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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1902-09-27
A Bell Ringer.

1t was in country village that the
swain had proposed for the hand of the
village beauty, and had been successful
and carried off the palm. He had bought
the engagement ring and was hurrying as
fast as his two feet would carry him to the
home of his adored one. A friend tried
to stop him to make inquiry concerning his
haste
''Hello, there, Bob Is there fire"
"Yes,' replied Bob, with what breath
he had left, "my hearts on fire and | m
going now to ring the village belle.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1902-09-27

If time is money, how is it that some
people with lots of money have no time to
spend it, and while others with lots OF time
to spend have no money?
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1902-09-27

MILL PROPERTY AT PUBLIC
WI SALE, on Saturday, September u,
1902, at l p. m., on the premises, the we'll
known Spahr Mill; 10 Acres, more or less;
good buildings; Roller Mill in firstclass order
with 25 barrels capacity daily For particu-
lars see bills. HENRY H. SPAHR,
sept13 3t* Hampstead, Md.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1902-09-27

DARN OF 81 ACRES will be sold on
~ OCTOBER 4, 1902, at p. rn., on the
premises, near Warfeldsburg; good buildings,
fruit; Is acres in wood; fine water7z miles
from railroad; daily mad; schools and
churches. Investors examine. Terms cash,
balance in l, 2 and years.
septic 3t* JESSE N. WILLIAMS.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1902-11-27
THE PLAGUE IN SAN FRANCISCO.
1t Con Never Be Obliterated Until
Chinatown Is Burned Down.

1t Can Never Be ObIiterated Until
Chinatown 10 Burned Down.
San Francisco is not little disturbed
over the prevalence of the bubonic plague.
The local authorities, and even those of
the State, have done their utmost to be-
little and disguise the seriousness Of the
situation, but that the plague exists to a
disquieting and constantly increasing ex-
tent. correspondent says. is known to
everyone. The plague flourishes ,,rinci-
pally among the Chinese, but is by no
means confined to the oriental quarter of
the city. Within the past two and a
half years there have been hundreds Of
cases, and no less than 65 fatal cases
among the whites. During the past ten
months there have been 81 cases, Of
which % have proved fatal. Durin, Au-
gust there were nine cases, in September
eleven and in October seven.
DIR. j. NJ. Williamson, president of the
local Board of Health. furnishes these
figures. The doctor says:
chinatown is a constant menace to
the city. While the Chinese are permit
ted to inhabit their present quarters
San Francisco harbors constant peril
Chinatown as it is at present cannot lie
rendered sanitary except by total oblit-
Grafton. 1t should be depopulated. its
buildings leveled by fire and its tunnels
and cellars laid bare.
Its occupants should be colonized on
some distant portion of the peninsula.
where every building should be construct
ed under strict municipal regulation. In
this way. and no other. will there be
safety from the invasion and propagation
of oriental disease.
''The day has passed when progress
sive city like San Francisco should feel
compelled TO tolerate in its midst Il for
eign community. pcrpetuated in filth, for
the curiosity of tourists. the cupi'lity of
lawyers and the alteration of artists
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6H00zS
Ss1O @tLndEs

The total enrolment i'm Yale UniEer-
sity this year is 2.SI5, an increase of 100
over last year. and the largest in the his
tory of the university.
The will of Mrs. Susan Brown, Just
psobated. leaves TO Princeton University
real estate valued at S15O.O0O. to be spent
as ex-President Patton shall direct.
About 1000 students of the Michigan
Agricultural College at Lansing remained
away from classes because several of
their number had been suspended for
taking part in rush.
Kate Drexel. the philanthropist, who
is now inspecting Indian missions in she
Southwest. has decided to build an ex-
tensive mission school for the Navajo
tribe. in Arizona.
\ collection of $4,000 insects. -erre-
setting the careful work of many ye:rs,
has been bought by the University of Chi
cago from John Akhurst, a noted e:to-
mOlogist of Brooklyn.
\ verdict of $3.50 damages has been
awarded at Salem. Mass, to a high
school boy for exclusion from the I.sw-
renee high school. The school auth ori-
ties had expelled him because of an ar
tiele in his fathers paper.
The Teachers College of Colu,;ibia
University has received a gift of $780,
600 from John ID. Rockefeller as Il II ank
offering TO God for the preservation of
his family when his country house at
Pocantico Hills, New York. burned.
The Chicago medical examiners have
announced that a teacher should be lerge
bulk is regarded rs a prime pedagoglc lcal
factor. This is causing no end of amase-
ment among the educational papers of
the country
The second annual report of the col
lege examination entrance board. repre-
senting the heads of all the lealing
schools of the country. shows that ex-
aminations We're held in $50 places for
1852 candidates seeking entrance into
thirty-five colleges. This board stands
for the principle of cooperation between
colleges in favor of uniformity of eiuca-
tional standards and cooperation Of sec
ondary schools.
The grand total of 1928. go pupils
attending the public and private schools
of this country is recorded in the arnual
report of United States Commissioner of
Education William L. Harris for che year
ended June 80. This is an increase Of
27S.520 over the previous year. BE sides
these nearly 100000 were enrolled il the
special night and trades schools Of the
cities. Value of school property rore to
S516, ,963, ,0S9. excluding colleges. Th. eN-
penditure per capita was S2-93. as com
pared with Sigh in 1870 and S2.S3 last
year.
President Hadley of Yale University.
In a speech at the Union of Kansas, said
that to require II college course of every
man who enters the professional SCHOOLS
Is to impose a serious burden on the poor
man without promise of corresponding
gain He argued for solution Of the
university problem in Il combination of
the English spirit and the German crgnn-
ization The great thing that English
colleges have always done. he said. and
that the American colleges are dong. is
to lead the student to value above 'om-
mcrcial ideals. the ideals of civic duty.
religious earnestness and unselhsh ievo-
tion to causes promising them no personal
a0hisvapsnt
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Odda and Ends

1t has been decided to establish-wire-
less telegraphy apparatus at all stations
and on all passenger trains on Italian
railroads.
The National Association of Local
Methodist Preachers. in session in Phila-
delphia. resolved Ito separate themselves
from all organizations and influences that
aid or encourage the license system"
Pope Leo. while examining report
dealing with religious officers in Cuba
and reviewing the agreements arrived at
with Gen. Wood, as governor. exclaimed: !:
washington is the most loyal and gen.
erous government the church ever dealt
with"
The Right Rev. James II. Van Buren,,
bishop of Porto Rico. preached in New
York Sunday. He said of the 953. 900 ma
tive inhabitants so per cent can neither
read nor write. and that while $4,000
children are now attending school the fa-
cilities are greatly inadequate. He said
the Porto Ricans were naturally an intel
ligent people and wanted to learn.
On the occasion of the ;.00th anhi-er-
sary of the Borleian library the highest
academic honors Were conferred 10y Ok
Oxford University upon Andrew ID.
White, the American ambassador to Ger
many; Prof. Charles S. Minot of Har-
ward, Librarjan Confield of Columbia and
Prof F. West Of PfarcetUn.
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building are yet in a state of incomplete
ness. The contractor is rushing the work
So as TO have the house ready for the
opening of the social season. One of the
most important changes is the making of
state dining room. Heretofore the
dining room has been so small that on all
state occasions it was necessary to have
the dinner in the hall or in one of the
parlors. This will not be necessary, as
the dining room has been enlarged SO
that 100 guests may be seated at one time
In the dining room. The enlargement
has been accomplished by the removing
of the wall on the north side of the din
ing room and the taking in of the hall
way into which the stairs from the sec
ond floor entered. The entire space occu-
pied by the hallway and stairs has been
given to the state dining room. The floors
OF the dining room are being laid in cak
parQuetry and the walls are of dark Eng
lish oak. The walls will be adorned by
relics of a kind never before seen there
These will be the heads of some of the
wild and game animals that have fallen
to the prowess of the President rs a
hunter.
The north side entrances hereafter will
be for the family only and guests of an
entirely personal and private nature \
great deal of money has been spent in
making over the historic rooms that have
been open TO the public from time imme-
mortal. But In addition to this there has
been thousands of dollars expended in
the underpinning and foundations where
it cannot be seen by the public This
was rendered necessary by the insecure
condition CT the building, which for some
time has been n source of concern To
those who were acquainted with it. and
which made II necessary TO exercise great
precaution at public receptions and other
functions where large crowds iocked to
the White House. The living rooms of
the Presidents family have all been gone
over and the gloomy Old house has been
made habitable for those who by custom
are compelled to live In It for terms of
four years at q time.
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1iAhhi cIhaiAO-N' VIII tue otucA
few relatives, was left but $4,000 of his
fathers vast fortune.
According to the terms of the will the
bulk of the estate was to be employed in
building and maintaining national home
for the old and infrm, the institution to
occupy site within the limits of fash
ionable Colorado Springs-the Newport
Of the West. The wealthy class of that
aristocratic community were Mortified at
the prospect Of ''poorhouse" in their
midst and it is generally believed that
money from their purses is being used
to further young Stratton's interests i'll
the legal fight.
A little more than ten years ago Win
field Scott Stratton was a poor carpenter.
following prospecting as n side issue. He
struck a rich vein of ore near Cripple
Greek, Colo, which brought fortune to
him and fame to the locality. He en-
ployed some of his wealth in other ven
lures with success and also possessed
himself of much valuable real estate in
Denver and Colorado Springs. AT the
time of his death his wealth approximate
ed $15.O00,OCo.
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PUlPU~Axo.
YREACuDR

Carolus Duran passed the summer at
st. Raphael, near Nice where he pre-
sented his picture, Christ on the Cross, -
to the local church.
The late bishop of Colorado bequeathed
the greater part of his library to the do
eese of Colorado. Many valuable books.
historical and philosophical, are 10 be
found in it.
The Pope reads only one newspaper.
the Osservatore Romano. But every day
a collection of clippings from other jour
mails is pasted into a scrap book and
given to him. His favorite author is
Virgil, whom he still reads frequently.
The government registers in Austria
show that since 1898 1858 adults nave
transferred their allegiance from the
Catholic faith to the Lutheran and Pres
byterian churches. and LIST have Joined
the old Catholic Church. Many Protest
ant churches are being built in towns
which have always been Catholic.
The American Bible Society is engag-
ed in translating the Scripture into the
many different languages of the Philip
pine Islands. SO far it has the New
Testament in Tagalcg, Iocano. Pampan-
ga and Cebuan. and others are to fol-
low. The Tagalog edition was put on
sale for the first time in Manila in July
The Rev. Erastus w. Spalding. ID. D.,
died recently at the Church Home and
Infirmary in Baltimore, where he had
been lowering almost mt the point of
death for some six months.
The Rev. Dr. George +. Breed, rector
of St. Johns Protestant Episcopal
Church, Brooklyn, astonshed most of his
congregation by suddenly rendering his
resignation at meeting of the vestry on
Tuesday night.
The cathedral tower at Faribault, con-
structed as a monument TO the late Bish-
op Whipple. is to be furnished with a
chime of bells weighing $4,000 pounds,
which will discourse SWEET mslnosiss of
~ hsuVssd pssaste.
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ENTERTAINING ROYALTY.


Simplicity Of Former Time ComparS
with Prodigality of Present.
The first time William Nv. Of Engls
and good Queen Adelaide" sat al
commoner's table was on the Occass
Of a dinner given to their majestieS
Colonel Clitherow Of Boston HouS
Middlesex. 1t was an unpretentious af.
fair, such as might be given in homer
Of visiting commoners at the present
time, and fell far below the height Of
elegance now set for similar entertain
ments. But there was NO lack Of hos.
pitality, and all details had been arrangs
ed with an eye for effect.
1t was summer, and the haymeakefD
on the estate were drawn up on the side
Of the fine garden opposite the houses
the men and women In their homespun
clothes, the hay-carts and the handsome
horses making a cheerful and pretty
picture.
Their majesties arrived at seven
o'clock and the company sat down to
dine at half past seven. During that
half-hour the queen walked about the
garden, even down to the bayfield,. TIE
haymakers cheered her, and when che
came round to the house, instead o1
turning in she most graciously walked
On to the dower-garden, and stood I'VE
minutes chatting to the party. whieA
gave the natives time to get her drese
by heart 1t was very simple. all whitex
and her bonnet was small, with little
nodding white feathers.
As to the dinner, the sister Of the host
wrote in a letter giving an account q
the affair, that 1t was 80 perfect that
it was impossible to know single thing
on the table," and that must be termed
an entirely correct dinner for such q
party.
The absurd conjecture Of people at
the expense Of the day to my brothea
induces me-" wrote Miss Clitherow. ITO
tell you what it actually was, for We
should be ashamed Of the sum guessed
at. 1 have made the closest calculates
I possibly can, which includes feeD -
borrowed servants, ringers, police, car.
riage Of things from and to London, anA
I have got to forty-four pounds. Nsv9
was less wine drank at dinner, and
that 1 cannot estimate, but Eve pounds
l think, will cover It. Everybody NOT
prejudiced must agree that we were lse
Of very well at fifty pounds"
The favored few who have had th0
honor of arranging and paying for .
Inner to his majesty, Edward W., IN
the year of 1902 would doubles
"agree" that 1t was indeed very wellS
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%'sElGRC7GTS

Chicago-Cattle. common to prime,
S4.40 to $3.50; hogs, shipping grades,
$4.25 to $3.50; sheep. fair to choice, SOC
10 S3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 13c to i5c;
corn. No. 2, SOC to 56c; oats, No. 2, &c
to 2Sc: rye, No. =, 49c to SOC; hay, tim
othy. $3.50 to $13.5O; prairie. $500 to
$3.50; butter. choice creamery, 24c to
2Ic; eggs, fresh, 20c to 24c; potatoes,
42c to 49c per bushel.
st. Louis-Cattle. $3.50 to S6.4O; hogs,
$3.50 to $6.4O; sheep, $3.50 to $3.50;
wheat. No. ., Csc to SOC: corn, No. 2,
45c to 41c: oats, No. ., 29c to Sic; rye,
No. 2, 41c to 4Sc.
Cincinnati-Cattle. $3.50 to $5.25;
hogs. $4OO to S635; sheep, $3.50 to
S3.25; wheat. No. .. 16c to 77c; corn, No.
mixed. soc to 511c; oats, No. 2 mixed,
3lc to 33c; rye. No. =. Sic to sc.
Detroit-Cattle. $3.50 to S6.25: hogs.
$500 to $500: sheep. $3.50 to S4-O0;
wheat. No. ., 19c TO See; corn, No. 8
yellow. soc to 60c: oats. No. 2 white,
Sic to 33c; rye. sc to 53c.
Milwaukee-Wheat. No. 2 northern,
zoe to 7Gc: corn. No. 9. SIC to SIC; oats,
No. white. 33c to SAC: rye, No. 1, 500
10 oIc. n5rleN. No JvC u OOC, PORK,
mess. S15.16.
Toledo-Wheat, No. mixed. 17c to
TSc; corn. No. mixed. 42c to 43c; oats,
No. . mixed. 2Ic to 2Sc; clover seed,
prime. S6.S3.
Indianapolis-Cattle. shipping. $500 to
$500. hogs. choice light, S4.OO to S6.15;
sheep. common to prime. $3.50 to $3.50
wheat. No. 9, 11c 10 &c; corn, No. 2
white. 45c to Acc; oats. No. 2 white,
31c to sc.
Buffalo-Cattle. choice shipping steers,
S4OO to $3.50; hogs. fair to prime. S4-OC
10 $3.50; sheep. fair to choice, $3.2o to
S3.15; lambs. common to choice, S4.OO to
$500.
New York-Catle, S4.0O to 5000;
hogs, $500 to S6.1O: sheep, $500 to
S3.15: wheat. No. red. 1ic to 7Sc; corn,
No. .. zoe to 66e; oats, No. 2 white,
SS6c to 3Sc: butter. creamery, 25c to 2Sc,
eggs, western, 2ic to 27c.
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also defeated for Speaker in the Fifty
! first Congress. So was Mckinley. Thom-
as Il. Reed was elected. Mckinley be-
came chairman of the committee on
ways and means, and Cannon became
chairman of the committee on appropri-
tons. In every Republican Congress
since then Cannon has been chairman of
his old committee, and as such he has
had more power and responsibility re-
garding appropriations for government
expenses and public work than any other
member of either house.
Mr.. Cannon was not a jingO before
the war with Spain began. He was one
of the conservatives. He knew that war
meant big appropriations and increased
debt, rather than economy, and the con-
tinuance of paying off bonded indebted
hess. But when the battleship Maine
was blown up in Havana harbor, Uncle
Joe" said little on either side. He begin
making few figures. and one morning he
quietly dropped little bill in the box,
which, when found, created a sensation,
not only in Washington, but in every
city in the civilized world.
That bill was unique. 1t had no pre-
ceaent. 1t appropriated $5OO0O.OO0 for
public defense, and placed that sum at
the disposal of the President. 1t meant
that the nation would get ready for war.
and it directed the President to take
steps to that end. 1t was passed without
a dissenting vote by the House. There
were speeches, but they were all for the
bill. In the Senate there were no
speeches. but it passed by unanimous
vote there also.
Cannon's bill was the first sign that
the United States intended to light.
There were certain nations in Europe
that were encouraging Spain. 1t seemed
possible that some of them might feel
encouraged to take a hand in the scrap.
Uncle Joe" gave Europe a sample IF
American readiness for fight by having
Congress hand over S50.OOO.O00 to the
President. 1t startled the world as Mr..
Cannon meant that it should. 1t was
bluff. not meant for Spain, but for the
other European powers. 1t answered its
purpose.
Mr.. Cannon was born in Quaker set
tlement in North Carolina. When he
was years old his father. DIR. Horace
+. Cannon. emigrated to the banks of
w tDdsu at L
County. Ind. He was IA years old when
his father died. and at that age he start
ed out for himself, his first work being
as clerk in country store. He was
so employed until he had attained his
majority, when he began the study of
law, and was admitted to the bar ct
Terre Haute in 1858.
The next year Mr.. Cannon moved to
Tuscola, ILL.,. and in 1861 he was elected
district attorney. He held that Office
for seven years, or until 1865. and in
1872 he was elected to Congress from
that district. 1t was at that time that
Joe Cannon began to figure in national
affairs.
In the next House 1O4 votes will he
necessary 10 elect the Speaker in the
Republican caucus. and, according to
Washington correspondent. Mr.. Cannon
now has eighty-eight pledged and thirty
two more practically corraled. The
votes that are pledged are:
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CIRCLING THE GLOBE
CONCISE HISTORY OF SEVEN
DAYS DOINGS.
4nselligeace by Electric Wire from
Every Quarter of the Civilized
world, Embracing Foreign Adairs
and Home Happeninga.
New Move for Peace.

Scranton (Pa.) special: There is every
reason to believe that the operators and
miners counsel may come to an amicable
and satisfactory agreement during the
period Of adjournment this week, which
will relieve the anthracite coal strike
commission of hearing further testimony
and rendering decision. Justice Gray
gave the first intimation of the sudden
turn OF Affairs when he adjourned court
BY reading from a typewriter paper that
the counsel for both sides would not only
come to full agreement on the data OF
wages to be presented to the commission,
but would effect q settlement Of all points
st issue.
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cast. Stamp experts think that this new
two-cent stamp, with its superb likeness
of Washington, its draped flags. its
wreaths of laurel leaves in the lower cor
ners, and the general balance of text
and artistic effect, together with the re
markable excellence of the mechanical
work, will make this the finest postage
stamp ever produced.
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Moor. Blinded by Comee.

1t Is well known that the moors are
inveterate coffee drinkers. especially
the merchants. who sit In their b.
zaars and drink coffee continually dur
ing the day. 1t has been noticed that
almost invariably when these coffee
drinkers reach the age of 40 or IS their
eyesight begins to fail. and by the
time they get to he so years old they
become blind. One IL forcibly impress
ed by the number Of blind men that
are seen about the streets Of Fec, the
capital Of Morocco. 1t IL invariably
attributed to the excessive use Of cof-
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Chicago Man Admit. Theft,

The police in Denver arrested NJ.
Kraus. of Chicago. charged with stealing
diamonds from +. +. Morse * Co. of
Chicago. The prisoner admits the theft
and says the gems are in the Masonic
Temple safety deposit vaults. He mailed
the kew of his box to the firm.
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CANDIDATE FOR SPEAKERsHIP.
Joseph G. Cannon Seems Likely to Suc.
coed ID. Il. Henderson.

coed ID. Il. Henderson.
In the contest for the speakership Of
the next House of Representatives the
most prominent figure, perhaps, is Joseph
&. Cannon of Illinois, the father of the
House." as he is familiarly styled by his
colleagues. Fifteen times has he been
elected to Congress. and he knows all the
ins and outs of congressional tactics bet
ter than any other man in the public eye
of the United States.
Mr.. Cannon was once defeated for Con-
gress. He went down with the Repub-
lican crash in 1890. Mr.. Cannon was
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Wrecked the Automobile.

Washington special: Arthur Macarthur
Washburn OF Ohio, guest Of John r. Nc
Lean, the famous Ohio editor, left the
Mclean home, on the Tennallytown road,
for short spin in Mr.. McLean's $1,000
auto. About mile out the machine
became unmanageable, slipped into rut
and turned turtle. Mr.. Washburn barely
escaped being crushed beneath the vehicle.
The batteries were Jared out OF place and
the strong electric current set fire to the
framework Of the machine, which was
destroyed.
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Ri. Fire at Mononpabe,o. po.

A block and half of property was
almost entirely destroyed, several persons
had narrow escapes from cremation. and
Sl25. 900 worth of damage was done by a
fire which started on Main street, i'm the
business section of Monongahela. Pa,
shortly before midnight, and burned un-
til o'clock Thursday morning
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proceedings attend
ing the contest over
the validity of the
will of the late min
ing millionaire,
w i N Fl e | d Scott
Stratton. The most
interested party in
the suit and the one
who is contesting
the will, is l. Harry
Stratton, son of the
dead bonanza king,
who, in like man
-. --,tk sha athAr