The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1893-04-01
~Business Locals.

Great Assortment of New Spring Carpets
and Mattings at Derr's, Westminster.
DR.. H. o. Reik, Specialist in diseases of
the Eye and Ear, will be in Westminster again
Saturday, April LIST. Office SO E. Main st.
Good Blacksmith Wanted. Permanent job.
Apply to jeremiah NJ. Thurman, Black Rock.
York county. Pa. Wanted, also, Seasoned
White Oak Spokes, split 2t*
The lecture of Hon. Edward Carswell,
under the auspices of Carroll Division, Sons
of Temperance, at Carroll Hall, on Friday
evening next, should attract large audience.
More Rare and Choice Novelties in Spring
Dress Goods and Wraps are shown by Theo.
Derr Il Son, of this city, than your eyes
ever looked upon. Call and see them.
The Benevolent and Aid Society of Benja-
minis Reformed Church will. meet at the
church on next Wednesday evening, April
9th. An interesting program has been ar
ranged for the evening.
RoAD MAcHINEs.-George W. Rifle, of
LittIestown, Pa, agent for the Vulcan Road
Machine Company, Charlestown, w. Va,
was in Westminster this week and will be
here again next week. The Vulcan Adjusta-
BILE and the Pennock Reversible Road Ma
chimes, he says, are Just the machines for road
building, while the Lane Bridge is the best
and cheapest on earth. Carroll Road Com
missioners should take look at them.
''FRoM DIxIE.n
This is the attractive title of collection of
original poems and stories published by the
Memorial Bazaar to be held in Richmond
during the month of April for the benefit of
a monument to the private soldier and sailor
and the establishment of a Confederate
museum in the late executive mansion of the
Confederacy. The contributions are without
exception productions hitherto unpublished
of the following distinguished authors =
Father Ryan, Sidney Lanier, John r. Thomp-
sou, James Barron Hope, Amelie Rives, Joel
Chandler Harris, Thomas Nelson Page, NJ.
g. McCleiland, James Lane Allen, Charles
Washington Coleman, William Hand Brown,
John B. Tabb, Robert Burns Wilson, William
W. Archer. The book will be bound in
Confederate gray cloth and the price will be
one dollar. 1t will be on sale at the Memo
rial Bazaar, or can be ordered through West,
Johnston & Co., Richmond, Va, or from
Mrs. C. OBJ. Cowardin, chairman Maryland
Table, 10Y E. Franklin St.
"a Texas Steer will be given at Harris
Academy of Music Baltimore, for one week,
beginning by matinee Easter Monday, April
3rd. Chas. II. Hoyt's phenomenal success
with "a Texas Steern everywhere that it has
been produced has aroused the curiosity of
play goers and created an extraordinary de-
mand for seats at Harris Academy earlier in
the season. The piece is described as
comedy. and in its composition Hoyt has
proved himself capable Of taking prominent
place among American dramatists. The pre-
logue shows how, in Texas, a cattle king is
elected to Congress, much against his will
The remainder of the comedy shows his po
litical career in Washington. The cattle king
has bright, plucky daughter, who has mil
itary admirer in Texas When he encounters
her at the Capital he is somewhat ashamed of
her unsophisticated ways. She quickly de-
tects this and adapting herself to her sur
roundings soon manages to hold her own III
the best of society. The piece is clever
combination of pathos and humor and is in
spired by actual facts Tim Murphy and the
original company, including Will FL. Bray,
as the Minister to Dahomey," John Marshall
as Fairleigh Bright, and o. H. Barr as BRAS
sy Gall' will be seen here. In this clever
satire, the wiles of politician are given full
exposition. The repeater, the bulldozer, the
ballot box suffer, at election time, the lob
byist, male and female, and their work at the
Capital, the gradual transformation OF the
innocent, honest ranchman, into the deceitful
politician, and self seeking legislator, the
plans for re election, the rampant Office seek
er, in full bloom at first, but gradually sliding
down the scale, until mendcancy and despair
are reached, all are portrayed wildly.
THE GOSPEL OF PROTECTION.
There's a great deal of the raukest nonsense
imaginable written about money. We don't
love money. but we love to have enough OF 1t
to- make o-.sselves solid with circumstances.
We've tried in many ways to earn it. and have
hit upon the following as about the best. An
endowment policy in good Life Insurance
Co. We have chosen the Etna of Hartford
as ours. That good old Company's policy
protects the poor and the rich. 1t helps the
young man in his start and comforts the old
man near the closing day. 1t is the veritable
gospel of protection to the wife and children
and home. A policy in this Company is
perennial compliment to mans Judgment
and forethought
1t is gratifying to call attention to SO strong
financial exhibit as the annual statement of
the Etna Life Insurance Company, which
appears in another column. The public is
accustomed to look for grand results from the
1Etna Life, but this year exceeds any pre-
vious statement it has made, and the manage
ment is to be congratulated. During the
year 1892 it paid for death claims upward of
g., 900; for matured endowments over
81, 000, 600; and it disbursed over 81, 100000
in dividends and other payments to policy
holders. 1t made gain over 1891 in mem
bership of 1923 in surplus of S63, 030.40
in premium income of 1919, 230.0l; in assets
of 1878, 2S002 in new business over the
previous year 81, 100, S6230; in insurance in
force, $7,871 ,24S94. Notwithstanding the
premium receipts in 1892 were over SS0O,0 600
more than the previous year, the companys
expenses were increased less than one-quar-
ter of one per eent-evidenoe of economy, We
believe, which no other company writing an
e0ual amount of insurance shows With over
Sc, 900, 000 of surplus above its legal liabilities
upon a rigid test of solvency, the Etna Life
gives abundant security for all its obligations.
Mr.. W. S. Roberts, Room 8, Bank of Bal
timore Building, Baltimore, Nd, is the
Special Agent in charge of this county, and
we are not telling any tales out of school
when we say that Mr.. Roberts wrote more
than his full share of the 81, 500, 600 written
through the Baltimore General Agency in the
year 1892. See Insurance Commissioner
Report in another column.