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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-04-05

The world moves II is not so respec-
table as it was few years ago to be a
rascal. People are learning the lesson that
clean hands are desirable, both for personal
comfort and pleasant social intercourse.
They really seem to be learning that purity
pays, and that personal honor and incor-
ruptibleness are good investment. Rogues
and rings are having tough time of it,
and it is their own fault If the young and
ambitious men who are BOW coming upon
the stage Of action do not learn to place SO
high price upon themselves that neither
wealth nor power can buy them. The
rascalities Of the New York Ring are all
exposed, and the members of that Ring
have either run away, or are staggering
before public opinion and the law, disgrac-
ed and degraded men. Bribery in Con-
gress stands exposed and rebuked, while
names that were pure have received a
tarnish that can never be polished away.
Men who have held their heads high in
the nation, bow those heads in shame over
hands which are soiled beyond cleansing.
We call no names, but, scattered up and
down the land, greatreputations lie in ruins.
Men who had wealth which they stole, and
men who had positions which they bought,
and men who used their public Office to
push their private schemes, are thrown
high and dry out Of influence, and lie all
exposed upon the rocks of disgrace, where
they are sure to rot or 60 to pieces.
If the yourSs politicians of the country
will learn the lesson that the facts which
we have recounted are so well calculated
to teach, better times for the country lie
in the future. Personal advantage is a
mean motive to appeal to, where so vital a
question as personal purity is concerned,
but, as there is no danger to morals from
any other appeal, it is well to meet temp
tation on its own ground and fight it with
its own weapons. The lesson of the recent
exposures is really needed by none but
those who fancy that they can compass
their ends best by base means; and If these
shall learn from it that, in. the long run,
nothing pays so well in wealth and power
and safety and comfort as virtue, they viii
learn that which viii be of incalculable
benefit to them and to the country. No
money was ever won by trcachery to trust
that did not harm the winner. No power
was ever achieved by bribery or retained by
falsehood that did not scorch the palm Of
him who held it, The consciousness Of
ill-desert, the loss Of self.respect, the fear
Of exposure and the self-commitment to a
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-04-05

Passing into the ponderous jaws Of the
vault, we find ourselves surrounded on
every side by all the various kinds Of
money which the ingenuity of Congress
and Of successive secretaries of varying
views have devised Legal-tender notes,
hive per cent. notes, seyen-thirty notes,
national bank notes, gold notes, three per
cent. notes, fractional notes, and postage
currency confront us at every turn. The
compartments of the safe failing TO furnish
accommodations for them all, they are piled
up in great heaps on the floor, apparently
with no more care than potatoes or wheat.
And yet the value Of every pile and pack
age is known, and the slightest loss would
be speedily discovered. -Four hundred
millions Of dollars, the vault clerk informs
us, are contained in this vault. No won
der We exclaim, that the Treasurer feels
anxious for its safety. The sides of the
vault are divided into compartments, cubic
in form and Of convenient size. the door 10
each of which is numbered, so that its
contents can be registered in book, and
Is provided with fastening to which a
leaden seal can be affixed. A cubical
package, mearuring about nine inches in
each direction, is tossed to us with the
remark that it contains four million dol
lars in legal-tender notes. -Four million
dollars and to think that for one-hun-
dredth, nay, one-thousandth part Of the
value contained in this packet, which an
infant could hold in its hands, men have
toiled and delvcd through long years of
suffering and selfdenial, have robbed and
murdered, have committed every conceiva-
Bile wickedness, have endangered and sacri-
feed their lives and bartered their immor-
tai souls !--"AH Hour Amoag tie Green
backs" ,Scribaer's for April.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-04-05
The Calcutta Crane.

One distinguished visitor which honors
Calcutta with its presence only during the
rains is far too remarkable to be forgotten.
This is the adjutant, a gigantic crane, stan
ding about four feet high, with a large,
heavy body small head, huge bill, and
wings which are said sometimes to measure
twelve feet from tip to tip. A more un-
calmly and caricature-like bird probably
does not exist, but it is useful, like the
jackal and the crow, as a great deyourer
of refuse, and is said also to destroy rats
and snakes. 1t certainly swallows humps
of solid bone larger than a mans fist and
it comes freely about the houses and COM
pounds, perfectly qniet and harmless, but
the most quantity ugly creature living.
Its body is gray and black, its neck red
and bare, with curious Aeshy pouch dang
ling in front, and its huge beak the same
color, while its long legs have exactly the
appearance of being covered with white
stockings. Whether standing with its
head buried between its shoulders, setting
on the ground with its long white legs
stretched toward in the most awkward and
unbirdlike attitude, flying, perching, or
hanging itself out to dry when its great
black wings are saturated with rain, no
words can render justice to its extravagant
uncouthness,
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-04-05
Episcopalians.

care there any Episcopalians in this
vicinity, madame?" asked tall, thin
stranger, of Mrs. Artemus, as she stood in
the open door, in answer to his knock.
"Any which?r
"Episcopalians.'
Now, if Mrs. Artemus had failing it
was that she never would admit that she
could possibly be ignorant Of anything.
She always knew all about any subject
mentioned. So she answered:
"Episcopaliansl Well, we don't exact
ly know. My Johnnie my son--he see
somethin out'n the corn6eld Yesterday.
He didn't know what it was, but / told him
l guessed it was chipmonk. But now
you speak ont, I'll bet it was Episker-
palium. And my next neighbor, Farmer
Hawkins, said he shot at somethin' that
same day that John see his strange critter,
and Farmer Hawkins he thought 1t was
some wild critter that had got out of some
managery somewhere. Anyhow, / think
that's Episcopaling, too. Be they big
germ chipmonk ?"
"You misunderstood me, madame.
"Well, you needn't feel oneasy. Eff
there's any Piscopaliums in this here
neighborhood, you can make up yourmind
that they'll git shot, We air too feelin' a
community to let things run at large which
mout destroy and devour somebody. Come
in, won't ye?"
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-04-05
The Human Pulse.

The human pulse, in all ages of the
world, has been consulted as an index Of
health or disease. 1t is kind of dial
within us, which gives us both the meas.
ure of time and Of health. The pulse of a
person in health beats about seventy
strokes in minute, and the ordinary
term Of life is about seventy years. In
this seventy years, the pulse Of temper
ate person beats two billions, Ave hundred
and seventy millions, four hundred and
forty thousand times. If no actual disor.
ganization should happen, drunken per
son might live until his pulse beat this
number of times; but by the constant
stimulous Of ardent spirits, or by pulse
quickening food, the pulse becomes great
ly accelerated, and the two billions, five
hundred and seventy millions, four hun.
dred and forty thousand pulsations are
performed in little more than half the
ordinary term of human life, and life goes
out in forty or forty-fve years, instead Of
seventy. This application of numbers is
given to show that the acceleration Of
those forces diminishes the term of human
life.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-04-05
9ablif Affairs.
Party Virtue.

4
The vote in the House of Representa-,
tives at Washington, few weeks ago, BY
which that body refused the appointment
OF committee to prepare articles Of i'm.
parchment against the Vice-P President Of
the United States, was one Of the most
unpleasantly suggestive votes ever recorded
in this country. Either the Vice-Presi.
dent was evidently deserving Of so high a
proceeding against him, or he was not.
There was not a fact Of his case which was
not as well known to one member as another
There was not a member of that body, un-
less he had deliberately chosen to be igno-
rant, who had not come TO an intelligent
conclusion concerning the Vice President 8
guilt or innocence of the charges that had
been preferred against him. II was plain
question Of fact, on which an unbiased Jury
of ordinary intelligence could have had no
difficulty in coming to Just conclusion
yet one of the highest deliberatiye bodies
in the land voted upon it almost exclusive
ly according to party prejudices and afi-
liations. Half dozen republicans, whose
motives, at least, were open to suspicion
voted with the solid array of democratic
members against the Vice President, while
the republicans, as an overwhelming and
controlling majority, declared by their
vote that that officer had done nothing to
deserve the disgrace sought to be inflicted.
The country is thus left in doubt as to
the real merits Of the case, and knows no
more concerning them from this vote than
it would from the decision of a debating.
club of boys. One of these parties has
evidently lied, or borne false witness for
or against a man hitherto considered emf.
nent for his personal virtues
1t is sad to conclude that so high body
as the House Of Representatives is entirely
untrustworthy in its dealings with ques-
tion of public morality aud personal recti.
tude. The country may well ask, in view
of this vote eff they do these things in
the green tree, what will they do in the
dry?" If such vital questions as the in.
eorruptibleness and veracity Of one of the
heads of the government is to be settled BY
a party vote in the House of Representa-,
tbo who'll G,e,,a Woi1;. av ;n,os.;'e,; cuaue,n,ng
Indeed !, IL M, f,;r ] 10 ;na,,a Is,oh ,s.. .s; u
vest;cation wns @ ..nr, T ;oh '""; ; .ns ~,
exclTs;yolr sar noI;,;oa1P Nv, "e ,"'ue'
del;ghtfni .et Of mon | tSa.ap pt,poses ~ D y =
the moral standing of each other, when
| the guilt of doing it in accordance with
nartS ;n,orosts : hI.aIos ue .Lau '..,; m.'u
CHARGED char aca;nst anr S nna of .ham, .u a"y.n'"g
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-04-05
HOh, Harry
l,s1, her voice qaivered with emotion.


Her voice quivered with emotion.
why, Nettie y he exclaimed, irving
70 hide his tears-men are ashamed q
them--'is il your"
"fes, Harry" holding her face in he,
hands, Il was passing-I looked in saw
you sitting here so lonely, and could moi
help coming in. thought of the tims
when we were happy here, and"
Then her own womanly tears could h,
replressed no longer. There was no nae
trying to hide them, Besides, her voice
broke down and she could say no more
"Nett'e, he arose and took both hand.
from her face and held them in his own
u thought you had blotted me out of you,
memory" 'O''
NO, no, Harry, she sobbed, IL could
not do that. could not help leaving you
but | left, loving you more than = ever
oh, have been so unhappy p
"Nettie, you have heard that /"
Yes | have heard that YOU have
changed. That you do not drink any
ihore-that you are again manly and in.
austrious as you used to be; but how lone.
y you must be here ?" and tears gusbed
forth anew, as her heart felt what her lips
spoke. "f
"Yes, I'm lonely, Nettie-more SO than
You may think but deserve this punish.
ment for the way have acted. / had no
dlscontentments, had nothing to make me
DO 80. 1t was only passion for drink, that
!. seemed impossible for me to overcome.
lou were all wife should be or could be.
when you left me, thought should be-
come more reckless than ever. Only n
day or two after l had heard you had left
me for good, | was in town drunk, and
neard some village people--they thought
couldn't hear them across the street
passing all sorts of remarks about me- saw
ing now | was doomed man certain that
my destruction was near.
Although intoxicated it startled me.
and for the first time felt the full force
OF the separation and realized that ruin
stared me in the face, had n bottle in
my pocket at the time, and when | went
out Of town smashed it, and bathed nv
lace In a clear stream of water at the road.
side, and resolved never to touch whiskey
again. had tried it long enough to know
that could not drink and be temperate.
Il was hard to keep my resolve for the
hrst week or two, but | stood it, and soon
my taste for drink disappeared. | care
nothing for it now, and would not touch it
It 1t run in streams. Now, Nettie, if you
love me as well rs ever-and God knows
that love you the same, let us get mar.
rled over again, and the bitter experience
OF the past two years will always enhance
our happiness. Nettie, dear, what do YOU
ny?"
She could not answer she was CRYING
as If her heart would break, and her head
was pillowed upon his breast. 1t was a
more eloquent "Yes" than she could have
spoken with the tongue.
The moon was rising, and it had never
looked so happy as it did while he walked
home with Nettie to her fathers home.
So Harry Rodgers and Nettie Ray were
married again, and there's no divorce that
could separate them now.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-04-05

ECLIPSE AT THE TINE OF THE CRUor-
FIxIoN.--lt is curious coincidence that
the moon was eclipsed on the generally
received date Of our Saviour's cruifxion,
A, d. 80, April 3. The phenomenop,
however, could have had no influence on
the miraculous darkness that overshadowed
Jerusalem ''from the sixth TO the ninth
hour, when "the sun was darkened," Mr..
Hind has found that the moon chad emerg-
ed from the earth's dark shadow quarter
of an hour before she rose at Jerusalem
(6.36 p, NJ but the penumbra continued
upon her disc for an hour afterwards. y
The penumbra visible during a lunar eclipse
is exceedingly faint, being only a shadow
of the earth's dark shadow, and it can
scarcely be recognized by the naked eye.
It certainly could have added nothing to
the awful solemnity of the scene which had
just taken place Leisure Hour.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-04-05
#it mud Annlor.


An elderly darkey, with very philo-
sophical and retrospective cast Of counte.
nance, was squatting upon his bundle on
the hurricane deck Of one of the western
river steamers, toasting his shins against
the chimney, and apparently plunged IN
state Of profound meditation. His dress
and appearance indicated familiarity with
camp life, and it being soon after the siege
and capture of Fort Donelson, was in
clined to disturb his reyeries, and on inter
rogation found that he had been with the
Union forces at that place, when / ques-
TONED him further. His philosophy was
so much in the Falstaflian vein that / win
give his views in his own words as near as
my memory serves me:
"Were you in the ight?"
~ had little taste Of il. sah.'
"Stood your ground, did you2"
"No, sab, | runs
''Run at the first fire, did you ?n
"Yes, sab, and would have run sooner
had | know'd it was comm
"Why, that wasn't very creditable TO
your courage"
"Dat isn't in my liae, sah--cookin's my
profession
swell, but have you no regard for your
reputation
Reputation muffin to me by de side OBJ
life"
@DO you consider your life worth more
than other peoples ?"
"lt's wuth more to me, sab.
"Then you must value II highly
"Yes, sab, | docs; more dan all dis
world more dan million Of dollars, sab
for what would dat be wuth to a man wild
de bref out of him? Self-preservation
am de fust law wild me, sab"
"But why should you act on different
rule from other men 2"
Cause, sab, different men sots different
value upon derselves; my life is not in de
market"
But If you lost it you would have the sat
isfaction of knowing that you died for your
country"
"Dat wouldn't do me any good, sah."
"Then patriotism and honor are nothing
to you?"
Muffin whatever, sah-I regard dem
as among de vanities.p
''lf our soldiers were like you, traitors
might have broken up the government
without resistance"
"Yes, sab, dere would have been no help
for il. | wouldn't put my life in de scales
against any guberment dat ever existed,
for no guberment could replace de loss 10
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-04-05
American Antiquities.

In the remote parts of Arizona it is said
that well-preserved and extensive ruins
have been found which indicate the former
existence Of populous cities. From an ac.
count of these by Colonel Roberts in the
Builder we quote the following descrip-
tions: 1T is surrounded by wall Of
sandstone neatly quarried and dressed, 10
feet or IL feet thick, and originally, iudg-
ing from the detritus, 10 feet or 20 feet
high. Within are the walls of houses.
temples, and markets, all of solid stone and
showing excellent masonry. These walls
are covered with hieroglyphics, cut deeply
into the stone. The whole of the ruins.
like most of those of the Orient, and more
especially those of Arabia and Assyria,
are more or less buried in sand. Accord,
ing to the account, this city is some 80
miles from the boundary between Utah
and Arizona, and an equal distance from
the Western Colorado line. 1t is close to
the desert, and is surrounded BY extensive
sandy plains. "-Scrbaer's for Apri7
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-04-05
The Fever Tree.

In late number of the Gazetta Mediea
de Bahia is an interesting account of the
Eucalyptus Globulus, an immense tree in.
troduced into various provinces of Brazil
from Australia, and called, as in Spain, the
fever tree, from its "marvelous results in
the treatment ofintermittent feyers,' The
tree is colossal, sometimes attaining height
Of 300 feet, and a diametiror of 30 feet
All parts are aromatic, less so in the trunk
and bark, more so in the small roots, flowers
and leaves. 1t is a Comparatively new
medicine, and is given internally for inter
mittent fever, in doses of from one to four
drachms of the powdered leaves.twice
during the intermissions--or in infusions
two drachms in four ounces ofboiling wa.
terl, morning and evening. Aqueous and
slcoboIic extracts, in doses from two to
eight grains, are also used for the same
disease
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-04-05
REFUSING THE INcnEAsr or SALARY

REFUSING THE INCREASE OF SALARY.
The Tribune states that all Of the mem
bers Of Congress from Connecticut have
notified Sergeant-at-arms 0rway that they
do not wish him to draw the sums due
them out of the famous salary steal" as
Il is their intention not to take the money.
This officer has also received other notif.
cations Of like character from members
whose names will be kept secret, and Ii,
says other members have drawn the money
and deposited it in the County Treasury b
their county, to be applied in the payment
OF taxes. About thirty members win take
this course, and keepthe fact TO themselves
for the present.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-04-05

Artemus Ward once lent money. He
thus recounts the transaction: "a gen
tleman friend Of mine came to me with
tears in his eyes. l said, aWhy these
weeps" He said he had mortgage on
his farm, and wanted to borrow $500. /
lent him the money and he went away.
Some time after he returned with more
tears. He said he must leave me forever.
| ventured to remind him Of the $500 he
borrowed. He was much cut up; |
thought | would not be hard upon him
so told him would throw off 500. He
frightened, shook my hand, and said /:
"0ld friend, | won't allow you to outdo
me in liberality-Tll throw off the other
hundred !"
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Select goetrg.
FROM "Raradise and the Peril
SYRIA


Now, upon Syria's land Of roses
Nv the light Of eve reposes,
b, like a glory, the broad sun
|.Ags over sainted Lebanon;
cse head in wintry grandeur towers,
nd whitens with eternal sleet,
|hile summer, in vale Of flowers,
sleeping rosy at his feet.
one who looked from upper air
In all the enchanted regions there,
N beauteous must have been the glow,
L life, how sparkling below
n gardens, shining streams, with ranks
4 golden melons on their banks,
BIC golden where the sunlight falls;-
IN lizards, gliltering on the walls
fruined shrines, busy and bright
4 they were all alive with light;
hd, yet more splendid, numerous flocks
/ pigeons, settling on the rocks,
tth their rich restless wings, that CLEAN
hriously in the crimson beam
4 the warm west,-as if inlaid
|ith brilliants from the mine, or made
i fearless rainbows, such as span
be unclouded skies Of Peristani
hd then, the mingling sounds that come,
i shepherds ancient reed, with hum
i the wild bees Of Palestine,
Banqueting through the howery wales =
nd, Jordan, those sweet banks Of thine.
And woods, so full of nightingales
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-04-05

1t is more than one hundred years since
the Spaniards settled in New Mexico and
introduced the practice ofterace irrigation.
In the valley of San Antonia, Western
Texas, the same system of watering land
was commenced In 171s, and perfected in
l74O, or 1873 years ago. Preston, the his.
torian, describes, or rather notices, irriga.
ting canals in Mexico 800 miles in length,
constructed by the unknown or more civ.
ilized people Of this continent, who pre-
ceded the Indians found by Columbus.
Our industrial development has not reach.
ed the point of digging canals 500 miles
long to manure cultivated and impoyer-
ished fields; but We are rapidly fastening
to that necessary work
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-04-05

Prof Agassiz has applied 70 the Massa-
chusetts Legislature for State aid to his
Museum Of Comparative Zoology, one Of
the most valuable in the world A plan
has been organized and the means 10
great extend provided, for a school of IN.
struction for natnralists and. the professors
Of natural science IN schools and colleges.
10 be carried on with All necessary appli.
ances, on The Nantucket coast, under the
supervision, in each department. 81 nan
hohssc made these studies their specially.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-04-05

BALDNEss.-For every ten women who
are bald, there are at least fifty men. And
whyy Pomades, that clog tho pores Of
the skin; hair dyes, that scorch the roots
of the hair; close hats, that allow no cir
culationi dyspepsia, and brain that is
quicker to respond to "whiskey punch,
or brandy smash, than to any intellec-
tive brain exertion"--that's s the indictment.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-04-05

A few days since seedy person applied
TO wealthy citizen for help and received
the small sum Of five cents. The giver
remarked as he handed him the pittancc !:
Take i, you are welcome our ears are
always open to the distressed aThat
may be" replied the recipient, s'but never
before in my life have | seen 50 small an
opening for such large ears
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-04-05

Time wears slippers of list, and hi
,,o.d i poiseless. The days come softly
Sswping, one after another; they creep
n a t6e window; their fresh morning
i, = !. grateful to the lips that part to i
their music Is sweet to the ears that us
,oa ,u,, 10 il; until, before we know il, .
wbole :, life of days has possession OF the
citadel, and time has taken US for its own
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-04-05

A lady who was in the habit Of spend.
ing large portion of her time in the 90
ciety of her neighbors, happened one day
to be taken i'll, and sent her husband IN
great haste for a physician. The husband
ran few yards, but suddenly turned back,
exclaiming, sMy dear, where shall | find
you when l come back r.