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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-08-08
Aoetiral,
SUMMER EVENING.
John T. Beer in Sunday Magazine.

John T. BeeJ. 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
bounteous largess of ethereal fire.
Gently the winds creep DER the doing earth,
As if fafraid 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 q 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 gemIike sparkles on its vernal 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 their native lungs
In grateful waves of incense unto him
Who built the heavens, yet hears earth's faintesi
hymn.
The birds are warbling soft, melodious notes,
As though they sang a requiem for the day;
The lowing bass of cattle sluggish floats
Upon the Silly air, as DER 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 oer the mead,
With pace as idle as his drowsy herd
And distant voices of the children seem
Like waking echoes of yout hful dream.
The eager mowers, with protracted toll,
Still ply their whirring scythes upon the fields,
fastening to gather what generous soil,
For future need, fragrant harvest yields;
Yet languidly and slow the strokes are 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 a chirper in the sward,
To swell the failing chorus bravely strives;
And louder-voiced the corncrake halls the night,
Or calls its mate to share in loves delight.
Feebly 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 innumeFoHs vespers raise
A 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;
Go, look abroad, and seek that wealth to win.
Enriching mind, and elcvating hearts,
CO. of Inv mqilipg take little leave,
To join the worship of the summers eye.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-08-08
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 or
cooked meat. So long as the can is air
tight it matters not whether it be left for
years at the poles or the tropics; but after
the contents are once exposed to the air
they must not be- treated with any less care
than would be bestowed on ordinary fresh
or cooked meat. It is the failure to OBJ
serve these simple precautions that leads to
sickness or poisoning.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-08-08
The Sahara.

Although the name of this vast desert is
familiar as a 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 we'll built, and possesses
several magnificent mosques. The largest
has nine naves, lofty tower, and meas
ures two hundred and eighty-fve 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 Tripoli. 1t IS evident
that commerce carried oR by such me-
dieval arrangements will not suit the ge-
usus of modern times; and MIR. Donald
Mackenzie, a British engineer, has pro-
posed to food the Sahara from the Allan
tic, and thus bring Liverpool within ten
or twelve days steam of Timbuctoo, and
immensely develop the trade of the coun-
try.
He finds that there is great depression
in the land, called Ell Juf, which approach
es within 100 miles of Timbuctoo, This
depression is about five hupdred miles long
and one hundred aud twenty miles wide,
aud its surface is two hundred feet below
the level of the Atlantic, from which it is
separated by an enormous sand bank,
From the salt, the shells, and other indl-
cations, it il clear that at one time this
district was covered by the sea. The great
mouth of this old inland sea, called Bocca
Grande, lies between perpendicular rocks,
which rise to about two hundred feet above
the sea, and is about two miles and @ half
wide.
It oply requires ship canal of three
hundred yards long through the sand-banks
to let in the Atlantic, and reform this great
tract Of water; and a small cutting once dug
across the bar, the rush of sea-water would
itself do the rest of the work, When the
great inland basin has again been filled,
there will 40 doubt be dificultie to over
come in preventing fresh formation of
the bar. But with the example of the
Suez Canal, there can be no reason to think
that it may not be kept open. 1t is be-
iaved that this tract of country has been
unfertilized by the cutting away of forests.
In A. D. 661 the Arabs found it well
wooded, and with extensive lakes and
streams of water, The inhabitants, shell
tered by the woods, kept the invaders at
bay for a century The Arabs then de-
stroyed the timber, and A. d. 1900 the
lakes had become salt marshes, the streams
only occasionally appeared, and were swal'
lowed up by the sterile sand soil, Eyen
in our time the same process and result
have been taking place in some parts Of
the United States and Australia
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-08-08

Your right to occupy it is unquestionable
IN my mind, and let me assure you that you
will 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 nothingr
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 a moment he had
come back
'Mother p he said, ~ can not
go before l know that you have forgiven
me-"
And the next moment the strong man
was kneeling with his head on his mothers
knee"
"After long years, mother he said, as
she stroked his temples with fond fingers;
'I am but twenty-eight years old, but sor-
row for my early faults has brought some
gray hairs about my temples.
aAnd you are not Mr.. Faxon, after all,
Roe?" said the father, with puzzled smile.
eyes am, dear father. Five years ago
l 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 l 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 | con-
septed, for in spite of settled habits and
ideas felt an alien and alone; but, mother,
[ have good wife and the best of sons-a
little fellow two years old, named Derby.
Does that please you 7"
"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, I think she is 50 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, and
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-if the cash
ief don't happen to be operating in Wall
street or specializing elsewhere-while the
same money put back on the farm in the
way of improved stgck, machinery, better
buildings, Undertaking, fences, orchards
ETC., would, after a very few years, return
dividends of fifty per cent. Honey in the
bank don't usually show until it comes up
in the administrator hands, but in good
stock and 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 grasp
ing and ambitious farmer lives pepuriously
depriving his family Of q decent home and
various comforts, il order to purchase more
acres. Possessed with the insane idea that
he must Gown all the land that joins him,
or as much thereof as possible, he governs
himself accordingly. To accomplish this
selfish purpose he lives in the old house
long after it is unfit for occupancy, makes
slaves of himself and family, and neglecti
the proper education of his children
Were he to invest the money thus boarded
to buy more land (Which he does not need,
upon his home farm-his rural home anC
its occupants-himself and family woult
soon be the gamers in both prosperity anc
happiness. By expending his hard-earnet
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 leavipl
the roof-tree, disguised with slavish
miserly mode of farming, to seeking othe
! and uncertain employments.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-08-08
A COMPETITIVE Examination
"A FOR
A Free Scholarship at Western Nd.
College.

Notice is hereby given that the STAGE schol,
arship at Western Nd College due to Carroll
county is VACANT. and that, in compliance
with the law creating the same, competitive
examination of the candidates therefor viii
be held in the School Commissioners Office,
at the Court House, in Westminster, on We'd
nesday, August 18th, beginning promptly at
O'Clock, a. IN.
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 1888 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 eXaWlGa-
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 S Anabasis; for females the primary
English branches and the elements OF Latin.
But candidates of more limited attainments
are invited to comrete. rs financial condltlon
and personal merit Will be considered, along
with scholastic proficiency, in making the
selection.
By order of the Board of County School
Commissioners.
E. O. GRIMES, President.
JAS. A. DIFFENBAUGH, Secretary. jul18:4t
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-08-08
Brazilian Coffee.

At the New Orleans Exposition the Ric
de Janeiro Society of Labor and Commerc'
displayed six hundred and twenty-foul
samples of coffee, comprising eighty differ
ent qualities, each of which has its OWL
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 trade
name for a poor grade, and that all the
better grades sold as Java, Ceylon, anC
Mocha are produced in laFge quantities IL
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, anc
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 Ofthe interesting
coffee exhibit will show most cofee-drink.
ers that they are ignorant of the main facts
concerning the little berry of which theil
favorite beverage is made. How few peo
pie 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
proper age, yet we buy the fresh green
berries, recently gathered, Most oonsum
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
a 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-tahle
freshly roaated and gfoupd 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 this
most common of beverages. doubt if
one American in hundred every drank G
really good cup Of coffee, yet it Is luxury
within the reach of everybody: In New
Orleans the survival of French traditions
cooking insures a palatable cafe az lat, but
the berry in common use comes from Mecca
and lacks delicacy of aroma. The custom
is to make the coffee very strong and black
by the drip method, and to put in the QuE
az much hot milk as coffee, This makes {
very nutritious drink, and, with loaf Of
bread about as big as a mans fist aud some
fresh butter, is the Creole breakfast. Tc
eat meat, potatoes, or hot bread in the
morning the Creole regards as an American
barbarism.-C Century.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-08-08

An extraordinary passenger, says the
Liverpool (Eng.) G6~rier, has just arrived
here by the royal mail steamer from Africa
in the shape Of magnificent male lion of
such enormous dimensions as are now
rarely found in geological gardens, where
lions are generally bred for generations in
captivity, aud 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.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-08-08
Have as complete a stock of
CHOICE GROC E r E S

Have as complete sIoch Vi
CHOICE GROC E r I E S
as can be found in our city.
NEW RAISINS, CIFRON, CURRANFs,
PRUNES. DRIED AND EVAPORATED
FRUITS, MINCE MEAT, PRESERVES,
CANNED GOODS, &C.. the best quality,
Choice Teas Coffees, Syrups, New Orleans
Molasses, and the best grade of Flour con-
stantly on hand at bottom figures:
We pay the highest prices for Wheat, Gorn'
Rive. Oats, and all kinds of Country Produce.
Agents for Latin & Rand'S Blasting Pow
der.
FARMERS
Can be supplied with the best quality of Cot
ton and Flaxseed Meal, Heavy Middlings,
Bran, &C., at lowest prices. Call and see
us. .,,,o co
dec8 E. o. GRIMES Il co.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-08-08
Great Preparations for
OUR FALL TR A D E

Our stock, which we are placing our orders
for daily, will surpass all former seasons, and
we will sell
The Greatest Bargains of the Day.
In order to make room, we start the ball
rolling by offering our SUMMER DRESS
GOODS at half price, to close out.
Our SUMMER CLOTHING at half price.
Our DRESS GINGHAMS at 52c., 6ic.,
Sc, surpass all former Ginghams; bargains;
examine them, please.
Our large lot of SILK REMNANTS at the
bargains we are offering go fast; come at once
to get them. Our Remnant Table is chuck
full of bargains.
900 Gross of Buttons at cents per dozen;
worth at least 12I to 25c. per dozen.
PARASOLS REDUCED 25%.
FANS REDUCED 25%.
STRAW HATS exactly half price.
ELEGANT SUITS CLOTHING S. to $40.
Call and see our
BIG RIGlA N S
In EVERY DEPARTMEST.
Big bargains in GLASS TUMRLERS and
GLASS JARS, TIN CANS, ICE CREAM
FREEZERS, WATER COOLERS.
GEO. w. ALBAUGH,
july25 Westminster Md
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-08-08
OAK HALL TO THE FRONT.
GREAT REDUCTION IN GOODS
AT
Geo. C. Anders', New Windsor, Md.

Geo. C. Anders', New Windsor, Md.
Now is the time to receive bargains. With
wheat at 80 cents bushel, we feel that our
customers should get goods at the lowest pos
sible price, and it 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 hall
price, to clear up our stock. Remnants OF
Black and Colored Silks; good Worsted Dress
Goods at 125c., former price 25c.; Worsted
imitation 4!c.; Lawns 34c. We are offering
Summer Silks at so to 55c., former price IS
to Soc; Surah Silks reduced from 81 to 90c.,
:all colors; Ready Made Clothing at 10 to Is
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-half their value. In
addition to the above we are keeping full
line of choice staples, such as Black and
Colored Cashmere, beginning as low as &c.,
double width; good Repp Silk as low as GOc.,
guaranteed pure silk If you want a good
Black Silk at 81 per yard, % inches wide, the
best in the country, call at OAK HALL; II
YOU want a fine black all-wool Cashmere at
50c., 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 Y, Is, 18, 20, 25 to 37c.; also Swiss and
Hamburg Edging and Oriental Laees to match,
from &c. to Sl.50, per yard Feathered Fans
Parasols very cheap. If you want A
heavy brown Muslin as heavy as Appleton A,
at & Gic., you can get it, rs we have about 10
pieces left Groceries extra cheap during
preserving season. Glass Jars, Jelly Tum-
bers 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 beet 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. Z. ANDERS,
july4,tf New Windsor Nd
FENCING!
The Dayton Hedge and Wire
Fence Combined,
We offer oqr services as Hedge Growers 10
the land owners and farmers of Carroll
county, believing they will be of great value
to them. We have the
Cheapest, Best, Most Durable and
Most Ornamental Fence
In the world, and sell it on its merits alone.
We complete this Fence to the satisfaction of
purchasers at about
One Half the Cost Of Post and
Rail Fence.
Our terms age liberal, as we do not ask for
money until we have earned ii. For further
information call on our agent,
j. A. MITCHELL,
AT City Hotel, Westminster
DAYTON HEDGE COMPANY.
may3O3m Dayton, Ohio.