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Stealing Time.
philadelphia Times.


PHILADELPHIA Times.
One of our most respected Philadelphia
ministers lately preached an able searching
sermon on the many thefts committed by
people who would be offended at the i'm
putation that they robbed any one in any
degree; but there are few who could read
the eloquent and practical lesson Of the
eminent teacher and not see that they are
guilty of some form or other of petty and
often serious theft.
One of the thefts enumerated as most
common is the theft of time from the busy
workers of the world by idlers. Few who
commit this form of theft appreciate the
wrong they do. AS rule, they are idlers;
men and women who have little labor and
much leisure Many of them are highly
respectable and well-meaning persons !;
time being of little value to themselves,
they have no knowledge of the value of
hours and minutes to others, and they call
and waste time, every moment of which is
golden to the people who suffer the theft.
This class is, as a rule, intelligent and
should be easily reformed if it could be
made to pause and consider the wrong 1t
does to others.
The most pestiferous thief of time that
preys upon the workers of the world is the
genteel hummer; the thinly -guised devotee
of adventure; the men and women who
are playing the world for their fortune and
perpetrating theft upon every worker as
they try all things to make ten-strike.
They represent the thousand shades of the
Mulberry Sellers family; the thousand
shades of semi-genteel swindling operations
sugar-coated with plausible prospects of
fortune without labor, and the thousand
shades of ambition that is ever thieving
from workers to promote their own ad-
vancement They are trained in deceit,
usually fluent and fascinating in speech
and too respectable in manner and look to
be kicked out. They are the worst of
robbers and they cost the worlds earnest
workers millions in valuable time that IS
lost forever.
Sensible men and women who know the
value of time to the busy workers are
welcome everywhere. Whether they come
on business or in the kindly offices of
friendship, Ihey neNol S00''i oii0 VIM :.
can't return. If they have business, it is
promptly transacted, and they are as well
come in their coming as in their going.
IF they call to exchange the greetings
which keep green the noble attributes OF
friendship, they throw their bright ray OF
sunshine over the worker and then depart
regretted These are not the thieves OF
the workers time On the contrary, they
give much and take little; but they are
only small proportion of those who claim
the time of busy people. There is hardly
banker, merchant, manufacturer, profess
sional man, editor or any others of the
many workers of the world, who are not
daily vctimized more or less by the thieves
of valuable time They have existed since
the world was, and it is probable that they
will continue until time shall be no more.
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What a Farmer Needs.

A farmer needs his vacation just as
much as any man of business needs one.
A weeks run to town after the busy sea-
son is over will do him world of good.
And they need to visit other farmers, to
learn. if possible, easier or better methods
of farming or of living. They need to at
tend farmers conventions and organizations
to gain new ideas-something to broaden or
enlarge their views of life. People who
always stay at home are sure to seek dark
sides and shadows of their own lives. They
need to learn and to realize that storms and
droughts and thunders and showers and
freshets visit other farms beside their Own
that weeds and insects thrive in all degrees
of longitude; that flies and dirt accumulate
and annoy other households beside the
ones that they preside over. In short,
they need to learn how other people live.
Could farmers manage so as to be confined
less to their farms, could they work more
in partnership, as do men in other business,
or could they believe it profitable to employ
a higher grade of laborers- whom
they could trust alone for day or week,
or could they earlier train their sons and
daughters to have care and an interest in
the affairs of the household, then they
could oftener find the opportunity for
leaving the farm for a short season of rec
reation and enjoyment, and thus be in
reality what they have the name of being,
the most independent class of people in the
world
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Footprints of Past Ages.

Heavy stone blocks lately taken from the
Portland freestone quarry about eighty feet
below its top, bear some remarkable fossil
footprints of birds and beasts A lower
stratum has the depression caused by the
steps of the antediluvian animals which
roamed this region when the sea reached
to the place, and the next lying stratum
above took cast of the marks in projec-
ton. One of these tracks measures fifteen
inches by eleven, and was probably made
by some animal of the elephantine species,
although the footprint is larger than that
which would be made by an elephant of
the present age. There are three of these
tracks in a slab about yard wide and two
yards long. Another slab has the impress
of some three-toed bird, supposedly mem
Der of the ostrich family. The stride is
about foot and half Another slab, ten
feet long, has the impress in relief of part
of tree trunk The tree, from its shaggy
bark, is thought to have been hickory
Ne'o Haren Register.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-08-25
Ants at Play.

The old story of ants indulging in games
and play was for long time thought to be
a fable, but grave scientific gentlemen of
our day have seen it, and we shall have to
believe it now, queer as it seems, The old
story was told by Huber, who saw the ants
on a fine day assembled on the surface of
their nest and behaving in a way that he
could only explain as Stimulating festival
sports or other games. They raised them
selves on their hind legs, embraced each
other with their fore legs, seized each other
by the antenne, feet, or mandibles, and
wrestled, but all in friendliest fashion.
They then let go, ran after each other, and
played hide-and-seek When one was vic
torious it seized all the others in the ring
and tumbled them over like ninepins.
So much for the old writer; now says the
new: The players caught each other by the
feet or jaws, rolled over each other on the
ground like boys playing, pulled each other
inside the entrance of their nest, only to
come out again, and so on All this was
done without bad temper, or any squirting
of poison, and it was clear that all the riv-
airy was friendly.
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A Docs SAGAcITY.-A flock of sheep
blocked up ;he entrance to bridge span
ming Mill Greek, near Chester Park, Ohio.
A large shepherd dog had been trying to
induce the sheep to cross the bridge, but
they were suspicious and held back. Pres
emily the dog, discouraged at his unsuccess-
full effort to drive them, leaped upon the
backs of the sheep, which, in their crowd
ed condition, looked like one woolly floor,
ran along to the bridge entrance, leaped
upon the floor, and, Selling in his mouth
the neck of one of the ewes, dragged her
along on to the bridge, Once on the floor
of the bridge, the old suspicious were
allayed, and she trotted across, followed by,
the whole flock, while the dog stepped to
one side, let them all pass, and then trot-
ted along behind
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ITO THE PUBLIC.

Having withdrawn from the firm of M.
Schaeffer & Co., with whom have been for
six years, will open business for myself
about the first of April in the room opposite
j. L. Vampires store, and will conduct
ing and spouting business. All kinds of pipe
furnished and laid. Slate mantles of all styles
furnished at the lowest price. Large stock of
milk cans on hand or made to order old ones
repaired. Mendiug and repairing at the low
est price. Tools and machinery of modern
patterns. An experienced timer employed.
Personal attention given to all work. Work
done by US guaranteed. A liberal share of
the public patronage solicited. ba- Agent
for the Splendid Fire Place Heaters. Other
makes furnished to order. Estimates free of
charge. o. D. GILBERT,
mar "a 1883-1yr Westminster. Nd,
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Ready-Made Clothing.

selected of the finest stock in the City of Bal
timore; Dry Goods aDd Notions, Boots and
Shoes, Hats, large stock of Gents Furnish
ing Goods, Groceries, Hardware, Queens
ware, and everything kept in first class store.
l invite the public to give me CALL My
goods are bought for the money; discounts all
saved, which enables me to sell way down
below competition. will be pleased to meet
my friends at my new counters. 1t will be to
their interest to purchase of me, and they will
get as much or more for their money as they
possibly can elsewhere. No old stock. Ev-
erything bought new.
W ReadyMad Clothing in great quanti-
ty and variety.
June 2-tf Z. B. ARNOLD.
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NEW STORE, NEW GOODS, and
AN CHEAP.

| have built Store Room next door to
my old stand, Bowers Hall, and my stock
CERES AND PROVISIONS, comprising
all kinds of Salt Meats, cut to suit, Salt Fish,
Coffee, Sugar, Syrups, Spices, Chip Beef, Bo,
logna Sausage, Flour, Corn, and Buckwheat
Meal, and all articles generally kept in good
Grocery and Provision Store, all of which will
be sold low, delivered to any part of the town.
With long experience and by strict attention
to business, ! solicit a liberal share of the
public patronage.
june IA JOHN H. BOWERS.
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4 CHANGE in Proprietorship
- OF THE
WESTMINSTER CITY HOTEL.

Having taken charge of the above Ho'ei
permanent custom in the best MANNER. fel
sons attending Court will receive especial y.
tention.
The Stables are in charge of a reliable ana
experienced hostler, and guests are ASSURE =.
that their horses viii be promptly fed ana -
tended to.
Free Hack to and from the depot for ~
guests. H. II. POWER
Formerly Of Din House, Frederick; Anss.
tam House, Hagerst0wn; Arctic Hostae, gapo
May, and proprietor Of the City Holel, L =
caster, Pa, may On
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Laying Out and Opening Publ,
Roads

No. 152, in the case of the petition
of Jno. G. Melville and Others.
No. 153, in the case of the petition
of Joshua Murray and Others.
No. 154, in the case of the petition
of D. p. Buckingham and others
No. 155, in the case of the petition
of Walter S. Kennedy and others
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aug lily WESTMINSTER, MD.
EXAMINERS NOTICE.

IL
The undersigned, examiners appointed by
virtue of a commission issued to them by the
County Commissioners of Carroll county, to
open public road in said county, beginning
at the terminus of the public road as now
opened and located from Finksburg to the
Finksburg station, on the Western Maryland
Railroad, to-wit AT said Finksburg station,
at point in said public road flush with the
southwest side of the old station house, and
twenty feet from the west corner of said old
station house, and then to run through the
lands of Lewis A. j. Lamotte and BENJAMIN
Bond, on the most practicable route, till it
intersects the road leading from Glen Falls
station, on the said Western Md, Railroad,
by way Of Emory Chapel, to the Baltimore
and Hanover turnpike road.
Allpersons whom it may concern are hereby
notified that we will meet on Wednesday,
the 9Th day of September, 1888, at o. clock,
a. M, at the station house above mentioned,
to execute the trust reposed in us by the
aforesaid commission.
JACOB ZACHARIAS,
DAVID GIEMAN,
ISAAC C. BALE.
july 2s-5t Examiners.
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CMALLWooD ENTERPRISE.

l take the pleasure of calling the attention
of the public to one of the best selected stocks
of goods ever brought to this section of the
country, such as
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Maryland Hos.
Mt. Hope Retreat
1 , w. %
County Roads and Small Bridges
Bridges.

Bridge over Alloway's, Dist. No.
l. and Masonry. ................ 81 SIS y
Bridge over Patapsco, Dist. No.
4, and Masonry. oo9 IL
Wooden Bridge over North Branch
to PatapscO.. Zlo w
Wooden Bridge over Gunpowder
Falls at Bahn's Mill. $50 90
Wooden Bridge over Gunpowder
Falls at Benjamin Bowers ...... 140 90
Joint Bridge over Patapsco be-
tween Baltimore and Carroll
counties -Carrolls half........... 984 65
Bridge over Railroad on Green
street, Westminster-.-........... 1877 90
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InQuests

Over the body of David w. Davis,
Nathan Gorsuch, eoroner........ Sl4 AZ
Over the body of George Kessel-
ring, Ira E. Grouse, coroner.... 10 80
Over the body of John Adams,
Peter B. Mikesell, coroner...... "a SO
Overthe body of Andrew Pfautsch,
Gustavus w. Crapster, coroner. 26 so
Over the body of Jacob Lockner,
Azariah Oursler, coroner........ % ~
Over the body of Harvilla Green,
Peter B. Mikesell, coroner...... % "a
Over the body of Robert Thomson,
Peter B. Mikesell, coroner.. 26 Al
Over the body of Aaron Shaeffer,
Peter B. Mikesell, coroner.... 80 O3
Over the body of Mary Dorsey,
Azariah Oursler, coroner........ 81 40
DIR. r. o. d. Warfeld, for exam
lining body of VIM. Naill, found
dead................................ 90
DIR. 4. o. ID. Warfeld, for exam
lining body of Thomas Dell...... s 90
$221 81
State Witnesses.
Before Magistrates, .,,,,.n,.......... 500 38
Collins for Paupers.
George G. Freyman, ,,,,,,,,.,,....,,, gI2 90
o. NJ. Hiteshew. ,.,,,...........,,,,,,, IL 90
Joseph Arnold ,.................. 90
Main & Geiselman. .................. "a 90
ss4 90
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Marriage must be favorable to longevity;
IN old maid never lives to be Haore than
thirty
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In consequence of the number of prisoners
who had to be kept at the Aims House during
the rebuilding of the Jail, for about months,
and they and the guards boarded there by
the county, the expenses of the Aims House
are something larger this year than they 9TH
erwise would have been.
VIM. C. POLK,
FRANCIS WARNER,
FRANCIS II. ORENDORFF,
Commissioners of Carroll County.
Test: Jos. A. WAEsCHE, Clerk.
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ASSETS.
Outstanding Taxes in hands of col -
lectors for former wears. .........$31 500 AZ
Cash in bank, June Both, 1885," 8 1863 SO
$50 1913 25
Amount assets, June 3Oth, 188O...$36 800 y
Amount assets, June 30th, 1884,. Al 56S IL
Amount assets, June Both, 1882. AZ Alb 40
Amount assets, June 30th, 1885,. 80 1893 20
The above statement shows an improve
ment in the financial condition of the county.
JOS. A. WAESCHE,
aug18-4t treasurer.
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july asst
4 T PRIVATE SALE.

The Trustees of G. B. Anders viii sell at
Private Sale the property of said Anders. re-
naming unsold. For particulars address
JAS McSHERRY. Frederick city,
]. A.. c. BOND, Westminster,
july 7-tf Trustees.
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n ENERAL STATEMENT
NJ OF
Expenditures for Carroll Co.
FOR
YEAR ENDING JUNE 3oth, 1883.

Tabular Statement of Amount of
Levy.
The following table will exhibit the amount
of County Taxes levied thereon for the year
1883, at 40 cents in the 500 valuation:
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Fire Insurance.

Baltimore County Company........ $32 40
Carroll. County Company. So "a
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County COMMISSIONS

VIM. C. Polk land mileage) Pres't 1866 10
Francis Warner and mileage).... 462 20
Francis H. Orendorff ................. 1926 80
Jos. A. Waesche CLERK & Treas 800 90
R. B. Norment Counsel. 100 90
Elias Marker (Janitor) ............... 225 90
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$3.50 60
Sundry ATTORNEYS.
OrnhanS' Court.

Orphans Court.
Granville T. Herring Chief Judge. S484 90
William Frzel (Associate) ........ 4S0 90
Melchour f. Allgire (Associate)... 484 90
j. o. Wadlow, Register of Wills. 81 SO
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ConstableS.
Public Printing
Public Schools,

Democratic Advocate. ............. 1853
American Sentinel. 273
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Rooms for Election.

County Indebtedness Paid.
Interest on County Certificates. .... 50 332 90
For redemption of same paid. Cos 90
For principal paid Daniel Bush
estate. OoO w
For interest paid Daniel Bush es-
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Edward W. Thurman Sheriff . So O96
DR.. Leonard Zepp (Physician).... 80
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Dress Goods worth 35 cents reduced to % cts.
Black Silks worth Sl.25 reduced to 50 cents.
Colored Silks worth S125 reduced to So cts.
A few Ends of Black Satins at half the cost
price.
A lot of White Good Remnants.
We still have Calico, best, at 5 cents.
Cassimeres worth slips for IS cents per yd.
Carpets worth 40 cents for 80 cents per yd.
Suspenders worth % cents for II cents
Suspenders worth 10 cents for } cents.
3 good Towels for % cents.
About dozen of the 19-cent Towels left.
2 more pieces of the cheap Table Linen left.
The rush still continues. Shows that we are
offering BIG BARGAINS in every depart
ment.
Call early and often.
The Bargains in our Notion Department ex-
coed all former offerings.
GEO. W. ALBAUGH.
aug IL Westminster, Nd.
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Special Attention Giren to REPAIRING.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-09-06
A Bachelors Suit.

A most remarkable suit is now pend
ing in the Supreme Court of Kings
County. n. Y. A Brooklyn bachelor
has sued an unmarried lady to recover
about three hundred and fifty dollars
which he alleges she borrowed. Both
parties in the suit are said to be "well-
known" The old bachelor and the
lady were on intimate terms for very
long time. This intimacy ceased, end
she was engaged to be married to law.
yer. The old bachelor came to the
front and lent his money to buy the
wedding clothes. Something happened
and the wedding did not take place
Then the old bachelor and the young
lady renewed their former relations
One afternoon the old bachelor called
by appointment to take the young lady
out. Being on intimate terms, he went
into the basement and sat in the dinirg.
room chatting to the mother. The
mother had previously told him tba,
her daughter was getting ready, anc
would be down soon. Hearing foot
steps in the parlor overhead, he asked
who that was. and was told that it mus;
be the servants and the house-clean.ar
After while he heard voices which ca
cited his suspicion. Saying he would
he back soon, he went out and watched
In few minutes the front door wac
opened and the young lady was seen
bidding free and tender farewell to
middle-aged male stranger. The cid
bachelor went back to the house, and
there was scene. He departed, vow
ing that he would never set foot in the
house again. He has kept his wo.d,
and sues to recover the money he I'd
yanced for the lady's trousseau. BmfsSo
Express.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-09-06

On Brady street boy about thirteen
years old stood outside the fence and
received hatfull of cherries from
boy of nine or ten on the inside. There
was something SO sweetly friendly and
charitable in the action that pedes-
trian crossed over and said to the small
boy after the big one had moved on:
''Sonny, did you sell him the cher.
ries?''
mo, SIR
"Gave them of your own free will,
eh?''
Eyes. SIR
"Well, he looks like poor boy who
can't buy fruit, and it was a noble
action of yours"
That's what ]. think, too, sir. He's
been licking me all summer. and
."And you heaped Goals of fire on his
hea6?''
mo, sir. / fixed to heap q quart Of
half-ripe cherries into his stomach, and
II he doesn't howl and twist and yell
and tie up in hard knots before night
then he's too mean for the collie to
tackle! He's the third one I've paid
off that way this week. '-Detroit Free
Press,
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The Handy Revolver.

Experience proves that persons VIII
carry pistols to protect themselve
against danger need more than anythin;
else to be protected against their owl
weapons. Almost invariably the onl,
persons they shoot are themselves o
their friends. either by accident or de
sign.
A peculiarly sad case of suicide wa
chronicled in New York last Thursday
A young man of wealthy family, excel
lent business position and prospects
engaged to be married in 4 few week
to an estimable young woman, happy
in all his relations and anticipations
planning for his wedding trip and tn,
purchase of future holne-in a word
surrounded with everything that to out
ward appearance goes to make life Ell
joyable and happy-shoots himself
through the heart in the middle of the
night, and is found lifeless in the morn
ing by his family. No cause can be as
signed for the rash and awful act. He
had seemed anything but depressed
His last evening was passed in pleasant
conversation with his relatives. His
mind was occupied with the prepare.
tons for married happiness.
But one explanatory fact appears.
The young mans father shot himself at
the grave of his brother in Greenwood
some years ago. This had evidently
haunted him, for he once said to his
fiancee that his father had killed him.
self, and that was the only thing in him
she would have to contend against.
Now comes second fact. The young
man carried pistol as a protection
against being robbed while on his way
TO bank with deposits. He was fond OF
practicing with the weapon. and kept it
with him constantly. In doing this he
was sporting with death. He was like
burnt child playing with fire. With
the haunting thought of his father
manner of death before his eyes, ne ex-
posed himself constantly to the very
danger he ought of all dangers to have
avoided. Everybody knows the i'm
pulses that are born of surroundings
A man who walks along a precipice is
almost sure to wonder with a strange
sort of fascination what would be the
experience of fall over its steep. The
mailman is not the only one who is taken
with the impulse to leap from dizzy
height. So in this case, the presence of
the pistol was sufficient to suggest what
was in moment of impulse carried
into irrevocable act.
The handy revolver is responsible for
large increase of crime, and of acct
dents that are close related to crime.
The habit of carrying revolvers is al
ways pernicious in its effects, even when
not fatal to its results. The boy that
starts out by putting a pistol in his
pocket and thinking he is more of
nan for doing it, starts in a way that is
sure to be disastrous. He is safest as
well as wisest who, living in peaceful
and lawful community, relies on an up
right life and an Almighty Father for
his safety, rather than on the habitual
carrying of deadly weapons.-N y
Examiner.