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Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-05-20

Sir Isaac Holden, the millionaire
member of Parliament from Yorkshire,
now nearly 80 years old, believes with
John Wesley that phosphates of lime,
in which -four is so rich, are good for
growing children, young people, and
young mothers, but shorten the life OF
the elderly by making bones dense
and weighty muscles rigid, Turing
the large blood vessels like an old boil
er, and choking the capillary arter-
ies." So he eats hardly any bread, his
favorite food being oranges, bananas
and meat.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-05-20

y cablegram from London says: In
consequence Of the efforts CT the gov
ernment of Massachusetts,, the Ameri-
bran Antiquarian and Massachusetts
Historical societies, the Pilgrim So
iety of Plymouth and the New Eng
Rnd Society of New York, backed up
~ the desires of the archbishop of
canterbury and the bishop of London,
he consistory court of the diocese of
london assembled March 20 in the old
fhapel of st. Paul's Cathedral in order
. determine the question of the re-
toration of the log of the Mayhower to
| he United States. After formal dis
ussion the chancellor said: 81 order
the undertaking here given by Mr..
ayard to place the log in a fit place,
here persons concerned can have ac-
hess thereto, and proper certified copy
bing deposited at Fulham that the
riginal be given up to Mr. Bayard for
ansmission to the President of the
,nited States"
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-05-20

Z BY the last census it appears that
the population of France Is now 49,
22S, 969, an increase in five years of
! only 1889, and this mainly through
J immigration. For several years past
Z the death rate has exceeded the birth
4 rate. These facts become still NO.
n uctween rdn~-, rrcr ne1Ehbors. In
dGermany the increase of population
teduring the last five years has been
2,S51,4S1, nearly 100000, as against
a 1874 900 in France. The contrast is still
more striking when these figures are
compared with those of the past. At
the beginning of the century France
loutnumbered Prussia three to one. To-
day Prussia contains almost an equal
population, and as for the whole of
Germany, there are five Germans to
every four Frenchmen.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-05-20

Reports in regard to winter wheat
re discouraging. The continuous rains.
lllowed by high water in the streams,
Ave flooded the low lands in many
brtions of southern Illinois, so that
hat wheat was not winter killed has
zen utterly ruined by water Reports
ON nearly half of the counties in the
ate, including almost all of the win
r-wheat growing counties, are that
go-thirds Of the wheat seeded last fall
i ,749, 900 acres was winter killed or
.stroyed by floods, and the condition
Y the remaining third-5S9, 900 acres
so poor that under the most favora-
E conditions only one-third of an av-
! age crop may be expected. The out
pix is that little more than enough
beat for seed will be harvested in
|inois this season, and the people will
We to depend on other states for
beat for consumption, condition
at has occurred but once in the agri-
1tural history of the state.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-05-20

Such enormous sums are being paid
for houses and windows in London
along the route of the royal procession
on June ~ next, and so costly are the
preparations made by the people of the
metropolis for the celebration of the
sixtieth anniversary of the Queens as
cension to the throne that during the
last three months her Majesty's life
has been insured to the tune of nearly
$4,000, 900 by shopkeepers, window bro
kers, house agents and spectators,
who are anxious to protect themselves
against loss in the possible event of
the venerable sovereign's death before
the date of the jubilee
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-05-20

Chairman Dingley, of the house ways
and means committee, claims that the
tariff bill as amended by the senate
finance committee will not produce as
much revenue as would the origina
house bill, Notwithstanding the pro-
posed increase in the beer and tea rev
enues.
The queen regent of Spain has is
sued decree authorizing the raising
of $40, 900, 600 to be secured by the GUS
toms duties of Spain TO meet the cost
Of military operations in Cuba and the
Philippine islands. The Bank of Spain
will undertake the issue.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-05-20

Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria has dis
appeared, and now it will be In order
to search the Partisan music halls II
his subjects wish to know just who
she is
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-05-20

Recent expressions by Cuban leaders
indicate that they have lost hope OF as
sistance from the United States; but
they keep right on fighting, while we
persevere in doing police duty for
Spain.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-05-20
GRAIN. ETC.

sDetroit-Hay. No | timothy $40 per ton
Potatoes, new southern. sl.15 per blu; old, I6c.
A.. We Poultry, chickens, SC per ID: ducks iOc;
turkeys 1Oc. Eggs. strictly fresh SC per doz
Butter dairy, &c per lib; creamery, l6c.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-05-20

To have bad habit is to have hard
master.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-05-20

Give self power to move a noun
tain, and it will put big sign out on
il to show who did it, as the house
movers do.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-05-20

If the eastern hostilities could be re-
duced to war of words the Greek Ian
guage would come in very handy in
deed.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-05-20

Our old clothes have lost us some
friends, but not so many as our opin-
ions about our neighbors.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-05-20

|he shameful charge is made in Bal
ore that school commissioners and
iticians are selling appointments OF
CHEERS. II there is any truth in II.
offenders richly deserve to be fined
J imprisoned
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-05-20

|Weyler says 1t is all over, and the
ban rebellion is as meek as a whip
] child. Gomez says Spain is about
give it up as the toughest job she
Pr contracted for. And between the
P are the trocha, yellow fever, small
< and a brand new bicycle track for
bse on either side who like to scorch
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-05-20

Examination and Advice to Patentability OF In
vention. Send for sInventors Guide, How to Get
Patent" OFARRELL a SON. Washington. ID. G.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-11-20
The Farmer in Prosperity.

From Harpers Weekly, Republican, Sept 4.
Since January the farmers have sold
nearly 500, 900, 600 in breadstuffs alone.
Last year they had disposed of less than
S84, 900, 600 in the same period, and in
1895 less than S65, 900, 00O In two
years they have gained market in this
single line of products larger by $35, 600,
600.
Let not the farmer be deceived as to the
cause of his prosperity. He has for some
years been producing wheat in competition
with countries which had equal facilities
for growing and greater ability to export.
The American farmer has looked upon
Europe as his market; but Russia, India,
and Argentina, having almost unlimited
territory for wheat growing vast supply
of labor at call, and a surplus production
for sale, pushed forward their wares, and
not only took a share of the European
market for wheat. but threatened to monOp-
olize it. Nature has interfered, and every
where except in the United States there
exist fears of short harvests-a fear which
prevents exports and anticipates imports of
food. SO the farmer of the United States
is in the advantageous position of seller
disposing of his goods in a market where
many buyers are competing against one
another, and in consequence the prices
rise. He is selling grain to England and
to Argentina, to Japan and to British
India. This is the only explanation to be
given of the dividend now paid to the
farmer.
Yet there are SOME who would have
him believe the new tariff duties on i'm
ported breadstutfs are the cause of the bet
terment. No duty on an article where
the export is many times the import has
or can have, any influence other than one
of restriction. No farmer of the land ever
sold bushel of corn or of wheat for bet
ter price because of the tariff on these
grains. and no one ever bought more grain
because of these duties They are obsta-
cles to trade, not encouragements to pro-
duction or consumption Today the Amer
lean wheat grower enjoys his market at
home and abroad. But before another
year has passed he may find Europe rais-
ing barriers against his products, imposing
duties discriminating against his grain, and
excluding his meat products-because he
has been induced to accept the theory that
in highly protective tariff is to be found
all that is good.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-11-20
Business Judgment.

If farmers and poultrymen generally
would use more business judgment they
would be more successful. 1t is not only
necessary to send fresh eggs to market,
but they should be well sorted in the crate
as to color and size Furthermore, they
should be clean. Dirty eggs and all
varieties of shapes and colors will not at
tract the eye of the buyer, says the Home
stead. In these days of close competition
one cannot be too careful about the manner
in which shipments are made. 1t is the
same with dressed poultry. Poultry should
have plump and tempting appearance,
free from pin feathers and absolutely clean.
The head and feet should have clean and
fresh look. One reason why scalded
poultry never sells well in market is on ac-
count of the pale, shrunken look. Another
good business principle is to serve the
market according to her demands. If she
wants white eggs don t ship brown, and If
she wants brown, dom force white ship
ment on her. Your broilers would go
begging in roasters market, and your
roasters would have slow sales if broilers
were asked for. There are so many little
things that must be considered. How to
market is a fact that must be closely stud
led. Waiting for holidays has made much
disappointment. There are too many
waiting for those events The man who
markets when he has something ready for
market is generally the one who comes ont
the best. And he who is enabled to
market once a week the year round has
the greatest success.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-11-20
Corn as an Adulterant.
From the Milwaukee twis) Sentinel.

HEOHl lile MllWdUkee WIS sentinel
A report comes from st. Louis to the eff
feet that corn is extensively used as am
adulterant of wheat -four and also as
substitute for barley malt by brewers.
The millers of St Louis are said to have
declared that manufacturers of wheat -four
will be either driven out of the market in
the course of time or forced to adulterate
their product in order to meet the competi-
ton that surrounds them Corn -four is,
it seems, being produced on very large
scale, and the only mills showing an in
crease Of business this year are those man
ufacturing exclusively corn products, all of
which show an enormous increase. They
are turning out not only corn -four made
from grits, but new -four made from
corn starch, which is said to be very white
and finely ground, so that it lends itself
particularly well to use as an adulterant
Corn -four has been sold as low as 20 cents
hundred pounds, so that it is quite an
object to bakers and manufacturers to use
it. The bakers are said to be doing the
greater part of the adulterating in order to
cheaper the cost of their -four In the
manufacture of crackers and that class of
bakery goods the adulterated article is said
to be most extensively used.
The brewers figure as the largest pur-
chasers of corn products. Corn fakes are
substituted for barley malt, producing ex-
cellent results, while the expense of max
ing beer is lessened and the process is said
to be less troublesome. The beer that is
adulterated with corn is more palatable, but
it is not as wholesome as the pure article.
There is no reason to doubt the truth of
these reports concerning the use of corn
as an adulterant 1t would be strange if
its introduction into the -four and beer
trade had been prevented, considering the
magnitude of the corn crop and the great
effort that has been made to utilize it. 1t
is, however unfortunate that it cannot
find a legitimate field, instead of coming
into trade as an adulterant Whatever
gain it may show at present from this cause
is likely to be temporary, for the consum-
ers are clearly entitled to protection from
adulterations, and are bound to receive it.
1t is no more fair that -four and bread
should be bought as made Of whole wheat
when they are mixture of corn and wheat
than it is that filed cheese should be
bought as full cream cheese. 1t is best
that the purchaser shall be sure that what
he is buying is exactly what it purports to
be. A law that compels millels and bakers
to sell genuine goods will undoubtedly be
demanded and passed in the course of time.
A similar law relating to beer will un-
doubtedly also find its way upon the statute
books.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-11-20

Translated from the German torSl Louis kepuDlc'
The butler new boy was serving his
first dinner. He stood behind the chair
of the young Countess Lida, handing her
the dish with the asparagus from the right
instead of the left side. She gave him a
disdainful glance over her shoulder He
was helpless, overgrown lad. His big
hands, clumsier than they were naturally
in the white cotton gloves, elung like grim
death to the fine, gold bordered dish, and
his round, moon face was red and hot and
covered with fine beads of perspiration.
When the countess saw the embarrass-
ment of the youngster, she relented. The
butler boy made her laugh.
"Excuse him, countess" implored old
Marriott, the butler. Its my nephew's
first experience. He will soon learn to do
better
Certainly, Marlot, smiled the girl
graciously Then she turned, looked
straight into the youths bashful eyes and
asked him for his name
sEChristian, - answered the lad
lone can learn anything one chooses,
ell, Christian p said the countess to the
overgrown, hapless, youngster with the
exasperating air of would be wise young
woman.
The party which sat around Count
Minsterhaven' festive board grew merrier
as the wine began to flow. The young
cavaliers teased the countess, who was
never at a loss for an answer
Old Marriott stood stark and stiff behind
the chair of the dowager countess, and his
nephew, Christian, was ligidly glued to
the back of the chair of the Countess
Ida
He gazed down upon the fair young
neck, against which trembled soft, dark
tendrils. Filmy lace half yelled the fair
white flesh of the shoulders, the like
Christian had never seen before.
Christian came from a poor, forlorn
home in little out of the way village
He knew nothing beyond what he had
learned in the village school and from the
parson, who had prepared him for confir-
nation He had never seen beauty-he
had never even dreamed Of it.
TO wait at table was not his sole Occu-
patton, for Christian had been especially
hired to care for the young countess Shet-
land pony Oleander, to lift her into the
saddle when she mounted her horse to ac-
company her father on his country rides.
Day after day her dainty foot rested in his
broad, red palm Day after day it made
him happy, he knew not why.
Count Minsterhaven was an omnivOrous
reader and his daughter shared that praise
worthy quality. Besides novels and works
of current literature the counts library
contained valuable scrientific works of early
and later date just now third person
seemed to take an interest in these books.
The count missed first one and then another
work, which he remembered having laiC
in certain place. After awhile it always
came back to where he had placed IT,
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-11-20
An Untrodden Canadian wilderness.
From scribner's Magazine

From ScrlDnerS S Magazine.
The vast country north of the Gulf of
St. Lawrence is, to the uncommercial ex-
plorer, the most interesting region on this
continent, if not in the world For nearl y
four centuries the ships of civilization have
sailed by it, yet, except at the very water
edge, there has been no intrusion upon it.
The rivers which pour forth from every
opening in the hills bear witness that the
back country is network of lakes and
water courses. Ask the Commissioner OF
Crown Lands of the great Province of
Quebec today what his department knows
of that region, and he will tell you that it
is the least known portion of North Amer
lea; that only few of the lakes have been
surveyed; that two exploring parties have
recently crossed the peninsula; that hand
full of fishermen houses fringe the gulf; T;
that for the rest Of it the wandering Mon
tagnal Indians are the only tourists who
traverse half million square miles of terri
tory. Steamers go up the Saguenay
Lake St. John is reached by rail- But
away to the northeast is a tremendous tract
of country, from whence issue streams
greater than the Hudson, the headwaters
of which no white man has ever seen.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-11-20
goetrp.
THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS
BIZ UTHiam Cullen Bryant

BIZ IPIHian Cullen Bryant
The melancholy days have come the saddest of the
year,
OF waillng winds and naked woods and meadows
brown and sers
Heaped in the hoIIows of the grove the autumn
leaves lie dead;
They rustic to the eddying gust and to the rabbits
tread.
shrubs the jay,
And from the wood top calls the crow through all
the gloomy day.
Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers that
~lately sprang and stood
ill., hter light and softer air, beauteous sister
hood?
Alas! they all are in their graves The gentle race
of flowers
Are lying in their lowly beds, with the fair and
good of ours.
The rain is falling where they lie but the cold No
vember rain
Callsnot from out the gloomy earth the lovely
again.
The wind flower and the violet. they perished long
ago
And the brier rose and the orchis die amid the sum-
mer glow,
But on the hill the goldenrod, and the aster in the
wood
And the yellow snnfower by the brook in autumn
beauty STOOD
Till fell the frost from the clear cold heaven,
falls the plague on men,
And the brightness of their smile was gone from
upland, glade and glen.
And now when comes the calm, mild day, still
such days will come,
To call the squirrel and the bee from ont their
winter home;
When the sound of dropping nuts is heard, though
all the trees are still,
And twinkle in the smoky light the waters of the
rl,
The south wind searches for the flowers whose
fragrance late he bore,
And sighs to find them in the wood and by the
stream no more.
And then l think of one who in her youthful
beauty died.
The fair meek blossom that grew up and faded by
my side.
In the cold, moist earth we laid her. when the
forests cast the leaf
And we wept that one so lovely should have life
so brief;
Yet not unmeet it was that one like that young
friend of ours,
Sogentle and so beautiful, should perish with the
flowers
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-11-20
AUTUMN DAYS.

From The BuFato Courier.
Who calls 'em melancholy days, the saddest of
the year?"
Why land O. sakes the autumns full an runnin'
DER with cheer!
The garnered crops air in the barn, the apples in
the bin,
An, like the ilies of the field 1--WE neither toll
nor spin.
Bring out the old corn -popper;
Put apples on the table;
Well dance an sing an eat our fill
Take comfort while we're able;
Throw fuel on the roarin blaze, beside its ruddy
glow
Well listen to entrancin' tales of magic ong ago."
Put nuts to roastin on the hearth, invite the nab
in,
Take down the fiddle, strike the tune an let the
fun begin.
Shake up the old corn-popper
An keep the corn a-toastin.
Rake out the Goals upon the hearth
An put the nuts TO roastin'.
The turkeys in the roastin pan, the chickens in
the pot;
The spareribs in the oven an when the tables sot
I'd like to find feler sharp enough to find trace
o. sad or melancholy days s-hangin round my
place
Jes' pass the meat an taters,
Eat hearty an be jolly;
With friends to greet an lots to eat
Who cares for melancholy?
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-11-20
The Thanksgiving Gown

Should have immediate attention, and
we are displaying most beautiful selec-
ton of materials in Silks and Woolens
suitable for this occasion This assort-
ment, combined with an attractive selection
of the latest Partisan ideas in trimmings,
makes on a whole the grandest array ever
seen in Westminster
Hundreds of the newest effects in French
and German Novelty Wool Fabrics at
prices ranging from soc to 81 90.
In Silk Goods
We are displaying an assortment of all
the fashion leaders, including every nov
city.
Beautiful Two Toned Novelty Silks at
75c.
Handsome Stripe, Check and Plaid
Tahetas $100.
Special values in Black Satin Duchess,
75c, SIZE, S1.00, 1.25.
If you have not yet selected your new
HAT or BONNET for Thanksgiving we
are prepared to serve you at short notice.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-11-20
The Greatest of Cargoes.

New ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, Oct. 81
The steamship Milwaukee sailed today for
Liverpool with the largest cargo of cotton,
if mot the largest general cargo ever foated
Il consisted of %, $50 bales of cotton
80, 200 bushels of grain, 80, 818 pieces of
slaves, 230O oars, her entire cargo being
equal to 26, 900 bales of cotton. 1t would
take 500 freight cars to carry her cargo,
and the train would measure three and a
quarter miles in length.