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Mistakes in Newspapers.

The Poughkeepsie Eagle, in an article
on ''How Mistakes Happen in Newspapers, "
figures up the number of type used in a
newspaper the size of the Eagle at COG, 900;
that is, the actual number of bits of metal
arranged for each newspaper in preparing
a newpaper of that size for the press. We
suppose few people think of the printing
trade as one of the most exact and particu-
lar handicrafts, but it is. In making type,
variations that might be allowed in the
finest machinery would render type useless
1t is very rarely that the type furnished by
two separate foundries can be used together
without great deal of trouble, even though
they should try to make it after the stand
ard. We read once in while of won
derful piece of cabinet or mosaic work con-
tanning ten, twenty, or fifty thousand pieces,
the maker of which has spent months or
even years of labor in producing it, and the
people go to see it as a curiosity; but the
most elaborate and carefully fitted piece OF
work of this kind ever made does not COM
pare, for minuteness of details and accuracy
of fitting, with that which the printer does
every day The man who does the first is
looked upon as a marvel of skill, and, if a
hundred of his are put in wrong side up or
turned around, it is not noticed in the general
effect; but if the printer, in fitting tentimes
as many pieces together in single day,
puts one the wrong way, everybody sees it,
and is amazed at the 'stupid carelessness
of those printers"
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Enormous Eaters,

For many years there lived in Albany or
Waterford man named Peter Ellis, or
Ellison. He died about three years ago,
At the time of his death he must have
been near seventy years of age. In the
summer of 1876, he was a large, loose
made, big g-boned man, not much under six
feet in height. He was known as most
enormous eater. A dressed turkey, weigh
ing twenty-one pounds, was roasted, and
on wager, Ellison ate the whole of it at
one sitting, or within about the usual time
occupied at dinner, together with bread
and some kind of wine, A dozen years
ago New York sporting man made an Of
fer in the way of bet to the late John
Morrissey that he could produce man who
would eat a twenty y-three pound dressed
turkey, roasted, and when he named Peter
Ellison as his man, Mr.. Morrissey said, II
know the man" and the offered bet was
not accepted,
At the time alluded to Peter Ellison re-
lated the particulars of an eating match
between another man and himself, which
took place many years before at Snedider's
on Long Island, then well-known road
side inn, much frequented by lovers of the
horse. The dinner was to consist Of broiled
spring chickens, bread and wine, The
chickens were to be split open at the back,
and broiled whole, or as Peter termed it,
''in spread-eagle style" and each man to
take the half given him by the carver or
referee. Ellison ate thirty-two halves, be-
ing sixteen chickens, and won the bet.
In the spring of 1845, at the season of
making maple sugar, student of the
seminary of Manchester, VT, Albert Pet
tibone, then 19 years old, after eating what
he wanted of hot maple sugar at the sugar
house of his father, in that town, finished
up by eating twenty y-foar hard.boiled eggs,
This was witnessed by number of Petit
bones fellow students, whom he had in
vited to the sugar house to eat maple sugar
and see the process Of ''sugaring off,
During the first cholera season IN this
country, that Of 1882, two women living
in the Marcley, or KnisdernkOrf neigh,
1 borhood, now in the town Of Esperance,
Schoharie CO., N. :, sat down by themselves
to dinner of boiled green corn. After
eating awhile they bantered one another as
to which could eat the most of that succu-
lent dish when green and properly boiled
i One of the women ate twenty-six ears oi
corn and the other twenty-nine. The lat
ter felt no i'll effects from her extraordi
nary meal The other was almost imme.
diately taken sick and died within thirty
six hours. The doctor said she died oi
Asiatic cholera.
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Executive Ability.

Very few men are blessed with the tai
ent of doing more than one thing well, In
the economy of nature our gifts are few
One may be able to plan but cannot exc
cute, while his neighbor's executive ability
in his strong point.
The man is good at the wheel, but lacks
financial ability; another one can design
china and earthenware of superior style,
but falls short of success as business man
ager. Similar experiences are met with in
every trade.
Men may succeed in the routine of design
ing, and in various other departments but
when their success in any one of these en-
courags them to essay manufacturing, they
are all at sea, simply because the latter
position calls for the exercise of entirely
different qualifications.
Now and again we find notable exceptions
TO this rule. We meet occasionally with men
who possess combination of different and
varied excellencies, superior wherever they
are placed; but, on the whole, such instan=
ces are rare-so rare, in fact, that the ex-
ception but proves the rule.
Such men are successful. They must be,
for they possess every requisite IN the whole
range Of mechanical and executive ability
Other men who know nothing, practically,
about the details of construction and quail
ties of material sometimes succeed, but
they have an executive power well develop
ed, and supported by clear judgment
trained by experience, they master all dltfl-
culties. One class of men may not know
how to draw the simplest pattern, but on
the other hand, they may possess good taste,
which will enable them to decide whether
design is good or bad, and their discern
ment fcrtells its reception with the trade.
Give them basis and a plan, andthey will
complete the structure.
On the other hand, those who have the
practical routine thoroughly by heart, but
lack the executive power, generally fail in
their attempt to do business.
What we wish to impress is the impor-
tance of executive talent, 1t is the all
powerful lever. 1t is not always a gift; in
nearly every man there is germ, which,
with proper cultivation, will develop this
trait to certain degree.
Young men learning any business should
study it in all its bearings, and seize upon
every opportunity to enlarge and improve
upon the efforts of those who have acquired
the great success in the one particular call
ing chosen With it success Is possible
even if mechanical and practical apprentice
ship is wanting, but without it the bes
workman is unified for independent bust
ness operations. We do not urge this poin
to the exclusion of others, but we know it
possession is imperativer.
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CALL AND EXAMINE OUR
Hs95~ STOCK AND PRICES. 9a
mar II
EOR SALE.

u ZMSSA II
hs. THE ondsrsignfi oos sign fims will bstxsss ss
now and the first of March, 1884, for the
owner, Valuable Farm and Grist and Saw
Mill, situate in Carroll county, Md, on the
Washington and Westminster road, about -
miles north of Hoods Mills, adjoining the
lands of Walter Dorsey, Ebbert Il Beck, Jos.
Brandenburg and others, containing
ABOUT 526 ACRES.
The land lies beautifully, slightly rolling, soil
sandy loan and clay subsoil, crops well, about
300 acres cleared, the balance in good timber.
The mill is one of the best stands in the state
for q country mill, makes excellent flour, meal
and homily, and is capable of doing good
saving. and now doing fine business stores,
postoffices. telegraph office and churches con-
ycpient, and during the summer two new
churches will be built within a mile OF the
property-one a Lutheran and the other
Methodist Protestant The improvements are
a large Brick House, with brick backbullding
and kitchen attached; good dry cellar under
the whole of the main building; meat house,
ice house and good tenement house near the
mansion; also three good tenement houses on
the place, all rented, and good slx-room
frame house, stable and hen house with the
mill: a large granary with carriage house un-
derneath, and stabling for twelve horses or
COWS, besides two large plank sheds and a
large tobacco house, shielded all around, ca
pable of holding a large quantity of proven
der, or could convert into a COW stable or
sheep house. Property is improving very fast
in this neighborhood, but as have sold my
personal property and am going to quit farm
ing, and the owner not caring to rent to any
one else, has authorized me to sell the same.
| will sell the whole or sell the mill property
separate, and sell the timber land separate.
Terms to be agreed upon when purchasing.
Inquire of the undersigned on the property.
CHAS. C. f. SCHROEDER
feb 24-2m' Berret P. o., Carroll CO., Nd.
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Selert poetrg,
A RAINY DAY.
Selected for the Democratic 4drOcate
BY MARY VERNON.

Selected for the Dem0crdttc 4dt0rdfe
BY MARY VERNON.
How tired one grows of a rainy day,
For a rainy day brings back so much;
Old dreams revive that are buried away,
And the past comes back to the sight and touch.
When the night is short and the day is long,
And the rain falls down with a ceaseless beat,
We tire of thoughts, we tire of song
That over and over is played in the street.
When woke this morning and heard the splash
Of the rain drops over the tall elm's leaves
was carried back, in lightning's flash,
To the dear old home with the sloping caves.
And you and in the garret high
Were playing again at hide-and-seek:
And bright was the light of your laughing eye,
And rich the glow of your rounded cheek
And again was nestled in my white bed
Under the caves, and hearing above
The feet of the rain -steeds over my head,
While dreamed sweet dreams of you, my love-
Love- my lover with eyes of truth,
o beautiful love of the vanished years;
There is no other love like the love OF youth
say it over and over with tears.
Wealth and honor and fame may come
They cannot replace what is taken away:
There is no other home like the childhoods home,
No other love like the love of May.
Though the sun is bright in the midday skies,
There cometh an hour when the sad heart grieve
With lonely wall, like lost childs cry,
For the trundle-bcd and the sloping caves.
When with vague unrest and namelcSs pain,
We hunger and thirst for voice and touch
That we never on earth shall know again,
Oh! rainy day brings back so much
"GLENMARY,' April l., 1883.
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Read Home Testimony {:

JAMES f. SMITH-DEAR SIR:-This is to
certify that used J. Z. Tygerts ''Star Bone
Phosphate'' alongside of four different kinds
of high priced fertilizers on corn last spring,
in three different places in the same field, and
the ears were better filled and yielded about
,one-third more corn where | used the Star
Bone than where | used the other grades.
ALFRED H. BARNES.
WarfeIdsburg, Nd, March 2, 1888.
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A provision broker of Chicago, in con-
versatiOn with New Yorker, speaking of
the stagnation in business, said "Why. it
is a positive fact that there are less than two
hundred thousand dressed hogs in Chicago
to-day" His friend replied in astonish-
ment, "Why, thought your population
something over half a million"
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The following sentence from Robert South
will bear more than one reading: at is
most certain that i'll tongues would be silent
if i'll ears were not open, and hence it was
an opposite saying of the ancients that the
teller and hearer Of slander should both be
hanged, the one by the tongue and the
other by the ears.
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MEssRs. j. Z. TyGERT & Cn.-SgRs:-i
have been selling your ''Star Bone Phosphate"
in this county for one year only, and my sales
were far ahead of my expectations (being a
new article in this county,, and everybody
that has used it speaks in the highest terms OF
its results, and l will have large sales for 1t
this season. 1t recommends itself.
JAMES E. SMITH.
Westminster, Nd, March 10, 1888.
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Grsr P. O., CARROLL Co., MD, !

MaTCH 0, 1000.
JAMES Z. SMITH-DEAR SIR This is to
certify that have used j. E Tygert Co.'S.
''Star Bone Phosphate" for three years beside
different kinds of high priced fertilizers, and
| say that it has given me better satisfaction
than any other kind that | ever used on all
kinds of crops, and recommend it to anyone
wanting an article that never fails to do its
work, regardless of the kind of season.
mar 24-2m Moses PARRISH.
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WrSy,,,xsrpp Mn March 3. 1888

JAMES L. SMITH-DEAE SIR The ''Star
Bone | bought of you last spring gave me
the very best of satisfaction. / consider 1t is
as good, or better, than any other fertilizer on
the market. Will need more this spring,
FRANKLIN P. GOODWIN.
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WESTMINSTER. March. 10, 1883

JAMES E. SM1TH-DEAR SIR:-The ''Star
Bone Phosphate" which | purchased of you
last spring was all you recommended. con-
slider it the best phosphate for corn and po-,
tatoes ever used, and while it is obtainable L
will nse no other. Very truly yours,
THos. b. GIsT.
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CLOTHING.

We have the largest variety to select from
in the city. We guarantee to please all tastes,
both in style of goods and cut, while our prices
are ALWAYS the lowest Please call and
examine. We have few suits which sold at
Sl5.O last season; we sell them this season at
$1,000. Satin lined suits range from $1,000
down. Little boys suits S2.25 up.
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There is no moment of life in which
cannot find comfort in the thought that
God loves us.
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A Complete Fertilizer for spring crops.
Endorsed by some of the best farmers in Car
roll county, whose certificates can be seen at
my Office.
Walkers Dissolved Bone Phosphate, and
and Walkers Dissolved s. C. Phosphate.
Constant supply on hand, at reasonable rates
DIR. L. ZEPP, Agent,
mar 81-2m* East End, Westminster, Md.
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By taking revenge man is but even
with his enemy but in passing it over he
is superior.
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A L e r r

A L e r T &C
8 Trotting Horse by j. W. GOULD, -A1EA~
son of JAY GOULD, dam by YoUNG KEMBLE
JACKSON, will stand for mares at Trevanion
Mills, on the road from Taneytown to Union.
town, Carroll county, Md. For terms and
particulars apply to
JNO. w. McFADDEN,
fob 24-6ulyl* P. O.Taneytown, Md.
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GINGHAMS, 5 CENTS UP.

We have just received another big lot OF
Window Shades at 80 cents, complete; Look
ing Glasses, Table Linens, &C.; a splendid lot
.of Remnants Of Silks, Satins and Novelties.
Yours,
G. W. ALBAUGH,
Please call One-P Price Cash Store,
mar 81 Westminster, Md.
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GooK BUeGIEs.

have full car load of COOK BUGGIES
AND PHAETONS just arrived. Come and
: see me, on Main street near the railroad.
R. G. MATTHEWS.
P. S.-If am away from town when you
: come, see E. O. Grimes. MARIA
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Cloths, Cassimeres and Coatings.
Cassimeres 80 cents up.
CARPETS.

Body Brussels, Tapestry, 3-Ply, Ingrains,
Rag and Stair Carpets, at prices which make
them sell. Oil Cloths are very cheap.
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Three years have rolled away. Harry
and Alice are completely estranged. A
raging contagious fever visited W., and
Ida James was one of the first to take it.
Where now was her boasted society friends?
They all Stunned her, and even the house
keeper left with fright.
Alice Keating was standing by the win
dow in her room when the news came that
Ida James had taken the fever, and as she
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THE Old Pittsburg Ammoniated
Bone Super Phosphate of Lime.
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ARDEN TOOLS, in great variety, at
" STEPHAN's, Westminster. apF7
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DOMESTICS.

Fruit of the Loom Muslins, 81 cents.
Splendid Heavy Brown Muslin, 81 cents; Ap-
pcton A. Brown Muslin, Scents; Cottonades,
very heavy, at u! cents up; Jeans, 81 cents
mn:
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Nothing better than ''Star Bone Phosphate,
containing, as it does, large per cent. of
Ammoniacal Matter, German Potash,
Soluble Phosphoric Acid and In
soluble Bone, thoroughly
maniputated
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Ut NEVER FAILS.
i A Sure Producer and Improver.
THE
STAR BONE PHOSPHATE,
FOR SPRING CROPS.

j. f. TYGERT q CO., MASrFAcTuRERs
SMYRNA, DELAWARE.
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By purchasing of

Ii is endorsed by the best farmers of Mar.
land and Delaware.
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JAS. +. SMITH, WESTMINSTER, MD,
You save agents commissions.
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NOTIONS.

Onr stock has been overhauled and replen-
i,bcd with all the novelties of the season.
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II had life and sense. and like ghost Of youS
iniurad dad Hould nayor 20 AWAY.

Il had life and sense. and like ghost Of yous
injured dead would never 60 away.
With morning there camo sense OF change.
But It was not light There was only dim
ghostly something in tho air-the ghost OF
dead day. And snow. snow. snow-nothing but
snow and snow. The mon came down from the
hill and left the wolves to have II their own
way. They came down clinging 10 each other.
Oregonian and Californian together. - best
they could. They could not see each others
faces. Their very heads and shoulders were
bowed BY loads Of snow. Many Of the mon In
the canon did not attempt to rise all day. They
were covered by tho snow many feet Deep In
this strange new land these gold hunters had
como upon strange things. and had como to
dread that most dreadful things might over.
take them. They whispered among themselves
that tho cation would be swept full OF snow II
the wind should risc again; and then surely all
would pcrishi Under ledge Of rocks that
loaned over the canon many mon grouped to-
gether A. the day wore by-hunGry. starving.
desperate. and dying.
But the force Of the falling snow was spent
As night came on We could SEQ each others
faces We could see tho world onoe MORE But
what was It? A world Of snow. Strangely
enough little white tailed rabbit came timidly
among the men out Of the snow and hoped
helplessly over human logs. They looked al
each other In turn at this. and then out on the
The two duellists by chance looked in each
others faces. There was q long pause. ssn
awkward one. Neither spoke. They looked Al
e e 9tnG a s.eadhtiy: The men eronpsdd about
II the snow was indeed their shroud. a. ons
young Californian with apractical turn Of mind
gested.
While the two men stood looking steadily and
still at ench other. there WAS q movement under
the blanket OF the Ore9onian. He evidently
Mns. about to do something, and that soon.
With eyes firmly hxed on the eyes Of his enemy.
he threw. back iii. blanket threw out and eI:
shook Il, and shook again and again. ashamed
and beaten..ashamed that he had not had the
courage TO do what his enemy had done before
from the group showed that ihers was life il
the savage canon still. II seemed TO settle the
storm. 1t certainly wakened many sleepers.
and they crept out Of the snow all about. none
tho worse for their long night's rest.
The wolves did not stay to dispute for pos.
session OF the horses on the hill as the pros.
pectors, went up among them. -, And soon the
Chfn0ok-the strange warm Chinook winds
that make suoh storms possible IA we'll M en-
durable-swept over the country. and the hills
were soon almost As bare as they had been but
q week before. JOAQUIN MILLER.
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De maasa oh de sheepfoi'
Dat guards de shecpfoi' bin,
Look out In de gfooinerin' meadows
WhA'r de long night rain begin
30 no calls 10 de hirelin' shepa'd,
10 my sheep IL dey ell come Int
On. den says de hireiin' shepa'd
Dey's acme. dey's black aud thin.
And some, dey's po' OIL wedda'e
but de res dey's all brung In,
But de res dey's all brung In.
Den Dc massA Oh De sheepfsr
Dat guards de sheepfol' bin,
Goes down In de gloomeria' meadowa.
WhA'r de long night rain Begin
30 he ls' down De has % dc sheepfoi'.
Calm cot, Come In, Come In,
Calm s0f'. Come In, Como In.
Den up t'ro' de gloomsriu' msad0wa
T'ro' de col night rain and win.
And mp t'ro' de- gioonerin' ramp
Wha'r de aleet IA pie'ctn' thin,
De po' los sheep oh de shcepfoi'
Dey ell comes 1adderin' In.
De po' los' sheep oh de- shsepfol'
Doy all comes 6adderin' In.
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PROM the Chicago Tribune

PROM the Chicdg0 tribune
Over the lawn romped Kitty and l.
Kitty, with ey es OF vevsty sheen,
With her peArly teeth and her winsOne ways
The prettest ever seen.
There WIS., none like her in the wtde wilde Wofid>s
Kitty, my lave, my queen.
But kitty's y matr0n now, my boy
And nm bach elor lone
For she ran away with Tom you know,
And the days Snd nights have flown
Since saw her Inst In the mountain, pale,
Kitty. my pearl. my own.
How did u happen! Don't ask mo now;
It - useless. mind you. TO tease;
And couldn't tell you the reason why
II you begged me your knees;
But WAS wilful. WAY ard boy,
And Kitty pure Maltese
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A Piazza Tragedy.

Prom fhe Denver Tribune.
The ben,iteous Ethei's father has Q
kew.painted front piazza
He lIass
Piazza,
when with tobacco Juice 'twaa tainted.
They had thst front plaza painted
That tainted
Piazza painted.
Aigrrn0n called that night. perchAncs
Arrayed Ia comeiy sealHkin pauts-
That night perchancs
In gorgeous pants:
Engaging Ethel In chat,
On that piAlxs down he sat
Tn chat
They sat.
And when an hour or two haf pass'd,
He tried to rise. but, oh stuck fast
At last
Stuck fast.
Fair Ethel shrieked. ut is the paintI~
Aud tainted In . deadly faint
This saint
Did faint.
Algsfnon sta there tn this day
lie cannot tear himself away
Away
Nay. nay;
his pants arc Arm, the paint Ia dry
Hes nothing else to do but die
To diet
Oh, myi
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Living asa Dylag.

Yrom TIE Dener Tri6ane.
John Smith was exc goOdly man
A. ever lived on earth
The world admired AMI loudly praised
HIS truly piOus worth:
His life was full Of charity
And free from sinfu! pride,
But scarce had reached to thirty four,
When one dim eventide
A mule kicked at him playfuliy.
And Smith soon after died.
John Brown a knnve Of deepest hue,
Dwelt m the self sanie town;
A grOsser n,enner, viier scamp
There never lived than Brown.
He CURSED he swOre, he smoked, he cheWed..
lie even keno PLAYED.
Aud down in Texas years ago
They say u man he Stayed.
Yet he lived on oontentedly
And lots Of money made,
TIL. nnnlIy. n gray haired man.
John Brown to die was laid
His wife and children gathered round,
A preacher lingering nigh
And the only token Of his death
Was . quiet, gentle sigh.
We'd like to live ~ did John Smith,
Revrred by all the town;
But when Ii comes to dying we'd
Prefer to die like Brown.