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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1891-11-28

FAMILY GROCERIES,
GLASSWARE, LAMPS, VASES, NOUS.
TACHE CUPS, CIGARS AND
TOBACCO, CONTEMPORARIES,
CAKES, etc. PLUSH GOODS, ALBUMS
OF all kinds, toys. A fine assortment of
Accordeons and Mouth Organs, Stationery,
etc.
When you want pictures framed here is the
place. We have full line Of moulding and
frames, and will do your framing promptly
at shortest notice and bottom prices. We
also make window shades to order in all the
latest styles.
Oh, take look at my sc counter and see
the bargains that attract every one. Thank
ing all for past favors and soliciting frequent
calls, we are
W. I. WILSON,
Successor to L. Gladhill.
s6 Highest price paid for Butter and Eggs.
jams
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CAR RID; AND CIRCULARS printed at
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Our Grocery Department
Is stocked with Fancy and Staple Goods
Sugars, Tea. Coffee, Syrups, Spices, Flavoring
Extracts, Raisins, Currants, Citron, Cali
fornia and French Prunes, Evaporated Fruits
and Canned Goods of all kinds; full line of
CONTEMPORARIES.
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GREATEST BARGAINsl
FALL AND WINTER GOODS.
FRANK j. DEVILBISS,
New Windsor, Md.

We intend to institute the Cash System in
our business, and mark our Immense Stock of
Dry Goods, Notions, Boots
and Shoes,
Down to a Cash basis. The money usually
lost in Ledger Accounts we intend to give to
the Cash buyer.
Now is the Time of Life Time to
Save Money.
Note our schedule of prices, which shrivels
competition at a gaze: All Dress Goods,
including Silks, Henriettas, Cashmeres,
Alpacas, Ladies' Cloths, Velvets, Dress
Braids and Trimmings, marked down from
10 to Is cents per yard. A large and new
stock to select from. Selecia, all colors, 10
cents per yard. Cambria, all colors, cents
per yard.
Greatest bargains ever known in
Wool and Canton Flannels,
From cents per yard up.
Best Calicoes, cents per yard, full pieces.
Splendid Ginghams, AZ cents per yard.
Over 81, 900 worth of
B 90 rs A ND S H o E S =,
Sold from % cents to so cents per pair less
than prices marked thereon.
EVERY ARTICLE MARKED IN PLAIN
FIGURES.
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Special attention given to Repairing. All
orders promptly filed and work Of every kind
warranted.
1e Factory opposite the Montour House,
Main street, Westminster, Nd. aug sly
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1891-11-28

A large stock Of
CIGARS AND TOBACCO.
Best Brands of Flour at manufacturers
prices, and all goods kept in first class house
furnishing store. We cordially invite you to
come and examine our stock. 1t Will be
pleasure to show goods, and when you see
our goods and get prices you will be convinced
that we are
Headquarters for Good Goods
and Low Prices.
Truly thankful for the liberal patronage here
tofore received, we hope by continuing 10
sell good goods at the very lowest prices to
merit continuance of the same.
Very respectfully,
G. W. MORNINGSTAR,
No. SO W. Main Street,
dec27 ly Westminster. Nd.
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Canada and Mexico.
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Reifsnider & Reifsnider, Solicitors.
nov14 is Jos. W. Berret, Auct'r.
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We are now prepared to show you the
finest and largest general assortment Of
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Terms: Postage Prepaid. Sc. oO Fer u e

Volumes ", VIII. and MI. of Harpers Young
People, bound in CLOTH will be sent by mail, postage
paid. on receipt of $3.50 each. The other volumes
are out ofprint.
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On and after October H. 1891, trains will run as
follows:
FROM CALVERT STATION
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-02
Natural Gas in Iron Working.

Among the more recent improvements
in the manufacture of iron and steel, the
use of gaseous fuel stands conspicuous.
The idea of first converting the fuel into
a combustible gas, and conveying this to
the point where heat was required and
there igniting it, is very old one, and,
in one form or another, it has been en-
ployed for over a thousand years, but it
is only within the present century that
the manifold advantages of gas as a
metallurgical fuel have become fully
recognized by the iron and steel workers
of the world. The early gas furnaces
used in Silesia, Sweden, and other Eu-
ropean countries were but enlarged
notifications of Geber's Tower of Atha-
nor, and. although they were a great
improvement on the furnaces in which
solid fuel was burned on a CRATE, vet
they were not able to oproduce tempera-
ture sufficiently high and controllable to
satisfy the demands of the rapidly de-
veloping iron and steel industries. Pop
ular Science Monthly.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-02
It's Origin in Doubt.

The other day casually asked drug
clerk the origin of the many colored
lights which are now the universal signs
of drug store. The youth referred me
very pleasantly to an older man in the
store, who finally admitted that he knew
about as little as his younger associate.
| called in every drug store ON upper
Broadway and made the same query. AT
each place the question seemed to par
alyze the younger members of the estab-
lishment. The older clerks contented
themselves with the opinion that it was
only to attract attention that various
colored lights were represented by jets
behind liquid in a glass bottle ascer-
tained that there was great deal of
knack in preparing the liquid so as to
give clear light of whatever color de-
sired and to stand the test of time with
out precipitation.
One clerk said he thought that the
custom could be traced back two or three
hundred years until it faded into the
barber pole that is now the sign of the
tonsorial artists throughout the English
speaking world. Another man, who
seemed to get a little nearer to it than
the rest, said that it originated with the
early chemists and alchemists, who desig-
mated their places of business in this way
All of them expressed a desire that when
| got the information sought l should
furnish it to those engaged in the drug
business. Interview in New York
Herald.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-02
the Wisdom of the Ancients.

DR.. Talmage is very vigorously in
clined to believe that the Nineteenth
century had not absorbed all the Won
ders of the ages. Jerusalem was a Won
derfui city. with wonderful architecture
nothing like it in all the ages. The
reservoirs of Jerusalem were built with
cement as perfect today as it was when
the trowel laid it 1000 years before
Christ. That dentistry had reached an
advanced stage was shown by the filling
of the teeth of the mummies at Cairo.
Solomon knew all about the circulation
of blood. job knew all about the re-
fraction of light.
Isaiah knew that the world was round
when said, "The Lord is seated on the
circle of the earth" Ancient art ex-
celled the modern. Tyrian purple
couldn't be made now. Pliny describes
a malleable glass that one could tie
around his wrist. The Nineteenth cent
ury couldn't produce a Damascus blade.
We have great cities. but Babylon was
five times larger than London 81 be-
gin to wonder" said Dr. Talmage, "if
the world hasn't forgotten more than it
knows. But what this age does excel
in, he continued, sis morality. There
were never so many good men and
women as now. 1t is the result of the
influence of Christianity. Washington
Post
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-02
Riding the Wooden Horse.

Torture ON a grand scale went out
with FELTON,, the assassin of Bucking-
ham, but torture on small scale con-
tinued to be practiced on military of
tenders down to the Eighteenth century.
The form most frequently resorted to
was that known as the wooden horse, to
ride which was the punishment accorded
for petty thefts, insubordination, and SO
on. The wooden horse was made of
planks nailed together so as to form a
sharp ridge or angle about eight or nine
feet long. This ridge represented the
back of the horse, and was supported by
four posts or legs about five feet high,
placed on a stand made movable by
truckles. To complete the resemblance
with the noblest animal in creation a
head and tail were added.
When soldier was sentenced, either
by court martial or by his commanding
officer, to ride the horse, he was placed
on the brute's back, with his hands tied
behind him, and frequently enough, in
order to increase the pain, muskets were
fastened to his legs to weigh them do n
or, as was jocularly said, to prevent the
fiery, untamed, barebacked steed from
kicking him off.-London Graphic.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-02
ROston's Oldest Hnnse.

What is generally believed to be the
oldest house standing in Boston has been
transferred from one estate to another
for the first time in over 200 years. The
property is known as the Wells mansion.
The sale was made by the Wells estate
to Mr.. A Ratshesky, Hebrew million
aire.
This interesting relic of the colonial
period, now used for store and tene-
ments, bears a strong resemblance in its
style of architecture to the old Dickens
house in London. 1t is two story frame
structure. very substantial and likely to
last another generation, if not torn down
to make room for modern building.
The striking popularity of it's exterior is
that its second story projects six inches
or more beyond the walls of the first-a
freak of construction that cannot be ac-
counted for on any known ground of
practical use or ornamentation. The
title was examined into by John T. Has
san, who discovered that it had not pre-
viously been inquired into since 1851,
when it came into the possession of the
forefathers of the present comptrollers
of the Wells estate. Boston Post.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-02
Deaf MuteS.

F. G. jefferson, of Toronto, Canada,
thus writes to The Mail of that city:
1.-The following case has come under my
notice: A farmer married his cousin, and
both possessed all their faculties, and
they have nine children, of whom five
daughters were born deaf mutes Three
of these daughters married speaking and
hearing husbands. The first one has
three deaf mute children out of five. the
second one has two deaf mute children
out of three and the third has one deaf
mute child out of two. This proves that
Professor Bell, of Washington, United
States, has made mistake by publish
ing largely that the intermarriages of
deaf mutes bring deaf mute race, when
the fact is that deaf mute children pro-
ceed from married cousins possessing all
their faculties. In the Belleville deaf
mute school there are 240 pupils, and not
one of them has deaf mute parents.
There are many other similar cases in
England and the States"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-02
Americans Won't Learn Trades.

Skillful stone carverS-not SculptorS,
but the men who actually cut the figures
and decorations on the facades or interi-
ors of buildings with mallet and chisel-
often receive from four to six dollars a
day in New York ani Boston. Modelers
for jewellers and makers of designs for
wall paper often receive more than that.
In Boston and New York good stone
carvers receive higher pay than report
ers on newspapers, clerks in business
houses or male school teachers of the
lower grades.
But who are these skilled stone carvers
and wood carvers, makers of designs for
wall paper, modelers in clay. brass fin
ishers and so on? They are, with some
exceptions, Europeans. They have learn
ed how TO do their work in other coun-
tries. and come here to exercise their
crafts.
Formerly these more artistic trades
could not be learned in the United
States. This is no longer the case. The
industries have been. established in this
country to such an extent that nearly
all of them may be learned by the process
of apprenticeship and in the technical
schools scattered through the country
almost every branch of industrial art is
taught.
But when one day l asked large en-
ployer of skilled stone carvers how many
of his men were American born he an
swered, Not one in ten is American
born."-J. E. Chamberlin in Youths
Companion.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-02
Black and Green Teas.

Generally speaking, all teas are di-
vided into two colors-green and black
Japan is the only country which pro-
duces green tea only, while China is the
only land where both colors are pre-
pared. India. Ceylon and Java send
forth black teas alone, on the principle
at least in India-that adulteration of
green tea is too easy. 1t is worthy of
mention in this connection also that
until within few years all the teas of
Japan have been black, and this was the
case when in 1856 the first importation
of fifty half chests reached this country.
The venture was Immediately success
full.
The flavor of the Japan tea pleased the
American palate. 1t was spoken of as
"a black tea with green tea flavor" and
as the leaf was dried in the natural color
it was believed that it must be free from
adulteration. The importation for the
second year was 400 half chests, and in
the third year the amount arose to 100.
But it did not by any means stop there,
rising rapidly till the yearly total
reached the wonderful amount of 20, ,000,
900 pounds. Good Housekeeping.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-02
Advance of Public Sentiment.

As an incident of the woman's suffrage
movement, it is impossible to pass over
the election of Lady Sandhurst, Miss
Jane Golden and Miss Cons as members
of the London county council. As hos
tile suits are now pending for heavy pen
alties against the ladies to test their
right to sit and vote, it would be unbe-
coming here to do more than wish them
success in their brave fight. Their pres
ence at the council board, their useful
work on its committees, has already so
justified their election that even if the
law be interpreted hostilely against
them there is little doubt that public
opinion would compel early legislative
action in favor of the right they claim
Charles Bradlaugh in Boston Tran
script.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-02
An Amusing Scene in Court.

One of the most amusing yet unex-
pected sensation scenes ever witnessed
in a theatre occurred at the Theatre
Royal, Manchester. The curtain drew
up for Mr.. Toole to address the court in
re Bardell vs. Pickwick, when the whole
of the jury mysteriously disappeared,
their ''box" suddenly giving way and
ingulfng the good men and true"
At first the vast audience who crowded
every part of the theatre were silent,
fearing some dreadful accident had oc-
Cured, but as the unlucky jurymen
rapidly reappeared, unhurt, though look
ing very foolish, they broke out into a
perfect hurricane af laughter, which
lasted several minutes.
The curtain had to be dropped to allow
the jury to be boxed again. and when
Mr.. Toole began his address he provoked
another burst of visibility by alluding to
the jury as ''that worthy body of stead
fast and immovable men"
A peculiarly amusing feature of this
novel scene was the fact that the major
ity of the Jury" were stage carpenters,
whose duty it was to erect the court, -
and they suffered in this case for their
own carelessness. Tit-Bits.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-02
GRAINS OF GOLD.

No man lives any higher than he looks.
Small temptations are extra danger
Gus.
Love is always the gamer by being
tested.
If you look wrong you will be sure TO
step wrong.
No art can repair modesty when once
it is broken.
No man can be truly brave who is not
trying to be truly good.
To voluntarily go in bad company is
to dare the devil to catch you.
The only things we really pray for are
those we are willing to work for.
The time when we most need faith is
when things look black all around us.
A lie will go a long way, but the
sender usually has to pay the freight
The man who can learn from the ex-
perience of other people is an apt scholar.
God never has to listen to what men
are saying to find what they are praying
for
The man who cannot respect himself
has only one more step to fall into the
pit.
Men show their character in nothing
more surely than what they think laugh
able.
The secret of success in life is for a
man to be ready when his opportunity
comes.
Has man a right to throw away his
own happiness any more than that of
another?
The essence of love is kindness, and
indeed it may be best defined as passion
ate kindness.
We are never in earnest about any
thing that we cannot occasionally get
enthusiastic over.
There is good deal of difference be-
tween making religion business, and
making business religion.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-02
Education in the Argentine.

There are two universities, one at
Buenos Ayres and one at Cordoba, which
together counted 993 students in 1SS9
and delivered 234 diplomas, including 81
doctors of law, So doctors of medicine,
and II civil engineers. In the whole
republic there are sixteen national col
leges, with a teaching corps of 464 pro-
fessors and an attendance in 1899 of
1850 pupils. In the capital and the
provinces there are thirty-fve normal
schools, with 1924 pupils of both sexes,
who become professors and teachers,
chiefly for the primary schools.
In Buenos Ayres in 1889 there were
2S5 primary schools, directed by 1871
teachers and attended by 81, 500 children.
In the provinces there were 2,719 pri-
mary schools, with a teaching staff of
4,532 and an attendance of 205, 1856. To
resume, the results obtained were 3,042
primary schools, 6,103 teachers, 59,695
pupils, 2,373 primary schoolhouses in the
whole republic OF these schoolhouses
4S5 are the property of the nation or of
the provinces and 1888 private prop
erty.-Theodore Child, in Harper's.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-02
Crabs Are Fighters.

Crabs particularly are fighting ami
mails; in fact, they will fight anything
l have seen a crab, in conflict with a lob
ster, catch the latter over the fore part
of the head, where the shell is hardest,
and crush it in by one effort. And it
rather bears out my idea that the claws
of these creatures are particularly weap-
ons of war; that the moment one of
them receives severe injury in claw it
drops it off by voluntary amputation
severing its connection with the body at
the shoulder by an act of its own will.
1t seems TO me probable that if the claw
were necessary for feeding nature would
rather seek to cure an injury to it than
let the animal discard it altogether.
The species of crab which is most con-
spicuously a fighter is the hermit crab.
Its first idea of independent life is to eat
a harmless whelk and occupy its shell;
its next notion is to give battle to every
crab of the same persuasion as itself that
it comes across. Altogether hermit crabs
are undoubtedly the most quarrelsome
creatures in existence. in
Washington Star.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-02
TOO PERSONAL.

81 have been much impressed, Miss
Lou" remarked young Mr.. Trotter tc
the girl at his left at the dinner table
upon whom he was desirous of making
good impression, "with an article ]
read recently in one of the magazines on
the influence of food upon the human
system"
eyes" replied the maiden encourag-
ingly, and Trotter went on:
''The author maintained that a man
becomes to a great extent what he eats,
and, do you know, am thoroughly con-
vinced that he is quite righty''
1t was extremely inopportune that the
hostess should have selected this moment
to ask:
''Mr. Trotter, won't you have some
more of the roast pork. You are so very
fond of it, | know."-Chicago Inter
Ocean.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-02
TMO DAYS.

crossed q daisied ieid; the skies were fair;
The lusty trees stretched green arms over
head;
The sun shook gold dust thro' the April air.
And glad brook ieaped down its peboled bed.
The meadow lark flung ont such liquid notes.
Ny happy sonl stood still and leaned TO hear;
The wild canaries fiueTed their yellow coats,
And turned their restless heads in jealous
fear.
And. oh. my heart was glad. for it was spring;
Blue, blue the dappled skies that swung
above,
But still more glad my soul. remembering
The world WAS sweet To me because of love.
/ crossed q lonely field; the skies were gray;
The winds crept in from sea with sullen
moans;
Ice locked. ice bound, the brook grieved night
and day
Above the hollow sound of falling cones.
With drumming wings the notified pheasant
flew;
The ghostly trees reached barren arms across;
And. oh, my heart was sad-so well | knew
The winter world was dull because of loss
Ella Higginson i'll West Shore.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-02
A New Glove Mender

1t is quite difficult matter to repair
ones gloves so neatly and perfectly that
it cannot be detected as an nonprofes-
sional's work, but there is a little in
vention which facilitates this work to
such degree that even unframed hands
can do it with neatness and dispatch.
The apparatus is made of nickel, and
consists of two parts, which press against
each other by means of a spring. Part
of the top edge is provided with small
teeth in close range to each other. The
seam of the glove to be mended is care
fully pressed between these teeth, and
the needle passed in and out at every
opening. Repairing done in this man.
ner is so perfect that it cannot be no
ticed.-New York journal.
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QUALITIES OF THE JAPANESE.
Sir Edwin Arnold's Enthusiastic Opin-
ions of Japanese People.

ions OF C2pAneSC
As for the people. l am and always
shall be of good St. Francis Aavier's
feeling, This nation Is the delight Of
nv soul Never have | passed days
more happy, tranquil or restorative than
among japanese of all classes in the ci-
ties, towns and villages of Japan. Pos
sibly that is because l have had no bust
ness relations with my kind and pleasant
Niponese friends, and have never talked
very much metaphysics; but it seems
certainly an easy way to keep on the
right side of folks to let philosophy and
theology alone.
Moreover it is, no doubt, necessary for
such experiences to 60 little behind
that sort of Japan which you find on the
Hatobas of Yokohama or Kobe, in the
Yoshiwaras of those and the other open
ports. At very little distance from the
surface, which we civilizing westerners
have done our best to spoil, will be still
discovered the old, changeless, high
tempered, generous. simple and sweet
hammered Japan of old.
frankly confess it has entirely charm
ed me; and therefore what l say of this
japanese nation, and their manners
and customs, must be received with the
proper caution attaching to the language
of friend, and even lover. But where
else in the world does there exist such a
conspiracy to be agreeable; such a wide
spread compact to render the difficult af
fairs of life as smooth and graceful as
circumstances admit; such fair DEGREES
of fine behavior fixed and accepted for
all; such universal restraint of the
coarser impulses of speech and act.
such pretty picturesqueness of daily
existence; such lively love of nature as
the embellisher of that existence; such
sincere delight in beautiful artistic
things; such frank enjoyment of the en-
joyable; such tenderness to little chill
dren; such reverence for parents and old
persons; such widespread refinement of
taste and habits; such courtesy to strang-
ers; such willingness to please and to be
pleased.-Sir Edwin Arnold in Scribner's.