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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1875-06-26
The House Moth-What is it and How
to Avoid its Ravages.


The winged moth that flies about the
house does not eat nor destroy wOolens Of
any kind, but seeks opportunity to lay eggs
in WOODEN articles, upon which the future
dictates that her young must subsist.
These eggs produce eaterpillars, which as
sumo pupa state, out Of which comes the
winged insect. Thus if we prevent the
moth millers from hasing access to the ar
ticles We desire to preserve they cannot
become moth eaten. For instance, IL you
do up any article that is free from moths
in paper, cotton or linen (not woolen)
bag, and pin il up tightly, or tie the mouth
Of it closely, no winged moth can enter to
deposit its eggs, and thus its contents must
be secure from depreciation. Yet these
winged mites are possessed of considerable
cunning, or rather instinct, which makes
them search patiently and carefully for
proper places to feed their young. Sim
ply putting wooden articles into tight
drawers, or covering them with paper, &c.
will not suffice, for the least crevice will
admit them. Nature has also implanted
an instinct to seek unmolested places
wherein to lay their eggs; therefore if you
shake any wooden articles or furs occasion
ally, the moth win avoid them. Thus,
should any articles of clothing become in
tested with them, frequent brushing and
beating win drive them away 1t is stated
that if they can be dipped into hot water,
or held over the smoke of ere, the young
larvae win be destroyed. Ifcarpets are in
tested with them, take boiling hot alum
water, and dip cloths into it and saturate
the carpets with it. Hot alum water is
very destructive to all insect life. Cock
reaches, water-bugs, bed-bugs, and the like
canbe exterminated by its use, but it cannot
of eourse be applied to all kinds Of goods.
Wooden articles and furs can be kept from
moths by busting them over with red pep
per or putting camphor gum among them.
Turpentined rags are used for this pur-
pose; also pitch paper sold by furriers To
be sure Of the safety of wooden goods,
great care is necessary, especially where
large quantities of them are stored away.
1t is said that the cost of army and navy
clothing, blankets, DC, destroyed annually
by moths is immense, aud an attempt to
pass bill appropriating s2500OO for
patent moth preventive for army use, in
the House at Washington--which caused
the humorous speech of Hon. s. s. Cox
on moths and was defeated through
his ridicule showed that the damage
done BY moths to public property is very
great, while the loss occasioned by them
to private parties, If accurately known,
would be almost incredible. The best
known preventive where there is not time
for frequent inspection of clothing during
the warm season, is to brush and beat the
article carefully, 80 that no eggs remain in
them, sprinkle them with gum camphor,
tie them up in newspapers, not leaving a
single crevice through which the tiny des-
troyer may enter, and then kill every moth
miller found on the premises.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1875-06-26

- ~ Nf't 1tNN IttluflNI INA
healthy functions ofthe digestive organs
Fortify the Body against Diseas
By purihng all is fluids with
" NJ EG "A BITTERs
No epidemic can take hold Of a ystemiLa
fore-armed.
Dyspepsia or Indigestion, Headaehe P.n
IN the Shoulders, Coughs, Tightne~ 81 d,
Chest, Dizziness, Sour Esuctatious of d,
Stomach, Bad Taste in the Mouth, BiEw
Attacks, Palpitation ofthe Heart, Iadammsfn
Of the Lungs, Pain in the region Of The Eil
ncys, and hundred other painful symptom.
are the oifsprings of Dyspepsia. One bClik
will prove better guarantee Of It's mris
than lengthy advertisement
Scrofala or Kings Evil, White SwellmrL
Ulcers, Erysipelas, Swelled Neck, 0oilr,
Scrofalous lnilammaiions, lndolens lnasn,
nations, Mercurial Affections, Old Sora
Eruptions ofthe Skin, Sore Eyes, etc. Inihsa
as in all other constitutional diseases, VA
ker's Vinegar Bitters have shown their ee.i
curative powers in the most obstinate aud b
tractable cases.
For lntlammRtory and Chronic Rheuma.isa,
Gout, Bilious, Remittent and Iniermiusa
fevers, Diseases of the Blood, Liver, XII
neys and Bladder, these Bitters have no equi
Such diseases are caused by Initiated Blood
MECHANICAL DISEASES. Persons engaged
IN Paints and Minerals, such as Plamhu.
Iype.setters, Gold-beaiers and Miners, asthg
advance in life are subject to paralysis Of ik
bowels. To guard against this, take aas
oil walkers Vinegar Bitters occasionally.
For Skin Diseases, Ernpiions, letter, Sab
Rheum, Blotches, Spots, Pimples, PusHlu,
Boils, Carbuncles, Ring.worms, Seald.hsA
Sore Eyes, Erysipelas, Itch, Scnrfs, Diseclof
atoms OF the Skin, Humors aud diseases d
the skin of whatever name or nature, arc IL
orally dug up and carried ont Of the ysien
IN short time by the use Of these Biiiefz
Pin, Tape and other Worms, lurking ths
system OF so many thousands, are efeetusl5
destroyed and removed No system Of NEE
lcine,. no vermifuges, no anthelminities I'd
bes the system from worms like these Buen
tor Female Complaints, in young OF oli-
married or single, at the dawn Of womsnAcd
or the turn life, these Tonic Bitters diVhg
so decided an influence that improgemss:
Is soon pereeptible. Cleanse the Vitiata
Blood whenever you find its impurities bur<
ing through the skin in Pimples, Erupiohsr
or Sores, cleanse il when you find il obsint
ted and sluggish in the veins, cleanse i vAsn
4 is FOUL your feelings will tell you shsa
heep the blood pure, and the health Of y
system will follow.
b16f- Sold by all Druggists and Dealers -
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1875-06-26

The varieties Of wood are more numer-
GUS than most people are aware. At the
Paris Exposition Of 1867 there were from
forty-fye different countries, no less than
3,779 different kinds of wood exhibited,
1896 coming from Europe, 252 from Africa,
s58 from Asia, 966 from Oceanica, and
] ,298 from America.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1875-06-26

Kentucky has been ever famous for her
beautiful women, and there is some talk
Of sending few TO the Centennial Is
specimens Of what the State produces 10
that line.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1875-06-26

~ NM HlNI7707oF N7IIER'
Under his tree the lbriner said,
smiling. and shaking his wlne old bead
Cherries are ripe but then, yon know,
There's the graN % cut and The corn 70 hoe;
We ckn gather The eherries any day.
But when HE sun shines we must make our hay
Tonight, when The chores have an been done,
Wen muster the boya for fruit and fun"
Up IN tho tres a robin said,
rorkins and cooking his sauey head
Cherries are rlpel and 70, to-day,
Wen gather thein whlle yon make The hay
Fus We are the boys with no corn % hoe
No eoHs lnsniik. and No alsass % NOW
Al niahi ne hrmer said; Here's trick
Those romlish robins have Ind their pick
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1875-06-26

II is easy in the world, TO live after the
worlds opinion; il is easy in solitude to
live after your own; but the great man is
he who, in the midst Of the crowd, keeps
with perfect sweetness the independence
Of solitude.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1875-06-26
BILIOUS, REMITTENT AND Iy1n,
MITTENT FEvERs.

Which are so prevalent in the valleys i !.
great rivers throughout the United ~.
especially those Of the Mississippi, 0hio NJ
souri,, Illinois, Tennessee, Cumberland 4.
kansas, Red, Colorado, Brazos, Rio frs,S
Pearl, Alabama, Mobile, Savannah, Roap,S
James, and many others, with their yaaiA
utaries, throughout our entire country an,
the Summer and Autumn, and rena,E,I
so during seasons Of unusual heat ana n,
ness, are invariably accompanied by ~
sive arrangements Of the stomach and H.
and other abdominal yiscera. In their ~,
ment, purgatiye, exertmg powerful IA
ence upon these various organs, is essenikh
necessary. There is no cathariie for he ID
nnsn nnnnl To "
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1875-06-26
InsoIvcnt's Notice.

George W. Reck VS.. His Creditors.
nRDERED this 26th day Of May, 1876,
" that George W. Reck give notice TO his
creditors, endorsers and 81 retiez, that the
Second Monday Of November, 1876, Is fixed
for the said George w. Reck TO appear in
the Circuit Court for Carroll county, 10 an.
swer such iHterrogatories as his creditors,
endoraers and sureties may propose or alleys
against him and that q copy Of this order b
published in some newspaper printed in Car.
roll county, once a week for three successive
months prior 10 the said "a Monday Of No.
vslnber, 1876, as such notice.
True copy.--Test
May 2s-sms FRANK 7. SHAW, Clerk.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1875-06-26
THE STATE OF MARYLAND
MUTUAL
FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY
OF BALTIMORE.
No. II SourH STREET, BALTIMORE.

This Company insures, on the mutual plan,
Buildings and Personal Property against Loss
or Damage by Fire, in all parts of the State.
The entire profit returned 70 the Policy holders.
b. q. HARRIS, President.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1875-06-26
UNPARALLELED SUccPSg
The Properties Of DR.. Walkers Vi.
egar Bitters

Are Aperieni, Diaphoretic, Carmina,;,. l.
tritious, Laxative, Diuretic, Sedative I y
ter.lrriiant Sudorife, Alternative aui ~
Bilious. AA'
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1875-06-26
Dr.. ]. Walkers VilDQal Bitten

As they will speedily remove the dArk.eoIu,.l
yiscid matter with which the bowels are NJ
ed, at the same time stimulating the Am
iions Of the liver, and generally res,orinr d.
healthy functions of the digestive organs
FOrtify the Body against Disease,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-09-01
University Education.

President Bascom, Of Wisconsin
State University, writes to the In
dependent rs follows:
AS Americans we overestimate
primary education as a separate
factor and under estimate the Sec
ond and third stages of knowledge
which are necessary to sustain it
and impart to it its chief worth.
No social question, no governmental
question, no moral question can be
settled by arithmetic and grammar;
and only a large homogeneous,
we'll compacted commonwealth,
branching upward, branching out
ward, and working downward in
knowledge, can safely dispose of
such interests.
Our education in all or almost all
our states lacks completeness, or
ganic dependence, the ministration
Of all parts to each and each to all.
There are two reasons for this: its
different and extreme branches are
in different hands, its intermediate
and connective branches are ne
elected. It is sufficient for our pur-
pose to distinguish the grades Of in
struction-the primary or district
school yielding the fundamental
English branches; the intermediate
or high school, furnishing the sec
ond grade Of English studies and
the first grade Of linguistic studies,
and SO fitting their pupils either for
business or fol college; and colleges
bearing forward this instruction
four years further, till it touches
that of the professions. Our North
ern States at once accepted this re-
sponsibiliiy for a general and uni
form provision Of the first grade of
schools, while they have only in a
very hesitating and partial way as
sumed the third form of instruction.
Colleges have been ard still are for
the most part private institutions,
provided in such numbers, located
in such places, and equipped in such
ways as individual enterprise and
munificence may determine. The
religious sentiment has chiefly been
relied on to furnish, guide, and sus-
tain them. Thus the educational
system has not been a system; its
two extremes have not been shaped
to each other, have had no organic
dependence. They could not, in
deed, avoid ministering to each 9TH
er; but they have done it in an ac-
cidental, haphazard way. The re-
suits have not been mischievous in
New England, where the popula-
ton and the religious sentiment are
comparatively homogeneous and
the incentives to growth sufficient
to be relied on. Massachusetts has
four colleges; three more arc just
coming into existence. If we might
hesitate to say that none of them
are absolutely feeble or absolutely
poor, pecuniarly, we can boldly say
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-09-01
UNDER THE LINDEN TREES.
BY SARAH D. HOBART.

Under the Linden trees, Genie,
Where the moon hung low in the west,
And the rose trees their chalice offragrance
Tossed low on the earth's dewy breast;
While the whip-poor- sang in the
woodland,
And the wind came fresh DER the leas,
we sat with hearts full of sadness
Under the bright linden trees.
Uuder the Linden-trees, Genie,
Tonight | stand all alone,
Shrlll comes the wind from the westward,
And the whip poor willis song is a moan.
Beyond the river, my darling,
Through nights as lonely as these,
For me you are waiting and watching,
Meath the Heavenly Linden trees!
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-09-01

ideal worker in the great cause of humani
ty, of which the world shall not be ashamed
Our advent Hope to-day is practically
and specHulatively reconstructive. The aim.
and thought of the advance thinker, es
cape set theories of dependen &C, and SER
vile imitation, which has marked the path
way Of old medicine. Let US hail the nsv,
whose path and dialect are no longer to be
prescribed, its free action and essence no
longer bartered for the form of wheeling into
rank about the banner of some person or
sect. And with this new hope comes the
new born conviction of truths that are too
natural, spontaneous and universal, to be
attributed to any specific teaching. The
present time has its own anthem and it is
resonant with inspiration and hope.
Let US comprehend what is Of the present
that we may emphasize IS tasks beyond the
past. 1t calls for our faith in its unparalleled
opportunities; it calls for honest, earnest
workers, and a love for truth, for truths
sake, which is SC radical and profound that
the long embraced error will be abandoned
though policy clammor so ever loudly, and
self interest demand ever so plausibly.
Life may, nay must, be filled with earn
est work. Tho prejudices of the people are
only equaled by their ignorance in regard
to the simplest laws of health-a condition
for which the physicians of this country
are largely responsible The duty OF a ply.
stefan who is called into d family of deli
cate children, for instance, does not end in
writing prescription for some drug, OF
dropping few homeopathatic globues in
water. The necessity for right regulations
of diet, dress, exercise; the Importance of
pore air, light rooms, scrupulous cleanliness
are things not secondary to drug medical
ton. The responsibility SO recklessly in.
cured by the present age, in transmitting
physical and mental diseases to posterity by
which our world is flooded with sin and
sorrow and suffering and upon whose
better regulation and right conception de-
ponds the redemption of tie earth. These
and many other subjects which have not
time to mention, are matters that should ex.
ercise the mind of the cultured physician.
When the people understand and fully COM
prehend the terrible significance of the an
cient declarations: "The sins of the Fathers
shall be visited upon the children, to the
third and fourth generation" there will be
greater heed TO the consideration and re-
sponsibilities above suggested.
As physicians in advanced me dicine. we
have much to work for-something TO suffer
- but greater things to encourage, inspire
and strengthen US. than have ever rewarded
men and women in any age or any profess
sion before.
We have only to labor and wait, and our
ears shall be greeted by grander "Te deum
Idudanaus" than was ever chanted from any
Cathedral, for it will be the un syllabIed,
music from happy homes, and welcome chill
dren and healthy mothers ia this, our be-
loved land.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-09-01
The Old and The New In Medicine
BY JULIA FORD, NJ. D.

The following poetic and historic
production from the pen of one of
Wlsconsin's most earnest women,
deserves the careful attention of ev-
cry reader. No subject is seconda-
ny to medicine in its bearings upon
the welfare and destiny of the hui
man family. Every mother should
be student Of medicine or better
still, student of the great laws of
health, and familiar with the Won
derful mechanism of the body.
Even the catechism should be second
to physiology in the studies Of the
household.
Mrs. Ford is a practicing physi-
clan of the Homeopathic school, in
Milwaukee, having an extensive
practice and the general confidence
Of those who are the recipients of
her ministry. Her admirable essay
was recently read before the Ameri-
can Institute of Homeopathic Ply
sicians in Convention at P -In-Bay,
Ohio
To large class of minds, the past has a
wondrous charm. To them nothing mofe
is needed than proof of age, the evidence of
antiquity, to induce them to endorse and
embrace, and nothing but the lack Of this
to despise and condemn. TO all minds
it is interesting and profitable TO look
famliarly into the lives of the men and
women of past ages and find them toiling
over problems that perplex us to-day
suffering in the same conflicts, failing, it
may be, as we have failed, or winning
some hard fought battles, for our ins2ira-
ton and encouragement. It is interest
ing to learn that political and moral prob
lens which agitate our minds, were
discussed in ! Grove and Sanhedrim
and Forum, and to find in many OF
the practices and symbols of the ancient
Greeks and Romans, the germinal prin-
ciples which are being unfolded and evolv-
ed in the ripper thought of the Nineteenth
Century.
1t is curious and fascinating study to
trace the germs of different inventions
and great discoveries in the dim and dis
tant past. That bit of Amber when
rubbed would attract and repel light bod
les was known six hundred years before
Christ; as that isolated fact it rema ined
until sixteen hundred years after Christ.
when scientific minds took the hint. ex.
perimented and made practical application
of the result, and to-day men communi-
cate simultaneously with each other
across continents and under oceans.
Draper tells us in the Alexandrian Mus
cum there was a machine invented by
Hero the mathematician, more than one
hundred years before Christ, revolving BY
the agency or steam which we should
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-09-01
The Speftrnsfnpe.
BANDIT AND PRIEST.
BIZ HATTIE TYING GaIswoLp.

The vesper bells changed suddenly out,
Over the dull campagna' reach,
Just as the sun dropped out-ef sight
Adown the horizon level beach;
The irefies lighted their golden lamps
And sailed forth to illume the night,
Till all the gray and sonber plain
Cleaned with the fairy and 6tful light
The cricket sat in the long, dry grass
Winding his merry horn with skill
And the hite malaria rose around
With swift and subtle power to kill;
There was not sound in the stirless air.
Till suddenly the cry of child
Pierced the stiffness with rapier point
A thrust OF sound, two-edged and wild.
Lost or deserted, three years babe
Lay sobbing alone with failing breath,
While coldly and calmly the stars bent dow n
Never made sad by the sight of DEATH
And priest just then came hurrying by,
Urged to speed by the chime of the BELLS
A friar he of the orders gray
Well used TO penance In silent cells
Who knew the rosary bead by bead
And SAID more prayers than thousand
men,
Who, out in the hurry and toll of life
Do penarce with sword and ak and pen.
And now he was fastening home with speed
Saying his aces under his breath,
When he spied the wee child down at his
feet,
verysnsar to the grim, gaunt arms of
death.
"What's this?" cried he as he crossed him.
self
And bent tor a moment over the child,
But the bells changed louder than ever then
And the servile priest looked van and
wild.
sLate, l an late, by the holy saints
And ecu must hasten my steps along
Or pretty penance soon must do,
who am neither hearty nor strong.
"And as for this wretched little thing
1t will surely die ere reach the town
And 8 lovely storm Of jibe and taunt
Will surely bring on my old head down.
So he hurried on, still mumbling prayers
Till he reached the shelter of sacred W alls,
Where mayhap, his devotions were not
By thoughts of suffering child's shri.l
calls.
But now comes q rider over the plain
Booted and spurred like an old time
knight,
Bandit they say at the Vatican,
''Out law, enemy, child OF the night p
But his horse sto ps short at the childs low
cry.
And be folds the small, young thing to
his heart
Til warm at his breast it nestles close
And sweetly sleeps ere they fairly start
And ] wonder much what God will say
In the final day to the priest and knight,
Whether the deed or prayer will stand
In the broad glare ofthe great white light.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-01-28
ANDY JoHSsoN's ELECTION.
Sews and Other Items.

It takes $1,000 "drummers'' to keep trade
brisk througho1t the United States.
Isabella Wallace, claiming descent from Sir
Wallace died in England recently at the age
of 1O2 years.
The Rev. w III. H. Murray has been pre-
sented with gold watch and chain, valued at,
500, by several members of his former con-
gregation in Boston.
Secretary Fish has received information of
the payment by the Chilian government Of the
clairs of 5000 for the destruction of the ship
Good Return of New Bedford. The claim has
been pending for twenty years.
ry,are Is theory that the Piermont, N. II.
,,,,,raey NAV have originated from larceny of
nersopai property from Dr. Jenness' residence
J., Lowell in July, 1873, when both Sawyer and
,J. Emerson were members of the doctors
Lopsahold. but the latter does not credit the
suspicion.
The N. Y. Tribune thinks 1t will be as well
To keen drawing out of the public schools until
we have methods so arranged and teachers so
skilled that the common English studies can
be thoroughly taught 1t favors free technical
schools for such scholars as want to attend
them, in which drawing should be feature.
The banquet to the first orator of the recent
intercollegiate contest at Delmonico's, the
other night, was a notable affair. Chancellor
Crosby presided, and speeches were made by
several gentlemen, including Mr.. james T.
Fie,s of Boston Letters were read from Grant
White, Bryant Higginson, Curtis and others.
An old lady in Lockport carried quart of
nonped corn to q donation party, and after eat
49,. t,,o lozen fried oysters a pound of crack
ers, three slices of fruit cake, half mnce pie,
an some apples, twas threatened with "spasms
and in the effort to prevent it sacrificed all the
wine in the house. She attends donations reg
ularly.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-01-28

THE proclamation Of the new King OF
Spain, in which he promises to respect the
fueros of the Basque Provinces, is not very
intelligible to American readers, who do not
understand what these tneros are. They are
certain peculiar privileges or charters which
override the ordinary law of the Kingdom,
and which Spanish kings, as Lords of Biscay
have always sworn to maintain. They give
each district its own local government, ex-
empt the priests from diocesan control, forbid
military conscription, exempt from customs
taxes, and confer nobility on every Basque.
During the infancy of Isabella, the ex-queen,
these .fueros were abolished, and the Basques
were thus driven into the support OF Don
Carlos. They have been his stoutest sup
porters ever since, and as they are excellent
guerillas their aid has been valuable. The
new king evidently desires to detaeh them
from his cousin, and so promises to respect
the fuerOs. .... .... ..