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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-06-05
WIN. E. DERR.
THE GREAT MODEL EMPORIUM,

MORE WONDERFUL STORE NEWS.
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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-06-05
EMBROIDERY.

EMBROIDERY
1000 yards pretty Cambria Embroidery with work,
&c and &c values sold only strips of yards at 15ca strip
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-06-05

Another notable feature of this extraordi-
nary trick in partisan legislation is the mani
festly deliberate and preconcerted manner in
which it is so framed as TO evade during the
first two years of its operation its own pre-
tended provisions for the protection of the
minority party. The better to obscure its real
purpose Of partisan iniquity, the bill as pre-
sented pretended to afford te the minority
safe guarantee Of honest representation upon
the all important board of election supervi
sors, who are placed in complete control of
this ingeniously contrived election machinery
The very first subsection of the bill provided
that the members of this important board,
representing political party, should be APP
pointed by the Governor from persons recon-
mended by ''the State central committees
representing each of the two leading political
parties of the State;" but in order to effectu-
ally offset that great show of fairness it was
ingeniousy provided in the last section but
one of the long bill ''that if before the passage
of this act the Governor, by and with the ad-
vice ofthe present Senate, shall have appointed
under then existing laws supervisors of elee-
tions or any of them. for the various counties
efthe State, or for said city, such appointments
so advised and consented to, shall stand and
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-06-05
SHOE DEPARTMENT.

Our Fine Shoes for ladies and children the syl
sh and best made goods be found at moderate prices
Ladies' Custom and Handmade Oxford Ties in every
style and tip, S175 and $685. that truly worth
one quarter than the price
Boys and Youths Canvas Tennis Shoes, with rubber
soles, all sizes, at sec pair.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-06-05

Thus it is clearly made to appear that by
repeating the strict oath required of the ballot
clerk ana all penalties for its violation, all re-
striction of secrecy is removed from the Off
GERS who supervise the voting of the illiterates,
and the illiterate Negro voters of the State
are thereby subjected to the strictest surveil-
lance. In point of fact, proof can be adduced
from the Southern Maryland counties that
this change in the law was impressed on the
colored voters in the campaign of 1896, and
they were thereby intimidated and solidifed
at the last election.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-06-05

Following is a copy of letter received by
the County Commissioners from the State
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-06-05

BOYS SEPARATE PANTS
One large lot of Boys Wool Pants, in styles,
well made, the 75e grade, all sizes, at 39c pair.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-06-05
LADIES DRESS SKIRTS.

One new lot of Separate Skirts the styles and
materials that have sold for S5 90 and Sc co. offer them
at $3.50
Fine quality Brocade Taea SILK Dress Skirts at "a 90.
The times., 1897-09-27

1t VIII not be long before the diamond
win give place to the gridiron, and the
baseball mines viii have an opportunity
To go on prolonged bat, while the foot
ball elevens viii return to college fun Of
pluck and determination to lick the other
fellows out of their boots. Such is life,
and man is like the grass which grOWeth
up and is consequently subject to hay
fever and the scythe of old Time. And
with the melancholy da Us Which usher in
the football season will come the discus
sion whether or not students ought to be
allowed to play football. There Will be
the same old arguments about its brutal
ity and the way in which it interferes with
more gentle occupations and there VIII
be outcries from fond mothers, who see
visions of their precious boys with noses
broken and ankles sprained and systems
permanently injured by indulgence in
match games; and there VIII be mild
growls from fathers who think that their
boys ought to get something out of college
besides athletics, and college professors
VIII write learned articles for and against
the football match; and the football team
win jog serenely on it's way from glory to
glory, and occupy several columns every
week or so in all the daily papers. Prob
ably the preachers disapproved OF the
tournament OF the Middle Ages, but the
tournament continued all the same, till it
died of old age. The fact is, fashion in
dress, in sports, in politics, or anything
else has to run its course like the measles,
and it might as well be understood that
this is so.
The times., 1897-09-27
Loves Beggar.

Who is not loved lives not at all,
AID knows not either JOY or Woe;
And lest such fate should him befan
lie came q beggar, louting low,
II bend said lie, that l may liyeI
1 bow before the one l prize,
That she the aims l crave may give,
Drawn from the treasury OF her eyes"
Who hegS for love but wastes his speech,
When far too humbly he implores;
He sets too high above his reach
The being whom te thus adores.
And So, though courtly were her ways,
A veil Of scorn her visage bore;
Indifferent to his prayers and praise,
She turned the beggar from the door.
The beggar was not overshrewd,
And perfect love had made him blind;
Not his to see a changing mood,
Not his tc fathom woman's mind.
For she in musing on his fate
Felt pity for the suitor spurned,
And pity turned to love--too late
Tie Deggar nevermore returned.
Thomas Dunn English, in Harper's MagI
zine
The times., 1897-09-27
BimetaIlism Abroad.

notwithstanding the fact that con
siderable number OF prominent Lon
don bankers, representing leading
private and joint stock Institutions,
attended the meeting in that city
last week called to consider the letter OF
the governor Of the Bank of England on
tlre question Of a silver reserve, and joined
IN passing A resolution seriously erticising
tile proposition, there no longer can be any
doubt that financial opinion in tie great
center OF the worlds exchanges steadily
and visilIy is veering around to the silver
nde.
In prof OF this It may be remarked that
sGch an ultra-conservauve gold exponent
as KradeUects. in referring to this new
development, says: 1T is stated that con
siderable weight CT opinion has developed
in London banking circles in favor of a
modified reopening of the Indian mints to
the coinage OF silver, many of those who
sre not extremists in their views taking
Tire ground that the closing of the mints
was mistake. and that the scarcity of
money and high interest rates in India
makes some relief a necessity for the good
Of commerce in India"
One would think, what with evidence of
this gradual return of the British mind
TO the plane Of financial common sense.
aud strong indications that the ministry
and Bank Of England both favor some move
ment in the direction of bimetallism, that
our commissioners ought 20 meet the Brit
ish authorities next month with improved
chances for success 1t is hard to say
how fan these chances may be depressed
by any idea that the Hanna Adrninistra-
ton has been hypocntical on the subject
OF International bimeta llism, notwith-
standing the declaration of the st. Louis
platform and the pledge contained iu MI
AcKinleys inaugural address. Il will
The times., 1897-09-27
rAn1s JorRNALs rRoTEsr.
Certain Papers Uneasy About PossI-
BILE Interference in Cuba.

Paris Sept 26.-There is a certain tone
Of inquie tude discernible in the protests OF
the French journals against the intcner-
ence OF America in Cuban affairs.
The Gaulois says bluutly that Europe IS a
whole is deeply interested in preventing
Cuha from dropping into the hands OF the
Government at Washington.
Here 1t is felt, in spite Of the official
denials, that Gen. Woodfords comnunica
tIou certainly indicates direct intervention
sourer or later. The sympathy OF Europe
in general would saen 10 incline to be side
Of Spain. sll, as the SolelI remarks
sensibly enough sympathy viii not help
her The paper aGds: And, although
American arrogance Inay be hard to bear T.
the risks are too great for the friends Of
Spain TO wish To sec her plunged blindIy
into war with America
The Figaro goes further than any other
Journal in its comment on tie policy OF
America, insisting upon it that the ex-
cuses adduced TO justify Intervention are
puerile.
America it declares, mas no greater n sht,
no greater Interest in Cuba than has any
other government in the world, without
exception Mr. Mckinley has shown his
hostile intentions by renomiBating Gen.
Lee to the consul generaIship in Havana,
and that the tnsurection is being secretly
enooGragedis proved by the announcement
in the American papers of cargoes OF
arms aud ammunition which leave daily
for Cuba.
The result, according to tie Figaro, is
that America is evidently preparing
to drive the Spaniards out Of their
American possession. 1t IS now for
Europe to decide whether she viii
permit it. To such as may Judge the
question to be one OF the secondary order
aud consequently negligible, We would
state that German diplomatist is at this
moment studying the problem with the
deepest attention, and we would remind
them that the war Of 1870 sprang from a
diplomatic error committed in Spain"
The times., 1897-09-27
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER p. 1897.
Common sense From london.

Common sense From London.
Il b. not often that we find ourselves
N agreement with any one Of our English
contemporaries on subjects connected with
International politics On that account
1t Is the more pleasant to read something
in the London Spectator on the subject OF
our strained relations with Spain. The
Spectator appears TO accept as true the
report ;hat tha American Government has
admunished Spain in regard TO the Cuban
situation, and says:
Apart from the fact that pride and ig-
nofdIife OF tie consequences hIo spain deTy
tie United states, war i probably con-
sldered TO he the best way out Of the
difficulties.
Were the government TO propose the
abandonment OF Cuba Ia cCid blood, IL
would simply mean handing over the coun-
try 70 Don Carlos so the government pro-
poses 20 employ America as the surgeon, 10
20 tlie HecesSarE ainputauOn, Which VIII
alone prevent tie Cuban gangrene from
spreading 10 the rest of the body polite.
TO prglong the war would be a crime,
and III America chooses TO stop these hid
eOus cruelles all EDgliShuen should ap-
plauu ana refuse 10 inquire too narrowly
into tie reason which influences her
statesmen in putting pressure upon Spain.
There Is good sense and praiseworthy
regard for humanity in utterances like the
aDove- il IS to be regretted that we de-
not hear more Of them. They sound well
compared wttn the views exchanged be
tween the Kaiser and Franz Joseph Of
Austria at Budapest the other day, when
tie latter Is reported to have inquired OF
his guest what they would better DO in
view Of this interference OF America in
tie affairs Of Spain.
As far a. the news and gossip of the
continental capitals is good authority, there
docs not appear to be much prospect that
even the German Emperor, who is the
most reckless of the lot, viii do more
than growl in case we should have trouble
with the Spanish government. Notes, we
are t0ld, haze been exchanged between
tile different cabinets and a tacit under
Standing reached that they are to feel
sorry FOR The Queen Regent and keep their
hands 0Ut OF the fire, which is the sensible
thing for them to do.
That being comfortably arranged, IT
only remains for Us to possess our souls
in patience. The Ohio election is due to
arrive now in five weeks. In about four
weeks, therefore, it win be time to listen
intenty for something to drop, the sick
euing thud Of which viii resound from
the 1gaye-washed shores Of Cleveland to
the Indiana frontier. We have waited So
long foT whatever is going to happen, the
hope may be excused that when it does
materiaIize it viii be something worth
while.
The times., 1897-09-27
A vAGRANT's PITEoUs TALE.
A Crayon Artists sad Story Told
in a City Court.

Mount Vernon n. Y, Sept. 26.-Jobn
Barrett limped before Justice Shatz in the
city court yesterday morning. The charge
against him was that OF vagraucy. He is
a very Small man, not more than forty
years old, with long, tangled hair, and
matted beard. His big, blue eyes had such
a piteous expression that Justice shatz
asked curtly, What's the matter, my
MANI"
y am a vagrant, sir = was the res sponse,
but please let me go on my way. l don't
want the disgrace OF a CELL
Have YOU any way of gaining your
LIVELIHOOD"
I'm an artist
An aFtjst?" queried the Judge in sur
prise.
Yes said Barrett. and producing a
stub Of pencil, he picked up piece of
paper and in a twinkHng had drawn an
excellent sketch of MS honor.
Wei, you are an artist, sure enough;
you can make a living"
u don't want 10. I have no ambition
now. I used 10 make Comforta bie living
doing crayon work. I could make money
by sketchmg Ikeuesses on the road, but,
Judge, 1 haven't the heart. My wife,
she was beautiful and faithless. One
night l saw indisputable evidence of her
sin. The man was big and powerful
We fought, and he threw me out of a
window. That's why I'm crippled.
MY heart is broken. I'm too manly to
take my life. 1 just wander on and on
until night falls, and l am so tired I fall
readily to sleep and forget my sorrow.
Judge, cont lock me up. In a cell I'd
ne ans BILE 10 forget the past; I'd go mad"
You are discharged, said his honor, hrr-
riedly picking UP tie sketch and staring at
it vacamtly.
Barett said he had left his home, In
Pittsburg, a year ago, and had been a
wanderer ever since. IN a little bag that
be carried he had hundred or more clever
landscapes ard character sketches.
The times., 1897-09-27
GLADSTONE. Greece ANA Egypt

Hitherto We have efered to Mr.. Glad
stones letter, published in the London
Chronicle last week. in which the aged
statesman discussed the, for Great Britain,
hunillating treaty of peace Imposed upon
Greece 10y the Continental powers. In view
of stlu later developments, we viii quote
a few lines Of It again:
The pain, shame and mischief Of the
last two years in the Eastern policy
transcend entirely the powers Of any Ian
Suage could use concerning them. The
sum is this.
EirstlyA hundred thousand Arrnenians
have been slaughtered, with no security
against repetition, and with greater
profit 10 the assassins-
Secondly Turkey Is stronger than at
any time since the CTimean war
Thirdly Greece Is weaker than at any
time since she became a kingdom.
Fourthly-AH this is due to the Euro
pcan C0ncert-thaU is, the mutual hatred
and distrust OF the powers.
The pain aud shame are not yet com
plete for England. The Sultan not only is
preparing to reassert his power in Crete, in
which design there is 40 room for doubt
that he has the fun consent and lacking
Of Russia, but, under the same auspices, it
is apparent t6at he is about to order Great
Britain out Of Egypt.
"A recent Conaantinople dispatch 20 this
journal asserted that Russia was On the
point OF calling an International confer
ence, the purpose of which would be to
guarantee the autonomy of Egypt and the
suzerain powers Of the Sultan over that
country. If true, and we see no reason to
doubt it, there is in process of incubation
an affront to the British nation that viii
drive every citizen wild with rage.
ana, we should say, compel Lord Sails
bury to fight, no matter hat might be his
views or the probable consequences of the
combat.
1t only requires some crowning act of
insult and contumely like hatmentioned to
tear up and scatter in shreds the la st
remnant Of british prestige in Europe; that
is, unless, successfully, it could be met
with war, the result Of which would have
to be the decentralization and condign
punishment of Turkey at least, to do ] ohm
Bull any good. And chat would be diff
cult job to manage; because tits mo- Turkey
alone, but united Europe that England
would now have to meet.
The times., 1897-09-27
rhe Poor Conductors

Street car conductors must have a sad
time in Chicago. One OF the newspapers
Of that town INDUCED in sulphurous edi-
torial remarks recently on the refusal
Of conductors to change $50 bills, or
even So bills, and regards it as an outrage
that because citizen had only a $50 bill,
he was put off the car. 1t is alleged that
the conductors get surly when they are
asked to change large bills, and then the
passengers become angry, and things which
are not nice are said on both sides.
Street car companies do occasionally
think they own the earth, and employees of
those companies sometimes are surly and
accommodating, but the latter state of
things is somewhat more rare than the
first. In the first place, corporation is
said to have no soul, and the conductor
has usually been taught to believe that
he has a soul and ought to attend to it,
which makes some difference. Then the
conductor knows that II he is rude or even
in way that viii lose him his place.
1t may not be thus in Chicago, however
But unless human nature is very differ
ent I'm that town from what it is in most
other places, there are many citizens who
will, IL they can, get bin changed on
a street car instead OF taking the precau-
tion to have small change. The car is
The times., 1897-09-27

TIE mystery of Lord salsbury's action
in the matter of the sealing conference is
cleared up. According to our London adj
vices yesterday, Canada pressed him to
withdr aw, since, if Russia and Japan par
ticipated, Great Britain might be outvoted
So Sir Julian Pauncefote win not be al
lowed to start for his post until October 26,
too late to attend the conference. Posi-
bly we may be able to get along without
him. Russia, Japan and this country are
the parties of majority interest. They
ought to be able to settle the matter among
themselves and compel England and Can
ada to respect their decision.
The times., 1897-09-27

not fail to I've noticed abroad that a self.
constituted monetary commission" is
sitting at Washing ton, apparently on close
terms OF intimacy with the Secretary OF
the Treasury, and is preparing a scheme
which will he the single gold standard,
eternal and unaItereble.
An unpleasant impression may be pro-
duced in Europe if it should appear that.
now international bimetallism is seen to
be feasihle. Mr.. Hanna and Mr.. Mckinley
we're no longer as enthusiastic for it as
they formerly Were, when it seemed to
Republican leaders a matter of impossi-
biIity.
The times., 1897-09-27
Liberty in Germany.

For some time the trend of events in the
old world has seemed to be in the direc-
tion of restoration of absolutism in gov
eminent. This tendency has been encour-
aged by the vast standing armies which
Continental States have felt compelled to
maintain since the Franco Prussian war,
and which, in the hands of ambitious
princes, have seemed to be used in the
direction OF repression. though not neces
sariIy in an open manner.
No one can deny that in Europe the
mihtarism Of the generation has much ar
rested the march of progress in the mat
tar of popular liberty and the influence Of
the masses. when militarism takes abso-
lutte possession of a country, as it has of
the new German empire, it is but step
from that 10 abSolutism, and the divine
right OF which Emperor Wilhelm pTates
so persistentiy. But it appears that public
opinion is not altogether dead in Germany.
and that there still exists here and there,
son OF the fatherland with the courage
to denource the omnous advance Of medi
evalism ard tyranny, as represented in
the person of the bad-tempered man who
occupies the throne built for his grand
father by Bismarck and Moltke Herr
Haussman, leader of what is called the
South German Peoples Party, in a speech
at Mannheim delivered last week, made
use Of this particularly vigorous language,
We are not afraid of a coup d'etat.
Eerinau citizens know their strength. No
ilOuy can withstand the VIII OF the nation,
neither man. minister nor emperor. No
body Is able 20 crush that win German
by thoughts, and II won't be Squelched
IN der the plCEclhaube. Things cannot
continue much longer a $ al present For
the good or Germany there must needs
come change for the better.
while such cutbursts are possible there
should be room for hope that reaction
toward tree government may yet set in
before the advent of new century.
The nineteenth century has heen marked
bytherseo OF the people, an d, atone time, by
q general dccadence or personal despotism.
The last three decades, however, have
witnessed retrogression n ia this respect, since
constitutional institutions everywhere
have passed under the control of the
allied powers OF gold and guns.
The times., 1897-09-27
MURDERoUs sEERI INDIANS.
Attempt to Poison the Crew of Il
Schooner.

Attempt to Poison the Crew of IA
Schooner.
San Diego, Cal, Sept 2G.-Tbe seeri
Indians, of Tiburon Island, in the Gulf
of California, who have murdered many
prospeCtOrs and explorers, tried recently to
poison the crew OF the sChoon oner Emma and
Louisa, which has just returned from an
exploration OF islands of the Gulf or
Guano, under the concession from the Mexi-
can government secured by Jesse Grant
Capt Harris intended landing at Tiburon
Island, but the Seeri Indians came off in
canoes and were so hostile that he had TO
establish a night watch to guard against
an attack.
The chief OF the Indians came out, but
refused a request for any one TO land. He
kept twenty stalwart braves in a canoe
near the vessel, who watched 1t closely.
The captain thought they feare d treachery,
but afterward concluded they meant TO
capture the vessel
Tie chief presented Capt. Harris with
a vessel filled with meat stew, but none
Of the crew dared eat it. Capt. Harris fed
q portion of tie stuff to seagull, which
died in less than five minutes from the
effect of the poison contained in the
mixture. II was Iedrned from the MeXi-
cans in the Gulf that the Indians poison
the meat by holding it before a rattle
snake until it is soaked with venom.
a few days were also spent by the
Emma ana Louisa at Pelican Island, near
T1buron, where enough evidence of the hos
tility OF the Tiburon Islanders was learned
20 satisfy the captain Of the schooner that
he was right IN not landing.
The times., 1897-09-27

handy place, and it is not always handy
to get bills, especially large bills, changed
elsew here. Therefore, unless some such
rule is adopted, there are likely to be
SO many large bills to change in the course
OF the day, now and then, that the con-
ductor would have to be walking bank
of fractional currency in order to aceommo-
date. And this is not desirable 1t
seems as if anybody might see that, but
some people don't.
The times., 1897-09-27

Much surprise is expressed Ia Montreal
in view of the announcement, ia Colonial
Secretary Chamberlain's organ, that Great
Britain has ordered an extensive arma-
ment and viii undertake the foruncation
Of the Canadian metropolis on an elaborate
and costly scale. Professional remarks
made by Lord Chelmsford while inspect
ing the position leave no shadow OF doubt
that the enemy 10 be fortified against is
the American Government. a little thing
like that Will not, however, prevent Eng
land from trying to coax through another
arbitration treaty next winter.
The times., 1897-09-27

The Spanish report that Gen. BaIdofnera
Acoste, The Cuban patriot leader, had been
oJupht in disguise when about to leave
Havana on Il steamer, proves to be untrue
The man arrested was a Cuban petty
officer named socorro, who gave the
Hau.e Of Acosta when taken. Gen. Acosta
being severely wounded and unable to
continue in the field. turned his command
over to Gen. Castillo, ana with two friends
succeeded III getting away safely to Mexico
on a steamer which left Havana two weeks
ago.
The times., 1897-09-27
A Persecnted Boy

(From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.)
What immense ears the new neighbor's
boy has?"
Yes, Mamma. He told me what made
'em SO big"
What was it?'
He said his mamma washed 'em so
much that they soaked full O. water an
swelled."