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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-08-08
The Old, Old Story.

From the AmerSooa AgricttltaTiSt.
Country people are always in search OF
bargains. Auction sales in the cities at
tract good many farmers, who come
with their wives to look after bargains in
furniture and horses. They look over the
list of auctions and 6nd that gentleman,
who is about to go to Europe, offers his
splendid furniture and carpets for sale,
Here is a chance for bargains. The
farmers wife takes her husbaUd-and his
pocket-book- goes to see the hand
some furniture sacrificed, Every bid she
makes is raised by a stout man with red
bottle nose, handsomely colored and knobb-
ed all over by rum. The lady wonders
why the man wants everything she wants,
and sets her mind on beating him every
time -''the nasty, red nose thing. She
gets mad; cher dander's up, so to speak,
and she gets all she wanted, and a great
deal more, in spite Of the remonstrances of
her scared husband "Well, she says,
"Mrs. Jones will open her eyes now when
she sees the blue satin parlor set, and the
best bedroom set, and the gorgeous ear
pets. The good woman finds to her sor-
row that the goods never were owned By
any gentleman gone to Europe, but are
trashy rubbish, stuck together with glue;
the blue satin is cotton and fades all out,
and the carpets are mere "skins. 1t IS
all bogus. This trick IS played every day,
and the red-nosed man is fraud who
never buys anything, but makes his living
by 'raising bids day after day. Avoid
all auction rooms and horses which are
''the property of widow whose husband,
recently deceased, was in the trucking
trade" The ungrateful city is what the
old Roman poet called it, and what was
true two thousand years ago, is true now,
because human nature is always the same
And this is precisely why history repeats
itself in small things as well as great. If a
farmer or country dwelier goes to city IN
search of bargains, let him or his wife al
ways 90 to reputable store, and never,
NEVER, NEVER trust a stranger; or he
will be sure to find how ungrateful the city
is to the men who feed it and supply 1t
with business,
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A COMPETITIVE Examination
A Free Scholarship at Western. Md.
College.

Notice is hereby given that the state schol-
arship at Western Md. College due to Carroll
county is vacant, and that, in compliance
with the law creating the same, competitive
examination of the candidates therefor will
be held ia the School Commissioners Office,
Mt the Court House, in Westminster, on We'd
mesday, August 18th, beginning promptly at
o clock, a. m.
Bv an Act of the General Assembly of
MARYLAND the College is enabled to furnish
the holder of this scholarship board, fuel,
lights and washing free of charge, the tuition
being $33. 33 per annum.
The appointment is made by the Board OF
School Commissioners, by and with the advice
and consent of the Senator for the county.
The beneficiary thereof is required to give
bond to the State, with approved security,
that he Tor she) will teach school within the
state for not less than two years after leaving
College.
AS the tenure of the scholarship by any one
student is limited to four years, it is desirable
that competitors be able to pass an examina-
ton for the Freshman Glass, which embraces
for males.English, Latin and Greek grammar,
geography, arithmetic, history of the United
States, algebra to equations of the second de-
gree, Nepos or Caesar, and the First Book of
Xenophon's Anabasis; for females the primary
English branches and the elements Of Latin.
But candidates Of more limited attainments
are invited to compete, as financial condition
and personal merit will be considered, along
with scholastic proficiency, in making the
selection.
By order of the Board of County School
i. o. GRIMES, President.
JAS. A. DIFFENBAUGH, Secretary. jul1S:4t
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Aoetiral.
SUMMER EVENING.
John z. Beer IN Sunday Magazine.

John r. Beer in Sunday Magazine.
Low sinks the sun toward the pearly west,
Hasting to bring his long march to an end,
Upon the pillowy clouds to find rest,
Ere to the lower sphere his labors tend;
Casting, meanwhile, upon his broad empire
A bounteous largess ofethereal fire.
Gently the winds creep ocr the doing earth,
As ifafraid to break the quiet mood
Which gives to passing day so much of worth
When bashful night is by its sweetness wooed,
And Nature seems most trustfully to lie
Upon the breast of Loves serenity.
The foliage takes fairer, brighter hue
The fields appear more greenly velvet-gowned,
The sky's far vista shows richer blue,
The fading hills with deeper purple crowned;
And every flower of every shade and tone
Now gemlike sparkles on its ver1al throne.
More fragrant, too, is their respir'd breath
Than when the midday fires, with thirsty tongues
Drank at their fount escaped from scorching death
odorous praise flows from Informative lungs
In grateful waves of incense unto him
Who built the heavens, yet hears earth's faintest
hymn.
The birds are warbling soft, melodious notes,
AS though they sang requiem for the day;
The lowing bass of cattle sluggish floats
Upon the Silly air, as Ger the bay
A ship. becalmed, moves placidly along,
Or from the hills returns the shepherds song
Homeward the rocks in solemn state proceed,
Their noisy morning cav no longer heard;
The cowboys whistle ripples DER the mead,
With pace as idle as his drowsy herd
Of fha al,f
Like waking echoes of youthful dream.
The eager mowers, with protracted toll,
Still ply their whirring scythes upon the fields
Fastening to gather what generous soil,
For future need, a fragrant harvest yields;
Yet lauguidly and slow the strokes made,
Their strong arms weary of the heavy blade.
The bees. oppressed by labor's sweet reward,
Now seek again their many-storied hives;
While close at hand chirper in the sward,
To swell the failing chorus brayely strives;
And louder-yoiced the corncrake halls the night,
Or calls its mate to share in loves delight
Fcebly the cocks last ch allenge greets the ear,
Answered from roost to roost across the vale
The cuckoo's call comes singing full and clear,
Telling its lonely undomestic tale;
thousand things innumerous vespers raise
joyous anthem of seductive praise.
Does not the SPELL thus working its wide charm
On all the creatures of this active world,
Reach him who rules them with an iron arm,
Who over all his banner hath unfurled?
Is he alone unmoved by that which moves
Obedient nature in sabbatic grooves?
Go forth, vain man. from out the prosy din
Ofnarrow streets and busy, selfish marts;
Co. look abroad and seek that wealth to win'
Enriching mind, and elevating hearts;
Go of thy moiling take little leave,
To ioin the worship of the summers eve.
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of Peru, in the early days of Spanish do
minion. She intrduced it into Spain as a
remedy for fevers, and there is no drug in
the catalogue that has been used in such
quantities or with such success by suffering
mankind.
The entire supply formerly came from
Peru, and it was known as Peruvian bark,
but afterward the forests along the entire
chain of the Andes were found to contain
it, and it furnished one of the chief articles
of exports from South America for three
centuries. The supply has been greatly
diminished by the destruction of the trees,
it being the habit formerly to cut down
the trunk and strip it as well as the
branches of the bark. Nowadays the for
ests are protected by law, and the trees are
allowed to stand, portion of the bark be-
ing stripped off each year, which nature
replaces again.
England, with that provident foresight
which characterizes much of her political
economy, several years ago sent agents into
Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia, under the di-
rection of the celebrated botanist, Mr.
Spruce, and made collection of cinchona
plants, which were taken to Java, Ceylon
and India, and there have been transplanted
and cultivated with great success and
profit 1t is found that under proper
treatment the tree produces very much
greater amount of quinine, of much su-
perior quality, and at less cost than the
bark can be gathered in the mountains of
South America, so that shipments from
Peru have almost entirely ceased, and the
market, receives its supply from the British
possessions. Thus Peru has lost her qui-
nine, which was formerly great source of
revenue.
The indigo trade also has almost entirely
ceased, the East Indies and West Indies
furnishing a superior article than Peru can
produce. Indigo is made by boiling the
leaves of the indigo tree and letting them
ferment. After a certain amount of fer
mentation the boiling process is renewed,
the water is drawn off, and the sediment
at the bottom of the vat is subjected to a
degree of heat sufficient to cause crystaliza-
ton.
Thus have departed one by one the
sources of the wealth and prosperity of
Peru.
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The Sahara.

Although the name of this vast desert is
familiar as household word, few of those
who speak of it are aware how much Of
North Africa it covers. Its area is about
three millions of square miles, and it ex-
tends East and West, from the valley Of
the Nile to the Atlantic, and North and
South. from the Atlas mountains to the
river Niger. On the edge of this sandy
sea is situated the city of Timbuctoo, foun-
ded by the Berbers in A. D. 1176, on the
Niger 1t is well built, and possesses
several magnificent mosques. The largest
has nine naves, lofty tower, and meas
ures two hundred and eighty-ive feet by
two hundred and twelve feet. Its popu-
lation is about twenty thousand; but in
former times it was much larger. 1t is the
capital of Central Africa-the region
known by the name of Soudan, whose peo.
pie number about forty millions.
At present the foreign trade with this
great city is about four millions sterling
per annum, carried on by caravans, which
have to cross two thousand miles of the
great desert, to the ports of Morocco, AL
geria, Tunis and Tripoi. 1t is evident
that commerce carried on by such me
dieval arrangements will not suit the ge-
MUS of modern times; and Mr.. Donald
Mackenzie, British engineer, has pro
posed to food the Sahara from the Allan
tic, and thus bring Liverpool within ter
or twelve DAYS steam of Timbuctoo, and
immensely develop the trade of the coun-
try.
He finds that there is a great depression
in the land, called FL Juf, which approach
es within 100 miles of Timbuctoo. This
depression is about FIVE hundred miles Ions
and one hundred and twenty miles wide
and its surface is two hundred feet below
the level of the Atlantic, from which it il
separated by an enormous sand bank
From the salt, the shells, and other indl
cations, it is clear that at one time thi
district was covered by the sea, The grea
mouth of this old inland sea, called Bocc;
Grande, lies between perpendicular rocks
which rise to about two hundred feet ahov'
the sea, and is about two miles and a hal
wide.
1t only requires ship canal of thre'
hundred yards long through the sand-bank
to let in the Atlantic, and reform this grea
tract of water; and small cutting once du:
across the bar, the rush of sea-water woulC
itself do the rest of the work, When thu
great inland basin has again been filed
there will no doubt be dificultie to over
come in preventing a fresh formation o
the bar. But with the example of th'
S0ez Canal, there can be no reason to thinl
that it may not be kept open. 1t is be
lieved that this tract of country has beel
unfertilized by the cutting away of forests
In A, D. 66l the ARABIA found it wei
wooded, and with extensive lakes an,
streams of water The inhabitants, shel
tered by the woods, kept the invaders a
bay for century. The Arabs then de
stroyed the timber, and A. D. 1900 tn
lakes had become salt marshes, thestFeam
only occasionally appeared, and were swal
lowed up by the sterile sand soil. Evel
in our time the same process and resul
have been taking place in some parts o
the United States and Australia
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Your right to occupy it is unquestionable
in my mind, and let me assure you that you
viii never, during your lifetime, be required
to go hence There is the mortgage" he
placed some papers on the table-"The
Derby place is your own.
He rose, putting them gently back, as
they pressed towards him, trying to express
their gratitude.
"No-no thanks Believe me, you owe
me nothing
He took his hat The old man, who
was voiceless, wrung his hands Mr.. Fax
on turned to Mrs. Derby, and taking her
soft. wrinkled fingers in his strong palm,
bent low and kissed them. Then he turn
ed toward the door, but in moment he had
come back.
eMother-father p he said, II can not
go before know that you have forgiven
me-"
And the next moment the strong man
was kneeling with his head on his mother S
knee"
"After long years, mother he said, as
she stroked his temples with fond fingers;
Il am but twenty-eight years cid, but sor-
row for my early faults has brought some
gray hairs about my temples"
/. &And you are not Mr.. Faxon, after all,
Roe?" said the father, with puzzled smile.
"Yes l am, dear father. Five years ago
had the good fortune to gain the good
will of one of the wealthiest American
shipping merchants then in London. He
gave me good position, and I decided to
return home with him, and served faithful
ly in his employ until just before his death,
when, having formed an engagement with
his only daughter, he gave his consent to
our marriage, with the proviso that would
take his name and carry on his interests
exactly as they had been. To this I con-
sented, for in spite of settled habits and
ideas | felt an alien and alone; but, mother,
I have good wife and the best of sons-a
little fellow two years old, named Derby.
Does that please you p
"Ah, indeed What loving old woman
is not pleased with her grandchild? (? Soon
the house was graced by the presence of
Violet Faxon and her lovely boy, whom
grandfather could not praise enough and
grandmother could not fondle enough; yet
it was sweeter, perhaps, to Roscoe Faxon
to hear his mothers voice whisper:
II like your wife; and do you know,
dear, l think she is so very much like
Annie ?"
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-08-08
Invest on the Home Farm.

Many'a ruralist would greatly augment
his prosperity by devoting more means to
permanent and other Improvements upon
his farmstead, Somebody has said, aud
we think sensibly, that one of the greatest
leaks on farm is the practice of robbing
it to get money to put into savings bank
In such bank of deposit four or five per
cent. interest may be secured-K the cash.
ier don't happen to be operating in Wall
street or specializing charlottesville the
same money put back on the farm In the
way of improved stock, machinery, better
buildings, understanding, fences, orchards,
ETC., would, after very few years, return
dividends of fifty per cent. Money in the
bank don't usually show until it comes up
in the administrators hands, hut ig good
stock aud well cultivated farms it will give
returns speedily and with certainty.
There is another way in which some, IL
not many "miss it" by investing in the
wrong place. For example, many a grasp.
ing and ambitious farmer lives penuriously
depriving his family of decent home and
various comforts, in order to purchase more
acres. Possessed with the insane idea that
he must aQwn all the land that joins him,
or as much thereof as possible, he governs
himself accordingly. To accomplish thi'
selfish purpose he lives in the old house
long after it is unfit for occupancy, makes
slaves of himself and family, and neglect'
the proper education of his children
Were he to invest the money thus hoardet
to buy more land (which he does not need
upon his home farm-his rural home ant
its occupants-himself and family woulc
soon be the gamers in both prosperity ant
happiness. By expending his hard.earnec
and miserly kept surplus in improving hi
farm, stock, ETC., and making home com
Portable and attractive, he would not onl.,
be quite as prosperous, but enjoy life ia
better and keep his children from leavin|
the roof-tree, disgusted with slavish
miserly mode of farming, to seeking othe
and uncertain employments.
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Rules for the Use of Canned Meats

In warm weather especially, but really
at all times, says the Amour Canning Com
pany. it is advisable after opening a can
of canned meat to remove the contents
from the can, and if not all consumed at
one meal not to replace the meat in the
can, but to place it In the ice box, or at
least take as much care of it as of fresh Oh
cooked meat. So long as the can is air
tight it matters not whether it bs5kft fol-
years at the poles or the tropics; but after
the contents are once exposed to the an
they must not be treated with any less care
than would be bestowed on ordinary fresh
or cooked meat. 1t is the failure to OBJ
serve these simple precautions that leads tc
sickness or poisoning
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-08-08
Brazilian Coffee.

At the New Orleans Exposition the Rio
de Janeiro Society of Labor and Commerce
displayed six hundred and twenty-four
samples of coffee, comprising eighty differ
ent qualities, each of which has its own
name. This society has striven for years
to rescue Brazilian coffee from the low
standing it has in the markets of the world,
by proving that "Rio' is merely a trade
name for poor grade, and that all the
better grades sold as Java, Ceylon, and
Mocha are produced in large quantities in
Brazil. 1t seems that it is the custom OF
the coffee merchants to sort the beans, call
ING the small round ones, of which only one
grows in cherry, "Mocha, " and the large
well-formed ones "Java'' or "Ceylon, and
then to lump the remainder together, mixed
perhaps with still poorer article from
Venezuela or Costa Rica, and call it "Rio.
A talk with the members of the Rio de
Janeiro Society in charge of the interesting
coffee exhibit will show most coffee-drink-
ers that they are ignorant of the main facts
concerning the little berry of which their
favorite beverage is made. How few peo-
ple are connoisseurs of coffee. How few
know that, like wine, the berry improves
with age, gaining in delicacy and aroma the
longer the time between the gathering and
the use We insist that wine should have
a proper age, yet we buy the fresh green
berries, recently gathered. Most consun-
ers think the green color is an evidence OF
good quality, while in fact it shows that
the bean is not sufficiently cured to be al
its best, and that it will give the beverage
raw, crude flavor. The best coffee is of
light yellowish color. AS the bean loses
in weight with age, it is to the interest Of
the producer to market it at once, The
consumer who is critical as to quality and
aroma will lay in one or two years supply
to insure the proper age, and will have the
quantity needed for his breakfast-table
freshly roasted and ground every morning
in his own kitchen. There is as much
difference in coffee as in wine, and nothing
is more difficult, as every traveller knows
than to get even tolerably fair cup of thil
most common of beverages. l doubt if
one American in hundred every drank s
really good cup of coffee, yet it is luxury
within the reach of everybody. In New
Orleans the survival of French traditions
cooking insures palatable cafe al lat, bu
the berry In common use comes from Meepi
and lacks delicacy of aroma. The custom
is to make the coffee very strong and blacE
by the drip method, and to put in the cur
as much hot milk as coffee. This makes
very nutritious drink, and, with a loaf o
bread about as big as mans fist and SOM
fresh butter, is the Creole breakfast tt
sat meat, potatoes, OF hot bread IN th'
morning the Creole regards as an American
barbarism.-C Century,
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OAK HALL TO THE FRONT.
GREAT REDUCTION IN GOODS
AT

Now is the time to receive bargains. With
wheat at so cents bushel, we feel that our
customers should get goods at the lowest pos
sibIe price, and # is necessary for every one
to keep posted and know where to buy and
save money. We are offering great bargains
at our store. In looking over our large and
varied stock we find many odds and ends OF
Dress Goods, which we will offer at halt
price, to clear up our stock. Remnants OF
Black and Colored Silks; good Worsted Dress
Goods at 12Jc, former price 25c.; Worsted
imitation 4Ic.; Lawns 3ac. We are offering
SUMMER Silks at so to 55c., former price 20
to 8Oc.; Surah Silks reduced from 81 to 9Oc.,
all colors; Ready.Made Clothing at 10 to 10
per cent. less than marked; job lots OF Shoes
and Slippers must be sold; White Spreads
reduced from 81 to 75c.; Straw Hats of all
kinds at half price; Skirts at half price;
Gents Low Shoes one-ialf their vaiue In
addition to the above we are keeping a full
line Of choice staples, such as Black and
Colored Cashmere, beginning as low as l5c.,
double width; good Repp Silk as low as ooc.,
Black Silk at 81 per yard, % inches wide, the
best in the country, call at OAK HALL; II
YOU want fine black all-wool Cashmere at
Soc, send for samples, and we will prove TO
our customers that it is no idle boast of ours,
but the plain truth We have them from zoe.
OF 81. A nice line of Ind. Linens, Pique,
Satins, both American and French, at prices
from u, Is, IS, 20, 25 to 37c.; also Swiss and
Hamburg Edging and Oriental Laces to match.
from &c. to 81. so per yard. Feathered Fans.
Parasols very cheap. If you want A
heavy brown Muslin as heavy as Appleton A,
at Gle, you can get it, as we have about 10
pieces left Groceries extra cheap during
preserving season. Glass Jars, Jelly Tum-
blers, brass and porcelain Kettles very low
We have the exclusive agency for the Wood.
berry Jar. If in doubt as to the merits we
claim for it, call and we will soon convince
YOU that it is the best and simplest made; also
handle the Gem Jar.
Many thanks for your generous patronage
during the past, we hope to merit liberal
share in the future, by strictly attending to
your wants and Offering our customers good
goods at very small margins. Very respect
fully, GEO. G. ANDERS,
inly4,tf New Windsor, Nd
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An extraordinary passenger says the
Liverpool (Eng.) CoNsasr, has just arrived
here by the royal mail steamer from Africa
in the shape of a magnificent male lion of
such enormous dimensions as are now
rarely found in geological gardens, where
lions are generally bred for generations in
captivity, and are for the most part small
in size and partly deformed. As this mon
arch of the wilderness is still in his
Younger years and is likely to grow con-
siderably yet, he certainly promises to be
the largest and most beautiful lion ever
seen in England Although so very strong
and powerful the noble beast is as gentle
as lamb, and was the pet of the whole
ship from the captain down to the cabin
boy. He halls from Central Africa, and
was brought over in cage of the size of a
large room. His food on the passage
consisted of "a sheep and II goats. 1t is
twenty.four years since an animal of this
sort was landed in Liverpool.