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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-11-07

Ghe 9armer.
4 Little Land Wen titled.

From Brussels letter in the Chicago
Tribune we extract the following to show
what can be done on small area Of terri
tory, The correspondent, after discussing
the prosperity Of the people, coal and iron
interests, &c. thus speaks Of Belgium and
her agricultural achievements
Belgium is only small patch Of ter
ritory, containing barely 10,400 square
miles but on this little area there is sup
ported in comfort and independence
5,400,000 souls Can your readers realize
that on space not exceeding one-6fth
that Of Illinois there is concentrated the
population Of Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin
and Minnesota? But such is the fact
Not only does Belgium produce sufh-
Gent food for her population, including
barley for the manufacture Of beer, Of
which laSye quantities are consumed, but
she grows nearly enough sugar beets TO
supply her people with what .'sweetening'
they need; and ia the mountain districts
Of Ardennes grapes enough are grown to
produce considerable part Of all the wine
consumed in Belgium.
There is now no hereditary land monop-
oily and no idle land in Belgium, Not an
acre is devoted TO deer parks, pheasantries,
or other sporting purposes, for the enjoy
ment Of a luxurious and dissolnte aristo-
crazy, while masses Of men are starving
for bread. As travel through Belgium
] sec swarns Of men, women and children
cutting down and gathering harvest Of
grain and grass, where the wheat will
yield 30 to 40 bushels to the acre, the
oats 80 to IS bushels, and the hay p to 4
tons per acre while the ensuing product
Of FAX and Of root crops potatoes and
beets--will be beyond the American con
ception Of possibilities. The strawberries
red raspberries and gOoseberries brought
to market. while not superior in favor L
those sold in Chicago, are twice or thric,
as large.
These enormous yields Of agriculture
and horticultural products are not in con
sequence Of better soil or climate thar
in America, but are the results Of heavy
manuring, deep blowing and spading, sub
soiling, understanding when required
irrigation when possible, watehful hocins
and wedding, free use Of guano and othel
fertilizers for top-dressing, and careful
harvesting and storage of crops, whereby
nothing IS wasted, lost, or allowed to rot in
the field. This perfect system of tillage
never was adopted or thought of until the
land became the property Of the cultiya-
tors Of the soil, and the relation Of landlord
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us, REMITTENT AND INTER
MITTENT FEyERs,
DR.. ]. Walkers Vinegar BitterS,

As they will speedily remove the dark.colored
yiscid matter with which the bowels are load
ed, at the same time stimulating the secre
tons of the liver, aud generally restoring the
healthy functions ofthe digestive organs.
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Germany has just launched her seventh
iron-elad. Another is to be launched in
April. Twelve armored coryettes Of three
thousand tons each for harbor defence are
in process of construction.
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rSHE finest Tea in the market for 81. 90 Der
u pound, bought since the panic, on hand
and iljr sale BY
nov Is r. s. STOUFFER.
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MILL FOR SALE.
NOTICE.

"A IL persons who have claims sgalns'
"a Mary Caplc, will please notify the NV
dersigned Of them and call at the oiiice "
Jas. A. 9. Bond, Attorney at Law.
ELIAS BROTHERS,
JAS. A. G. BOND,
mar 29-tf Trustees Of Mary capie.
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TH0RNBURG & McGINNIS'S
LIME SPREADER.
PATENTED 1878.

THIS Machine has been thoroughly tested
Il and found to broadcast Chr MAxuRs
from well rotted BARN Yam MAyuREs, Rs
FUSE Tax BARK, CoNrosrs, &c, with perfect
eyenness and great rapidity.
Also, 10 BR0ADcAsT or DRILL in the rows al
any distance apart desired, LINE, PLAsrn,
ASHES, SuPER PnosPHATEs, &c., riih peJef
erenHess, at rates from one biishei 10 any d.
sired quantity per acre.
Orders are solicited, and will be filed n
fast as they can be manufactured in the order
OF time in which the orders are received
An agent will deliver the Machine as soon
as possible, and, on thorough trial by the
purchaser in his own way, and in all ways for
the purposes il is intended, and II not satsfae.
tory in all things, no sale.
by this system we hope to place it in the
hands of every intelligent farmer as rapidly
as they can be constructed, and hasten the
revolution that il is destined to work in the
Application OF Manurcs.
We hope, by the policy of no sale, unless
satisfactory after full trial, at least to engage
the attention Of calculating and sensible
farmers. Address
l.. H. COLE,
Enksburg, Carroll county, Nd,
Agent for Maryland, Delaware, New jersey
and Eastern Pennsylvania. sep lS.h
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As they will speedily remove the dark. colored
yiscid matter with which the bowels are load,
ed, at the same time stimulating the secre-
tons Of the liver, aud generally restoring the
healthy functions ofthe digestive organs.
Fortify the Body against Disease,
BY puriGng all its fluids with
VI N EG AR ERS.
No epidemic can take hold of system thus
fore-armed.
Dyspepsia or Indigestion, Headache, Pain
in the Shoulders, Coughs, Tightness of the
Chest, Dizziness, Sour Fluctuations of the
Stomach, Bad Taste in the Mouth, Bilious
Attacks, palpitation ofthe Heart, Inflammation
Of the Lungs Pain in the region of the Kid.
neys, and hundred other painful symptoms,
are the ofisprings Of Dyspepsia. One bottle
will prove better guarantee Of its merits
than lengthy advertisement.
Scrofula or Kings Evil, White Swellings,
Ulcers, Erysipelas, Swelled Neck, Goitre,
Scrofnlous lntammations, lndolent Inflam-
nations, Mercurial Affections, Old Sores,
Eruptions ofthe Skin, Sore Eyes, ETC. In these
as in all other constitutional diseases, Wal
ker's Vinegar Bitters have shown their great
curative powers in the most obstinate and in
tractable cases.
For Infiammatory and Chronic Rheumatism.
Gout, Bilious, Remittent and Intermittent
Fevers, Diseases of the Blood, Liver, Kid.
neys and Bladder, these Bitters have no equal.
Such diseases are caused by Initiated Blood.
MECHANICAL DIsEAsEs.-Persons engaged
in Paints and Minerals, such as Plumbers,
Type-setters, Gold-beaters and Miners, as they
advance in life are subject to paralysis Of the
bowels. To guard against this, take dose
of Walkers Vinegar Bitters occasionally.
For Skin Diseases, Eruptions, letter, Salt
Rheum, Blotehes, Spots, Pimples, Pustules,
Boiis, Carbnneles, Ring-worms, Scald.hea
Sore Eyes, Erysipelas, Itch, Scurfs, Discolor.
atoms Of the Skin, Humors and diseases of
the skin of whatever name or nature, are III.
orally dug up and carried ont of the system
in u short time by the use Of these Bitiers.
Pin, Tape and other Worms, lurking in the
system OF so many thousands, are eifectually
destroyed and removed. No system Of med.
icine, no vermifnges, no anthelminitics will
free the system from worms like these Btters.
For Female Complaints, in young or old,
married or single, at the dawn Of womanhood.
or the turn oflife, these Tonic Bitters display
so decided an influence that improvement
IS soon perceptible. Cleanse the Initiated
Diood whenever you lind its impurities burst.
ing through the skin in Pimples, Eruptions,
or Sores, cleanse it when you find it obstruc.
ted and sluggish in the veins, cleanse Il when
i is foul your feelings will tell YOU when,
Keep the blood pure, and the health Of the
system will follow.
II. II. MCDONALD & CO.,
Druggists and General Agents, San Francisco,
california, and cor: OF Washington and Charl.
ton Streets, New York.
va Sold by all Druggists and Dealers. -ysa
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A BrsHoP IN THR LuNArIc ASYLUM
On Saturday last Bishop George Shaver
of the Tunker church, arrived here from
Woodstock, Shenandoah county, in charge
Of his friends, and was placed in the luna
tic asyhml having been laboring under
alteration Of mind for about month past,
Bishop Shaver is about "a years Of age
and has been minister aud bishop for
nearly forty years, holding high position
in his church. Throughout the valley he
is esteemed as citizen as well as preach
er. His speedy recovery is hoped for
iStauaton Ta.) Fiadicator.
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but in any event the talnt Of unworthines,
cannot rest upon it, And il is just here
that the difference is sharply illustrated
between the daily journals in the chief
cities and such bargaining oracles as tic
Independent. II Is not difficult to deeid.
which position is the most enviable.--
Baltimore Americaa.
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FLOUR AND FEED,

FLOUR AND FEED,
besides splendid line Of Fruits, such as
Raisins, Currants, Citron, &c, and am in
constant receipt Of fine fresh OYSTERS,
which sell by the pint, quart and gallon.
( Ihave greatly increased my stock Of Hard
ware, Cedar Ware, Willow Ware, &e. My
facilities enable me to offer my stock at rates
which for cheapness cannot be surpassed.
All articles warranted as represented. Come
and see, and be convinced.
n. BAH orders not paid for when given,
will be collected by the driver when the Goods
are delivered, as my terms will be positively
CASH. JOSEPH WOODS,
feb Lift West End, Westminster.
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CHARLES B. ROBERTS,
ISAAC E. PEARSON.
r. B. NORMENT.

A TTORNE T-LAW.
AND REGISTER IN BANKRUPTCY,
nFFICE on Main street, two doors west Of
~ Court, Westminster, respectfully informs
the citizens Of Carroll and adjoining counties
that he will give prompt attention to all bust.
ness intrusted to him, both before the Courts
Of this State and the Departments Of the
General Government at Washington, d. C.
ian 4, 1873.
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DIR. W. K. FRTNGER

III AS removed his Office to the house on
- posite the residence of DIR. J. W. Herring
Main Street, Westminster. an 5.tf
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-04-22
SynagOgues at Rome.

There are five synagogues in Rome,
two Of which belong to the Spanish,
and the remainder to the italian rite.
They are called Scuola del Tempo
(Which is said to have existed at Rome
since the time of Titus), CATALONIA, Cas-
tiliano, Sizilano, and Scuola Nova. All
these synagogues are in one building,
but they all have separate entrances
from different streets. The reason of
this is that the Inquisition would only
allow one synagogue in Rome, and it
was only with great difficulty, and by
means OF lavish expenditure of money,
that permission was obtained to retain
the rest, on condition that they should
all De lodged in the same building. The
Ia!mud was on the Index of the Inqui-
sltlon, and none of the synagogues were
allowed al to have even single copy of it.
Ihere are altogether4, 500 Jews in Rome,
most OF whom are in destitute condi-
ton.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-04-22
Yokohama Streets.

The streets of Yokohama are wide and
straight. Each house is built of wood,
without an atom of paint, and is real
toy house, a genuine Liliputian Swiss
chalet, built with a taste, a nicely, and
neatness which are admirable. The
Japanese are wonderful workers in
wood and it is a pleasure to see the
roofs, SO light, and yet so strong, sup
ported by walls which are made like
the side-scenes in a theatre, of thin
strips of wood, over which are pasted
sheets Of a cottony, transparent paper
In the evenings, when the lanterns dis
pense their soft light round the inside
of these white buildings the spectator
seems to be looking at a magic lantern.
During the daytime the sides of the
houses are slippled out, as side-scenes
are, and the house becomes only roof
resting on the four light corner posts,
the whole interior being thus opened to
the air. Every part of the house is
thus exposed to view, and everything
done in it can be seen, while behind It
appear the charming yerdure, the cas-
cades, and the diminutive plantations
of the little gardens situated in the rear
-LippiaacOt Magazine.
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z TURNIP FLAVOR IN BUTTER.

IURNIP FLAVOR IN BUTTER.
Irish method of arresting or destroying
the flavor in milk of t11rnip fed COWS, is
said to be very efficient and certainly
worth trying. Before setting the fresh
milk sour milk is mingled with it. has
tening the process of souring and pre-
venting the flavor which is said to be
caused by the milk souring slowly. In
many Irish diaries the whole milk is
churned, as the butter thus made is
considered superior in color and flavor
to that made from churning cream. A
mixture composed of three and one
half pounds of bean meal, crushed oats
and bran, mixed with water, is given
daily, in many Of the best diaries, to
each COW; this increases the yield of
milk and butter. .r .t#"
JOHNNY CAKE WITH EGGs. -TwO cups
of sweet milk; half teaspoonful Of
salt; one tablespoonful of sugar two
eggs we'll beaten; small teacup Of
white -four mixed with teaspoonful of
baking powder, and corn meal enough
to make batter. Sometimes I begin
with the meal and scald it, and then use
only one cup of sweet milk and no bal-
ing powder, with no definite proper
tion of white four-enough to make the
batter Ii ght. The batter should always
than when it is not, because in the lat
ter case you must allow for the meal to
swell some. Of course the milk should
be added to cool the scalded meal be-
fore the eggs are put in, or the hot
mush would partially cook the eggs.
PACKING FRUIT FOR LONG JOURNEYS.
The Garden gives the following meth
Cd by which Mr. Carson, President of
the Horticultural Society of Victoria,
sent fresh apples and pears to the Wen
ia Exhibition. Each frrlitwas carefully
wrapped in smooth, fresh tissue paper,
and layer of cotton having been put in
the bottom of the box, a layer of fruit
was then placed upon it. Cotton was
rammed between the specimens and
next to the sides of the box, and another
layer added, and so on until the box
was filled. The lid was then nailed on,
and the package ready for shipment.
When unpacked at Vienna, we are told
that the fine appearance of the fruit ex
cited admiration and astonishment. "
Fruit in perfect order has been re-
ceived after journey of thousands of
miles, similarly packed, except that fine
chaf or soft bran was used instead of
cotton. It was of course essential to
select such specimens as would keep
sound long enough for the transit.
A lady correspondent tells Moore's
Rural that for many years past she has
had ripe tomatoes in FebrHary-growing
them in her kitchen from seed sown in
in large boxes. and they
are ornamental as well as a pleasure to
the palate.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-04-22
Starting Tomato Plants,

The Rural New Yorker says:
AS some persons may be in the same
plight the coming spring that I was
last, as regards knowing how they are
to grow a few early tomato plants, and
have them stocky and frst-class plants
In every respect, [ will give the details
of how [ managed to grow few hun
dred to my entire satisfaction I took
small box, 12x20 inches, six inches
deep, and filed it with good garden
soil, and put it on the kitchen stove
drum, and let it stay there till the dirt
was thoroughly warmed through; then
took a stick and made marks an inch
apart, and four and half inches deep
III the dirt, cross-ways of the box then
scattered tomato seeds quite thick along
the rows, and covered them about one
fourth of an inch deep then took a
newspaper and wet it and covered the
box to prevent the dirt from getting dry
on top. The box was set on box near
the stove after the seeds were sown, and
the following day set on the stove-drum
again for the purpose of keeping up the
heat in the soil, being careful not to let
it get too hot. In forty-eight hours
from the time the seeds were sown they
had sprouted, and many had broken the
ground; a few were near one half inch
high.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-04-22
Singular Cause of Fire.

A young lady in house on Louis
burg Square, the other day, in passing
through an entry, perceived sugges-
ton of fire, a smell of something burn
ing, sufficiently out of the common
course to arrest her attention. Find
ing the furnace fire and the soft-coal
sitting room fire with nothing unusual
to account for this smell of fire, she
continued to the front drawing-room.
Now the forenoon was bright, the cur
tain and shades withdrawn, so that the
rays of the sun were holly streaming in
at the windows in full blaze upon the
centre table, where rested a common
round-top glass paper weight, under
which mass of papers lay. Here was
the fire. The papers were burning
smartly. She disposed of them in the
CRATE, and taking up the glass found it
burning hot /; acting as burning-glass,
it had concentrated the rays of the sun
sufficiently to cause combustion. 1t
should be told that the paper bottom of
this glass was for some reason gone
either worn off or torn off.-Bostoaa
EOenang Transcript.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-04-22
Prickly PrOdigies,

Thorough going prickly prodigies,
says the Liberal Review, will look at
the retailer of a funny anecdote in icy
scorn, and they are able to read the
most laughable page that was ever pen
ned by Artemus Ward or Charles
Dickens without relaxing a muscle.
All comic writing is, in their opinion,
vulgar and indicative of levity Of mind,
and it is, they think, something more
than mere waste of time to read it.
They can take kindly to nothing unless
it has soul with big s. in it. They
love Depth with big d., This is
rendered apparent in their CONVERSE
tions, which are invariably upon topics
which few people understand, and
about which those who talk of them
most really know the least. They are
everlastingly discovering the wrongs
under which some people are, apparent
ly, very happily laboring, and take i'm
mense pains to show how the misguid-
ed creatures can obtain their rights. It
would be unbecoming in persons, who
are continually alighting upon social
problems demanding immediate solu-
ton, to smile, and so they never pub
lilly AlliolSS LII SuCH Iu1o lI1NOuby, oX-
cept in an exceedingly grim manner.
Books which an ordinary mortal can
read with pleasure are openly--what is
done privately we cannot pretend to
say-slighted by them, while volumes
composed in severely dreary style. and
at the precise meaning of which it is
sometimes impossible to do anything
but guess in wild fashion, are lauded
to the skies. Believing in progress,
they object to seeing their neighbors
resting in peace and quietness, OF in
dulging to excess-and how easy it is
In their opinion, to do this-in profit
less recreation. There is no more
heart In their general conversation than
there is in the monotonous beating of
Dutch clock, albeit that there is plenty
of eagerness displayed. But their
eagerness defeats itself, for in their en-
thusiasm they show liking for listen
ing to no voices so well as their own.
and for hearing no opinions except
those which they happen to favor. With
all their reforming, and developing, and
these prickly prodigies
are among the most shallow and selfish
people in existence.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-04-22

lore in search of her, and that night he
takes her back to her home. The
hearts of the old peasant women. her
neighbors, who had before looked some
what askance at her, were touched with
pity at the sight of the sadly-changed
Bebee, whose eyes were fearless, and
who never spoke word or gave a
sign of recognition. "They undressed
her and laid her down in her little bed.
and opened the shutters to the radiance
Of the sun" And Bebee clay still and
SILENT" and the women, all but Mere
Krebs, went away to their days work.
g Towards sunset Bebee raised herself
and called aloud They ran to her.
Get me rosebud-one with moss
round it, she said, and when one, was
brought '.she kissed it and laid it on
one Of her little wooden shoes that
stood upon the bed. Send these to
him, she said YEARLY; tell him walk
ed all the way Then her head droop-
ed, then momentary consciousness died
out, and she was still again. When
the stiffness of night was fallen on the
place and Mere Krebs asleep in her
chair, Bebee rose from her bed, walk
ed through the open door out into the
garden, seeing nothing familiar in it all,
and on to the water beyond '"Then
she crept down, as a weary child creeps
to It's mother and throws itself forward, |
and let the green dark waters take her
where they had found her amidst the
lilies, a little laughing, yearling thing.
She had been only Bebee. The ways
of God and man had been too hard for
her
"When the messengers of Flamen
came that Gay, they took him back a
dead moss-rose and pair of little wood
en- shoes, worn withrough the walking"
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Old SnufEROXeS.

Mr.. Henry f. Waters, of Salem, ex-
hlb1ted at the recent meeting of the
New England Historic Genealogical So
ciety, In Boston, a collection of snuff
and tobacco boxes-interesting some
of them, on account of their antique
fashion, others for their historical as
soclations, and two Of them, at least,
for their beauty as real works of art
The most antique IN appearance were
two large, quaint, brass tobacco-boxes
of fashion in vogue in the middle or
early part of the last century, covered
with engravings, having rude pictures
of Dutch scenes and inscriptions in Low
Dutch. The fashion of them was perhaps
introduced into England at the Access
sion of William of Orange. Another
of lockwood, carved with the figure of
the great Napoleon, and in fortuitous
companionship with the latter box
having on its lid brass medallion, in
repose, of the head of Napoleon's great
friend and royal foe, the Gear .Alexan-
der, of Russia, who played SO important
a part in the fate of that oman of des-
tiny" Another box, also Russian, was
an interesting snd beautiful specimen
of niello work, on the lid of which was
a picture as delicate as nice line en-
craving, evidently symbolizing the
Greek Church, perhaps representing
Faith, while on the bottom, or reverse,
was the well known symbol of Hope,
with her anchor. Charity must have
been shown in opening the box and Of
fering pinch in token of kindly good
fellowship. But the most interesting
of all was beautiful box of horn, en-
circled with plain gold hoops, having
on the cover an exquisite miniature
painting on ivory of family group,
thought to be portraits of Louis XVI.
when dauphin, his sister, that we'll
known and lovely character, Nine.
Elizabeth, and their mother, the widow
of the eldest son of Louis XIV. The
box was obtained by Mr.. Waters ma
ternal grandfather, the late Captain
Penn Townsend, of Salem, at the time
Of the uprising of the blacks in Hayti
against their French masters. The
story connected with it was, that it was
a royal gift to noble French family,
who emigrated to Hayti in order to
avoid the guillotine, only to meet a
worse fate at the hands of the incensed
blacks. The box is now in the posses
sion of Joseph Quinton Waters, of Sa-
lem. Mass.