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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-04-28

Do Nor FACE THE LIdHT.-Statistic
kept by oculists employed in infrmaries for
eye diseases have shown that the habit of
some persons in facing window from
which the light falls directly on the eyes
as well as on the work, injure their
eyes in the end. The best way is to
work with side light, or If the work
needs strong illuminations, 50 that it is
necessary to have the working table before
the window, the lower portion Of the lat
ter should be covered with screen, so
as to have a toplight alone, which does
not shine in the eyes when the head is
slightly bent over and downward toward
the work. In the schools in Germany
this matter has already been attended to,
and the rule adopted to have all the seats
and tables so arranged that tho pupils
never face the windows but only have the
side lights from the left; and as the light
simultaneously thrown from two sides
gives an inference Of shadows, it has been
strictly forbidden to build school-rooms
with windows on both sides, such illumi-
nation having also proved Injurious to the
eyes Of the pupils. We may add to this
the advice not to place the lamp in front
of you when at work in the evening, but
a little on one side, and never to neglect
the use Of shade so as to prevent the
strong light shining in the eyes. This is
especially to be considered at the present
time when kerosene lamps, with their iu-
tepscly luminous flames, become more
and more common.--M Medical Journal.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-04-28

A correspondents of the Los Angeles
Express tells of the discovery on the Col
orado desert Of a volcanic lake three acres
in extent, containing boiling soda, springs
that have thrown up mud in pyramidal
form around their vents, which glitter
with sulphur-the temperature Of the
water is thought to be 120 degrees. One
of these steam jets is projected out Of
mound twelve feet sidewise. This escape
occurs about once every two seconds. One
of the numerous pools of water within the
area of these boiling springs is perfectly
cold, but saline to the taste. Pieces Of
sulphur, almost pure, have been broken of
from the mounds thrown up by these
waters.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-04-28

into consideration; but America has enough
coal for all the world Want Of space
forbids our saying anything about the
white coal found in Australia, or the i'm
mense bogs of peat found in Ireland,
Wales and some parts of England, large
quantities of which are used for fuel as a
substitute for coal. It would be singular
if it should come TO pass that America
should supply England and literally @carry
Goals TO Newcastle"
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-04-28
WESTMINSTER, MD SATURDAY, APRIL 28 1877

sou, with whom Abraham Lincoln sojourn-
ed as wOod-chopper in the early years Of
the current century, often reeounted the
terrible incidents of the earthquake that
destroyed New Madrid, below Cairo, in
1872, and the writer Of this has often
heard Mr.. Furguson and the father of
Charlie Morris, of Atlantic Place, on the
Mississippi, relate many facts here recited.
N. Y. World.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-04-28

The permanent exhibition which opens
in the main Centennial Exhibition build
ing, on the 10th of May, promises 10 be a
very extensive affair. Displays are on
hand from Austria, Belgium, Canada,
China, Denmark, Egypt, Great Britain,
Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Norway,
Orange Free States, Portugal, France,
Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Tunis, Rus
sia, Venezuela, Spain and Brazil. 1t is
said that the display, ia extent, win cover
more ground than the first worlds fair in
London, and the exhibition promises to be
a complete success.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-04-28
The Man Who Stops His Paper.

Philip Gilbert Hamerton, in his admi-
rable papers of intellectual Life thus
talks to the man who stopped his paper"
Newspapers are to the civilized world
what the daily house talk is to the men,
bers Of the family-they keep our daily
interest in each other, they save us from
the evils Of isolation To live as men,
Der of the great white race that has filed
Europe and America and colonized or
conquered whatever territory it has been
pleased to occupy; to share from day to
day its thoughts, its cares, its inspirations
it is necessary that every man should read
his paper. Why are the French peasants
so bewildered and at sea 1t is because
they never read newspaper. Aud why
are the inhabitants of the United States
though scattered over territory fourteen
times the area of France, so much more
capable of concerted action, so much more
interested in new discoveries of all kinds,
and capable of selecting and utilizing the
best of them 1t is because the newspa.
pers penetrate everywhere, and even the
lonely dweller on the prairie or in the
forest is not intellectually isolated from
the great currents of public life which
flow through the telegraph and press"
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-04-28

BE READY.-Be ready to throw in an
odd half hour or an hours time when it
will be an accommodation, and do not
seem to make merit of it. Do it heart
lily. Though not word be said, your
employer will make a note of it. Make
yourself indispensable to him, and he will
lose many of the opposite kind before he
will part with you. Those young men
who watch the clock to see the very see.
ond their working hour is up-who leave,
no matter what state the work be in, at
precisely the instant-wbo calculate the
exact amount they can slight their work,
and yet not get reproved-who are lavish
Of their employers goods-will always be
the first to receive notice, when times are
dull, that their services are no longer
required.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-04-28

How TO SELECT FLouR.-In selecting
-four first look at it. If it is white, with
yellowish straw colored tint, buy it.
If it is white, with blush cast, or with
white specks in it refuse il. Seconl 4
examine its adhesiyeness- knead a
little Of It between your fingers, ifit works
soft and sticky it is poor. Third, throw
little lump of dried -four against a
smooth surface, if it falls like powder it is
bad. Fourth, squeeze some Of the -four
tightly in your hand, if it retains the
shape given by the pressure that, too, is a
good sign. II is safe to buy -four that
Will stand all these tests. The modes are
given by all old -four dealers, and they
pertain to a matter that concerns every.
body-the staff Of life,
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-04-28

The best gift TO give to your enemy is
forgiveness to your opponent, tolerance !;
to friend, your heart; to your child, a
good example; to father, Difference to
your mother, conduct that VIII make her
proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all
men, charity.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-04-28

Andrew Young, formerly Head Master
of the City School, Edinburgh, is the
author Of sTheFo IS Happy Land. 4
Few people are aware that he Is still living.
The hymn was composed in 1888, aud has
been translated into every modern tongue.
Mr.. Young resides in Edinburgh.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-04-28

Pride may sometimes be a useful spring
board 70 the aspiring soul, but Il is much
more frequently destructive stumbling
block.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-04-28

In every sin which man deliberately
commits he takes down draught of
deadly poison. In every lust which be
cherishes, he embraces dagger.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-04-28

An idle man always thinks he has q
right 70 b. aifrontsd if busy man does
not devote "a him just as much time a. he
himself has leisure % wait.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-04-28

Blue glass has been tested in the Royal
Gardens at Kew, England, and the effects
as reported BY the director, show that
blue rays retard the growth Of plants.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-04-28

Insults are like counterfeit moaey; We
cannot hinder them from being offered, but
We are not compelled 10 take them.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-04-28

Il is pleasant to shake hands with
girl whose fingers are covered with dia.
monds, for you feel that you have fortune
within your grasp.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-04-28
.oriqinal noetrg.
LIFE NO TRIPLE.
lFfiften for The Democratic Adcocate

BY J. $. @.
iiih 1 no trihe. Use II well,
Tlme IS not idly given,
Ift cyery thought and action tell
For Justice, truth and heaven.
Waste not tho morning hours that throw
Their bright beams round your cot
But 10 some honest labor go,
Of cheer the poor mans lot.
tt hoon bask not beneath the shade
III dreamy idlcness--
BAl seizc the fore-plane or the spade
ug seek some heart to bless.
Aiqsenlng rest not I'LL the sun
Has sunk beneath the west.
And then upon some mission run.
70 make your neighbor hlcst
Thus All the summer days improve
Az God would have you do
Andcpltvate heart ofloye
As YOU the work pursuc
lat mol your thoughts In channels flow
That would yourself disgrace,
tfAu The heart your friends should know
And read upon your face.
Work speak and think, beneath the eye
0fthai omniscient One, ....
Who. ITO do the best you try,
At last will say. Hol done
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-04-28

At Wardhuys, in Norway, the day lasts
from the 2lst Of May 70 The 22d Of July,
without Interruption; aud at Spitzbergen
the longest day Is three and a-half months.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-04-28

" a prudent man, says wisfy French
man. Is like ! pin; his head prevents him
going too far
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-04-28

lllustrions men, who, Ike torches, have
consumed themselves in order to enighten
others, have often lived unrewarded, and
died unlamented.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-04-28

The poor mans purse nst NA empty
bat he has a ihueh GOLD IN lhe 1aua6s,
and e mach silver ID 10 iafee y lsaasbodf
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-04-28

No fafmtr eau pl5& asIa by Iqxa'a.
i over il his 6en mind
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-04-28

Work for ain Underground Explorer
Wonderful and inexplcablc physical
facts are not confined to the lowlands along
the route of the Mississippi, and stranger
than the works Of primeval man, consist
ing of mounds, canals and fortified strong
holds, are cavernous depths, within which
rivers flow from the mountains TO the great
drain of the continent. Fourteen miles
southeast Of Bowling Green, Ky, is a
cavern more extraordinary and wonderful
than the Mammoth Cave. Not far away;
on stone at the entrance of the latter,
the wonder of country bumpkih Is in
scribed in words once quoted in the Senate
Of the United States.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-04-28

In the worldly struggle passive endur.
ance is no less useful than active energy.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-04-28
Our Qolio.
MYSTERIES OF THE EARTH.

subterranean Rivers and Lakes Of the Mississippi
Naley--Cnrious Cavorns and Bottomluss Pits
Work for an Underground Explorer
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-06-20
On the Jury.

Just now the editor of this department
is enjoying the Ito him) unusual luxury of
jury duty in the county court, and while
listening to the tedious pleadings of the
lawyers, or their endless questioning OF
unimportant witnesses, we have found
time to wonder why so many people " go
10 law" and how much it costs those who
pay, to keep the thirty jurors and
twenty lawyers and three judges and con-
stables and clerk and reporter and janitor'
besides witnesses like the sands of the sea-
shore, most of whom are used in trying
civil cases. About the only reason we
have seen to make us believe that strict,
equal Justice is done is the fact that both
parties are generally mad when the YER
dict is given. Such trivial causes of ac-
ton, such out-and-out regular iron-clad
swearing, such labored efforts of counsel
to make black seem, if not Il pure white
at least gerry light gray. If the Grange
had succeeded in having such differences
as arise in community settled by reference
rather than by " going to law" it would
have accomplished good much greater
than any one if not all it has done as yet
Douglas Jerrold had twenty pounds from
the London Punch for "adyice to person
about to get married; don't" That ad
vice is worth much more to people abou
to 90 to law.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-06-20
Having Time.

For the last few years there has been a
gradual tendency among farmers, toward
earlier cutting of grass, and we think with
excellent results.
Tho time has come when a good deal OF
grass is fit to cut, and will now grow less,
rather than more valuable.
Through the extraordinary forwardness
of the season, we have this from ten days
to two weeks earlier than usual, and hoe
ing and haying are jostling each other,
and the tendency will naturally be toward
doing the hoeing first, and so, unless much
care is used, grass will stand till too ripe
We have two pieces which would have
been cut before now, except for this jury
business-one IN old moving where there
is scarcely anything but June grass, the
other q piece of new stock which has be-
gun to lodge. When piece has COM
menced that, the sooner it is cut the better,
as it will lose more at the bottom than it
will gain at the top. The other piece we
shall pillow and SOW to India wheat, for an
early crop in the fall for fattening the pigs
always provided we get home to do it
in season. Some Of our neighbors are
cutting over their old mowingS and then
blowing them for fodder corn. One thing
only is necessary; care should be taken
not to get more plowcd up than one can
take care of and manure well next year.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-06-20

rakes, drags, ETC., through the whole cata-
l)gue of farm machinery.
If one has but small amount of hay
to cut, and could get it done for an amount
which the interest on moving machine
would cover, it would be waste for such
a man to buy machine, provided he could
always get it done just when he wanted it,
when the grass was just right to cut. Bat
such seasons are busy times, everybody is
in a hurry, grass ripens fast, and if the
crop damages by standing, then the bal
ance turns in favor of having the machine.
The same is more broadly true of other
haying tools, for instance tedder and a
horse rake.
On small farm, the difference in time
which would be required to turn hay by
hand instead of using a tedder, would not
pay for owning one. But circumstances
could change this in y single day. When
our best grass is down and partly dried,
and one of those sudden changes of
weather comes on, "A shower is coming up,
or it is fixing for rain tomorrow; then
time is worth money, and if by using n
tedder the crop can be secured unframed,
the tedder is paying for itself.
We never so fully realized the value and
help of horse rake as last season. We
had never owned one, and had done the
raking with small hand rake, with drag
rake to rake after; but with horse rake
we could let the hay lie till it was ready tc
rake, when boy could rake it in shol
time, leaving the men free to do the cart
ing; and when hurried would let the rak.
ing after be done in the same manner.
On the whole we are inclined to the be
lief that generally there will be more loss
from damage to crops than from judicious
buying of too many machines, and more
waste from lack of care of them, than il
interest on their cost.
We shall say word some other time
concerning the merits of particular ma
chimes.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-06-20

In late number of the Scientific Far-
mer, the editor made the statement that
great waste on the farm "was in buying
tools, and in not buying tools" Though
this statement may at first seem contra
diction, it will be found on consideration
to be quite true. Some people from love
ofnovelty, Or being taken with new things
will purchase everything which comes
along, whether they really heed it or not,
and whether it is really what it purports
to be, or will do the work for which it is
recommended. Such indiscriminate buy
ing is waste, and soon the premises are
filled with useless lumber which" cost
money, for which the buyer has received,
and will receive no return.
Another waste in buying is where really
good machines are thrown aside, after the
novelty of their use is gone, and some new
thing perhaps no better, is procured in
their place.
but perhaps greater waste than any
of these is to be found in the lack of care
given to tools and machines in and after
their use, and in no having their work
fitted for their use. We have done more
damage to our moving machine in one
half day in moving for neighbor on new
stock, where the small stones were not
picked off clean, than would ordinarily
come from its use on smooth clean meadow
in whole hay season. Too much pains
can hardly be taken in getting moving
lands down smooth and getting off the
stones, especially the small ones, which
are the worst, as they will get between the
sections and so do most damage to the
knives.
We have seen it stated that the average
time good moving machine would last
when well cared for, was twenty years, but
that the average of their actual lasting,
was five yeats. This may be rather a
larger difference than exists in Vermont,
but the waste is large enough to be made
less by good care in fitting the land, and
in housing the tools when not in use. The
same is true Of plows, harrows, cultivators,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-06-20

tor's wife, "if he knew all he has TO goI
through before he attains to any poslI.ont
worth having. Day and night he mus 5
he on call, bis time is never his own anu .
oply by intense and long-protraotee,a sta 10y
can be hope to attain emineneei tne1 ~ ol .
nroFession is so crowded Let him DC q
merchant, minister, a civil engineer
I'LL" Not a merchant, surely said lady
in velvet; "he must begin at the lowest
round of the ladder, promotion is tardy'
and failure may come at any time"
Not civil engineer interposed an n,
other; hundreds of engineers are OUT o. o.
employment, and every year hundreds
more are graduated from our colleges. ~,
IF a young man is called Of Co.. 10 }. ' ne
ministry said clergymans WIFE, by
all means encourage him to heed the call ,
The life is one of incessant struggle pul
one of incessant reward as well; 1t IS
life of poverty, of self-denial, of devotion
to others; but are not all noble lives llye'
Of struggle and self-denial, and devotion
to others, and is any life fully crowned De-
fore its close? Youths Companion
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-06-20

SHEPHERD DoGs.-Very many farmers
fail to appreciate the value us well us the
pleasure of good dog around their pre-
misses. If shepherd dogs were better
known there would be fewer useless ours,
whose sole aim seems to be to prowl
around on their own account and take
whatever lays in their way, not excepting
sheep, of which many suffer. In many
places heavy taxes are laid on all dogs, the
sum raised by this means going to ply the
sheep raisers for the loss they sustained by
the depredations of the hundreds of worth
less ours which roam around without hay
ing any acknowledged home. This we
think is unfair to those who have good
dogs, which stay at home and attend to
their masters business, for they have to
hel p make good the loss occasioned by the
misdceds of the evil disposed ones. We
think that if cold lead was the penalty i'm
posed on all sheep-stealing dogs, the coun-
try would soon be rid of much useless dog
stock, and this would foster the breeding
and dissemination of valuable dogs.
To show that shepherd dogs are soon APP
preciated, it is merely necessary to state
that when they are once introduced into Il
neighborhoOd, the neighboring farmers
soon find out where they can be had, and
get some for their own use. And this lik-
ing for this breed of dogs is very readily
accounted for, for they arc not only attrac-
tive in appearance us well as most excel.
lent watch dogs, but they are SO readily
taught when properly and kindly handled
to do so many useful things about the farm
that their owners soon appreciate then
usefulness, and are 10th to part with them
after having had them once Ohio Farmer
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-06-20

bare of leaves, and then, whether July
grown Or not, 90 down into the ground
and form little black pup@, varying IN
size according to the way the worm is fed
Emerging in about two weeks, they lay
their second brood, which pass the pupa
state in the ground, as before, but do not
emerge until the following spring. The
fly lives about nine days.
For their destruction we first look to the
birds. While few only will catch the
fly, none are found to eat the worm. Thus
we are deprived of our most powerful al
ly. We never half realize the good done
by insectiverous birds until we have an
enemy they disregard. Among the nat
ural enemies of this pest are three kinds
of ichneumon flies, of which one is an
egg parasite; From this aid three-iourths
of the eggs are destroyed; but the other
fourth give us much trouble.
The first method of destruction is to pick
off the worms and destroy them, This,
if there are but few bushes, can be done
quite easily, and is really the most practi-
cable method,
The next in use is to dust on the leaves
powdered white hellebore, from a muslin
bag. Used in this way it is not sufficient
ly poisonous to endanger, from use of the
fruit. This is recommended by Walsh and
Riley.
A solution of pound of copperas to six
gallons of water has been used with sue
cess. 1t blackens the leaves, but does nc
injury to them. Suds made of carboliC
soap also answers the same purpose, ant
may be sprinkled on from a common
sprinkler. Any dust that touches them Is
lodged in their spiracles, or breathing
pores, and soon produces death. Dus
from the road, dried fine plaster of Paris
or any finely pulverized substance will
answer. The Grafton fertilizer, which
was finely pulverized quartz, was the hes
material | ever saw for killing them. l
possessed the requisites of great fnenes
and perfect dryness, so it would make
dust easily.
Gum aloes is, when fine, equally pene
trating, and less dangerous than the whit
hellebore.
BY little attention in time this pest cal
be easily stayed, by any of the mean
spoken of, but The Boston Journal o
Chemistry" says this worm can be imme
diately destroyed by the use of carbolat'
of lime This is certainly less costly ant
more agreeable to use than the helebore
so to those that must buy something to use
instead of using road dust, l would recon-
mend it. With two or three application
the work would be done.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-06-20

A GRANGER Law,-The grangers have
accomplished one great good by their war
upon the railroads. Some time ago they
carried law drought the Illinois legisa-
ture, which provides for the limiting of
freight rates by board of officials APP
pointed for this purpose. The railroads, of
course, opposed This measure, ard it was
carried to the United States Supreme Court
to test its constitutionality, resulting in a
complete victory for the grangers. Iii
nois is the only State in this country having
such laws, though they have been in opera
ton for some years in England.-Scie1-
hfc Farmer