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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-09-01
How to Become a Proof-Reader

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ing, which will enable the student to dis
Germ typographical Irregularities. A gen.
eral acquaintance with history, biography,
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identify every man who has followed the
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dav. No matter where his residence or
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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-09-01

often with thirty or even thirty five blades.
Below an ordinary circular planer revolves
in front of the gang and smooths the lower
edges of the boards. The immense piece
of timber is run through in few moments,
and what was five minutes before a rough
tree trunk has passed into the inch boards
of commerce. Nor does the work end
here; for the slabs are passed to new ma
chine, which grasps them with almost
human intelligence, and whatever part of
them can be madeso become laths. Other
machines take the harder woods, ash, elm
or oak, and convert them with equal speed
into slaves, barrel heads or shingles; and
finally the otherwise useless debris passes
to the furnaces to feed the fires of the en-
gine.
Sometimes, particularly in the more
modern mills, the routine as described is
varied by lifting the logs from the river on
an endless chain, a number of minor me-
chanisms fill out the devices by which the
lumber is cut and distributed. One in
genious machine, working double emery
wheels, sharpens the buzz saws on both
sides of the teeth during single revolu-
ton, and requires no attention beyond simply
the fastening of the saw upon it and the
unfastening after the work is done.
Another fattens out, by a clever mechani-
cal expedient, the teeth of the saw, so as
to cut wider rent and prevent clogging
as the cut becomes deeper; finally, sys-
tenn of elevated railroads takes the lumber
laden trucks and distributes the boards at
the points in the yard or on the wharf
whence they are to be shipped. Some ad-
ditional conception of the size and impor-
tance of the industry may be derived from
the fact that the Michigan Central company
takes away from one station here hundred
carloads of lumber for each day Of the
working season, to say nothing of the large
quantities shipped from the river by the
Flint and Pere Marquette railroad line and
even large shipments by the lake barges.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-09-01

coin or jewelry is allowed to be sent BY
mail to foreign countries, in compliance
with rule which became effective five
years ago. 1t was my pleasure to stand
beside table where sat a gentleman whose
business it was to open letters containing
enclosures to foreign countries, There was
variety of jewelry, and coin of every de-
nomination, inserted in cards, securely
fastened and all alike were detained. In
some cases the money was the hard earn
ings of parents and children, sent "over
the sea, to bear back to them the loved
ones left behind, expecting "the joys of
meeting to pay the pangs of absence" but
their hopes were not realized, unless there
was stronger clue than the signature,
which too often was nothing more than
"father" or "brother." Then there were
locks of golden hair, and in the same en-
velope pictures of bright, happy y-faced chill
dren, just sent "to show how delicate soil
the golden harvest grows in
The number of visitors per month fire.
quently exceeds five hundred, which him
dered work to such an extent that all Gu
riosities received through the mails, and
unclaimed, have been collected, and mu-
scum tastefully arranged for the entertain
ment of visitors, and beyond which room
none are allowed to go; nor do they have
need to do so, as all information one can
desire is intelligently given by Mrs. E., the
lady in charge. 1t may be interesting to
enumerate few of the articles sent by
mail. Washboards, satchels, umbrellas,
iron hitching posts, tin pans, false teeth,
boots, fans, hats, bonnets, cheese, sausage,
rattlesnakes, alligators, horned frogs (alive
in perforated tin cans } dress goods, and
photographs ad iufnitum. After every
effort to restore articles to their owner has
failed, they are put up in packages and
sold at public auction once in two or three
years. Among the many interesting arti'
cles in the museum is book containing
record of all letters received from 1777 to
1888, and one finds the number received
in one day at present far in excess of the
eleven years.
Over one hundred persons are employed
at salaries ranging from $3.50 to 81, $50
number of whom are women at one time
prominent in Washington society. French
S. Evans, now in his eighty-fourth year,
performs his daily labors acceptably, hav-
ing been appointed by President jackson
in 1929, and serving almost continuously.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-09-01
poetiral,
n1p MUSIC OF THE RAIN.

,r;rg falling on the house-tops'
fI,laL' ,r;,b a music quaint and rare
VIZ .ha sound of human heart-throbs
lln1 az m the silent midnight air;
q. tbe tears of angels falling
oI when rre they weep with those who weep
=. bo lullaby of mothers
u when ,,S they rock their babes to Sleep
,.,.o the drowsy wine of poPpies
L,Ag n',,b I its wierd, enchanting power,
ming to the weary listener
'T'i T;te tbe dew to dropping flowers;
r,, ooIm sleep to those who suffer.
Ia. -. like tears to those who mourn;
,',,a ~ romembered words of loved ones
r., From our aching bosoms torn.
..-,0rolv sweet, bewitching music.
an CENTRALIZED my senses lie,
watch the mystic Future
" with the shadowy past go by.
while calm and holy quiet
Goals upon my heart and brain,
rben fall asleep, still listening
To the murmur of the rain.
?, mavbap. sometimes hereafter
I shall lay me down to rest,
overweary, and shall listen
For the music loved best;
When its gentle cadence falling
rt-,rob the midnight silence deep,
sooIy soothes my troubled spirit,
When it lulls me into sleep.
wbep at last. my soul has fallen
Into sweetest, glad repose,
rbat on earth sunshine nor shadow
yoawakimg ever knows
like the voice of waiting angels,
Or the vesper bells in toll,
Nav the softly-falling raindrops
Chant requiem for my soul.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-09-01

A great many peoples religion is almost
the real thing, but not quite. 1t reminds
us of the artist who claimed that he could
paint piece of cork SO like a stone that
if thrown into the water it would at once
sink to the bottom. When he tried the
experiment, however, the people who were
looking on were surprised, not that the
cork did not sink, but that what seemed to
be stone Aoated. The difficulty is that
50 many people keep their religion to talk
about, just as they keep a pug dog for a
pet. When they make their religion a
team horse they win find out how much of
load it will draw.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-09-01
Deep Wells.

The following places contain the deepest
artesian wells in the world: st. Louis, Mo-,
1881 feet; Rochefort, France, 1876, feet;
Columbus, O., 1915 feet; Louisville, KY,
2,O86 feet; Grenelle, France, 1,778 feet;
Charleston, s. c., 1880 feet. Artesian
wells are in use in the Lybian Desert,
where rain never falls, and where conse-
quently springs and streams are not found.
In such region their value cannot be
estimated. They are also of great service in
some parts of London, where, although
the surface wells; bored to the depth of
400 or 500 feet, bring up from the chalk
beds below an bundance of pure water.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-09-01

-Four boxes govern the world cart
ridge-box, the ballot-box, the iury-box,
and the handbook.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-09-01

A certain loathsome lodging-house, sit
usted in back slum, whittier we must
now repair, was nothing else but nest of
thieves-wretched, ill-clad, hungry thieves;
outcasts from the more sturdy and bolder
ranks of crime; despised by the clever
burglar who took his fifty or hundred
pounds worth of "swag" at haul; ignored
and disowned by the dashing swell-mobsman
or the accomplished pickpocket. These
poor creatures were only stall-lifters and
ICoNTINUED IN SUPPLEMENT-
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-09-01

The furniture and things" were real
godsend to Mark and Pattie.
s1'll tell you what we'll do," said the
husband. "We'll sell the lot I'll give
over looking after odd jobs, and Wen get
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-05-12
A Great Strike.

Dispatches from Pittsburgh state
that on Wednesday of last week the
largest miners strike that ever occur
ed in Western Pennsylvania took
place when over 5000 bituminous
coal miners laid down their picks and
left the mines.
The men demand 81 cents per bush
ell for mining, while the operators
are willing to give only 8 cents.
There are one hundred and forty
eight mines idle. The six mines that
had not joined in the strike were the
Penn Gas, No. 4, Scott Haven and
Waverly, on the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Primrose, on the Pan Han
die. and Keeling and Castle Shan
non, on the Pittsburgh. Virginia and
Charleston Road. No special fight
has been inaugurated on the Balti-
more and Ohio. 1t is thought, how
ever, that all miners will quit work.
On the Pan Handle extra efforts have
been made to get the men to join in
the strike. 1t is thought by those at
the head of the action that all men
who are now holding back will come
out. The great size of the strike
gives encouragement to the partici-
pants, as they believe that operators
cannot afford to keep their mines
closed.
The strike covers an area of coun.
try fifty miles long by twenty, FIVE
miles broad and at least 20. 900 people
are involved, counting the families
of the strikers. AS yet there have
been no suggestions of filling the
places of the strikers with new men
men. but should this be attempted
trouble will probably ensue. Up to
this time the strike has progressed
smoothly. If there is prospects of a
protracted lookout the men will 90
into camp. If the pits now at work
refuse to come out delegations of
strikers, with brass hands and mar
tial music, will make an attempt to
make them strike.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-05-12
You Did It, and You're Another.

The two Democratic newspapers of
this city are just now engaged in a
lively tilt. The Mail is the personal
organ of Governor Hamilton, while
the Ne,Os champions the cause of the
Bosses. Both admit that the Demo-
cratic party of Maryland is in the
middle of a very bad scrape, upon
the shoals of disaster, and both are
engaged in denouncing the parties
who stranded the old hulk and ran
its wormeaten prov into the mud.
The Mail says the Canal Ring did it /;
the Ne,os says Boss Hamilton did it.
Last week in an article directed spe-
cially against the Governor, the NeaoS
says: 1--WE, who have spent our lives
here, know that the misfortunes and
reverses of the party in Western Ma
ryland are largely owing to his (Gov.
Hamilton's) selfish and impoIitic
methods, and that the loss of Wash
ington county by the Democrats year
after year is to be explained by
the strong-headed, hard-hearted, I'M
yielding, selfish control of the party
by this man."
1t is an interesting fight to the PEG.
pie. 1t has lead to revelations that
are astounding. We are getting at
the true inwardness of this party that
has managed the State for fifteen
years and spent all the sinking funds
they could lay thir hands on. Let
the war go on. We care not who
killed poor COCK robin, but the tax
payers want to know hereafter that
their taxes are in the hands of men
who will apply it to the reduction of
that vast debt that never grows less
under Democratic ule.-HdgerSto,0n
Ootd-FeLLOlO.
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interest of harmony the better. and
thus the gush ofmany was damned
up in surcharged breasts and there
remains unuttered. This, however,
was accomplished they passed an
address calling upon the wrangling
leaders to cease their strike and be
reconciled they pointed out the dan
ger of a Republican victory in this
state next fall, and urged the ambi-
tious leaders to lay aside their rival
ries and reYenges and love each other
once again as in the sweet bygone
days. We may, therefore, look to
see the white dove of peace with the
olive branch in her claws flying back
and forth between Hagerstown and
Anne Arundel, between Howard
county and Baltimore city. Senator
German will, perhaps, be heard sing
ing beneath the window of Mayor
Whyte Glove me once again, Love
me once again; Old love is waiting ;
Shall it wait in vain ?" Mayor
Whyte will, of course, pay return
visit to Laurel. Then both will join
hands and go to see Governor Ham
ilton. He will see them coming up
the path, under the cherry trees. and
will rush out to meet them-farmers
are so Observation-Disclosures out to
meet them and clasp them to his
bosom, saying "All is forgiven"
Then they will say together 1.-THE
pain that was all but, a pleasure will
change to the pleasure that's all but
a pain, but never, o never, our hearts
shall range from the old, old love
again" When the country Demo.
cratic editors see this affecting reun-
ion they will know that it was
brought about by the journalist con-
ventiOn and its soothing address.
Great is the power of the press
BaltO. American.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-05-12

Senator Lapham was in Jackson,
Mich, recently, and related to his
acquaintance there many reminis-
cences of his experiences when, forty
FIVE years ago, he tramped through
that State carrying one end of a sur
yeyOr's chain. 1.-THE first solid salts
faction / ever got out of Michigan"
he said. "came about in this way: l
was taken sick with bilious fever at
Tecumseh, and a doctor whose name
| don't remember came to visit me
in little hut where l lay, with bark
for roof, and which leaked terribly
during every storm. The fellow pour
ed calomel into me until l was nearly
dead. Finally DR.. Spaulding, of Syl-
yania, came and cured me. Well,
the fellow whose name / can't recall
presented bill of 500 for nine visits.
l paid him in money on the wildcat
bank of Clinton, and the day after 1
paid him the bank busted. That's
the only real satisfaction l ever ex-
perenced in Michigan, and think
of it now with pleasure. for he saliva
ted me terribly"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-05-12
Local Option in Anne Arundel,

ANNAPOLIS, May Local option
has been tried in Anne Arundel Just
one week this evening 1t has had a
marked effect. In the first place, it
has increased the express business
greatly, and the steamboat also came
in for an increased share of bottled
freight. Some forty kegs of lager
beer were received by private parties,
besides any number of "little brown
jugs" The odor of liquor also chung
around some of the attendants at
court, showing there was boiling
spring near by, and Saturday night
found few people merry. The Sec
ond showing is that i've or six saloons
closed up entire, and all the rest have
gone into the sale of pop. cigars. soft
drinks and eatables that during the
week the police report not a single
arrest for disorderly conduct not a
drunken person seen during the week,
and not one angry word was heard
on the street during that time.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-05-12
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondence
NEW YORK, April 9th, 1888.

NEW YORK, April 9th, 1888.
The Virginia Democracy is making
frantic efforts to secure outside aid in
its behalf for the coming campaign.
The Bourbons have been beaten so
aften that they feel they must do
something in order to continue to
exist, and they are passing around
the hat up North on the plea that
Virginia will be the pivotal State at
the next Presidential election, even
more so than Ohio.
Said leading Democrat to me the
other day; make no mistake, Til
den is just as much candidate for
the Presidency, now as he ever was
He is working his little boom quiet
ly but none the less vigorously. EN-
issaries are travelling all over the
country feeling the way and prepar'
ing the ground. Charles A. Dana's
tour has got something to do with it.
When the time comes, money will be
ready" How heartily glad the Dem
ocrats would be to get rid of this man
He is their Jonah. If he fails to get
the nomination he will wreck the
party. 1t is safe to say that if Tilden
lives until 1884, the next President
will be Republican"
The snarl among the Democrats rel
alive to the Speakership continues,
and day by. day the plot seems to
thicken. Randall is working his
boom with all the vigor which char
acterizes his work when himself is
interested. Carlisle's friends are
working hard, but somehow his boom
does not seem to move on. Little
Sunset Cox is trying to make harle-
ouin leap into the Speakers chair.
He is travelling through the South lee
turing on African Wit and Humor,
and telling niger stories with a bad
dialect. He hopes thereby to gain
the favor of the South. Verify the
Democratic party is perfect circus,
which gains new attractions from day
to day.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-05-12

One difference between English and
American habits is that the English
man takes much and hearty exercise
in winter. a season when Americans
ride quickly from place to place and
seldom exercise at all. In summer
our countrymen take their pleasure,
cricket, rowing. tennis, baseball and
the athletic games, which are over,
even for school boys, by November,
whereas all the active field sports,
and hunting are continued by En-
glishmen from the autumn through
out the winter. At the season of the
year when meals are heaviest and
more rich food, at entertainments es-
decially, more meat is eaten, the
Americans is the most sluggish; and
this is precisely the time when all
Englishmen who can afford it are
taking more fresh air and wearing
out their "tissues" than at any othe
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-05-12

1t is announced that a large colony
of French Immigrants. is to settle in
Garrett county, Md, not far from
Mountain Lake Park. President Gar
rett, of the Baltimore & Ohio Rail-
road Company, is at the head of the
enterprise. He not only contemplates
peopling the fertile lands of the coun-
ty which bears his name. but pro-
poses to extend the process to all the
mountain sections in the vicinity OF
his railroad, and thus utilize the low
priced lands of that beautiful section
of county, Grafton Sentinel.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-05-12
Why they Call Him "Old Man"

"Yes, that's sadly So" said Jenk-
ms, "my hair is turning gray and
falling out before its time. Use some
thing? l would, but most hair re-
storers are dangerous" "True," an
swered his friend, "but Parker's Hair
Balsam is as harmless as 1T is effective.
I've tried it, and know. Give the
Balsam show and the boys will soon
stop calling you old Man Jenkins. ~"
1t never fails to restore the original
color to gray or faded hair. Richly
perfumed, and elegant dressing,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-05-12

The Third Congressional district OF
West Virginia presentsa queer phase.
A congressman is to be elected to fill
the vacancy caused by the promotion
of John E. Kenna to the United
States Senate. The Democrats had a
majority of 5000 in 1880. Now, with
the tariff as an issue, and the Repub-
licans on the home protection side,
the Democratic leaders have become
alarmed, and been forced to make con-
eessions that heretofore they would
not have condescended to.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-05-12

Cling settlers secured an act of incor.
poration from Congress, and thence
forward it became the city of Wash,
ington. This step it was thought
would induce settlers to- flock to the,
new city, but such foolish hopes were
soon dissipated. In 1904, poet Moore
wrote
In fancy now beneath the twilight gloom
Come let me lead thee DER this modern Rome.
Where Tribunes rule, where dusky Bort bow
And what was Goose Creek once is Tiber J,ov
This famed metropolis where fancy sees
Parks in morasses. Obelisks in trees;
Which travelling FOOLS and gazettsers stiorn
With shrines unbuilt and heroes yet unborn.
Though nought but woods and miYe' they see.
Where streets should run and sages ought to,
be.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-05-12

We extract the following item from
The Sorting, a newspaper published
at Green Cove, Florida: The editor
of the Spring was, on Monday, the
23d, presented with an ear of mutton
corn, which was, beyond question,
the first Of the season. The corn was
planted by a lady in a garden on
Christmas day, and was properly
cared for, Notwithstanding the proph-
ecies that it would never even ap-
proach maturity.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-05-12

While Astronomers are certain of
the fact that many planets in the uni
verse are illuminated by two suns,
they are puzzled to account for the
orbits of these planets which must des-
cribe irregula, courses in their revo--
buttons. These suns are often very
different in their appearance, often
one is yellow and one is purple. 1t
follows that sunrises and sunsets on
such planets must be far more beau
tiful than here on this earth. The
blending of different solar rays, must
give rise to many and varied pffe-
nomena of the natural forces, not
known to US. I'm such solar systems
light, heat, and electricity must as
sumo new phases.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-05-12

At the commencement of the May
term of court at Uniontown Monday,
the rule on Dukes to show cause why
he should not be disbarred was called
up for hearing. The correspondents
attorney, c. E. Boyle, asked to have
the matter continued until next week,
80 that a bill of charges might I've filed,
and the request was granted and
Monday next was fixed as the day
for the dearing.