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How Bruin Catches the Seal.

The mother seal builds her nursery be-
meath the surface of the ice in such
manner that it can enter in from the water
below; here the young seal passes its in
fancy, and when the returning heat of
summer has destroyed its igloo or dwelling,
the young seal is old enough to take care
of itself; but this mode of lodging its youth
beneath the ice is we'll known to the bear,
who, with his keen scent, soon detects its
whereabouts, and, making a spring, comes
down heavily with all its weight on the
pool of the igloo, crushes it in, and imme-
diately seizes the young seal with its paw.
Here, it might be supposed, the hungry
bear at once devours its prey; no, no, it is
far too wary to do SO; it knows full well
that where baby is, there must of neces-
sity be mother, and that she will be in
search of her darling; therefore the bear
scrapes away the snow from the seal hole,
and, holding the young seal by the fippers,
allows it to founder about, and when the
mother approaches, the bear slyly draws
the young seal toward it until the old one
is within reach, when he seizes her with
the other paw, and thus captures both.
Bruins method of capturing seal in the
water is as follows He sinks his body
beneath the surface of the water, leaving
only the head above, which resembles
piece of ice; and when the seal raises its
head above the surface, Bruin quietly
sinks, and, swimming under the seal, seizes
it. Thus the poor stupid seal becomes
victim to misguided confidence.
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EXAMINERS NOTICE.

v1HE Undersigned, Examiners, appointed
bv virtue of a commission to them issued
.bo Comfy Commissioners of Carroll
W ~, t N omen a Public Road in said county
oor,mencng oou at a point about two perches
Jntant from the south east corner OF the
S.o S.ome Chanel. and on the public road leading
I%onnfrom 70 Westminster, and running thence
uslnrtbwardlv on or near the bed of an old
,oad now in use, throug h the lands OF Isaac
r Forrest, Francis Shriver, and Mrs. Har-
Nan mill it reaches the north east corner of
,ba ,Ie", nronerty now occupied by Levi Poulson,
or cn' near thereto; and running thence north
,DardIv with straight line to stake standing
between two marked trees, on David NIco-
demus' woodland; thence with a straight line
through said Nicodemus' woodland, and also
through John Diehfs land to limestone
heretofore planted in the public road Leading
from Richardson's Station to the Washington
Pad and for corner on Lincoln W. Rine-
bort;s IU land then with line of said Rinehart's
land and on the bed Of an old road, now IN
mSo to q limestone at the end of said line,
and continuing the course thereof to David
Enplar's land; then with straight line to
cInmp of marked chestnut trees, standing at
the west edge of said old road; then with
straight line to a point in or near the middle
of the old road, at the southwest corner of
David Engar's orchard; then with straigh hit
line to where a private road, known as the
Ore Wagon Road, intersects the old road
north of David Englar's limekiln; then with
a straight line, on the bed of said old road,
to James w. Beacham's land, and continuing
on the bed of said old road, as now used,
through the lands of said James W. Beacham
and Thomas Z. Van Bibber, to where the
same intersects the public road leading from
Bakers Mill to Westminster; also for change
in the County Road leading from Richard
sons Station to the Washington Road, from
where it now runs between the lands of David
Nicodemus and John Diehl on the one side,
and Lincoln W. Rinehart on the other side,
Ia distance of 40 perches;) and that the same
be located so as to run on David Nicodemus'
woodland, with straight line to intersect the
public road herein petitioned for, at stake
standing between two marked trees, and cal
led for in the above described route.
All persons whom it may concern are here
by notified that we will meet on the premises,
on Tuesday, the Fist day Of May, 1878, at 8
o'clock, am. to execute the trust reposed in
us by the aforesaid commission.
JOHN T. CASSELL,
ALFRED H. BARNES,
DAVID GEIMAN,
april 2O-5t Examiners.
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symmes's Hole.

Mr.. Americas Symmes, a son of the
late Captain John Cleves Symmes, United
States Army, who stoutly maintained that
the earth is hollow, open at the poles and
capable of being inhabited within, and who
wrote in advocacy of his theory large
book on "Concentric Spheres" has petit
toned Congress to let either himself or
one of his sons accompany the Howgate
expedition to the North Pole. Mr.. Amer
icus Symmes lives in Jefferson county,
Kentucky, only few miles from Louis
vile, and has been for many years a real
estate agent in that city. For several
years past he has lectured in Louisville
and elsewhere on his fathers theory, in
which he is a firm believer He maintains
that the indications of vegetation met
with in high latitudes by Arctic explorers
are complete proof of the theory he ad-
vocates, for unless there was some shell
tered place within the crust of the earth
he says that it is certain the plants found
on icebergs and elsewhere never could
have grown. Mr.. Symmes is very enthu-
siastic in his belief that pleasanter place
to live can be found within the earth than
on its surface, but like many other men
struggling with great ideas he is to an ex-
tent incoherent in explaining the reasons
by which he arrives at conclusions. When
the Howgate plan was first suggested Mr..
Symmes offered to bear part of the ex-
pense of the expedition if his son, Mr..
William W. Symmes, lawyer, who prae-
tised for some time in Cincinnati, was per-
mitted to be one of the explorers, and if
one of the objects of the expedition should
be made to discover the alleged hole at
the pole. Captain Symmes, the origina-
tor of the theory, was born in New Jersey
in 1870 and died in Butler county, Ohio,
in 1929, and was buried there. He was
very much laughed at for his theory, but
ridicule never shook him in his belief and
he made many efforts to secure money to
fit out an expedition to verify his theory.
From the time of his death until within
few years ago "Symmes's Hole" was al
most forgotten, but his son, Mr.. Americus
Symmes, then brought forward the theory
again, and for two or thrne years lectured
upon it wherever he could find an audi
ence to listen to him.
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Notice to Creditors.

NOTICE is hereby given that the subscri.
4N bers have obtained from the Orphans
Court of Carroll county Letters Testamentary
on the personal estate of
KINZY TAYLOR,
late of Carroll county, deceased. All persons
having claims against the deceased are hereby
warned to exhibit the same with the vouchers
thereof, legally authenticated, to the sub
scriber on or before the 23d day of November,
1878; they may otherwise by law be excluded
from all benefit of said estate. Those in
debted are requested to make immediate
payment
Given under our hands this 4th day Of
April, 1878.
ELIJAHTAYLOR,
EMILY j. ALLGIRE,
ap27-4t* Executors.
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NO. 1887 EQUITY.
In the Circuit Court for Carroll county as a
Court of Equity.

In the Circuit Court for Carroll county as a
Court of Equity.
jeremiah Elsroad and Columbus Elsroad,
administrators of J ohm Elsroad, deceased,
mortgage, VS.. Jesse Ruby and wife.
ORDERED this 25th day of April, A. d.
" 1878, that the sale made by jeremiah
Elsroad and Columbus Elsroad, administra.
tors of John Elsroad, deceased, and reported
in this cause, under and by virtue of a power
of sale contained in mortgage in the pro.
ceedings in this cause mentioned, be ratified
and confirmed, unless cause to the contrary
be shown on or before the 2Sth day of May,
A. D., 1878; provided copy of this order be
inserted in some newspaper published in Car
roll county once in each of three successive
weeks before the 2Oth day of May next.
The report states the amount of sales to
be S515.00.
FRANK 7. SHAW, Clerk
True copy-Test:
ap27-3t FRANK T. SHAW, Clerk.
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Important Statistics.

Kansas leads every State in the Union
in the yield of corn per acre, being forty
three and fve-tenths bushels. New Hamp-
shire comes next, with yield of forty-two,
Vermont follows with thirty-nine;* Ohio,
thirty-six and seven-tenths; Wisconsin,
thirty-four; Indiana, Iowa and Nebraska,
thirty; Michigan, twenty-nine; Missouri,
twenty-seven and eight-tenths; Minnesota,
twenty-five and four-tenths; Texas and
Illinois, twenty-six each.
Illinois takes the lead in the oat crop,
growing 43,789,581 out of the total 282,-
1O7, ,581 bushels.
Iowa produces the largest wheat crop
of any State, the production of the United
States being 112,549, ,533 bushels, and
that of Iowa 28,7O7, ,312 bushels, while
Wisconsin ranks next, with 24,375, ,435
bushels.
Ohio raises the most winter wheat, 81 )
625,7 ,759 of the 175, ,199, 1913 bushels pro-
duced in the country. The whole yield
of the State is one-ffth that of the United
States and double that of California.
Pennsylvania supplies one-ffth of the
rye produced in the country, or 3,577 ,641
bushels out of 16,918,795.
California produces the largest barley
crop, or 8,783, 400 out of total of 90,
761 1896 bushels, and also nine-tenths Of
our native silk cocoons.
New York is the largest cultivator Of
buckwheat, raising 1904, ,O5O of the total
of 6, 1921, ,721 bushels.
Mississippi takes the lead among the cot
ton growing States.
Kentucky grows more than half the
hemp crop of our country.
New York produces more than one-ffth
of the hay crop, or nearly twice as much
as Pennsylvania, which furnishes the next
largest figure in that line. New York
furnishes also more than two-thirds of the
hop crop of the country.
South Carolina supplies nearly half the
rice produced in the country. Georgia is
next, or 100000 pounds ahead of Lou
isiana. Nearly all the rice comes from
these three States.
Of the 272, ,784, ,341 pounds of tobacco
produced in the country, los, 1928
pounds are grownin in Kentucky. Virginia
comes next, with 33,O86, 1854 pounds.
Louisiana contributes nearly all the SUI
gar and molasses from cane, and Vermont
nearly one-third of the sugar of maple,
while New York produces one-fourth OF
the sugar from maple.
Ohio and Indiana produce each one
eighth of sorghum molasses.
New York grows one-Gfth of the whole
potato crop. North Carolina produces
more sweet potatoes than any other State
New York raises one fifth of the ma
tional supply of peas and beans.
California produces more than one-hali
the native wine.
*This statement of the growth of corn in two
of the New England States is certainly ar
error. The climate is too cold for corn.
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Notice to Creditors.

TNHE undersigned having settled in the
Il Orphans Court of Carroll county, an
account of the personal estate of Ezra Legore,
late of Carroll county, deceased, and ascer-
tanned the balance in his hands for distribu-
ton among the creditors of said deceased,
hereby gives notice to said creditors to file
their claims against said deceased, legally
authenticated, with the Register of Wills for
Carroll county, on or before the Goth day ol
May, 1878, preparatory to distribution o. Of
amongst said creditors under the direction of
said Orphans Court, on the 9th day of May,
1878. After the final ratification of said dis
tributicn by the Orphans Court aforesaid, the
undersigned will be prepared to pay to each
OF said creditors their respective dividends
according to said distribution.
JONAS LEGORE,
ap 27-4t Administrator.
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EXAMINERS NOTICE.

TNHE undersigned, Examiners, appointed
4 by virtue of a commission to them is
sued by the County Commissioners of Carroll
county, to open a public road in said county
commencing at the old Liberty Road, near
Denning's Postoffice, and near the end of the
county road leading from the old Liberty
road to the Sans Creek road, and running
from thence on or near the bed of an old
road through the land of Mrs. Barbara A.
Greenwood, to the lines between the lands of
the said Mrs. Greenwood and W. w. Naile
and others, and thence on said lines, still
following the old road, to the land of Daniel
Killer; thence through the land of said Daniel
Killer to the land of Thos. s.. Jones; thence
through the land of said Thos. S. Jones to the
dividing line between the lands of Samuel A.
Haines and Jacob Killer, striking again the
old road, and running thereon, or as near
as practicable, to the land of Samuel Gil
bert; then on or near the line between the
lands of the said Gilbert and James Baker,
and between Nathan Hymiller, David Bale,
and others, to the land of Ezra Garner; through
the land of said Garner to the land of Mrs.
Mary Cook; through the lands of Mrs. Cook
and Nicholas Corsey to the land of Mrs.
Rachel Barnes; through the land of the
said Mrs. Barnes to the land of Mrs. Ly-
dia A. Wagner; then through the land of the
said Mrs. Wagner to intersect the Nicodemus
road, near Joseph Hoover s tenant housei
thence with a straight line through the land
of Resin F. Cook to the land of David Fow-
BILE; then on the line between the lands of the
said Fowble and others to the land of Joshua
W. Sellman; then through the land of the
said Selman to intersect the county road
leading from the Stone Chapel Church to the
Washington road; then following the bed of
said road north to near the cider mill of Levi
Manahan; and from thence on or near the
line betwnen the lands of Levi Manahan and
the heirs of Joseph Englar, to intersect the
county road known as the Chapel road.
All persons whom it may concern are
hereby notified that we will meet on the prem
ises, on Tuesday, the 2Sth day Of May, 1878,
at 9 o'clock, a. M, to execute the trust re-
posed in us by the aforesaid commission.
JABEZ A. BUSH,
JOHN B. L. SELLMAN,
ADAM BLOOM,
ap27-5t Examiners.
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TREATMENT OF SCARLET FEvER.-Dr.
Pigeon, in the highly authoritive London
Lancet, says :-"I have had wonderful
success in my treatment of scarlet fever.
All cases were well marked, and the cpl
dermis on the arms came off like the skin
of a snake. The following is the exact
treatment Thoroughly annoint the pa
tient with sulphur ointment twice day;
give five to ten grains of sulphur in lit
tie jam three times a day. Sufficient sui
phur was burned twice daily Con Goals on
shovel to fill the room with the fumes,
and of course was inhaled by the patient
Under this treatment each case improved
Immediately, and none were over eight
days in making complete recovery. Il
prevents disease from spreading. Tn,
worst case yields to it. It is specific.
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Select Auetrp.
A WAY-sIDE MEMORY.
BY EMMA ALICE BROWNE.

BY EMMA ALICE BROWNE.
Under the silver fringes
Of the willow boughs that swung
A-glitter in the sunshine,
With frozen jewels strung,
With smouldering fire of opals,
Ofpearls and chrysoprase,
And the twinkling diamond drops that set
The frosty m orn ablaze;
Under the swaying willows,
Where the tall green rushes sprang,
The wayside spring of my childhood
Bubbled and laughed and sang
Bubbled and rippled over,
As the blithe winds came and went
And dimpled all day in the sunshine
Or guTgled with glad content.
Through clink in mossy boulder
Its living waters purled,
With inarticulate whispers
Of the wonderful under world;
The tall ferns nodded wisely
With every frond and feather
The brown reeds bent to listen,
With all their heads together.
Under the wintry starlight,
And under the summer moon,
Its ceaseless silvery babble
Was set to the self-same tune.
The rushes on its margin
We're the greenest that ever grew
And moss and brake, for its sweet sake,
Were golden through and through.
When the skies were gray with tempest,
And the landscape bleak and bare,
1t seemed like joyous presence
In the midst of grief and care:
Like cherry, happy nature
No cloud can overcast,
In Joy or pain, in sun or rain,
Contented to the last.
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The HAIR.-A very good remedy for
thickening the hair and preventing it
from falling out is to wash daily the scalp
with sage tea, made by pouring boiling
water over sage leaves, and allowing it to
steep on the back Of the stove. Another
remedy, where badness is the grievance,
is to rub the bald place every night, before
retiring, with sliced onion and washing
it off in the morning with CASTLE soap.
We have known this to raise a growth of
hair on head that had been bald for
seven years. It requires perseverance to
be success. Ammonia, diluted with wa
ter, (warm.) in the proportion of one part
of ammonia to two parts water is an ex-
cellent wash for the hair. It renders the
hair clean, soft and smooth, and removes
dandruff and dust from the scalp. Il
should afterwards be washed of with pure
water and dried with towel.
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The horse viii eat ten hours out of eve
ry twelve; and the hog never knows what
it is not to be hungry. The crow flies six
miles, and the wild pigeon sixty an hour,
but the humming bird beats all things on
the wing. The wild turkey can run faster
than he can fly, and any man who is a
good walker can tire deer out in twenty
four hours. The fox is the hardest animal
to catch in trap, and muakrat the cas-.
lest, and the meadow lark is the shyest Of
all the birds in the air. The spider is the
only creature that catches its food in .
trap, and sheep win live without watel
longer than any other domestic animal.
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VOL. XIII.-NO. 25.

for many miles away to the Lehigh Water
Gap, mountains, valleys, river, canal, rail-
roads and villages as far as the eye can
reach, unconsciously the words of the poet
rise like hymn to the lips:
"And have felt
A presence that disturbs me with ihe joy
ofelevated thoughts, a sense sublime
Ofsomething far more deeply interfused,
Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns
And as the pines bow their heads,
rocked by the strong northwest wind, we
utter in a low voice the sublime words of
Milton
His praise ye winds, that from the four quarters
blow,
Breathe soft or loud; and wave your tops We pines,
With every plant, in sign of worship waveF"
Then for while we pause in silence,
overawed by the calmness, the sublimity
of the scene. Those moments spent here,
alone, in the presence only of the cloud
capped mountains, crowned with living
green, and of their God and ours, are sa-
cred to US and their memory can never
perish. Soon and suddenly we are awak-
ened from our dreams by the coming of
our guide with his party. After few
more moments we sadly turn our faces to
the east and retrace our steps, and again
stand at the entrance of the beauteous
fairy world, of which we have had just
glimpse.
Our return to the Mansion House, our
experience there, meeting with acquaint-
ances, that happy walk, the pleasures
of that evening upon the piazza, all
these pleasant "reminiscences will be recalled
many times during our lives.
In the morning we bade farewell to
these pleasant scenes, wondering if we
would ever return, and after a long ride
arrived at last in Pottsville.
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Notice to Creditors.

NOTICE is hereby given that the subscri.
IN bers have obtained from the Orphans
Court of Carroll county, letters of Admins
tration W. A. on the Personal Estate of
SARAH HOFFMAN,
late of Carroll county, deceased. All per-
sons having claims against the deceased are
hereby warned to exhibit the same with the
vouchers thereof legally authenticated to the
subscribers, on or before the Both day of No
vember next; they may otherwise by law be
excluded from all benefit of said estate. Those
indebted are requested to make immediate
payment.
Given under our hands this 23d day Of
October, 1877.
STEPHEN THURMAN,
MARGARET THURMAN,
ap27-4t Administrators w. A.
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NOTICE.

NHE Commissions of the following named
Il persons, appointed Justices of the Peace
in and for Carroll county and State of Mary
land, and Officers of Registration for the diff
ferent districts of Carroll county, were filed
in this Office on the 18th day of April, 1878,
and they are hereby notified that those who
fail to qualify within thirty days from the
above date their places will be deemed vacant.
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.
District No. 1.-Wm. H. Grouse, Geo. A.
Flickinger, Henry Gait, William Fisher.
District No. 2.-William Frizzell, Daniel
E. Christ, John Jordan.
District No. 3.-Jesse N. Legore, Richard
Dell, J. Henry Knipple.
District No. 4.-Joseph E. Ward, Azariah
Oursler, William Stocksdale. John Bowman
District No. 81. Oliver Wadlow, James
District No. 6.-Jacob Baltozer, Francis
Warner, Henry Motter.
District No. ii. Fl. Hoppe, William J.
Mitten, Gustavus W. Crapster, Peter B.
Mikesell, John B. Summers.
District No. 8.-Hanson NJ. Drach, John
W. Abbott.
District No. 9.-Joab Brown, Thos. Buck
ingham, John Elgin, Howard NJ. Zile.
District No i0.-Wiliam T. Fogle, Isaiah
Ham.
| District No. 11.-William 7. Smith, Louis
Dielman, P. J. Bennett.
District No. 12.-Thomas Jones, Granville
T. Yingling.
OFFICERS OF REGISTRATION.
1st District-Wm. L. Rudisel.
I'd g John R. Haines.
Sd 90 Jonas Frock.
4th % Noah Stocksdale.
9Th J. w. Steele, M. D.
9th I" George Shower.
7th 90 Lee McElroy.
9Th " Francis L. Hawn.
9th il" Abraham Albaugh.
10th &c John Skunk.
18th 90 Jesse Lambert.
18th /" John Hartsock.
Hugo E. Fiddis, Notary Public, Westminster.
TEST:
FRANK 7. SHAW,
Clerk Circuit Court for Carroll county.
ap20-5t
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NOTICE OF ELECTION.

TIME annual meeting of the Stockholders
Il ofthe Bachman Valley Railroad Com
pany Of Maryland, for the election of Direc.
tors, and for the transaction of other bust
ness, will be held at the Office of the Company
1878, at 10 clock, A. NJ.
C. J. NOURSE, JR.,
ap27-3t Secretary.
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Notice to Creditors.

NOTICE is hereby given that the subscri-
~ Der has obtained from the Orphans
Court of Carroll county, Letters Testamen-
tary on the Estate of
DAVID BRUMMEL,
late of Carroll county, deceased. All persons
having claims against the deceased are hereby
warned to exhibit the same with the vouchers
thereof legally authenticated to the subscriber,
on ., or before the 22d day of November, 1878;
1ney may otherwise by law be excluded from
all benefit of said estate Those indebted are
requested to make immediate payment.
Given under my hand this 22d day OF
April, 1878.
ELISHA BRUMMEL,
ap2T-4t Executor.
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Transfers and Attachments

TNHE County Commissioners for Carroll
i county will meet at their office, in the
Court House, at Westminster, on
Tuesday and Wednesday, the 7th and Sth Of
May, and on Monday, Tuesday and Wednes-
day, the 18Th, 18th and 18th Of Nay, to make
TRANSFERS AND ABATEMENTs.
All persons interested are requested to at
tend, as no abatements or transfers will be
made after that time to affect the levy of 1878,
as the Tax Books will positively closed after
that date.
Persons making application for transfers Of
property will be required to comply with
sections 18 and 10 of Article 81 of the Code
of Public General Laws.
By order of the Board.
L. c. TRUMBO,
april 20-4t Clerk.
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WANTED

DY young man preparing for the minis
ID try, good situation until the Fall.
References exchanged. Any kind of honest
business so that he can be employed until the
Fall. Wages enough to pay board. Address
INDUSTRY, care Adu0ca te Office. ap2-7St