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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-10-14
HOME AND GARDEN
TIE PopLAGs.
From aIacmIllans Magazine.

Shiverng and wr-fchediy three poPlars tall
Sway 10 the twilight OF a city high
Mtre at their feet,ebove them cloudy sky.
Grit by the limits of meaS-r wall
Ger wbish the thin gloom of their shadows
fall
And yet beyond them, hid from mortal
eye
he Essts mysterious magic gards lie
Where she rapt nightiugaies forever call
From towering ro-e and myrtle
Al a gate, unseen by men, an Ethiop doth
stand
FinRr~ on lip to lead them through the
land
To the dim vastness OF cool courts. wi ere
late
Watches uneartbly Beauty. All there be
Spells subtle woven by those wizards three.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-10-14

crops of grass. The past two years had
been severe for the hay crop and the
meadow had not pl duced as well, which
he thought was IN part due to the water
having been drawn some ten inches low
err by drains below him on the stream,
and he had constructed dams to keep the
water at the depth of about two feet be-
low the surface. He would as soon have
a sand hill as to have a muck meadow
with the water drawn down three or four
feet from the top.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-10-14
Az AUTUMN IDYL.
-.n.L1Ay ,. oaIrrISo - the CRITIC.

through the golden grain she goes
Ra iAntly fair;
Upan h- forehead flowers pressed
Celestial youth and beauty rest
And night turks N her hair.
The waving fields that needed not
Tamilla's footsteps fleet
Were not more lovingly caressed,
More defily touched, more lightly pressed
han these beneath her feet.
Sh- sings, and 'Hilights fading face
Assumes a lrig liter glow:
'i'Jr me the 81 MINER comes and goes
a. lightly as the wind that blows
Aud no less free from woe
o lovely girl ere time has filed
Thy halcyon days with pain,
Treasure the flowers the seasons give
Gather them soon they cannot llVe
Thionh winters frost and rain,
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-10-14

row. a delay of forty-eight hoprs ,u;p
often double the work, and a weel. viii
enufely ruin the crop. The best ma may
destroy weed Is before it comes ,,''ie 20
me mere stirring of the surfrce r. 81, anu
men as soon as the lana is dry enon,s an
work after rain will Kill nipe-tartIsiu 70
the weeds that have started. ''' OF
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-10-14
A Difficult Question.

College Student. You san the Apen-
mines, | hear, when you were abroad M's7
Modern.
Miss Modern. Oh, yesl it was a treat
too.
College Student Did they play better
thru the Detroits, Miss Modern!
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-10-14
He Knew Her.
Texas Siftings

Mrs. Often De Vorced. i tins brluH4
veil material good. VIII it wear:
Nose Schaumburg, Jr. You pet 1t vas
first class. It will never wear out, ne
madder how many times you wear T.
Don't Won want some of our indestructao-
lie orange blossoms!
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-10-14

CITY cousin at ball, to country cousin /,
considerable difference betwixt this ana me
a hon in the country, is there not
Country cousin: .'Well er yes.
see, they wear close al over EN- out y
our parts"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-10-14
COFFEE JELLY.

Take o-thirds of box of English
gelatine, let it soak an hour in half a pint
of cold water, dissolve a cupful of sugar
in pint and half of boiling water, stir
it into the water containing gelatine add
half cup of strong coffee and a table
spoonful of brandy, let it all boil three
minutes; strain into a mold and set away
to cool.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-12-25
Christmas Time.

That man must be misanthrope indeed,
in whose breast something Ikea jovial feel
ing is not aroused-in whose mind some
pleasant associations are not awakened by
the recurrence of Christmas. There are
people who viii tell you that Christmas is
not to them what it used to be; that each
succeeding Christmas has found some
cherished hope or happy prospect of the
year before, dimmed or passed away; that
the present only serves to remind them of
reduced circumstances and strengthening
incomes-of feaeSs they once bestowed on
hollow friends. and of the cold looks that
meetthem nov in adversely and misfortune.
Never heed such dismal "reminiscences.
There are few men who have lived long
enough in the world who cannot call up
such thoughts any day in the year. Then
do not select the merriest of the three
hundred and sixty-6ve for your doleful
recollections, but draw your chair nearer.
the blasting fire. One little seat may
empty; one slight form that gladdene1
farhef heart aud reused -tie snu
pride to look upon, may not be
Dwell not upon the past, think nc
one short year ago the fair child
solving into dust, sat before you VI
bloom of health upon its cheek, and
gayety of infancy in its joyous eye. RI
fleet upon your present blessings-of which
every man has many-not on your own
past misfortunes, of which all men have
some, our life on it, but your Christmas
shall be merry and your new year happy
one.-M Charles Dickens.
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How the Christmas stocking Started.

Why do people hang up their stocking
at Christmas used to wonder why a
bag or basket would not do just as well.
| never heard but one person try to ex-
plain, and she told such funny story that
| must see what you think of it. Years
ago | heard very old colored woman tel
ling story to little girl, who had just
hung up her stocking at Christmas eve.
1t is not very polite to listen, but did SO.
| can't tell the story just as she did, but it
was something like this. Many years ago,
Santa Claus, in making his rounds, found
his wagon stuck fast in the mud There
is very little snow at the south at Christ
mas, you know, SO Santa Claus has to come
in wagon. At last poor man, who lived
in the woods, heard the noise and came out
to see what it was. Santa Claus was SO
anxious to get on his way again that he
offered to fill anything the man had in his
house with presents, if he would only help
get the wagon out of the mud. So they
went at it. Santa Claus drove the mules,
while the man pushed at the back, and at
last, out it came. When they came to set
tie up, what do you suppose the man
brought out for Santa Claus to fill. A
great stocking with such large hole at the
heel that everything ran through it, and
poor Santa Claus was nearly bankrupt
before he filed it. The people thought
this was smart, go it happened that wher
ever Santa Claus went he found nothing
but stockings with holes in them. At last
he had to make rule that he would pass
by all torn stockings, but that he would
put prize in the best looking one, and the
one with the neatest patch on it.
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Laundry Hints. !


A spoonful of oxgall -to 1e~e 80
water will set the colors of almost any 80
soaked in it previous to washing. A tea
cup of lye in pail of water will improve
the color of black goods. Napkins should
lie in lye before being washed; it sets the
color. A strong tea of common hay will
preserve the color of French linen. Vine
gar in the rinsing water for the pink or
green calicoes will brighten them; soda
answers the same end for both purple and
blue. To bleach cotton cloth, take one
large spoonful of sal soda and one pound of
chloride of lime for thirty yards; dissolve
in clean soft water; rinse the cloth thor
oughly in cold soft water, SO that it may
not rot. This amount of cloth may be
bleached in fourteen or fifteen minutes.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-12-25
MO. 2445 EQUITY.

Tn the Circuit Court for Carroll county, sitting
as a Court of Equity.
Henry F. Warner, Mortgage, VS.. Edward
W. Fuhrman and Elizabeth Thurman,
his wife, Mortgagors.
Ordered this 9Th day of December, A. D.
1886. that the sale of the mortgaged property
made and reported in the above entitled cause
by Henry F. Warner, Mortgage, under the
two mortgages filed in this cause from Ed
ward w. Fuhrman and Elizabeth Fuhrman.
his wife, to the said Henry F. Warner, one
dated September 1st, A. D. 1877, and record
ed among the Real Estate Mortgage Records
of Carroll county, in Liber F. 7. s., No. 10,
folio 522, &C., and the other dated August
I5. A. d. 1885, and recorded among the
Real Estate Mortgage Records of Carroll
county, in Liber G. A. M, No. %, folio 498,
&c, be finally ratified and confirmed, unless
cause to the contrary be shown on or before
the 18th day of January, next; provided copy
of this order be inserted in some newspaper
published in Carroll county, Maryland, once
/ a week for three successive weeks previous to
j the 3rd day of January next.
The report states the amount of sale to be
WIN. N. MARTIN, Clerk.
Trne copy, Test:
Il dec II St WIN. N. MARrJy, Clerk.
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The husbands of Washington Territory
are beginning to kick against their wives
going on juries. One of them writes as
follows to his local paper:-aMy wife has
been gone away on the jury four days. I
have not had square meal since she left.
My children are crying for bread, and every
thing goes wrong | am hungry, angry
and all out of sorts in every respect. I
write this to warn the people that the fell
low who advocates woman's rights in my
presence again must be very large man,
and if ever the Sheriff comes after my wife
again he had better bring posse with him,
for my shotgun is loaded and I will not
hesitate to use it.
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aperhaps it wasn't so bad, after all, that
Tom and Lily did not come. They might
have been for once in the way, poor dar-
lingsp'
A frightened look came into her eyes;
she suddenly stopped and took the cat on
her knees.
"Oh, pussy, how shall thank you for
upsetting that branded egg-nog? Only
think, if had happened to drink it !"
Again she blushed, and finally she said,
softly:
"Yes, Polly was right-it was all for
the best. Yet how little suspected for
whom I was preparing that Christmas din
ner
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-12-25
CHRISTMAS.
Selected for the Democratic Advocate
BY MARY VERNON.

Selected for the Democratic Advocate
BY MARY VERNON.
Thrice welcome, Christmas HAPPY, festive time
The happiest time in all the circlipg year
We bless thy coming for thou bring st us hours
OF unalloyed delight. Thou claspest hands
Together that have been discovered long,
And fllest vacant chairs, and makest whole
The little circle by the hearth at home,
Blessed Christmas tlmel
How gloriously grand thy origin!
The birth h-morn of the worlds Redeemer is
The illustrious antitype of those we now
Each year commemorate. And could we dare
To pass those solemn hours in senseless mirth?
Nav rather let our hearts ascend in love
And alteration to that Being, who,
In boupdless mercy to our fallen race,
Hath given US Christmas day,
Two thousand years
Have we'll nigh sped since then, and yet by faith.
We see within the walls of Bethlehem.
In Canaan's land, that rude built stable where
Alone was room for Him-the King of kings
And Lord of lordsI We see the manger-bed
On which He lay and DER Him bending low,
The fair young virgin mother, worshipping,
In mystic and unutterable love,
Her holy child
Happy Christmas timel
Bright, joyous, festive happy Christmas time!
Pass not away, till thou hast writ, in deep
And lasting characters. upon our hearts,
Thy heaven. born name of Loyel
''Gle,imary" Xmas, 1886,
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4oetrp.
CHRISTMAS.
Written for the Democratic Advocate.

BY ]. s. G.
With tuneful rhyme, each in his time,
In ev'ry kind ofmeter,
The poets sing of lovely spring,
As though naught else was sweeter
Than bird, and flower, and sunny hour,
Or sparkling brooklet roaming,
Or peaceful kline, whose broken line
Winds homeward at the cleaning.
The birds sweet song may float along
Adown the distant ages,
The poets eye reveal the sky
In everlasting pages;
The bud may blow, the brooklet flow,
The skies be cloudless ever,
And tinking bell may work the spell
0fbrowsing herd forever.
Give me the chime of Christmas time,
matter what the weather.
When deed and thought with kindness fraught.
Bring kith and kin together
When merry eyes fill with surprise,
And hearts oerfiow with pleasure.
When cups ofjoy find no alloy,
And love is its own measure.
The Christmas bell shall never tell
Z A tale of woe or sadness,
Its cherry peal doth not conceal
A spectre in its gladness.
But, for us all, both great and small,
1t brings the dear old story
ofone whose birth gave unto earth
Its sweetest hope and glory.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-12-25
STORE FOR SALE.

The undersigned, intending to change his
business, offers for sale his stock of goods in
bis store in New Windsor, Nd, together with
an unexpired lease of two years of that very
valuable corner property lowned by Jacob
Leppo) be now occupies. This is fine op-
portunity for any one wishing to engage in .
general business. The entire lot of goods
will be sold cheap. They were bought low,
and comprise great variety. Possession
given at once. Ny Pavilion is part of the
property for sale or rent, and is paying in
stitution.
mar6tf CHAS. E. NORRIS.
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TO cREDrroRs.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
This is to give notice that the subscribers
have obtained from the Orphans Court of
Carroll county, in Maryland. letters testament
tary on the Personal Estate of
CATHARINE E. SOMMERVILLE,
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
subscribers, on or before the 11th day of
July, 1887; they may otherwise by law be
excluded from all benefit of said estate.
Given under our hands this 7th day of
December, 1886.
JOHN T. ERB,
CHAS. T. REIFSNIDER,
dec IL At Executors
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SALE.

By virtue of a decree of the Circuit Court
for Frederick county, sitting as Court OF
Equity, the undersigned, as Trustees, Will sell
at public sale, on the premises, on
Wednesday, the 5th day Of January, A. d.
1887,
at one o'clock, D. M, all the valuable real
estate of which the late Capt. Daniel Rine.
hart died seized and possessed, consisting OF
q farm containing
174 ACRES OF LAND, MORE OR LESS,
s;tnated in Frederick county, on the dividing
line between Frederick and Carroll counties,
with small portion in Carroll county, about
one and half miles south of Union Bridge,
and on the turnpike road which passes through
and on the western boundary of the farm.
This farm is under good fencing, and divided
into nine fields and meadows, and is well and
conveniently watered. About ten acres szRe
are in young timber, and there is q
thrifty young orchard of apple, pear and Il
peach trees, in full bearing. The improve
ments consist of complete set of buildings
about the centre of the farm, consisting in
part of large and commodious two-story and
basement brick Mansion House,
AGA-,S with finished attic; large two
144ES5zG supplied by splendid spring;
stone bank barn, corn cribs, wagon, carriage
and implement sheds, hog pens, colt stable,
wood shed, work shop, smoke house, chicken
house, &c. All of the buildings are large,
substantial and in excellent repair.
This farm is in the highest state of cultiva-
ton, and for beauty of landscape, natural fer
tility, productiveness and substantial improve
ments is unsurpassed. 1t is in the heart of
one of the most desirable sections ofthe state,
noted alike for the fertility of its soil, the
healthfulness of its climate and the intelG-
gence and morality of its people. 1t is con.
venient to railroad, turnpike and other good
roads, churches, schools, mills and stores. and
the beautiful and rapidly growing town of
Union Bridge furnishes one of the best and
largest domestic and produce markets in
Western Maryland, on the Western Maryland
Railroad. We would call the particular at
tention of persons seeking an investment in
real estate to this property, as seldom in 3
generation is so desirable property offered
for sale.
Also, at the same time and place, we will
sell an undivided one-fifth interest in lot of
land containing 2l acres, more or less, known
as the s'Marble Quarry Lot lying nearly
contiguous to the above described farm.
Terms of Sale as prescribed by the Decree
Onethird cash on the day of sale, or ratiica-
ton thereof by the Court, the balance in one
and two years from the day of sale, in equal
payments, the purchaser to give his notes,
with approved security, bearing interest from
the day of sale.
The purchaser to be at the expense of con-
veyancing.
DAVID RINEHART,
Trustees.
dec LIFTS Milton G. Urner, Solicitor.
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DATIFIcATIoN NOTICE.

DATIFICATION NOTICE.
In the Orphans Court of Carroll County.
OCTOBER TERN, 1886.
Estate of David Engel of P, deceased.
On application it is ordered this 9Th day of
December, 1886, that the sale of the real es-
tate of David Engel of P, late of Carroll
county, deceased, made by David E. Stem,
executor of the last will and testament of said
deceased, and this day reported to this Court
by the said executor, be ratified and confirm
ed, unless cause be shown to the contrary, on
or before the I'd Monday, 10th day, of January
next; provided copy of this order be inserted
for three successive weeks in some newspaper
printed and published in Carroll county, be-
fore the lst Monday, Sd day, of January next.
The report states the amount of sale to be
FIVE hundred and fifteen dollars, ($515.00.)
WILLIAM FRIZELL,
WILLIAM T. SMITH, Judges.
ELIAS MYERLY,
True copy,-Test:
GEO. M. PARKE,
dec l1:9t Register of Wills.
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DATIFIcATIoN NOTICE.

DATIFICATIoN NOTICE.
In the Orphans Court of Carroll county. /
OCTOBER TERN, 1886. !
Estate of George Motter, deceased.
On application it is ordered this 7th day of
December, 1886, that the sale of the residue
of leasehold estate of George Motter, late of
Carroll county, deceased, made by Joseph M.
Parke, surviving executor Of the last will and
testament of said deceased, and this day re-
ported to this Court by the said executor, be
ratified and confirmed, unless cause be shown
to the contrary, ON or before the I'd Monday,
10th day, of January next; provided a copy of
this order be inserted for three successive
weeks in some newspaper printed and pub
lished in Carroll county, before the LIST Mon
day, Sd day, of January next.
The report states the amount Of sale to be
$1000.OO
WILLIAM FRIZELL, !
WILLIAM 7. SMITH, Judges.
ELIAS MYERLY,
True Copy,-Testt
GEO. NJ. PARKE,
dec 11:3t Register of Wills.
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SLE1eHs, sLE1GHs, sLE1GHs

I have just received at my Repository, on
Main street, two car loads of the very finest
Cutters ever offered for sale in this market.
don't say this merely to advertise them. If
any man in Maryland can show as fine for
the money as can, will give him my entire
lot just to show me his. l am prepared to
furnish dealers in lots of five or more at rates
less than they can buy at the Factory. Come
and prnd 9n will snS your sesse r oer
Passenger Sleigh.
oct 30:tf r. C. MATTHEW'S.
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TO R s A LIE.

miles from
in good
price 81
time.
from Westminster, 1 mile from Railroad
Station; land in fair condition; 100 acres in
timber; stone house, bank barn; will be divid-
ed if desired; $50 per acre.
I45 acres adjoining Frederick city, Nd;
the best of lime stone soil, in high state OF
cultivation, no better farm in the State; large
stone house, bank barn; price Sl40 per acre.
80 acres prime land, half mile from West
minister; large bank barn, fine orchard, splen-
did building site for house; price $4,000.
Large brick hotel in Westminster, on Main
street, near Railroad Depot; price $4,000
Farm As acres, miles from Westminster;
Sand good; buildings good; orchard choice
fruit; price $50 per acre.
Farm 73 acres, 8 miles from Westminster,
miles from Hampstead, nearest K. K. Station;
good house and barn; SO acres cleared land
in good condition; $35 per acre.
Nice Little Home, one mile from West
minister; 90 acres of prime land, good brick
house; price, $500.
245 acres prime land; elegant buildings; IL
miles from Baltimore, near railroadi price
$4,000. 100 acres of same farm would be
sold with good dwelling, &C.; price $5, ,OOO.
Twenty acres good land, good buildings,
near Westminster, So, 800.
One hundred acres, best quality of land, q
miles from Westminster; buildings only fair,
good water, &C.; price, So, 500.
Small home, acres, miles from town;
good new house, fruit, &C.; 500.
Splendid farm, near Bridgeport, Md, l72
acres, good land; about 20 acres good timber,
large house and barn, all in good order; near
schools, store, mill, postofice, &C.; price, $40
per acre.
Forty-seven acres of prime land, near West
minister, on which there is fine building
site; $4,000. a, 600
Brick house and lot in Westminster; 81 200
Double brick house and lot in Westmln-
ster; 50, 500.
Also. some fine pasture lots, ranging from
Q to 6 acres, adjoining Westminster.
For particulars call on or address ,,,
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The ordeal of chewing rice, is thu.
planned. 1t IS - non practice, in many
parts of India, % oblige persons suspected
of crime to chew dry rice in the presence
of the officers of the law. Curious as it
may appear, such is the intense influence
of fear on the salivary glands, that, if they
are actually guilty, there is no secretion of
saliva in the mouth, and chewing is i'm
possible. Such culprits confess without
any further efforts. On the contrary,
consciousness of innocence allows of prop
er flow of fluid for softening the rice.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-12-25

The SLEEpER.-A sleeper is one who
sleeps A sleeper is that in which the
sleeper sleeps. A sleeper is that on which
the sleeper which carries the sleeper while
he sleeps runs. Therefore, while the Sleep
er sleeps in the sleeper the sleeper carries the
sleeper over the sleeper under the sleeper
until the sleeper which carries the sleeper
jumps off the sleeper and wakes the sleeper
in the sleeper, by striking the sleeper under
the sleeper, and there is no longer any
sleeper sleeping in the sleeperon the sleeper.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-12-25

IF the ages of human beings were to be
reckoned only by hours and days well
spent, most of us would be in our infancy.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-12-25

No one ever did designed injury TO
another but at the same time be did
greater to himself
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-12-25

Last Christmas eve Mr.. Jones went up
stairs to see if the children had hung up
their stockings for Santa Claus, and found
that little Fred had pinned his up in q
prominent place, with slip Of paper at
tached, upon which was written the follow
ing suggestive sentence: "The Lord loveth
a cheerful giver."