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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-01-26
Genius in Reporting.

In sketch of j. j. McElhone, chief Of
the official stenographers of the House, In
whose service he has been as official repor-
ter since 1949, the Washington Post re-
lates this incident: The hardest piece Of
reporting ever done by McElhone was du-
ring the exciting incidents of the counting
in of Hayes by the House of Representa-
tives. When Beebe, of New York, immor-
talized himself by jumping upon his desk,
perfect Bedlam appeared to have been let
loose To report what was said with twen-
ty or thirty members apparently talking at
once must have seemed almost an impossi-
bility. In less than second McElhone
saw that his reputation as one of the great
est of living reporters was at stake. he
seized his note book and dashed right into
the centre of the excitement The voice OF
every member was familiar to him. With
out turning his head he stood erect amid
the widest confusion, and caught with
rigid accuracy the words of the most distant
speaker. He was very nervous over the
result, because if any member at that time
had by chance been omitted from the page
of history of that day, McElhone would
have been the subject of many row:
None of the members believed that he had
been able to get them all, yet when his re-
port came out in The Record next day,
not one had single word of fault to find.
In fact, it is the only perfect picture OF
that excited period. 1t was one of the
greatest feats of stenographic reporting ever
done in Congress When McElhone had
finished he was bathed in perspiration from
head to foot, and was as weak as if he had
been running ten-mile match.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-01-26

SUN-PoIsoNED PoTAToEs.-No person
should buy potatoes of grocerymen who
let them stand in front of their stores in the
sun, potatoes belonging to the "Solanum
family, of which the deadly nightshade is
one of its full brothers. All branches of
the family contain more or less of that poi
sonous narcotic called "solanine. The
bulb, or potato, contains the least of this,
unless they are exposed to the sun, which
rapidly develops this element. Long ex-
posure to the light, without the direct sun,
will develop the solasine in the potato, and
make an article unfit for food. But expos
ure to the sun is so injurious to the potato,
making it not only unpalatable but actually
injurious to health, that any grocer, for the
offence of selling potatoes which have been
exposed two or three days to the sun, ought
to be indicted for selling unhealthy and
dangerous human food.-Continent.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-01-26
The Value of civility.

There would be fewer broken friendships,
fewer unhappy unions and family quarrels,
were it not so much the custom amongst
intimate friends and relations to neglect the
small eourtesies of life, to show less and less
mutal Difference as they grow more and more
familiar. 1t is the foundation of misery in
marriage, and many serious and life-long
estrangement has begun, not from want of
affection so much as from lack of that del
icate and instructive appreciation Of the
feelings of others, which makes a person
shrink from saying unpleasant things or
finding fault unless absolutely obliged, and
in any case avoid wounding the offenders
sense of dignity or stirring up within him
feelings of opposition and animosity, for,
although many persons profess to be above
taking offense at honest censure, and even
seem to court criticism, yet it must be very
carefully administered not to be unpalata-
bic. Even kind and generous actions are
often so uncouthly performed as to cause
the recipient more pain than pleasure, while
reproof or denial may be so sweetened by
courtesy as almost to do away with any
sense of modification or disappointment.
True good breeding is always inclined to
form favorable judgement, and to give
others credit of being actuated by worthy
motives it does not wish or seem to know
more about people than they themselves
desire should be known, but it is always
prepared, when necessary, to take an inter
est in the affairs of others, while self is not
suffered to obtrude unduly In superior
it never reminds an inferior, by tone or ges-
ture of his position in an inferior, it never
apes equality. A show of respect never
fails to beget respect. Suaeiter an modo
tortiter IN re, should be the motto of all
who desire to be either useful or beloved
The stronger an individual, the more i'm
pressive is his gentleness the wiser he is,
the more gratifying and complimentary his
Difference and in a world where there is so
much unavoidable discomfort and unhappi-
ness, it is surely every ones duty to cul-
tivate those gracious manners, under whose
magic influence the restless and dissatis-
fed grow more content with their surround
ings, by which the diiident are encouraged,
the invalid is reused and interested; the
young are inspired with self respect, the
old are kept bright and hopeful which, in
short, beam sunshine everywhere, and in
crease a thousand fold the aggregate of hu-
man happipess
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-01-26
Effect of Light Eating Upon Colds.

DIR. C. E. Page, writing in the Popular
Science Monthly, says: "Though life
long sufferer from the disease in various
forms, from the snuffies' of infancy to the
'hay fever of adult age; together with oc-
casional attacks of neuralgia, rheumatism,
throat and lung affections, etc., L now find
it impossible to excite any of the well
known symptoms, or, in fact, any form of
disease, though subjecting myself to what
many would consider the most suicidal
practices in the matter of exposure to the
elements, so long as [ live upon frugal
diet, chiefly cereals and fruit, served plainly
-nominally two meals a day; holding my
self ready, however, to skip meal when
ever necessary, 1. e., whenever any of the
symptoms of indigestion, as acid stomach,
fatulence, pressure in the region Of the
lungs or stomach, etc., warn me of having
carried the pleasures of the table triAe
beyond the needs of the organism. x
When, however, 1 have chosen TO prolong
the experiment by continuing to eat hear
tily, as is the custom with people in general
at such times, 1 have found my experience
identical with theirs; the symptoms would
increase in severity, and to nasal catarrh,
headache, slight feyerishness and languor,
would be added sore throat, perhaps with
pressure at the lungs, hoarseness, increased
fever and entire indisposition for exertion.
In this case two, perhaps three days fast
ing, would be required, with little extra
sponging of the skin, to completely restore
the balance. Outdoor air is desirable,
and, when not demanding too great effort,
exercise. Air baths, when there is much
feverishness of the skin, are comforting and
curative.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-01-26
Surgeons on Dry Land.

A letter to the Forest and Stream says:
In September last, while experimenting
repairs to dam across Pearcy's Slough,
a minor channel which connects the Will
liamette and Columbia rivers at medium
stages, but is bare at low water, observed
number of slides, such as would have
been made by dragging heavy, smooth,
cylindrical bodies up the banks Of the
slough, which are five feet high and very
steep, and across the low level island be-
tween the slough and the Columbia into
the latter. The soil of the island and its
banks, consisting of sandy loan formed by
the annual deposits of the summer floods
of the Columbia, with a scanty covering of
grass and young willow sprouts from one
to three inches high, was plainly marked
with these slides, which seemed to have
been made by bodies from six to eighteen
inches in diameter, allleading in direct lines
to and terminating on the bank of the Co
lumbia. At first | thought they were
made by beaver or seals, which penetrate
the sloughs along the Columbia during the
summer run of salmon, but the large size
of one of the slides showed that it could
not have been made by either seal or beaver.
| Inquired of the men employed on the work,
one of whom, fisherman, said, '"That is
sturgeon trail They get among the
sloug ghs when the river is up, and when the
water begins to fall they strike bee line
for the river Sometimes they die before
they get there" Acting on this sugges-
ton, 1 looked carefully among the young
willows near the bank of the Columbia,
and found at the end of large slide, and
within six feet of the bank, the carcass of
sturgeon nearly seven feet long, with it's
head pointing toward the river. Its
strength, exhausted by crawling eighty feet
overland, had failed when almost within
reach of its native element.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-01-26
Decay of the English Watch Trade.

Cheapness has gained the day. The
Swiss and the American can beat the En-
glishman in price, and do.
They turn out as good watch as most
people care for at a cost which puts En-
glish competition nowhere. The Ameri-
can learned the secret of organization and
the use of machinery, which the English
cannot or will not learn. Here things go
on much as they did 100 years ago, save
that the movements of a great part of the
cheaper English watches are simply i'm
ported from abroad. A dozen trades con-
tribute to the making of single watch,
carried on under different roofs by separate
firms, often at long distance from each
other
In America, as you know, they have
been combined and to this combination with
the added advantage of machinery and the
mathematically accurate production of pre-
cisely similar parts of innumerable watches,
is due the surprising fact that a single
American firm now turns out annually as
many watches as all the English makers
together-200,O00. The Swiss are said to
make the enormous number of 5000, 900.
France produces over a million-9O per
cent. of them from Besancon. So that If
we leave England behind, we are very far
indeed from driving Switzerland and France
out of the worlds market, as sanguine
Americans not many years ago predicted
we soon would. The Swiss are said to
make now million watches more annually
than they did five years ago. The French
business has grown tenfold within thirty
years. But the English are not idle, and
on the whole, not respondent, although
the Times thinks matchmaking, as great
industry, doomed.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-01-26

WHAT MAKES Corn PoP.-Chemists
who have examined Indian corn find that
it contains all the way from six to eleven
parts of hundred (by weight of fat. By
proper means this fat can be separated from
the grain, and it is then thick, pale oil.
When oils are heated sufficiently in closed
vessels so that the air cannot get to them
they are turned into gas, which occupies
many times the bulk that the oil did. When
popcorn is gradually heated and 50 hot that
the oil inside the kernels turns to gas, this
gas cannot escape through the hull of the
Kernels, but when the interior pressure gets
strong enough it bursts the grain, and the
explosion is so violent that it skaters it in
the most curious manner. The starch in
the grain becomes cooked and takes up
great deal more space than it did before.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-01-26

To CURE STAMAIERING.-DrD Dio Lewis
in his magazine gives a rule for the cure of
stammering, which is certainly simple
enough, and which the Doctor says has
cured three-fourths of all the cases he has
treated. The stammerer is made to mark
the time in his speech, just as it is ordinarily
done in singing At first he is to beat on
every syllable. He should begin by read
ing one of the Psalms, striking the finger
on the knee at every word. "Time can be
marked, says the Doctor, "by striking the
finger on the knee, by hitting the thumb
against the forefnger, or by moving the
large toe in the boot" The writer behves
the worst case of suffering can be cured if
the victim will read an hour every day
with thorough practice of this remedy; and
observing the same in his conversation.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-01-26
Select poetrg.
THE JUDGEMENT HYMN.
BY THOMAS voS cELASo, A. D. 125o.

BY THOMAS Won CELANo, A. d. 1250.
lover one hundred versions and renderings
this famous hymn are known to exist
Day of Ire, day most dire,
That shall melt the earth in fire,
Sibyls rote and Davjd's Tyre.
Who may sound the depth of sorrow,
When the Judge, on that dread morrow,
Tests all cov'rings mortals borrow?
Trumpet matins raining thunder,
Bursting sepulchres asunder,
Call all round the throne and under.
Death and Nature are astounded
Ger new life in forms surrounded
And in judgment sore confoundedl
Pages of volume open,
And, in glaring light, betoken
Ey'ry verdict to be spoken.
When the Judge assumes His station
Secrets turn to revelation;
Naught escapes His observation.
What plea shall poor be making?
Who, my patron meditatingl
Scarce the saints know an escaping
King of Kings and ev'ry Nation!
Saving souls by free oblation
Cleanse me- too Font of Salvation
o remember, Jesus Holy!
For such was Thine advent solely;
Lest at last perish wholly.
Seeking me, Thou satst assigning;
On the cross bought'st me a-dying;
Is all vain, such self-denying?
Righteous Judge of just exaction!
Profer me some benefaction,
Ere that day of satisfaction!
Guilty culprit, l am groaning;
Blushing, am my sins bemoaning;
Save Thy supplant, Lord atoning!
Many Thou didst grant acquittance
And the dying thief admittance;
May not 1, too, gain remittance?
True, my prayers poor avail not
But thy merits surely fail not
Gates of hell DER these prevail not
Mid Thy sheep assign me nigh Thee
Far from vile goats safely HE me;
Let Thy right hand hold me by Thee
Must the wicked be lamenting,
Ger their torments unrelentiug;
Call me with the blessed repenting.
], Thy supprant pray prostrat
Heart in dust humiiated;
Have me quite regenerated
Day of tears, and ever nearing
When vile men, from tombs appearing.
And shall all their doom be hearing!
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-01-26
THE GREATEST BARGAIN OUT
A Country Store for Sale !!

Having disposed of my property at this
place | offer for sale my entire Stock of Mer-
chandise at a low figure. 1t consists of all
goods usually found in a well stocked country
store. The House can be rented at once, and
a good business can be done. Call and see
me within the next ten days, or you will miss
a bargain. Call or address
JAMES f. RINKER, Carrollton, Nd:
P. S. The party buying can also receive
P. o. and r. r. Agency and Express Agency.
ion -
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-01-26

If shirt bosom, or any other article has
been scorched in ironing, lay it where a
bright sun will fall directly on it; it will
take it entirely out. Tie lump of wax in
a cloth and keep it for that purpose; when
the irons are hot, rub them with the wax
rag, thenscour witha paper or rag sprinkled
with salt.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-01-26

In Japan the age and sex of baby may
be known by the tuft of hair on the back
of the neck, or the ring around the crown,
or the bunch left in front when all the rest
is shaved. A girl of 8 has her hair made
up into bow at the back and wound round
with red Grape. A young lady combs it
high in front and arranges it in the form
of butterfly on the back Of her head,
while married women must keep the
waterfall style
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-01-26
To THE PUBLIC.

Different sizes of the LION FEED MAS,
TICATQR on hand. 1t will cut hay and
straw into different lengths, at from 300 to
300 bushels per hour. Hominy Mills that
will make bushels of corn into good hominy
per hour, and makes it dry; a four-horse
hover will run it at 600 revolutions per min
pte. Circular Saws for making Shingles, 5000
to 10, 900 per day; will point rails or rip any
kind of lumber; with two saws it will cross
cut wood. right or left. All these machines
E. WAGNER,
dec I'm Westminster, Nd.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-01-26
TO CREDITORS.

This is to give notice that the subscri-
ber has obtained from the Orphans Court
of Carroll county, letters of Administration
on the Personal Estate of
ELIZABETH STONESIFER,
late of Carroll county, deceased. All per-
sons having claims against the deceased are
hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the
vouchers thereof legally authenticated, to the
subscriber on or before the 7th day of August,
1884 they may otherwise by law be ex-
cluded from all benefit of said estate.
Given under my hand this 7th day OF
January, 1884.
WILLIAM A. ERB,
ianl2-4t Administrator.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-01-26
SALE BILLS.

9. lhose who contemplate having Sale of
S.ock, Farming Implements, &C., during the
fTgmlng T spring, should see the various sizes OF
aandbills at the ADVOCATE OFFICE. We
ssSe Use white and yellow paper for the sheet and
"a nall sheet size, which have q border around
,fnsem' fs making an attractive and snowy bill.
ise best paper and ink are used.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-01-26

ID A. GoRsUcH.
AUCTI0NEER
Westminster, Md.
Special attention given to Sales OF Zeal }.
Estate and Personal Property. dec22-f
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-01-26
A CHANGE in Proprietorship
N OF THE
WESTMINSTER CITY HOTEL.

Having taken charge of the above Hotel
and thoroughly renovated it, | am now pre-
pared to accommodate either transient or
permanent custom in the best manner. Per-
sons attending Court will receive especial at
tention.
The Stables are in charge of reliable and
experienced hostler, and guests are assured
that their horses will be promptly fed and at
tended to.
Free Hack to and from the depot for all
guests. IL. ii: ~" En-,
. Formerly of Dill House, Frederick; Antie-
tam House, Hagerstown; Arctic House, Cape
May, and proprietor of the City Hotel, Lam
easier. Pa. may 5-tf
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-01-26
CLEIGHS! SLEIGHS!

CLEIGHS! SLEIGHS!
/ have Just received fine lot of New York
Cutters. | am sole agent for the famous F.
p. Conrad make of Sleighs and will sell
wholesale and retail Come and see them at
my Buggy Repository on Main street. will
sell them so cheap that any one can buy. They
are finely finished and worth looking at whether
YOU wish to buy or not. | will sell first class
swell body Cutter for S35; or three for
500; fine two-horse Cutter for 500. Come
and see me,
r. C. MATTHEW'S,
Westminster Md.
p. S. if am out of town when you come,
see E. o. Grimes.
oct 13.tf
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-01-26
FOR SALE
BY A. N. STEPHAN.

The finest stock of Spring Goods ever of
fered in this market, such as Hames,
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-01-26

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The Bad Lands cow boy. [volume] (Little Missouri, Dakota [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-1886, 1884-08-28
pleuro Pneumonia in Illinois,.


~ The Chicago Breeders Gazette says: AZ
Last the unwelcome truth is forced upon US that
contagious pleuro- pneumonia has found a
Judgement in the prairies Of Illinois. The ey-
idence Of its baleful presence in not less than
five Jersey herds in Illinois is overwhelming.
and grave fears, are felt That the extent of tbs
infection has only dawned upon us Intview
% these developments the following order has
Z Department Of Agriculture Washington
Ang 20, 1Ss4-To the cattle Owners Of the Omit
ed States: Owing. to the existence Of dis.
ease supposed be pleuro- pneumonia, in sew
eral herds Of Jersey cattle in the State Of nli-
Jersey cattle Il lie United States. into OWE WITCH
new animals have been introduced since Jan.
TO stop the shipments of cattle until after Oct
The disease seems to have been introduced
by animals sold at Virginia, Cass coun-
Y, ~, in February 1854 and these
out the Western States. ! It il 81 ope a5.
therefore, TINT persons owning cattle trac.
ing to this BALE, and all others having cat
tie affected with disease OF the lungs, will at
once communicate with DR.. De Salmon, chief
OF the bureau of animal industry, care OF
Breeders Gazette, Chicago, and clearly state
the condii ion OF these herds and the symptoms
of disease. The attention Of owners of cattle
and railway and other transportation COM
panies is called 10 section 7sof the act establish
ing the bureau q animal industry, which makes
II misdemeanor punishable by d fine 81, not
lees than 500 nor more than Ut, 900, or by
Imprisonment of not more than one year, or!
both, for shipping cattle with contagi ous, In
fectious, or Communicable disease, and 3es-.
pecially the disease known, as lpIeuro-pneuz
monia, from one state or territory into another.
The condial coz operation Of the state authori-
ties and all persons interested in the welfare Of
S5
der TO avert danger which menaces the herds
OF the country. ~ III III
tSigned1 GEoaaE B. LoRNa. Is
tSSss5 III Commissioner Of Agriculture
The Bad Lands cow boy. [volume] (Little Missouri, Dakota [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-1886, 1884-08-28

Z y is 'said3 that enc day IN this month
wheat IN Chicago reached the lowest
point known in the United States for,
years % cents per bushel. It was
down the same day to 81: 04 ii Liverpool,
the lowest point ever known there in
the memory Of man. II the lowe, st
point j. reached 81 Liverpool ever known
5in the memory Of man, correspondin
low prices are to be expected IN other
gram an markets q Of the world: The Iiy-
,e z market i oversize ked, the pros
pect FOR 4 good harvest throughout Eu-
rope was never better, and the increase
IN the prodnct Of Iniia has been: enor.
nous There seems be no present rem
;edy for this grsable fact by p ,irs
} dncsers, save with olding wheat from
the markes and that is attended with
risk But the future can be made
brighter ~ diversiiff yng the prod 81
the farm. s
The Bad Lands cow boy. [volume] (Little Missouri, Dakota [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-1886, 1884-08-28

IN Boston, 4 few days ago, Mrs ParnelI OF
ireland held q conference with . number -of
Catholic bishops and leaders Of the Irish Ma
itional league concerning the means By which
the coming political contest ID His country
could be turned to thsadyancementofIr eland,s
cause: Il Is Understood Arra Parnell repre-
scented her son OF the conference Mira Parnell
submitted details Of q scheme for the benefit Of.
Irish home fndustry hich she stated had been
conceived by her son. ~.
%. Mr. Parneil's proposition was that q direct
.oher be submitted tos the pol ical parties of
the United States as follows: II ID accordance
with the friendly feeling expressed toward
Ireland in America BY Americ cans, one Of the
political parties will Incorporate plank in
sits platform in favor Of tting goods OF
Irish Manufacture free pf y duty, specifying
such geods.as cannot be- MANN acttired else,
WHERE than in ireland, and The importation Of
which will not compl With American pro-
ductlons, then such party viii receive the Or
3ganized support Sof The irish American vote.
Even il dirocs Organization Is NOT made, vel
the Irish vote can 10 directly Influenced In
7fayor &of tho party which sha1l champion the
Cause Of Irish industry Jg