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THE PASSING STORM.
BY LILLE +. BARR,

b1 llLLiE- n. bAhAss
The burning, brilliant August sun,
over the tasseld cornfelds lay;
1t did not seem as aught could come
To mar the splendor of the day;
Yet. sudden as thought, the sky
Grew black with clouds, a stormy gust
Went wailing through the tossing trees,
And filled the still hot air with dust.
The boatman tied his boat again;
The maiden stood with hat in hand;
How could she keep loves happy tryst,
And storm and darkness Ger the land?
The sheep fed covering TO the hedge,
The birds beat hard the heavy air,
To reach the shelter of their nests;
And there was terror everywhere.
But speedily the wind was spent;
There fell some drops of cooling rain;
The black clouds vanished, and the sun
shone bright in the blue sky again.
The frightened sheep. at ease once more.
Went scattering DER the grassy lea;
The swallows ehaaer'd on the caves,
And plumed their wet wings merrily.
The boatman looked both east and west,
Undid his boat with calm content:
Twas but wind storm after all,
It quickly came and quickly went
The maid Iook'd out with tender eyes.
And pulrd some lilies wet and sxeet;
Then down the green, cool, scented lane,
She went with smiles her love to meet
Oh, OF in life. when all seems bright,
How quick sudden storm viii rise!
Then muttering winds are fell ofill,
And black clouds drive across the skies;
So black and sudden that our hearts
sink down in terror and dis1nay;
And birds that sang rs Hopes sweet song
All in moment ay away.
Then soul, a little while be still;
Into thy covert for an hour
some storms It's foolishness TO brave.
They only have a passing power;
Hide like the birds within thy nest.
Or bend thee low, like she green grass
The flercest tempests that can blow
Have but their power IN which 10 pass.
'Tis better far 70 stand aside
Than meet power thou eanst not hght
The brave man bears--the coward's way
Is still to blEster for ~his right"
The wise man waits-he'l not defy
without good reason. Storm and rain
He knows the clouds must soon pass hy,
And song and sunshine come again
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nsAYLOR's BOSS CLIPPER
Il AND DRY STEAM ENGINES

Portable and Agricultural Engines; Clipper
Engines from to 10 Horse Power; Dry
Steam Engines from 4 to 40 HORSE. Power I;
Utica for Wood & MANN Engines from 9 70
20 Horse Power StationaFies; Adjustable
Caf-Of Utica Engines from II to 200 Horse
Poser Improved Corliss Engines from 10 to
$50 Horse Power; Boilers, all sizes Iron
F-nme Reversible Saw Mills, four sizes North
Carolina Portable Corn Mills; Corn-Mill
Stones, All sizes, guaranteed 70 produce better
Meal, with 25 per cent. less power, than any
other Mil Stone IN The srorld. HTHE TAYLOR
MANUFAcrURING COMPANY or WESTMINSTER,
MD.. Westminster. Nd. y. $. A.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1882-08-12

Burnt bones are employed by Potters as
an ingredient of soft porcelain, to an amount
sometimes of nearly half the entire mass.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1882-08-12

1t is not the number of promises man
makes, but the number he keeps, which
gives him position among respectable
people
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1882-08-12

Grape sugar, used for giving more
body to wines, etc, is made of potato starch.
sulphurie acid, chalk and water.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1882-08-12

The strength of 120pounds is required
to tearasunder an iron wire one-twenty-ifth
of an inch in diamater.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1882-08-12
r A. NIssELL,

HORSE SHOER.
Corner Main st. and Washington Road,
Westminster. Especial attention given to
Shoeing. Also iron and wood work in gener-
al Your patronage is solicited.
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Seventh Election District, being
Westminster District.

Precinct No. lon Thursday the 18th,
Friday the 18th and Saturday the 18th days
of August, 1852. at the residence Of the Reg
ister. James Z. Smith, on Main street. IN
Westminster. next door 70 Reifsnider 4 Fink $
Law Office
Precinct No. 2--On Monday the 18th,
Tuesday the 18th and Wednesday the 18th
dars Of August, 1882, af the Office Of the Ear
mers and Planters Live Stock Association,
on Main street, in Westminster, west Of the
railroad.
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The dwelling house is generally con-
structed of mud and brick, with tiles for a
roof, and the whole surrounded by wall.
Entering the gateway one finds his passage
barred by screen, sometimes built of brick
and sometimes of wood, bearing upon a
white diamond-shaped field the character
which means happiness. This screen is
believed to ward off the nfuences of bad
spirits from the dwelling. Passing to the
right or left, the eatrance to the house is
gained. We now perceived the family an
eestral tablets huge picture of Buddba,
before which several incense sticks were
burning, and some few plates containing
food, such as boiled rice, dried beans and
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Eighth Election District, being
Hamustead District.

On Monday, the 18th day Of August, 1882,
al Marsh's Hotel. in Hampstead. On Tues
day the 18th, Wednesday the 10th. and Thurs
store. Houcksville. On Friday the 18th, and
Saturday the 18th days Of August, 1852, 81
Ahhattis store in Eden
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tsP. S. No. =2.-When | showed your like
ness to Hugh. he was captvated at once, and
declared he had never seen so charming
face. What will he say to the original?
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On Monday, the l4th day Of August, 1882, at
the residence Of Lewis c. Franklin, IN Frank
ainville. On Tuesday the 18TH and "Wednesday
fhe 18th days Of August, 1882, ii the Store Of
David Cover. in Winfield On Thursday the
18th, Friday the 18th, and Saturday the 18th
DAYS Of August, 1882, Al the residence Of the
Register, Lewis G. Franklin, in Franklinville.
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Third Electica District, being Myers
District.
Fourth Election District, being
Woolery's District.
Fifth Election District, being Free
dom District.

On Monday, the l4th day Of August, 1882,
at the residence Of the Register. ]. ". Steele,
IS Freedom. On Tuesday the 18th, and We'd
nesday the 10th days of August, 1852. al
Wav's School House, on the Sans Creek
road. On Thursday the 18th, and Friday the
18th days Of August. 1882, al Stony Ridge
School House. On Saturday, the 10th day
Of August. 1882. at the residence Of the Reg
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-11-17
Exit Congressman Page

There are various cOmpeuSations among
the otherwise uutoward from Republican
point Of view results of the recent elections.
One of these is the defeat of Congressman
II. +. Page of California Mr.. Page is the
man who engineered the River aul llarbor
l. Dodge from the superintcndencl of the
San Francisco Mint, because lac would not
appoint some OF Pages strikers to p'ac,s iIi
the Mint. The New York Times gives Page
the following nice little notice to comfort
him in his aillction:
Page is defeated and when the conspiiu
tors meet 10 the next Congress and begin to
inquire how much money can h. stolen
for Cheesequake Creek, and how much for
Alligator Bar. the stateSman-llkc Page Will
have returned to lis sla1e-drlvng, his ranch,
and his congcnia stable. He, at least will
not be in the committee of commerce. Mr..
Page, however, IL his brief Congressional
career, has achieved great success. As a
stage-drivcr on the route between llangt )wn
and Single Springs, Cal, he won the good
will of all who were privileged to ride on
the box with him or whose commissions he
executed in the mining hanlets through
which he drove IL Concord coach in Summer
and ''mud-wagon" in Winter. UrLauc
when it was profitable, but rough and
ready when it was necessary, Page
captivalcd not only the entire popula-
ton between Single Springs and lang
town, but his fame as II tiXer of primaries
and II forciblc orator when convention WIS
to be bull-dozed, spread through all the re-
giou roundabout. From Skunk's Misery to
Murdcrcr's Bar and from Blue Tent 10 Iuba
Dam, lie was known as a mighty politician.
When he was announced as candidate for
Congress the bloatei arlstocrats who wore
'boled shirts and ,schewed tobacco
WINGED little. But political merit never
goes long unrcwardcd. The stage driver
threw down his lines, one fine day, and walk
ed into Congress and took his seat. Under
the present Administration he became Il
prime favoritc with the President, lie made
and unmadc Federal officials, controlled
Slar-routes, dabblcd in naval matters and
managed the river and harbor bill.
Mr.. Page represents II Republican district.
To be nominated by the Republicans was to
be elected. But the district has gone Demo-
cratic, and the able stage driver will drive
no more a river and harbor bill through the
House lie, US bear this disaster with oqua-
nimty,
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-11-17
The Defeat of Mr.. blaine.
From the New York Evening POST.

lrlolH lit NtN lblh 'sil'
The morning rapors publish despatch,
coming all the way from Boston, to announce
that Mr. Blaine absolutely refuses to be in
terviewed and to give his views about the
presen. state of affairs TO the public, but that
he did say to personal friend, in tliesecrecy
of private confidence, chat he was not Il
candidate for the Presidency, or for any
other political office"
If Mr.. Blaine has concluded not to be a
candidate for the Presidency, he shows some
understandin g of the situation. But whether
he adheres to that conclusion or not, is II
matter Of comparatively small importance in
view of the fact that Mr.. Blaine would not
be able to get the Presidency if he wanted it
ever so much. 1t will soon dawn upon him
that the overthrow of the Sialwarts last Tues
day has rather diminished than increased his
| chances, even for the nomination. In the
opinion of the Slalwarts Mr.. Blaine stands
| to-day to some extent in position similar
| to that which the Stalwarts occupied in the
| opinion of the Garfield Republicans after the
assassination of Garfield. AS they were made
largely responsible for that tragedy SC
Mr.. Bninc is loudly accused OF
|
the SlGlwarts, when the road to power seem
cd to be opened to them by Gareld's death,
found only an increased bitterness OF opposi,
ton and final disaster, so Mr.. Blame
to whom the road to supreme control II
| the party seems to be opened by tho
downfall of the Stllwart Machine, will fad
only more revcngeful spirit ON their part
and increased distiust on the pat on the re-
form Republicans in his path.
1t is true the overwhelming discontinue Of
the StalNarls was not owing to Mr.. Blaine.
friends alone, but mainly to the dissatsflc
tod of very large number of Republicans
with the general conduct, the methods, the
delinquencies of the party. Now, it is wei
known that the opposition of Mr., Blaine anc
his particular adherens was not ut all direct
ed against the shortcomings and abuses which
had excited the wrath of the rank and file
The latter disapproved of the Machine meth
DDS in party management; but Mr.. Blaine
and bis lieutenans had always used the SAINT
methods, IN consequence whereof the State OF
Maine had been lost in several elections, auC
was recovered only because the opposition haL
so foolish as to identify themselves with the
Greenback cause. What Mr.. Blaine and his
men were opposed to, was the machine anC
the boss-rule of the other sets, for which he
simply wanted to substitute his own hou
changing or in any way improving the sys
TEN. The dissatisfied Republicans disap
proved of the scandal of political assess
ments, but that scandal found among Mr.
Blaine's nearest friends its most conspicuous
defenders. The dissatisfied Republicans
complained Of extravaganza in public ex.
penditurcs. while Mr. Blaine's friends were
among the foremost promoters of that OK.
travagance. The dissatisfied Republicans
complained of the failure of the
! Republicans in Congress to provide
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-11-17

Mr. 1hompsGn's logic ought to damn The
tax law, and his logic, which the Legislature
accepted when they elected Judge Royce,
will damn the tax law. Next year the men
ylo cloct to be doubled under the law will
he as plenty as Moses made lice in Egypt
Rutiand He1alH.
The Uerad takes too sonbre view of the
matter. 1t need not repent Of its past sturdy
support of the taX-laW OF set down the law
as heuceforth dead letter. There were
some other things to he considered in Judge
Roycc's case besides his attitude towards
the toX-law. His reelection simply showed
that in the minds of majority Of the Lcgis-
lGture The fear Of weakening the Court by
dropping the Chief Justice, and the general
belief in his integrity, OVERRIDE their appre-
tensions of any damage to the new tax law.
Judge Royce is not the Supreme Court. If
he is opposed to the tax-law-whch is not
clcar-hc cannot change it. And If the listers
do their duty and mark the rich men who
decline to return inventories well up, before
they double them, the other taxpayers will
not suffer
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-11-17

The New York Mail and Erprcss calls at
,pn,il TO tic claim made for European rail-
way trains, that they make much faster time
ti.an is made on American railways, and
points to an instance Of rapid travelling on
the c0ntucnt recently over which much ado
has been made Il was by special train
which carried number of capitalists and
journalists from Paris to Vienna, distance
of 900 miles which was made in twenty
eight hours, or at the rate of about thlrty-two
miles an hour. This is not as good time as
fast Chicago trains of the New York Central
railway have made regularly, the distance be-
tween the two cities being 976 miles. The
achievement is insi .nitiCant in comparison
with that on the Great Northern railway last
summer. when the Duke of Edinburgh made
the Journey from Leeds to London 1867
miles. in three hours, or at the rate OF little
more THAI siXty-twO miles an hour. The
locomotive had driving wheels eight feet in
diameter. or two Feet larger than those OF
passenger locomotives IN this country, which
are dubbed Jumbo by Europeans If the
speed of passenger trains between our great
cities could be increased to fifty or sixty miles
an hour with safety, AMI without much in
crease of expense, vast saving OF important
time would be effected.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-11-17

The public buildings and grounds in Wash
ington, the property of the nation, have cost
vast amount Of money. Recently an official
assessment of their value, not their cost, has
been made, with the following results: The
Capitol building is valued at SIG, 600, $50 and
the grounds at $780, 595 the Treasury De-
partment building and grounds are assessed
al T100S, 45i; the State, War and Navy
Department buildings, IS, 2ll, lG1 the Agri-
cultura! Department buildings, 1881, S25, and
the grounds, S5S9,0SG; The Smithsonian,
$500, G5l, and National Museum, $3.50, 900,
and the grounds S2,553,37S, the National
monument grounds, i ,Sl5, 7S1 and the Wash
lngton Monument, $780, the National
Observatory grounds, Sl25 SOL, and the
building, S225, 2S4 the Patent Office build
ing and grounds at SO, 754 1874, and Other
property in proportion. Here lisa total valu.
alton of nearly fifty millions of dollars par
mauenily invested in accommodations for the
National Government at Washington, and
much more is nccdcd-yct some people think
it don't matter what sort Of men we send to
Congress.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-11-17

for rational reform of our revenue
system and a reduction OF taxa
ton, which Mr.. Blaine's friends were con
spicuously active in delaying. The dissa'is
fed Republicans wanted II thorough reform
of the civil service, "A cause which Mr. Blame
and his friends have for years sought to COW
cr with contcurt and iidiculc. The di'sit-
sticd Republicans want TO purify the party,
while Mr.. Blaine himself figures in our his
tory us the self convicted author Of the Null
ligan letter, AID recogniz sand publicly dis
tinguishcs rs most meriturious and trusted
among his friends and workers such men as
Dick Harrington, Of safe-burglury fame,
Boslcr, the renowned ludian-Cattc man and
Siar-routc contractor, aud many Others OF
similar character, too numerous 10 be men
toned
The r,sut is that while Mr.. Blaine as a
candidate would meet the deadly enmiy OF
the Stalwarts ON the one hand, he and bis
near ST friends would on the other hand be
rejected 10y the reform sentiment in the Re
publican party rs representing all the obnox-
ious tendencies against which tia, sentiment
is directed. The defeat of last Tuesday
was, therefore, his defeat us well as that of
the Stalwarts. 1t is no act of heroic self
Annexation on his part when he concludes
not to be Il candidate for the presidency.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-11-17
A CORRECTION.

Tljs vary dov I, hoe hoo, asso,,od in fine
public prints that the opposition to Judge
Royce Is not grounded upon any question
,e'ilnS W 'no ,oA Jaw o''. qua, tn,a ,ia,'o
nurnoscs which will mo-, near Inc LIGHT. Mr.
President, ask you and the members of this
JOINT Assembly, II mat is true II tha1 III,
v"u'rnnt !, ,ofr " s,n,d IL, ~, Far nv
sell, and say thuit is false. say that whatever
las been douc in the courts of this state, |
accGue 10 i ''el' u uo noI '''''0'i ,,,;,f
,,"I,is ,,linh !, hon,,y
S.,,, coa,,. v,,,.,, ~ p,,i,rd c,ur,v
!, his s,ooch II, on,os;,i,n ia fine recollection
If lido POGO I, ,,os h,,d uncmp,o.
,,;s;,r and i,,,;s;yo sno.o,, os ,,,, SENATOR'S
u,,er,rccs or,,n, T., In lint it was not quite
accurate in all of its quotations. If the
honorable senator had been asked in what
nuh1ic nrin, hc found inc assertion he pro-
roncoe fo1s, bo wo,id undouhtcdlv have
renlird Tim, II was in tho Fprr puEss. But
bo "a, ma, find ,h,, nsser,io, in this paper.
W. hovo s,,,c,hi,., of n b,hit of usinrpreitv
dircc, s,eoch oursclvns and If we had set
MI, ia cav TINT we knew that the OPP
posi,ion tn .tudrc Roycc had nothing
f. do u;,t ,hc ,ov law and that Senator
Walker was using tha, matter for a tool, we
sbouId have said q, in q, many words What
w, d;d e,v woa thot Judrc Roycc's rc-elec.
| II an. IL.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-11-17

A Paris correspondent says that the iroub-
les made by the French Anarchists at Mont
ccau began with the attempt of the Catholic
PROJECTORS OF the Montceau mines to convert
their men wholesale. The priesthood, no doubt
with the best intentions, had suggested that
something should be done among this mining
population to counteract the revolutionary
md miidcl doctrines So it came about that
everything was done to drive rather than to
draw lLc miner to the bosom of the church.
The result was such as might have been fore
seem the miners began to be intolerant in
their turn They held secret meetings in the
woods and there soon appeared on the scene
socialist agitators from Lyons and Paris 10
tell them what they were to meet for and TO
turn the current of dsaiIection into the pro-
per channel There was at the same time Il
free distribution of inccndiary papers and
pamphlets When the men from Paris and
Lyons had been at work little time among
the Miners, the miners were at no loss as
to what to do. They got some dynamite
and blew up a chapel, and i'll wrecking what
was left of it they repeated some of the en-
ccsses of 50 so closely that one can not help
thinking they must have gone into rehearsal
of them.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-11-17

The Attorney General bill now before the
Legislature provides for the appointment of
an attorney general by the Governor, with
the consent of the Senate who shall have the
general supervision of the criminal business
of the State, attend all capital trials (and all
other trials when pIactcabe), have charge of
the argument in cases in supreme court, keep
books wherein shall be entered all reports
made to him by county clerks and clerk of
city and municipal courts in relation to the
criminal business of the State attend the
sessions at the request Of the Governor or
either branch of the Legislature, have gener-
al supervision of legal documents, consult
with members regarding all legal questions
and at all times counsel the Governor aud
State officials concerning questions of law
arising in their official business. The only
objections made to the bill, as far as our OBJ
servation has extended, are that there is no
need of such an office, that it will simply
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-11-17
Judge Royce's Taxable Property.

The unconroverted story of his alleged
evasion of the tax law was that he gave III a
full list of all his taxable property, and of
the funds committed to HIM In trust long
before the law was conceived, Withholding,
as matter of confidence to which he was
sacredly committed, only the names of the
persons of the trust Knowing that This
omission would not satisfy the strict letter OF
the law, he iptimatcd to the listers his ac-
ceptance of the consequences, the doubling
of the list he had furnished, rnthcr than to
betray an old-timc trust, In consequence he
chccrfully pays some eight hundred dollars
in taxes, II sum said 10 he entirely out OF
proportion 10 the amount of his taxable
property.
With many, we have no doubt, it was
simply "A que, ton OF obedience to law, but
this plausible plea for Judge Roycc's depoi-
ton, it is undcnablc, was used by warning
litigan,s merely as prctcxt to get rid Of an
obnoxious judge. Montpelier Journal.
AS it has been whispered that ono reason
why Judge Royce declined to made an in
vcntory was that he was unwilling to
disclose his large ownership of railroad
bonds, it may be added to the above, that
Judge Royce has not, and has not had,
according to reliable information that has
come to us, any investments in railroad
bonds or securities of any kind. We have
no doubt that Judge Royce has paid his fair
share of taxes. The narrow margin by
which he was re elected, however, is very
distinct admonition to him and to all, that
the people will countcnance no triling will
the Tax law; and further that the refusal t.
return an inventory is regarded, in the
popular estimation, rather as an evasion o.
the main object of the tay-law, than as the
taking Of fair, legal and satisfactory
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-11-17

give an office to some enterprising lawyer,
and that 1t is an insult to the States attor-
neys. Weaker arguments could not well he
advanced. We do not now recall single
important trial in this county where the
States Attorney did not deem it necessary to
call in counsel to assist him and the expert
ence of Chittenden county is the experience
of all the counties. In the presentation OF
cases before the Supreme Court and in the
administration of State affairs first-ratc legal
talent is necessary, and the creation of such
an Office us that proposed would be real adj
vantage to the State, aud would also he more
economical than the present method of en-.
ploying special counsel.