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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-03-22
The Date Harvest.

Only the female trees bear fruit and
this only when they are impregnated with
dust from the males, which is consequent
ly done artifcially. The male palms are
often tied up and blanched to be cut for
the Palm Sunday festivals, and they are
also sold to be stuck up in balconies as a
protection against lightning, being consid-
cred quite as efficacious and being certain
ly much cheaper than an iron conductor,
$4,000 worth are sold annually in Elcho
for this purpose, and fl4,O0O worth Of
dates. The latter were being gathered
during our visit january by the clever
horietaaos, who climb the branchless trunks
like cats, rope being passed round il
and their waists, upon which they rest
thsir whole wsight in horizontal position
lowering their baskets when filed and
raising them again by pully. The de-
fective palm leaves are sent to the manu-
factories and used as cigarettes, By the
roadside, before every cottage door, are
quantities Of dates in baskets, no one watch
ing them any passer-by may eat as many
as he likes, gil his pockets, and leave his
halfpenny in payment. 1t is generally
left, for where Spaniards are trusted they
scarcely eser abuse a trust When we
walked in the groves the hospitable peas
ants were only too anxious to load us with
the best branches Of the fruit, and would
accept no payment at ALL Wandeniags
IN Spain
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-03-22
Parental Influence.

The Philadelphia Ledger has some
excellent comments on the duties Of
parents to their children. 1t closes its
article as follows:
There are not only faults to be correc-
ted, but positive virtues to be inculcated,
if we would train our children to gil
worthily their places in the world. There
are some parents whose main effort is to
keep their children innocent They guard
them from every temptation, keep them
from evil company, suffer them to see and
to know only one side of life, and thus de-
velop sort of hot-house growth Of good
ness that may be beautiful to look at in
childhood, but that will never serve them
in the rough winds and storms of tempta-
tion and trial that await them in the open
field Of life Innocence is not virtue
and those who fancy that it is make fatal
mistake. Innocence is simply the igno-
rance Of evil virtue knows it, appreciates
it, rejects it.
Infancy lovely in its innocence, but life,
with its stern realities, demands the strong,
ripened vigor of manly virtue, to resist
its evil, to protect its good, and to build
up character, and to bless the world. So
all moral education, to fulfill its true work,
must lead the innocent child up to virtue
by instilling the positive love Of truth and
justice, honor and integrity into the heart,
not by shielding him from every tempta-
tion, but by preparing him to meet il; not
by hiding from him all knowledge of
wrong, but by inspiring him with love
of right and resolute purpose Of following
it. Parents only can do this work. They
may and do have many efficient helps in
Sunday schools, teachers, friends, books,
&c. and they do well to claim and welcome
such aid, but If they rely on it to accom-
plish everything, if they think to transfer
their own responsibility in this matter to
any other hands, they infict an irreparable
injury upon their offspring and SOW seeds
Of misery for their own old age.
But if parental duties are onerous, and
theresponsibilities momentous, the rewards
are sacred and priceless. Who that has
wisely and lovingly trained up sons or
daughters to manhood or womanwood, and
bcheld then, one by one, take honorable
and useful places in the world, and has
received the respeor and love, the conf
dence and sympathy that is gladly rendered
by ilial affection, does not feel thousand
fold repaid for every effort, for every self
denial he has made in their behalf? Not
for thousands Of gold and silver would he
part from these sacred joys. They cheer
his declining years, they soothe every trial,
they brighten every dark passage of his
life. Let then, every father and every
mother take new and more solemn, yet
inspiring view of duties so emphatic, of
responsibilities so weighty, of encourage
ments so cheering. To family life is our
country looking for a new generation of
brave and noble citizens; upon it is she
depending for her stability and prosperity.
Let us each do our part, and she will not
be Disappointed.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-03-22
why Men Don't Marry.

Rev. Henry Morgan lectured in Boston
on aWhy men don't marry" His head.
ings were these Men don'tmarry--frst,
because they can't they can't get the one
they want; bachelors have high notions.
Second Because many Of them are COW.
ards, they dare not face the music; they
dodge the question. Thirdly-Beeause
they are skeptieal they have no faith in
woman; think marriage lottery. Fourth
They are selfish; they cannot yield for
anothen' good can't support a family
want the sweets oflife without bearing lis
burdens. Fifth--Womaus extravaganza,
Here the speaker showed the true cause for
mans hesitating- expensive living and
extasagant dress. Girls, the young men
are afraid Of your extnvagance. That's
the secret.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-03-22
A Good Act,

The act for the suppression of obscene
literature, which was passed BY the AID
Congress, if carried into execution, will
prove of incstimable benefit to the morality
Of the community at large; but laws, like
pie-crust, are SO frequently made but to be
broken, that we can hardly hope for as
good results as might be expected. The
act, to be sure, covers ample ground, the
penalties for its violation are distinctly
stated, and il but remains TO be seen
whether there viii be sufficient force in
our public prosecutors to carry it out. If
they do, two lucrative advertising columns
Of a certain morning journal viii have to
be discontinued; for, certainly, the s'Per-
sonals,n and Medical advertisements
come most distinctly under section l4S Of
the act, which says TINT there shall not
pass through the mail nor be delivered
"any advertisement or notice Of any kind
giving information, directly nr indirectly,
where, or how, or nf whom, or by what
means either Of the things above mentioned
may be obtained or made that is to say,
obscene, lewd or lascivious book, pamphlet,
picture, paper, print or other publication Of
an indecent character, or any article or
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-03-22

The comet Of Biela was first recognized
in l772, and rediscovered BY Biela, in
1926. During its visit in 1886 It was
noticed that it had undergone division,
and was separated into two portions which
were gradually receding from each other,
and at the time Of its disappearance they
we're about l57, 900 miles apart.
On the next reappearance, in 1852, the
space between the two points had increased
to $4,000 miles The parts were Of
nearly equal brilliancy and moved side BY
side, the interval between them gradually
increasing until they disappeared.
Though carefully searched for in 1853
and 1866, the comet failed 70 make its
appearance but Mr. Hind expected that
Il would make its approach TO the earth h
the latter part Of 1872, and is positions
for successive nights were calculated and
foretold to assist in its detection, but with
the same want Of success % On previous
occasions.
The comet having disappeared, i i
found BY the directors Of The observatories
At vienna ana Copenhagen that IT, orbit
j. marked By considerable meteor stream,
and It becomes matter Of tho greatest
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-03-22

ciple behind them, and were not adopted
for frivolous reasons.
The investigations now in progress
among Oriental scholars and others, viii
bring to light many things which have
appeared enigmatieal. Certainly they
show up heathenism in far different lights
from what we have been accustomed to
see. If these learned studies should
paganize christendom, would it not be a
Gair return for the endeayors of our religi-
Gus bodies to christianize heathendom I?
Buddhism, which half fmankind still believe,
Brahmanism, Magianism and Judaism have
done more than is supposed to shape the
views of the Western countries.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-03-22
THE LADY,s YES.
-
ny ELIzABErH nAaRErr nRowkISe.

-
lesl ! answered you last night
NOT TINS morning, SIR, say
VIII not look the same by day.
-,
"hen 'ne .aoorS played their best
Lamps aoove ana laughs below
Fit for yes or iit for no.
Nall me ia'se OF cal me iree,
VOW Whatever hight may shine
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-03-22
COLOGNE watsr.

IL loa l.aor s.;d fh.t fti..s.f,. 4V.t.. :.
amonr nere,m.s what .be diamond !.
amon, rre,;o,,s .,o,,o. e. .,,,;l. IN o.,,a,
perfnmes are sub;ect ~ Tho sek,a ,.banso.
az e,sh;on one as,nt tl,e s.vor;,. 20 ~ 81,
sex. and the next a;sca,dad eoy sou,e now
essenca 4 alone 4 slw.vs oo,n.on..eaa
I'm The manifold ,ses 10 which 4 i mn,
whe,her as = toilet acce.so,v o. Y H.
cb,mbor oe Tho sicL f,oloone va,e, s;n.o
its ;ntroduc,;oo. has n,oved ~ s.nsr;o,;,, |,
oyer an rivals
Cologne. the cani,al of Rbep;sh pruss;.
from wb;eb Tho f.mo,s wa.ar .akas =.
name i also famous e., eonss;n;n. ~,
Church &c 8, ursul. i ,vh;ob ,.,s ra,,oso i,
bones Of the saint after whom ,be cIprch
il n.med aud hay II 00o v;r,,;as ,h,
accorl;,s 10 The looond woro sl.n..tta,.o,
bv tho ;dolot,ous INNS uad Tolo,,.,
Wste, bea, d;sooyored - ,bo a. !.
Homer va sbould doubtless have bad !.
story of how Tho blood 20 n. .laaot,sro,,
v;ro;ns ai,e, s;nt;no into ,bo o.,.,L o,,sh
ed forth avain in : snrine of nerf,ms,'
water Rut tba d;sooyeyv og roloun,
W.ter a.,os hail on,, - G.. 49,. ~
wear 1909 and AT that date noo,;e., man
dac;tv had lost muob oe ;ts sormer nom,
Iar;,v n ,b., voar .haro,;,ad;, \, col,i..,
an Italian n.med I,b.nn M.r;. ,rho q
cordino to tho archives of tho c;,v .roao,
in works of srt s;Ilan ,,o,os .nd ,,a.s,,.
cries and nrcnared and sold co,oone ".
ter. This hitter becoming pon,,lar nm,
the demand for II Increasing he gradualI,
devoted himself entirelys to its manufac
ture. Copyrighted labels and the nrotec
ton of the patent laws we're upkpown IN
those days. and hosts Of imitators sprape
up as the fame of Fariua's nerfi,me snre.d
] The superiority of the original article was
however. proyed over all eomnet;tors
The secret Of its composition has beer
well preserved, and has never been com.
municated to any except those of the in.
ventor's family. who have inherited IN
business and carried Il on Johann Ma.
ria Faripa died in 1892 having his bus;
ness to his nephew. and the present pro.
prietor, who stiIl carries on the manufac.
ture Opposite the zueIichs Place Is /,
great-great-nephcw of the original ipyep.
tor. Other Farinas, similar IN name bu
not related to Johann Maria. have from
time to time engaged in the manufactur
of Cologne Water. and their numerous do.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-03-22

Exclusive of women, merchants, gam
blers and idlers, there are seven thousand
Chinese in San Francisco engaged in
various trades and employments, at one dol
lar each per day for working days, amount
ing to s2,1s4 900 per annum. The total
assessment Of the entire Chinese population
of that city aud county, says the Chronicle,
including real estate, personal property,
manufactures, money on hand, &C., amounts
to less than s6o0,000 in valuation, produc-
ing tax, IL every cent Of the same should
be collected, of about $4,000 year--a
small amount for 50 large class to con-
tribute toward the expenses ofgovernment.
This amount would pay seven policemen.
The expenditures Of these people amount
TO about twenty cents per day, 50 that
more than one million and half ofdollars
is every year sent from the city Of San
Francisco to China from the working
classes alone.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-03-22
PREsRyrERrAS GExERAt AssEMnL,

PREsBYTERIAS GENERAt ASSEMBLY.
This important religious body win meet
in the city Of Baltimore on the 18th Of
May next, and viii continue in session
from two to four weeks, dependent, Of
course, upon the business brought before
It. II viii meet in the Central Presby-
terrain Church, corner Of sarasoga and
Liberty streets. The assembly is composed
Of about six hundred commissioners. rep.
resentiug all the Presbyterian Churches in
the United States, and some Of the most
important business TINT has ever been trans
acted BY the body, viii come before i at
the coming session.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-03-22

A remarkable series Of accidents is re.
lated to have occurred one night last week,
at Elizabeth, n j. A. Mr.. Wells had re.
tired for the night, when, shortly after.
wards, Mrs Wells complained Of a feelinI
of numbness in her limbs and requested
her husband to help her across the aoor
About half way across the room he ex.
pressed some fears, when she told him moi
to be afraid, and Immediately droppec
dead at his feet. He gave an alarm, anc
a neighbor, an old lady, in crossing thu
street to his assistance, fell, breaking
her left arm in two places and her rigb
collar bone. Her son, a young man
heard her scream, and rushing out of the
house to her aid, fell against the half open
door, breaking his nose and reboundinp
senseless to the floor. Doctor Kendall,
hastening to the help of the sufferers, also
fell, broke two Of his ribs, and had to be
carried home.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-09-21
Stanton.

.A.lrEMr%T ABOUT A ClRCrS-FlSASCIAL OBJ
>tE,.r!oS-TaE VALLEY RAILROAD.
r,or.,~, oulrucc Of the Richmond DiSpatch.l
r STANTON, september 90, 1878.
cur cily was crowded yesterday with
country people coming to the show. Every
,n.uy passed OF quietly. only one or two
.nt .crimma-cs" occurring TO mar the
occasion.
Their, j much excitement in our city this
morning over the financial crash ut the
>Yr'A. Il i not yet known whether the
ia. X l.. r. will lose anything or not.
4 uu!u.r-r Of the contractors on the Valley
..,.,ua.. arrived in the city last night. The
..u>pe.G lrr the early completion of this road
%, VERY Door. The contractors have been
~;4d,!"n hv the company to push the work,
asa c.,f> thin. j. now again in L state OF UNI
,~,anny. The company is unwilling TO
..oy, lire contractors 70 do more than SlOu,-
".i worth Of woik in six months. ana when
:..- j, divided among them ii does not allow
"~urruu.h TO- justify them in goinSt to work.
Z. .E,> i,ru suggested that the company dc.
- 10 hu..d the road out of the interest on
..'- Ro"h'riGgc county bonds. lhls con-
u.t %, the part al the railroad authorities
+, #rNlIr.lbi, andi, being severely cen>ured
&. ll p,.>inc>> mon. The work on the road
'.'~,,3l liuri~Uubur9 and Stanton i, pro-
-"',,:ug slowly. II vii. not probably be
@.ar'ei before next spring. The whole
..al,-cincut OF this road has been character
@. ~ INDIGESTION and want OF management.
.." p.ultc Ui Augusta county have occasion
't,.y G.s 70 graulatc themselves on hay
81 refused 70 burden themselves with taxes
'.. l.uJlrlu.lic road. MAN.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-09-21

ACCIDENT TO GENERAL BEAuREGARp.-(Al Al
e1andra Gazette, 18th -General Halre-
gard would have passed through here yes
terday evening on his way to New York. rs
was announced in Il telegram to the Gazette,
had it not been for an accident he met with
at Manassas. He arrived at that place yes
terday morning, accompanied by his friend
Major Maray, and, with Major Mclean and
Mr.. Whiting, OF that town, started on horse
back to view the world-renowncd battlefield.
On his way to Backburn'S ford the horse hc
was riding stumbled and fell, catching the
Generals leg under him and hru>ing it Sc.
verey. and lying upon it until Major Nc
Lean hastily dismountcd and raised the fallen
animal. In addition 10 his hurt leg the Gene
raj had his thumb dislocated, and was so
bruised and hurt that he had to be taken
back to Manassas by Mr.. Whiting, where,
however, "a he was III i haste to reach New
York, and still wanted to see the field he had
fought so well, and which he had not seen
since 1861. Mr.. Whiting put bin in his
buggy and drove him over the historic
plains, with the topography OF which be
seemed perfectly familiar. He visited the
spots where fell Bee, Barlow, and Fisher,
and carried away pebble from the mounds
that mark those spots. Ii sufficiently re-
covered he resumed his way to New York to-
day, and will pass through here this evening.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-09-21
THAT MESSAGE FROM THE SkIEs--NoT DEAL

THAT MESSAGE FROM THE SkIEs--NoT DEAD
--TAugu>ta (Ga.) ConstItutiOndlSt] J.
Many of our citizens will remember that
several months ago quite sensation was
caused in Augusta by the finding OF bunch
of keys attached TO Il paper collar by a mar
row black ncck-lie--:t message purp0rting
10 lave been written by distressed balloon
ist appearing on the collar invoking the
finder to write TO his dear wife, ut the
O.iyc-Strcct Hotel, st. Louis, and inform
her of his ShortncsS el Iatious, &c.
That baIoonist appears to lie at more
CT his fool>huc>>, sailing around in space
with IN Interchangeable balloon, short OF III
tons, and wanting somebody 10 write to his
wife alta hotel which Mayor Estes ascertaincd
by prompt Geographic inquiry at the time
the mysterious message from the skies was
picked up in Augusta had been closed for
more than year. 1t may be matter OF
consolation to many Of our citizens who
| worked themselves up to such high state
of sympathy for that distressed balloonist to
know even that he is yet floating around il
space, dropping fac s,mtie copies OF the
messag &c left in Augusta, as witness the fol
lowing from the Richmond (Fa.) D'spatc'
of the 10th instant.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-09-21

New YORK AND NORFOLK (FA.) RAILROAD
4 meeting of the New York and Norfolk
Railroad Company was held at Accomac
Courthouse, Va, on the 9th Instant. The
Eastern Ftr9inidn says:
..Hon. Hendrick b. Wright, of Pennsyl-
vania, was elected president. Hendriek b.
Wright, Isaac Carpenter, Amos L. Smith,
and Solomon Sturner, of Pennsylvania; Gus
lis W. Wright, Of Delaware; and William
II. Il. Gusts, John w. Gillet, Upshur b.
Quinby, and William L. Fitshett, of Fir-
ginia. were elected directors; and at meet
lu~ of the board of directors held at the
same place on the same day Gusts W:
Wright, Esq, was appointed treasurer, and
Upshur B. Quinby, Esq. was appointed
secretary. The company proposes to com.
mcncc the survey of the route for the road
about the Goth Of October next, and after
little piece of special legislation is put
through work will immediately commence,
50 that we may confidently expect to have
the road completed and cars running rs far
us Dr,mmondtown by the 4lh of July next
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For Tie DiSpatch.l

u"1:>. INSTITUTE, ROANOKE COUNTY, VA,
September Is, 1913.
The elrkn,>s which suddenly appeared
al n. ihc NEGROES OF "Ncedmore settle.
~.1', H0tctourt county. on the 2Sth of Au-
49,. al! which has given rise TO SO many
'aa."c, and 80 many newspaper paragraphs,
- .Gddcnly ceased 4 few days after its first
Development.
!, stated by the physicians in attendance,
'21 published by their authority i'll the be-
SAuiu-. the disease was produced by the
t.>r ol foul water and rendered more vio-
l.a' III consequence of many of the negroes
!l'in- eaten large quantities Of corn aud
Otter vegetable matter the night of the 9th
"'4'Ic suffering from severe bowel disease.
~ enc. white or black, living in the settle
,!"1t or out Of it, has had the disease except
u few who had used the water. DIR.
hss|!pkins, the physician of the neighbour
'""'1 drank the water one day only, and had
4'rflou- attack from it of exactly the same
Ii% though not so violent. No new case
u" appcarcd since the 9Th instant. The in.
T%hjonts Of The settlement, but few OF
"Apm we're sick. as well as the people i'm.
iA."ait'cIy around, white and colored, are en-
'T'.E raal.a;tus.
"tN" ur,a, ed this statement that ample
-, nigh. eiapse TO test the question Us to
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-09-21

THE CLAlMANT's" SUPPLIES CUT orr
SINGULAR ACTION or CHlEr-JusTlcE Cock
prRS.-Chicf-Justic Cockbnrn, at the close
of the hearing in the Tichbornc case yester-
DAY. said If the claimant resumed his travels
through the country representing himself as
a MARTYR it would be the duty of the court
10 nut u stop TO the scandal by committing
him to JUL. Every judge and juryman con-
nec,ed with the case had been threatened
with assassination if a verdict against the
defendant should be brought in. The Chlet-
Justice warned the claimant that it he made
another speech or appeared before the pub
lie he would be surely imprisoned. New
revelations are made every day OF the t;lal,
and public interest increases as the case pro-
cccds. The Tichborne claimant has pub
lished an appeal, in which he states that pro-
hiblion by the court Of further speeches
from him or solicitations of aid from The
public has cut of his supply of funds.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-09-21

cY~o-a: whiaerr.hr--oE tirnhcr s-.rn. elsshA,s .
1900; seasonef, s9o61xs $50. fIo.ar-4srs tini-
her, f16lf5 n l,poU. ItDop poles, teGpfIO be9s-
head hoops iioGt&s p Igc0: whiskey-iarrei. hick-
DRY hoop: sl2 sOagsl5 ~ LOO red Sak, Tor inoasses
Rags: Mixed cotton, &C.; white, stGpsc.; WOOL
en-, 2Gac. .a
Rope: Manila. best, 2s@asc.: sisai, 72c. q D.;
}ute, f7ie. i'll
Wheat Bran: lsc. u bushel.
]. Br0tonstnD: e5c. II bushei. -.
CsJrn Bran: Dsc. al bushci.
ShiDstnF: 5sc. u hushe!. ..s
Shorts: 20c. "a bushel.
Powder, Shot, &c.
Fuse: TOYS mining, loc-lsI.es u 100 feet.
Poloier. 1916 by the hve kess-less than nSe
kegs, S7.25: blasting, SsEA5o.
Saot: Northern. $2.75fI4s ~ lag Of IS rs.
Grindstones: 7g02tc. q D..