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The ROpuS Check Man.

Last week The ADVOCATE published an ac-
count of the arrest of young man who had
passed bogus check, on W. H. Hood, a
merchant at Mt. Airy, endorsing it with the
name of Geo. f. Myer," and of attempting
to pass bogus checks d on onee mt
hotel, Mt. Airy, as W. F. Blackman, but ac-
knowledged that his real name is Richard F.
Brooks. He says he is son of E. H. Brooks,
of Emerton, Va, and brother of o. G..
Brooks. of Newport News, Va. AT his re-
quest States Attorney Weant wrote to those
gentlemen, informing them that the young
man is in trouble, and asking them to come
to his assistance. Quite number of checks
were found on Brooks person when ne was
arrested.
A KEY to room 81. Hotel Rennert, Balti-
more. was found in Brooks possession, and
he also had two package checks of the How
ard House, Baltimore.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1903-12-12
HOuckSville Items.

Miss Lille Sykes, of Baltimore, spent sew
eral days the past week with her grandmother
Mrs. Caroline Brummel.
Mrs. Mary Buchanan, who is suffering will
broken arm, is quite ill.
Miss Lydia p Davidson, of Baltimore
spent few days of the past week with hel
sister, Mrs. +. w. Buchanan.
w. Il. S. Algire had patent mail box
placed in operation Tuesday. wire has been
attached to the telephone poles and by means
of springs or some other power, the mail
is carried to and fro from his dwelling out to
the public road, where the r. f. d. carrier
receives and sends his mail The distance is
about a half mile.
Miss Nora A. Buchanan, of Hills Cottage.
spent the past week with her sister, Mrs. Roy
w. Spangler, of Hanover, Pa.
Mrs. Mary Bonner and daughter Lena. are
spending a week in Baltimore as guests of
Harry Bonner.
During the past month there has been a con-
siderable change made at Wesley Chapel NJ
Church. The road that went between the
church and the cemetery has been closed, al
so the road to the right of the church, and a
new road opened through Mrs. Kate Wam-
piers field and A. w. Wampler's woods.
All the trees in the rear of the church have
been taken out. The cemetery will have at
least three fourths of an an acre added 10 it.
The posts adjoining Mr.. Smiths lands are set,
and the work had to be stopped owing to the
ground being frozen ten inches in depth.
Everything is now ready for fancy iron
and wire fence which will be erected in the
near future. 1t is great Improvement and
should be appreciated by ali who have an
interest there.
Henry Stump and wife, of Baltimore coun-
ty, are spending the week at Peach Farm.
Houcksville school will give Christmas
entertainment Wednesday evening, December
23rd.
Silas Martin and wife and John w. Spahr
and family, of Baltimore, have moved on the
farm of the former. Mr.. Spain will continue
TO work in the city going back and forth.
Miss Lydia Bolte, of Baltimore, visited
VIM. Shaeffer Thursday.
R. P. Buchanan is visiting his sister, Mrs.
A. w. Wampler eff Westminster.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1903-12-12
Pleasant Valley Items.

Jesse Unger, of Baltimore, is visiting his
son William and family.
Mrs. Catharine Myers is conhneo 70 ng'
bed. DIR. Weaver, of Taneytown, IS attend
ing her. ;.,o
their new house on Thursday.
VIM. Collie is visiting his niece, Mrs. Harry
l.. Devabiss. :.
Mrs. Frances Jordan, after spending sever
al months the past summer with her daughter.
Mrs. Joseph P. Yingling, has returned to her
home near Uniontown. :, :,
The Union Sabbath school will hold their
annual Christmas entertainment on Christmas
I've December "a.
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Daniel Items.

:. Rev. B. W. Meeks spent day in this vicin,,
ny cunning with Rev. A. B. Wood and several
other gentlemen.
VIII Criswell, of Baltimore, was in this vi
entity last week.
=, The remains of Ned Hatfield, formerly of
.nls county, were brought from Baltimore aud
inferred in Ebenezer graveyard on Tuesday
aasl. Rev. +. Watson had charge of the
=, A very interesting meeting is in progress at
hoenezer. Thus far there have been four
conversions
:, Enterprise Lodge I. O. G.. T. has secured
lne services of Rev. A. B. Wood for temper
an Tace lecture one evening during the holidays.
mere will also be music-vocal and instru
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1903-12-12
weather record for the week.

December 5-mercury 80 at a. m. and 81
at 2 D. M; fair. December 6-mercury Is at
I a. M. and 33 at 2 p. M; fair and blustery
December mercury % at a. m. and 80
at 2 D. M; clear. December s--mercury q
al a. m. and 40 al 2 p. M; generally clear;
cloudy after p. m. December 9-mercury
90 at a. m. and 80 at 2 p. M; snow from
a. m. until .15p. m. December 10-mercury
% att a. m. and SO at Up. NJ. fair until noon,
cloudy afterwards; snow from until 8. 80 p. m.
December 11-mercury Is at a. m. and u
q fair
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1903-12-12
Wakefield Items.

Mr. and Mrs. Macalister, of Union Bridge
visited Fletcher Babylon and wife, last Thurs
day.
Mrs. George Hoover and son George, Mrs.
Mary Babylon, Mrs. Fletcher Babylon and
daughter Hilda spent day last week with
Mrs. James Robertson.
Some of our people were sleighing Thurs
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1903-12-12
Fine Hogs.

D,n;el Hartman, of York Road, killed three
bog. that weighed 1873, 407 and 427 pounds.
II Westminster Mrs. Howard Frizzeli, two,
a19 and 800; John A. Arbaugh, four, 1885,
Jacob Brehm, ST., near Carrollton, SIX.
as9 AK. 346. ss2, s21, 35s. and four last
o.r;no,s MOS 1913. 148, III and 182.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1903-12-12
MARRIED.

November 26. 1908, at the Lutheran parsonage
Uniontown, Md, by Rev. G. w. Baughman Daniel
E. Franklin and Miss Ella A Drach both of Carroll
County, Md.
November &c. 1903, at the Lutheran parsonage
Uniontown Nd by Rev. 6. W. Baughman. Arthur
Leroy Copenhaver and Miss Maude N. Hiltebridle,
of Tyrone, Md.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1903-12-12

In loving remembrance of my husband and our
father. REID BUCKINGHAM, who died two years ago,
December 13.
Dear father how desolate our home bereft of thee
The family circle is broken, seat is forsaken;
One loved one from our home has been taken
Lord teach us to say, "Thy will. not ours be
done" BY THE FAMILY
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,nr IsHED EVERY SAIUhDAI d.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER ~, 1903.
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An Englishman on Japan.

It would be strange, indeed, II one could
no. find something interesting in a book
about Japan, and there is much III Mr..
Clarence Ludlow Brownells glimpses Of
life and nature far from ths travellers
track In the Land Of the Rising Sur that
Is worth while We may be moved to smile
at the somewhat presumptuous title, THE
Heart OF Japan" Mcclure, Phillips 4 Coz.
but that b but minor point. The heart
OF Japan Ia not worn upon the sleeve Of
the national kimonO, nor are It's depths TO
be read by any Western traveller. But
40 Mr.. Brownell has the faculty of observa-
ton and sense Of humor. his book makes
Entertaining reading The description Of
game Of poker played At the tea house
of the Rising Moon IN Toxic by three former
Daimyos, q Prince Of the Shogun's family
and msmbsr of foreign embassy, marks
the modsrTization Of the national manners
From q chapter on missionaries we take
ar extract Mission schools teach every
thing, from chemistry to knitting socks
They represent nearly every denominati ION
Of import snce In the world. and they Dis
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Queer Marriage In Virginia.

Mr.. Henry Burnham Boone In his story
called THE Career Triumphant ID. Apple
ton 4 Coz tells US about Jooelyn Salsford.
who was poor and had a singers gin, and
wished TO be like Bessie Mohun. = famous
Virginia beauty who was married to q
>rich New Yorker. II Is not an Astonishing
distinction to be beauty or belle In tho
South, but the story takes care that Bessie
Mohun shall be sufficiently vivid person.
She has a way Of switching her skirts that
will not escape the readers notice, and
when she took her husband down to Florida
to zee her brother, who owned Q devastated
orangs farm In that State, and IL the hero
OF the story. her husband approached her
playfully for showing her stockings, They
were driving in buggy. and he said: 'You
Bess, even II you have on lace stockings.
They had beer along. and he further de-
INJURED. to no purpose because 'Bess
insisted on drinking out Of the bottle
Jocelyn never came 10 be exactly like
the dashing Bessie, We think. but the story
permits her To have interesting expert
enoes Of life. Ths qusersst thing was the
manner Of her marriage to Lee Beriston,
the unfortunate young orange farmer
aforementioned. That sterling Virginia
planter. Lees Uncle Braxton. arranged the
happy destiny OF this pair. Whom they
were married Lee had only = slight 40
quaintsnoe with his bride, and II wa under
stood that the acquaintance was 10 bs main.
tanned In this degree for ten ysan. II
was TO DO q wsdlock merely formal and
approximate for that considerable lsngth
OF time, during which Jooslyn waS 10 havs
her fling ~ an actress. and Lao wss "a
Lead life after his own heart In tho stimu.
lating outdoors OF his unole's expansive
farm. Some time after his marriage Ies
visited his aunt. q lady living In Ohio. who
said TO him: Il have seen your wife. Mrs.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-09-27
Gray Studies or the Sea.

The hard and ceaseless struggle for
bare existence Of the folk of the Newfound-
land outports has furnished Mr.. Norman
Duncan with the material for some good
stories in THE Way Of the Sea- Mcclure.
Phillips l. Coz Lives Of toll but Ill re-
Quilted and with death and deadly dangers
ever facing them are those Of these sturdy
fisher folk, committed by the exigencies
OF a barren and inhospitable coast TO the
toll Of the sea- A gray and solemn waste
place is their dwelling; and all the grayness
and solemnity OF these lives In emphasized
by the author, who thus pictures one Of
their tiny hatnlets: The lean rocks to
which the cottages o, Ragged Harbor cling
like barnacles lie, a thin. jagged strip.
between q wilderness Of scrawny shrubs
and the seas fretful expanse. They deny
even place for tho dead to rot in decency;
hence, inevitably. from generation to gen.
Grafton. the people OF that barren match
their strength against the might OF tempee-
tuous waters, fighting with their bare
hands-great. knotty, sore, grimy hands:
match. also their spirit against the invisible
terrors which the seas spice harbors. In
sunshine and mist by all the superstition
OF her children
To Mr.. Duncan the sea presents itself
AZ the ever watchful and relentless enemy
Welding her harvest with reluctance and
waiting always. with memorable hate, to
exact her recompense Of misery and death.
A cheeress and one-sided view perhape,
and one for which it may be that tho OK
PLANTATION Ia that in these word-pictures
We have but corner Of life seen through
the medium OF . temperament.
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SOME NEW BOOKS.


We are indebted to Mr.. W. J. ASH XII, ,
formerly a professor In Harvard Uni
versity and now professor Of commerce
in the University Of Birmingham. Tor an
important study Of the coal and iron IN.
dustries In Great Britain and the United
States, tho outcome OF which 10 embodied
in a volume entitled The Adjsssmens OF
Wages (Longmans). The, basis Of the
present. work was provided BY eight lect'
urea which were delivered at Manchester
Collees, Oxford. during tho hrst quarter
Of the current year. Tho lectures are here
reproduced. but they are supplemented
with many facts and arguments. and
largo number Of illustrative documents
are appended. We may say At once that
Mr.. Ashley does not profess to solve" the
problsm OF industrial organisation. What
hs has hero aimed at IL to give general
preliminary survey Of existing conditions.
which will make u possible for others TO
10 further and come to closer quarters
with concrete difficulties. American read
ers will regret 10 And that relatively
small proportion Of the space at the authors
disposal IL devoted to the Iron and steel
trade. Only ono lecture n allotted to this
subject, but many illuminative documents
ere added.
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rr.u . Chi.anan to the English.

Whoever may b the author Of Letters
From q Chinese Oflicdal: Being an Eastern
View Of Western Civilization" (McClnre
PhiIlips 4 Co... he writes surprisingly well
The LISTERS weqe written for Englishmen
but they have An interest for Americans;
and there IN an introduction to this Ameri-
can edition which IL addressed to Americans
particularly. 90 able an example Of special
pleading We do not often see; and. more
over, II may be that there Is considerable
truth in II. One thing that he says to
Americans 10: The American people are
called upon. IL would seem, to determine
In preeminent degree the form that 10 to
b assumed by the society Of the future.
Upon them hangs the fate Of the Western
world. And were / an American citizen
tho thought would All me, confess, less
with exultation than with anxious and grave
reflection. ! would ask myself whether
tho triumphs gained by my countrymen
over matter and space had been secured at
the cost of spiritual insight and force;
whether their immense achievement in the
development Of the practical arts had been
accompanied by any serious contribu.
ton to science. literature and art; whether
In . word. tho soul had grown with the
body or was tending to atrophy and de-
cay" Tho part that Ia addressed to the
English has much that is more caustic
than this. The philosophical tone Of it is
admirable. It makes, In Horace Greeey's
phrase. mighty interesting reading.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-09-27
Adventure in the Orient.

The far Elst, that East Of suez whore
oil western standards must be dropped,
10 tho scene Of the stories told by Mr.. Henry
C. Rowland In Sea Scampss (McClure,
Phillips 4 Coz. They are told well. with
plenty OF sea air and plenty Of adventure
of the rather savage kind that seems 20
have come into fashion Of late. The three
chief actors hold the readers interest and
take turns in EARNING. They are fairly
consistent. too, save in the last two stories,
into which women and love enter with rather
weakening effect. The last story Is an
amusing burlesque. but the hard headed
Yankee skipper in whom the previous tales
have interes; ed the reader hardly belongs
in 1t. The Chinese and Philippine descrip-
tions will suflice for literary purposes.
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Story and Sweet Sens.
When the late lamentsd Coogler-J.
Gordon Coogler OF Arcadia and thu cotton
helds OF South Csro.ina-sspassed from
these shores TO sing In tho celestial choir
h. left no worthy wearer Of his laure's.
The annual crop Of poets. like the peaoa
crop. comes and goes-but there 70 no
new voice attuned 70 tho oottoulike soft
ness Of the real Coogisrian lay. Mr.. James
Hampton Lee, poet from the Everglades
OF Florida and tho author Of Gold From
Lies Rainbows, Short Stories and Sweet
Songs (Broadway Publishing Company.
might possibly be classified - OF tho Coog-
Ter school. His portrait. facing the tito
page Of tho volume. reminds us somewhat
Of that Of the late master, especially In tho
intellectual cot of tho ears, while the rapt
expression of the eyes recalls that OF Mr..
Hall Caine in his most ShakespeaIian mo-
ments before the camera. A fountain
pen lightly resting between the 6rst and
second fingers Of the right hand and .
gracefully held sheet of manuscript give
not Emphasizing literary touch to the pict-
ure. Tho verses entitled As You Down
the Hudson Glide" show the poet In his
lighter and moro frivolous mood:
Up the grand old Hudson. hummins.
Everything you sees sight
Down the Grand old Hudsoa, coming
With your sirl--it's nlce'-at night.
Oh, the kisses that you give her.
As you pass the Palisades
Gliding down old Hudson River.
From the green groves and the gisdes.
We consider that second line an achieve
ment. Neat, expressive. comprehensive
Every thing you sees q sight The
stream flows on;
Down the Grand old Hudson coming.
With your girl--at night ISIS grand
When the humming birds are hum,nlng
When you hold her little hand
Oh. for more OF such excursions.
Up historic Hudson stream:
More Of such unique diversions
When things are-just what they seem,
On board the steamship Kansas City,
of the coast Of Maryland. the post has
an inspiration:
The god OF the waters Is smiling
Upon the great ship IS she rocks;
It's evenine--she stars-thosc beguiling.
Great astronomical CLOCKS
Seem 90 many eyes. really human.
All steadily meeting my gase.
Each resembles IN out-of-reAch woman
Whose name can read through the base.
In "The Mocking Birds Exit We find
an experiment in rhyme that 10 not al
together success:
There's little green room In . MANOR
That's the little rod house whefe stay:
In tho room WAS q NICE grand plano
And grand little gtri who could play.
The poets PROSE efforts in the volume
do not call for com nent.
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penss knowledge almost without cost.
They are q boon to the country. but some
times the earnest student takes advantage
Of them, and. II slang may b allowed. he
pulls the missionsry's leg Such ii utiosf
soon Discovers that he receives more atten-
ton from the missionary and from the
wife, II he shows sisns Of conversion. Con-
sequeutly, 1t whatsoever school hs enters
his name be bstins to b convsrted night
away. A. be changes from school to
school---chanss being delight to Ne Jap
anese-he y converted frequently. ~ the
time his education y oonpasts b. y ons OF
the most converted psRscns b the WORLD
Indeed, 4 \ not impossible to ind NAM
ber Of the Greek Church who h also Con-
gregationalist, = French Catholic. bap-
tist, Units,i ian, q Methodist, . commoni-
can't Of the Church Of England. and b.
onging. possibly, to half . dosen MINOR
mission organisssious ..
The illustration TO the volume aSe fos
the most part from photographs OF Tho
kind familiar to every tourist Who vista
Japan
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Hellas In Historical Fiction.

Tho romantic fever is invading classic
lands. Wehave had romances from Charlie.
masne down to Andrew jackson remances
Of no time and no man. land. and romances
of Bible times and the East. fashioned in
the shape OF Ben Hur.' Now comes the
turn Of Ancient Greece.
In Gorge. A Romance Of Old Athens
1othrop Publishing Company, Prof.
Charles Kelsey Gaines brings the whole
Soera&ic galaxy to the notice Of the fiction
reading public. We have painful recol.
lection Of q we'll planned freshman year
devoted to that great man; wherever We
turned, in Xenophcn or Plato or Arstcph-
anes. We met nothing but that estimable
philosopher. We regretted then that the
cup of hemlock had not been extended
to all his admiring pupils. and we haven't
overcome that regret Prof. Gainee's hero
il Theramenes, one Of the Thirty Tyrants,
whose character, for purposes OF fiction, he
undertakes to rehsbilitate. There are
many nineteenth century views introduced
in politics and in sentiment. but the author
tells his story with vigor and keeps the
readers attention. Archaeological and
historical matters are inserted skilfully
and We cannot help admiring the way in
which chunks Of xenopton and Plato are
utilized. Prof. Gaines has read Kipling
to advantage a. his Introductory chapter
shows. The New England youth who
! recalls his identity with the long-dead
Athenian IL unreasonable in his objection
to the scepticism Of his professor and class,
mates.
Young Alexander is the inspiration OF
Mr.. Marshall NJ. Kirkman's 'Iskander,
q Romance OF the Court of Philip Of Mace
don and Alexander the Great CThe World
Railway Publishing Company. Perhaps
tho reosnt disturbances in tho Balkans
spurred the author on. but II the distance
from Maoedon to Wales ID great that from
Macedon to Macedonia Ia fully a. great.
So much nonsense hiss been written about
Alexander, from the Roman d'Alixandre'
to Dryden's 'Alexander's Feast" and later.
that Mr.. Kirkman cannot be blamed for turn
| ing him to the use OF dime novel. The
authors desire for excitement may account
| for disregard Of anachronisms and Of good
English. His Alexander and Roxana be-
| long to the former Bowery stage rather
than To Hellas
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Bsriston h an extremely beautiful woman. +"
ooh, she b, b she?' returned Lee. "rvr
seen her once or twioe myself This viii
show that the story has an ingenious plot
with good possibilities Of interest. 1t is.
moreover. interesting In fact, though the
manner. We must think, is little too
sprightly. little too -chipper' In places.
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"

We pass to lecture which s entirely de-
voted TO "the Anthracite Problem Tho
author rightly regards the recent strike
In eastern Pennsylvania a. one OF the most
significant in the history Of industry, II
was only the third occasion in modern
times when, outside Of Russia or India an
almost complete cessation has taken place
in the supply Of a necessary Of life for ssv.
sral millions Of people. The only parallels
are the potato famine In Ireland during
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-09-27
Admirable Capt. Hunch Badeau.


The reader will be pleased by His Little
World; the Story of Hunch Badeau.' BY
Samuel Merwin "a. s. Barnes 4 Coy,
Hunch was owner and commander Of the
suuare-nosed lumber schooner Ed. G.
Dean, that sailed Lake Michigan. He was
q captain Of power. A particular business
OF his was to whale his foremost hand
Bruce Considine. with the view to making
Bruce worthy of the girl he married, Mamie
Banks. Hunch also loved Mamie, and
that WAS why be insisted that Bruce should
be q good husband to her. There 10 great
account Of getting Bruce and the Ed C.
Dean home In q storm in time for the wed
ding. Hunch permitted himself to gss
drunk on that dinicult occasion, but in
toxication was not his habit. He was
sober man when the other state was not
particularly called for. Jees Bartlett must
have thought herself fool when she missed
him, but no reproach to him; he gave her
her chance. A good story about plain
strong man. The reader will feel re-
freshed by II.
A Good School History Of England.
The Appletons publish in their series OF
twentieth century textbooks The British
Nation; a History by Prof. George NJ
Wrong OF tho University Of Toronto. It is
admirably written and tells a clear and
very readable story in something less than
900 pages. There are maps and numerous
illustrations. including many that are
archaic and doubtless Instructive. though
We do not think that they should be taken
quite literally ~ sources Of accurate in
formation. Ono, for instance. taken from
Creams history. shows carts Of the eleventh
century, and . note benea,a invites the
reader TO mote the smallness Of the cstt"
OF the time The men in the picture are
- big - the cattle. and we think il possible
that the artist OF 900 years ago may have
erred In his proportions and either mad"
his cattle smsllsr or his mon and carts
larger than thsy really were. The IL.
structions accompanying some Of the Other
pictures ssem hardly TO be necessary, such
~ mote the oloister.' note the frequence
Of the Gross note thu hsxibls chain ar
NOR: II may b.. however, that the vison
OF tbs observer will by such means bs ren
dared more alert. There are nearly 80
illustrations. An excellent ANAL history