Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1905-11-18

We greatly sympathizc with Mr..
and Mrs. Johnnie Shockley. of Coul-
bourns district. because of the serious
accident which befell their baby girl
last Tuesday The mother had poured
into a small wooden tub quantity of
billing water. She stepped out Of the
ro0p for only minute, but the time
wassufIicient for the baby to reach the
Rtub and pull ii over, receiving the boil
ing contents over its face and body. 1t
was terribly scalded and is in a serious
condition. DIR. Straughn is attending
it.
Sydney M. Burk, of Atkinson's dis
trict, was before Justice ii. w. Lark
charged with shipping partridg.es from
Costen Station to New York city.
Game warden II. l.. Birmingham had
been to Costen Station and brought
back the box of game in which were
three cartridges and some other birds.
Burk pleaded guilty and was fined
$25. 90 and costs amounting to $2S. so
and took an appeal to the Circuit Court
of Somerset County, giving bond of
$50.
The opinion is freely expressed by
prominent grain buyers in the large
cities that corn and wheat will soon be
selling at much higher prices. Mr.. G..
+. Marcy, of Chicago. a representative
of Armour Il Co., was on the iioor OF
the Baltimore Chamber of Commerce
Friday. He met a number of the mem
bers who were interested in his views
on the cereal market. In his conversa-
ton with the different members Mr..
Marcy said that he thought wheat this
season would reach 81 a bushel and corn
60 cents bushel.
Misses Bessie Purnell and Nora
Hargis, who have been visiting Mrs.
Thomas p. Wharton at Stockton, this
week. participated in lively fox chase
Thursday morning. They drove to the
scene of the hunt near Box Iron, and
followed the hounds on horseback a dis
lance. They had the good fortune
to get glimpse of the fox, as the
crafty animal passed in a few yards of
them, with the hounds in full cry and
close pursuit. Mr.. William Davis. of
Snow Hill. and Mr.. Thomas Wharton.
of Stockton, were among those who
were present, and followed the hounds
during the chase.
AT Crisfield A. b. Riggin has farm
containing over 10000 diamond-back
terrapin. They are fed on mashed hard
crab meat at low tide. and the scene is
highly interesting. The sluggish rep
tile suddenly awakes to activity and
does surprising stunts in the way of
fighting for food. which it devours with
great rapidity. The pond is small bay
of Tangier Sound, and is enclosed in a
stout board fence. with wire screens Ia
let the tide flow in and out. The prop
agation of the diamond terrapin is not
very rapid The females lay from 10 ia
20 eggs in a season, but as it is the hen
terrapin which is the favorite of epicures,
il does not have fair chance to breed.
The receipt for whitewash sent out
by the Lighthouse Board of the Trea-
sury Department has been found by ex-
perience to answer on wood brick and
stone nearly as well as oil paint. and is
much cheaper. Slack one-half bushel
of unslacked lime with boiling water.
keeping it covered during the process.
Strain it and add a peck of salt dissolved
in warm water; pounds of ground rice
put in boiling water and boiled to a
thin paste: one-half pound powdered
Spanish whiting and a pound of clear
glue, dissolved in warm water: mix
these well together and let the mixture
stand for several days. Keep the wash
thus prepared in kettle or portable
furnace, and when used, put it on as
hot as possible with painters, or white
wash brushes.
Mrs. Mcdonald, wife of Rev. J. l..
Mcdonald. died Wednesday night about
eleven O'Clock, of pneumonia. after a
lshort illness of only two weeks. She
was about As years of age. and leaves a
husband and ten children, the youngest
of whom is about year old. Funeral
services conducted by Rev, ID. A. Nicoll.
pastor of the Christian Church Of this
town. were held at her late residence
Friday afternoon at 2. 20 o'clock. Inter
ment was made in the NJ. T.. Cemetery
of this town. Rev. and Mrs. Mcdonald
came to Worcester County from Ohio
January 1904, and bought the Zadok
Sturgis farm near town, where they
have since resided. Rev. Mcdonald is
preacher of the Christian Church. and
filled the pulpit of that church in this
town on several occasions. The family
have the sympathy of the entire com
munity in their sad bereavement.
THE old-time drummer who work.
ed all day and caroused with his custom
ers at night. making his firm foot the
bills. is rapidly disappearing from the
ranks of commercial travellers" said
veteran road salesman at one of the
hotels Monday night. business houses
no longer employ men whose habits are
known to be unsteady. The old man
has way of scruntinizing expense ac-
counts that sends chin along the spine
of giddy salesman. No longer will
'sundries' cover up drinking bee. On
the contrary, the travelling men of the
country have begun reform work of
their own. Four years ago two Chris
tian drummers organized the Gideon
Band. To-day 5000 Gideons are travel
ing all over the country and doing mis-
sionary work among their customers.
They attend religious services and par
ticipate in religious movements where
ever they go.