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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1901-05-18

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SiIverware. Nc, we will give you prices of a
few articles:
Writing Paper and Envelopes to match, in
nice boxes, ribbon tied that never sold for
less than 40 and soc per boz (thonght to be
cheap), we offer at 25c.
Regular 25c ard 35c wiring Paper and
Envelopes to match, our Price, l6c per box.
Our special brand Writing Paper, with
Envelopes to match, some say worth 25c, we
say 10c per box.
We offer you pound packages of Writing
Paper at l0c per pound, never asked more;
said to be worth 25c per package, and En-
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Blank Books of all kinds, and prices so low
that You will wonder how we came in posses
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Composition Books from Sc to 25c each.
Day Book and Ledgers from 25c to SO. so
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Playing Cards from 10c to soc per pack.
Tablets for pen and pencil, from &c to 25c
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Pocket Books for alies and gents, worth
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Pocket Knives, Carving Sets, Razors, Table
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MUSICAL
Violins, Harmonicas. Graphophones, &C.
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China Goods and Fancy Articles.
Fine Umbrellas from 81. 25 to So each.
Repairing of Watches, Jewelry, Clocks,
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mar30 Westminster, Md.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1901-05-18


had blue eyes and light hair They in
quired where they came from, and they
replied From Croatan How does it
come that you speak English ? Our
fathers were English.
These people have always been called
Croatans. There are some 4, 900 of them
living in Robson county. N. G., at the
present time, but they have scattered all
over the South and West have found
Croatan names among all the FIVE civilized
tribes living in the Indian territory.
1.-THE most eminent of them was United
States Senator Revels who was elected
from Mississippi during the reconstruction
days. He was classed as negro, but was
in reality Croatan.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1901-05-18
The Who Wore They ?

The recent death of former United
States Senator Hiram r. Revels, of Mis-
sissippi, has revived curious story regard
iGg his ancestry He was always classed
as a negro, being tall, well built man,
with the chocolate skin and curly hair of
an African, and the deyout bearing Of his
profession-t ministerial
Revels, however was not a negro, or if
of mixed blood, he was at least the de-
scendant of two other far higher races.
According to Dr. c. A. Peterson, of ST.
Louis, he was undoubtedly descendant
of that mystery shrouded band of settlers
that Sir Walter Raleigh planted at Roam
oke in 1897, and that disappeared from
white knowledge year or two later.
1.-THE historian has usually contented
himself with dropping his investigation
when he reached the point where Cover
nor John White returned from England
and found the colony had disappeared from
Roanoke Island, - said DR.. Peterson, "and
you will find in about every history you
pick up the statement that the colonists
were probably killed by the Indians.
1.-The Roanoke colony consisted OF l15
unmarried men and 20 who had families
They were sent out by Sir Walter Raleigh
in 1887, in charge of John White, who
was appointed governor. Ananias Dare,
his son-in law, was vice e-goyernor, and
during L 597 his wife gave birth to daugh
ter, the first white child born in America,
and she was called Virginia Dare.
During the summer tribe of Croatan
Indians, who lived some so miles away,
on the east shore of what is now North
Carolina-tbe whole country was then
called Virginia-visited the colony on
Roanoke Island and proposed to the set
tiers that they remove to the home Of the
Indians, and become members OF their
tribe. The 115 unmarried men were will
ling to accept the proposition and it was
only with difficulty that Governor White
induced them to remain.
"When everything was completed
White returned to England and got proyi-
sions and reinforcemeRs Before going
he instructed the cOtOnlStS 10 leave some
testimony if for any reason they should
conclude to move.
THE next year 1888, was the year of
the Spanish Armada, and Whites boat
and every other sea going vessel was i'm
pressed into service So it was impossible
for Governor White to set sail for America
again until 1889 When he arrived at
Roanoke he found the stockade and the
house there, but everybody had gone.
On one tree he found the word 'Croatan'
carved. and on one stockade post merely
the beginning -'Crot. He was about to
proceed in search of the Croatans when
Hatteras storm came up, and, after beat
ing about for some time the crew mutinied
and insisted on going down to the Spanish
main and engaging III privateering.
I'm 1710, when the Huguenots and
cavaliers started to penetrate the interior
of North Carolina they found, some sew
entyfive miles from the coast, in what is
now Robeson county, N. G., colony of
English speaking people, many of whom
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1901-05-18
Cliff Dwellers in China.
From the Springfield Republican.

Professor G. Frederick White, of Ober-
lin, who started on a tour around the world
several months ago, reached China just be
fore the Boxers outbreak had assumed
dangerous proportions, and at once made
an excursion into Mongolia, returning later
to lien rsn From there, on June 2, he
sent an account of singular and interest
ing village of Catholic cliff dwellers which
he visited in Mongolia 1t is quite prob
able that the native Christians he describes
have since been massacred. Professor
White prefaces the description of the will
age with few brief paragraphs about the
curious nature of the territory in which it
is situated.
The eastern border of Mongolia and the
northeastern part of China are largely Gov
cred with los (loess) one of the most in
teresting and puzzling of all the geological
deposits. Its German name comes from
the valley Of the Rhine, where loess is
found in considerable quantities. The in
habitants of the Mississippi and Missouri
valleys of the United States are familiar
with the deposit in the bluffs at Vicksburg
Kansas City, Omaha and Sioux. During
the siege of Vicksburg the people took ref
uge in spacious rooms dug out in the de-
posit at considerable depth below the
surface. At numerous places along the
Missouri river it stands in perpendicular
exposures more than hundred feet high,
and city streets are cut through its long,
perpendicular sides, which stand like a
wall for many years. When a section
breaks off from the cliff it always leaves a
perpendicular face.
''Yet the deposit is SO soft that Its
surface can be readily cultivated, and it
can be handled with shovel at any depth.
The material principally consists of ex-
tremely fine sand, with little lime init
mately mixed with it. 1t is so porous that
the rain which falls upon the surface passes
entirely through the deposit, preventing
the formation of springs of water until an
impervioss stratum is reached underneath
it ALL 1t endures drought better than any
other soil
1.-The most extensive development OF
the loess anywhere in the world is in Mon
golia in an elevated region from 5000 feet
to $500 feet above the sea, but it has been
eroded by water during long geological ages
into very uneven surface, with numerous
narrow valleys from 1000 feet to 5000 feet
deep, with innumerable tributary gullles
coming down the sides of the intervening
ridges Many isolated peaks, also, rise to
an absolute height of from 5000 feet to
1000 feet above sea level Into this rugged
region has drifted during recent epoch an
immense amount of fine dust which con-
stitutes the loses That it has been blown
in by the winds is evident from the posi-
tions in which it lies. It appears almost
exactly like series of immense snowdrlits
that have accumulated behind the barriers
which have caused lulls in the wind, per
mitting the suspended particles to settle IN
proteced places, while it has been swept
bare from the exposed positions.
"These deposits of loess are specially
valuable because of their fertility. But
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1901-05-18
Gems of Thought.

Old Proyerb "Sell at small profit,
and you sell quickly; he who sells quickly
sells plenty; he who plenty at saall profit
quickly sells, earns little on plenty, but
plenty on much.
Permaneney of patronage is built on
confidence, and is slow of growth.
There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the food, leads on to
fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shadows and in miseries.
Show spirit of generosity toward your
competitors; there is no reason why you
should try to undermine them through be-
littling their excellencies and magnifying
their faults. The world admires justice
and fair dealing, and such policy pays in
the end
Attend strictly to business during bust
ness hours.
1t is not work that kills men, it is wor-
ry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put
more upon a man than he can bear.
Worry is rust upon the blade. 1t is not
the revolution that destroys the machin-
cry, but the friction. W. Beecher.
"Giye every man thine ear, but few, thy
voice;
Take each mans censure, but reserve thy
judgment -
Do not think that what is hard for thee
to master, is impossible for man; but if
thing is possible, and proper to man, deem
it attainable by tn hee Marcus Aurelius.
''Strike while the iron is hot
Make the iron hot by striking it. .
Oliver Cromwell.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1901-05-18

The Department of Agriculture esti-
mates that the value of the leading farm
ing crops of 1900 was 81, 861, 466, 900,
over $500, 900, 900 greater than for the
previous year.
AT an inquest at Columbus, o., where
a baby had burned to death by an acci-
dent, its clothing having caught fire, one
of the jurymen offered this advice "If
people would only rinse clothing, after
washing, in solution of alum and water,
they would never take fire; if they came
in contact with flame they would merely
smother.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1901-05-18
MORE GOOD NEW
WASH FABRICS.

Linens Organdies Dimities Pque Percaes Madras Cling
New styles being opened every day. many
of them which faster than can print them
5c Printed Dimity for l23G.
25c Dotted Swiss for l8c.
18c Stripe Pique for l2tc.
12Rc Stylish Ginghams for lQc..
And hundreds Of other good things you need every day
nownen Lawns very desirable this Here at lac
yard.
Linen Drill stripes for boys Suits Very special at
zoe.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1901-05-18

Ca recent scientific test, a worker in
metals succeeded in drawing a penny out
into 5, 700 feet of wire.
A Bible owned by Milton, and bearing
his signature, was sold at auction in Lon
don the other day for 81, 125.
The percentage of illiteracy in Kansas
is less than it is in any state in this Union
or in any country on the globe save Bel
GUM.
Match making, once the most perilous
of handicrafts, has become perfectly safe
through the discovery of amorphous phos-
phorus.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1901-05-18
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
AUGUSTUS BROWN,
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-
ber, on or before the 4th day of December,
1901; they may otherwise by law be excluded
from all benefit of said estate.
Given under my hand this 29th day of
April 1901.
ELIZABETH H. BROWN,
may4 At Administrators.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1901-05-18
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showing them in all the new
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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1901-05-18
TO CREDITORS.

This is to give notice that the subscriber
has obtained from the Orphans Court of Car
roll county, in Maryland letters ofadminislra-
ton on the Personal Estate of
JOHN E. HOUCK,
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 4th day of December,
1901; they may otherwise by law be excluded
from all benefit of said estate.
Given under my hand this Both day of
April, 1901.
ANNIE C. HOUCK,
maya At Administrative.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1901-05-18

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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1901-05-18
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Nothing better desirable for your floors in
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the lowest have asked for such qualities
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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1901-05-18

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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1901-05-18

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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1901-05-18

NEW LOW SHOES
FOR SUMMER WEAR.

Never such collection before.
Nearly hundred new styles for you to
pick from and every shoe a work of
art. Patent Leather Shoes, Welt Shoes
for walking, Turn Shoes for light
dresses the newest toes and most
comfortable lasts.
Arizona republican., 1901-09-03
COCHISE NOTES.

The road to the "Old Terrible" mines is in poor shape and it Is difficult to get to and from the mines. On that ac- count Ben Goodin had to leave one of his wagons several miles out one day.
 Tie stamp mill has received a new pumping jacket from Fl Paso.
 The Copper Belle is new shipping q carload of ore Q day We understand a great deal of ore is being roasted at the mine.
 The Peabody at Johnson Is shipping three carloads every day. There is an average of 15O to 200 tons of ore going out of Cochise every day.
 Ben Goodn has just returned from Gleeaon bringing with him several tons of ore from that camp. He says the roads are lined with ore teams. He also says that the Silver Bill mine has been purchased by John Gieeson who will be- gin working if in the near future. An oil tank upset on the road tc Pearco about six miles out from c. chlse. Somebody will be boring for q gusher there some day
 J. B. Neal and R. H. Warren went tc DragCon Sunday to look up the property owned by Colonel Stone of Fl Paso or which they are going to work soon.
 Lee Brown is now tending bar fo' Eaton after having spent few days a the Dunlap property.
 Tne Golden Reef mining company O the Huachuca mountains claims {, have four hundred thousand tons 0 pay ore in sight. I am informed this i q good propositlon.-Co Range News.
Arizona republican., 1901-09-03
EXPERIMENT WAS A SUCCESS.

My wife has a new fad" announced the fat man with the red face, as he cheerfully stirred the cooking mixture before him with q long straw. "She is going in for hypnotism now. and it has my sincere and emphatic endorsement. She has taken twelve lessons from noted professor of the art, and is now 0 full-hedged hyprotist, or thinks she is. which amounts to the same thing as far as she is concerned. ] was her first subject. and her success not only pleased her bu, astOnished her as well. At first I rebs,led at being experi- mented with, thinking it all tommy rot; but am now prepared to endorse the art to it's full extent. She get me in a chair and then, standing in front of me. went through a lot of monkey shines befora my face with her hands.
 "'Now.' she said sternly, you can not leave your chair.
 Just to see what her game was gave her the glassy eye and made no move. Her eyes gleamed with triumph and then she sald
 "Listen to me! You must no longer drink intoxicating loquori If you do it ! will make you sick You will find 1t is 1 impossible to lift q glass of the VllC stuff 10 your lips You cannot even enter a place where it is sold'
 Iaen gho brought me GU! o- th'
Arizona republican., 1901-09-03

The next six months should witness greater devs ,opment in the mining in- dustry in this territory than any similar period of time in the history ot Arizona There will be thousands Of visitors to the capital city this winter, and some of them will be mining men. Many who have little interest in mines will be here also. but they can not help but note ard talk about mining mat ters when such subjects are in the air. Even though a man has no money to invest, he gen rally knows some che who has, and publicity Is the great thing. When every one is talking mines some one is bound to become interested
 For this reason every prospector and claim owner who has anything to talk about should place a sample of his ore on exhibition in the Phoenix board of trade room. Particularly is this true of Maricopa county mining men and those holding nearby properties. The board of trade is anxious to give the greatest possible publicity to opportun- ities for investment, and it costs noth- ing Co get before the people in this way.
Arizona republican., 1901-09-03
GLOBE AND VICINITY
Commercial Company Selling Stock
 to Erect Reduction Plant.

The Old Dominion is running with full force in each department, and mak- ing the usual output of copper.
 F.. F. Walker arrived from Michigan on Wednesday of last week to fill the position of engineer at the Old Domin- ion. Mir. Walker is a graduate of the Michigan school of mines, and has been with the Calumet & Hoc.d company for the past five years.
 The Globe Bcs.on Copp company will withdraw thsir stock for sale on Sepsembsr7 Owing tlthe increasediiow of water into the shaft on the I l. mine beyond the capacity Of the whim to raise it. sinking has been stopped at depth of 175 feet. until a hoist or pump can be installed.
 Albert C. Siebolt of Denver, who has secured a bond on Richard Welch's s claims nsar the head of Pinto creek, sent out supplies and camp outfit on
 Mon Jay, and has put force of miners to work under the direction of Mir Ford late of Biybee. We understand it is MT. Sietclts intention to sink a shaft 25O feet and prospect the gronud system atically. M; Welch has shipped some high grade copper ore from these claims and the surface showing on them Is said | to be promising.
 The Arizona Commercial company
 offers 20,OO0 shares of treasury stock al par. BIO per share, the proceeds to bt
 used for the erection of reduction work; | at the mine. The company Is develop | inS what Is known az the Copper Hil | D Hance and Black Hawk mining claims, which lie east of the principa
 mines of the United Globe. and adjoir
 the AmaGor claim, belonging to tha | company. In 1899 lease WIS given n | the Copper Hill property for one year | and during that time a larg amount O | high grade copper ore (stated in tn
 prospectus at seventy carloads netting l J}QOCQ) Was extracted from the surface
Arizona republican., 1901-09-03

return to his home at Payson to pre- pare for the opening of the school at Pine which he will again teach.-Silver Bslt.
 The Ray Copper Mines. Limited, have moctgaged their property in Pinal county tc tile Trustees. Executors and Securities Insuranye company of Len don for the sum of e13,566. payable on June %, 1902 and th7 document was filed for record this week with Recorder Peyton. l. is believed this means has been taken to get rid of undesirable stockholders who will neither do any thing themselves nor allow any one else to. and the esult is likely to be greatly beneficial to this section in opening up q property which every one knows is valuable if properly managed.-Flor- ence Tribune.
 It Is currently reported that the Zeck- ondorf interests have gained entire ccn- trol of the Ray Copper Mines, Limited, by paying to the English stockholders all they expended In railroad construc- ton and improvements at Kelvin. It ia also stated that the rev owners will resume operations at the mine and mill very soon We sincerely hope the re- ports are based upon facts. The closing down of this property was a great in- jury to Pinal county, and needless | injury. as the property was not at fault 1 Bad mara agenent alone was responsible for the failure. The mines are all right Florence Blade.
 Sunday evening Mr. J. D. Milton re- turned from Texas where he has beer attending to his oil interests. As stated lr. the Oasis last week development work is being vigorously pushed upoT the Milton properties, and great results are anticipate ed.-Oasis.
 Saturday evening Mir. Allen C. Der hard was at Nogales en route to New York on business for the company de
 veluping the coal fields at San Marcial with which Mir. Bernard is now con
 nected. He informed the Oasis that a Guaymas work has been commences
 upon the railroad to connect San Mar
 cial vita that city.