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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1898-10-15

The committee appointed to examine
into the condition of the vessels purchased
and used in the war with Spain, have re-
commended the retention of nearly the
whole of the sixty-odd This is in line
with all the movements of the Mckinley
administration, and is another indication
that the policy of expansion is to be pur-
sued and big navy acquired.
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The ADVOCATE acknowledges the eour-
tesy of an invitation to Founders Day
celebration of the Lehigh University,
South Bethlehem, Pa which took place
on Thursday The exercises took place
in Parker Memorial Church, and there was
an address by Prof Langdon c. Steward
son
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MARRIED.

At the Manchester Lutheran parsonage, on DC
tober 5, 1898, by Rev. c. NJ. Eyster, Harry Benton
Ham, of Greenmount Nd, and Miss Alice Nir
ginia Richards of near Hampstead, Md.
At the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph H. James
near Melrose, Nd, October g. 1898, by Rev c. NJ
Eyster George w. Myers and Miss Mile NJ. Win
and, both of Hanover, Pa.
On October H. 1898, at Salem Lutheran parson-
age by Rev 8. A. Diehl, Michael Yingling, OF
Westminster Nd, and Mrs. Charlotte v Marker, OF
Stone Chapel, Carroll county, Md.
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TO CREDITORS.

This is to give notice that the subscriber
has obtained from the Orphans Court of
Carroll county, in Maryland, letters tesla
mentary on the Personal Estate of
LEWIS OHLER,
late of Carroll county, deceased. All persons
having claims against the deceased are hereby
warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers
thereof legally authenticated, to the subscri-
Der, on or before the 9Th day of May,
1899; they may otherwise by law be exclud-
ed from all benefit of said estate
October, 1898.
j. OLIVER WADLOW,
oct At Executor.
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The News is not Democratic paper; it is
an independent paper. Baltimore Netcs.
Oh, no, the News is full-Aedged Re-
publican organ. 1t does not think SO, but
it is doing the work of the Republican
party and the people regard it as Repub-
lican organ.
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TO CREDITORS.

This is to give notice that the subscriber
has obtained from the Orphans Court of
Carroll county, in Maryland, letters of ad-
ministration on the Personal Estate Of
ASBERRY JOHNSON,
late of Carroll county, deceased. All persons
having claims against the deceased are hereby
warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers
thereof legally authenticated, to the sub
scriber, on or before the Sth day of May,
1899; they may otherwise by law be ex-
cluded from all benefit of said estate.
Given under my hand this Bird day of
October, 1898.
J. OLIVER WADLOW,
oct At Administrator, W A.
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And unless cause to the contrary be shown
in writing on or before the 18th day of
October, 1898, the licenses applied for will
be issued, provided the said applicants comply
with the requirements of Chapter 6, Acts of
1894, requisite thereto.
JAS. H. BILLINGSLEA,
Clerk of the Circuit Court for Carroll County
oct 2t
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oct8-y
dividend NOTICE.

The President and Directors of The West
minister Savings Bank have, this first day OF
October, 1898, declared a semi-annual divi
dend of Three and one-half per cent, on cap;
ital stock and 2 per cent. on weekly and
monthly deposits, payable on and after Octo-
Der 18th, 1898. WILLIAM II. STARR,
oct Sat Treasurer.
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10000 YOUNG WHITE CHEST
NUT SHINGLES FOR SALE.

| have for sale, at Cranberry Postoffice,
100, OO0I young white chestnut shingles. Also,
500 young white chestnut posts for wire fence.
For terms, &C., apply to Noah Brown, Gran
berry, or F. THOS. BABYLON,
ont ct Westminster, Nd.
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CARLOAD OF FINE YEARLING
" MULES.

| have Just received at my stables in Han
over. Pa, carload of the
FINEST YEARLING MULES
that ever came to this section of the country,
and will receive a carload of MULE COLTS,
from to months old, on Friday evening"
October {. The above stock will be sold or
exchanged at the very lowest prices. A large
stock Of big broke mules always on hand
Call and see my stock.
H. A. SMITH,
oct8-v Hanover, Pa.
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In the City of Westminster, Nd.

By virtue of power of attorney from Caro-
line Everhart, the undersigned will sell at
public sale, on the premises, on Webster
street, East end, ON
SATURDAY, OCTOBER %, 1898,
at 2 O'Clock, p. M,
Is BUILDING LOTS,
so feet front by 1863 feet at Lot No. /, to 60
feet, 4 inches front by 1876 feet at No. Is.
A plat will be exhibited on day of sale or
may be seen at the store of John j. Reese.
At the same time will sell IA valuable Pas
ture Lot in the rear of above, containing !
acre, I rood and 81 perches of land, more or
less.
The above lots are all in fee simple.
Terms of Sale.-0ne- half cash on day of
sale; the balance in 6 months, with interest
from day OF sale, to be secured by the notes
of the purchasers, with approved security; or
all cash at the option of the purchasers.
JOHN J. REESE, Attorney.
oct15-2t
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CToCK AT PUBLIC SALE.

In conformity with an order of the Orphans
Court of Carroll county, Nd, dated October
Sd, 1898, the undersigned will sell at public
sale at the Banking House of Hambleton q
Co., No. 8 South Street, Baltimore, Md, or
Saturday, October %, 1898, at II O'Clock a
M, FOURTEEN SHARES OF THE PRE-
FERRED STOCK Of the Southern Railway
Terms Cash.
FRANCIS ]. Skinner,
MARY E. NORRIS,
Executors of P. II. Shriner, Deceased.
outs st
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CLOSING OUT SALE
~ OF
Lumber and Tree Tops.

ON WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER %, 1898,
On the premises of Henry Houck, in Hamp.
stead district, Carroll county, Nd, on the
road leading from Hampstead to Westmn-
ster, about miles west of Hampstead and
public sale 1000 feet oak boards, plank n and
seantling, 60 cords of oak slab wood, 80 cords
of oak and hickory wood, chips, chucks, saw
dust. Also, IA acres uncut wood, tree tops,
etc., in lots to suit the purchasers. A lum-
berman's house and shedding.
A credit of three months will be given.
Sale to commence at o. clock, p. M, when
terms and conditions will be made known by
oct15-2t A. NJ. KALBACH
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TO CREDITORS.

IN
This is TO give notice that the subscriber
has obtained from the Orphans Court of
Carroll county, in Maryland, letters of ad-
ministration on the Personal Estate of
SAMUEL CHEW,
late of Carroll county, deceased All persons
having claims against the deceased are hereby
warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers
thereof legally authenticated, to the subscri-
Der, on or before the 18th day of May,
1899; they may otherwise by law be excluded
from all benefit of said estate.
Given under my hand this 3rd day of
October, 1898.
WIN. L. RICHARDS,
oct15 4t Administr ator.
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I. j. Kolb. Auct.
| A PPLICATIoN FOR
"A LIQUOR LICENSES
WESTMINSTER, Nd, October l. 1898.

WESTMINSTER, Nd, October l, 1898.
| hereby give notice that the following per-
sons have filed an application in the Office of
the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Carroll
county for Liquor Licenses, to wit
TO KEEP ORDINARY OR HOTEL:
Samuel X. Markell, Lineboro, Md.
Stanley c. Smith, Central Hotel, West
minister, Nd.
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STEW RT & KEENAN,.
oct15 1t
RoAD NOTICE.

AO
Notice is hereby given that application will
be made to the County Commissioners for Car
roll county at their first meeting after the ex-
piraton of thirty days from the date hereof
to locate, or cause to be located, and open a
public county road in Carroll county, be-
ginning for the same at point on the public
road on the south side of "Lucabaugh's
MILL and running thence through the land
of VIM. 7. Lucabaugh, on the bed of an old
road, now in use; thence on the bed of said
old road on the division line between VIM
T. Lucabaugh and VIM. E. Veach; thence
through the land of VIM. E. Veach on the
bed of said old road, to the lands of
Margaret Bankert; thence through the land
of Margaret Bankert, on or near the bed of
said old road, to the land of Amos Myers;
thence through the land of Amos Myers, on
or near the bed of said old road, ending at
the public road leading from Westminster to
Manchester, near the Mexico Schoolhouse
or by the most practical route.
WIN. 7. LUCABAUGH,
WIN. Il. VEACH,
MARGARET BANKERT,
H. c. BANKERT,
oct15 st and "a others.
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CLOTHING.

We will sell entire line Of Clothing strictly at cost
Suits from $3.50 to $3.50.
Now the time buy Overcoa Storm Overcoats for $500
We can you money. Come and see us
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TRUSTEES SALE
Il OF
VALUABLE REAL ESTATE,

In Keysville, Nd.
The undersigned Trustees, appointed to
make sale of the property hereinafter men
toned, by decree of the Circuit Court for
Carroll county, in cause No. 1861 Equity, in
which Joseph L. Sharrer and j. Ernest Shar-
rer, Executors, are complainants, and Joseph
l.. Sharrer, ct al, are defendants, will offer
at Public Sale, on the premises, in Keysvile,
Carroll county, Md on
WEDNESDAY,, End of NOVEMBER, 1898,
at o'clock p. M, all that Lot of Land and
premises, containing 154 SO.
AMA-,I PERCHES, more or less, and
eSs improved by new Weather
z - boarded Store and Dwelling
House combined, and new Weatherboarded
Dwelling House. These properties are con-
veniently situated as to churches and schools,
have all necessary outbuildings, and each has
awell of excellent water. The store property
is now occupied by j. Ernest Sharrer and the
other house by George Roop. 1t is the same
land conveyed to Joseph Sharrer by Frances
G. Poole, by deed bearing date March oath,
A. D. $685.
Terms of Sale as prescribed by the decree ::
One-third part of the purchase money must be
paid on the day of sale or on the ratification
thereof; one-third in nine and the other one
third in eighteen months from the day of sale,
with interest from sale, to be secured by the
notes of the purchaser or purchasers, with ap-
proved security; or all cash, at the option of
the purchaser,
FRANCIS NEAL PARKE,
EDWARD o. WEANT,
JNO. MILTON REIFSNIDER,
Trustees.
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goods will sold cash only All having
books requested settle Parties or firms
having bills against either individuals firm please present
temized statements of the
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oct15 4t
EOR RENT OR SALE. a.
A VERY VALUABLE DWELLING.

The dwelling formerly occupied by Mr..
ster, Md, and located in one of the most
desirable parts of the city, suitable for private
residence or boarding house. 1t is 3-story
brick, containing II rooms, gas and water,
also pump and cistern; stabling for horses;
apples, pears and grapes; lawn on both sides
of the house; double porches. Any one de-
string to buy or rent a comfortable home,
should apply to the undersigned Immediate
possession.
WIN. B. THOMAS, Owner,
or GEO. L. STOCKSDALE,
oct 10 st Tenant.
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CARDS AND CIRCULARS printed at
" this Office
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A GREAT DAY IN FRIzELLBURG

a '
The Non-sectarian Chapel will be dedi-
Gated on Sunday, October 9, 1898. There
will be a special programme for all day SER
vices, morning, noon and night. Services
will begin in the morning at 10 o'clock; Rev.
Joel Brown, of Westminster, will conduct the
morning service. The afternoon services
will be conducted by several able speakers,
and at night, Rev. Mr.. Catanach, Presbyte-
rian minister at Taneytown, will preach.
Everybody most cordially invited. oc8-lt
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DUBLIC SALE
Valuable Building Lots and A
Pasture Lot,
In tho Civ of Wastm;nstar MI
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LESSONS IN ECONOMY.
DECORATED PLATES.

No has enough. Here is chance sure
you will miss Beautifully decorated China Plates all i'm
ported goods made by the famous poeres of Germany
France and England Plates in 81, and q inch Sizes just
right for plates fruit dessert Every beautifully
decorated Of them thn transparent China Most China
get 25 and zoe for such plates these but the prices
them enables offer them you the give away
price of 10c for your choice.
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NOTICE TO TRESPASSERS.
All persons are hereby notified not to tres
pass on my land in ANY MANNER. The
law will be rigidly enforced against all disre-
garding this notice.
oct15-3t JOHN T. WEST.
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SHOES.

had offered about $50 pairs Ladies' fine Shoes that
had been $3.50 and So for $780, and sold about 100 pairs of them
pairs 81 and have 25
pairs left This week the remainder large
lot and offer them at the low price of
SL25
o get a bargain in fine Shoes.
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True cOpy,-Iest
oct Is 3t JAS. H. BILLINGsLEA. Clerk.
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MO. 1865 EQUITY.

oct15-2t
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TO TAXPAYERS.

oct 8 At
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-09-04

the Australian Parliament, designed to
is known as The Noxious Animals
Destruction Act" and under it's pro-
visions an internecine war is ruthless
ly Waged all the year round against
these depredators.
The sole offense of the kangaroo is
that he eats too much grass. The rab-
bit is a like offender and In teeming
millions eat off the young pasture in
the springtime like the recorded
plague of locusts, leaving vast areas of
pastoral lands nothing but panorama
of desolation. A kangaroo will eat as
much as sheep and will drink a good
deal more water, and water is exceed
ingly valuable in the dry season. Were
they not killed off the country would
be Valueless in a few years. Hundreds
of thousands must be put to death
every year and the expense of this is
quite an item to the settlers.
For these reasons the destruction of
the kangaroo is not mere matter of
sport to the lordly settler, but a matter
of self-defense. The state comes to
the settlers aid, partially and Indirect
ly, by paying so much per dozen for
kangaroo scalps, and for hares and
rabbits ears. This reward furnishes
sufficient inducement to a very numer-
Gus band of persons to devote all their
energies to the capture of scalps and
ears.
The most effective engine of destruc-
ton and the one that Is thinning the
ranks of the kangaroo almost to the
rOnt of determination Is the famous
kangaroo drive" This means of de-
stroying the pest is universally adopted
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In the colonies and besides fulfilling the
object of it's originators in decimating
the immense mobs of the squatter's
arch enemy 1t supplies a splendid days
sport to all lovers of the gun. The
method is fashioned on very similar
lines to the great rabbit drives" held
in the San Joaquin Valley. The kan
CARGO drives though are far more eX-
citing and sportsmanlike.
These drives are of frequent occur
renee, and in some parts of the colonies
of New South Wales and Queensland
1t is quite possible to be present at an
organized drive at least once a week.
OF course these drives seldom yield any
large number of kangaroos. For those
one must go to the outlying districts,
where drives are not frequent.
The last drive in which l participated
was in a locality that cost me two days
to reach. There had been no previous
drive over the land for six months and
kangaroos were so thick that dozens of
them We're always in sight as we rode
along the highway. The country, con-
sequently, was as bare of vegetation as
If the blight had struck 1t.
To get up a drive like the one pro-
posed was a big undertaking for the
settlers. There were nearly hundred
knights of the trigger present and
about two hundred heaters or drivers
The place Of meeting was at the hos
pitable homestead of wealthy settler,
famous for his success in entertaining
his visitors on such occasions. The un-
dertaking was costly for it involved the
filling of 300 hungry stomachs at an
al fresco lunch in the forest.
Early in the morning all hands met
at the settlers homestead. At a given
signal the whole cavalcade moved off
in the direction of the haunts of the
kangaroo
At certain point the shooters, armed
with shotguns, dismount and take I'D
their positions at the direction CT the
captain. This is in as nearly a straight
line as possible, the men standing about
seventy yards apart. l was fortunately
given position that commanded a
good view of the entire country. HAY
Ing stationed me the captain told me to
remain there and await results.
The drivers meanwhile separa ted
themselves from the shooting contin-
gent, moved toward the feeding
grounds of the marsupial and there
arranged themselves in semi-circular
form at from fifty to one hundred
yards apart. By yells and shouts and
a running fire of stockwhips they turn
the place for the time being into a veri-
table pandemonium, and animals of
every kind located within the sphere
covered by the drivers fly In al direc-
lions. But the men on the extreme
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BOUNDING PAST ME.

to the "topnotcher.' After drivers
and shooters exchange Fluctuations an
other drive is arranged, and so on all
day long till the dusk Of evening puts
an end to the days sport.
The number of kangaroos a man can
kill in one Of the drives depends large
ly on luck. The game may not come
near one and another may have all he
can do to load. So position" counts
for a good deal.
On the day when nearly 5000 were
killed one man scored 81 and another
scored only TO- It's just as a man gets
the chance to shoot.
On such occasions that important
branch of all expeditions, the commits
sariat, is well looked after. At this
big one a large wagon from the home
stead had brought great hampers of
tempting viands. At a shady grove in
the ample forest all hands and the cook
spread themselves out on mother earth
and ate and enjoyed the good things
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and drank without stint British beer
and American lager, and smoked our
pipes, and felt as happy and contented
as mortal man can.
The carcasses of the dead kangaroos
in these drives are usually skinned and
sold to dealers. The bodies are used
for different chemical purposes. The
hides are quite valuable and make
shoes Of fine quality.
1t was glorious day. The sun
shone out brightly and was not too
warm. The drivers did their work
we'll and at the conclusion of the days
sport those of US who belon~ed to the
house party headed our horses for the
homestead. The majority of drivers
and shooters assembled at the spacious
woolshed and there, to the music of
concertina, played tunefuily by sheep
shearer, they danced with the selec-
tors daughters who had come from far
and near to help wind up the celebra-
lions of the day. T. NJ
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SOLDIERS DIE OF t1OMES|CkNESS

1.-TWO deaths from nostalgia, or
inconsistencies, in the American
army at Santiago have been re-
norted by General Shafter to the
War Department Both of these
cases. remarkable to say, occurred IN
the same regiment, the Second Massa-
chusetts Volunteers. We presume that
the diagnosis in these cases was care
fully and accurately made by the mill
tary surgeons, yet we should ike more
light ON this interesting and important
study.
The daily reports show that the
troops at Santiago are suffering much
from the climate and various 1nfecllohs'
especially typhoid, malarial ana yello"
fevers. and this fact should REMIND US
that the profound psychoses are MOI
infrequentiy associated with or caused
by some form of infection Iypholo
and malarial poisons especially nave
been noted in this role, and SO true Is
this that in order to arrive at strictly
scientific diagnosis it would be well 10
be sure whether any obscure form Oh
either Of these diseases is present III
such cases.
The fact that two cases occurred IN
the same regiment points possibly also
gestion. In all the psychoses, especially
hysteria and the mild forms Of insanity,
this factor is now well known to De
sometimes active. We need only recall
the cases Of folie communiQue that
have been put on record. In these in
stances a mental disease has been
known to be communicated from a pa
tent to another highly susceptible per
son. In one instance three sisters were
involved. the first having imposed her
deIusions upon the others. Epidemics
of hysteria are too well known to need
more than mention:
The fact, however, that the two cases
in the army at Santiago were so rap
idly fatal can probably only be explained
on the theory that the patients were
possibly much reduced physically by
exposure and infection. The mere sep
aration from home on what promised
to be but short military expedition
hardly seems sufficient in itself to have
caused such untoward results. The
case is different with the poor emigrant
who feels that all the home ties are
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right and left wings usually contrive
10 Keep the frightened game within
bounds and thus they rush on to the
ambuscade In front of them
After l had taken UP my position I
had not long to wait in order to crafty
my sporting instincts
First came a hare toward me. rush
Ing like the wind. But 1 let him go by
and also number of others. The
movement of these animals was clear
indication that the big game had begun
10 move and l stood ready with both
barrels of my gun cooked
Almost before l could realize 1t saw
a Dig kangaroo jumping toward me.
lie came like a cyclone, easily covering
from Is to 20 feet at every leap.
Bang
But my first shot missed
Then L took careful aim with the
other barrel and pulled the trigger Just
as ne was in front of me. The shot
caught him in a vital spot and over he
rolled and lay dead
Before I could load again T was fair
ly surrounded with frightened kanpa-
roos. Hundreds of them were in plain
sight. 1t was hard to tell which one
to shoot at and they were hard to hit.
because they jumped here and there
and bumped into one another as they
looked for safe place to get through
the deadly line of shooters.
BY this time the kangaroos had got
within range of all the hunters and
nearly a hundred guns We're pouring
out a leaden hail of death. The bang.
ing of the guns was as incessant as a
battle and the field in front was rap
idly piling UP with dead kangaroos.
In my position / could not load fast
enough to stop the procession of bound
ing animals in front of me- Kanga-
roos were on all sides of me and kept
pouring out of the forest in front
seemingly in an endless stream. took
no shots except at those that came near
enough for me to be absolutely sure
of killing. Once or twice 1 stopped to
rest and each time a kangaroo went
past me.
For about an hour this sort of thing
kept up and then there was lull The
game that was easy to get at had all