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Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-06-17
An Incompetent Doctor.

An incompetent doctor has an ad-
vantage over an incompetent lawyer
injured clients can express their indig-
nation, but dead patients tell no tales.
Not every incompetent physician has
wrote his on epitaph:
"When peoples ill. they comes to /
physics bleeds. and swcats EN-.
Sometimes they lives, sometimes they die
What's that to 1? I. Lctsome' Qet's em).
OF course, the doctors patients did
not see this truth-telling epitaph until
he was under the turf. A sea captain,
who handles the pen as though "to the
manner born" tells in the Boston Jour
nal a sad story of a ship doctors incom-
potency:
was second mate of large clipper
ship bound from London to Calcutta.
We had large number of coolies in the
tween decks as passengers. They had
their own cooks, their own fire-places
and arranged their own food to suit
themselves.
When we had "run our casting down, p"
and turned north for the Bay of Bengal,
these passengers began to grow sick,
and very sick. At first we did not mind
it, as we had doctor who we supposed
knew what was the matter.
At last matters grew worse, and the
poor fellows began to die. The doctor
pronounced it ship fever of an infectious
type. This spread alarm all through
the ship, and made matters still worse.
B.; none of our regular ships COM
pany were troubled with it. The cap
tain did not care to expose himself, the
mate didn't, the doctor didn't, and so,
as I had charge of the tween decks, the
quarters of these men, it fell to me to
be among them alone.
1t was always my billet, somehow or
other, to be in such places but then,
| never cared so far as self was con-
cerned. Somehow or other these people
got it into their heads that could help
them. They would fall on their knees.
clasp my feet, kiss them, and call, 80
Ssib! Saib! Save me, for died! Allah !
Allah!"
When we arrived at the Hoogiy, they
were dying at the rate of two day.
And when we reached Calcutta, we
found it was not ship fever at all. They
cooked their rice in copper or brass
kettles, and a corrosion amounting to
verdigris got mixed with their food and
poisoned them to death
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-06-17

BOHEMI.i'.S LAND.

Which is the way from the crowded city
To a land of shadow and silent peace.
Where women can love and men can pity,
And tears frcm sorrewing eyes may cease
For the toillng town is harsh and hollow.
And hate points eastward. envy west
Though many may fall, yet some will follow
To a home of dreams and haven rest
For the love of heaven. stretch forth your
hand,
Aud point the way to Bohemia's land.
Where are the fields and their emerald cover,
The wayside flowers and travelling cart.
The new-found love and the long-tried lover?
They are better by far than our feverish art.
We are sick unto death of jealousies' fettter,
The secret dagger. the ceaseless strife;
There's triumph in fame. but freedoms better;
So give us a taste of a wandering life.
The senses scken as fancy's hand
Paints endless love in Bohemia's land.
Bohemia's ways are strewn with flowers.
Her children free from the revel Of wine;
Her dust is slaked by the sweetened showers
Meath covering trees they toast and dine.
When care creeps close why away they wander
To seek whatever the mind loves best
For hope endures when the heart sees yonder
purer life and a surer rest.
How many despise, but how few with
stand
The ceaseless joys of Bohemia 5 land.
To the fields away for Nature presses
On toiling foreheads balmy kiss;
There's nothing so sweet as her wild caresses.
No love more full TO the lips than this.
God grant. my brothers, when all is over,
And holiday hours cut short by fate,
That the sense of flowers and the scent of
clover
May soften sorrow and silence hate
Old Time soon measures the fatal sand.
And the curtain falls on Bohemia land.
CLEMENT Scorr.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-06-17
The Turkish Harem.

The eunuch is great parsonage in
the harem or palace. His power is
almost absolute. There is no limit to
his control The chief eunuch in a
palace is styled Kislar Agaci; he is
black, and takes the position of the sec
ond man of the Empire, ranking with
the Grand Vizier. He is Captain of the
girls. If they are insubordinate he
does not mince matters, but chastises
them with rods on the bare body.
Should the matter, however, be seri-
ous one, they are disposed of. These
black eunuchs are hideous, ungainly
fellows, generally with short necks and
long legs; they are very naughty and
overbearing in their demeanor, and
when escorting their charges on excur-
sions slash about with their "cour-
batch or whip indiscriminately, to
clear the way for the pets Of the Padi-
shah. They enjoy princely salaries,
and the large fortunes amassed by them
result mainly from backsheesh, screwed
out of the inmates of the harem. 1t is
from this class of orientals that the
mutes are selected. Mutes are still en-
ployed by the Sultan in his palaces as
guards and attendants, and especially
are their negative services availed of at
the Porte, where all official business
and diplomatic interviews are carried
on. The mutes 1--WE are not talking of
the arabian Nights" and their fanci-
ful stories, but in sober earnest as to
what is happening at the present hour
are selected from the eunuchs, and when
very young have their tongues cut ont,
and every means devised to keep them
in state of ignorance, as they are not
even taught to read and write. The
eunuchs are also turned to further ac-
count. When a Grand Vizier is to be
deposed, or some other person in high
office to be dismissed, such matters are
generally carried through with expedi-
tion. The officer whose duty ii is to
undertake this important mission is
termed BLACK Ears" 1t is for him
only to notify the Grand Vizier that his
power is at an end he appears sud-
denly, always at midnight, and without
any kind of warning. He receives for
this errand large amount of back
sheesh. In former days it was his priv
ilege and duty to strangle then and
there the Grand Vizier or high func-
tionary, whoever he might .e. But
things are more mercifully managed
now, and the victim is smuggled on
board the Sultan's steam yacht, the
Izzedin, to some distant point in Arabia
or Asia Minor, and most probably the
Ministerial career is terminated by the
simple process of administering a cup
of ." mocha. '-L0nd0n Society.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-06-17
Wipe My Tears.

She was nothing but baby, little
quaint old-fashioned thing, with tumbled
locks of sunny hair and deep soulful
blue eyes that were always full Of clouds
or sunshine, one following the other in
rapid succession. Only a baby, tod
ding about after her weary mother,
falling down and hurting herself a
dozen times day, and going just as
all wet and dewy, with the lisped re-
quest, ''Please, mamma, wipe my
tears" or to other members of the
family in a more dictatorial and per-
emptory voice, "Wipe my tears !"
Either she could not or would not make
any attempt at brushing away the tears
of sorrow herself, and sometimes we
laughed to see the shut eyes and
tightly drawn features, bathed in a
liquid shower; sometimes there was
pitiful accent in that little household
wall that made our hearts ache, but
oftener we talked nonsense as we wiped
away the pretty drops from the long
curled lashes, the dainty cheeks, the
small, quivering chin, and we drew gay
pictures of the baby going about with
tear-bottles hung around her neck, and
crooned her to sleep with an idle repeti-
ton of Tennyson:
Tears, idle tears, l know not what they mean"
And we wondered among ourselves what
she would do as she grew older and
learned to know real sorrow and if there
would always be some dear one near to
wipe away the ready tears as there was
now.
And God Himself shall wipe away all tears
We had never thought of Him, and
she was still only baby, n sweet, win
some little thing that we thought we
had safe in our hearts under lock and
key, with love for the keeper, when all
at once her tears were dried and ours
began to flow, for we all stood beside
her, and she knew us not, was insensi-
BILE to her mothers voice, to tears and
prayers. There was short, sharp
struggle with the destroyer, hours OF
insensibility even to pain, and then for
moment the baby woke and knew us,
and as she felt the last pangs of disso-
luton, her dear little face knOtted and
scanned with the deadly pain, she put
one tiny, trembling hand up to her
mother and said in whisper, the old,
quaint words "W-i-p-e my tears" ]"
Then a sweet, glad smile followed and
she was gone where there shall be no
more death, neither sorrow nor crying,
and God shall wipe away all tears from
their eyes. NJ. QUAD.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-06-17
WIT AND WISDOM.

THE house fly knoweth his buzz-ness,
and doeth it.
In charity it may be better to give
than receive !; but in kissing it is about
equal.
MARITIME: The best way to shorten
sale Is to stop advertising. g.-BOStOf Com
mercioi BUitetin.
My SON, you ask who or what no.
body is. Well, my dear young man,
nobody is prominent woman's hus-
band.
SoPHRoNIA-"What is philosophy"
1t is something that enables rich man
to say there is no disgrace in being
poor
"WHAT are you blowing about ?" said
the tree to the tornado. Blowing about
eighty miles an hour" was the reply
Rome Sentinel.
A CABLEGRAM says 'The bulk of the
Zulu warriors, having married. desire
peace" Just the same with Zulus as
other folk.
SPRING pants are so attenuated in
style that when young man of the
period sits down in them he will wish
he had stood up and saved rent.-Etntira
Telegram.
THERE is complaint from England
that leather is found in American sau-
sages. Good gracious, do they think
we can stop to take the collars off the
dogs?
EDITH: It is the easiest thing in the
world to tell man of brains from
fool, half square off. A man of brains
never acts as if he owned the whole
street.
FORTUNE is said to knock once at
every mans door. Not only that. but
fortune seems to climb into the windows
OF some folks and stay with them.-Ne,S
Hauen Register.
Mr.. THREEFINGERs, of Washington,
D. c., gathered courage the other day to
say to Mrs. Threefngers. "Wife, I
must have that night key now. This
isn't Hayes administration.
MARY CLEMMER says that only one
girl in 500 can be happy as clergy
mans wife. She tried it, and she didn't
get to see a circus in eleven years.
trOit Free Press.
IN view of the frequent lynchings in
the Southwest, we are inclined to be-
lieve that the number of rogues who
break into iails IL that region is ninety
per cent. greater than the number who
break out.-NorristotO Herald.
THE world does not accept statement
without verifying it. We are told tina.
the way of the transgressor is hard, and
pretty nearly every man in the commu-
! nifty is trying to find out for himself
Just how hard it is.
FATHER, when hen sets on an egg
three weeks and it don't hatch, is the
egg spoiled?" "As an article of diet,
my son, the egg is thenceforth failure,
but as species of testimonial it is
strikingly aromatic and expressive.
Rome Sentinel.
"WHERE do people go who deceive
their fellow men ?" inquired Sunday
school teacher Sometimes to Canada,
but mostly they go to Europe" was the
reply of the jersey youngster whose
uncle had recently been trusted off,
Ger in local bank.
A MAN who was driven under the bed
while his wife was entertaining a costly
and hilarious set of visitors, ventured to
peep from under the bed curtain, when
he caught the threatened glance of his
angered spouse, glowing with heroic
sentiment. He bravely declared: "While
have the spirit of man will peep"
SoBoDYs DARLING.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-06-17
The PrO0freader's Troubles.

Speaking of contributors to the news
papers, a writer says: There is the min
lister, who sends in a mere skeleton of
sermon, page of which looks like the
top of tea box covered with Chinese
hieroglyphics, all disconnected with
Scripture proper names written III dots
and dashes, and the whole affair COM
plete enigma However, he knows it
will be all right, and that the printers
and proofreaders will unravel it, no
matter if they are fit subjects for the
madhouse before they get through with
it. Then there is the local reporter.
Well, he is a good fellow and means
well; he has troubles of his own. But
if be spells q name four different ways
in an item three inches long, he knows
the proofreader will drop everything,
rush around, find directory or some
thing else, and fix it all right before it
goes into the paper. Also comes the
statistical fiend, with his figures all
presenting the same appearance, but
not having time to cast up his columns
for totals, knowing the proofreader is
bound to fix them up. There are also
country correspondents, the young poet,
the scientist, and the hnguistical Smart
Aleck, who can't write five lines without
scattering in bits of French, Latin, and
Spanish, to show that he has been
there. 1t matters not whether he gets
his foreign words in right or not, the
proofreader must scratch around and
get everything right somehow, or the
next day he will hear from the powers
in the sanctum, In fact, to be sue
cess, the proofreader should be an ami
mate cvclopedia, with the patience of
Job and the endurance of adamant-
but he is not, and hence his troubles.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-06-17
English Farms.

A few years ago large farms were all
the rage in England. Small holdings
were secuted, and confident predictions
ere made that they would share the
fate of the hand loom and the spinning
wheel. Now the tide has turned, and
it is running as strongly in the other
direction. Large farms cannot be let !;
small holdings are snapped up at once.
According to Land, there is all through
the west and the midlands the keenest
competition for small farms, and men
who few years ago were in possession
of farms of 200 or $50 acres, without
possessing the capital necessary for
their proper cultivation, are now taking
farms of forty or fifty acres, upon which,
if they have less capital than they had
five or six years ago, they will have a
larger capital in proportion to their
holding, and better security than they
had to encourage them in the free use
of their capital and skill alike. An
agricultural, if not an agrarian, revolu-
ton is thus going on silently, which can
hardly fail profoundly to modify both
the political and social conditions OF
English rural life.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-06-17

A Low JUSTICE. is n landowner
guilty of manslauter if he allows tree
which he knows to be dangerous to
stand by the side of public road until
it falls and Kills passer-by? That was
the question raised at an inquest held
at Shooter's-hill, England, on the body
of man who was killed by the fall Of all
elm which three years ago was reported
as dangerous to the steward of the
manor. The landowner refused to do
anything, so the rotton elm stood until
gale brought it down on man who
was driving past.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-06-17

HER face is wide. her head is thick,
Her tongue keeps up a clackety-clck;
Minds eyeryone's business but her own,
Is a nuisance abroad and pest at home.
LIKE all eminent public men, Mr..
Spurgeon has the misfortune to be pes
tered with lunatics. But he manages
them with much good sense and shrewd-
ness. One lunatic came to him and
said: "Mr. Spurgeon, you and l are
one; think the same things that you
do, and wish the same things that you
wish" Mr.. Spurgeon said: sis that
so? Do you wish just what l wish ?"
"Yes." 'Well, I was wishing that you
would go away"
A ST. LOUIS editor accidentally re-
ceived in his morning mail proofsheets
intended for theemployees of religious
publication house, and, after glancing
over them, rushed to the city editor,
yelling: "Why in the world didn't you
get report of that big flood? Even
that slow old religious paper across the
way is ahead of you. Send out your
force for full particulars-only one
family saved. Interview the old man.
His name is Noah. "-IndeJendent.
"A Boston man besought his wife.
he being but three years married, for
the privilege of latch-key. 'Latch-
key !" she exclaimed, in tones of amaze
ment, "what use can you have for
latch-key when the Women's Emanci-
patton League meets Monday night,
the Ladies' Domestic Mission Tuesday,
the Sisters of Jericho Wednesday, the
Woman's Science Circle Thursday, the
Daughters of Nineveh Friday, and the
Women's Progressive Art Association
and the Suffrage Band on alternate
Saturday nights. You stay at home and
see that the baby doesn't fall out of the
cradle" He stays.
IN THE LEGISLATURE.
Then rose up Smith, of Florida, the best Of the
debaters,
And spoke about the measure for protecting
agators
He showed how tourists shot at them without
regard for reason.
And asked TO have it made crime to kill them
/ out of season.
! Then Brown. he moved amendment by insert
/ ing brief clause,
/ Compelling aligators not to operate their jaws;
/ But Smith he up and said 10 him, who thought
the subject comical.
/ That Nature. when she gave him sense, had
been too economical.
/ And Brown. responding briefly, wished to say,
/ in this connection,
That Smith. in guarding reptiles, had an eye
I TO sef-protection.
| Then Smith. he flung a volume of the Message
and Reports.
aud Brown was laid upon tho foor good doal
out OF koTte.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-06-17

FIRE SUFFERERs. The contributions
for the sufferers by last years fires in
Michigan amounted in value to 81, ,500,-
0OS, of which two-thirds we're cash. The
work of distribution was so well done
that the opening summer finds the burnt
district in more favorable condition
than there was reason to expect There
is, of course, great difference of con
dition among the peor' but it is
thought to be largely d heir vary
ing character. Enere ndolence
have borne their natur here as
elsewhere.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-06-17
ATLANTIC HOTEL.
(LATE EYGLIsHs.)
CHINCOTEAGUE ISLAND, VA.
WI. MATTHEWS K CO.. Proprietors.


The undersigned beg leave TO inform theil
friends and the general public that they have
leased and refurnished the above elegant and
eommodious house, and are now prepared to
accommodate permanent and transient guests
in frst-class style.
Large airy rooms. Home comforts
Fine Sea and Bay Fishing, Cunning and
Bathing, etc. The table is provided with Wild
Fowl. Terrapin, Fish, Oysters Crabs and all
the Injuries of the season.
Pleasure boats Of all kinds, guides fishing
lines, decoys. ponies, etc, always ready for
the use of guests.
First-elass Bar attached. Choice wines
liquors. ales, beers and cigars.
Passengers for Chincoteague connect with
steamer for the Island at Franklin City, the
terminus of the Worcester Railroad, morning
and evening. Connection may also be made
daily at Nashville. All who visit the Atlantic
may rest assured that they viii receive eouF.
tsous treatment and excellent fare.
Tohs patronage Is respectfully solicited.
w. J. MATTHEWS n 90.
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Liberal arrangements made with clubs.
Correspondence solicited from all parts OF
the county.
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In A GERMAN Prison. Barney Horst
man, who nine years ago settled in
Lafayette, Ind, went back to Germany
four months since to see his parents and
secure patrimony. The German
authorities seized him and imprisoned
him at Munster on the eve of his
departure, on Saturday last, for America.
He Is fully naturalized citizen of the
United States. When he first left Ger
many he was under orders to report for
military duty.
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BANDITS IN SOUTH AMERICA. A cor
respondent in South America recounts
the exploits of bandits in the Cordil-
leras east of Lima Sixteen men, well
armed and mounted, uniformed as
Chilian soldiers, and having at their
head Spaniard dressed as Chilian
colonel, visited several villages, sum-
moned the people together, and told
them that they were collecting war con-
tributions, and unless the assessments
were paid at once their houses would be
sacked and burned. The robbers are
said to have collected money equivalent
to about hundred thousand dollars.
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HER face is wide. her head is thick,
Her tongue keeps up clackety-click
Minds eyeryone's business but her own,
Is a nuisance abroad and pest at hom
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