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poAD NOTICE.

IL
Notice is hereby given that application will
be made to the County Commissioners of Car
roll county at their first meeting after the ex-
piration Of thirty days from the date hereof,
to locate, or cause to be located, and open
public county road in Carroll county, begin
ming at point in the public road leading
from the Trump road to the Pennsylvania
line, on the land Of Josiah Kump, near a
spring; thence through the land of the said
Kump on the most practical route to the land
of William j. Geeting, and through it on the
most practical route to the line between the
said Geeting's land, Reuben V. Myers land,
and on or near said line to the line between
the land of the said Myers and Josiah Marsh,
and on or near said line to land of the said
Myers, and through it on the bed of an old
road to the line between the land of the said
Myers and George W. Zepp, and on or near
said line on the bed of the said old road to the
land of John Sterner and Levi Sterner, and
through it on the bed of the said old road to
George W. Zepp's land, and through it on or
near the bed of the said old road to the line
between the land of the said Zepp and Eph-
rain Wentz, and on or near said line on the
bed of the said old road to the line between
the land of the said Zepp and John Shaffer,
and on or near said line on the bed of the said
old road to the Pennsylvania line.
JESSIAH KUMP,
WILLIAM j. GETTING,
jan1S st and Al others.
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SPEcIAL NOTICE.

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
summer cooking? We have them; they are
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, Plasteripg,
Hair and Cement, and in fact everything in
the Building Hardware line can be found, as
well as low prices, at the old established stand
Of
GILBERT & GEHR,
Corner Main and Liberty streets,
Westminster, Nd.
Plumbing, Heating, Spouting, Tin Roofing
is our specially. feb 20
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uTESTERN MARYLAND RAT.
w ROAD.
~ EssEs5s q IS

CONNECTING WITH
P. L R. R. at Shippensburg and Gettysburg:
Norfolk { Western r. R. at Hagerstowss;;
B. & 0. Railroad at Hagerstown and Chery,
Run; Penna. r. r. at Bruceville and
Hanover; ?. w. & B., N. c. and B.&p
Railroads at Union Station, Baltimore, Md.
Schedule in effect October 1, 1899.
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EoR RENT.-A desirable and we'll -
II located property, situate on Green
street, I'd door West of Centre. Has six
rooms and hall, has good cellar, large stable
and other outbuildings, has large yard and
garden and plenty of shade. Possession can
Be given April /, 1900. Apply to
W. B. THOMAS;
or the DEMOCRATIC ADVOCATE.
ian 81 ct q O W
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no CREDITORS.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
This is to give notice that the subscriber
has obtained from the Orphans Court of
Carroll county, in Maryland, letters of adj
ministration on the Personal Estate of
CHARLES F. WELENOVSKY,
late of Carroll county, deceased. Au persons
having claims against the deceased are hereby
warned to exhibit the same, with the vouch-
ers thereof legally authenticated, to the sub
scriber, on or before the 18th day of August,
1900; they may otherwise by law be ex-
cluded from oil benefit of said estate.
Given under my hand this 9th day of
EDWARD O. wEANT,
ian 10 At Administrator.
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Two WAYS

Two WAYS
OF GETTING GLASSES; ONE TO GO
TO A FIRsr.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 IT WE'RE, GET A PAIR
THAT DON'T FIT YOU (ALTHoUGH
IT MAY SEEN so FOR THE MOMENT)
RUN THE RISK OF running YOUR
EYE SIGHT ENTIRELY-AND ALL
FOR A SMALL DIFFERENCE IN Elk.
PENsE.
IFYoU NEED THE sERv-
ICES OF A GOOD oprI-
CLAN, WE CAN SERVE YOU
WELL AND CHEAPLY.
A. H. VENT,
Jeweler and Optcian.
feb19 Westminster, Nd.
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EOR RENT. Blacksmith Shop and
e Wheelwright Shop for Reat. Good loca-
ton. Easy Terms: Apply g
HAMMOND h BRO.
ian 27-4t Hoods Mill, Md.
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that we offer to our customers at
20 Per Cent. BELOW MANFG'S FIGURES.
These blankets will go on sale
MONDAY MORNING, JANUARY 29th,
and continue until all sold. Remember the
price; it would be well for you to buy your
blankets now for next season as they have
already advanced 20 to 25 per cent over last
year prices; those coming first will get first
choice We are also prepared to sell you at
low prices, considering the advanced markert.
early spring goods at very low figures; Gal
vanized Smoothe and Barb Wire, Nails, Milk
Cans, etc. Can supply you with
ANYTHING IN THE HARDWARE
LINE AT RIGHT PRICES.
We have just received carload of Stoves.
If you want a Cook Stove or Range, we have
them; we invite you To look our line over be-
fore buying as prices are very little higher
than last season, notwithstanding the great
advance in raw material.
WESTMINSTER HARDWARE CO.,
ian27.tf Westminster, Md.
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FOR SALE OR RENT.

A farm containing le5 acres, on the Ds'I !
more and Reisterstown Turnpike, anoss =
miles from Westminster. The LAND y ,1 =
high state Of cultivation and the Du''a'ss'
Fast class. Address np
VIM. MILLER,
oot28-tf Sandyviile, Mo-
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week days only.
To land Baltimore Passengers only.
sStops only when tagged.
Sunday Trains.

On Sunday trains will leave Hillen Station at e.S
a. m. and 235 p. m, Westminster Ills a.. IN. All P.
p. m. Leave Union Bridge at 6.45 a. IN. and 4.O5 P.
m, Westminster 7.20 a. M and 4.34 p. M, arriving
at Hillen Station at 9.07 Il. m and 6.l5 p. IN.
Frederick Division Pennsylvania r. X. DAILY e1-
cept Sunday. )-Trains for Frederick leave Bruce
vile at S.3S, 9.S5 and 1910 a. and SIS and go
p. Trains for Taneytowu, Littlestown and
Columbia leave Bruceville at 9.47 a. m. and $40
D. m.
Through trains for Hanover and Gettysburg and
points on Baltimore and Harrisburg Division leave
Baltimore, daily, except Sunday, at 7.22 a. m and
1882 p. m. Through cars for Gettysburg and intel.
mediate points leave Baltimore also daily, e1eeps
Sunday, at 10.17 q. m.
Passengers for and from Cherry Run. Williams
port, p. V. and intermediate points, from and fOI
stations east of Hagerstown, change at Hagerstown
Orders for baggage calls can be left at Ticket
Office, No. III East Baltimore street, Baltimore.
J. NJ. HOOD General Manager
ocf B. H. GRIswoLD. Genl. Passenger Agent
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TRUSTEES SALE
OF
VALUABLE REAL ESTATE,
In Uniontown District, Carroll County, Nd.

In Uniontown District, Carroll County, Nd.
The undersigned, as trustee, appointed by
decree of the Circuit Court for Carroll county
in cause No. 1852 Equity, in which John I.
West. Mortgage, is Plaintiff, and Stephen
Winters ct al are defendants, will offer at Pub
lie Sale, ON the premises, on
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9th, A. D., 1900,
at O'Clock, P. NJ, valuable tract of land,
II ACHES and "a Square PERCHES.
more or less, improved by a
large substantial Frame Dwell SzasS
ing, Bank Barn, and other ~ y
necessary buildings; an elegant
spring of water. This property is situated on
the public road leading from Winters church
to Liuwood, about one-half mile northeast of
the latter place, and adjoins the lands of
Jacob Sauble, Emanuel Fisher, Mrs. Edward
Shamer and Jos. l., Haines, and is the same
tract that was conveyed to Reuben Winters by
two deeds, the one from Geo. Winters ct al,
dated September 18th, 1877, and recorded
among the Land Records of Carroll county in
Liber F. I. s., No. 81, folio PIG, &c, and The
other from Stephen Winters and wife, dated
November 10, 1877, and recorded among the
Land Records of Carroll county in Liber f..
T. S., No. 81 folio 213.
Terms of Sale as prescribed by the decree:
One-third of the purchase money must be
paid cash on the day of sale, or the ratification
thereof; one-third in one year and onethird
in two years from the day of sale, with interest
from day of sale, to be secured by the notes
of the purchaser, with approved security;
or all cash at the option of the purchaser.
EDWARD o. WEANT, Trustee.
D. N. Henning, Solicitor,
jan-13-4t j. Thos. Roop, Auct
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-05-17

an important obs ervation. eff we ex-
clude the more recent peasant immi-
grants" he says, tthe original Rus
sian population of Siberia may be said
to comprise the following three
classes: The Cossacks. who first con-
quered the country; exiles, political
and criminal; dissenters from the
Greek church, who were either ban
ished to Siberia or went there of their
own accord. That is to say, the orig
inal Russian population Of Siberia
consists of men and women who were
in some way intellectually or physi-
cally more active or more earnest than
their fellow country men and women
who remained in European Russia.
The result is that to-day the average
Siberian is more vigorous and intel
ligent man than the average Russian.
He picks up thing more quickly;
his life is richer, brighter"
The Siberian born citizens of the
country do not fail torealize these diff
ferences. Already.I have learned that
they want to be called Siberians rath-
er than Russians, and to them the
latter name seems no more correct
than to call the descendants OF Eng
lish colonists in the United States
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-05-17

some than they were few years ago,
writes Trumbull White, in the Chi
cago Record. The Russian peasant
is displaying the same sort of restless
ness that induced the settlement of
our own Western States and Terri
tories from the more thickly populat-
ed regions of the East. Indeed, the
Russian peasant always has shown
willingness to support the ''e1pan-
sion" policy of his Government by
moving on into the newly annexed
lands and subduing them to his own
civilization and manner of develop
ment, crude though that might be. 1t
is time to dismiss the idea that the
Russian peasant is altogether clod.
He has shared too we'll the labors of
the Russian advance across Asia.
An observant English traveller writ.
ing recently of his journey in these
lands has complimented the Siberian
and the American in the same breath
at the same time that he has phrased
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-05-17

back, and if you try to sleep on your
side the spine is curved most uncom.
fortably aud unhealthful.
What then is to be done about it:
The spring of the bed must either be
made in several pieces, or be made up
of spiral springs, so that all parts are
independent of one another, and the
springs at the center are stronger than
those at the head and foot, because
they have more weight to support. In
this way it becomes possible for the
tired man or woman to obtain the
greatest possible amount of benefit
from the hours devoted to sleep. If
they will use moderately hard mat.
tress, OF cotton or hair, never of feath-
ers, and not too high pillow, seeing
that when they are in bed the body is
not all curled up in knot by the poor
springs and that the feet and back are
in almost straight line, the repose
gained while lying either on the right
or left side will prove refreshing and
healthful.
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kopecks, OF approximately $4.35, for
665 miles. The emigrant rate for the
same distance is only three rubles, or
about $1.55. It goes without saying
that the accommodations provided at
this rate are not luxurious, but they
are quite as good as could be expected
for the price, far more comfortable
than the former method OF travel into
Siberia by long and trying marches
aud probably in most instances rela-
lively better than the homes the peo-
pie have had.
The cars themselves in which the
emigrants travel to the land of their
hopes are the ordinary fourth-class
cars of the sort one sees all over Rus
sia, inscribed after the invariable
fashion, 'for eight horses or forty
men," They are what.we call box cars
in the United States, painted the ia
miliar red, with sliding doors opening
in either side.
The most characteristic feature of
Siberian farm life is that the farmers
live not scattered all over the country,
remote from neighbors, but in villages
as near as possible to the land they
are cultivating. Each village, then,
is cluster of houses, in which live
not villagers in the usual sense, as
towuspeople in a small settlement,
but the farmers of the region round
about.
Life in these villages of Siberia is
rude enough, with none of the quail
ties we consider necessary to comfort.
The lands are fertile, yielding ample
crops of grain even with the crude
methods of cultivation in effect. The
plowing is shallow because the plows
are poor. There is little cultivation
after planting. The grain is harvested
with hand sickles and scythes. 1t is
thrashed by horses in the open field,
the grain trampled out Of the straw
by three or four Siberian ponies trot-
ting around in a small circle. 1t is
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a Plague of Cuttlehsh.

The Australian papers give accounts
of an unprecedented plague of cuttle-
fish that has been ravaging the fish
cries and for time entirely upsetting
the fishing industry of North Austria
lian waters. 1t is said that the crea-
lures are swarming i'll such numbers
that hundreds are brought up in sim
gle haul of the nets. AS the haul is
drawn up they cling with their tenta-
cles to the under side of the boat and
have to be disengaged with axes, so
that large quantities of tackle have
been destroyed and many boats in
iured. They average from Is pounds
downwards in weight. and their ap-
pearance in such huge numbers has
Leen as sudden as it has proved un-
pleasant. Westminster Gazette.
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PEARLS OF THOUGHT.

Nothing helps a man sometimes so
much as hindrance.
Habitual idlehess in the rich is no
more justifable than habitual idleness
in a tramp.
Every one is blind and knows moth
ing except how to depreciate the excel
lencies of others.
What we like determines what we
are, and to teach taste is inevitably
to form character.
How careful should the great be to
regulate their conduct, when they see
how ready the world is to follow their
example.
Calamities that seem insupportable
when looked at from a distance, lose
half their power if met and resisted
with fortitude.
The only leisure valuable to society
is that which affords a man or woman
opportunity to freely choose his or her
line Of usefulness.
just because waiting is so hard,
waiting is the one duty of the hour to
be endured bravely and in hope, when
there Is nothing to do but to walt.
One of the surest evidences of
friendship that an individual can dis
play to another is telling him gently
of fault. Ii any other can excel it,
it is listening to such communication
with gratitude and amending the error.
The law of Nature is that a certain
quantity of work is necessary to pro-
duce certain quantity of good OF any
kind whatever. Ii you want knowl-
edge, you must toll for it; if food, you
must toll for it; and if pleasure, you
must toll for it.
All fine natures are generous. None
are so poor that they have not some
thing to give; if not money flowers;
if not flowers kind words or crumbs
to the birds, or a. least generous
thoughts, which may sometimes be the
most difficult gift OF all.
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A FINE RISK.
Practical Joke That Made the Insur-
ance Agent Mad.

A Practical Joke That Made the Insur-
ance Agent Mad.
81 wish that people wouldn't try to
oe so funny with met snapped the
ife insurance agent. Life is a seri
,us business. That is why / spend
so mu of my time trying to impress
lpon people that some of my unex-
,elled lie insurance is necessary for
their happiness. Here I have lost
whole day and been put to consider
able expense when might have used
both to better advantage, and all be-
cause people look upon me as a tit
sub. .ect for their practical jokes.
''The other day l Glanced to step
into a hotel TO see what was going on,
and while there 1 struck up an ac-
quaintance with a man who looked to
be about TO years of age. 1t wasn't
long before 1 discovered that he
carried no insurance, and as he looked
like splendid risk / lost no time in
telling him all about the celebrated
insurance that / handle. He looked
little bored Def re I was half
through, but / didn't let that bother
me, as 1 had him in corner where
he couldn't escape. Finally through
an oversight on my part he managed
to get in word.
see here, said he, Il have the
heart disease and couldn't get my life
insured if / wanted to. But have n
son who is as sound as dollar. Why
not talk to him.?
'Whefe ia he:' said l.
He is out ut my house about 80
miles from here. 1t will he worth
your time to see him.
"I'll see him at once. I answered.
"Well, got the address and took
the first train out there. [ found the
house all right and lang the bell. A
woman answered and l asked if NJ.
Blanks son was at home.
He is, she answered, looking at
me rather queerly.
May l see him?' / asked.
"You may, she answered, and led
the way inside. She disappeared for
moment aud then reappeared upon
the scene with G-months-old baby in
her arms and collapsed"
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PORTABLE SCHOOL HOUSE.
Now tho Educational Demands Are bIe
in st. Louis.


How tho Educational Demands Are Mes
in st. Louie.
st. Louis is congratulating itsel,
just now upon having successfully
solved difficult problem, and upon
the carrying out OF a unique and inter
esting idea. In fact, she has wrought
out new version of the old story oil
Mahomet and the mountain and new
application. Like the mountain, il
has been found necessary that when
scholars will not come to the school,
the school must. of o necessity, go t.
the scholars. This, on the face of
it, might seem matter of extreme
difficulty. As it is, however, the
problem has been solved.
ST. Louisahas found much difficulty
in providing room for all its school
children. Rented rooms were expert
mented with in many parts of the
city with m ore or less success, but the
general result would hardly be called
a satisfactory one. In districts where
The population was scattered the plan
seemed scarcely applicable. After
much consideration and many expert
ments, it was suggested that school
house or schoolhouses of such nature
that they could be readily moved from
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For Healthful Sleep,

Every one knows that it is bad to
sleep on your back, but it is even
worse if the bed is such that your
stomach is as high as your head and
your feet are lower than both, as must
be the case on too heavily wadded
mattresses. On the other hand, if
the spring is too yielding you will find
that the heavy parts of the body make
you lie in kind of hollow whether
you sleep on your back or on your
side. 1t is most unhealthful to have
the feet so high as they are in this
kind of bed, when you sleep on your
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An odd Tree From Madagascar.

From Vick's Magazine We get this
picture of the travellers tree, an odd
looking growth indigenous in NADIA
gascar. Botanically it is known as
the Ravenala Madagarcarenis, but its
popular name has been given it from
the belief that water from rain and dew
collects in its leaf stems in sufficient
quantity to quench travellers thirst.
The water does collect as stated, but
as the plant grows beside water
courses it can hardly be of special
benefit to the traveller, who could
slack his thirst much easier at the
adjacent stream,
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-05-17

winnowed by hand and ground in
windmills. With all the crudity of
the processes, the yield of wheat, for
instance, is from twenty to thirty fold.
and as high as twenty-five and even
thirty bushels to the acre.
Some of the landed proprietors have
begun to introduce modern methods
of viniculture, but the peasants are
slow to adopt them. The grapes are
robbed of their juices in the simplest
of presses, and the wine is still carted
and stored in bullock hides. A wine
cellar is strange sight, with its rows
of distorted skins, bulging with the
liquors.
The barbaric style of architecture
such as the Tartars were fond of is
frequently seen in the larger Siberian
towns. Omsk has many mosques Of
this kind. One of the accompanying
large pictures shows business street
in Omsk.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-05-17
How Foreign Armies March to War.

How Foreign Armies March to War.
In Russia the number of steps to
the minute covered by soldiers on the
march is from l12 to l16; in Germany
it is ia, in Austria 115, i'll France and
Italy 1870, with the exception of the
Chasseur pied and the Bersaglieri,
who make respectively 130 and 140
steps. The length of the step in
Russia is % inches, in Germany 81 1-2
inches, and in France, Italy and
Austria 30 1-2 inches, while the
Italian Bersaglieri use a step of "a
inches. The Russian soldier, under
these conditions, covers distance of
261 feet to 270 feet per minute, the
Austrian 2S2 feet, the French and
italian 294 feet, and the German 800
feet, the latter occupying the mean
between the Russian and the special
Italian corps, which has the most
rapid march. The British army slow
march consists of IS 30-inch PAGES to
the minute, this measure being only
nsed on parade, and for solemn occa-
sions. The quick march, in which all
eyolutions are performed, increases to
ITO PAGES, while the double rises to
$50 Ia ,es III the minute.
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place to place, set up wherever re-
quired, and when no longer needed,
:aken down and removed to some
other field of action, would fill the
bill. Therefore, consultation of
ocal carpenters was called and a
school building, such as desired, was
the result.
These buildings have been con-
structed in such manner that when
no longer required at one site they
can quickly be taken apart and, if
need be, moved to another. They are
twenty-four by thirty-six feet, inside
measurement. The floors are con-
structed in eight sections, the sides in
six sections, the ends in four sections
and the roof in sixteen sections. Each
section is strongly put together on
frames, and these are bolted in such a
manner as to make perfectly tight
and secure room. The joints between
The sections are covered both inside
and out by movable pieces, which are
held in place by screws. The heating
and ventilating are furnished by an
indirect furnace with double casing.
The fresh air is taken directly from
the outside, and the supply cannot, in
any manner, be cut of or reduced be-
yond proper limit.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-05-17

great quantities. The Government
provides for the nece ssity in excellent
fashion. At every station of the first
class, which means about every seven.
ty-five or eighty miles, there is erected
at one end of the platform little
house of logs, which is arranged
solely for the convenience of the
people who want water. A big tank,
holding two or three barrels of water,
is arranged with charcoal furnace to
keep its contents at the boiling point.
In another corner of the house is a
tank of cold water. Each of these is
fitted with several faucets SO that the