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A Slight Mistake.

She was thin, narrow, dark-visaged
woman, with sspecs" on, and she carried a
package of tracklets and leaflets, which she
scattered broadcast among the sinners in
the horse car on which she rode. When
only one or two of the pamphlets were left
a man got in He was ON his way to the
depot, countryman going home, evidently.
He had a big watermelon which he dis
posed of tenderly on the seat next to him,
and glass flask with a rubber cork stuck
boldly out of his coat pocket.
"Heugh !" he painted, as he stuffed his
fare into the box "Hotter than harvest
up here, amt it ?"
Everybody looked cold disapproval at
at him, as good, polite Christian people do
when spoken to in a street car, all but the
woman with the tracts. She had fshed
out one and extended it to him.
'Thankee," he said, on receiving it;
'scomic almanac, hey 2"
''No, sill" said the woman, firmly, in a
high falsetto voice. 'Its to save your i'm
mortal soul. Touch not, taste not, handle
not the wine, and she pointed with crook
ed forefnger to the glass flask protruding
from his vest pocket.
ooh, 1 see, said the man, smiling good
humoredly on his sour-visage vis-a-vis !;
"but this bottle amt for me, ma'am
"Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor
drink, quoted the woman fercely.
ale amt eggsactly my neighbor eye
ther," said the man. "You see its the
new baby, and wife calculates to fetch him
up by hand; this bottles for him, bless his
pootsy tootsy. Here's the rigging of it, :
and diving into another pocket he fished
out some India rubber tubing, etc.
The woman didn't wait to finish her dis
sertation on temperance, but got out with
out asking the driver to stop.
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dait and 9umor,
A Monkey and Dog Fight.

Moore had big fighting stump-tail
dog by the name of Rather, and one day
a little Italian came along with an organ
and monkey, and, as the crowd gathered
around, he asked the man if his monkey
could fight. 'sOh, yes; he fight" said the
italian. "Will he fight dog 2" said Moore.
"Oh, yes, he fight dog-he whip dog
quick, said the Italian. Moore pulled out
SIS bill and said, ''I'lI bet you this that
I've got dog he can't whip. The little
fellow covered it with another FIVE, and the
money was handed over to a stakeholder,
and they went through to the back yard,
followed by half the people of the little
town. There lay the dog on the grass
asleep, and at the word the italian tossed
the monkey upon him. In less than a
iifey the little brute had his teeth and his
claws fastened like wise in the stump of
that dogs tail, and was screeching like a
hyena The dog gave but one astonished
look behind as he bounced to his feet and
made tracks for another country. The
monkey held on until Rather sprang over
ten-rail fence at the back of the garden,
when he suddenly quit his hold and sat on
the top rail and watched the dogs flight
with chatter of perfect satisfaction, and
danced along the rail with delight The
crowd was convulsed. They laughed and
reared and hollered unanimously, all but
old man. Moore, whose voice could be heard
above all others as he stood upon the fence
and shouted: "Here, Rather; here, here
Here, Rather, here Here, Rather, here.
But Rather wouldn't hear Rather ratified
on and on, across field after field, until he
got to the woods and was gone from human
sight. The little italian shouldered the
monkey affectionately, and walking up te
Moore said "Your dog not well to-day
maybe your dog gone off to hunt rabbeet
Your dog no like my monkey-he not ac
quaint. May be ven | come again mex
year he come back and fight some more
Ven you look for him to come back 2
Moore gave up the wager, but he asserted
solemnly that Rather would have whipped
the fight if he hadn't have run. 9Th,
surprise, gentlemen, the surprise was wha
done it, said he. afor that dog has whipped
wild cats and bear and she wolf anC
every dog in ten miles of Watkinsville.
And all that evening and away in the nigh
and early next morning an inviting mourn
full voice could be heard at the back of tn,
garden calling ''here, Rather, here" ant
three days after man brought Rattle
home, but he had lost his integrity, AM
never could be induced to fight anything
more.-BW Arp
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-12-22

The consumption of gold for other than
monetary purposes in Europe, America and
Australia has more than quadrupled in thirty
years, and has quite trebled in twenty years
1t is more than FIVE times what it was
half a century ago. The great mass of gold
which has flowed from the mines has been
absorbed in the same opulence and luxury
of the times which have swallowed up the
food of gems, great in volume beyond any
former precedent, from the diamond-felds
of South Africa, and increasing prices will
be quite as likely to whet the appetite
for both as to check it. Five-sixths Of the
current production of gold is absorbed in
the arts and manufactures in the Western
world and in British India A part of the
remaining sixth is lost in the wear of coins
and by fires, shipwrecks and forgotten
boards. What is left to increase the
stock of gold money in proportion to
the increase of population, exchanges and
wealth of the world? NORTH Amer. Rerie,c.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-12-22
Digging Wells.

The Massachusetts Ploughman some
time since had the following directions in
regard to digging wells:
The old way of digging well and
stoning it up so as to leave it about three
feet in diameter, is very good one if the
water is to be drawn up with buckets: but
if only with pump it is very poor way;
for if, as is the usual custom, the well be
covered at the top, it leaves very large
space for dead air, which often becomes
so bad that it affects the quality of the
water, and also makes it unsafe to enter
the we'll When we'll thus stoned has
only pump in it, the covering should be
under water or very near it; but if it is
known that only pump is to be used,
the expense of stoning may be saved, and
the water kept in much better condition
This is done by digging the well in a dry
time, and, when dug as low as possible, a
cement pipe, some two feet in diameter
and two or three feet long, is sunk at the
bottom and worked down as low as possible
by digging out the inside; the pipe should
be covered over with fiat stone through
the middle of which two-inch hole has
been drilled; directly over this hole stand
up drain pipe, then begin to fill in the
the hole. When filed as high as the top
of the first piece of drain pipe, put on
another, being careful to have it straight
with the other, and the line perpendicular;
continue filling and adding drain-pipe until
it is as high as the surrounding ground, or
if the pump is not to stand directly over
the well, then when it is filled within four
feet of the surface put in the pump-pipe,
and lead it off in a trench to where the
pump is to stand. When it is found that
the pipe is all right, finish filling the well,
leaving some durable mark that the posi-
ton of the well may be known.
A well of this kind is reliable and per-
manent, requiring no repairs, the water is
cool and free from impurities that open
wells are subject to; no insects or animals
can find their way into it, and the cost is
not more than one-half that of well that
is stoned If dug, as it should be, when
the springs are low, constant supply of
water that is as pure as the underground
springs, is secured. As the well is always
full there is no chance for bad air to injure
the water, and in fact but little danger of
being polluted by surrounding cesspools
compared to that of open wells.
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"But / don't, Frank; only it was another
sort of life here, and coming back to it at
fects me-you can't understand how
II can understand perfectly, if you keep
crying and making your eyes red over it. "
Connie wiped two tears away furtively,
and went on in silence. A little higher
was the parsonage house, with its pointed
roof and bleak little court and wooden bal
comics. How still it looked, how lonely,
beneath the flying clouds, and within sound
of the signing of the pines Oh, decided
" he must be removed from here, her
brother, as she had called him, and as he
had chosen to be.
She went up to the door eagerly; the
door that had still the natural tints of the
wood, and devices carved over its face by
the hand of some one who had loved him.
Through the open window she could sec
into his study, fireless to-day, and with the
faint light cleaning on the lettered bind
ings of his favorite books
She knocked timidly, waited, and then
knocked again.
'.They are deaf or dead, the captain
SAID, mpatent1y, repeating the summons
vigorously; and then there was a shutting
step in the passage, the step of the aged
housekeeper, and the door opened reluct-
antly.
ave have come to see NJ de la Roche;
is he engaged p
The old woman looked at her, looked her
all over slowly, from herpretty boots to her
flushed, eager face, but did not answer.
''Will you tell him [ am here; say Mrs.
Dalby-no, say Connie has come to speak
with him.
The old woman's face changed, a look Of
loss and trouble stealing over it.
Madame has not heard then. Her
voice quivered, her head shook little with
the palsy of old age. MADAME comes toe
late; M. lie Pasteur was buried week ago.
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CHAPTER ".

"We shall ride up to the auberge, leave
our mules there, and then walk up to the
parsonage, Frank.
Every well, darling"
Don't you think it was better we did
not tell him we were coming, or any of our
plans about him p
"Of course it was.
Frank Daily was not in the habit Of
bordering very deeply on his wife's ques-
lions. Women's trains of thought were
never worth following, at least so the gal
liant Captain thought, and placid assent
was all any woman, even the dearest in the
world either desired or expected.
''He will be surprised, won't he, Frank,
to know that ] have never forgotten him
for day since we parted p
II should think so, indeed, and uncom-
monty pleased too"
"And don't you think he is likely to
consent to my plan, to come to England,
and get ordained into the Anglican Church
you know he can be as monastic there
as he likes p
'Of course he II consent; and you can
have him play the organ at your tea-drink-
ings, and the women can lionize him ever
So
Frank, you must not speak so. l
don't like it, Connie said gravely. eff
ever [ knew saint and man of genius,
it was Henri de la Roche"
"a saint sure, since he considered you
the world, the flesh, and the devil, and re-
nounced you as such.
The young wife's lip quivered little.
Il have suspicion sometimes, in spite
of myself that he had some inspiration
about you, and so gave up to me-.
''If that be so I'm very grateful to him. =
Frank stopped his wife's words that he
might kiss her.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-12-22

A Brooklyn lawyer, who has the reputa-
ton of securing pensions for men who were
within twenty miles of any battle, was
waited upon by man who thought he de-
served something from Uncle Sam "Did
you go to the war;" "No. But | was in
camp at Elmira for ten days" "Were you
accidentally wounded?' 'No." SHave
heavy fit of sickness" "No." "Get
chronic diarrhpa ?' No" Contract
rheumatism ?'' 'No." "My friend, said
the lawyer, as he looked at him in faith
erly way ''some pension agents might be
discouraged over your case and refuse to
touch it, but I shall at once forward your
papers for pension on the ground that
you were broken of your usual rest during
those ten nights. Call again in sixty days
for your back pay.
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In 1853 lightning struck the Loekport
Congregational church one Sunday morning
during service, killed one of the singers in
the choir, and severely shocked others.
One of them, Miss May Place, was struck
insensible, and was i'll for many months
after, during which she had severe pains
in her side A singular thing about the
stroke, in her case, was the fact that long
gold watch chain and locket, which she
wore at the time, totally disappeared, ex-
cept some small fused pieces of the locket
and particles of glass. On her side bright
red mark, similar in form to the locket and
chain, was found About two years ago
Miss Place, now Mrs. Nesmith, discovered
long, narrow protuberance upon her left
arm. This was not painful at all, but
seemed to be hard in the centre. The
swelling later became much larger and
worked down upon the arm. The result
is that now, thirty years after the occur
renee, it is Dissolved that the gold chain,
three feet long, SO mysteriously spirited
away by lightning, is plainly to be seen
embedded in her right arm close to the
skin.
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The Mormon tabernacle. a C

The Mormon Tabernacle, correspond
ent of the St. Paul Pioneer Press says,
is the most wonderful whispering gallery
in the world. When everybody in it is
quiet the faintest whisper may be heard in
the remotest part of the house. 1t will
seat 10000 persons. There is no means
of heating it, and in winter the services are
held in the assembly room that will seat
about 5000 persons. The other large
edifce in Salt Lake City-the temple,
which was begun thirty years ago-has
cost, the Mormons say $4,000, 900, and
they will require S5,0O0,00O to complete
it but Boston architect recently offered
to duplicate the structure and finish it
within two years for 100000. Its walls
are of solid granite, 8 feet inches in thick
ness They have reached height Of about
100 feet, and the six towers will rise an
other 100 feet
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-12-22

The jockey Martin, who won the Ces;re-
witch, is only fifteen years old, and, accord
ing to good English sporting authority his
earnings for the present year will not be
less than $4,000. For the Cesarewitch
alone he received $4,000 Many middle
aged lawyers, clergymen, Senators, and
Judges would be glad to earn third as
much as this youngster Older riders, like
Archer or Cannon, are independently rich.
But the men who pay this tiftcen-y ear-old
Jockey do so because he is worth all the
money to them, and because a perfect light
weight Jockey is hard to find
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-12-22
DAT MEAL, BUCKWHEAT,
Hominy, Beans, Rice, Starch and Extracts
of all kinds, Salt, &c.

Bay- All we ask is an examination of our
catch penny tricks, such as selling certain
ment's reflection will convince any one that
goods without profit, and that we can and do
Our aim is to keep the very best quality of
depend upon it the best will always be found
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-12-22

\ few days ago baby was born in
Newport, Ky. A gentleman neighbor
called at the house, and, on being shown
the young one, said to it:
How are you, Colonel? p
Its mother then asked, "Why do you
call it Colonel p
"It's male child isn't it?" he replied.
Eyes, replied the mother.
well then he's colonel. BY the com
mon law of Kentucky every male child born
In the State is colonel.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-12-22

A minister was in the habit Of pausing
frequently in his sermon, posing his fng-
ers on the desk before him, and drawing a
long breath before recommending. A lit
tie boy in his congregation, one day, became
very impatient of the long services, and
was often admonished by his mother At
length, seeing that the child's impotence
increased, she whispered, during one of the
pauses, ''Be quiet, he is almost through. :"
mo, he isn't, said the little fellow 'he
is srelIing up again.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-12-22

a wit was awfully bored by a stupid fell
low who persisted in talking to him on
natural history. "There's the oyster" at
last said the bore, "what's your notion as
to the idea that the oyster is possessed of
reason ?" Il think it may be true, j" said
the wit, ''because the oyster knows enough
to keep his mouth shut.
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Together they were looking over the
paper. go my, how funny" said she.
what is it 2" he asked. "Why, here S an
advertisement that says mo reasonable offer
refused. F" whats so odd about that ?"
Nothing, nothing" she replied, trying to
blush, "only those are exactly my senti-
ments."
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-12-22

A little girl sat on the floor crying. After
while she stopped and seemed buried in
thought Looking up suddenly, she said
Mamma, what was | crying about 2
Because l wouldn let you 90 down town.
''Oh, yes, and she set up howl.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-12-22

Life consists of cutting teeth in child
hood, of the pangs of unrequited love in
youth, Of dyspepsia in manhood, and of
a fear of death in old age, and an oppres
sive certainty that the lawyers will contest
your will and pocket most Of your money.
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"What are you going to do when you
grow up if you don't know how to cipher p
asked teacher of a slow boy. I'm going
to be school teacher and make the boys
do the ciphering, was the reply.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-12-22
CHAPTER V.

'"This is the little church there How
bleak and bare it looks, with all the hum
bic and turf-covered graves around it Oh,
we must take him away from it, we must
give him better field of labor elsewhere"
''Of course, we must
81 was standing just there, Frank, by
the gate, when he came down first to meet
us.
'Doyou know, Connie, if you talk any
more about him | shall begin to grow jeal-
Gus, and to think you regret him"
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-12-22

A wife wonders why the men can't man
age to do something useful, and wants to
know if they mighn't as well amuse them
selves in smoking hams instead of cigars
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-12-22

SUNDAY TRAINS
Going East will leave Union Bridge for Baltimore
Westminster at ZOO a. and 5.17p. Going West,
will leave Baltimore for Union Bridge and inter
mediate Stations at S45 a. m, and 200 p. m. and
Westminster at 1884 a. m. and 347 p. m.
EMMITTSBURG RAILROAD.
Trains South will leave Emmittsburg at so a. m.
and 3.45 p. m, arriving at Rocky Ridge at go a.
M and Ais D. m. Trains North will leave Rocky
Ridge at 10. 40 a. m, and 635 p m, arriving at EN-
mittsburg lilo a. m, and 7.05 p. m.
BALTIMORE AND CUMBERLAND VALLEY r. R.
Trains leave East daily except Sunday SAippens-
burg 100 a. m, 1855 and 400 p. m. Waynesboro 500
m, l37 and 440 p. M. arriving at Edgemont $50
a. m, and 200 and 500 p. m Sundays, leave Ship
pensburg 500 a m. and 800 p. IN, Chambersburg
S35 and 1856 p. M, Waynesboro 9.l7 a. m. and
All D. M arriving Edgemont $40 a. m. and 1.40p
m Trains West daily except Sunday. Edgemont
7.35 and LAO a. m, and 7S5 p. m. Waynesboro 500
M, and 1913 and lisp. M, ChamberSburg $40 a.
m, and'124S ana 40 p. m. arriving at Shippens-
burg 9.l5 a. m, and 120 and 9l5 p. m. Sundays,
leave Edgemont $50 a. m. and $50 p. M, Waynesboro
9.17 a. m. and All p, m, Chambersburg 1000 a. m.
and 500 p. M arriving Shippensburg 1890 q. m and
1901. m.
FREDERICK DIVISION PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD.
Trains for Frederick leave Junction at 1880
and 6 ~ D. m. Trains for Taneytown, Littlestown
Through for Frederick leaves Baltimore at 90
D. IN. and leaves Frederick for Baltimore at $40 a.
IN. Through cars for Hanover and Gettysburg and
points on the II. ]. H. d G. r. r. leave Baltimore
at 1000 a. and 400 p. m. These trains daily ex-
cept Sunday.
Office 133 W. baltimore street. Eastern standard
10Th Meridian time is given at all stations.
j. NJ. HOOD, Genl. Manager.
nova B. H. GRIswoLD, Gen'l. Passenger Agent.
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stock and prices. We are satisfied we can
goods at and below cost, and charging exOr-
a merchant who has heavy rent, clerk hire,
sell better quality of goods at less profit
goods that we can buy, sometimes costing a
the cheapest in the end.
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save you money. We do not resort to any
bitant prices on others to make itup. A mo-
taxes, insurance, &C., cannot afford to sell
than any other establishment in the county.
little more than common trash, but you can
dec 1-4t