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her friends, and-and, in short, try if il
would be possible to teach her to like me.
"But it was too late p
''Yes, she stopped me gently-kindly-
she told me that she was to be married the
next day but onc-and so-well, | never
saw her again"
Mr.. Christern knocked the ashes out OF
his pipe, and added:
''Not much of a romance, eh?"
"The odd part is, that you should have
remembered her so long" Mrs. Judson
said, in her low, sweet tones.
"Oh, | told you that was lichen, he
replied, with laugh that held a sigh
''Think of her-well, not constantly, of
course-perhaps sometimes, very seldom
But if you will believe me- think Mary
Desmond has always stood between me and
marriage-I do indeed"
Mrs. Judson leaned forward, and touch
ed his hand He had fallen into thought
again and started as her fingers brushed
his
"Eh, what?" he asked. ~ suppose
you think I'm fool y
Then he stared in wonder. She was
holding up little locket, which she had
taken from a chain, that she wore about
her neck.
"We are old now," she said, sand l may
tell you that it was to me you gave the
locket See there are your initials. You
may think how pleasant it is to me to thank
you for your kindness of this evening"
Mr.. Christern seized the trinket exam
ined it curiously, started, crossed the room,
came back and stood before her
"You must have known me by my
name p
"Of course" she answered.
"And you never spoke'' he called. as
it too late? I think l have loved you all
my life. u
"And know that have you, was her
answer.
Suddenly the bells from hundred
steeples rang out in mingled chimes. The
pair stood mute, until the joyous peals
ceased for an instant; then Ambrose Chris
tern drew the reality of his dream-love to-
ward him. AS they looked at each other,
their faces were so full of peace and tran
quail happiness, that something of the
brightness of youth seemed to illuminate
them, once more. Then the bells burst
forth anew.
at is the New Year." she said softly.
"And we will begin it together" he an
swered.
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ALL WE ASK is

An examination of our stock and prices.
Me. aEe4satis6ed we can save you money. We
do not resort to any catch hpenDy tricks, such
as selling certain goods at and below cost, and
charging exorbitant prices on others to make
it up. A moments reflection will convince
any one that merchant who has heavy rent,
clerk hire, taxes, insurance, &C., cannot afford
to sell goods without profit, and that we can
and do sell better quality of goods at a less
profit than any other establishment in the
county, Our aim is to keep the very best
quality of goods that we can buy, sometimes
costing little more than common trash, but
you can depend upon it the best will always
be found the cheapest in
THE END. d13
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GROCERIES and Confectionery.
Fresh Supply Always on Hand.

The undersigned takes pleasure in announc-
ing to the citizens of Westminster and vicinity
that he has taken the room formerly occupied
by Mr.. John I. Erb, opposite the Montour
House, on Main street, where will be found
a full stock of family groceries, fresh and
pure, consisting of coffees, teas, sugars,
syrups, spices, meats, cheese, raisins, nuts,
cakes, crackers, salts, soaps, extracts, &C.; a
full line of choice confectionery; smoking and
chewing tobacco and cigars. Willow and
wooden ware; full line of Stonebraker's eel
ebrated preparations. Aliberal share of pub
lie patronage is solicited. German spoken.
Country Produce bought or taken in ex-
change for goods.
LEWIS KRETZER.
oct 4:3m Westminster.
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GROCERIES,
crockery, Glassware, Hardware.

We take this method of inviting attention
to our large and complete stock. We euum-
crate below few of the articles kept in stock,
and we guarantee prices always as low, and
on many articles much lower, than any other
establishment in town:
Groceries, all grades of Sugar, from the
finest Cut Loaf and Powdered to common
Brown.
COFFEES of all kinds, such as Java, Rio,
Laguyra, Arbuckle's, Leverings, Enterprise,
&c. Syrups and Molasses of all kinds; also,
pure New Orleans Syrup.
Teas of all kinds, including He-No.
Spices; we keep only the purest and best in
the market; no adulterated spices.
Cheese; New York full cream.
Bacon and Lard. Choice brands of sugar
cured Hams, Breakfast Bacon, Shoulders and
Mackere.
Canned Goods, such as Peaches, Tomatoes,
Corn, Beans, Peas, Lobsters, Salmons, Oys-
ters. Sardines in Oil and Mustard, Pickles, &c.
Oat Meal, Backwheat, Hominy, Beans,
Rice, Starch and Extracts of all kinds, Salt,&
Queens and Stoneware. Our stock of these
articles is far ahead of any house in this town.
We can offer special inducements on them.
We enumerate few articles:
Fine Decorated French China,
White French China Dinner and Tea Sets,
Dinner and Tea Sets,
Gold Band China,
The Best Quality of White Granite,
Piae Decorated Chamber Sets.
Majolica Ware of all kinds and descrip-
ions, at very low prices.
Fine French Cut Glass Table Ware, such
as Goblets, Tumblers Wine Glasses, Bowls,
&c., &c.
A complete stock of Fine Lamps, Vases,
Toilet Sets, and many other nice things, that
must be seen to be appreciated:
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BOOTS ND S H o E s

Full stock honest made Heavy Boots S1.5O.
Our best old standby, "THE BOSS" $3.50.
A good well.made fine Boot $3.50. Ladies'
everyday Shoes at rs cts. to $3.50. Child
ren's heavy pegged Shoes so cts. to 81. We
have everythingyou can ask for in Fine Shoes.
Slesinger's hand made tender-feet Shoes, for
ladies, misses and children. Mems Gum
Boots 81. so and up. Ladies' Gum Shoes 20
cts. aud up, and everything in the Gum Line
at proportionately low prices. The Finest
Line of Mems and Ladies' Embroidered and
Fancy Slippers shown in the county.
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What is woman? For a painter a
model; for doctor, subject; for peas
ant, housekeeper; for Partisan, a dowry,
for naturalist, female; for an Albanian,
beast of burden; for Roman, a citizeness;
for schoolboy, an angel; for an honest
man, companion.
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Mems Fur and Wool Hats. Mems Soft and
Stiff Hats for the Holidays. New and Nobby
Styles Mems, Boys and Children's Hats, 25
cents and up, at
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oct 4:3n
ELECTION NOTICE.

Farmers and Mechanics National Bank
of Westminster.
Westminster, Nd, Dec. 10, 1884. }
The Stockholders of this Bank are hereby
notified that an election for Directors to
manage the affairs of the Bank for the ensuing
year will be held at the Banking House, on
the Second Tuesday, being the 18Th day, of
January, 1885, between the hours of l
and clock, p. m.
w. A. CUNNINGHAM,
dec I3:te Cashier.
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HRS MAS GIFT S
HRS TN AS GIFT S !
HRS T MAS GIF T S!
Suitable PRESENTS for Everybody.

Best Assortment and Goods always Reli-
able Elegant in Style and First-C Glass.
Select your Gifts from our
Attractive Stock.
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Novelties in Clocks, Box Paper,
Satchels, Pocketbooks. Great
Variety of Silk Handker-
chiefs, Is cts. to $l.5o.
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Select .poetrg.
THE CLOSING YEAR.
BY GEORGE D. PRENTICE.

'Tis midnights holy hour-and silence now
Is brooding, like gentle spirit, DER
The still and pulseless world. Hark on the winds
The bells deep notes are swelling 'Tis the knell
OF the departed year.
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u. L. REAVER & CO.'S,

First National Bank Building, R. r. Depot
WESTMINSTER, MD. deco
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-12-27

Little coins, like drops Of water viii fill
bucket.
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A man must ask his wife if he may be
,ch
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-12-27

6ALIeQs, fast colors, ~ cts, at
~ RINKER'S.
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HOLIDAY GOODS
HOLIDAY GOODS
AND
HRS MAS GIFT S
HRS MAS GIFT S
HRIS TN AS GIFT T S!
pY-THE MOST POPULAR STOCK. ~gsa
Suitable PRESENTS for Everybody.
Best Assortment and Goods always Rel-
able. Elegant in Style and First Glass.
Select your Gifts from our
Attractive Stock.
Novelties in Clocks, Box Paper,
Satchels, Pocketbooks. Great
Variety of Silk Handker-
chiefs, Is cts. to $l.5o.
Children's Handkerchiefs to cents.
Ladies' and Children's Hoods, Knit Jackets.
Skirts, Shawls, Lap Robes.
Goat and Buffalo Robes, Horse Blankets.
Bed Blankets rs cts. per pair.
Lace, Kid Gloves in all latest styles, only IS C.
Ladies' and Misses Coats.
Newmarkets, Russian Circulars.
Ladies' and Misses Gum Gossamers.
Ladies' and Misses Gum Shoes 25 cts.
Mems and Boys Suits So to SIS.
Mems and Boys Gum Boots.
Mems and Boys Overcoats $3.50.
Mems and Boys Collars, Cuffs and Neckties.
Mems and Boys
p% HATS AND CAPS. ~Da
We Have a Multitude of Nice
Things Which
Can Not Here be Enumerated.
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HOLIDAY GOODS!

&g~ Hats, Trunks and Valises
For the Holidays eyer shown in the county is
AT U. L. REAVER Il cos.
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HOLIDAY GOODS,

SUITABLE FOR
PRESENTS! PRESENTS
ALSO,
NEW FRUITS AND NUTS
OF ALL KINDS,
CRANBERRIES, ORANGES, ETC.
GROCERIES.
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All are invited to call and examine our ele-
CANT display of rich and new designs of
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-06-04
PER ASPERA AID ASTRA.
BY GEORGE A. BAKER

A canvas-back duck, rarely roasted, between us;
A bottle of Chambertin, worthy of praise
Less noble a wine at our age would bemean us;
A salad of celery, en- aldyOnndlSe;
With the oysters we've taken, fresh, COOL and de-
hcious-
Naught left of them now but a dream and the
shells:
Why, even the walters must see we are ''swellsl'
Your dress was a wonder; your jewels shone finely;
Your friends in the circle all envied your box.
You tel NE that Nilsson sang quite too div1nely-
| know shall make on that last deal in stocks.
Without waits our footman to call us our carriage
How slow he must think us, out there in the
cold
We rode in a hack on the day of our marriage,
Number two-thirty-six 1 was rolling IN gold,
For I'd full fifty dollars; and don't you remember
How we drove down to Taylor's Ia long cher-
ished dream.
How proudly 1 ordered-iust think, in December
Some cakes. and two plates of vanilla 1ce-cream
And how we enjoyed it Your look was the proud
Amid the proud beauties; your face the most
fair
I'm rather afraid too, your laugh the loudest'
Iknow we shocked every one; we didn't care.
Now we'd care a great deal; with two boys IN COL
lege,
And daughters, both out, whose sheer makes you
vince
We have tasted the fruit of society knowledge,
And really have not enjoyed anything since.
Quite finished ? Now don't wipe your lips with the
doyleyI
I'm sure they're not careful at all with the wine
1t hadn't been warmed; and the salad was oily.
l don't think the duck was remarkably fine
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-06-04
No Harm from the Dead.
IFrom the Philadelphia Times. ]

From the Philadelphia Times.]
"For myself" remarked a leading
member of the medical profession here
sit would not shock me at all to know
that my skeleton, scraped and strung
with wires, is to be hung up in the
laboratory of Jefferson Medical College.
The skeleton of DR.. Warren the cele-
brated surgeon of Boston, is hanging in
the laboratory of Harvard to-day, but is
not shown to strangers out of respect
for the family. This was done at his
own request. But there has been a
great deal of exaggeration in what has
been written and said about the pollu-
tion of water and air by the bodies of
the dead. Earth is great deodorizer, and
when bodies are placed in it they gradu-
ally decompose and all septic and
poisonous matters are reno yed. Of a
human body weighing 100 pounds,
seventy-fve are water and ten pounds
bone, leaving less than twenty pounds
as a source of disease. Take into ac-
count the vast amount of water in the
Schuylkill, and the distance that any
poisonous matter has to percolate
through the soil to reach it, it seems
folly to assert that it would affect the
water we drink. If torrent of water
should suddenly rush through Laurel
Hill cemetery in contact with the bodies
there the stream would purify itself in
quarter of mile. And then there is
another foolish idea that people in
dulge in that worms eat the human
body. They do not, but live on vege-
table substances. The bodies of dead
animals and human beings gradually
resolve themselves into their constit-
uent elements. An animal drops dead
out on the plains. Birds of prey and
iackals pick its bones and they in time
crumble into dust.
$50 with the human body. The slow
process of combustion goes on in the
grave, but it is out of sight. The gases
that escape are seized upon by other
forms of life. We are dust, and what
IS the death of one is the life of another.
But it would be very different if dead
body were lying in drain and the ex-
halations came up into the houses. In
London the subject is attracting great
deal of attention, the burial-places of
the dead occupying an enormous
amount of room. There they are agitat-
ing legal enactments to compel crema-
ton. The arguments used there are
the economy of space and for sanitary
reasons. In London, where the death
rate is one person per minute, it is be-
coming serious question where they
shall place their dead. AS an instance
that gases from the bodies of the dead
do not affect the living, I will mention
the church of the Capuchins at Rome.
The body of each monk when he dies is
placed in the earth below the church
until it has decayed. It is then ex-
humed and placed against the walls of
the vault. The survivors who live over
this charnel-house are not affected by
exhalations of gases producing disease u
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-06-04

when I was boy, on the old planta-
ton; his mother was owned by my
father and brought up the whole family,
etc.)-yes, z. gets, here it is, only
$4,000. How do they manage to live?
Speculation?
Washington is unique perhaps in
presenting examples of men broken
down in spirit and fortunes, whose I'M
comfortable desire to feed at the pub
lie crib makes them willing to accept
any position, however lowly, rather
than be kept out of government employ
for any time. Not that they ale unable
to secure employment elsewhere; on
the contrary, their past experience
should make their services valuable in
many respects to private individuals,
and undoubtedly would do SO if they
could bring themselves to abandon
what they perhaps consider public
life" [ know of an ex-member of the
Wisconsin legislature, now a door
keeper and messenger of one of the
Senate committees; another, also q
door-keeper, who not long ago was a
bank president in Virginia and occu-
pied some responsible public position
in his state; still another, who is the
son of an ex-United States senator, and
as such, very likely, imbibed the taste
for holding public Office which he now
gratifes by filling the position of a
door-keeper; and I could go on citing
an indefinite number of cases to sup
port my proposition, if space permitted
me- To do So
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-06-04
Col. OlcOtt as a Miracle Worker.
from the Pail Nall Gazette. !


During his recent stay in Nice, Col.
Olcott asserts, he was the means of Ell
fecting very remarkable cure on the
person of Princess W., Russian lady
who had been paralyzed in her right
arm and leg for seventeen years. Col.
Olcott, In the course of fifteen minutes,
was able to restore her to the perfect
use of both limbs, on which physicians
had so long experimental in vain. Of
these gifts, however, Col. Olcott makes
but small account. They are incident
al, nor does he think he is exception
ally gifted in this respect. Similar
powers may be exercised by almost any
healthy person, provided they go the
right way about it. The Colonel was
obhging enough to instruct our repre-
sentative how to work miracles; but
hitherto, whether owing to lack of ex-
perience on his part or to the uncom-
promising nature of the human ma
terial on whom he tried his newly-ac-
quired art, the experiments so far have
not proved successful.
Col. Olcott, before he left India, en-
joyed another remarkable experience in
the shape of visit from a Mahatma.
1t was at Lahore, when he was in his
tent at night, that he was visited by the
sage in question in proprd0 personce.
He recognized the person in moment
and they entered at once into lively
conversation, at the close of which the
Mahatma said: "You wanted something
tangible when first you met your pres
ent teacher: You are going to Europe.
Here, will give you something to take
to Sinnett as a message from me-"
With that the Mahatma encircled the
ColonePs palm with the finger tips of
his right hand, and there gradually
grew into substance, precipitated, as it
were, out of the the thin air, letter
written in English characters, embodied
in Chinese silk, and addressed to Mr..
Sinnett.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-06-04
Tobacco as a Speculative Medium.
From the Chicago Inter oceanJ


Does anybody know that tobacco is
one of the greatest speculative medi-
ums? Probably few outside of the
trade know that any little manufacturer
of cigars runs chance of striking q
lead that followed up ends in a fortune
in REMARKABLY short period. It is in
this wise: Every maker is on the hunt
all the time for leaf that has either in
flavor, color, strength, or some other
point an individual identity among the
rest of the bale. Having found it-and
it is no easy task to do so--he works it
up into cigars, and under as good and
catching name as his fancy wills, he
he puts them on the market. If the
dear public finds the Whatever-its-
name is brand to it's liking, why gener-
ally the hit is great one, and the hap
by manufacturer can't turn the brand
out fast enough. Carping cynics might
say it doesn't matter at this stage whether
the original brand of tobacco is used or
not-the name sells the cigar. True
enough and every trade has it's secrets,
and this one locked in the bosom of
manufacturers, from whence wild horses
could not tear it. A chap in Davenport
was lucky enough to tickle the popular
palate with his brand, made up with
that speculative invention. He cleared
a very comfortable fortune in few
months. A Chicago firm since then has
risen into competency from next to
nothing in the same way. In fact, the
whole business is full of instances of
sudden rises into wealth. The present
largest manufacturers in this country
of cigarettes-which, by the way, are
not selling so enormously-began bust
ness six or seven years ago in a most
humble way aud are millionaires to-day.
The chief owner of the biggest factory
in the world, down in Virginia, was a
struggling peddler half decade ago.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-06-04
Mr.. PrObascO's Car Fare.
(From the Cincinnati Enquirer. ]

From the CINCINNATI enquirer
Last Friday Mr.. Henry Probasco
started for his home in Clifton. He
took a downtown car, and purchased
a coupon ticket for ten cents, part of
which was taken up in the first part of
the journey. After he had changed
from the Inclined Plane to the Clifton
cars, where boys are conductors, he
was engaged in some mathematical
problem with pencil and paper. One
of the youthful conductors asked him
for his fare, but he waved him of, say
ing: Don't bother me. 7 am fgur-
ing" A few minutes later the boy
asked for his fare again. Mr.. Probasco
this time fingered around for his
coupon, but could not find it, and final
~ produced five cents. The boy duly
punched his slip, and the fare was re-
corded. At the end of the trip Mr..
Probasco found his ticket lying on the
floor of the car, and, picking it up, said
to the boy: "Here is your ticket.
Now give me back my five cents" 81
can't do that" said the boy. "I'ye
ticket would do me no good now" Mr..
Probasco was exasperated, and when he
got off the car caused the conductors
arrest. The boy, whose name is Joyce,
had done what he believed to be his
duty, but he remained in the station
house all night. The boys father now
proposes to sue Mr.. Probasco for $4,000
for false imprisonment. The papers
are drawn up, and suit will probably be
instituted to-day.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-06-04
Not i'm a Biologists Line.
From the Philadelphia Times.]

Coronation exclaimed Prof. John
P. Lesley, president of the American
Association for the advancement Of
science, with look of intense amaze
ment upon his face, as he peered over
hissspectacles at his questioner. 'My
opinion on the subject of cremation?
Why, I have no opinion on any subject.
Why should I? I am neither phys
ician nor a chemist nor an undertaken,
and my opinion would be worth moth
ing. This is subject entirely out OF
my line. I am a geologist."