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Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1896-08-22

Now is the time to take cheap
trip TO Ocean City. The Baltimore,
Chesapeake and Atlantic Railway Co.,
is running special low rate excursions
from all points Clayborne 10 Ocean
City every Thursday.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1896-08-22
WANTS TO BET ON BRYAN.
MIR. Collins Has $4,000 That
He Is Anxious tn Find
Takers for.

From the New York Journal, August -.
Daniel Collins, real estate man OF
No. 1864 Broadway, was a Bryan
man who could not get bet in Wall
Street yesterday. He went the rounds
of the banking and brokerage houses,
but did not succeed in placing dol
lar.
Mr.. Collins has $4,000 which he
wants TO place all or any part OF al
odds OF one to three that Bryan will
be the next President of the United
States.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1896-08-22

The people are enthusiastic
for Bryan and Sewall and the
English Bankers will not be
able to buy them Tor Mckinley
and Hobart.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1896-08-22
wANAMAKER,S.
PHILADELPHIA, Monday, Aug. IL. 1896
MERIT, NOT MAGIC

PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, aug. IL, 1850.
MERIT, NOT MAGIC
Think of it, Furniture sales
are almost doubling the new
record of a year ago! Merit,
not magic. A year ago we
gathered vast quantities of
Furniture at prices newly
small-that is, we sold de-
pendable Furniture cheaper
than it ever had been sold.
Conditions allowed the posi-
ton taken then. The outlook
was gloomy, but makers kept
at work.
Today we're selling Furni-
ture a fourth cheaper than
then.
But makers have taken their
stand. Many factories are
closed. They'll do no work
until they can do it prohtably.
That's the story in a nutshell.
We've $500, 900 worth of good
to elegant Furniture at prices
never nearly reached for low
ness. There seems no human
possibility for prices again to
touch so low. There seems
every possibility of the princi
pal factors being able to hold
down production to a point
that shall lead to profitable
work. A good many prognos-
tications have failed in the
years agone. This one will
scarcely fail. The Furniture
is its own mutely eloquent ar
gument for your quick buying.
Lots cannot be duplicated /;
lots are daily lessening. Well
pass all August Furniture rec
ords by thousands of dollars
simply because it is very profit
able to you to act quickly.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1896-08-22

WILL the Worcester .Hd0O-
cate inform the public why
Mckinley voted for silver
And il he thought it a good
thing then, why not now:
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1896-08-22
Total in seven sear.. s1.si..s GIG.

Total in seven wears. Si.s5s. CSC. $50
As can he seen by the above table,
in the four years after the war had
closed the government issued 1,25l. :
$40, 800. or s6iS,21l,657 more than
during the three previous years.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1896-08-22
IL the baby 4. Cutting Teeth

De sure and use that old well-tricd remedy.
MIS-. wIssI ow's SooTHis0 SYRUP for childs
rem teething. II soothcs the child, soften
the gums ailays all pain. cures wind collie and
il the best remedy for diarrhga. Twenty-Five
cents y bottle.
u u the Hest of all.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1896-08-22

ENGLAND is very anxious
that Mckinley shall be elected.
Dear Uncle John we have had
to disappoint you before.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1896-08-22
TERMS OF SALE.
Help Wanted-Female.

Ladies make big wages making gcntlomcn's
ncckwear at home by an easy method. We
teach you FREE and furnish work all the year.
Send stamp for work and particulars at once.
Elite Neckwear Co., Camden, New Jersey.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1896-08-22
FOR RENT.

For rent. for the year 1897, the house on
Market street, now occupied by f. ID.
Tinglc. Apply TO .. ID. Collins.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1896-08-22
FOR SALE.

Lot ON Atlantic Avenue, Ocean City.
5Oxl0O feet. hest location on the beach; also
one on North Division Street. another ON
Baltimore Ave, and one ON Wicomico Street.
Apply To q. NJ. Purnell. Snow Hill, Md.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1896-08-22

HANDKERCHIEF BARGAINS
Eighteen thousand pure
linen Observation-Disclosures but
one item in the list was ever
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1896-08-22

August 22d. 1896.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-02-01
OUR TWO LANGUAGES.
One Used in Conversation, tine Other in
 Written English.

One Used in Conversation, tine Other in
 vrl..en English.
 A writer in the Educational Review prefaces an article on English litera- turc in the college by the e"laration; "It is now, think, generally admitted that the first principle of rhetoric is. write as you speak. The pedantic, de clamatory, Latinized diction that pre- vailed in literary circles a hundred years ago is no longer. tho standard kings English Tn order to write well, it is necessary first to speak well-that is. to speak naturally, correctly and strongly"
 This is clever ard cunning, as well as complete begging of the whole ques- tion. The assumption that we, Eng fish and Americans, speak Gs We write, and that the ordinary rules of rhetoric and grammar run through and under lie oral, as well as written language is an assumption which cannot be verified by evidence. The man who says don't" and ''can't'' and isn't" and who talks about. 'him and me" when he means ''he and l." or who says done" for ''did" or ''seen" for saw" can take his pen or pencil in hand and write Eng fish which is unexceptionable from the standpoint of person, mood or tense, the fact being that written language is a refinement and, possibly, an improve ment on spoken language, but at the same time as different from it as the dialect of Yorkshire from that of Corn wall, or the talk of Yankeeland from the patois of the uplands of North Carolina or the lowlauds of Louisiana.
 The writer of the article in question. has fallen into the rhetorical error of, as the vernacular has it, putting the cart before the horse. Every written language, protected and fenced in as it may be by rhetorical fences and hedges, each of which is briStiing with rules and safeguaried by exceptions to those rules. is only a development from a spoken language, end whether it be an improvement or not is an open ques- tion. At all events it must be apparent to every student of language or phil- olory that we have, at least in Eng fish. two separate and distinct lan- guages, and that if we should attempt to follow the dictum of the writer in the Educational Review, and write as we speak, our contributions to current literature would be speedily side tracked into the editors waste-paper basket. It might be better for the genius of the English language, and for the, preservation ot its integrity, that we should speak as we write, but to adopt the converse proposition and write as we speak seems the very climax of absur1lity to those who know and appreciate the distinction between English ''as she Is wrote and ''as she is spoke.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-02-01
HOW TO ECoNomlzE IN LIVING.
With One Dollar and Forty Cents Week
 Han Need Never Ssarvc.


 Han Need Never Starve.
 One-half the world does not know how the other half lives, says the New York Recorder, nor do the well-fed thousands in this prosperous city, who daily consult their menus of many ex- pensive and rare courses, comprehend that many other thousands of hard working, active, healthy, energetic, bustling people live for Q whole day upon the price of plate of oysters in a fashionable restaurant. Let one man "a ter-carricr-speal1 for himself: ''I have three meals day-coffec, cakes, and either ham and beans or corned beef and beans at each meal at a cost of not moro than twenty cents Q meal. They give you bread and butter with the meat, and a fellow has plenty to cat in three such meals. If fellow is hard pushed, he can get along on thirty cents day with two meals, with meat, beans, bread and coffee at each. 1 have known chaps, who have been idle for long time, to live upon twenty cents day-corned beef, beans, bread and butter, and water for one meal, and pic and coffee at the other in the evening. A fellow could live all winter on those two meals if he didn't have to jugglc cases and barrels and bales of cotton or do heavy work. Thus it may be seen that man needn't starvc who las one dol lar and forty cents week to spend on food g
The St. Johns herald., 1896-02-01
COWBOYS BECOMING EXTINCT.
Rapid Decaderce of the Genus That 51ade
 the Wild West Famous.

Rapid Decadence of the Genus That dade
 the Wild West Famous.
 The cowboy, like the buffalo, is fast becoming extinct. In the dawn of the new century now approaching he will be regarded as curiosity. Ten years hence, says Lippincott's Magazine, he will almost have attained tho dignity of tradition. History, which enbalins the man in armor and exalts the pioneer, holds a place for him. The niche may be a modest one, but he has his part in conquering . new country, and DO im- partial record of western evolution can omit his picturesque figure. Before civilization devours his identity let us try to detain it a moment in it's real likeness and garb.
 Dwellers in the long-settled com munities scarcely realize how great Q change has come over the far west dur ing the last decade. Ranches there will always bc-ra1ches for grain, hay fruit and blooded live stoclz-but not for the rearing of range cattle. Yet the time is in easy memory when there was craze over the cattle business, when the cowboy was king at Dodge City, when hundreds of educated young men went west to share the hardship of herders. To-day the cattle ranches are deserted or .nortgaged or turned into farms. A more advanced intelli- gence has penetrated the possibilities of irrigation and water is retaining the wilderness once given over to the long-horn steer.
 The decline of the cattle industry has been as amazing and rapid as was its rise. The business is not simply suf- fering from stagnation; it has almost ceased to exist. Early in the eighties a beef steer running on the range rep resented forty dollars; one-fourth that sum would pay for him now. Thirty dollars was the average price for q cow with calf at her side; now whole herds are disposed of for six dollars a head.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-02-01
cont,nnous Rnlls 2 NecessIty.

A serious trouble, causing many rail- road accidents, is that our rail is not continuous, being broken in Q number of places by switches and frogs. Per haps only higher wisdom than ours can tell us how to avoid accidents caused by open switches, as long as these dangerous devices are not elin- mated from the track. This should be done, even if the cost of otherwise set ting off the cars be more expensive. Let us make our rails absolutely con- tinuous, says the Engineering Maga- zine, and transfer e rs bodily to adja- cent tracks by the use of hoisting ma chinery. Such devices are used in Eng land-of course under the control of a block system-and are found very safe and satisfactory. Particularly should tracks on which very fast trains are run be made continuous, as accidents to such tr2ins are much more serious than those that happen to slow trains.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-02-01
A VselAss Fieh.

4 Maine fishing schooner had the odd and unpleasant experience recently Of continually filling it's nets with kind of fish that the fishermen didn't want they were after nlaci1ercl and ran into g school of whiting, Q useless fish about two feet long. The schooner had twenty-eiGht drag nets out, and every ono was filed almost to breaking with the thousands Of whiting. l. was 9 whole nights work to clear the nets after each haul. After getting clear of the whiting the beat eaught, in the course Of whole days fishing, twenty five maelcerel n its tyventy-eiGht nets.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-02-01
QUEER MEXICAN MONEY.
Traveller T1any Years Ago Gets Ills Ex-
 change Tn Soap.

LT3FSASE LSt--S ago OcCS A2AS
 change in Soap.
 Here is an amusing account from Uarper's. Round Table of a traveller who went many years ago to Mexico, and found the natives using a strange kind of currency. Says he:
 ''Ip one of the small towns I bought some lines, and gave the girl one dol lar in payment. By way of change, she returned me forty-nine pieces of soap the size of 6 small biscuit. I looked at her in astonishment, and she. returned my look with equal surprise, when Q police office, who had witnessed the in- cident, hastened to inform me that for small sums soap was legal tender in many portions of the country.
 II examined my change, and found that each cake was stamped with the name of . town and of manufacture authorized by tho government. The cakes Of soap were worth three farth- ings each. Afterwards, in my travel, I frequently received similar change. Many of the cakes showed signs of hav- ing been i1 the wash-tub; but that l discovered was not at all uncommon. Provided the stamp was not obliter- ated, the soap did not lose any value as currency. Occasionally man would borrow a cake of a friend, wash his hands and return 1t with thanks. I made use of my pieces more than once in my bath, and subsequently, spent them"
The St. Johns herald., 1896-02-01
HE WAS AFTER JOSEPH.
One of the disadvantages of Having
 Twin Brother Explained.


 Twas over in the Pennsylvania depot the other day when a train came n bearing q young man who stood over six feet high and had arms as long as the Dickets on fence, says tho Detroit Tree Press. He was making inquiries about the ferry boats when he spied loudly dressed young fellow not far away, whom anybody would have picked out as a travelling fakir. The giant from the country made three long steps and picked the fal1ir off his feet and slammed him down and as he held him on the blanks he said:
 s'Durn yer hide, but thought I'd run across ye agin some day. How1s the tooth-powder swindle?' How's sellin' man sunthin' that's split every durned tooth in his head tryin' to clean 'em? I'm goin' to make q cold corpse of you in jest two minutcs!"
 But the police were on hand to haul him of and insist that he go his way. The fakir had been roughly used and couldn't get his breath for several min utes. When the big depot had got through whirling around with him l asked him if he had been in the tooth powder business, and he smiled in siclzly way as he replied:
 q never was. He takes me for my twin brother Joe. who goes about sell ing that stuff. It takes the enamel off, but Joe keeps right on scllingit. Hang that haysced-he almost killed lne!''
 And you also have line?" l asked.
 ''Oh, yes. I sell sure cure for con- sumption for only twenty-five cents bottle and throw in pair of eyeglasses worth half dollar with each sale, but that fellow wasn't after me. It was the tooth powder and must speak to Joseph and warn him of the error of his rvoxyc g
The St. Johns herald., 1896-02-01
SOME GOOD IN HIM.
How the Prisoner Succeeded in Impress

How the Prisoner Succeeded in Impress
 ing His Captors by Speech.
 The Texas court had convened at the foot of 9 telegraph pole and the horse thief was watching the proceedings. says the New York Sun. Presently the judge turned to him.
 ''Seein," he said, ''as how the boys come off in a hurry and forgot the rope and it's goin' to take some time fer the man to git back that's gone after it, p'r'aps you like to make a few remarks to entertain the crowd and git yer mind offen the main objcck uv yer bein' present on this occasion"
 ''I ain't much of a speaker replied the prisoner, but I'm willin' to please, and as used to be an exhorter before I got the Texas habit I reckon I might make try at it."
 Well, go ahead: you've got a few minutes and the choice of subjecks. Considerin' yer doin' it to please us, we won't be too perticlzelar."
 ''Can't you make it Q few years" :" smiled the prisoner.
 "Wed like to, but the objeck of the nieetin' wouldn't git fair shake. Be- sides, we've been to a good deal of trouble to git you here and we ain't got time to waste that away. You jist go ahead and make the speech and make her lively, fer the boys may git to shootin' before the rope gifts here"
 Thus importuned, the prisoner took his place on pile of railroad ties and launched forth in an inpassioncd ad- dress, patriotic, religious. personal and highfalutin, the poor fellow evidently feeling, as had been suggested by the leader, that in this way he might for get the object of the meeting.
 He kept it up for fifteen minutes or more and then the leader held up his hand for him to stop and he looked around nervously, expecting to see the man returning with the rope; and that's what he did see, but the leader stepped out and beckoned the man to one side.
 "That's all right" he said reassur- ingly to the prisoner; then he turned to the crowd. Boys" he said, ''you have heerd this man maxim a speech here for the last fifteen CT twenty min utes, and in all that time he ain't said a dern word about free silver ner the Wilson tariff bill, and I move you now that we give him fifteen minutes to git out. Thar must be some good in him and we ought to give him chance to let it spread. All in favor of that mo- tion say ave-" and with a unanimous vote those wild and woolly Texans gave that horse thief another chance for his white alley.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-02-01

nl-..-1 osen AN EARTHQUAKE.
,sOrcl Train Experience Of an American
 Traveller in Turkey.

Traveller in Turkey.
 Ri5ing on Q train over ground shalsen 55v earthquake is the novel experience Of Q Coasfantiaople correspondent Of the Cincinnati Tribune. lie thus de- scribes it:
 "All at once the air grew still. an oppressive silence seemed 10 hang on vale and lsill and all the people stopped short. Is seemed to me that we ran in- to a bad piece of track or that our train hat suddenly quiclIened is pace. saw S.r5-i-n woman with child in her arras s.agger, stop, take the water jug from her head and hug her fright cned baby to her naked breast. Hun- olreGs cf yoke cattle were lowing, bur ros were braylng and the whole GoelIs Of sheep were crying on the distant downs. Meantime the curves seemed to increase, and, all though we were not making more than forty mics aa hour, we appeared to fairly hy Men stood still and stared at She heavens. 4 Mohamnedan slid down from 3 pack mule, spread out his prayer rug, set his face toward Mecca and prayed. Christians crossed them selves, and as often as I stole . glance at the driver found hin looking at me.
 'sTII now had attributed the action Of these wild people to childish wonder at seeing the train sweep by, but when l looked at the almost pale face of the sun crowned driver l was bewildered. Tie things l bcheld were all so un- r.sf aral that I felt my head swimming. Glanciag ahead l saw the straight track take on curves and shake them out again. resembling running snake. The valley had become a narrow gulch, and from the near hills arose great clouds Of smoke, as from quarry when the shots go of. The fireman, who had been busy at the furnace door, stood up now and gazed at the driver, who pressed his left hand over his eyes, then took it off and tried to zee, but made no attempt to check the speed of the flying train. As drunken cowboy dashing down 2 straight street sways in his saddle-as wounded bird reels through the air-did this mad monster of a locomotive swing and swim over the writhing rail.
 ''Suddenly great curve appeared in front of us. This time the stol1er, who had left of firing, saw it, and made the sign of the cross. Again the driver hid his eyes, and again I felt my brain growing dizzy trying to understand. We could hear and feel the engine wheels rise and fall on the twisting rail with dcafcning sound. At last she settled down and began to glide away as boat giides down a running stream. What is it?' 1 asked of the French fireman.
 .Trcmbleaant de terre,' he said, shaking himself violently and fainting to the floor, and then understood that we had been riding over an earthquake. The driver was either too proud and brave to stop. or too frightened to be able to shut off steam; don't know which"
The St. Johns herald., 1896-02-01
Adrsce .n 9 c-,rn-c.

The New York Press tells oi @ man who was in hospital in that city and while there had both legs alnDutated. Recently a lady on good work intent visited the hospital and distributed tracts. By strange mixture this man received one which read: Dancing j. a sin." Shc did not notice his r13for- tunate position and went away hspF.c, when he solennly assured aer tiAal. aj- thorgh he had been a coatirDlcd dancer in the pas.. he ueu.d never dance again; and she TO doubt departed with tue consciousness C. havins done Q Cood work.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-02-01
Steel Ropes Known in Pompeu.

While conducting a series of tests with a one hrndred-to2 testing machine at the Yorkshire college in England, which included the testing of a steel wire rope, Prof. Cochran stated that such ropes were not modern invcn- tion. and that he had recently seen a bronze wire rope one-half inch in diam ster and from twenty to thirty feet long, which had been found buried in the ruins of Pompeii, and which must have been at least nineteen hundred years old.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-02-01
Chese tn Enciand.

The Danes and Scandina7ians first brought chess to England when re- turning from some Of their voyages to Byzantiuln. There is q mention of chess in Q chronicle relating to the court of King Pepin Of Trance, 76 6z 4 D., which says: "ln tho fourteenth year Of King PeYin he 0eseowea pre- cious gifts on the eeclesiasncs. such as sat of crystalline chessnen, various gems and a l.-.e zCa1 nf Vaisi
The St. Johns herald., 1896-02-01
APACHE COUNTY, ARIZONA,
 Bureau of Information.

By addressing the undersigned, intend ing settlers and home seekers will be furnish ed with all information, covering the re- sources of Apache County, climate, soil, pro- ducts, water facilities, land, etc., etc. The best and most feasible routes to travel to visit our locality probable cost, and all general information needed. Address all communica tiOns to
 COMMISSIONER OF IMMIGRATION,
 St Johns, Apache County, Arizona
The St. Johns herald., 1896-02-01

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