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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-01-06
Manufacturers o.
MannIaCturers OF
COACHES, CARRIAGES,
BUGGIEs, JAEGER WAGoNSn
PHA ETONS. DC
PHAETONS, &c.

Special attention given to Repairing. All
orders promptly filled and work of every kind
warranted.
s9~ Factory opposite the Montour House,
Main street, Westminster, Md. aug Sly
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The following Goods are in
cluded in our Great
Reduction Sale:

Dress Goods in Plain and
Fancy, Dress Trimmings,
Table Linens, Napkins, Towels,
Dress Ginghams, Apron, Cling
hams, White Flannels, Red
Flannels, Feather Ticking,
Carpets, Oil Cloths, in fact
every article you may ask for
are so greatly reduced that
they will sell themselves.
Now remember this sale
Begins on Tuesday Morning
at 8 o'clock.
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DRUG STORE,
OPPOSITE CATHOLIC CHURCH,
Main Street, Westminster, Md.
JOSEPH B. BOYLE,
SUCCESSOR To WELLS BR!

SUCCESSOR TO WELLS BROS,
nEALER in Pure Drugs, Medicines,
- Chemicals, Perfumery, Fancy Articles,
Hair and Tooth Brushes, Combs, Toilet Soaps,
Segars, &c. Also Trusses and Shoulder
Braces.
PURE WINES AND LIQUORS
FOR MEDICAL PURPOSES.
Patent Medicines, Horse and Cattle Powders,
&c. A fine assortment Of STATIONERY.
@Physicians' orders promptly filled and
Prescriptions carefully and accurately com
pounded mar II tt
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PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD.
PHILADELPHIA, WILMINGTON AND BALTI-
MORE RAILROAD. BALTIMORE AND
POTOMAC RAILROAD. NORTHERN
CENTRAL RAILWAY.

The Schedule taxing enect october /, 1893.
*Daily. SDaily, ex. Sunday. fDaily, cx. Saturday
Trains leave Calvert station, Baltimore as follows
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COATS AND CAPES
SLAUGHTERED.

A lot of Cape Refers
sold at $3.50, cut to-. S6.9S
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OREAT
REDUCTION SALE
REDUCTION SALE
s. KAHN, SONS & cos.
S. KAHN, SONS & cos.

On Tuesday next, one day
after New Year. we will start
a Reduction Sale, the like of
which has never been seen in
this city or county. We have
sold a great many goods dur
ing Xmas week, and what we
couldn't sell we'll sell during
our Great Reduction Sale at
any price at all-or die in the
attempt.
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EQUITABLE RESTAURANT,
9th Floor, Equitable Building,
Corner Fayette and Calvert Sts.,
BALTIMORE. MD.

Novelty in Dining Room. Cool and beau
tifal. Full view Of the City. A sight for
strangers. Dinner, so cents. Beautiful re-
ception room for ladies. Bundles received
and cared for. Try it, and you will go no.
where else for Breakfast, Dinner, Lunch or
Supper. Open from A. NJ. to P. NJ.
July 90 26t&
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WINTER WEAR AND USE.

Every department is full and prices wonder
fully low.
We are determines to continue to strengthen
our reputation of being the representa-
tive Low Price, Fair Dealing Store
of this Section.
Mems Boots from $l.5o and up.
Mems Shoes from sl.oo and up.
Women's Calf Shoes from Use. and
up.
Boys and GirPs Shoes from Use.
and up.
Children's Shoes from 25c. and up.
Almost every thing in the Leather Line for
Men, Boys and Youths, from fine Sunday
Calf Shoes to the Heaviest Kip StogGs or
regular Clod Smasher Plow Shoes. A full
and complete line of Ladies' and Misses fine
Shoes which will be sold at prices that can
not help satisfying all.
Fine and Medium Soft and
Stiff Hats a Specially.
Our Stock is large, our goods New, the
latest in style, the finest in quality. Our
prices low, ranging from 25c. and upward.
We know that we must sell low TO meet the
depleted purses of the community, and we
can and will do it. Call and see if we don't.
q. /. REAVER,
Next Door to Postoffice,
oc2l Westminster, Md.
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s9FACTORY, Corner of Liberty and
George Streets, Westminster, Nd, where
have just erected new and large Shops, giving
me better facilities than heretofore. A call
is solicited. may s.
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ana collars, worth
$1.75 a set, cut down to
$l.23. Biggest bargains
ever offered. $l.23
COATS AND CAPES
SLAUGHTERED.
A lot of Cape Refers
sold at $3.50, cut to-. S6.98
A lot of Refers and
Skirt Jackets sold at
$500, cut to.............. 1898
A lot of Ladies' New
markets in plain and
stripes which have
sold at SO, 81 and SO,
we will sacrifice dur
ing this sale at SO cts..9S cts.
THESE ARE POSITIVELY
THE BIGGEST BAR
GAINS ON EARTH.
/ doz. pair Horse Blank.
cts 76xSO inches posi-
lively worth 1925, cut
down to $l.39 ............. Sl.39
1000 yds. of Unbleach-
ed Canton Flannel
Remnants, regular
price 10 cts, we will
include in this great
slaughter sale at n cts.7i cts.
1000 yds. of Unbleach-
ed "A Muslin, good
quality worth 8 cents,
cut to g. cts. cts.
$500 yds. of yard wide
Bleached Muslin, a
bargain at 10 cents, cut
down to " cts.....,..,....79 cts.
10000 yards of best
Calicos at 5 CENTS. 5 cts.
SO pieces of ga Table
Oil Cloth sold any
where at rs cts. a yard.
cut down to IL cts.......17 OTIS.
LADIES' AND GENTS FUR
NISHING SLAUGHTERED.
Is doz. Ladies' fine
Under Vests at 81 cts.
Twill pay you to ask
for them. ...........-.."......2l CTS.
10 doz. Mems extra size
CheViot Shirts. cut
from 35 cts, regular,
to 10 cts. Who wears
shirts ?.........................19 cts.
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THESE ARE POSITIVELY
THE BIGGEST BAR
GAINS ON EARTH.

1000 yds. of Unbleach-
ed Canton Flannel
Remnants, regular
price 10 cts, we will
include in this great
slaughter sale at n cts.7I cts.
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A lot of Ladies' New
markets in plain and
stripes which have
sold at SO, 81 and SO,
we will sacrifice dur
ing this sale at SO cts..98 cts.
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A lot of Refers and
Skirt Jackets sold at
$1,000, cut to............." 1898
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1000 yds. of Unbleach-
ed "A Muslin, good
quality worth 8 cents,
cut to g. cts. cts.
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$500 yds. of yard wide
Bleached Muslin, a
bargain at 10 cents, cut
down to 7! cts..............7! cts,
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1894-06-20
gstess.
.Gcrso,, 0Oumty, Vest Va.
June go, 1894.
The Emperor Kissed Her.

Here in America we are in the habit oi
regarding the American girl as a very ben
efcent intuition, but on the general prin-
ciple that blessings brighten as they take
their flight, she has to go from us and get
abroad before she appears in all her superi-
ority beside society in the efietc monarchies
of Europe. In this line there has lately
come over the seas little story about a
little Washington girl aud the Kaiser Will
helm.
Miss Bertha Brodt, the daughter of Mr..
William Brodt, of this city, was recently
sent to Germany to complete her education
in the language of her parents fatherland.
She is not yet Sweet sixteen" but the ad-
jective goes just as we'll year younger.
The German Emperor was out with hunt
ing party on the 9TH of this month, and
passed the school at Neiderfenow, near Ber-
lin, where Miss Brodt and the rest of the
school girls were drawn up to see the royal
party pass All of the girls had nosegays
of flowers, and when the Emperor passed
down the line the one little American girl
of the party stepped out and with smile
offered him her bunch of posies.
The Kaiser was probably as much sllr'
prised as any one else at such greeting,
but to his credit be it said that he did net
lose his royal presence OF mind, and return
ing Miss BrOdt's greeting in English took
the flowers and bowed down and kissed her,
saying that he was glad to have gained so
sweet subject even for so short a time
And then he rode away, leaving all the rest
of the girls wondering why it had not oc-
CURED to them TO offer the Emperor their
nosegays.- - Washington Post.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1894-06-20
County Superintendent.
A Cold Ware.

81 see." said the grocer thoughtlessly, for
he had forgotten that the man with the gin
ger bread was sitting behind the stove, 81
see that the temperature dropped twenty
degrees in fifteen minutes down in Texas
the other day"
81 don't call that nothing" said the man
with the ginger bread "I remember when
they was a party Of US campin' up in the
Black Hills that the temperature drapped
so sudden tjAi one Of the mules in the out
fit, which gas in the act of kickin', was
caught an froze tnat way, ah' stood with
its heels in .he air two days. We had a
thermometer along, bat the confounded
thing went back on us, so | can't exactly
say just how much of a drap it was"
ooh, yes" said the school teacher, "it is
a well known fact that at a temperature of
about forty degrees below zero the mercu-
ry freezes and hence cannot register"
"That wasn't it at all young man." said
the man with the ginger bread, with fine
scorn. "The durn mercury drspped so
quickly that the friction made it red hot
and busted the glass"
The man from Potato Creek began to
snicker, but the man with ginger bread
stopped his mirth with a stony stare.-In-
didndpOlis Journal.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1894-06-20
Report Of Free Schools.

The schools of Jefferson county will all
close this week except one. In the past
year 2,79S have been enrolled, and an aver
age attendance of 1898
The enumeration shows 5,25S of school
age in the county.
Where are the 2,47O? As many perhaps
as 500 Of these are attending other schools,
but that leaves, by far, too large per cent.
of our population growing up uneducated.
The difference, too, between enrolment and
attendance is too great. There is too much
carelessness upon the part Of the parents at
this point There are sixty eight teachers /;
sixty of these are doing good work; at least
fifty of them are doing ercellent work.
For order and general diligence the
school at Browns Crossing, Miss Avery
Tanquary, teacher, excels: but there are
several more nearly as good. Twenty. -four
only in the county applied for diplomas in the
State graded course. Thirteen OF these pas
sed. Miss Mabel L. Jenning, of Middle
way, won the scholarship in Martyr Col
lege.
The schools are all now very well graded
and in another year, with the hearty CO.
operation of the parents, there will be no
difficulty in making our schools first class
in every respect We need in some places
better houses, and in most places better
equipments, but the school boards are grad
ually improving these furnishings. The
sorest lack in many places is in books
Parents surely ought to do better in this
respect. We hope, also, the general public
will lend a hand in securing the attendance
of the large number who do not attend any
school.
Every taxpayer ought to interest himself
in these schools to whose support he must
contrbute--see that those for whose benefit
the tax is paid get the benefit.
A. A. p. NEEL,
County Superintendent.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1894-06-20
The Darkey and His check.


One Of the incidents Of the boom at Chat
tanooga, which happened to fall under my
immediate observation interested me great.
ly, said Tennessean. A negro had come
into the ownership of small piece Of real
estate, worth when be got it, about SlOO.-
During the boom this property became very
desirable, and could probably have been
bought for very few hundred dollars had
the would-be purchaser not scared the dar-
key by Offering him several thousand, but a
deal was finally closed for $4,000 and the
negro went TO the bank with check to get
the money.
Chow do you want it?9 asked the cash
ier.
"Gib it to me in silver"
The cashier began to pile up the sacks Of
silver and the negro's eyes grew bigger and
bigger. Finally he could stand it no long
er.
"stop. boss" be said, "gib me dollah
an half an keep de res fer me-"
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1894-06-20
ltirsiuia FREE grrss.
TERMS:

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rs-The terms of advertising are for a square
ore-inch) OF less, one Dollar and FYfly Cent,
o- three insertionS-larger ones in the same
,-,portion. Each continuance Fifty Cents
E5-No advertisement to be considered bv
he month or year unless specified on the man
isr-ipt. or previously agreed between the par
ties.
rsAn advertisement not marked on the
,opv for a specified number of insertions will
he continued until ordered out and payment
will be exacted accordingly.
ra-REGULAR ADVERrIsEMENrS.-IO avoid
,pv understanding on the part of the an
ana. advertisers it is proper 20 state distinctly
hat their privilege only extends TO their i'm
mediate business. Real Estate, Legal or other
sivertisements sent by them 20 be an addition
Al charge. and no variation.
rs-Obituary notices Of more than Eve lines
rf be charged for.
JOB WORK.-Posters, Sale Bills, Circulars,
Car Is etc. executed promptly, neatly and at
hr prices.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1894-06-20
Four Biz Successes.

Having the needed merit to more than
make good all the advertising claimed for
them, the following four remedies have
reached a phenomenal sale. DIR. Kings
New Discovery, for consumption, Coughs
and Colds, each bottle guaranteed-Electric
Bitters, the great remedy for Liver, Stom-
ach and Kidneys. Bucklen's Arnica Salye,
the best in the world, and DIR. Kings New
Life Pills, which are a perfect pill. All
these remedies are guaranteed to do just
as claimed for them and the dealer whose
name is attached herewith will be glad to
tell you more of them. Sold ct Brown q
Hoof g Drug Store.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1894-06-20
A NOuel Time Glass.

During trip which took through the
West Indies several years ago." said trav-
eler, 81 saw sight in one of the villages
which brought the old proverb, Necessity
is the mother of invention forcibly to my
mind. In front of one of the houses on q
veranda stood a sentry whose business it
was to keep the time for the village by
means Of A primitive sand-glass. Two beer
bottles were firmly tied together. mouth to
mouth, and fixed in a wooden frame, made
to stand in reversible positions. A
quantity of black sand ran from one bottle
into the other in just half an hour, and,
when the upper bottle was empty the frame
was reversed. Twelve short sticks marked
with notches from one to twelve were hung
on a string, and hook was placed between
the sticks bearing the number of notch
es corresponding to the hour last struck
and the one to be struck next. The sentry
announces the time by striking the hour on
a large gong.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1894-06-20

There is an amusing story told Of the
early days Of Longfellow's career as sire
that f. Watson Taylor tells, and the young
horseowner and Handicapped declares that
the tale was told to him by one Of the "old
timers" of Kentucky. "You know Longfel-
low was not regarded as much Of success
as sire at first" says Taylor, "aud many
sage rail birds and paddock philosophers
declared that the horse would prove fail
ure, as none of his sons or daughters won
stakes in their two aud three year old forms.
Now John Harper was just superstitious
enough to be alarmed over some Of these
stories, and he determined that one Of Long
fellows get should be stake winner at any
cost. To accomplish the result Mr. Harper
arranged a stake called the Longfellow stakes
in which none but three-year-old LoDgfel-
lows were eligible. 1t was an ordinary race,
but the finish was quite close. Gen. Abe
Buford, who was one Of the spectators, drew
a full breath and exclaimed BY gad, sab,
them LoDgfellows cahn't beat each otbaw,
sah.'"
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1894-06-20
POETRY.
WHITCOMB RILEY'S RATORITE.

He'd nothing but his violin,
I'd nothing but my song,
But we were wed when skies were blue
And summer days were long;
And when we rested by the hedge,
The robins came and told
How they had dared to WOO and win
When early spring was cold:
We sometimes supped on dewberries,
Or slept among the hay,
But oft the farmers wives at eve
Came out to hear us play
The rare old tunes, the dear old tunes.
We could not starye for long,
While my old man had his yoilin
And my sweet old song.
The world has aye gone well with us,
Old man. since we were one
Our homeless wandering down the lanes,
1t long ago was done.
But those who wait for gold or gear,
For houses and for kline,
Till youths sweet spring grows brown and
sere
And love and beauty tine,
viii never know the JOY OF hearts
That met without fear,
When you had but your violin,
And my song, my dear.
The Voice
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1894-06-20
Ho,c Horse Po,ccr Is Calculated.


Horse power measures the rate at which
work is done. One horse power is reckoned
as equivalent to raising $4,000 pounds one
foot high per minute, or $50 pounds a Sec
ond. In measuring the work of horse the
estimates of the most celebrated engineers
differ widely from each other. BOulton and
Watt, basing their calculations upon the
work of London dray herses working eight
hours day, estimated it at $4,000 foot
pounds per minute. D'Aubisson, taking
the work done by horses in whims at Frei
burg, estimated the work at l6,440 foot
pounds working eight hours day. Under
similar circumstances Desaguier's estimate
was A 900, Smeaton's %, ,000and Treadgold's
81 800 foot pounds. Horse power is called
nominal, indicated or actual. Nominal is
used by manufacturers of steam engines to
express the capacity Of an engine, the ele
ment being confined to the dimensions Of
the steam cylinder and n conventional pres
sure of steam and speed of piston. Indica-
ted shows the full capacity of the cylinder
in operation involving elements of mean
pressure upon the piston, its velocity and
Just deduction for the friction of the engines
operation. The original estimate of Watt
is still counted horse power. The general
rule for calculating the horse power of a
steam engine is TO multiply together the
pressure in pounds on a square inch of the
piston, the area of the piston in inches, the
length of the stroke IN feet and the number
of strokes per minute. The result divided
by 33, 900 will give the horse power.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1894-06-20
4 Roudabo,rt Call.

There is good story about telegraph
operator who once worked the land wires in
the Duxbury Mass cable Office, going to
sleep one night and message having to be
sent 5000 or 1000 miles TO wake him up
The operator is now a practicing physician
in Cambridge, Mass, but before annexing
NJ. ID. to his name was one Of the gilt-edge
telegraphers of the country
One night while on duty in the Duxbury
Office, he fell asleep at his key. The sleep
was sound one. The New York operator
called till out Of patience, when he sent
message to Boston requesting the chief
operator in charge to tell Duxbury to an-
swer New York. The sleeper, however, was
as deaf to Bostoh's "Di," "Di," as to the
impatient characters flashed on from New
York.
In the cable room next the sleeping oper-
ator was the cable artist. The room was
dark and he was watching the mirror for
the tiny sparks that in those days went to
make up message. To him the Morse
alphabet was all Greek, so the sleeper slept
on.
Seeing no other way cut of the muddle
and thinking the operator asleep. New York
addressed message to the cable operator
at Duxbury. The message read;
"GO into the other room and wake up
that operator"
Canso sent ii TO Hearts Content in New
foundlsnd Hearts Content rushed it across
to London, thence to Dover, and across the
Channel to Calls and to Brest Brest kept II
moving on to Miquilon, and Miquilon gave
the cable operator at Duxbury a unique
surprise. The sleeper was then aroused,
about eleven minntes having been taken by
the grand round He tried to explain mat
ters by telling New York that he was out
Of adjustment. The story didn't impress
the officials as being truthful, and in day
or two there was a vacancy in Duxbury.-
D0nOhu,'s Magazine.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1894-06-20
4 Million Friends.

A friend in need is friend indeed, and
not less than one million people have found
just such friend in DIR. Kings New Dis
covery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds.
If you have never used this Great Cough
Medicine, one trial will convince you that
it has wonderful curative powers in all dis
eases of Throat, Chest and Lungs. Each
bottle is guaranteed to do all that it is
claimed or money will be refunded. Trial
bottles free at Brown & Hoof's Drug store
Large bottles SOC. and s100.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1894-06-20
Erery Young Man

should be possessed of certain information
without which millions contract perniciOus
and most destructive habits-habits which
make young men permanently aged, pale,
haggard listless, devoid of ambition, easily
tried, languid, fogetful and incapable; fill
mad d-houses aud swell the lists of suicides /;
separate husbands and wives; bring untold
suffering to millions, even unto the third
and fourth generation. Parents, guardians
and philanthropists can do no better service
to the rising generation, than to place in
their hands the information and warnings
contained in little book carefully prepared
by an association of medical men who have
had vast experience in dealing with the
grave maladie, here limited at, and who feel
that they owe il to humanity to warn the
young of the land against certain destruc-
tive habits, which are fsr more prevalent
than any layman can imagine, and which if
persisted in gradually urdermines the con-
stitutiOn and health, and destroy the future
happiness of the victim Cut out this no-
ticc and enclose it with ten cents in stamps
Ito pay POSTAGE, to Worlds Dispensary
Medical Association, Invalids' Hotel and
Surgical Institute Buffalo. \. Y, and the
book will be sent, secure from observation,
in plain sealed envelope.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1894-06-20

"In spite of all considerations to the con-
trary, am ready to take up the cudgeis in
defense of American travel in Europe"
writes Minjot ). Savage, in Americans
Abroad" in the New Peterson. at is un-
doubted true that, so far as natural scenery
is concerned, the New World is fully equal
to the Old, and in many ways far superior.
No mountain in Europe can for one mo-
ment compare with Mt. Tacoma, in the
State of Washington and no river is to be
found that can be a mate for the Columbia.
Most Americans even do not know to what
an extent the Columbia surpasses even the
Hudson. need not add to these references
the glories of Niagara the National Park,
Yosemite, and the Big Trees. Still, these
all cannot turn the scale. For, when all is
said and done, it is people chiefly that in
terest people. The proper study of man
kind il man, says Pope. Most persons
agree with the Irshman who said, Solitude
is pleasant, specially when you have your
sweetheart with you. II is the human in
terest in natural scenes about for which we
chiefly care. Few there are who have
Wordsworths interest in nature for natures
sake And even in his case nature was no
dead thing. He found in; it the Presence
that disturbed him with elevated thoughts
Even Thorea, who set up for hermit, took
best thoughts Of the worlds highest cyiliza-
tion aud when he got tired OF his lonely
picnic he would come out to share the table
and the conversation Of Emmerson. No,
it is man and woman we care for. And the
nature that charms us most is that whose
beautiful scenes are haunted by historic aud
romantic memories.