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Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1881-05-14
A Wonderful Lake.

The greatest wonder in the State of
Iowa, and perhaps in any other State,
is what is called the Walled Lake, in
Wright County, twelve miles north of
the Dubuque and Pacific Railway, and
$50 miles west of Dubuque City.
The lake is two or three feet higher
than the earth's surface. In some
places the wall is ten feet high, fifteen
feet wide at the bottom, and five feet
vide on the top. Another fact is the
size of the stone used in the construc-
ton, the whole of them varying in
weight from three tons down to 100
pounds. There is an abundance of
stones in Wright County, but surround
ing the lake, to the extent of five or ten
miles, there are none. No one can form
an idea of the means employed to bring
them to the spot, or who constructed it.
Around the entire lake is belt of
woodland half a mile in length, COM
posed of oak. With this exception the
country is a rolling prairie. The trees
must have been planted there at the
time of the building of the wall.
In the spring of the year 1856, there
was great storm, and the ice on the
lake broke the wall in several places,
and the farmers in the vicinity were
obliged to repair the damages to pre-
vent inundation. The lake occupies q
ground surface of $500 acres depth oi
water as great as twenty-five feet.
The water is clear and cold, soil sandy
and loamy. 1t is singular that no one
has been able to ascertain where the
wafer comes from nor where it goes
yet it is always clear and fresh.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1881-05-14
A Fight with Arabs.

A telegram received from the special
correspondent of the Figaro at La Gale,
and dated May 3, announces that Gen.
Logerot's division, after rapid march
and turning movement, has succeeded
in pacifying ell the country through
which he passed, and yesterday (Tues-
day) reached the mountain stronghold
of the Kroumirs on the side opposite
to that which was attacked by Gen.
Delbecque. Some Arabs having fired
on an officer sent out to observe the
movements of the Chaias encamped In
the plain of Dakla, Gen. Logerot or
dered his troops to advance and an i'm
portant cavalry engagement took place.
The French squadrons made charge,
killing, it is said, 400 of the enemy and
capturing a quantity of booty. The
French loss is insignificant as usual.
NJ. Allegro, the Tunisian Consul, de-
clares that he distinctly saw a number
of Tunisian regulars fighting in the
Kroumir ranks under the command Of
three of their own officers.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1881-05-14
4 Woman Hero.

They were q party of four couples
coming over on the Sarcelito boat, says
the Virginia City Chronicle, and the
prett;est girl of the gushers looked up at
Mount Tamalpais and said
"Oh, that horrid, horrid mountain. I
had the most frightful adventure up
there last summer you ever head of (!
It's a wonder my hair didn't turn
white"
"What on earth was it ?" chorused the
rest.
''Well, you see, l was up there with q
private picnic party, and wandered off
by myself about mile, picking flowers.
After while / sat down to rest in a
lonely canyon, and before long heard
a queer rustling sound in some bushes
right behind me. I knew at once, some
how, that it was grizzly"
'Great Scott and you all alone I"
shuddered her escort.
''Not soul within mile of me. I
was just paralyzed with terror. L didn't
dare to stir, but in minute 1 heard the
beast coming toward me through the
thicket."
"Oh, if I'd only been there" said a
pimply- faced young man, breathing
very hard.
81 knew it was no use to try and run,
and I had read somewhere that bears
never touch dead people. So I just shut
my eyes and held my breath.
"Gracious -
"Preity soon the great brute walked
up close and began shifting me all over.
Oh, it was just terrible !"
''Should have thought you would
have tainted"
"Oh, didn't dare to" said the hero
inc.
"Just then I suppose the party
rushed up and rescued you? ?" said the
appalled, audience.
"No, they didn't. Pretty soon I felt
the great beast pulling at the flowers in
my hat, so just got up and shooed the
horrid thing away"
"What The grizzly?"
''Oh, it wasn't erizzly. 1t was a
nasty old COW. But just suppose it had
been grizzly"
But the audience refused to "sup-
pose," and the party looked like q
Quaker funeral until the boat struck at
the wharf.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1881-05-14
The POrte's Difficulty.
THE CASE OF MR.. sUTER, WHO WAS CAR
RIED OFF BY BRIGANDs.

The unpleasant adventures of Mr.
Suter have, it is feared, come to a sad
conclusion. He was an Englishman,
connected with mine near Salonica,
which was threatened by brigands. A
guard of soldiers was offered to him
and accepted; but one night sixty-three
brigands attacked his house. The sol
diers, on awakening, fred at the bri-
gands in the house, but Mr.. Suter IN
terposed to prevent further loss of life,
and was accordingly carried off with his
family and servants. Mrs. Suter was
sent back to arrange for his ransom,
which was set at $4,000. When the
news reached England, Mr.. Goschen
informed the Porte that it would be
held responsible for the safety of the
captive and the amount of the ransom.
Troops and gunboats were therefore at
once sent against the brigands, and
now, according to the cable dispatches,
a bark, supposed to have been filled
with the brigands, has been pursued
and sunk. 1t is feared that Mr.. Suter
was on board, and sank with his cap
tors. 1t would seem, then, that the
Porte, in the effort to discharge its
responsibility for his safety, may have
destroyed him. This might raise a
fresh question as to what the Porte Is
now to be held liable for. The fact that
Mr.. Suter refused to abandon the mine,
when warned of its peril, and that
guard of soldiers, supposed to be sufli-
cient, was furnished him, and finally
that the attack on the brigands was
by his orders, might go to
show that the Porte had been held to
very strict accountability, i'll afterward
being made liable for his safe return
and his ransom. The additional ques-
tion arises, whether the best means were
taken for insuring his safe return !;
though it will hardly be pretended that
a Government should compound with
felons for ransom. There is still the
chance that Mr.. Suter was not on the
sunk bark; and it is not absolutely i'm
possible that the whole story of the
sinking may be trumped up in order to
rid the Porte of its difficulty.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1881-05-14
When Shall We Three Meet Again ?

Types have an expressiveness of their
own and can be made to speak plainly
enough without putting them into form
al words if they are only set up in the
right shape. The following will make
this plain to every reader, nothing but
the ordinary symbols in common use
being employed to tell the story OF the
three worthless. 1t will be seen that it
is wholly unnecessary to say that the
old girl in the middle is in condition
of perplexity, doubt and general anx-
iety, which is perfectly natural, consid-
ering how hard it must be to make her
self acceptable at one and the same time
to the very glum man on her right and
the exceedingly jolly fellow on her left
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1881-05-14
A Japanese Irish Relief Fund.

The AkebOnO &himbun says "Some
ShizOku in Kochi ken have joined to-
gether in order to raise a subscription,
which they intend to distribute among
the most unfortunate people of Ireland.
They have drawn up document which
is to be circulated among those who wish
to join the enterprise. 1t runs as fol-
lows According to our Philanthropic
duty to our foreign brethren, we intend
to bestow portion of our labor in Civ.
ing donation to the people of Ireland,
who are in most oppressed condition.
The old proverb says 1t is not heroic
to abandon faithfulness when it is pres.
ent before our eyes For this reason
people who approve of the enterprise
will send their subscriptions to the Ko-
chi iShimbun Office.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1881-05-14
Calico Printing in America.

Amasa, the father of William Sprague,
laid the foundation of calico printing
in this country in 1928, and erected his
mill on the site of the present Cranston
print works. The difficulties which
young American printers were obliged
to overcome were stupendous. For
long time Amasa struggled with almost
insurmountable difficulties, displaying
perseverance seldom seen. Sometimes
the fabrics were ruined by the acids,
aud sometimes the coiors would run to-
gether and produce the most disastrous
results. The difficulties seemed to In
crease in number. Thousands and thou
sands of yards were often ruined, and
what were then considered small fortunes
more than once lost in this way. ANA
sa Sprague, however, was not to be
foiled, and he determined to go to Europe
to see how the business was done there.
This was before the days of steam navi-
cation, and to cross the Atlantic involved
voyage of months, instead of days or
weeks. The intrepid man packed his
little valise and started, however. He
knew beforehand that it was the purpose
of the English manufacturers to conceal
their process of the art of dyeing, bleach
ing and printing. The only way, then,
was for him to secure work In some es-
tablishment, and this he succeeded IN
doing for the compensation of only few
shillings a week. Step by step he
gained favor and advancement from his
employers, until at last, to his great
happiness, he was promoted to some
position in the coloring foom, where he
learned the long coveted arr When he
felt satisfied that he had acquired suffi-
cient knowledge of it he returned home.
He started his print works in the town
of Cranston and gradually advanced in
prosperity, and in this way was laid the
foundation Of the fortunes of the house
! of the Spragues.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1881-05-14
A Frw AaR1or11r11RA1, H1Nrs. -snri

A Few AGRICULTURAL HINTS. Spring
has arrived and we have carefully pre-
pared few instructions to those who
have gardens to nurse: The place to
plant your corns is ON some other per-
sons corns. Saurkraut is not good if
plucked too young it must be left to
grow to cabbage. To raise good pota-
toes, take eight bills against eight men
who never pay, and put-8-owes where
they will do the most good. Cultivate
the muscle of onions and onions will
soon grow strong enough to raise them
selves. Scatter your wild oats and you
can soon raise good crop of sin. Plant
a dog at the foot of every current bush.
Be sure and weed out the oleomargarine
from your buttercup bed. If you are in
the milk business, you should never
water your milkweeds. Tickle the soil
often with plow and hoe, scatter much
time across its broad acres, and mort
gage may be raised from the farm. -
Whitehall Times
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1881-05-14
i' THE CHILDREN La UGHED
AND SANG"

1t was in the chill December
That the Angel Of Death came by,
And he rustled his wings of darkness
As'he swept through the wintry sky;
A household of happy creatures
Dwelt quiet, and free from care.
And the angel stole in softly,
And stood all silent there.
(But the children laughed and sang at their
play;
Never fear nor pang had they.)
And the angel swiftly in silence
Struck home the mortal blow,
And in the wintry morning
He laid the father low:
And wildly the sorrowful mother,
Bewildered and stunned with woe,
Walled in her lone bereavement,
And wished that she too might go.
(But the children laughed and sang at their
play;
Never fear nor pang had they.)
Cold in the lonely chamber
Lay the fathers form at rest
And they laid the delicate flower-wreaths
Upon his quiet breast;
And forth from his home they bore him,
And hid him from sound and sight
And they heaped the cold earth above him
While the chidren's feet trod light
(But the boys went home tV their happy play ;
Never fear nor pang had they.)
And often the childish footsteps
Are turned to their fathers grave,
Where the grass. with its glistening hoar-
frost,
Lies over that heart 30 brave;
And sometimes they watch their mother
Bending IN sorrow and pain;
And they say in their childish voices
"Will papa never come again"
(But soon they laugh and sing at their play;
Never fear nor pang have they.)
So God IN his infinite pity
Shuts the eyes of the children dear,
And they see not the fell destroyer,
Though their eyes are so bright and clear
And / said: "There's no past for the chill
dren
With its terrible pangs and stings
And for them no brooding fature
Spreadeth its threatening wings.
All they see is the present-to-day:
And so they laugh and sing at their play"
-ChdmberS's Journal.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1881-05-14
BE TR UE.

Thou must be true thyself,
If thou the truth wouldst teach;
Thy soul must overflow, if thou
Another's soul wouldst reach:
It needs the overflow of heart
To give the lips full speech.
Think truly, and thy thoughts
Shall the worlds famine feed;
Speak truly, and each word OF thine
Shall be fruitful seed;
Live truly, and thy life shall be
A great and noble creed.
-HoRATIUs BoNAR.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1881-05-14

"WHAT do you suppose I'll look like
when 1 get out of this ?" Indignantly in
quired a acknowledgement young lady
of the conductor of an overcrowded car
the other day. ga good deal like
crushed sugar, MISS" said the conduc-
tor. And the lady stood up and rode
four stations further with the smile Of
an angel.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1881-05-14
GEORGE W. PURNELL.

" ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
Office, opposite Court House, Snow Hill. Nd
Claims promptly collected. VIII visit POGO
moke City on the second Saturday of each
month.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1881-05-14
ADVERTISING RATES.

One dollar for one inch space will be charged
for the first insertion, and fifty cents for each
subsequent insertion.
liberal discount will be made on quarterly
elk months, or yearly advertisements.
Local notices will be inserted at 20 cents per
line.
Marriage and death notices inserted free.
Obituary notices inserted at half advertising
rates.
All advertising bills are due after the first
Insertion, unless otherwise agreed upon.
LITTLETON DENNIS. Snow Hill. Nd
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1881-05-14
ATLANTIC HOTEL.
(LATE ESGLIsH's,)
CHINCOTEAGUE ISLAND, VA.
WI. MATTHEWS co, Propre,ors

WI. MATTHEWS CO. ProprietOrs.
The undersigned beg leave to inform theii
friends and the general public that they have
leased aud refufnished the above elegant and
commodious house, and are now prepared to
accommodate permanent and transient guests
In drst-class style.
Large airy rocms Home comforts.
Fine Sea and Bag Fishing, Cunning and
Bathing etc. The table Is provided with Wild
Tosl, Tcrrupin, Fish, Oysters, Crabs and all
the Injuries of the season.
Pleasure boats Of all kinds. guides, fishing
lines. decoys. ponies, etc, always ready for
the use Of guests.
First-claes Bar attached. Choice wines,
liquors, ales, beers and cigars.
Passengers for Chiucoteague connect with
steamer for the Island at Franklin City, the
terminus OF the Worcester Railroad, morning
and evening. Connection may also be made
daily o. Nashville. All who visit the Atlantis
nay rest assured that they viii receive cour.
tcous treatment and cxeeilsnt fare.
Your patronage is respectfully collected.
W. J. MATTHEWS 6 90.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1881-05-14

APPEARANCES are real deceitful. The
boy who sings, 81 want to join the
angel band," with such fervor in Sun
day school may be the same little rascal
who fixed the tack from which you
arose so enthusiastically in the street.
Car.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1881-05-14
GEORGE NJ. UPSHUR.

~ ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
Office, Court House Square, Snow Hill, Nd
Prompt attention given to the collection Of
claims
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1881-05-14
The Democratic Messenger,
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BY
LITTLEToN DENNIS, Proprietor
At SHOW HILL. WORCESTER co., MO.
Subscription. 81 Year in Advance.

Liberal arrangements made with clubs.
Correspondence solicited from all parts OF
the county.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1881-05-14
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
A DIAL P. BARNES,

Office opposite Court House, Snow Hill. Nd.
Will visit Pocomoke City every Saturday.
Strict attention given to the collection OF
claims.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1881-05-14
CLAYTON j. PURNELL,
~ ATTORNFY-AT-IAW

Office opposite Court House, Snow Hinl, Md.
Strict attention gwen TO the collection OF
claims. Will visit Berlin on the second Satur-
day of every month.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1881-05-14
ORGE W. COYINGTON.

~ ATTORNEY-AT-LAw.
Office, Court House Square, Snow Hill, Nd
Prompt attention given to the collection of
claims.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1881-05-14

GAMUEL H. TOWNSEND,
- ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
Ofice, opposite Court House, Snow Hill. Nd.
Prompt attention given to the collection of
claims.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1881-05-14

EDWARD b. BATES,
~ (Late of Baltimore Barr
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR-AT-LAW
Snow Hill. Nd.
Office opposite Court House, adjoining the
Post Office.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1881-05-14
EDWARD d. MARTIN,
~

II ATIUKNE1-AT-LAW.
Office opposite Town Hall, Berlir, Md.
Special attention given TO the collection OF
Gains
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1881-05-14
WIN. SIDNEY WILSON,

w ArTORNEY-Ar-LAW.
Office on Washington Street three doors
above Post Office, Snow Hill, Nd.
Immediate attention given 10 the collection
OF claims.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-02-24
jay Goulll.

Jay Gould is forty-fve years of age
but looks younger. There is o slight
tinge of gray upon his black beard. and
his high, full forehead and sharp. dark
eyes, attract notice. His friends say that
within O year or two he has changed his
method of doing business, when he used
TO manipulate stocks altogether. They
say he is now exclusively engaged in the
establishment and management of great
telegraph and railway enterprises. But
it won't DO TO rely wholly upon the APP
parent stiffness of the man who holds
the stock market by the throat, and can
choke sheckles out of it whenever he hap
pens to be III the mood. Some twenty
years ago Mr.. Gould married Miss
EIiiler. whose father was of the firm Of
Dater & Co., grocers. They have six
children. Mr.. Gould is eminently man
Of habits. At the close of business he
rides home, takes dinner with the family.
and passes the evening in his study. In
this room are his telegraphic operator
and private secretary. Private wires ena-
BILE him to communicate with his broker
and aids at all hours of the day aud
night. No man works harder than he
Wine and tobacco are forbidden guests.
Reading and looking at his magnificent
pictures are his only recreation. He is
q generous, open-hearted large minded.
transformations man. To his family Mr..
Gould is devotedly attached. He rarely
travels either for business or pleasure,
unless accompanied by some Of his chill
dren. They have anything and every
thing they .want, and do just as they
please. Mr.. Gould is at all times the
| plainest of men
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-02-24
The Turkey.

Many conjectures have been hazarded
as 60 how the very inappropriaten name of
turkey" has been applied to a bird
which we know was introduced from
America. | believe the truth Of the
matter to be this: Several, if not most.
of the medieval zoologists-T may par
ticularly cite Belon and Aldrovandus-
hopelessly COMPOUNDED the turkey and the
guinea-fowl under the name. proper to
the latter, of Melcagris. Gesrer must.
indeed, be excepted, for he clearly saw
that the turkey was not the Meleagris.
and, finding it had been written Of as
Gallus peregrinus or Pavo Indicus. he
accordingly Tin 1861 coined for it the
names Gallopavus or Pavogallus. which
he used almost indiscriminately. But
this confusion was not confined to natu-
ralists. We have in Coopers edition of
the Bibliotheca Eiot@,' published in
1912, T" Meleagrides, byrfles which we
doc call hennes" the earliest use of the
latter name with which / am ACQUAINTED.
1t is, therefore, obvious that Turkey
hen," was at first ANONYMOUS with
"Guinea hem" AS the birds became
commoner and better known. the con-
fusion was, of course, gradually cleared
up, and the name " turkey" Glove to the
bird from the new world; not, think,
without some reason, for by its con-
stantly repeated call-note, which may be
syllabled . turk, turk, turk" it may be
said to have named itself. Notes and
Queries.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-02-24
Profits Of the Turf.

Outsiders will gaze with longing and
melancholy eyes at the catalogue of
profits earned during the past season by
the giants of the turf. The 9l6,061 net
ted by Lord Falmouth during twelve
months campaign must represent very
satisfactory dividend; but, large as it is.
it is considerably below his average for
the last six wears. During that period
Lord Falmouth's total winnings in stakes
amounted to e142, $50 His worst year
was In 1876 when he only won 81 900;
his best was 1878, when his winnings
rose as high as e37, 6S1. Count de
Lagrange, who sat at the top of the tree
in 1879 with e25,661, has to content
himself in 1880 with only G6, 722. a
still more marked reverse of fortune has
waited on the Duke of Hamilton and Mr..
Houldsworth. Both finished 1879 with
upward of G10,000 to their credit In
1880 the Duke of Hamilton's winnings
have sunk as low as e474, while Mr..
Houldsworth has only won solitary
event worth s122. These are known re-
turns. The profits and the losses Of
betting remain an unknown quantity.
OF the sires of the winning horses Her
nut utstuS tilc llSt Will eNchtJ -iuASc wiz
ners, wholanded stakes valued at f29, l07.
Last year the Hermit stock only won
97, SIT. Englishmen are so accustomed
to ignore the American turf that it viii
surprise many readers to know that last
season n single stable, that of Messrs.
Dwyer, landed stakes of the value Of
ELS, SIT, and even then did not take the
first place among the American winners
of 1880. Pail AfoH Gazette.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-02-24
Cracking Wheat into Flour.

Minnesota millers no longer ssgrind"
wheat into -four. They crack" Il. and
the people of the Northwest claim that
the new process makes their hitherto in
ferior wheat the most valuable in the
world. Burr stones are things of the
past ed Hungarian steel rollers have
taken their place. These rollers are
about thirty inches long and eight inches
IN diameter. it takes five sets of steel
rollers to finish the flour. Each set of
rollers run closer than the preceding.
After the wheat passes each set of rollers
tits bolted or sifted through course cloth.
This cloth lets the disintergrated par
ticies of wheat through and passes off
the bulky and larger pieces, which are
run through another and a closer set
of rollers md cracked again. The last
rollers have little else but wheat bulls
and waxy germs of wheat, which do not
crack up, but smash down like piece
of wax. The germ Of kernel of wheat
y not good food. 1t makes -four black.
by the old milestone process this waxy
germ was ground up with the starchy
portion and bolted through with the
flour. BY the new system of cracking
the kernel instead OF grinding il this
germ is not ground, but fiattened ont
and slfted or bolted out, while the starchy
portions of the wheat are crushed into
powdered wheat or -four. All the big
mills Of Minneapolis now manufacture fy
the new process.