rung for supper!
Let us go.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-11-22

One IF the technical Journals says -
Every farmer who has had occasion TO
drive nail into seasoned oak posts knows
its liability 70 bend and break. IF the
point be moistened in the mouth it viii
usually drive more kindly. Oh Is still
better, but then it Is inconyenient to dip
each nail separately into IT, Another
point observed is that boards become loose
eventually from the rusting Of the nails,
which, communicating to the wood, causes
not only an enlargement Of the nail hole,
but the wearing away Of the nail itself, rem
dering the fence or the building shaky and
insecure. This may be prevented by heat
ing any rough grease until it smokes and
then pouring it over tbe nails to be used.
The grease win penetrate the pores Of the
iron, and cause the nails TO last, without
rusting, an indefinite period Besides
this no trouble win then be experiencedi in
driving them into the hardest wood. The
reason is that the coating Of grease pre-
vents contact by air, and consequently
oxidation. Oxygen Is the great destroyer
Of iron, andmoisture is the inducing cause.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-11-22

care you very fond of novels, Mr..
Jones n ''very," responded that inter
rogated gentleman, who wished to be
thought by the lady questioner fond Of
literature. aHave YOU" continued the
lady, sever read Ten Thousand Year r
No madam, ! never read that number in
all my life.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-11-22

A new version Of aOld Uncle Ned has
become popular in the suburbs. It runs
something as follows 1Then pull up the
wicket and the stake, and put by the nal
let and the ball; for no more croquet n
be played this year; its getting too late in
the fall
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-11-22

The Boston Transcripts states that a
merchant of that city relates the following
conversation between two bell-boys at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York:
Pat asks Mike, whats this suspension
Of the banks?"
"Hist ye r Mike replies. "I'll tell ye.
Suppose ye have Eve cents"
"Yis."
"Leavs it wild me.
"Yis."
"Next day ye want it, and ye ak me
for it."
aYis."
Il tell ye, no, sir, I've used it meself." I"
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-11-22

When your pocketbook gets empty, and
every body knows il, you can put all your
friends in i, and il win not sbulgo out
worth cent
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-11-22

From Denver comes the story Of a stam-
pede Of bufaloes so remarkable that il
might furnish good subject for the pen
Gil Of Mr., w. H. Beard, the painter Of the
remarkable picture entitled "Rainiag Cats
and Dogs" Out on the plains party Of
hunters chased a large herd Of buifaloes to
the verge Of precipice, over which some
sixty or seventy Of the frightened beasts
plunged and were killed by the fall, the
precipice being about seventy.ive feet high.
Such shower Of buffaloes as that could
never have entered into the widest dreams
Of the Weather Bureau.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-11-22

Often do we think when We ought to
act. and act when Il bchooves us to reflect
hence caution Is frequently As fatal a.
rashness.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-11-22

If you are too fat and would like 10 fall
of--mount vicious horse
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DIAMONDS AT THE CARE or Coon
HoPE.-The diamonds at the Cape Of
Good Hope, in South Africa, differ from
those found in other parts Of the world, Ii
is said, by not having q crust which has
to be removed before the stone is disclosed.
Moreover, the Cape diamonds when dug
up are as regular in form as il cut BY art,
and they are all more or less polished,
whereas the diamonds Of India and Brazil
are shapeless and dull. Another curious
thing about these Cape or African dia-
monds is that the finest Of them have
marks upon them like the masonic signs.
The diamonds lie hundred feet or more
below the surface of the earth, and pits
are dug from which men send up bucket
full after bucketfnll Of earth to be searched
for the precious stones Thus far about
e25, 1000, 900 Of diamonds have been found
q the Cape, but, after al, most Of the
diamond-hunters have worked hard for
little profit To dig ID The ground and
plant corn pays better, as a rule, than
70 dig for gold and gems.
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"DIED OF DIPrHERIA. Under this
caption writer in the Williamsport (Pa.)
Sun, says :--"This announcement meets
our eye in the newspapers. There is no
necessity Of death resulting from either
diptheria or Group, especially with the
young, If the proper preventive is applied
in time, and it is at the service Of every
mother and nurse in the whole country.
Il is simply TO spread common Tar on a
muslin strip, as you would prepare plas-
ter, and wrap It around the neck and glands
Of the patient Renew and supply fresh
Tar on the neck of the child, once or twice
a day, and its life is assured
The writer Of the above prescription
has twice, in the Providence Of God, saved
the life of his youngest son, by the appIi-
cation of Tar alone, after be was given up
by the Physicians, and he is to-day here,
a living monument Of its power and eff
cacy.
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eea Aso...'..'...s.'..-'...--..... %<,oso oU
Clear profits from the sixty acres, two
thousand, eight hundred and nine-fve
dollars and fifty cents, or within one hun
and niuety-fve dollars of the Original cost
Of the farm. Now when land can be made
to produce such enormous profits, why not
invest in it?
Instead of running after bogus stocks,
and rushing to the city, stick 70 the farm,
young man, and follow the example Of DR..
Crane (learned as he is in his profession, }
buy your land contiguous to railroad,
plant out fruit trees and small fruits, and
instead of our farmers crying s'hard times
and being borrowers, they win soon be
found seeking place for their surplus
capital. B. 7. B.
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H-41 = N" U The Tim FUH 1910;
One man, who resides in the
farm house, rent free, cash $140 90
Cash for one boy, months 36 90
These two laborers have all
bread, meat and vegeta-
bles raised on the farm.
Cash for day laborers........ los 90
Taxes for the year lS73...- % 90
-- s0s 90
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.,,nce,s pierre BOnaparte.

T(.,s iady is sketched as follows by a
PIE .,ep6rter: Prince Pierre Bona
nartes | all -enee st Napoleon ILL., fune-
raj was remar.k .ked, and i was supposed
hat recollection O. the draNs q Auteuil
= I'd of the embarrassnents this event
o. .; ,sed the empire had leu hlm 10 keep
owal,, This was mistake. Frlnee
p;o.,, l1onaparte was merely kept IN
Rair;nm h violent attack Of rheuma-
Ism The English climate does not
s,,;t him and ne has taken up his abode
near Iiege CBe 'gium) where his wife
goes once a mon,'d to see him. Their
Children accompany her. Princess
Pierre Bouaparie did not iail 70 20 70
Camden House, as it was her duty. she
was received with the estssm and re-
speet the members and frieuds OF the
imperial family have always shown her.
even those among them who have never
forgiven her for having preferred a trade
to pecuniary embarrassmen ne I'm
neror's death has left without fortune
those of his family who held neither
Office nor dignity during his reign, for
Nanoleon III. abandoned in the name oi
his family all the estate OF the Bona
nar,es ks Prince Pierre bad only the
500 600 annually allowed HIM by. the
EMPEROR. be had after the an OF
September only the savings ne
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was able 10 lay out Of this annual allow.
ance. These savings barely suffice for
the education of his children. IL was
this poverty which led the Princess to
open at London n large mantua-maker's
shop. She rented No. 81 New Bond
street, and had hard time OF il at first.
The name-M me p. N. Bonaparte-she
had painted on her shops inner door
wounded many peoples vanity and
made her many enemies. At last, how.
ever, they became convinced the step
she had taken was not a piece of eecen-
tricity, still less n scandal but taken
out OF sheer necessity; that she was sim
ply an honest woman, who remembering
her laborious youth had again become
working woman from maternal love.
She is surrounded in New Bond street
by some twenty seamstresses, nearly all
French girls, who adore her. She does
not regret the grandeur she has passed
without pride. She has no care other
than TO earn for her children something
Of that fortune she, no more than her
husband, tried to acquire during the
twenty years when she might easily
have done so. Her day ended she goes
10 her private residence in Park Lane,
where she meets her children-Roland,
a handsome, tall lad of fourteen, who
soon will be a man, and little Princess
Jeanne, one OF the most ideal specimens
of iniantine grace and beauty.
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American Hotels.

Here is what Thomas Cook, the tour,
ist, writes TO the London Times about
our hotels: 1--WE have given fair trial
to the hotel and refreshment-room ar.
rangements between New York and San
Francisco, and for various reasons give
the preference to American hotels over
those Of other countries. The prices
paid have varied from 81 to 81 so day
at the Grand Central New York; the
International, Niagara; the Russell, De-
troit; the Sherman, Chicago; the Walker,
Salt Lake City; and the Grand, San
Francisco. The supplies of food at all
these houses were simply enormous, and
our greatest difficulty has been to select
what to eat and what to avoid from bills
of fare showing from fifty to one hun
dred varieties. The American plan is
to order about a dozen dishes of fish,
meats, vegetables, pastry, etc. A small
portion is eaten from each dish, and the
leavings go-no outsider can tell
where. This service is repeated at least
three times day; besides which sup
plement can be had in the shape of tea
or coffee, cake, fruit, etc, for supper.
But the best feature of the American
hotel table is that relating to drinks. On
every table large jugs of iced water are
placed, and tea and coffee can be had
with every meal; but though the bill of
fare generally has wine list printed on
the back, there is no positive obligation
to drink, and custom does not sanction
the habit of taking wine and strong
drinks with meals. The bar is quite a
separate arrangement of the hotel and
frequently in the hands of another pro-
prietor. Americans, if they drink at all,
frequently take drink at the bar
counter before they go into the dining
saloon; but the dinner-table is free from
that slavery snd'exaction often seen and
felt at English tables, where some old
heavy wet manages to get in the chair,
calls for wine, and holds all responsible
for payment of equal shares; and if any
one dares to object he is regarded as
mean and exceptional. | saw at the
dinner of the Grand Central Hotel, New
York, about two hundred ladies and gen-
tlemen seated at tables, and | could only
see a single glass containing beer, and
not bottle of wine. l asked an intelli-
gent waiter what was thought of such
exceptional drinkers. He replied They
are either English or come from the
South. The young lady who had that
odd glass Of beer had an English face,
and she did not continue long at the
table. The same general absence of
strong drink characterized all the hotels
we visited, and felt that it must be a
great relief to strange travellers to be
freed from the feeling of obligation to
drink for the good Of the house, or to
avoid the trouble of being exceptional,
Those who think they cannot live with
out can get the drink, though in its
use they constitute the exceptions. The
Americans are free from the slavery of
the drinking customs of the table.
heard an English gentleman ask an Off
Ger of this steamer to drink wine with
him, and the reply was, | never drink
wine at the table.
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The following figures show the extreme
summer heat in the various countries of
the world Bengal and the African des-
ert, 1902 Fahrenheit; Senegal and Quad
aloppe, 1905 Persia, 1889; Calcutta aud
Central America, 1909; Affghanistan
and the African deserts, llO0; Cape of
Good Hope and Utah, 1862; Greece,
l04s; Arabia, 1882 Montreal, lO3; New
York, 1922; Spain, India, China and
Jamaica, 1902; Sierra Leone, 90;
France, Denmark, st. Petersburg,
Shanghai, the Burman empire, Buenos
Ayres and the Sandwich Islands, 800;
Great Britain, Siam and Peru, $50; Por-
tugal, Pekin and Natal, S00; Siberia, 10;
Australia and Scotland, 75'; Italy, Ven
eguela and Madeira, 19'j Prussia and
New Zealand, ZOE; Switzerland and
Hungary, 669; Bavaria, Sweden, Tasma-
MIA and Moscow, Csc; Patagonia and
the Falkland Isles, 550; Iceland, 45o;
and Nova Zembla, eoldest of all, $40.
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NOTICE
10
ADVERTISERS

GRIFFIN & HOFFMAN. OFBALTINoRE.
Maryland. have no authority 10 contract for
advertisements for the PUHLic LEDsER. We
have tried them. and end 50 much difficulty
in retting money out ef them that in future
can receive no more orders from that frm;
bat would Be pleased to receive the orders
direct from psrties Who would like 70 advertise
in the LrDsrz through then. 20
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fresh and in rood condition. daily.
Fish dressed for immediste use kepf con
sfanfly on hand. and dressed 10 order without
extra charge. orders for dressing chos en- ls1
must be lefi before u o-cleCk ~
li6-rri-ls ". r. C0MsIOCK a CO.