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A Florida correspondent Of the Hartford
Times says Green turiles--th biz I'll.
lows that abound At Key West--are also
plenty sll along the coast up to Cedar
Keys Turtle fishing in May aud jane Is
quite business with one class Of seaiar.
ing men. They are caught In large and
strong nets The nets are anchored al the
bottom along the channels Of certain places
among the islands and stretched across,
often for long distances, the position Of
the net being shown by floats, Once en-
tangled in the net the turtle Is helpless
all his clumsy struggles only get him deeper
and deeper into the net saw one huge
fellow slowly lift his back out tof the water,
sink, and rise again Of one Of the islands
Of Tampa Bay; probably he was not less
than a 2O0-pounder. Turtles weighing
500 pounds are often caught ID the nets;
but the fishermen tell me they prefer such
as weigh only fifty, scventy-fve and one
hundred pounds for the reason that these
sell more readily and bring higher price
in proportion, the reason being that tur-
ties are commonly purchased whole, es-
pecially by the large hotel proprietors in
New York and elsewhere, aud to buy one
weighing over 100 pounds would be likely
to involve considerable loss. For 300
or 400 pound turtle the purchasers at
Cedar Keys pay only half-price per pound.
The green turtle docs not lay It's eggs on
the Florida shore, nor do the fishermen
know where it does lay. However, !
found turtles egg on the outer shore Of
one Of the lower islands. II might have
been the egg of "loggerhead." This Is
the name given by the fishermen toa big
sea turtle mot esteemed for soup) which
does lay It's eggs on the Florida coast, and
which is much more active and ugly than
the true green turtle; unlike them, 1t will
almost always break out Of the net by
biting through the strong meshes They
viii also inaict ugly bites upon the hands
Of those who try to hold or handle them.
A block Of wood is thrust into the mon
sters mouth for safetys
A two weeks fishing voyage will often
give the sailor boat load Of green turtle.
During the season, which lasts from the
last Of April to July or August, be viii
make from $500 to 500 by the sale Of
these creatures at eight cents a pound.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1875-06-12

MANNER OF RETREAT OF ARABS
When an Arab tribe is pursued by an en-
smy, they sleep and take their food with
out halting. That they may not fall from
their camels when sleeping, they stretch
themselves out at length, placing their feed
in bag on each side of the animals neck.
Their food is prepared by the women. One
mounted on camel loaded with wheat
continues grinding with hand-mill, and
passes the meal to another, who is provid-
ed with leather bottles containing water,
suspended on each side Of the camel; she,
having prepared the paste, passes it to a
third, who completes the operation by
baking the bread in thin slices on chat
ing-dish, or portable oven, which is
heated with wood or straw. This bread,
with portion Of cheese and dates, is then
distributed by her, to those whom it is
her province to feed, and the frugal meal
is finished with draught of camel's milk.
The camels are also MIXED as they walk,
the men using for this purpose large wood
en- bowls, which are passed from one to
another.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1875-06-12
The Battles Of l77S-l7si.

The following comprises all the battles
for freedom that took place from April,
10, l775, aud closing October 19, l7s1--
six years and six months. The British
sent $4,000 soldiers and sailors to this
war. The Colonists met them with $780,
900 Continentalsaad 90, 900 militia. The
British let loose Indians and equally saw
age Hessians, The colonies had for their
allies the brave and courteous Frenchmen.
The leading battles Of the war, those par
ticularly worthy Of celebration, are Con
cord and Lexington, Bunker Hill, Long
Island, White Plains, Trenton, Princeton,
Bennington, Saratoga, Monmouth, Kings
Mountain, Cowpens, Eutaw Springs, York
town. These are Of national interest.
Many Of the others are local. The dispo-
sition is to celebrate them all--victories
aud defeats--to recall the deeds Of our
anceston, and have a good time generally.
Preserve the following list Of Revolution.
AIRY battles
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1875-06-12
Opening Of Car Windows.

You are sitting in the first stages of
cold, or your wife at your side has little
fever, and the car is warm and undeniably
close. Suddenly some person of either sex
remarks audibly, what every body per-
ceives and deplores, that the air is close.
He or she adds that such an atmosphere is
unwholesome, that it is positively poison
Gus, that the car is Black Hole, and that
we are all suffocating; and thereupon, the
train flying at thirty miles au hour, on a
bitter night or day, up goes the window,
and the blast drives full upon you and
madam, heated and i'll, and there is no
escape for you, all the seats being full, but
to 20 forward and stand The good man
or woman holds the ground, insists that
the oxygen of the air is exhausted, that
we are all breathing carbonic acid gas, and
that all the books agree that apoplexy,
paralysis, softening of the brain, with a
vast train Of occult maladies, begin under
just such conditions.
"And so, madam, to spare yourself the
chance Of some remote disease you expose
my wife to immediate pleurisy and pneu-
monia."
"Sir, you know nothing Of hygienic
laws"
Madam, you know nothing Of common
sense"
1t is true that fresh air is desirable; but
will not these peripatetic philosophers learn
that icy blasts or sudden chills may be
fatalp When one of the apostles of fresh
air opened 4 car window under these cir
cumstances, gray-beard sitting behind
instantly arose and closed it again en-
phatically. And when the astoanded lady,
looking at him severely, said, in tone of
exceeding wrath, "SirF' he answered,
blandly, "My dear madam, bird in the
hand is worth two in the bush" She
looked scornful, but not in the least as If
she understood his meaning. II mean
only" he said, "that the one illness which
you are sure to give me may be more fatal
than the two or twenty which you think
to prevent by opening the window" But
she turned her back; and, as he said after
ward, if there was less fresh air, there
were fewer colds.-Harper's Magazine for
June.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1875-06-12
The Poetry ii Marriage


Marriage is a very matter-of.fact affair.
There is little poetry in it; and all expert
ence shows that ii is better to get rid Of
nonsense before committing matrimony."
So says good writer but we beg to differ.
All experience does not show any such
thing. If nonsense means here, as il
seems to mean, all those things that make
the poetry Of life, we say the more you
have Of 1t the better. Because thing is
real must it be commonplace The light
of love illumines the homcliest duties and
because there must be eating, and drink
ing, and sleeping, and earning bread and
butter in its years, marriage need not be
a matter-offact arrangement coarse
sort Of bargain, in which the wife becomes
housekeeper, and the husband the bank
er. Better that there should be no mar
rying at all; for what shall they do in those
hours Of trouble and pain which come 70
all Of us, when every heart Graves sympa-
thy, and when none can give it 50 well as
the lover whose love has endured through
many years. When two people Of oppo-
site sex, temperament habits, resolve,
through union by marriage, to live to-
gether for the rest Of their lives, there is
need Of sentiment between them. There
is necessity for little romance that
makes people seem better and more beau
tiful than they really are, If in time they
would not hate each other. No---if you
have no other part in life that is not COM
mon-place and matter-of-fact, forbid that
home life, which Is the consequence Of
marriage, to sink to this Have thon-
sand "songs without words" for every day.
Nourish your most delicate sentiments aud
weave them with the hours as they glide
by. Don't have all your poetry in the
bookcase; and all your music in the piano.
Life is short. Let us live virtuous lives,
and extract all the enjoyment from il we
may.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1875-06-12

CARPETS IN 1900. Seventy years ago
carpets were rarely seen in American fam.
lilies of the middle classes, as they are now
rarely found in Germany. DR.. Lyman
Beecher gives au amusing account of the
autobiography Of his first carpet at East
Hampton; L. l. His wife spun bale Of
cotton and had it woven. Then she fitted
1t to the floor, sized it, and painted it in
oils, with bright border around it, aud
bunches Of roses aud other flowers over
the centre. She took also some common
wooden chairs and cut out figures Of gilt
paper, gluing them on and vanishing
them. The East Hampton people we're
quite startled by the novelty. 0nsof the
old deacons called at the house, but stopped
At the parlor door, as il afraid to enter.
"walk in, Deacon, wsak in" said the
minister. "Why, | can't 'ihout stepping
on il, was the answer. Then surveying
il with evident admiration, he gasped out,
"D'ye think ye can have all this and
Heaven too 2'
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1875-06-12
Select poetrp.
SPRING SUNSHINE.


yiolez tint the meadows o'er,
swallows have come back once more,
And spring sunshine like the former,
But roster warmer;
Lcaflgc fair the plane.lree decking,
shadows all the wood.ways ieckingi
Mirth unrecking,
Heavy heart.
Here hast thou no part
ON the green bank OF the river
Low | lie, while o'cr me culver
Lights and odors, leaves and wings,
All glad things.
blossoms every bough are haunting.
Everywhere Is laughing. chanting,
No JOY wanting;
Heavy heart,
Here hast thou no part
In and out each rustic porch,
FlockS of maidens. fair and arch,
Full as nightlngales ofsong,
Fiutter, throng,
Chase each other, pull the clover
Each hath tales Of her own lover,
To tell over:
Heavy heart,
Here hast thou no part
Now, for very mirth Of soul.
They will dance the fasnndole.
Dance on madcaps, never noting
Hair loose floating;
Rosy.faeed your races run
Through the dwarf.oaks in the sun;
Heed not one.
Heavy heart
That hath here no part.
Two and two, with hands entwlning
Dance until the moon Is shinlngl
and mine dance never more.
That Is DER.
o, my God. the sweet brown face,
Shall yon dreamy conven..place
Quench Its grace7
Heavy heart,
Here hast thou no part
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1875-06-12

Little children strewed flowers in the
pathway Of the bride as she returned to
the carriage.
Edward Stanley not only took his wife,
but her now dependent cousins.
Adaline did not look upon them as such,
however, but treated them as sisters.
But where was Clara all this time for
three years she had not been heard from.
But one dark winters night, pale woman
in tattered garments, might be seen wend'
ing her way down to the Hon. Edward
Stanley's beautiful residence. Feebly she
knocked for admittance.
The servant stared at her wonderingly,
when she asked if Mrs. Stanley was at
home.
"Tell her yes" said Adaline, who al
ways listened to the voice of distress.
The suppliant entered, and cast her eyes
upon her two sisters, who knew her in a
moment, and at once Adalins received the
wandercr to her heart.
Clara had come home to Adaline's to
die, deserted heart-broken wife.
All that could be done was done to res
tore her, but in vain.
Adaline's voice soothed her in her Wild
est words of dclirium, and it was Adaline S
voice that convinced her she could yet be
saved.
Clara died true Christian, with the
words :-"Father, mother, | come"
Thus the proud contemptuous beauty
owed her last comforts, nay, even her es-
cape from paupers grave, to the ''poor
dependent" she had scorned.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1875-06-12
Matrimonial Failures.

If husbands are sometimes remiss in full
filing all the expectations regarding them,
wives, it must be confessed, afford them
only too often ample excuse for their short
coming. For if wife does not render her
full share toward making herself and her
home alluring, she has small right to CON-
plain-howeyer his own conscience may
or should upbraid him-if her husband
6nds other people and other places more
attractive, and makes no resistance to the
attraction.
Too frequently do we hear some wife,
in her neglected toilette, slipshod, unkempt,
declare, ''0h, it's no matter; my markets
made r as If her marriage had been a cir
cumstance Of bargain and sale, and deign-
ing to accept the price Of her husbands
devotion, she had completed her part Of
the barter. Her market is made; that is,
she sold herself ffsr-doubtless all she was
worth. But allowing 1t, yet with how
much honesty we may ask, docs she fulfil
the conditions Of the trader How faith
full to the tacit understanding at the time
is she to-day9 1t was certainly no slip
shod, unkempt woman that was the object
offered in the market. On thc contrary,
it was girl in the bloom Of her early
years, and with that bloom set of by all
the adventitious aid of the prettiest toi-
lette, the dainticst frills and furbelows, the
sweetest tones, the sweetest smiles, attain
able. Tho bloom of early years was not
expected to last, of course; but the smiles,
the tones, the pretty toilettes--it never
was dreamed BY the buyer that they were
not thrown in.
Yet, on the other hand, il is by no
means improbable, ii is by no means un-
usual that the offence should come first
from the husbands side, and with no fault
in the beginning, of the wife's. Tired Of
the novelty, the husband has ceased to
execute his portion of the contract, has
sought distractions, has despised and half
forsaken his home, has dissipated his
energies, perhaps ruined his hopes and his
wife's together, perhaps disgraced their
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1875-06-12

LASTING WHITEwAsH.--To make white
wash that viii not wash of by the rain,
one peck Of lime should be Stacked in Eve
gallons Of water, in which one pound Of
rice has been boiled until il is all dissolv-
ed. The rice water should be used hot,
and the mixture should be covered up
closely until the lime is Stacked. Then a
pound Of salt should be added, and the
wash heated to boiling whea used.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1875-06-12

The hundredth anniversary of the bat
tie Of Bunker's Hill, on June 18th, is to
receive due recognition. But two days
earlier there will occur the centennial an
niversary Of an event which had even more
influence than Bunker Hill upon the war,
yet which has as yet scarcely received
mention. On the 10Th of June, 1775,
the Continental Congress in session at
Philadelphia elected George Washing on
"Commander-in-Chief of all the forces
raised, or to be raised, for the defence Of
the colonies A little before this il had
voted to enlist an army Of 10000 men, Of
which the militia and minute-men Of New
England were made the nucleus. The
defensive movements which before then
were only local thus received national
endorsement, and the colonies we're solifed
into a combined resistance to Great Britain.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1875-06-12

Take life easy, and don't always be try
ing 70 beat the sun up, says an exchange.
Yoa may win for . while, but in the long
run you are sure to be beaten, and some
morning il win rise when you don't.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1875-06-12

Metals may be made to adhere to glass
BY cement composed Of powdered lith-
arge, two parts, dry white lead, one part,
boiled linseed oil, three parts, mixed with
one part Of eopaI varnish TO thick paste
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1875-06-12

Repentance begins in the humiliation
Of the heart, and ends in the reformation
Of the life.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1875-06-12

Heaven has no rage liko love 70 hatred
turned. nor bell . fury Ike woman
scorned.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1875-06-12

sprig Of wiutergreen Or ground ivy viii
drive away red ants; branches Of worm
wood win serve the same purpose for black
ants.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1875-06-12

Half of the shadows found in our paths
Of NE, are made BY standing il our own
light,
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1875-06-12

Those who 50 to law for damages gen
orally get them
Theory may be all very well, but young
doctors and lawyers prefer practice.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1875-06-12

Time passed, Mr.. Howard lay on his
death-bed, prostrated by sudden and
mortal disease
Adaline had flown to nurse him, for
Clara eloped with worthless adventurer.
Edward Stanley was also there.
Uncle, for so will call you," he said,
~ am sorry to see you 50 III"
lyon have just como in time, said the
old man, "to receive my blessing before l
died. / have no right to ask the favor Of
you, yet will. Protect my wife and
children"
al will be to them all that you wish, +"
said Edward Stanley. "For your kindness
to me is dearer to me than life."
The sufferer smiled family.
"0h, God, l thank thee, he cried. l
can now die contented,"
Emma and Annie, the naughty ballroom
bellies, were awed by the scene of death,
and vowed they would live differently, as
they pressed kiss upon their dying fath-
er's lips, aud saw their mother carried
fainting from the room.
Clara the disobedient child, was not for
gotten.
"Give her my blessing" said the old
man, sand tell her | freely forgive her.
A few months and he was joined by his
repentant wife, who died blessing Adaline
with her last breath, and leaving her two
daughters, now almost penniless, to the
poor cousins care.
Il was bright aud beautiful morn in
early spring, when Lena, the gifted and
beautiful, stood before the altar, to become
the wife Of the distinguished Edward
Stanley.
There, too, were Emma and Annie,
looking happily on, while Mrs. westbrook
smiled her congratulations
Il was in country church that they
were married. There were many there
from the gay city to witness the ceremony.
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