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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1882-01-21
About the Weather.

The weather exerts great influence over
both the human body and mind Bright
days and crisp, frosty air braces you up and
sends you about with brisk step, light
heart, four-inch smile and general feel
ing of gladness similar to that which strikes
a boy when he sees his first girl home from
church. You can even grasp the hand of
a man who comes to sell you a county map,
as though yoa were glad to see him, and
you feel that everybody you know is your
friend, not excepting the man who cheated
you in your last horse trade.
Wet and mucky weather, and an east
wind that sends damp chills up and down
your spinal column, exerts a very different
influence over you. In the frss place your
liver gets sulky and don't want to make
full time, and everything about the house
seems to go wrong. The butchers meat
is the toughest YOU have had for year,
and the milk is four shades bluer than
usual When your gentle and patient wife
tells you at breakfast not to forget to bring
home a yard of glazed muslin, ten to one if
you don't get mad and inquire in an ex--
pulsive tone of voice if she desires to trans
form you into dry goods delivery wagon.
In truth, damp, soggy weather, such as
We have had much of this winter, makes
the best natured people sour, bilious and
fretful, and some become so respondent
that they destroy themselves. The present
winter has been prolific Of suicides
What difference between January of
last year and the present month. Then
the ground was white with snow, the air
cold, crisp and invigorating, and people
went about with bright faces and glad
smiles. During much of the past few weeks
we have been going through mud, and rain,
and fog and then fog, and rain, and mud
for change If you go across the street
you want an umbrella, pair of overshoes
and gum coat People pass along the
streets, with long faces, a bilious expires
sion and a cough Business to them is
bore, and while last winter they might have
asked map agent to stay for dinner, now
they would assassinate him on the spot.
In truth, mankind is under cloud in such
weather. lHiddleto,cn, Del, Transcript
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1882-01-21
A Boys Thanksgiving.


| believe boy can be as thankful ON
Thanksgiving day as man.. if he tries aw-
full hard. Some boys are too mean to try,
and they generally die off in the spring.
I'm thankful l amt girl. Girls can't
slide down cellar doors, or hitch on, or
throw snow balls worth cent. They can't
take bumps like boys, and if they roll off a
sled and their mothers find it out, they get
boxed.
Tn thankful dad is still alive. When
he dies I'll have to split the wood and build
the fires He is also very useful in clean
ing off the snow and thawing out the pen
stock.
I'm thankful I'm not in the grave,
where some boys are Some have been
taken and some left, and I'm glad I'm one
of the left. It's about the only thing |
ever did get left on. They say it don't
hurt boy to die, but don want to try it.
I'm not going to be thankful for turkey
and oysters and two kinds of sauce, because
we are little off ON finances this year
We're going to have chicken and mashed
taters and pickles, and them's good enough
for us. I'm going to pass my plate twice
whether it's fashionable or not. think
boy with half chicken in him feels more
tony than the boy who didn't get anything
but the neck.
The more | think of it the more see to
be thankful for. / fell into the river twice
last summer, and didn't stay there either
time. | fooled with dads revolver, and
sent bullet into sister Mary's ear. I'm
awful thankful it didn't hit her in the head.
l found dog and sold him for pair of
skates. | found ten cents, and forgot to
hide it when ! went to bed, and ma never
found out / guess I'll put that in among
the thanks got run over by butcher
cart and wasn't hurt at all. I'm thankful
and the butcher is mad A boy in Chica-
90 was blowed sky high with gllnpowder
A boy in Cleveland swallered pizen 4
boy in Syracuse got burnt up. A boy in
St. Louis got in front of a cannon.
You bet I'm thankful l kinder wish
was big enough to knock boys head off
when he turn up his nose at my two shill
ing skates, but I'll have to get along some
how, and be thankful that | can outrun
any boy that can't lick.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1882-01-21
Storms in Nebraska.

0ne of the faults Of the climate is the
terrific storms, their frequency at certain
times and their suddenness. Of these
there are two kinds-the wind storm and
the dust storm. Which is worst is hard so
tell \ most unpleasant peculiarity of the
storm is its appearance on the shortest no
tice. Vennor, who is considered by some
as tolerably good weather prophet in the
East, would be lost here. Sometimes when
there are all the indications of an approach
ing storm, there is no storm, and rtce rersd,
when the air is clear and pleasant, storm
may come scudding along in twenty min
utes. The winds are often very severe,
and are very baneful. They sometimes
blow for weeks and weeks at a time. The
common trees here are the cottonwood and
box-elders Many of these are blown to
shreds by the wind, such is its force, and
the softness of the fibre of the wood. Of
ten the vind blows so briskly that one can
scarcely keep his footing in the streets, and
if a grocer or dry goods merchant chances
to leave boxes or casks out of doors he has
the pleasure of seeing them blown rapidly
down the street, and very likely, if his sign
board is loose, it will follow after. Nowon-
der that runaways are frequent in Lincoln.
The soil is very porous, and it takes but
few hours to reduce mud puddle to heap
of dust. and then if the wind blows you
have what is known here as dust storm.
The streets are not paved and the wind has
fall sweep. The air is filed with dust at
these times, and life is but burden, and
this lasts often for weeks 1t is impossible
to keep clean.-C Correspondence Spring
field Republican.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1882-01-21
The Female Savings Bank.

4 saving woman at the head of fami-
ly Is the very best savings bank established.
The idea of savings is pleasant one; and
if the women imbibed it at once they would
cultivate it and adhere to it; and thus, when
they are not aware of it, they would be lay
ing the foundation of competent security
in stormy time, and shelter in a rainy day.
The best way to comprehend it is to keep an
account of all current expenses. Whether
five hundred or five thousand dollars are
expended annually, there is a chance to save
something if the effort is made. Let the
housewife take the idea, act upon it, per-
severingly, and she will save something
where before she thought it impossible.
This is duty, yet not sordid avariee, but
a mere obligation that rests upon women as
we'll as men.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1882-01-21
Mica Masks.

A well-known German manufacturer of
mica wares, Herr Raphael Of Breslau, now
makes mica masks for the face, which are
quite Transparent, very light, and affected
neither by heat nor by acids. They afford
good protection to all workmen who are IL
able to be injured by heat, dust, or noxiOus
vapors, all workers with FIRE, metal and
glass meters, stonemasons, etc. In all
kinds of grinding and polishing work the
fying fragments rebound from the arched
mica plates of the mask without injuring
them. These plates are fixed in metallic
frame, which is weIl isolated by means of
asbestos, so as not to be attacked by heat or
acid. These masks allow the turning of
the eyes in any direction, and, as against
mica spectacles, they afford the advantage
of protection to the whole face. In certain
cases the neck and shoulders may also be
guarded by sheet of cloth impregnfted
with fire-proof material, or by asbestos
sheet attached to the mask. The interval
between the mica and the eyes allows of
workmen who have poor eyesight wearing
spectacles. and of workers with fire or in
melting operations wearing cOlored glass
spectacles under the mask without fear Of
breakage of the glass, mica being such a
bad conductor of heat. Where the mask
has to be worn long, it is found desirable
to add a caoutchouc tube with mouth-piece
for admission of fresh air; the tube passes
out to the shoulders, where its funnel
shaped end sometimes holding a moistened
sponge) is supported The mask has sort
Of cap attached to it for fixture on the
head.-LoRdoR Times
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1882-01-21
How to Use a Newspaper.

The newspaper is badly treated in various
ways, but particularly by the family in
handling it. To fold and unfold it would
seem to be the simplest thing imaginable,
and yet many do not know or do not care
to do it in proper manner. 1t is creased,
crumpled and torn in reading, and by the
time it has passed through several hands is
not fit to be looked at. 1t should be treat
ed as a lady would treat her table cloth or
pocket handkerchief-car folded up
in its former folds, when done reading it,
smoothed out and laid away in the bookcase,
desk or other places where such things are
kept. Then when it is wanted again you
will know where to find it, and it viii not
look like rag, crumpled, torn and insight
ly. The newspaper is the current history
of the times and ought to be carefully pre-
served upon regular file stick. For pat
tern paper or wrapping paper go to the
printing Office and buy for 25 cents as much
as viii last you for twelve months.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1882-01-21
A Preventive of Diphtheria.

DIR. J. W. NJ Lean, of Norwalk, Conn,
sends the following to the New York
Tribune: ''In view of the increase in the
number of fatal cases of scarletina and
diphtheria, wish you would publish the
results of the use of a preventive against
the contagion of these diseases. During
the four years past | have used, it, and in
forty well-marked cases of diphtheria,
where 140 persons were exposed to the
contagion, not single case has been re
ported to me, | use one dram of Monsels
salt, or the sub-sulphate of iron, in eight
ounces of cold water, adding plenty of SUI
gar, to overcome the taste of the iron. OF
this solution l give from one to eight tea
spoonsful each day, according to the prox-
unity of the disease As it has proved so
efficacious in my hands l am anxious to
have it generally tested"
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1882-01-21

SPIDERs-A singular fact in regard to
the spider is that it casts its skin once
every year. 1t forms, in one corner of the
web, a thick purse, similar to that which it
uses to enclose its eggs. Placing itself in
the centre of its web, it begins to distend
its body violently for several minutes, until
it splits its skin the whole length of its back
1t then gradually forces its body through
the aperture, until it is entirely free from
its covering. The skin retains the form of
the spider, and is perfectly transparent.
The insect, after this great change, remains
quite gelatinous, and is of pale green
color In this condition it retires to the
aforementioned purse, leaving the skin sus-
pended in the web. This shelter it is not
able to quit for about three or four days.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1882-01-21
Bill Apps view Of Preachers.

Ike the preachers. They bold us back
from going to extrcmes They are the
conservatives. They are god citizens and
set Us a good example They are the bal
anee-w wheels af society. the scotch % the
wagon. the air-brakes u the train, the pen
dulam to the elock They are ike the
sabbath that gives us rest and peace. They
are to society what the judge is to the law.
love en- al. and when they are btotted
out, which God forbid, want 10 90, too.
In sickness. in trouble. in affection, yea in
the last agonies they are with "a, and COM
fort us, while the busy world wags on.
God bless the preachers " the land-thc
preachers Of every creed ttat teaches love
to our Creator and love and kindness 70
another. Nevertheless, sometimes feel
sorry for the preachers children, for the
good man i ~ afraid he viii do wrong
he leans the other way. II did me
good the other day when | saw one q EN-
take his children 20 see the circns process
sion. Il was 50 kind and considerate. If
they can, let the little chaps see the circus,
do let EN- 90 10 the procession. By-and-
by, maybe, they viii get old enough 10 be
trusted within the canvas and see the pret-
ty horses in the ring, and the men ride
round, hear the clown crack his jokes, and
laugh AZ him because be Is such fool l
don't admire these folks who are always
laughing whether thing Is funny or not,
and never did ike TO see a pretty girl
giggling at everything that happened; but
still it is better 70 laugh than be crying.
The world is not draped in mourning The
birds sing and the butterflies hoat around
in the happy sunlight. At night the eriek-
ct ehirrups ON the hearth and the katydid
sings his evening song sweet flowers are
blooming everywhere, and Solomon in all
his glory was not arrayed ike one Of these.
All nature is happy except few snakes
and hyenas, and ! don't want To be ike
fheO
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1882-01-21

One day Billy and Sammy were playing
in mud-hole, and Bill said "Now, Sam
my, les play we was barnyard? You be
the pig and lie down and waller, and I'll
be bull, and beller ike everything" So
they got down on their hands and knees,
and Sammy he went into the dirt and wal
lowed while Billy beloved By-and-by
Sammy came up muddy and he said =
"Now you'll be the pig and let me beller
But Billy said: II amt very good pig,
except for dinner, and it'll be time nuff for
you to beller when your mother sees your
clothes y
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1882-01-21
Select poetrg.
Make Somebody Glad.

on life's rugged road,
As we journey each day.
Far, far more of sunshine
Would brighten the way.
If forgetful of self
And our troubles, we had
The will, and would try
TO make other hearts glad.
Though of the worlds wealth
We've little in store,
And labor to keep
Grim want from the door.
With hand that is kind,
And heart thatis true,
To make others glad
There IS much we may DO.
And a word kindly spoken.
A smile or tear,
Though seeming but trifeS,
Full often may cheer;
Each day Of our lives
Some treasure would add
To be conscious that we
Had made somebody glad.
Those who sit in the darkness
Ofsorrow, so drear,
Have need of e world
OF fsolaee and cheer.
There are homes that are desolaie.
Hearts that are sad
DO something for some one,
Make somebody glad.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1882-01-21

Machines in watch factory will cut
screws with $50 threads to the inch; the
finest used in watch has 250. These
threads are invisible to the naked eye, and
it takes l44,00O of the screws to make a
pound A pound of them is worth six
pounds of pure gold. Lay one upon a
piece of white paper and it looks like a
tiny steel filling
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1882-01-21

A little girl, three years old, who was
charged with breaking a flower from its
stem, said, very decidedly, "No, | didn't
break it. The one who had charged her
with doing it insisted that she must have
done it, as no one else had been in the room;
but she said, '"Deed, deed | didn't.
Thinking to make her confess, the other
said, ''Now, Ada, see a story in your eye.
Her reply was, "Well, that's one told the
other day, for | didn't break the flower
And it was found that she didn't.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1882-01-21

Great works are performed not BY
strength, but by perseverance; he that shall
walk with vigor three hours day, will pass
in seven years space equal to the circum-
ference of the globe.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1882-01-21

A machine that will carve turkey and
not get mad and swear would sell like hot
cakes,
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1882-01-21

The difference between hill and pill
is that the hill is hard to get up and pill
is hard to get down,
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1882-01-21

Men often judge the person but not the
cause, which is not justice, but malace.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1882-01-21

If peace of mind is our possession, we
may smile at every misfortune or loss.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-11-30

WORTH REMEMBER1Na.-Now that
good times are again upon us, it is
worth remembering that no one can
enjoy the pleasantest surrounding if
In bad health. There are hundreds
OF miserable people going about to-
day with disordered stomach or liver,
when bottle of Parker's Ginger Tonic
would do them more good than all
the medicines they have ever tried.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-11-30

with those who appreciate the i'm.
portance of fostering and promot.
ing the love of family and home
And as we remember our blessings,
both temporal and spiritual, let us
not forget Him who sssetteth the
solitary in families" and may We go
out from this, our annual festival
with its honored observances, bet
ter men and better women. for our
brief communion with God and our
fellow creatures. We wish our
readers happy experiences and many
returns of the day.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-11-30

1t is stated that the Tariff Com
missioners have not yet prepared
their report. Some time ago it was
announced that they were busily en-
gagged on it in New York City,
Perhaps the demonstration of the
9TH of November has determined
them to revise what they had writ
ten.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-11-30

Until we can have some mightier
issue than the slops of patronage
and the bitten apples of office we
cannot resume business at the old
stand with any hope of success
National Republican.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-11-30

President Arthur apparently has
forgotten to express any gratifica-
cation over the escape of Malone
from the deluge. He probably thinks
that an administration party in Vir-
ginia does not amount to much with
out an administration party in New
York.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-11-30
Stray Sale.

E'strayed before r. w. North, Justice of the
" Peace for Ward 5, Bossier Parish. La,
by w. L. Adger, on November Is, 1882, and will
be sold for cash, at Rocky Mount, on Saturday
December 3Oth, 1882, dark brown heifer
aged 3years, marked with crop Off the left ear
under-bit and crop off the right ear.
Appraised at So.
The owner is requested to come forward
prove property, pay charges &c
L. G. BROOM. CnnatlhIe Mard !
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-11-30

The whisky-makers have formed
a pool to keep prices up and produc-
ton down. We hope that both ends
may be attained beyond the widest
dreams of the manufacturers.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-11-30

+ Political assessments for the cor
ruption of voters do not always win.
There are some years when voters
cannot be corrupted and this is one
of them.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-11-30

Next Monday the Republican
Congress meets amid the wreck of
political idols and the confusion of
matter. 1t will be sorrowful meet.
ing for the Republican statesmen.-
There will DO lachrymose counte
nancee in abundance on that side of
the House. Jay Hubbell, who could
not obtain a denomination, but tried
to put on airs and gave 1t out that
he was going to grace the Senate
chamber will TO there. Robson,
who forced his nomination, aud had
thirty-seven majority ut his back,
but who missed bis election by about
1000, will be there. Aud so will
about a hundred others who, pass
ing from their gay life at the capital,
are DOOMED to merited obscurity by
the voices of their outraged con.
stituences. But tho scene will not
be one of entire desolation and un-
mitigated woe. The Democrats will
be bright. The sunlight of heaven
that comes streaming down from
the arched dome of the hall will not
be more cheerful and glowing than
the cOuntenances of the Democratic
members. Smiles and new hats will
adorn tho Southern Brigadiers and
Northern Bourbons. Under these
we do not anticipate |
much attempt at making political |
capital, but hope that the House |
will settle down to business, and |
hurrying through the appropriation |
bills, will hasten to adjourn. |
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-11-30

There is all the difference in the
world between split In the Repub-
lican party and an uprising of the
people in favor of practical reform
in the affairs of government.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-11-30

| E0etOf Banner: The "BatOn
Rouge Capitolian-A Advocate" in it's
issue OF October 2Sth, reports 1873
cadets, at the State University, in
that city, of whom 113 are boarders;
and this, it says, is "a much larger
number (of boarders) than at any
time since the war;
The "Capitolian, Advocate" is in
error. The writer was a cadet of
the University from 1866 to 1870
four years; and in the session 1861,
at Alexandria, the number of cadets,
(aH boarders) Was 1S4. Again, at
Baton Rouge, session 1SG9-7O, the
total number-all Misunderstanding
the year, was 40, the highest NUN.
Der present for duty, that session,
being 156. There were, then, four
companies, of over 40 each, when
all were present for duty.
But the largest number of cadets
ever at the University, according to
the records, was during the session
1889, at Baton Rouge, when there
were $50 enrolled. Tho following,
and last, session under Col. Boyd,
session 1S70-SO, there were 172
cadets in attendance.
After ohjecting to Col. Boyd, in
part, because of his small number of
cadets-because he did not have 400
cadets, like some other State schools
the present management are un-
fortunate, after about three years
trial, not yet to have reached the |
Coioneps (small y figures.
But the present Board of Super.
visors are to be congratulated on
their increasing figures and impos-
ing prospects. Their boarding de-
partment will soon, it is to be hoped,
be self sustaining, and not heavy
burden to the educational funds of
the school, as it has been for the
past two years, as reported by the
Board. Last session, 1872, the
boarding department cost the Uni.
versity $4,000 90, and the session
before it, 1ssO-s1, it cost $4,000 o.
total loss of school money, in two
years, to foot the bread and meat
bills of the cadets, $4,000 90.
Now, the writer is of those "oM
who would rather see &c.
900 90 spent in instruction-in paw.
ing teachers and increasing the Lii
brary-than squandered in butchers
anu bakers bills i'll Baton Rouge
Only think of it, $4,000 90 of the
sacred school fund of Louisiana
spent in paying tho board bills of
the sons of some of the wealthiest
men in the State. 1t is time for the
IKE Of that to stop; and the present
Board took the first step necessary
when, this year, it cut down their (
Presidents salary from about $4,000
%, including his perquisites, to
$500 90 and quarters for his fami :
y. That was paying too much.-
Last year, the President of the I'm. :
versity was receiving the largest
Jay of any State official. II
ALLUMNUS. s
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-11-30

Conkling is credited with desire
to enter the Democratic party. There
is nothing to prevent his voting the
Democratic ticket if he wishes to-
lie need not aspire to do more than
that.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-11-30

The Georgia Legislature recently
elected Ex-Governor A. 81. Colouitt
United States Senator for the regu.
lar term and Hon. Pope Barrow to
fill the unexpired term of the late
Senator Hill.