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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1898-09-10
KNALL PAPER. WALL PAL .ER.


Up-to-date Paper Hangers and Wall Paper
dealers We don't claim to be the only farm
in the county that carry stock of Wall P: sEaen,
but we are, as everybody knows, the la rgest
dealers. We buy goods direct from the fac.
tory just as cheap as these New York Wall
Paper Stores that say they give you Pape at
cents per piece. We do the same and you
don't pay us any freight Itcosts more to do
business in large city, and they don't g i've
goods away and live at the same time. We
all want little profit.
We work as cheap as any Of the Palser
Hangers, when you take quality of goods nto
consideration, and have best facilities for do
ing so. We are prompt.
We carry line of cheap readymade VIM dow
Shades and make them to order.
Look us up, examine our goods and you
will then come to the conclusion that we are
up to the times. DG-Work done anywh ere in
the county without extra charge. Write Gus.
MATTHEW'S Il MYERS,
As East Main sire ct,
april2 Westminster, Nd.
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A LARGE STOCK OF LIGHT l. HEAVY
HARNESS,

REFRACTORY, Corner of Liberty and
George Streets, Westminster, Nd, where |
have just erected new and large Shops, giving
me better facilities than heretofore A call
is solicited. may5
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1898-09-10
TWO WAYS

OF GETTING CLASSES: ONE TO GO
TO A FIRST CLASS OPTICIAN, HAVE
YOUR EYES PROPERLY TESTED AND
GET WHAT YOU NEED-THE OTHER
TO GO TO A MERCHANT WHO KEEPS
SPECTACLES, MAKE "A GRAB IN
THE BAG AS TT WERE. GET A PAIR
THAT DON'T FIT YOU (ALTHOUGH
IT MAY SEEM so FOR THE MOMENT)
RUN THE RISK OF RUNNING YOUR
EYE SIGHT ENTIRELY-AND ALL
FOR A SMALL DIFFERENCE IN EN-
PENsE.
If YOU NEED THE SER.
VICES OF A GOOD OpTICIAN
AND CHN ArAl
4 II WENTZ,
o..;o
WESTMINSTER DEPOSIT AND
temporary olnoe NO Il oo'r' 0'''
Capital Stock fully Subscribed, J
n-oo ooooo
~oo'Ooooo
Pays interest on Deposits.
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Galvanized Fencing Wire at prices that have
never been known in the trade.
Lead and Oil so cheap that anyone can af-
ford to paint this season.
Ice is plenty. We have large stock of the
best make of Freezers and Refrigerators.
Don't you need Gasoline or Oil Stove for
cheap.
Door and Window Screens of various styles
A full line of first-class Cooking Stoves and
Ranges, of long established reputation, at
reduced prices.
A call will soon convince you that the bot
tom has been completely knocked out of the
price of Nails.
Glass, Oils, Paints and Putty, Plastering,
Hair and Cement, and in fact everything in
the Building Hardware line can be found, as
we'll as low prices, at the old established stand
GILBERT K GEHR,
Corner Main and Liberty streets,
Westminster, Md
Plumbing, Heating, Spouting, Tin Roofing
is our speciality. feb ~
YOHN E. ECKENRODE,
MANUFACTURER OF
COACHES. CARRIAGES. jaeger WAC
ONS, BUGGIES, PHETONS. &C,
&C. &C.
SPECIAL ATTENTION
GIVEN TO REPAIRING.
All Orders Promptly Filled and Work of
Every Kind Warranted.
LARGE STOCK OF LIGHT 4 HEAVY
HAPNEGS
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1898-09-10
OENTRAL DRUG STORE,
JOSEPH B. BOYLE,
SUCCESSOR TO WELLS BROS. :,

Dealer in Pure Drugs, Medicines Chemi;,
Gals, Perfumery, Fancy Articles, | lair and
Tooth Brushes, Combs, Toilet Soaps, Segass,
&c. Also Trusses and Shoulder Brao es.
PURE WINES AND LIQUORS
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1898-09-10
FOR MEDICAL PURP DSES.

Patent Medicines, Horse and Cattle Pc wders,
&c. A fine assortment of STATIONE RY-
B@Physicians orders promptly file d and
Prescriptions carefully and accurately com
pounded. mari tt
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1898-09-10
IT SEEMS A SMALL MATTER

whether you economic on the purchase of
today, but if you persistently give the expen
sive places the go by, the final issue may be
to make you rich. Take for instance the
purchase of
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1898-09-10
nR. w. j. SELBY s@sS
DOUBLE DENTAL PARLORS.

hereby notify the public that have per
manently located in Westminster, Nd, to
practice my profession, and have opened a
DOUBLE DENTAL OFFICE,
adjoining that of DR.. E. d. Wells, No. 80
East Main street. am prepared to perform
all operations pertaining to
Bes~ DENTAL SURGERY. -A
All work guaranteed to give satisfaction.
Teeth Extracted positively without
Pain, also Painless Filling.
feb5-tf
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1898-09-10

DOSTER PRINTING a Specially this at
l. Office.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1898-09-10

Balance OF our entire stocE at prices you can
not afford to overlook.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1898-09-10

DAVID L. STEM, President.
II. S. ROBERTS, 1st Vice President
j. II. BLOCHER, I'd Vice President
CHAS. Z. FINK, General Counsel.
GEO. NJ. PARKE, Secretary&Treasurer
June 25 If
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1898-10-13

We condemn the trAitorous conduct OF those
officials, wherever responsibility may rest to
whose culpability is due the death by starva.
ton and disease Of seve al thousand Of our
men. We demand that tho awful scandals in
volved in the conduct Of the war be impartially
and completely investigated. and that adequate
punishment be Ineted wherever due.
The people Of Nevada IRE justly proud OF
their University. We commend the efficient
management which has rande it an institution
OF infinite us fulness and widening possibilities.
lis lI.huence Is already felt q potent factor
for the intellectual and economic development
OF the State. We Pledge to it generous sup
port and hearty co operation along every line
" Stat wilt tend to maintain its present high stan
lard. or coaduco to its Improvement.
This convention pie iges its nominee for Gov
T crnor that he wi approve OF such legislation
as will carry into effect the sixth Geo
ton Of Article 10 Of the State Con-
stitution which provides that the Leg
islature shall provide a special tax which
Ehall not exceed two mills on the dollar
Of all taxable property in the State in addition
to the other means provided for the SUPP ort
and maintenance of the State University and
common schools. This convention recon-
mends all county conventions of the Silver
party to pledge their nominees for the State
Legislature to carry into effect the State Con-
stitution by passing bill levying q tax Of one
mill on the dollar OF all taxable property in this
State in addition to the other meaos now pro-
vided by law for the support and maintenance
this State.
We invite comparison Of the four years dur
ing which the Silver Party has been in ontrol
Of the State Government with the last four
years of the Republican regime. The expen-
ses OF the last Republican Legislature amounted
to S5l0 %, that Of the last Silver Party Legi Ia
ture, S:0,5OO. The expense of the Executive
Department for the II It year Immediately pre-
ceding Silver Parry control amounted to
over S:IS 800, while but S26,IO were ths expen-
scs Of the Executive Department for 1897. For
the last four years Of Republican management
$1,000 were expended i'll public buildings as
against S07 co by tho Silver Party. And dur
ing the periods in comparison, in support of tho
public sshools OF the State, the Silver Party
exp. ndcd S3T,0 as against 81 q, 500 by tho Re
publ an party. No ono can examine tho fore
going and many other facts and fi4ures which
might be adduced, without the result g con
viction that the Silver Party has fulfilled its
Promise of retrenchment with reference to So :
aries Of State officials and tho curtailmenu of
unneces sary expenses, while, the other
Ian !, it has generously fostered the educa
tional and charitable institutions of the State
and wisely contributed to its public improve
ment.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1898-10-13
Platform.

I'll" 4 ser Party of Nevada pledges its I'm.
Way, in; devotion to tho principles of govern
mcnt i'd down by Jefferson and Lincoln:
That til highest duty Of government is to 80
Icgrl:'tc its law, chat Tic spirit Of equality
shah follow E"n through life giving each amp.
l1:t opportunity to work out to tho fullest
rl""Srlre his possibilities, unrestricted by law
ana unaffected by the conquest OF his domin-
ION q emporium ~ by other mon. We indorSe,
a. express ny the demands of tho American
p,"li" i'll c"n.naNn"C with the foregoing, the
pa;l rm OF hc National Silver party form;l-
lated st, Louis. Jrly -. lS.G, and the flnan-
rIai flank OF the National Democratic party
R'uI rcd at Chicago, July :. 1898.
The history OF the mover, cnt for tho rcsto~p.
ton or bImcta!lsm IS the glorious story of Ne.
yada's leadership. The educational work SO
periodically undertaken six years ago has
iprCad throughout the entire country On fin,
tssUv that the value of money is cumulative
and not qualita ive tho intellectual and politi.
ral forces of nations are now battling. Mind.
tul OF her glorious record Nevada will take her
place again in the COZ nict, not as tho ally OF
E"ld. hat on the side of those who struggle il
the fields Of adversely.
We rcaflirm our devotion to the free and un.
united coinage Of silver at the ratio of 10 to
by the independent action OF the United States
anu we are una tcrably opposed to tho Eopub-
ucan policy Of increasing tho bonded debt: Of
transferring the sovereign power Of the gov
ernmont to issue money to banking institu-
tions; Of contracting the circulating medium
TO the single gold standard, md of increasing
taxation while contraction is eliminating tho
means Of payment. =. -.
Our faith in the loyalty, ability, and wise lead
ership OF William j. Bryan is undiminished
and we predict for tho silver forces of the Uni.
ted states, with IL to l as their motto and
William j. Bryan ms their standard boarrr M,
overwhelming victory in 1870.
Wo invite tho corporation Of tho Republican
party Of Nevada who declared i'm thnir 1Int
form OF May 20 $50. as follows:
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1898-10-13
TITLES FOR EDITORS.
Ouchesses and Countesses Success-
fully Operate an Expen-
sive Newspaper.

For the first time in history, in re-
cent history at any rate, duchesses
and countesses have run n newspaper,
and some Of the greatest people in the
literary, artistic and musical worlds
and other worlds ad .infnitum-have
formed the staff, says the New York
Mail and Express. ..... ....
This wonderful little newspaper was
called the Free Bazaar News, and was
published daily at the London Press
Bazaar, held for reimbursing the cof-
fers of the London hospital. 1t was
Free" however, only in name, for no
daily newspaper could ever hope to
touch the prices obtained for it-for
it's aristocratic proprietors sold it for
30 cents q copy. ...
The idea of the paper seemed to
strike half dozen women at once, so
no one can claim to be it's originator,
but the cause of it was the donation to
the bazaar committee, by the directo rs
of linotype company, Of one Of their
machines as an exhibit. 1t seemed q
shame that $4,000 of useful machinery
should not be utilized, so the Duchess
of Sutherland and some of her clique
planned the little paper which proved
such success. It was really "the"
attraction of the bazaar, for people
went miles to see the bellies of the
most aristocratic society in England
operate the machine, sort type, use
the rollers, pull proofs and ink their
fingers. Among the contributors were
the most famous editors of London.
famous sta-"rtfTrr Of Jc""nh Chamber
lain's sta :cf1"e c.'''t Sir Henry
Irving as chief. Cr.' 60 celebrities
too numerous 10 I,:"".ic::
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1898-10-13
SILVER PARTY
State Ticket.

For United States Senator
WILLIAM NJ STEWART
OF Ormsby
For Congress
FRANCIS G. NEWLANDS
OF Washoe:
For Governor
REINHOLD SADLER
OF Eureka
For Lieutenant Governor
JAMES RJUDGE
OF Ormsby
For Associate Justice Supreme Court
CHARLES H BELKNAP
OF Ormsby
For Secretary of State
EUGENE HOWELL
OF White Pine
For State Treasurer
DAVE RYAN
OF Storey
For State Controller
SAM = DAVIS
or Ormshy
For Attorney General
WILLIAM - JONES
Or Lander
For State Printer
ANDREW MAUrE D..
OF Nye
For Surveyor-General
EDWARD ID KELLEY
OF Washoe
For Superintendent Public lns'tion
HENRY G CUTTING
OF iIsmeraida
- For Regent State University
NnDg Term)
WEI DEAL
OF Storey
For Regent Stale University
(Short Term)
HENRY S STARRETT
OF Lander
For District Judges g
First District
CHARLES e MACK ..
OF Storey ''..,.
Second District
BE CURLER
. OF Washoc
Third District
\ L FITZGERALD" ;.
OF Eureka
Fourth District
FTALBOT
or Elko
Fifth District
SAMUEL j. BONNIFIELD
OI Humboldt.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1898-10-13
Political announcements.

announcements under this head will b,
published up to the General Election fer
$40. payable invariably in advance.
The Philipsburg mail., 1898-08-12
The Spirit Of Patriotism.

No sooner was war declared than
America gave the world a glorious
demonstration of her unity and patriot
ism. Only generation ago our land
was emerging from furious civil war,
set today one section is as devoted as
another to the flag. All are southern
ers, all northerners. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee
has become a yankee" "Dewey's
victory" made the south radiant with
joy.
The presidents call for volunteers
was answered many times over in the
number of men who wanted 10 enlist.
No state, north or south, failed to pro-
vide its quota, while spontaneous offers
of regiments from many independent
sources have had to be declined by the
government. In the mill, the Office
and the shop, on the farm and in the
college, our young men gave a mighty
answer to the nations call to arms.
Everywhere the purpose to support
The Philipsburg mail., 1898-08-12
LARGE BRARlES.

The royal library at Munich contains
$4,000 books and 100000 pamphlets
This library is specially rich in incuna-
hula and occupies the finest library
building in Europe
The royal library at Stuttgart is ia
nous for its fine collection of bibles
which includes copies of the Eliot In
dian bible of 1868. the first printed in
the new world, and of the Aitlin bible
issued in 1922.
The fourth largest library in the
world is the royal library of Berlin
with $4,000 volumes. 1t was opened in
1861 by the great electOr, Frederick
William. Germany has 100000 more
books than England.
The imperial library of Russia, es-
tablished by Peter the Great in 1714
is the third among the worlds great IL
brares. 1t contains about 100000
volumes and about 26 900 manuscripts
1t attained a place in the front rank
of European libraries by the acqusi-
ton of the celebrated Laluski collec.
ton: Count Zaluski had collected abou,
100000 volumes and 10000 MSS. On
the suppression of the Jesuit order in
Russia the collection of the books in
their possession was taken in charge
by Prince ltalinski, and. among other
libraries, the prince transferred the Ia
luski collection from the Jesuit college
at Warsaw to st. Petersburg. The
most important Of the manuscripts in
this library is the "Codex Sinaiticus" OF
the Greek Bible, brought from tn, con-
vent of St. Catherine on Mourt Sina
by Prof. Tischendorf in 1859.
Why does man invariably move the
The Philipsburg mail., 1898-08-12
Mississippi's New Senator's.

From the Washington Post: Senator
Sullivan, who will take his seat this
week as successor TO the late Senator
Walthall, by appointment from Gov.
McLaurin of Mississippi. will be one Of
the Youngest members Of that body. He
has been in Mississippi for over a week,
his selection for senator having been
assured as The Post stated several days
ago. Although this has been his first
term in the house. MIR. Sullivan has TAX
en- an active and creditable part there
for a new member. He has made two
or three speeches at the day sessions OF
the house and has participated actively
at the Friday night sessions. Although
southern man by birth and associa-
tions, Mr.. Sullivan has shown himself
especially free from sectional prejudice
and has never opposed reasonable pen
sOns to the veterans of the civil war.
He was one of David B. Hills followers
in the south, and, while he is a free
silver man. he is not radical in his
views. Like Representative Bailey, his
! brother-in-law, his course in the past
has been for d conservative policy that
would not estrange the gold democrats.
In personal appearance Senator Sulli-
van is a man of medium size He is
very erect and precise in his bearing
and converses with a frank but positive
tone. He has a keen eye. an aquiline
nose, and features that are rather thin
and convey an impression of severity
| Notwithstanding this, Senator Sullivan
is a very pleasant man socially, and
during his service in the house has been
popular He was appointed by Speaker
Reed as member of the committee on
claims and of the committee On Pacific
! railroads.
The Philipsburg mail., 1898-08-12
Enemy's Property at Sea.

1t Is still the custom In war to seize
the private property of the enemy at
sea when it is carried under the enc
ny's flag. The squadron off Cuba have
captured several Spanish merchantmen,
loaded with Spanish goods, which are
held as prizes for the profit of the crews
and officers making the captures
Making war in this way is not ap-
proved by many people. To be sure,
plausible arguments in its favor can be
presented. Destroy an enemy's wealth
and you sap his strength without blood
shed and he must the sooner beg for
peace. If his goods are not captured
the money they represent may be used
to prolOng the war. But such argu-
ments have lost in force since priva-
teering was abolished and a neutral
flag was conceded to protect an enc
my's goods, except contraband. Be
cause of these advances it rarely hap
pens that the result of a war can be
affected by seizing private property at
sea.
Hence. the arguments against this
practice now have greater force. On
land private property, not contrab band,
is exempt from confiscation under or
dinary conditions. Why should not
private property at sea be exempt also? !?
True war cannot be fought with rose
water, yet if a practice be unessential
to the successful conduct Of war, it
should be abandoned in the interest of
humanity. This practice. moreover, en-
courages war-making for prize money
and thus fosters the debasing idea that
war may be turned to mans pecuni-
ary advantage.
The exemption from capture of pri-
vate property at sea, except contra band,
is favored by the leading writer's on
international law. The United States
and Prussia in 1885, and the United
States and Italy in 1871, embodied it in
treaties. Secretary of State j. @. Adams
in 1928 tried to have Russia, France
and England recognize the doctrine In
1856 our government proposed it as
part of the declaration of Paris. Aus
tria, Prussia and Italy fought their war
in 1856 in accord with it, Prussia, in
the war of 1870, offered to respect it if
France would do SO. Why is the prin-
ciple not yet established?
| lf-nterest is the main cause. Moth
| ing can become part of international
law without the sanction of Russia,
France and England, and they evident
| ly believe that commerce destroying
might be useful weapon in their fu-
ture wars. The failure of the United
States, despite it's traditions, to recog-
is regretted by many enlightened citi-
| ZenS.
The Philipsburg mail., 1898-08-12
CAMPFIRE SKETCHES.
GOOD SHORT STORIES FOR
THE VETERANS,
rhe Spirit of Patriotism as 1t 1s Now
Fully Manifested-Delays in Deserving
Pension Cases-Cuntr raband Of War
~ Sea.
Back In '61.

This talk of war we're havin' now re-
minds me Of the fun
Some of us thought that war would be,
back there in 81;
The woods were full of fellows then who
hollered day and night,
And tried to make the folks believe they
fairly ached to fight,
But when good Father Abraham sent out
his call for men
The fellows that had -creeched before
were mighty quiet then.
never heard Of Grant or Meade or sher-
idan before
The time arrived for men to act-till
streams were red with gore
never heard of any of the men who rose
to fame
Through gallant fightin then, until the
time for action came.
! guess the Shermans and the Grants mad
nothing much to say
Before the day had come for men TO
plunge into the fray.
Now there was Ebenezer Webb, who lived
tell you he knew how to put the worst
rebellion down!
For months and months before the time
to shoulder muskets came
He fairly howled for war. and swore his
soul was all aflame;
But when that dismal day arrived that
men were called to go
The folks were shocked to hear that ED
had lost his little toe.
My cousin Cyrus. too, was fierce before
the war began;
He ripped and tore and carried on like a
crazy man;
He'd hang around the grocery store and
tell what he would do
IF he was in Abe Lincoln's place-and
folks believed him, too,
And cheered the things he said, until the
time for fightn' came
Then, by the great Jerusha, Cy pretend
ed he was lame!
The only man from our town who won a
pair Of stars
Was Henry Gray, who never claimed 10
be a son of Mars;
He'd merely stood around, without a
Warlike word to say,
But when they wanted men to fight he
boldly marched away!
! have to smile when ] recall some how
lin that was done
Before the guns began to bech, back
there in 'Gl.
cleveland Leader
The Philipsburg mail., 1898-08-12
COFFEE AND INSURANCE
The Connection Between the Two shown
In Nov York and London.

The Connection Between the Two shown
In New York and London.
From New York Sun: There might
not seem to be any direct connection
between coffee and insurance, but that
one exists is attested by many episodes
in the history of early New York. In
1859 the Old Insurance Office, as it was
called, was open from noon to ] O'Clock
and from 6 to 8 o'clock in the evening
every day at the Coffee house, under
charge Of keteltas & Sharpe, and gave
marine insurance to merchants, Sc
cured by subscriptions of underwriters.
In 177S, as the destruction of vessels by
American privateers increased the risk
Of navigation, a new insurance Office
was opened at another coffee house and
from that time on the insurance busi-
ness of New York was carried on gem
orally in coffee houses. There was a
precedent for this in another coffee
house indissolubly connected with in
surance-Lloyd's, in London. Edward
Lloyd was the enterprising proprietor
Of coffee house in Tower street pat
ronized by shippers and merchants.
The first mention Of it is to be found
in the London Gazette of Feb. II, 1881.
During the reign of Charles H., and
toward the close of the seventeenth
century, merchants greatly affected
coffee houses, though it was not until
1851 or 1892, when Lloyd removed to
the corner of Abchurch lane and Lom-
bard street, that is house became the
headquarters of marine insurance with
which the name of Lloyd's is now as
sociated. Steele. in the Tatler, and
Addison in the Spectator, notice
Lloyd's coffee house. the resort of mer-
chants and shipowners, and the Specta-
tor Of April 90. III, gives an insight
into the manners and customs OF It's
frequenters 1t might reasonably be in-
ferred that coffee, which is a soporilic
and taken to quiet rather than excite
the nerves, would reduce the specula-
tive tendencies even of nautical men
and thus offer little inducement to
those desirous of procuring hazards on
ships. But what seems to have been
the case was this: Something strong
er than coffee was INDUCED in at the
coffee houses, and, moreover they were
the places Of meeting of those who in
patron of the coffee house reported
what he had heard-and, perhaps some
things he hadn't. The result Of these
conferences was more general under
standing of the risks attending naviga-
tion, and the practice of insuring ships
against loss led gradually to other di-
versified and larger items Of insurance