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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-03-07
The First Thousand Dollars.

The first thousand dollars that young
man, after going out into the world to act
for himself, earns and sares viii generally
settle the question of business life with
him. There may be exceptions to this
statement, yet, for rule, We think it win
hold true. The first condition is that the
young man actually earns the thousand
dollars in question. He does not inherit
this sum. It does not come to him BY a
s,reak of good luck, as the result of
fortunate venture in the purchase and sale
of hundred shares Of stock. 1t is the
fruit of personal industry. He gives his
time and labor for it. While he is thus
earning and saving it, he must earn two or
three or perhaps four times as much to pay
his current expenses. He is consequently
held stcrnly to the task Of industry for a
considerable period. The direct conse-
quence to him is steady, continuous and
solid discipline in the habits of industry,
in patient, persistent forecasting and self.
denying effort, and breaking up all the
TENDENCIES to Incidence and frivolity, and
making him an earnest and watchfnl
economist of time. He not only learns
how to work, but he acquires the love Of
work and moreover he learns the paiue Of
the sum which he has thus saved out Of
bis earnings. He has toiled for it he has
observed its slow increase from time to
time, and in his estimate it represents so
many months or years of practical labor.
His ideas Of life are shaped by his own
experience. These natural effects Of earn
ing the FIRST thousand dollars we hold to be
very large benefits. They are just the
qualities of mind and body which are
most likely to secure business success in
after years. They constitute the best
practical education which a man can have
as a yorker in this working world. They
are gained in season for lifs's purposes, at
the opening period just when they are
wanted, when foolish notions are most
likely to mislead an inexperienced brain,
and when, too, there is full opportunity
for expansion and development in later
years Men have but one life to live and
hence they start from opening manhood
but once. And the manner in which they
start, the purposes they have in view, and
the habits they form, viii ordinarily
determine the entire sequel of their career
on earth. To succeed, men must have
the elements Of success in fiemseires. One
great reason why there are so many useless,
inefficient, poverty-stricken men on earth
--or, rather, boys seeming to be men
consists In the simple fact that they did
not start right. A prominent reason why
the children Of the rich 50 frequently
amount to nothing may be found in the
luxury, ease and Incidence which marked
the commencement Of their lives. II il
the law Of God that we should be worker,
upon earth and no one so well consults the
best development Of his being as when he
conforms his practice to this hw. Tn
workers in some suitable sphere are tn
only really strong men in this world,
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-03-07

A gentleman Of Baltimore has coin or
medal of pure bronze, coined during the
reign Of Ptolemy Softer, Of Egypt, who was
the natural son of Philip III. Of Macedon.
1t is somewhat larger than an old Spanish
silver dollar, and about three times its
thickness. The diverse has, in bold re.
lief, the head of Jupiter Ammon, with the
rams horns and fllet around the head,
and the reverse shows the erect figures Of
two large eagles surrounded by an iuscrip-
tion in Greek. Though 1900 years have
passed since it was coined, it is beautifully
preserved.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-03-07

FEMALE Soc1ETY.-What is it that
makes all those men who associate habitu-
ally with women superior to those who do
not? What makes the women who are
accustomed to, and at ease in, the society
Of gentlemen, superior to their sex in gen
eral? Solely because they are in the hab-
it Of free, graceful, continued conversation
with the other sex. Women in this way
lose their frivolity, their faculties awaken,
their delicacies and peculiarities unfold all
their beauty and captivation in the spirit
of rivalry. The men lose their pedantic,
rude, declamatory or sullen manner The
coin of the understanding and the heart
changes continually. Their asperities are
rubbed of, their natures polished and
frightened, and their richness, like gold,
is wrought into finer workmanship by the
fingers Of woman than it could ever be
done by those Of men.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-03-07
The Habit of Tidinsss.

Next in Importance to the habit Of self
help we would place that Of personal
tidiness. We do not care to guess how
many American men and women sit down
to breakfast every morning with their
toilets half made, the men without collar
and crayat, the women with unkept hair,
and the children resembling the parents in
dress, as much as in feature. "But you
see there are so many things to do in the
morning to feed, cows to milk,
fires to make, milk to skim, children to
dress, breakfast to get-that one can't
spend much time fixing themselves up"
All very true; but one doesn't go round
barefooted in the morning, or without
washing face and hands, because habit
tho reverse of all that has been formed.
"My hair is combed in the morning for
all day before | leave my chamber" said
an elegant house-keeper the other day,
and she keeps no girl; and we couldn't
help thinking the happiness her husband
must have had just in one particular Of
seeing her every morning for twenty years
with smoothly-combsd hair, and neat linen
collar, opposite him at the breakfast table,
aud of the order and cleanliness in tho
household Of which that one little item was
an index. That cleanliness is next to
godliuess," should be early and deeply i'm
pressed on every child, and it should be
taught to shrink from uucleanness and
untidiness as il shrinks from vice.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-03-07
Select Poetry.
THE BEAUTIFUL LAND.


,rherc . beautiful land by the Spoiler untrod,
Ilupolluted by sorrow and care;
4, Il lighted alone by the presence ofGod
Whose throne and whose temple Il there:
IN. crystalline streams, with murmuring flow,
II ueandcr through valleys 20 green,
nd is mountains OF jaspor are bright In the glow,
ofa Apcndor no mortal hath seen.
And throngS Of bright singers with Iubilant breath,
wake the air with their melodies rife;
And one known on earth as the angel OF death,
shines here as the angel oflife!
Al infinite tenderness beams from his eyes,
On his brow Is an infinite calm,
nd his voice, as Il thrills through the depths Of th'
skies,
Il as sweet as the seraphlm's psalm.
rhrough the amaranth groves Of the beautiful land
Walk the souls who were faithful in this;
land their foreheads s,ar.crowned, by Eephyn an
famed.
That eycrmore murmur Of bllS;
They taste the rich uitage that hangs fro IN tho tree
And breathe the sweet odon Of flowers
More fragrant than ever was kissed by the breeze
In Arabys loveliest bowers.
|Old prophets whose words were spirit OF fame,
Blazing out DER the darkness Of time;
And martyrs whose courage no torturcs could tame
Nor turn from their purpose sublime,
And saints and confessor, anumbcriess thrOng,
Who were loyal to truth and 10 right,
And len as they walked through the darkness o
wrong,
Their footprints cnclrclcd with light
And the dear little children who went 10 their rest,
Ere their lives had been sullicd by sin.
While the Angel OF Morning still tarried guest,
Their spirits pure temple wlthin,-
All arc there-al arc therein the beautiful land,
The land by the toilcr untrod,
And their forcheads, Starcrowned, by sweet zephyr
are famed.
That flow from the gardens Of God.
My soul hath looked In thro the gateway OF dreams
ON the city all payen with gold.
And though II still walh on this desolaie strand,
pilgrim and stranger on earth.
Yet II knew In that glimpse OF that beautiful land,
That II gased ON the home Of It's birth.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-03-07

How TO KEEP HAMs.--Every season
more or less hams are destroyed by insects
or rendered too unpalatablc to be eaten by
decent people. By following this method
the insect can be entirely kept at a dis.
tsnce, and it is very simple, and within
the reach of every farmer in the country.
After the meat has been well cured by
pickle and smoke, take some clean ashes
free from bits Of coal, moisten them with a
little water so that they form a paste, Oh
else just wet the hams little, and rub on
the dry ashes Rubbed in thoroughly
they serve as capital insect protector, and
the hams can be hung up in the smoke OF
wood chamber without any danger Of
molestation.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-03-07
ears still notidings came Of her absent

husband.
The third winter that came to Alice in
her humbled home seemed to her colder
and drearier than any that had passed
before. The long confinement began to
tell upon her health, and at last she was
really III. She had never been able to
earn anything more than was necessary for
her daily expenses and now, with the
prospect Of sickness staring her in the face,
she often shuddered as she thought what
the future might have in store for her.
One morning, not being able to work, she
was sitting by her scanty fire thinking Of
these things. The memory that had haunt
ed her all these years came to her then
the memory Of the first three years of her
married life, that had been so bright and
happy. She thought Of the pleasant home
she had then enjoyed, with its cosy rooms,
well-laden tables and generous fires, but
more than all else she thought of the rich
love that had crowned her. "If l had
back my home and my husband | should
know how to prize them now, she muir
INJURED "but | am so lonely and misera-
bic here"
A tempest of tears and sobs shook her
slight form, and slipping from her chair
down upon her knees, she prayed to her
Heavenly Father for patience and submis-
sion, just as she had done so many times
in these later years. While she knelt
there the door opened, but she was not
conscious Of any presence save her own in
the room, till some one knelt by her side,
and a voice quivering with emotion spoke
her name. She looked up quickly then,
and met the face of her husband
not as she remembered having last seen it,
bloated and red with the effects of strong
drink, but tender, refined and loving as it
had been five years before
Thank God Thank God r. only
those words and she was folded to her hus-
bands heart, and her tired soul, forgetting
its desolation, driftcd back to the haven Of
rest once more.
Later, when they were calm, he told
how he had fought with the tempter in
the years since they had been parted, and
how he had come back then, master Of
himself, to ask her to begin life anew with
him.
" Let us go back" said Alice, "to our
old home. We shall be happier there"
SO they went back as she wished, and
rented the farm they had once owned, and
began at the foot of the ladder But they
had contentment in their hearts, and with
that even poverty is sweet.
Many years have passed since then, and
Gilbert is fine, hale old gentleman, and
Alice happy matron, the mother Of noble
sons and blooming daughters. Years ol
labor have brought them prosperity, and
the home of their ancestors is theirs ono,
more; and there they will pass the re
mainder of their days, both of them per
fectly satisfied with their one experiment
at Leaving the Farm
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-03-07
Ladies', Wells.

If you transpose what ladies wear-Yeil
Twill plainly show what bad folks are--Vile
Again, IL you transpose the same,
You'll see an ancient Hebrew name Levi.
Change it again, and il will show
What all on earth desire to do-LiYe.
Transpose the letters yet once more,
What bad men do you'll then explore--Evil.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-03-07

We cannot always keep an evil impulse
from arising, but we can put il down af-
Ter ii has arisen. A quaint old preacher
said, aWecannos keep the birds from fly
ing over our heads, but we can prevent
their making nests in our hair"
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-03-07

PLASTIEa EARla PorAroEs.--In
planting potatoes for The earliest ero,n
many fail in planting 80 early that the
vitality Of thc germs are checked antl
killed outright from being Chilled FER
planting 10 obria.e this, IL the potatocs
have been cut into hrge picoee (none oshsr
should be used for The first crop. thex
should BE- thofonghly dried even 10 fhe
patatos sIriaks considessbly, before being
planted
y then they are planted in porous aoil
aad covered deep % that they may not De-
ifezen, they may be successfully planted
e early 70 the spring is the soiI can be
worked For the earliest and medium
Z sAs,y crop the Early Rose win eive thc
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-03-07

How TO SAVE STALE BREAD.--Stale
bread may be made as nice as freshly
baked by dipping the loaf in clean, cold
water, and warming through in bake
oven. Much bread might be saved that
is thrown away, IL this were more generD
ally praeticed than Ii is.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-03-07

Il may not be generally known that when
good meatls . little taintedhy warm weath.
er or over keeping, washing 1t with lime wa
ter win restore its sweetness. Dredging
powdered charcoal over twill produce ths
same effect
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-03-07

There are $50 Oranges of IIssbspdzy
in Kentucky.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-03-07

"AIcE IL have left the city, and you will
probably never see me again. We are beg
gars, and the house in which we have lived
will be sold in week. Two years ago we
had quite nice little fortune Of our own, but
we have wasted it-you By your extravaganza,
and by dissipation. Had you been conten-
ted away from this accursed city we might be
happy now. But viii not lay all the blame
on you. We have both done wrong. 1t was
the mistake OF our lives that we ever left the
old farm. As ii is, ! am drunken bloat,
and you will be better off without me. Good.
bye, Alice. God knows l loved you once.
E..u....m
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-03-07


The worst had come, at last, and with a
face white and rigid as corpse, Alice
staggered back to the sofa, and lay for a
long time in state of Inconsistencies.
But the future must be met, and after
the first shock was over, she reused, her
self and tried to answer the question,
"hoso ~ 1t was necessary that she
should find something TO do without delay
or she would be homeless and starving and
after several Intellectual attempts at some
thing better, she was obliged to accept the
only work that offered itself, and that was
plain sewing that paid her but small
returns. She hired a little room in .
tenement house, and the struggle for daily
bread began. 1t was sad and desolat.
life she led then. She never won't ou
except TO the store for work, and she sci
dom spoke to any one but her employer
unless il was now and then kind word /,
a beggar-child. In her room, at its on,
window that looked out on bare, bleal
walls, she sat aud stitched day after day
while her form grew thinner, her fac
| paler, and hope died out Of her heart, Ii
this way the time passed on, and week
| heightened into months and months int
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-05-29

It Therefore became a matter OF sheer
necessity to go forward. When she ar
rived at her house, as might have been
expected, she was in very exhausted
condition but Effie did not seem to be
much the worse for the accident, save
her wet clothing. The first thing Mrs.
Walker did was to attend to the child,
and it was not until her step-daughteT
had her clothing changed, tbst Ruth
pulled off her drenched garments.
The following. morning Ruth was so
i'll that she could no3 leave her bed, and
her husband Immediately Summoned a
physician. Two or three days more
and Ruth lay PROSTATE in bed with ty-
phoid fever.
Days and nights Caleb Walker sat by
the bedside of his wife, who lay uncon-
scious, her mind wandering, and a rag
ing fever racking her frame. He would
not be satisfied with the attentions of
her nurses, but watched every move
ment she made. For a long time it was
doubtful whether she would recover.
But at last the disease took a favorable
turn, and she gradually began to mend.
But what wreck she presented, when
cOntrasted with her former self Her
first inquiries were for Effie, and when
the child was brought to her she hugged
her passionately to her emaciated form.
During the progress of her recovery,
she was one day lying on a couch be-
side her husband, who had been read
ing to amuse her. Effie was seat near
and prattling a great deal. Mr.. Walker
laid down his book and gazed at his
wife. Effie began to talk again.
SO Mamma" she said, ''you love me
al,
'' Certainly, replied Ruth why do
you ask ?"
81 don't Know" answered the child,
&" except that it makes me very happy
to know that you love me so dearly"
Ruth pressed the little one nearer to
her heart.
"You love me b tier than any one in
the world 2 continued the child.
Ruth did not reply; the color faded
and came to her cheeks as she looked
inquiring1y into the ehild's face.
is it not so, mamma ?" continued
Effie. "You love me better than you
do papa, don't you ?" and she took her
step-mother's hand and looked into her
syes.
Caleb Walker sat- by breathless and
motionless.
Ruth hesitated for a moment only,
and then she answered in q low but dis
tinct tone
"No, Efie, do not
The next instant Caleb was on his
knees beside his wife.
"My own, my darling % he exclaim-
ed, 81 now I feel that you are mine own
indeed ;" and he fervently kissed her
pale brow"
And SO, in truth she was. His cease
less tenderness and unwearied atten-
tions had won her heart, unknown even
to herself. From that time forward a
new JOY entered the hearts of Ruth and
her husband.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-05-29
ARKANSAS.

Little Rock dates of the 18th place
Baxter in full possession Of the Office OF gov.
. ernor. All he state arms have been turned
over to him, and the federal forces are in
structed to recognize him as the supreme
head of the state, and directed to cooperate
with the local forces in bringing order out OF
chaos. The house passed q resolution and ap
pointed a special Commissioner to Investigate
as to whether any officers Of the state have
been engaged IN armed insurrection against
the state government. similar committee
was appointed in the senate. Chief Justice
Mcclure is a refugee. on his way to Washing
ton.
In Little Rock, on the 10th, both
houses, by unanimous vote in the house and
three dissenting votes in the senate, passed
bill providing for the assembling of con-
stitutional convention on the 14th day of July
next. The election is to be held on the Both
day of June at which time the electors vote
on the proposition and elect delegates to the
convention An agreement was made by
which Gen. Newton. the commanding gem
eral of Ba1ter's forces. is to send home with
out molestation all of Brooks men. The
state arms are to be left in the state armory.
The men retain their side arms.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-05-29
LIFE LEAVES.

The day, with its sandals dipped n dew,
Has passed through the eveni0e's golden gates5
And a single Etar in the cloudless blue
For the rising moon in silence waits:
While the winds that sigh to the languid hours
lullaby breSthe Ger the folded flowers.
The lilies nod to the sound Of the stream
That winds along with luliing flow,
And either awake or half a-dream,
pass through the realms of long ago
While faces peer with many a smile
From the eowets Of n1emcry's magical isle.
There are joys and sunshiile, sorrows and tears,
That check the path of Iifes April hours;
And longing wish for the com ng years,
That hope ever wreathes with the fairest flowers
There are friendships gUileless-lOve as bright
And pure as the stars in the halls of night.
There are ash6n memories, bitter pain,
Aud buried hopes ard broken VOW;
And aching heart by the restless main;
And the sea-breeae farming pallid brow;
And wanderer on the shell-linsd shore
Listening for voices that speak no more.
There are passions strong and ambitions wild,
And the fierce desire to stand in the
OF the battle of hfe-and the heart OF the chi
Is crushed IN the breast of the struggling nan
But short the regrets and few are the tears,
That fall at the tomb OF the vanished years.
There's a quiet and peace and domestic love,
And JOYS arising from faith and truth,
And love unquestiOning, far above
The passionate dreamings of ardent youth;
And kisses Of children on lips and cheek,
And the parents bliss whisA no tongue can speak.
There are loved ones IostI There are little graves
In the distant dell, meath protecting trees,
Where the streanlet winds and the violet waves,
And the grasses sway to the signing breeze;
And we mourn for the pressure of tender lips,
And the light Of Eyes darkeued in deaths eclipse
And thus, as the glow of the daylight dies,
And the nights first look to the earth is cast,
I gaze meath those beautiful summer skies
At the pictures that hang in the hall of the past
Oh, sorrow and Joy chant mingled lay
When to memOry's wildwood we wander away!