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HoUsE AND LOTS FOR SALE.

The property on the corner of Main and
Centre Streets Is offered at private sale until
the 1st Of April. Also two lots on Green
Street and p acres near the Jail. The house
has six rooms and garret, with good cellar /;
water at the door fruit, large ice house, full;
stabling and carriage house.
8nnIv IL JAMES BIGGS.
Westminster,
feb 2s-tf or to the ADVOCATE
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A wag seeing an Irishman standing in
front Of public-house, thinking to have
some fun at his expense, thus accosted him:
Il say, Pat, if | had two pigs that weighed
twenty pounds, what would big hog
weigh p Faith, come inside an jump on
the scales, an I'll be after weighing yees, =
was the quick reply.
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1t was the wife of President Madison
who gave young woman the famous adj
vice:-'Giye your appearance careful and
serious thought in your dressing room and
forget it elsewhere.
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Select Auetrp,
NOW

BY FATHER RYAN.
Sometimes single hour
Rings thro' long lifetime,
As from a temple tower
There often falls a chime
From blessed bells, that seem
To fold in Heavens dreams
Our spirits round shrine,
Hath such an hour been thine
Sometimes-whO knoweth why
one minute holds power
That shadows ev'ry hour
Dialed in life's sky.
cloud that is speek
When seen from far away
May be a storm and wreck
The JOY ofevers day.
Sometimes-it seems not much,
'Tis scarcely felt at all
Grace gives gentle touch
To hearts for once and all.
Which in the spirits strife
May all unnoticed be,
And yet it rules life,
Hath this e'er come To thee
Sometimes one little word.
Whispered sWeei anG feet
That scarcely can be heard.
Our ears with sudden meet
And all life's hours along
That whisper may vibrste
And like a wizards song.
Decide our ev'ry fate.
Sometime a sudden look.
That Allcth from some face,
VIII steal Into each nook
oflifc. and leave its trace,
To haunt US 10 The last.
And sway our ey 'ry will
Thro all the days to b..
For goodness OF for ill,
Hath this Ger come to ther.
Sometimes one minnie foltls
The hearts Of all the year.
Just like the heart that holds
The infinite IN tears.
There be such thing as ihls-
Who knoweth. why, or how
4 life of voc or bliss
Hangs on some little Now.
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MO. aoel.
In the Circuit Court for Carroll county in
Eauity.

IN
In the Circuit Court for Carroll county in
Equity.
Sarah A. Haines vs.. Ephraim H. Haines.
Ordered this 2nd day of March, A. d., 1882
that the sales of the real estate in the pro
ceedings in this cause mentioned, made by
George p Albaugh, trustee, and this day
reported by said trustee to said Court, b'
ratified and confirmed, unless cause TO the
contrary thereof be shown on or before th'
Sd day of April, next; provided copy Of this
order be inserted once week for each OF three
successive weeks before the 9th day of March
instant.
The report states the amount Of sales to be
FRANK I. SHAW, Clerk.
True Copy.-Test:
mar 4-st FRANK 7. SHAW. Clerk.
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A writer on school discipline says
Without liberal use of the rod it is inn
possible to make boys smart
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1882-03-11

A man who has repeatedly tried them
says that all the short cuts to fortune are
horribly oyercrowded.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1882-03-11

Whatever Midas touched turned into
gold In these days, touch a man with
gold and he II turn into anything.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1882-03-11

''Ef de roosters should crow now, said
a colored preacher, ''ebbery time a lie is
told, as dey did at Peter, you couldn't hear
vnnrselfta sab
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1882-03-11
The following inscription is to be seen
ON a tomb in the cemetery at Sterling
Castle, Scotland, dated 1909:

'Our life is but winter day,
Some only breakfast and pass away;
Others to dinner stay, and are full fed,
The oldest man but sups and goes 70 bed
Larger is his debt that fingers out the day;
He that goes soonest has the least 10 pay
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1882-03-11

1t is at the approach of dinner time that
we feel most sensibly "the emptiness of
things below.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1882-03-11

Brass is not near so valuable as gold, but
some people contrive to get along quite as
well with it,
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Red LETTER COW PRIcE SALE
EXCELSIOR
ONE PRICE CLOTHING HOUSE,

S. W. Corner Baltimore and Light Streets.
Largest Leading Clothing Establishment in
MARYLAND. feb lift
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eb 2s.H
EoR RENT.

Two Tenant Houses, at 50 per month each.
Constant employment given to one tenant IN
- ~ THOS. C. BROWN,
feb 1s-4t Finksburg, Md.
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a FREDERICK COUNTY Farm
IA FOR SALE.

IA FOR SALE.
Al Private Sale, on the Western Maryland
Railroad, lying Immediately ON the road, At
Loyss Station, two miles east Of Graeeham,
in Frederick comfy. a very desirable grain
and stock farm, containing 2l3 ACRES,
all under cultivation, except aboat % acres
Of good Woodland. The farm Is hrst-class
ssred land. = with between 80 and 40 acres OF
rich bottom land on Owens Creek, adjoining
q good Touring mill, blacksmith shop, and
convenient TO stores, churches and schools.
There is a large orchard Of apples, pears,
reaekes and cherries. The Buildings are a
good rongh-east log house, ASMA-0
complete bank barn nearly new, ~ mal
and other 0nfbnildings suitable r.
for such farm Water near
the door bv two substantial wells with pumps
and water for the stock at the mill-race.
Outside fences all post and rail, all fencing y
good repair. a portion Of the land recently
lined and lime kiln at Loy's Station.
This place is admirably suited for dairy
farm. being within q hours run Of Baltimore,
The society Of the neighborhood Is good and
the locality healthy. The purchaser can alse
bnv the farm stock and growing crops, anc
have possession April lst, 1882.
Terms easy Call on OF address
g. J. SSGMUND,
ian 2s-6m Mechanicstown, Md.
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SPECIAL PRICES

That actually compel purchases. II is no
boast to say that il viii pay you to travel any
distance TO purchase al the
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STATE OF MARYLAND,
Insurance Dept, Commissioners Office,
AxxAPoIIs, February l4th, 1882. J
In compliance with Act Of 1878, Chapter
I06, hereby certify that the above IS true
extract from the statement of the FARMERS.
MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY
of Dug Hill, to December 3lst, 1881. nos on
fle in this Department.
JESSE X. HINES,
feb 25-a Insurance Commissioner.
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sTATE oF MARYLANp.

Iasssrasscs Dept. Commissioner 0fice,
ASxARoT1s, February 9th, 1882.
III compliance with Act Of 1873, Chapter
lO6. hereby certify that the above Is q true
extract from the statement Of the MUTUAL.
FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY Of Carroll
county, to December slst, 1881, now on hle
in this Department
JESSE r. HINES,
feb a5-st Insurance Commissioner.
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,Sko,cisg the Condition of the Farmers Ma
t,sal Fire Insurance Company, Of Dug HiH,
Carroll county, Nd, December 3fst, 1881.
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cIorHINo far NEN. RoYsA cHILpRKN

Is soIR AT
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-08-31
CLIPPINGS FOR TIE CURIOUS.

Queen Victoria weighs 200 pounds.
Two harnessed crocodiles tamely drew
a wagon into Atlanta.
It costs the United States about
1925. 600. 900 every year to go to Eu.
rope.
A German scientist finds that the
true color of perfectly distilled pure
water is fine, deep blue-green.
Plateau, the eminent French natural
ist, finds that June bug can exert as
great force in proportion to its size as
locomotive.
Ten thousand tons of sand are an
nually dug from Neversink mountain,
near Reading, Pa, for use in the foun-
dries of that place.
A peach has been raised in Georgia
which measured eleven and three
quarter inches in circumference and
weighed thirteen and one-half ounces.
China claims to have invented cannon
1900 years ago. She seems to have
been satisfied with her first invention,
as she has made no progress in cannon
making since.
Reaumur, who invented and gave his
name to a thermometer, by which he is
everywhere known, was great natural
ist, publishing an exhaustive work on
insects. He died in 1857.
Mirabeau, doubtless one of the most
eloquent men that France ever pro-
duced, was q member of the national
assembly in 1889. but died two years
later, in the midst OF most brilliant
career.
In the sixteenth century, when ex-
plorers were haunted by the idea that
exhaustless wealth was to be found in
the new world. stone brought to
London, by an English sailor from the
Polar regions, was pronounced gold by
mineral man" Some fifteen vessels
Immediately set sail for the north. to
return crestfallen, laden with worthless
yellow stones instead of gold.
Somebody with perchant for coinci-
dents has remembered that the three
fires most destructive of human life
during the last quarter OF century
those in Santiago, Broo klyn and Vienna
all occurred in the month of Decem-
ber; not only that, but the Santiago
cathedral and Ring theatre were
burned on December 8, at the same
hour, and the Brooklyn theatre was
burned only three days earlier in the
month.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-08-31
The GYPSY King.

Charles Dudley Warner, in q recent les-
ter from Granada, Spain, says: / went
the other evening to see q gypsy dance
and to hear the king of the gypsies
play. The king, who wears the dress of
an ordinary Spaniard, is man of some
forty five years, very dark complexion,
and. unlike any other of his race hAv
seen, with fine head and good fea
lures, and commanding and dignified
bearing. I had heard that he is the
best guitar player in Europe, and that
he has refused offers to go to the capi
tails. he certainly handled the instru.
ment as never saw it handled by any
one else, and made 1t sing and almost
speak, aud in a sort of articulation of
the airs he rendered, in most remark
able manner. Most of the compositions
he gave we're gltana dances. but he
played one piece with exquisite pathos
and feeling. It was, he said, marchs
fuuebre, El ultimo, Buspiro del More
THE last sigh OF the Moor) Ia mournfuI
and touching reminiscence Of the do
parture of Boadbil from his lost capital
~hen he turned back from sandy kno'
IN the other side Of the Vega to Ice
ls last upon the towers OF the Alhar
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-08-31
Dick Turpin No Hero.

Everybody has read about Dick
Turpin, who was executed, not as has
been supposed for gallant 2obberies,
but for the lower crime of horse steal
ing. Instead OF being an elegant fell
low, with an impulsive heart, Turpin
was low wretch, petty, selfish, oom-
mon and brutal The late MIR. Aims
worth made him q prominent character
OF Rookwood." In reality he was
farmers son in the county Of Essex,
east of London, sent to q common
school, and apprenticed to butcher
in Whitechapel, the worst end of Lon
don city, and there he became noted
for his brutal disposition, his love of
fighting, tackling people and cudgel-
ing his horse. When his apprentice
ship expired he married q young
woman and returned to Essex county,
at Eastman, and started the butchering
business and il occurred to him that
he had better steal cattle than buy
them, and 30 he deliberately sold in
his shop the cattle of his neighbors
and when two oxen were traced to him
and warrant obtained, he jumped out
Of the back windows OF his house as the
officers entered the front door, and this
made him an outlaw, his wife furnish
ing him with money to join q gang of
smugglers on The coast.
This gang was broken up by the
custom house officers very soon and
then Turpin went to Devastating in
Epping forest, which lies to the north
east of London, and in it we're several
fine parks of gentlemen containing
deer. This business was not remunera-
tive, and the band resolved to be house.
breakers; and, while one of them
knocked at the door, the others would
rush in as soon as it was opened, and
make away with whatever they could
lay their hands on.
In the course OF these adventures
they heard Of an old woman in village
who kept about e900 in her house,
and when she came to the door
they forced their way in, tied her
and her maid, and Turpin told the
old woman that he would set her on
Gre II she did not reveal where the
money was.
She, refusing, was actually placsd
on the fire and kept there till her
tormenting pains made her point out
where she had concealed her gold, and
they stole e40O and ran away. This
entirely disposes Of the romantic origin
Of Dick Turpin. - London Letter.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-08-31
: ThrOugIa LiKe.

We ealighs the gifts that every season beans,
And Lot them fall unheeded from on gTaY
In our great eagerness TO reach and clasp
The promised treasure Of our coming yeasvi
Or else We mourn some great good passed,
And in the shadow Of our grief shut in,
Refuse the lesser good we yet IN , win,
The offered peace and gladness of tJ-day.
So through the chambers of our lifs we pass,
And leave them one by ono and never stsyi
Not knowing how much pleasantness there was
In each, until the closing Of the door
Has sounded through the house, and died away.
And in our hearts VIC sigh, "For ever mora
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-08-31
Sacrifice in India,

Human sacrifice is by no means the
obsolete custom it is supposed to be;
and recent issue of the Hindoo PGtrios
has information from Tripura Baxtaba.
ha that human sacrifice was offered to
the goddess Kali near Amlighatta sta
tion in Hill Tipperah. The inhabitants
of the place. in worshiping the black
goddess, thought of sacrificing human
being to satisfy the goddess, and fixed
upon an unfortunate man for the sacri-
foe. They then asked the consent Of
bis wife, who, curiously enough. said
she had no objection il they we're all
bent to offer him up as a sacrifice. The
man was carried to the place Of execu-
ton by force. and murdered. The SON
Of the deceased asked his mother
where his father was. The
mother replied that she consented to
his being sacrificed. He being her
other half, abe had, she said ever,
right to dispose Of him in any manner
she liked. The woman and other culprits
are awaiting their trial before the mag
istrate of Sarnaohoora, who Is . kins
man Of the rsia.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-08-31
The Temple OF Diana.

Ah0
at Ephesus, the capital of the twelve
Iolian cities in Asia Minor, stood this
famous temple of Diana. The edifice
was burned down on the night in
which Alexander was born. It was
set fire to by Eratostratus, native of
Ephesus, with no other view than to
immortalize his name. His townsmen,
however, passed decree forbidding
his name to be mentioned; nor would
it have been known unless Theopampus
had introduced it into his writings.
Hence the incendiary has come down
to our times as "the youth that fired
the Ephekian DOME"
Alexander made an offer to rebuild
the temple, provided he could inscribe
his name on the front, which the Ephe.
SLAMS refused. Aided, however, by the
whole of Asia Minor, they erected q
still more magnificent temple, which
occupied them 220 years. Pliny de-
scribes it as 425 feet by 220 broad. Cher
siphorn was the architect. It was built of
cedar, cypress and even gold; and
within it were treasured offerings to
the golden Diana, the value of which
almost exceeded computation. Nero is
said to have despoiled the temple OF
many of these treasures; but it ex-
listed until it was finally burned by the
Goths, a. d. 56-268. Vitruvius con-
siders this temple as the first edifice in
which architecture was brought to per-
fection, and the first in which the Ionic
order Was employed.
Ephesus, once the pride OF Asia, is
now represented by poor village of a
few cottages, and castle and mosque
built with fragments taken from the
ruins of Epbesus, half mile distant.
The stadium (now converted into corn
field), the theatre. the circus and the
magnificent gymnasium may all be dis
tinguished in outline, and their area
is strewed with fine fragments.
There is particular part Of the en-
tablature Of Oorinthian tenn
pie, which, in the richness and variety
of its ornaments, as we'll as in their fine
execution, has perhaps never been sur.
passed. But tits not without difficulty,
and even doubt, that We can determine
the spot whore stood that proud boast
of antiquity-the temple sacred to
Diana of the Ephesians. All that con-
stituted the splendor OF this edifice-
its columns, OF which 127 we're the gifts
of kings, its works of art, comprising
the masterpiece of Apelles and PrAxi-
teles, and the one column sculptured
by Scopas-have disappeared. After
the great temple had been repeatedly
pillaged by the barbarians, Justinian re-
moved the columns to adorn the church
of st. Sophia, at Oonstantinople. The
temple site can now be identified
only by the marshy spot on which ii
was erected, and by the prodigious ex-
tent and magnitude of the arches raised
rs foundation. The vaults formed by
them compose sort of labyrinth.
There is not an apartment entire. But
walls of immense blocks of marble, in
the front Of which are perforations
wherein were sunk the shanks of the
brass and silver plates with which the
walls were faced these and shafts of
columns are all that remain OF this
splendid edifce, once pointed ont as
that which all Asia worshiped when
the people cried out in their enthusi-
asm, "Great is Diana of the Ephesians,
to whom such temple belonged"
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-08-31

persuasion could induce him to accept
it. OF course Mrs. and Miss Russell
were admitted to our circle, and our
"trip up the river made more Joyous than
ever, as she proved to be very intelli-
gent and worthy lady, and wealthy, and
her daughter proved to be as lovely in
disposition as she was beautiful in face
and form.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-08-31
what Time Is It4

Time to do vell;
Time to live better;
Give up grudge;
Answer that letter;
Speak that kind word to sweeten sorrow.
Do chat good deed, girls, you would leave till
tomorrow.
Time to try hard
In that new situation;
Time to build up, boys
On solid foundation;
Give up needlessly changing and drifting,
Leaving the quicksands that ever are shifting.
What time is it
Time to be earnest,
Laying up treasure;
Time to be thoughtful,
Choo ing true pleasure.
Loving to do right, of truth being fond;
Making your word just as good as your bond.
Time to be happy,
Doing your best;
Time to be trus.ful,
Leaving the rest;
Knowing in whatever country or cline,
he'er oan we call back one minute OF time.
-CtriStiaR at Work.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-08-31
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

No man wearies of the cares of state
quicker than he who serves in the State
prison.
The young skipper who takes party
OF girls ont sailing should content him.
self with hugging the shore.
Carlyle said that trihes were the
hinges Of destiny, but he never used
any OF them on his front gate.
"Don't put in no muskeeter nettin'
for me-" said Aunt Hannah. "I don't
want to breathe no strained air."
Most people who visit Niagara Fails
are disappointed in the roar. They ez-
pect to hear something like the voice of
q chairman at a political CAUCUS.
An exchange says that "HenrJ Irving,
the actor, has two sons who will beat
him on the stage" Henry should have
them bound over to keep the peace.
"We stand at LIES west windows,
And think of the days that are gone''-
While the grocer's boy licks the molssses,
And pair of goats butt ON the lawn.
81 was not bred for work." said o
foppish tramp to the farmer. every
well, them" replied the farmer, 1et us
see if you can't work for bread"
A girl who sets out to look graceful
in a hammock has as much work on
hand as the man who tries to be languid
with a sawlog following him down hill.
It is reported that paint mine, CON-
prising five different colors. has been
discovered near Los Angeles. A rain
bow must have been buried in that
locality.
Rheumatic Mr.. Burke bathed himself
in turpentine at Lyons, Iowa, and then
lighted his pipe for q comfortable
smoke. When he got through smoking
he put the pipe away and went to bed.
You see, it didn't happen.
The small boy climbs the apple tree,
And, with delighted mien,
Down to his mates below doth he
Let fall the apples green.
They grip the fruit with noisy gles,
just wrested from the stem;
But soon with grim tenacity
The apple green grips lhem-
A man with q private library of
II. 900 books is we'll fixed. He isn't
supposed to know anything and is never
aske d for information. It is the man
who has scraped together a Dozen vol
umes who is bored to death about the
population of London and the name Of
the undertaken who buried Diogenes.
A jeweler has long dunned lady Of
fashion for the amount of his big bin,
but in vain. When he rings the bell
the footman says, politely but firmly:
"Sir, the countess only receives On
Tuesdays" "I don't care when she
receives" thunders the irate and long
suffering creditor; "what I want to
know is the day that she pays on"
A good man once had in his garden
hree fine watermelons which were
pleasing to his sight. One night his
neighbor came and stole one of them,
which grieved the good man sorely; but
ne said within himself: "By kindness I
Will make him ashamed so he will re-
store that he hath taken" And he sent
and preser ted his neighbor with the
second watermelon. Thereupon the
bad man reflected thus: "This person is
= simpleton, I will make hay while the
sun shines;" and when night had come
he went straightway and stole the third
watermelon and put it where the other
two had gone. Moral: This is not
moral fable.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-08-31

Twenty missionaries for China
and Japan left San Francisco recently
n one steamer.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-08-31

"Yes perhaps never come back, bui
for that telltale leaf"
"Then we will keep this leaf always"
she said. taking it from her hair.
And so we have. I procured u little
golden box, and there il is to-day, one
of our dearest treasures.
OF course / married Carrie, and OF
course that blooming matron is she.
Tom Delano didn't die of broken
heart, but married a lovely girl out
West few months after his departure !;
and Fred Town is our family physician,
and has pretty wife of his own.