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Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-04-15
An Empty Stomach Saved a Life.

The Manchester On. H) Mirror says:
No regiment from New Hampshire suf-
fercd more in action than the Twelfth,
and o narrower squeeze for life than
that of Capt.-but better known as
Elder-Dnrgin, is not often recorded.
in one of the many engagements that
the Twelfth participatedin he was struck
by bullet, which literally bored hole
through him just above the stomach.
He fell amid heap of killed and wound
ed, and was LETT for dead on the field.
A column of the enemy advancing with
q quick step moved directly over the
ground, and as they were marching by
he was barely able TO make a motion
sufficient to attract the attention of a
Confederate captain, who stopped,
looked at him pityingly, and said:
"Poor fellow! You are booked through.
/ can't help you, but I'll at least put
YOU out of the way of further harm ;;
so, suiting tie action to the word, he
took him tenderly in his arms, carried
him some distance one side, and placed
him IN sitting posture, with his back
against a tree. This saved his life, as
he was shortly afterward found, treated
for his wound, and ultimately recovered.
The surgeon said that had he had his
breakfast that morning he would as
suredly have been killed. Thirty-six
hours abstinence, being short of rations,
had contracted the stomach and saved
his life. SO the Elder lives and is the
life of the annual reunions.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-04-15
Advice to a Young Man.

Don't be lazy, my boy. Fly around
and do something, if it's only to pound
sand. Put in all your minutes in hon
est hard work, tranquil meditation, or
healthful recreation. Easy to mediate?
Be careful, my boy, or you'll choose the
hardest lot of all. A lazy man stretches
himself out in the sun and dozes, but
he doesn't mediate. He doesn't think.
Edison, sitting beside his fireiess
forge with the id hands folded in his
lap, may be apparently as istless as the
fellow sitting on log III the sunshine,
dreamily "ilshing for cat" But the
telephone, the electric light, the quadru-
plex instrument came from the dreams
of one, whiie the other only catches the
ague, and serves him right.
Why. my boy you waste enough time
to build house. We waste time be-
cause it slips by pleasantly. We can't
realize it. have wondered sometimes
if man had in his room q great glass,
an hour glass, loaded with the sands OF
his life, so that it might be before hin
every time that he entered his room; II
he knew that not one gram OF the
steadily dropping sand could be turned
back. If he could watch it diminishing
above and piliDg up below; if, when he
closed his eyes he knew that all night
long it would run steadily, no faster, nc
slower: il when he came home from d
Journey he could see how much had run
away; if he could stand before IL, held
by strange fascination, and watch It's
running sands, if he could always real.
iZe that those grains of sand numbered
the seconds OF his life; if he could see
that sleeping or waking. going or stay
ing. sick or well. eating and drinking,
working or idiing, rem orselessly the
sands run through, | wonder if he conld
not improve ihe time better ? | wonder
how many os those grains would turn tc
gold as they passed through, by the al
chelny OF his industry?
All, WE'LL do you think such steady
constant reminder of the snortness o
life and the value Of time would have
any effect on yen? Foolish youth, a
soon as the novelty OF the thing wore
off, you wouldn't oauid ;ta cent's worth
Why, vixen tie o!i Lgyptians used Il
carry in the skeleton at their feasts, di,
it make anybody dismal? Not bit o
it /; made them all the jollier.
"Send that thing back to the bone
yard" SAID Thotbme "and open an
other basket oi tn. y Jersey Held
sic. Apples is apples this year. -
Hdlpkeue.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-04-15
A Brave Child.

The Montezuma (Ga.) Weekly says ::
A gentleman living near Henderson,
while plowing few days ago, sent a
ten-year-old daughter to the house for
his gun, for the purpose of shooting
some rice birds that were III the field.
ReturLin with the gun, the brave little
heroine was attacked IN the road by an
infuriated bull, and instead of running
and screaming, and thus urging the
beast on, as most other children would
have done, she stood her ground, and es
the beast advanced, she let go the con
tents of both barrels into his face. The
beast, seemingly in state of intoxica-
tion, ran here, there and everywhere IN
search of the child, against fences,
trees, etc., but climbing the fence has
tily the little girl managed to escape.
! She ran and told her father of the incl
dent, who, hearing the report OF the
gun, was rushing to Ter to ascertain the
cause of the shooting. With the assis.
tance of two colored men the now cowed
animal was driven home, and it was
discovered THAT both OF his eyes had
been shot out.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-04-15
THE OLD CHURCH TO WEIR.


BY T. r., ALDRIcH.
In the old church tower
Hangs the bell;
And above Il on the vsne,
In the sunshine and the rain,
Cut in gold, st. Peter stands,
With the keys i'll his claspt hands,
And all is we'll.
In the old church tower
Hangs the bell;
You can hear its great heart beat
OH so loud, and wild, and sweet,
As the parson says prayer
Over welded lovers there
And all is well.
In the old church tower
Hangs tho bell;
Deep and solemn, harki again.
al, what passion and what pain!
With her hands upon her breast,
Some poor soul has gone to rest
Where all is well.
In the old church tower
Hangs the bell,
An old friend that seems 10 know
All cur joy and all our woe;
II is glad when we are wed.
II i sad when We are dead,
And all is well.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-04-15
GEORGE w. PURNELL.

~ ATTORNEY AT-LAW.
Office, opposite Court House. Snow IIil Md
Claims promptly collected. VIII visit POGO
moke City on the second Saturday of eaeh/
month.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-04-15

a HEADACHE. Eighteen years of in
cessant headache were endured by An
drew J. Miller, of Warren, Ky. Sur
geons lately raised part of his skull, and
thus relieved the pressure which had
caused the trouble. He was warned to
stay quietly indoors for month, but
hs was too jubilant over his freedom
frc.m suffering TO obey, and went on 9
zee, which caused his death. A
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-04-15

1T is awful embarrassing for Con
gresham to have a bill suddenly called
up and discover that he has left his
memorandum book at home and he
can't, for the life of him, recollect
which way he had agreed to vote on
that matter. boston Post,
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-04-15
ADVERTISING RATES.

III ~ 1''1-'N' 1'.A IL
One dollar for one inch space will be charged
for the first insertion, and fifty cents for each
subsequent insertion.
4 liberal discount will be made on quarterly
six months or yearly advertisements.
Local notices will be inserted at 20 cents per
line.
Marriage and death notices inserted tree
Obituary notices inserted at half advertising
rates.
All advertising bills are due after the first
Insertion, unless otherwise agreed upon.
LITTLETON DENNIS. Sncw Hill. Nd
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-04-15
ATLANTIC HOTEL,
LAIR ESGLisH's.)
cHINCoTEiGTE ISLAND. VA.


The undersigned beg leave 70 inform thei,
frfads ard tho general public that they have
i.tse4 aud reiufuisied toe ab0ve elegant aud
r esmluodious house. aud are now prepared to
accommodate permanent and transient guests
iu aTet-ciA.s stvlc.
Large airs foogns Home comforts
fiue- S,a and Pa Fishing. Cunning and
bafiing. cic. fbs table is provided with Wild
Fosl, Tcrspin, Flsh. Oysters. Crabs, and all
iae Injuries of tllf .,asnn.
Pleasure hoais II All kinds. guides, fishing
lines. decoys, ponies, etc. always ready for
n use 81 guests
FiTst-ciafs Bar atacled. Choice wines
Iqsors. alec. beers aud cigars.
Passengers fof Chincoteague connect with
steamer for the Island at Franklin City. the
terminus of The Worcester Railroad, morning
and evening. C0rDection may also be made
daily ~ Nashville. All who visit the Atlantic
may rest assured that they viii receive cour-
feou. treatment and excsllent fare.
Tot psfronags Is respectfully solicited.
W. J. MATTHEWS q 90.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-04-15
EDWARD b. BATES.

~ (Late of Baltimore Barr
ATTORNEY AND COUNSEL0R-AT-LA
Snow Hill. Nd
Office opposite Court House. adjoining the
Post Office.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-04-15
GEORGE NJ. UPSHUR.

~ ATTORNEl-AT-LAW.
Office. Court House Square. Snow Hill, Nd
Prompt attention given 10 the collection of
claims
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-04-15

Liberal arrangements made with clubs.
Correspondence solicited from all parts OF
the county.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-04-15
GEORGE W. CONVICTION.


Office. Court House Square, Snow Hin Nd
Prompt attention given to the collection of
claims.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-04-15
CLAYTON J. PURNELL,

Office opposite Court House, Snow Hi,.l. Md.
Strict attention gwen TO the collection ot
claims. VIII visit Berlin on the second Satur-
day of every month.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-04-15
. PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
A DIAL 2. BARNES,
= n ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.

Office opposite Court House. Snow Hill Nj.
Will visit Pocomokc City every Saturday.
Strict attention given TO the collection Of
clnirns
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-04-15
CAMUEL H. TOWNSEND

y ATTORNEY-ATI LAW.
Ofice, opposite Court House. Snow Hin. Nd.
Prompt attention given to the collection of
claims.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-04-15
WIN. SIDNEY WILSON

W ATTORNEYS FLAW.
Office on Washington Street three doors
above Post Office. Snow Hill. Nd.
Immediate attention given to the collection
of claims.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-04-15
EDWARD D. MARTIN.

A - ATTORNEY-AT-L
Office opposite Town Hall. Berlin. Nd.
Special attention given 10 the collection Of
Gains
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-04-15
nR. f. L. DASHIELL.

DENTIST.
Ohice, opposite Franklin House, Snow Hill
win visit Berlin on Thursday. Frda, and
saturday OF each week. Al operations on
Nne teeth periorme1 - most sllillfGl man
ner.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-04-15
The Democratic Messenger.
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY NJ
xTTTLEToE DENNIS, Proprietor
AT SHOW HILL. WORCESTER co., ND.

Subscription, 81 Year in Advance.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1882-08-24

1t is generally remarked that houses
in large cities are cooler and more COM
Portable in summer than those located
on farms, although the latter are 50 sit
uated that the air can circulate entirely
around them. Farm houses are gen.
orally uncomfortable In summer for the
reason that large fires are kept In them
for the purpose Of cooking substantial
articles of food and for doing laundry
work. 1t is comparatively easy to dis
pense with large proportion of the
heat that is produced in these houses.
The substitution of the oil for the COM
mon wood or coal cooking stove viii do
much to diminish the amount OF heat
employed for preparing food An oil stove
produces very little heat, and this is
chiefly employed in raising the tenn
perature of the articles TO be cooked.
The flame can be directed against the
vessels in use, and the amount of heat
that escap IS into the room Ia very small.
The flames are not started till they are
required, and are extinguished as coon
as the dishes are prepared for the table.
The oil-stoye can be used to good sdvan-
tage for heating irons for smoothing
clothes and for many other domestic
purposes. The practice of pioneers of
doing heavy washing in grove near q
stream or lake deserves to be revived.
1t costs but little to ft up an arch and
boiler for heating water, or stove can
be- protected by roof 80 as to be of
service when wanted. An old affair that
has outlived its usefulness in the house
will answer every purpose. The plan pur-
sued in many parts of the South of doing
cooking in building located Ashort dis
tance from the houseis an excellent one.
It results not only in keeping the dwell
ing cool, but In keeping out bad smells
AMI many insects.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1882-08-24

there's no end 10 the use they can be
put to, and lately hear that a man has
discovered process that turns them
Into extract Of beef. I've sold shark oil
for cod liver, but I'd never have the
faca to offer billed bonyfsh as beef ex-
tract.
Gas oil producers the menhaden are
much more valuable than seals or whales,
and in one year the oil taken from the
American fisheries amounted to 200 900
gallons. or about as much as all the
whale, seal, shark and cod oil co nbined.
ALI these one masted steamers you see
of the island here and down by Long
Branch are after them, and many fol-
low them right up the coast. OF nor
them florida they are found all winter.
In March they reach Chesapeake Bay
New York in April and 30 on. AL along
the Connecticut shore there are man
ufactorIes, and, strange TO say. the refuse
after the oil is taken Is about as valuable
10 Vic OA Ab5CAAs a SOO0 uChA VI ~ 40 uoCu
for manure, while the ammonia taken
from the catch OF one year 10 valued at
81. 900. 900. It's wonderful sight, said
the fisherman, 'to look down from a
masthead upon school of menhaden.
Every school has millions of them; i'm
the daytime they look like masses of
solid SILVER, but at night their backs
light up with phosphorescencs, and the
sea sometimes seems afire beneath, and
as they dart to and fro it looks just like
great sheets of fame, and when the
bluefsh strike them like an explosion.
''Oh, yes, bluefsh eat them, and
sharks, porpofses and swordfsh too.
Professor Baird has estimated that the
bluefsh alone eat 2 500. zoo. 900 fish a
year, and that viii give you faint idea
of their numbers. But here we are"
and as the boat ran upon the beach the
reporter tumbled out, somewhat en-
lightened upon our harbor net fisher
iesl
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1882-08-24

Suicide seems 10 ne In fair way OF be-
coming as fashionable as suttee once was.
Not long ago suicide, before drowning
himself in an English river, took the pre-
caution Of addressing letter to the editor
OF the local newspaper explaining bis in
tentlons and stating where his body should
be looked for. A merchant At Aolon, In
Belgium, has improved upon this, and for
maIly notified his intention to commit sui
clde in u certain hotei i'm PARIS TO the Bur-
gomaster of his native town. That worthy
tunctIonary, instead of attempting 10
paevent him, at once sent all necessary
particulars for the correct fling up Of the
death certificate to the local Marie i'm
Paris for use in case the merchant execu-
ted his intention. The suicide took place,
and no doubt the particulars were found
useful.
THIS nonChalant official acceptance Of q
notification of InteHded suicide Ia. not far
removed from the official superintendent
Of the operation once familiar enough IN
the East. Though England, in the opinion
of all Frenchmen, 10 the land Of suicides,
our foreign cenSors have found themselves
compelled to take precautions against those
who deslre TO put an end to their lives by
artificial means. No longer will the stranger
be able to climb the VendOne Column for
the purpose of taking birds eye view of
Paris. SO many Frenchmen have re-
Gently thrown themselves from the top Of
the column that the authorities have re .
solved upon refusing to the tourist the
permission to ascend it. In the early part
of this century great number OF persons
threw themselves In despair from the
monument, and that form OF death be.
came the popular form Of suicide in Lon
don. The officials thereupo in removed the
temptation of self destruction Ivy sur
rounding the platform on the top with an
IRON cage, and since then thousands of
strangers have assembled the monument
with ilnpunity. Why should not the same
pIau be tried on the Vendome Column2
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Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1882-08-24
The Library mt AbbotsfOrd.

The library Is the handsomest apart
ment at Abbotsford. It Is fifty feet in
length by thirty feet in breadth, and
has an immense bay-window that affords
charming glimpse of the Tweed. The
ceiling is carved after designs from
Melrose Abbey. There are twenty
thousand volumes here and in the study.
The bookcases were made under
Sir Walters direction, by his own work
men. Some of them contain rare and
curious old books and MSS. that are
carefully guarded under lock and key.
Here, on the wall, is the portrait of Sir
Walters eldest son, who was colonel OF
the Fifteenth Hussars. He went out to
Madras in 1889, and was a very popu-
lar and efficient officer; but he soon fell
victim to the fatal climate of India and
died on the return voyage to Eng
land, whittier he had been ordered on
account of his health. Here, too, is the
bust of Sir Walter at the age of forty
nine, by Chantrey. There ere chairs
exquisitely wrought, from the Borghese
Palace at Rome, the gift of the Pope; a
silver urn upoL a stand of porphyry,
from Lord Byron; and an ebony cabinet
and set of chairs presented by King
George Iv. In o glass case, shielded
from the touch of profane fingers, are
the purse of Rob Roy; the brooch OF his
wife; notebook in green and gold,
once the property of Napoleon l.; and
a gold snuf-box, also given by King
George Nv. When this Royal friend
was Regent, he invited Scott to dine
with him in London, addressing him
famlliarly as "Walter," and Showering
upon him evidences of his esteem; VIXEN
he succeeded to the throne, one of the
first acts Of the kingly prerogative was
to create him a baronet,
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1882-08-24
and didn't come to catch trap to catch

and didn't come to catch a trap to catch
Silas Harris"
''No don't think you did," said /,
to bait him with; and / don't think he
would have such an old withered CAD
about as you be, even II you should ask
bim.
Nance swept her old cheese and chicken
into paper bag, then she tied her old
bonnet on her head, and stepped out on
the piazza as mad as hornet.
"You may go, ;" said ], ''nobody wants
you here with your old maggotty cheese. {"
81 II write letter to Silaa, she scream
ed as che switched down the path, 'tand
tell what mean thing you be-"
sim going 10 tell him what an old
mischief-making body you are, " was my
answer
Mrs Harris now called me, and went
Into her room.
HAS that spiteful creature gone Z" she
inquired.
''Yes, hope So"
"Good riddance to bad rubbage, said
she.
81 hope so," said I.
''lf Nance Vincent comes here again,
I'll get Silas to turn her away. l can't
have my nerves disturbed again In such
manner. Now Peggy you may do up
the housework.
went at it with a will. washed and
pCt away the dishes, swept the floor,
blackened the stove. and then as Silas ap-
peared with two pals OF milk, went
Into the milk room TO help him strain it
and put it on the shelf.
"You had quite time with old Nance,
didn't you q and then he burst out laugh
ing.
81 couldn't help it, she provoked me"
"You did just right. but you both acted
as though you had deal of temper, and
he actually laughed right in my face.
After had strained the milk, and he
had put II away, he laid his hand on my
shoulder, and said -
Peggy, you and l are getting pretty
well along in years, and guess we'd bet
ter have wedding. Don't you think It
would be good plan for us to get mar
riedf"
looked at him, kinder started, IT come
so sudden. Finally. l thought that as l
was 10 years old and he only 40, and as
was all alone In the world, it would be a
good plan, especially as he owned nice
farm. So l told him that I'd have him.
though never did care anything about the
men sex,-and we were married lust
about year ago.
But Nance amt married, and | hope
she never will be.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1882-08-24
HOME AND WOMEN.

With rosy cheeks, and golden hair
And joyous smile, just turn'd of three,
He came and said that he must tell
A tale 10 me.
"Three little people" so he spoke,
"Went out to seek for God above,
And two OF them were Faith and Hope,
The other Love.
They wander'd near, tGey wander'd far,
But never found the God they sought,
And Faith and Hope were lost and gone,
And came 10 naught."
| asked OF Love, and where he was,
"Oh, mother, he Is strong 10 bear;
He struggled on TO God at last
He now is there.
And must go, and must play"
He danced away with laughing eyes,
Blue as the glaciers sapphire depths
Or summer skies.
But In my brain the baby tale
Reiterated DER and DER,
AS It were the last true word
or this sad hour.
Oh, hope deferr'd oh, faltering faith!
Weak forces doom'd TO droop and die,
Not yours TO ind mans mystic God,
Now or eternally.
In Love, as yet but family known,
Lies all the future of our kind,
Cling to him, that on some far shore,
Faith, Hope, We ind.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1882-08-24

Patience, the second bravery Of man,
is, perhaps, greater than the first.
Spanish proverb: The man who stun
blss twice on the same stone is fool.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1882-08-24

No system Of Iarli X Is Complete that
dispenses with clover as rotation crop. -
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-07-11
PERSONAL,

]. J. Travis, OF Paris, Tennessee, is In the
city.
Captain Jerry Nash, OF Kaufman county,
was In the city yesterday.
John Bookhout returned yesterday from
. business trip to Fort Worth.
John O. Walker, prominent attorney OF
Galveston, Is at the Windsor hotel.
d. G. McCord left last evening for Mineral
Wells, whittier he goes to recuperate.
General T. N. Waul and lady, of Galves.
ton, are guests at the Grand.Windsor no.
Colonel J. II. Simpson left Sunday even
Ing for Chicago, whittier he goes on railroad
business.
Rev. Mr.. Sartwelle, Of Weatherford,
OBLIGATED at st. Matthews cathedral Sunday
morning.
Professor W. L. Cummins returned yes.
to-day from geological hunt In tho Indian
Territory.
Miss Rosy Bell Duke, a beautiful Young
lady Of weatherford, Is visiting Miss Emma
Martin, Of this city.
John Andrews, Of Fort Worth, Is In tb,
city, on his return from Kansas City ,wher,
he sold $500 head OF stock cattle.
Mrs; I; p. Myers left last evening for Min
oral Wells, where che will spend severa
months for the benefit other health.
Mr.. I'D Ogden was taken suddenly n
while. walking along Main street, and cam,
near fainting. He was carried home and al
last accounts was confined to his bed.
Messru. N. o. Laurc, L. A. Fires, and
VIM. A. Lofiin, insurance agents, who have
been IN tho city the past few days attend.