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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-01-15

and father and son summoned to take theiI
trial at Pekin, then an inconsiderable as
size town. Evidence was given, the OBJ.
noxious food itself produced in court, and
verdict about to be pronounced, when the
foreman of the jury begged that some of
the burnt pig, of which the eulprits stood
accused, might be handed into the box.
He handled it, and they all handled it ;
and burning their fingers, as Bo-bo and
his father had done before them, and ma
ture prompting to each of them the same
remedy, against the face of all the facts,
and the clearest charge which judge had
ever given,-to the surprise of the whole
court, townsfolk, strangers, reporters, and
all present,-without leaving the box, or
any manner of consultation whatever, they
brought in simultaneous verdict of Not
Guilty.
The judge, who Was shrewd fellow,
winked at the manifest iuiquity of the
decision and when the court was dis
missed, went privately, and bought up all
the pigs that could be had for love or
money. In a few days his Lordships
town house was observed to be on fire.
The thing took wing, and now there was
nothing to be seen but fires in every di-
rection. Fuel and pigs grew enormously
dear all over the district. Tie insurance
Offices one and all shut up shop. People
built slighter and slighter every day, until
it was feared that the very science of arch
itccture would in no long time be lost to
the world. This custom of firing houses
continued, till in process of time, says my
manuscript, sage arose, like our Locke,
who made discovery that the flesh Of
swine, or indeed of any other animal,
might be cooked (burnt, as they called it)
without the necessity of consuming whole
house to dress it. Then first began the
rude form OF grldlron. Roasting by the
string or spit came in century or two
later, l forget in whose dynasty. By
such slow degrees, concludes the manu-
script, do the most useful and seemingly
the most obvious arts make their way
among mankind.
Without placing too implicit faith in
the account above given, it must be agreed,
that if worthy pretext for so dangerous
an experiment as setting houses on fire
Especially in these days. could be assign
ed in favor of any culinary object, that
pretext and excuse might be found in
ROAST PIG.
OF all the delicacies in the whole mum
dus edi6ilis, will maintain it to be the
most delicate. Charles Lamb.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-01-15
Tiger Hunting in South Africa.

The district of Uitenhage is just now
rather over-run with wild animals of the
larger kind, and an hours ride from the
town would bring the sportsman into the
haunts of elephants and tigers. As Mr..
Fourie, of Wolvekop, was coming into
town he passed through large herd of ell
plants at the Coega. Gen. Nixon's estate,
Balmoral, seven miles from town, is actu
ally overrun with the huge animals; and
they have become very troublesome on the
generals farm, Doom Kraal, occupied
by Colonel Ashburner, tearing down the
fences, destroying the crops, and scattering
even the prickly pears in all directions.
The place is about eight miles from Uiten
hage. The farm Kamachs, which adjoins
Uitenhage, and may be reached in twenty
minutes, is just now subject to great des-
truction from porcupines, bush bucks, and
tigers.
Mr.. Harry Marshall, of her majesty's
customs, lately narrowly escaped an en-
counter with tiger. He was spending
the day with Mr.. Clarke at the farm Ka.
machs, and in the afternoon went for
quite stroll, gun in hand, along the kloof
to the favorite picnic spot near the dam,
and suddenly came upon tiger drinking
at the stream. He impulsively leveled the
gun at the beast and pulled the trigger,
but the cap missed fire. The animal then
with a snarl, ascended the celebrated wild
fig tree, the bark of which is scored all
over with the names of pleasure seekers who
have, from time to time, visited the spot.
Mr.. Marshall attempted second time to
fire, with no better result than at first.
It then occrred to him that it might pos
sibly be fortunate for him that his gun
refused FIRE, for had he wounded the brute
it certainly would have attacked him.
Mr.. Clark's ostrich camps have been
crafty disturbed lately by tigers, the spoos
of which have been found in the camp;
and on one occasion the tigers hair found
on the claw of bird indicated an eneoun-
ter, in which the ostrich came off victor.
A grand hunt upon the farm win shortly
take place, at which some exciting sport
may be expected. The danger that Mr.
Marshall escaped may be guessed BY those
who remember the crunching and scratch
ing that Mr.. Hayward, Of Great Winter
hook, received some years ago from .
wounded tiger. The brute had been eaugh'
in trap, and sprang at Mr.. Hayward a
/ he approached, d literally biting his wris
through and scslping him. 9 z. g
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-01-15
Mans Natural Age.

According to the theory of the late Pro-
fessor Faraday, the natural age Of man
should be 100 years. The duration of
life, both in man and animals, he believed
to be measured by its time of growth, its
natural termination being five removes
from that point. Man being twenty years
in growing, lives FIVE times twenty-1OO
years. He also divides life into equal
halves, growth and decline; and these into
infancy, youth, virility and age; infancy
extending to the twentieth year; youth to
the fftieth-because it is in this period
the tissues become firm: virility from fifty
to seventy-fve-during which the organism
remains complete; and at seventy-fv old
age commences. -
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-01-15
BUYING AND SELLING BUTTER
MIR. NIppER BUYING BUTTER.


"Here comes Mr.. Robby, from Sleepy
Hollow, with load of butter; we're short,
aren't we, Jonas"
eyes, all gone but that bad lot, and
they are crying for something good"
Robby (from his wagon)-"Mr. Nip
per, I've got some butter for ye."
Nipper is busy and does not hear.
"Helo, there, Nipper! Come and see
this butter!"
Nipper slowly closes his order book,
directs the delivery boy to hop round with
the Goldfish, shifts yellow ham near the
door from one peg to another, cocks his
stovepipe hat on the back of his head,
thrusts his thumbs ia each armhole of his
vest aud shuffies slowly toward the street,
as though about to squint at the state of
the weather. "Why, Robby, what ye got
there ?"
"Butter, Mr.. Nipper."
"Butter, Ell? Now if you had eggs I
might buy. Buffers dull, Robby; the
towns full of butter"
"Is that so? Daisy heard as it had
gone up"
"Gone up!-well, yes; gone up the
spout. Dick take them turnips to Rich
finger" he said turning away.
"Won't ye look at this lot, Mr.. Nipper?"
"Robby, we're full. Jonas was just
saying he couldn't store another tub.
The towns glutted-glutted, Robby; and
heaps of it spelling in New York, and no
buyers"
"But this is an extra fine lot from the
best feed of the pasture with the spring
brook in it, where ye used to catch trout,
Mr.. Nipper; and Daisy made it with her
own hands"
ayes, yes, but it looks salvey like
worked too much-no texture, you see,
and full of milk; won't keep. Then it
lacks the gilt-edsed favor. What do you
ask for it?'
"Well, Daisy thought as how she orter
have fifteen cents"
"Too high; can't buy; goood morning"
"See here, Nipper, what'll ye give?"
"Robby, if l give yer ten cents for that
butter Jonas will be as mad as boiled lob
ster-Jonas will swear and make things
lively. But you're an old friend, and I'm
going to do it and take the consequences.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-01-15
A Battle with Bufaloes.

An army officer tells this story of an
exciting onslaught made by tribe of
Crow Indians upon large herd of butfa-
loes After riding over mountains for
two days the Crows came upon fine herd
of buffaloes in narrow valley near the
Yellowstone. There were four hundred
Indians and four thousand buffaloes. The
Crows had been forced by fear of starva-
ton to take to the chase and the keen
hunger they were suffering only sharpened
their eagerness for a tilt with their old
fellow nomads, the noble bison. The game
stampeded down the valley in the direc-
tion of the Yellowstone. The chase was
hotly followed, half hundred buffaloes
biting the dust before the river was reach
ed. One of the most vehement of the pur-
suers, who had distinguished himself for
bravery in two or three fights with the
Sioux, fell from his pony in the midst of
the flying herd and was trampled to death
by the frantic beasts. The Yellowstone, a
roaring, rushing river even at the lowest
tide, was booming with the regular sum-
mer freshet, the outpour of the melting
SHOWS in the high mountains. When the
river was reached the game made a bold
stand, and for time it seemed doubtful
which held the mastery, but the incessant
fusilade from four hundred rifles, together
with the desperate proximity of the for
midable battalion, drove the herd in dis
may into the roaring torrent. Beside
themselves with the excitement of the
moment, the Indians urged their ponies
into the stream, unwilling that even
food should spoil their frenzied sport or
cut them off from their game. The ter
rife current, made tumultuous from the
high piles of rock here and there in the
channel, whirled buffaloes, ponies and In
diaus along at bewildering velocity, until
the thousands of beasts were rolling and
writhing in irextricable confusion. In
tie dizzy evolutions of horses and riders
the latter were left to struggle for them
selves in the water, and to be jammed to
death between the surging masses of
drowning beasts. Some who foresaw the
danger in time, and turned shoreward,
found safety on terra 6rma, but those who
yentured far enough to be embraced by
the sweeping, resistless tide, and to become
involved in the tangle of struggling ami
mails, were all drowned. The story brought
to the post was that thirty Indians aud
fifty ponies were drowned, beside FIVE hun
dred TO q thousand buffaloes.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-01-15
Still 1 pleaded, clingiug to Rogers neck

| Othh piOo1OAf SiAnSAu6 w Aso6SA A~~~
when he crossed in search of me.
At last they tore him from my senseles
form, and when I recovered consciousness
they were far beyond the reach of my en-
treaties, but not my prayers, sent to high
er throne.
"Punish him, oh, God r 1 cried in my
agony, "but spare my husband, and bring
him back to me- He said | should suffer
All, what was his suffering to this intoler,
able torture and suspeDse?'
The day wore slowly on. At nightfall
when my brain was bursting, we heard
the note of distant bugle. Some, at
least, of the little band had returned.
Like a white statue, went forth to meet
them. They came slowly, bringing with
them some shrouded forms. Among the
latter l knew that should find my hus-
band, even as, finding him, l knew l
should go mad.
But, no! Leading the van he came
sitting on his horse, though in his eyes
there smiled no welcome, and on his face
was CHASTITY pallor; but he was here, and
| was not widowed wife.
1 threw myself on the neck of the horse;
| kissed his name, his forehead. | chung
to Roger in my wild joy at seeing him
again.
"You are alive-you are alive p I said,
over and over.
eyes" he answered, "but at what
cest A man to-day has given up his life
for me-"
He sprang from his horse then, and led
me to the litter in the rear. The white,
dead face of Colonel Lake looked up at US
both.
ave have killed him, Be-you and ]"
my husband said. "He was the noblest
man that ever lived
And then he told me all the story. He
had ridden on a little in advance of the
command, when he suddenly had been
surrounded by the foe. Fight desperately
as he would, he would soon have been
overpowered, but that the colonel had seen
his danger.
Squirting his horse ahead of the men, he
had flown to his rescue, charging down in
the very midst of shower of arrows.
at was a deed worthy god!'' my hus
band continued. II thought We were both
unhurt, almost miraculously so. We were
beating retreat to our command, when
one of the willy savages launched his toma-
hawk at my breast. The colonel saw it
glittering in the air, and throwing himself
before me, caught the blow. The next
minute we were in safety, but safety gained
too late. Don't regret it, he said, press
ing my hand. Tell her l did it for her
sake. I loved her, Roger, my boy. I have
not cared much for living since; and now
that have spared her the suffering 1
would once have wished her-I am glad
to die. Ask her to forgive me those rash
words. I never meant them-and let her
future happiness buy my atonement."
I have been Rogers wife many hap
py years now. He was too noble to
me, though I told him all; but
through my happiness mingles ever my
hearts selfreproach, and the wonder if, at
the judgment bar of God, Gains brand will
not be upon my brow.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-01-15
MR.. NIPPER SELLING BUTTER.

"Rich6nger, come this way; can show
you an awful nice lot Of butter; there it is.
That's what l call elegant; made by Daisy
Buttercup, the neatest and prettiest girl in
the country. I used to spark her mother
before she married. She's dead now; old
friends, ye see, and can't help dealin' :.
Look at the color-there's dandelions and
buttercups; look at the texture-as free
from salve as snowhakes, and if ye find q
hair or bug I'll make ye present of it.
Smell of it-I dare say you can scent the
clover-blossoms. Taste of it; notice the
tone, the mellowness, the aroma-equal to
cream candy any time"
whats the price, Nipper?"
twenty-five cents to an old customer" "
pretty high, isn't it2''
"That depends on what ye're buying.
Grease is grease an butter is butter. If
ye want grease, can sell it for less; but if
ye want to lay in the best grade, the gilt
edge, the gold leaf, as it were, June butter
that'll keep, mind ye, ye might go further
and fare worse. Let me tell you that but
ter is on the rise; the town il cleared out
and them New York chaps is lookin' ruond
lots. That means a foreign demand and
great scarcity, sir-great scarcity"
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-01-15

A NUMERICAL CURIosITY.-From
right to left aud left to right 1881, the
present year, reads the same. Eighteen
divided by 2 gives 9 as quotient; 81 di-
vided by 9 gives 9; if divided BY 8 the
quotient contains 8; if multiplied by 8
the product contains two 9s; l and 8 are
9; 8 and are 9. IF the 1S be placed un-
der the 81 and added the sum is 80. II
the figures be added, thus /, 5, 8, l, Il
viii give l8. Reading from left to right
it is IS, and l8 is two-ninths Of 81. By
adding, dividing and multiplying 10 9,
are produced, being one 9 for each veal
required to complete the century.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-01-15
Original 4oetrg,
SACRED TREASURES.
Written for the Democratic AdUocate,
BY LEROY.

Only bunch of ribbon blue,
Faded and worn
Yet it's q knot that lovers tied
On parting morn; -.-sa -t--
Though Death has chilled the maidenS han'
And led her to fairer land,
Yet this will show
That long ago
The threads of love were woven deep,
And linked the one that is asleep
With him who lives TO mourn and weep.
Only lock of golden hair
From marble brow
Yet still it proves how true was kept
A sacred vow;
Though many years have passed away
Since given was her troth for aye
Yet this will prove
How true her love
Before she spoke her last farewell,
And left her earthly prison cell
To reign where saints and angels dwell.
Only a letter old and dim
Yet it can tell
How Love doth move the human heart
Beneath It's spell:
Though now its pages all are torn,
And the writing blurred and worn,
Yet in each line
There is a sign
Offeelings that were ne'er confessed,
Ofthoughts that never were expressed
Though known full well within each breast
Only little withered flower
Yet it can bring
Those hallowcd hours that long ago
Have taken wing,
Though now its fragrance all is fled,
And its petals all are dead,
Yet it can tell
Alas! too we'll
A language that is heard no more,
For it, with all the joys yore,
Has died away and now is Ger.
stern Maryland College.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-01-15

Short candles of single color and colo
red in the wax are now preferred to burn
in ornamental eandlesticks, instead of the
painted white candles formerly used, and
cost but ten cents each.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-01-15

One watch set right win do to set many
by, but, on the other hand, one that goes
wrong may be the means of misleading
whole neighborhood; and the same may be
said of the example we each set to those
around us. g m
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-01-15

The freely only shines when on the
wing. So it s. with the mind; when once
we rest We darken.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-01-15

In all the guilty train Of human vices
there Is no crime Of deeper dye than that
Of ingratitude. ~ ss
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-01-15

Every man endeavors With his utmost
care to hide his poverty from others, and
his idleness from himself.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-01-15

IF rare merit be the rarest Of all rare
things, it ought 10 pass through some sort
Of probation.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-01-15

Pursue what you know to be attainable;
make truth your object, and your studies
viii make you wise man.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-06-02
A New Departure i'm School Teaching.

An interesting experiment has been
in progress since last September in the
public schools of Gait, Ontario. The
younger children in the Central School,
to the number of about two hundred,
are kept at their studies but half the
time, the remaining hours are spent in
play under the direction of teacher.
The programme in brief is as follows:
The half time children are divided into
two sections. For the first hour and a
half one of these pursues the regular
studies, while the other is engaged in
play. Intermission follows, and then
until noon the section which was study
ing in the early morning is transferred
to the play-rooms, and the section
which has had recreation takes up the
school work proper. The afternoon is
spent alternately in a similar manner.
The "play teacher" who has charge of
the children, guides them in their
amusements, and in multitude of WAYS
incidentally imparts instruction, while
attention is paid to physical exercise.
The scheme appears to be union of
the kindergarten with the classroom.
Its advocates claim that under it fully
as much progress is made by the chill
dren as by the present method; that
school is rendered more attractive and
attendance. instead of being irksome,
becomes a pleasure; that it is better for
the health of the children. and that, bv
keeping them in the school-room, it
obviates the objection which many par
ents have to halliday work in schools.
1t is, moreover, economical, as the
play teacher can readily look after
twice as many pupils as regular in
structor can. In the Central School at
Gait, two teachers were dispensed with
but in the opinion of the promoters one
of these can be employed with profit.
Thus far the experiment, although con-
Quoted under some disadvantage, has
produced satisfactory results. 1t is GER
tainly an attractive plan.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-06-02
Kansas Oysters.

Considering the present price of ma
tive oysters-practlcally prohibitive to
ali but wealthy lovers of the succulent
bivalve-the intelligence, reaching us
from America, that a gigantic oyster
bed has recently been discovered in the
State of Kansas should be tidings of
great joy. It is too cruel that the hopes
aroused by such glad news should be
blighted by the crushing announcement
that the molluscan repository in ques-
ton contains nothing but shells. There
Is some consolation, however, in the
fact that these shells are of such extra
ordinary dimensions that the oysters
they assuredly contained at some re-
mote epoch of this globes history must
have been somewhat difficult to tackle
as comestible, even if there were giants
IN those days. In dealing with an oyster
she'll seven feet by four, the prehistoric
man must have pried it open with a
crowbar of the period, and extracted it's
toothsome contents with an antediluvian
hay-fork. Let the modern gourmet pict-
ure to his minds eye Whitstable ma
tive weighing eleven stone, and he will
be enabled to grasp. approximately, the
idea of the Kansas oyster, as it flour
ished an unknown number of centuries
ago. When the resting place of this
mighty bivafve came to light the other
day, many shells of the size above men,
toned were found strewn about, some
entire, some broken, as if by undue vio-
lence in the opening of them. Perhaps
colossal ancestor of our degenerate
race, while enjoying solitary surfeit of
Kansas oysters, was disturbed by a
deluge or an earthquake, and fled from
that antique sea-shore, leaving naught
but the shells behind to amaze his punv
descendants of the ten thousandth gem
eration.-London Telegraph.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-06-02
AgOnies Of Siberian Exile.

The Rooski Courier of Moscow, pub
fishes the following intelligence from
1enesaisk, a town in mid-Sberia:
' Again political exiles are arriving
is the word in every ones mouth.
Nine have just arrived; of these six
were exiled from Moscow by Count Al
bedinsky, and are under orders to pro-
ceed further inland. For the moment
they are exposed to our murderous
climate. 'We have no mercy to expect
we are forgotten they say to the
people. Having lost all hope of re-
turning to Russia they are in a most
despondent state. Only yesterday a
girl named Patrooesa attempted the
third time to commit suicide by eating
lucifer matches. She was saved by a
prompt application of remedies; but
will rescue always be at hand? We
oloerlans have seen many eXiles during
our life, but We have never seen such
grief, such tears, such hopelessness, as
presented by these nine exiles who do
not know their crime, who do not know
how long they are exiied for and where
their destination lies, and who must not
write word in their letters about their
condition. A common convict knows
what he is transported for; his term of
Imprisonment is told him by his goaoler.
These wretched political prisoners
know nothing. They are left in dark
anxiety and despair.
"Ihese are not the only sufferers.
From kirensk writes a political prisoner:
We are nine here-all exiles; one of our
number has just been sent away. His
wife Mdme. Belief, remains in hospital
mad. The exile of her husband further
into the Wilds of Siberia drove her out
OF mind From another place, po-
litical exile writes: The arrival of a
fresh exile from Russia to-day has COM
pletely unhinged me. l work as a
smith, receiving a shilling a day.
When | earn nothing | live on potatoes
and onions. When | work in the field
often think of the luxurious DAYS of
my childhood when | had no thought
OF labor. At Bala@ansk an exile, who
was once secretary to the Odessa Corpo-
ration, keeps himself from starvation
by carrying about water, at so much
the bucket. His wife is at tEkaterinoslaff,
and his children are scattered about
Russia. Everywhere at Balagansk,'
one writes, may be seen anguish, and
what is worse, almost actual starvation.
At Popitch the exlles have no money to
live on. AT Belsk there is a student
glad to earn fifteen shillings month.
AT Verknoyarsk twelve exiles live hud-
died together in tent. These are
often without fOOd.'n