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Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1903-10-10
Why Women Don't Fish,

How does is happen that the fisher
mans mantle never falls on the WON.
en- of the house. Investigators claim
that the daughter is more likely to in.
herit the fathers qualities than is
the son. We all know that with other
taints and tendencies-tendencie that
cause, alas, suffering, shame, disease,
disgrace, death-nature Is not so len.
lent. Women come in for their full
share of the visitation for the sins OF
their fathers and there are no phyi
cal traits or peculiarities that may not
descend in the same way. 1t seems
to me a trifle hard that when it comes
to the one inheritance that yields such
absolute enjoyment, they should be so
N ercilessly cut out.
I do not believe they are cut out
except by artificial reasons. believe
the daughter is born with the same
devotion to the stream. to the woods,
the open air, the blue sky, the same in
tolerance of restraint, the same peri
odical longing to be away, with the
same skilful hands and uncanny brain
that her father had before her, and
that her brothers are encouraged to in
dulge. Custom, however, has put a
broom in her hands, a needle in her
fingers, long skirts that bind her lib.
erty, and the cry of duty and decorum
in her ears.-Outing.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1903-10-10
Old Maids as Listeners.

The good listeners, on the other
hand, are the old maids to whose
speech nobody pays any attention, yet
to whom everybody talks. And won.
der, considering how many conf.
dences men have poured into their ears,
and how many other things men have
found to say about them, that not
gentleman has yet been found good
and generous enough to pay tribute
to this surprising excellence in spin
sters-an excellence so dear to- the
masculine mind. How many old-maid
aunts, indeed, have nephews not be.
guiled? How many old-maid sisters
have not opened their ears to the self
praise of their unsuccessful brothers
who have missed hearing at the bar,
or in the pulpit. or wherever there was
competition among men?
Patient souls, these old maids, lis.
tening 10 each of us as a mother only
listens to her own, and who have
listened SO long that at last they have
the air of never expecting anyone to
pay attention to them. They venture
into speech on their own account, as
timid mice into parlors,' ready on the
instant to whisk about and seek cover
again. These, though, are the old
maids for whom corners are never
lacking, so eager as the very least
among men to assure themselves of a
hearing somewhere.-MissL Lille Ham
ilton French in the Century.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1903-10-10
PEARLS OF THOUGHT.

Behavior is mirror in which every
one displays his own immage.
Originality blazes a new track while
eccentricity runs on one wheel in an
old rut.
1t is better to suffer wrong than do
it and happier to be sometimes cheated
than not to trust.
Some men stand on principle and
some others probably would if they
had it to stand on.
When you step up on one promise
you will always find a higher and
better one before you.
A laugh to be joyous must flow from
joyous heart, for without kindness
there can be no true joy.
The art Of saying appropriate words
in kindly way is one that never goes
out of fashion, never ceases to please,
and is within the reach of the hum
blest.
The domestic man who loves no mu-
sic so well as his kitchen clock and
the airs which the logs sing to him as
they burn on the hearth. has solaces
which others never dream of.
My heart is fixed firm and stable in
the belief that ultimately the sunshine
and summer, the flowers and the azure
sky, shall become, as it were, inter-
woven into mans existence. He shall
take from all their beauty and enjoy
their glory.
The useful citizen holds his time,
his trouble, his money and his life al
ways ready at the hint of his country.
The useful citizen is a mighty, unpre-
tending hero, but we are not going to
be a country very long unless such
heroism is developed.
If you could look into human hearts,
you would be. surprised at the faces
they enshrinc there, because beauty OF
spirit is more than beauty of face or
form, and remarkable intellectual quail
tiles are not to be compared with un-
affected human goodness and sympa-
thy.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1903-10-10
The Stoat and the Rabbit.

The rabbit was very jealous that
his cousin the hare should be king
of the rodents. And he said to the
stoat, one of the hare's subjects:
81 am surprised that you, with your
superior strength, should submit to
that weakling of hare. It would be
so easy for you, if you tried, to give
him fangs and settle him. Why don't
you?"
Happy thought" answered the
stoat. Eyes! Rather think I'll adopt
your suggestion"
So he went, and catching the hare
half asleep killed him with astonishing
ease and proceeded to suck his blood
with great gusto.
Then the rabbit, as the hare's near.
est relative among the rodents, trium,
phantly succeeded to the kingdom.
But when, in the exercise of his roy.
al power, he came to demand submis.
sion of the Stoat, the latter merely
laughed in his face, inquiring deris.
lively:
"My good animal, when you remind.
ed me how much stronger l was than
The hare, did it not occur to you that
you were teaching me a similar fact
Of natural history in regard to the
:abbit?"
Moral: (May be had on application
% King Peter of Servia) London
Truth.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1903-10-10
NUTS AND TOMATOES HIS FOOD.
Minneapolis Man Says He Was Saved
From Death by "Fast Cure.

Minneapolis Man Says He Was Saved
From Death by "Fast Cure.
Peter Johnson has had nothing to
eat but handful of nuts and a raw
tomato a day for nine months. He is
a living example of the so-calied fast
ing fad.
johnson had partial paralysis Of the
left side a year ago, and was the
victim of bright's disease, weighed 240
pounds, suffered from asthma and was
informed by his medical advisers that
he could not live more than a month
or two. Now Johnson weighs ITO
pounds, is harder than nails and free
from aches and pains.
johnson tasted nearly forty days
when he began his "cure." Then, as
he tells the story:
II ate half a tomato a day for .
week and then increased to q whole
tomato. After q while I added .
half pound of mixed nuts. Three
weeks from the time I began eating
was told to eat more by degrees, but
never to overfeed. I shall never take
a chance. The tomato and the nuts
with plenty of water, keep me in
splendid condition. am as sound as
the day I was born. I can do four
times the days work I used to do."-
New York Herald.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1903-10-10
INDUSTRIAL AND SCIENTIFIC NOTES.

An atom of matter is probably q
:rystal OF electricity.
Japanese and Germans have the same
average brain weight.
The total commerce of Abyssinia is
about So. 100000 year.
National banknotcs are onc-siXth OF
he money in circulation.
In Boston there are one and hall
electric lights ior each person.
New Orleans and Galveston now ex.
port more wheat than New York.
The birth-rate in Berlin declined
from 46 per 1000 in 1876 to FL in 1902
The banking capital OF New York
City has been doubled within five
years.
The convicts in the Ohio penitentiary
now number 1856, against 1866 in hard
times.
Seven hundred automobiles. worth
100000. 900, are licensed in the State OF
New York.
Nearly one-third 81 the 1910 inhab.
tants OF Cleveland, Ohio, were born III
Europe.
The United States ranks sixteenth
IS a wine producing country. Our an
aual output is bit fitieth part that 81
France.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1903-10-10
Genius Will Ont.

When Joseph p. McCullagh was alive
and editor of the st. Louis Globe-Dem'
ocrat, nc was annoyed by member
Of the staff who was continually late,
says the Saturday Evening Post. This
young man arrived from half an hour
TO an hour and q half after reporting
time each day, but he always had an
excuse. He overslepr or they failed
to call him, or the cars were blocked,
Or something of the kind happened.
Finally McCullagh issued an order
that no more excuses would be &C.
certed, and that unless the young man
came in OH time he was to be dis.
charged.
And the very next day the loiterer
was tardy again by As minutes. He
was sent to Mr. McCullagh.
WELL" said McCullagh, "you know
what's going to happen to you?"
Il suppose so,'' the young man re-
piled, "but I assure you, Mr.. McCull'
agh, it wasn't my fault
you've put in abou, every possible
excuse said McCullagn, ''but before
fire you 1 would like to know, just
for curiosity, what your excuse it,
ut was this way" said the young
man. 81 got up early, determined to
get to the Office in time. I went into
& negro barber shop to be shaved.
When the barber was half through,
q band came along, and he couldn't
resist the impulse to follow it. It
was almost an hour before he came
back, and had to wait for him."
McCullagh chuckled. young man."
he said, ''I'll give you another chance.
L want you to write fiction for the Sun.
day paper"
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1903-10-10
NEWSPAPERS 100 Years Old.

In tearing down the Of. Conant
house at South Woodstock, VT, a lot
Of newspaper clippings, going back
to publications of about 1880, were
found in the walls. The slips were
mostly from the Vermont Journal and
Universal Advertiser of Windsor, and
contain some interesting notes,
though the matter is not at all de
cipherable. A Brandon man offers
sixpence reward for the return of a
runaway boy, ''but no charges paid,'
which shows that runaway boys did
not come high in those days.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1903-10-10
A Dish Of Hardness,

Take one large spoonful Of useful.
ness, one cup of love for mother, an.
other cup of love for your little broth
ers and sisters, pound. Of wishes to
make others happy. a saltspoonful of
wishing to be happy yourself: mix
well together, and see II 1t doesn't
make the incest kind Of an afternoon
Tor anybody.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1903-10-10

was instantly taken up by frightened
hens and panic-stricken small chick
ems. There was nc need to look down
at the appalling shadow cast upon the
sunlit ground. There was no need to
look up at the horrible winged crea'
ture above their heads. Every one
knew that hawk was swoOping down
on the barnyard
Susan NiDper. cool and collected.
bravely met the emergency. Clucking
at the top CT her voice, she spread out
her wings and waited. In a twinkling
her dear chickabiIdie had run home
to mother. No. there was one miss
ing! Out in the open stood Pip, neck
stretched upward, head at the exact
angle of the head of his Uncle Caesar
Augustus-Pip, dainty morsel for
hawks chicken pie.
Pip, come here this Instant"
hoarsely clucked his exasperated
mother.
Pip cooked his head ON the other
side, and calmly followed his Uncle
Caesars example of standing on one
leg.
All entreaties were unaviling. Be
fore the mother-eyes was a sickenlng
sight. Pip-foolish, disobedient, in
solent-yet her own little rooster still,
was clutched up into the air!
Uncle Caesar Augustus gave groan
and drew back. Hens, cackling, fed.
But, with cry of rage, Susan Nipper
darted forward and upward.
The hawk. finding the little rooster
much heavier than his size had led her
to suppose, and surprised by the unex.
pected. furious attack of the hen, re-
luctantly let go her victim, and slowly
scared away into the wood.
Pip lay motionless where he had
ropped-bleeding. unconscicus-poor
Mrs. Nipper helplessly clucking over
him. But the commotion in the barn
yard had brought the dear mistress to
the rescue. With an exclamation Of
horror, she knelt on the ground, and
tenderly lifted the poor little rooster in
her kind hands. There was culver in
the still form, and Pip opened one eye.
My uol AAS: C1uChSu MID. AN1PpCAs
brokenly.
-wanted-to-know," answered a
feeble peep; then the eye closed again.
Gently holding him in her apron, the
kind mistress ran into the house. In
an agony of suspense, Susan Nipper
waited. An hour crept by, then the
dear mistress reappeared. She care
fully held a small dolls bed in her
arms. Upon it, Graded in soft pillows,
lay Pip, swathed in bandages. She
placed the bed in the shadow of tree,
and fastened a mosquito netting over
it so that the flies should not annoy
the invalid.
1t was many days before Pip recov.
cred from the shock of the deadly en-.
counter, and the serious wound in his
crop where the hawks talon had torn
him, but he had found out"-not only
what he wanted to know about hawks.
but also the goodness and wisdom of
his dear mother. And at last, appre.
ciating her careful training and follow.
ing her counsels, he grew up into as
fine, handsome and distinguished q
rooster as his Uncle Caesar Augustus.
Los Angeles Times.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1903-10-10
Charm Of Auto Touring.

The charm of automobiling lies less
n the sport itself than in the unusual
contact with people and things, and
conversely, the touring automobilist
journeying leisurely over country
highways and byways, stopping wher
ever inclination may decide Cor cir.
cumstances compeD, brings the charm
of the new pastime and the advan.
tages of the new vehicle most strik.
ingiy to the attention of the people
with whom he comes into contact.
and so does missionary work of very
substantial nature. Moreover, the tour
ing automobilist is usually law abid.
ing person, who keeps within reason.
able limits of speed, and so does much
to counteract the evil effects of the
automobile scorcher.-Leslie's Week.
ly.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1903-10-10
Jewish Marriage Regulations.

The United Orthodox Rabbis OF
America held their second annual
convention at Philadelphia. 1t was
decided that hereafter only members
of the association or persons author.
lied by them would be permitted to
perform the ceremonies of divorce
and marriage. A committee was ap-
pointed to draft a systematic method
of teaching Jewish children in con.
formity with the sentiment of estab.
fishing separate Jewish schools.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1903-10-10
WHEN A MANS IN LOVE.

When a mans in love he fondly deems
The days all made for signs and dreams;
n There's sweetness in each breath of air,
And every prospect stretches fair;
In every stone a Jewel CLEANS,
The sun sheds only golden beams,
Glad songs are sung by all the streams,
And loneliness is everywhere,
When a mans in love.
Forgetting wicked, worldly schemes.
For him there's music In the screams
- .,he night cat utters! People stare
Il say he's daft; he doesn't care
NV great fool they think he seems,
:. When a mans in love.
:. Chicago Record Herald.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1903-10-10
Live Stock.

Chicago.-Cattle-Good to prime
steers S.. 5oM61o; poor to medium
S3.ooM5.25; stockers and feeders Sac
14.2o; cows and heifers $I.4o@5. 90:
tanners $1.4o@257; bulls $2.ooM4 90;
calves $3.5o@375; Texas steers $2.85@
t.25; Western steers $3.oo@4.4o. Hogs
Receipts today 1900 head; tomor-
row 1900 Choice steady; others low
er; mixed and butchers $565M6. IS ;
good to choice, heavy, $5.S5@6. 20;
:ough, heavy, $5.4o@5 80; light $s.75M
1914; bulk of sales $575@o.o5. Sheep
Receipts $4,000 head. Market steady
o 1oc lower; good to choice wethers
s3.4o@4.35; fair to choice mixed $2.25
63.4o; native lambs $3.5o@5.65.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1903-10-10

Social service is the best soul cul-
ture.
Consequences make no discrimina-
tons.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1903-10-10
COMMERCIAL REVIEW.
General Trade Conditions.

Bradstrect's "Weekly Review OF
Trade" says: Mixed trade and cror
conditions still present themselves:
though some improvement i'll tone Is
noted where crop estimates as in the
case of corn, show expansion. Lower
prices for cereals point the way to tu-
ture large business and induce larger
foreign interest in Our farm products.
Trade reports vary with sections con-
sidered, the best reports coming from
the Southwest, the Northwest and the
Pacific Coast. Spotted trade reports
come from sections of the Middle West.
From the South the reports are in the
main favorable as to trade and collcc-
lions, but crop deterioration is wide
spread. except from the lower Missls'
sippi Valley.
Wheat, including flour, exports for
The week ending October I, aggregate
a.o82, 6S1 bushels. against 3,o5o,43o last
week, 6.87o,578 this week last year. g."
Io5,74o in 1901, and 4,45o,167 in 1900.
For thirteen weeks Of the cereal year
they aggregate 4o,2o7,362 bushels,
against 65,87o,715 in 1902; 8o,322.854 in
1901, and 43,Io3,835 in 1900. Corn ex-
ports for the week aggregate 1.123.S7I
bushels, against 77o,23o last week; 14I...
1873 year ago; oo7,o24 in 1901, and
2.3o4,24o in 1000. For thirteen weeks
of the present cereal year they aggre-
gate 12,72o,122 bushels, against 1:133.-
$50 in 1902; 12,132,616 in 1901, and 40
sci. 367 in 1000.
r. G. Dun & Co.'S "Review OF
Trade" says: Failures this week in the
United States number 226, against 232
last week, ZIG the preceding week and
2o7 the corresponding week last year:
and in Canada 10 against 10 last week.
10 the preceding week and e last year.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1903-10-10

Bicycle polo is the latest diversion
CT the German croWs prince.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-03-06

way crashed through the gates and into
the steamroad tracks, being stopped just
as the fender got under the coach Of a
train. AS thecar stopped the conductor
Of the train was Just about to signal the
engineer to proceed, but he was stopped
by the shouts of people on the station
platform.
If Providence spares his life but few
days longer, sUncle'' Noah Raby, an
inmate of the Piscataway township poor
house, MiddIesex comfy, will celebrate
his 1920 birthday. Despite his advanced
age, Noah's mind and body are wonder
fully preserved slight deafness is his
only infrmity. In proof of his faculty
to remember, on Saturday the venerable
man repeated to party of visitors five
verses of hymn entitled There is a
Land of Pleasure, . which he had learned
when but a youth.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-03-06
THE RESULTS
OF "A JOKE

EOriginal1
Tom ShaftO was always trying to be
facetious.
Toms Righteousness cost him SO
many friends that he was finally re-
duced to but one man, who stuck to
him. This was Albertus Whiteright.
Whiteright was an exemplary young
man with an exemplary young wife.
The Whiterights were members of st.
Andrews church, and Burt was al
ways on hand Sunday nights to show
strangers to seats and pass the plate.
Mrs. Whiteright before her marriage
had made it an indispensable condition
that the man she married should be a
good churchman, and as she consid-
cred her church the only true church
Burt was obliged to be confirmed be-
fore he became her husband.
Shafto was quite intimate with the
Whiterights, counting Mrs Whiteright
one of his closest friends, as we'll as
her husband. Frequently when Burt
was detained late at the office Tom
would keep his wife company One
night Tom called at the Whiterights'
about 10 o'clock, and, though he re-
manned till u, the husband did not ne
turn.
"You needn't look for Burt till 3
O'Clock in the morning." said Tom.
"Why not?" asked the wife, looking
up surprised
"Why, this is the night of the French
ball. Burt is undoubtedly there"
Now, every one who lives in New
York knows that the French ball or
annual gathering given by the Cercle
Franchise is a masquerade composed of
elements and productive of antics rem
dering it an unfit place for one occupy
ing a high place in the church. Mrs
Whiteright looked shocked and was
about to make an indignant reply
when she remembered Toms procliv-
ity for Righteousness. She simply
looked grave and said nothing. Shat
TO, seeing that the lady declined to be
jollied on so serious a subject, turned
it and began to talk of other matters
Soon after he took his leave.
At in the morning Whiteright put
his night key into the lock and let him
self in softly, thinking that his wife
was asleep and not wishing to disturb
her. To his surprise, she was sitting
in the library.
"Why, my precious darling, what are
you doing up at this timer"
sit is wife's duty to bear her hus-
bands burdens with him If you must
work so late, decline to rest in a
luxurious bed"
Its very lovely of you, but unneces-
sary."
what was the nature of your work
tonight?'
can error in the cash. | was obliged
to find it or carry it over, which would
have made it all the worse
'By the bye, did you know that this
is the night of the French ball?
"French ball?" Whiteright started.
Eyes"
what do you know about the French
ball?'
81 know that it is an improper ball
for my husband to attend"
81? Ny dear, so you accuse me of
such a thing?"
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-03-06
q have been told that you were

81 have been told that you were
there"
Whiteright caught at the back of a
chair for support.
"Who told you such a thingg'
zone of your intimate friends
"H-h-how 'd-did he knowg'
"That doesn't matter. Burt, / am
ashamed of you, man of your posi-
ton. And to think that you should
have so deceived me! / shall never
have any confidence in you again"
Mrs. Whiteright took out her hand
kerchief, wiped her eyes and, rising,
went upstairs There was weeping
and wailing and crashing of teeth be-
tween the Whiterights not only that
night, but for nights and days to come.
The next afternoon Shafto saw
Whiteright coming down the street and
had a joke ready for him. What was
his surprise to see Whiteright pass him
with his head in the air. Shafto hur-
ried after him.
"What in the worlds the matter,
Burt? Have you gone blind2"
81 have always supposed replied the
other angrily, that you had the de-
cency not to give man away to his
own wife,
81 give you away to your wife?
never did any such thing"
you did it last night"
"Last night? How?'
you informed my wife that was
at the French ball.
"You at the French ball? Who would
believe that you would go to such a
place? Certainly not /. Now | remem-
Der | did say something of the sort as
joke"
"Joke or no joke, was at the French
ball. was masked, and no one would
have known it if it hadn't been for
your contemplate give away Good
morning"
And with a snort Whiteright broke
away from Shafto, and their friendship
came to termination.
The end is not yet. Mrs. Whiteright,
who had a conscience like a poker,
decided that her husband was not in
spiritual condition to go to the COM
munion table, All her troubles were
divided into two classes, the one for
her doctor, the other for her pastor
This was for her pastor. She confded
the whole affair to him. The pastor
invited the delinquent to his study,
and told him that the offense must
go to the vestry When Whiteright
met the vestIy, he regretted the. mat
ter, especially as he had intended sub
scribing $500 for the chimes, whereup-
on the vestry decided that the French
ball was not necessarily a place inter-
dicted to a churchman.
The Whiterights remained at home
the next summer and saved money to
pay the subscription.
ALEXANDER r. SHERMAN.