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The Democratic advocate., 1908-05-29
TOLD BY HIS HAT.
The Way a Traveller Picked Out an
Englishman.

The Way a Traveller Picked Out an
Ensiishman.
"See that man?" the lately returned
traveller remarked to friend, indicat-
ing an individual a little ahead Of
them. "Well, never saw him before,
but I'll lay good sized bet that he's
an Englishman and, moreover, Lon
doner."
"How do you tell? the friend asked.
'By the way he wears his hat" was
the reply. ''Notice how it is jammed
down on the head? Englishmen, espe-
cially Londoners, put on their hats for
keeps No chance is taken of being
separated from bowler That's what
the derby is called over there And it's
the same way with a top hat or a
straw or cap, for that matter.
''The American wears his hat lightly
in comparison, and so do the people
Of southern continental Europe. The
French, for example, have a penchant
for hats that seem bit too small for
them. At any rate, their headgear
uOeSn appear 10 De very Hrmly HAeu.
1t may be my fancy, but an Italian al
ways impresses ME as a bit uncom-
Portable in a hat. At all events, he
likes to avoid wearing it whenever pos
sible. But your Englishman wears his
hat thoroughly and seriously. It's tilt
ed back a little, as a rule, and the
nearer it is to his ears the safer he
feels"
Just then the man ahead drew a pa
per from his pocket. It was the Lon
don Times
'There, what did I tell you?" was
the returned travellers comment.-New
York Press.
The Democratic advocate., 1908-05-29
CATCHING Deer by Hand.

''This red deer" said the keeper,
"was caught by hand"
"But a red deer is the feetest Of the
fleet"
Right you are, but this fellow was
caught by hand all the same. 1t is a
feat that is often done in the winter in
the still woods choked with snow,
You sec a deer and chase 1t. Getting
confused, it soon deserts the firm deer
paths or runnings, and then it is help
less. It founders terribly, up to its
neck in snow.
"You hurry toward it. Harder and
harder it struggles; more and more
tired it becomes. In a very little while
it is so exhausted that you can go and
take it up as though it were baby.
The swift, strong, healthy creature Is
as weak and helpless as babe. New
Orleans Times-Democrat.
The Democratic advocate., 1908-05-29
An American Scholars Work.

1t should be humiliating for English
men to reflect that it was left to an
American, Francis James Child, to
compile the five thick volumes Of ENG
lish and Scottish Popular Ballads
which are familiar and Invaluable to
all students of this subject. But self
reproach is forgotten in admiration of
his work. Child himself unfortunately
did not live to finish his task. How
ever, he was more than a scholar and
an editor. He was the founder Of q
school and he had the gift of being
able to transmit to others both his
learning and his zeal-London Satur-
day Review.
The Democratic advocate., 1908-05-29
WHITE HOUSE COURTESY.
The Way President Polk Threw Down
the Barriers

If any president Of modern times
were to exhibit the official indecency
that John Adams exhibited when JEFF
ferson became president he would be
denounced by every reputable newspa-
per and intelligent citizen of the land.
It was then, as it is now, the accepted
duty Of the retiring president to re-
ceive the incoming president at the
White House and accompany him to
the Inauguration ceremonies, but the
last official act of Adams as president
was the nomination of a member Of
what were called ~midnight judges"
the night before the Inauguration of
Jefferson, and during the night he
and his family withdrew from the
White House, leaving none but the
servants to receive the incoming presi-
dent, writes Alexander K. Mcclure in
the Circle.
It was President Polk who first had
the courage to disregard the political
passions of the times by inviting Hen
nv Clay, who had been his competitor,
to dine with him and Mrs. Polk in the
White House. It was near the close
of the Polk administration, during
which Clay had been senator most
of the time, and it shocked the Demo
cratic sentiment of the time when it
was announced that Clay had dined
with President Polk, not on state oc-
casion, but had been welcomed at the
family dinner as a friend. Clay was
the soul of chivalry, and Polk was a
man of unblemished character and
high attainmepts, and his example of
courtesy to Clay has never since been
hrolynn
The Democratic advocate., 1908-05-29
Accomplices.

A rival to the celebrated Mrs. Mala-
prop is to be found in a certain New
York street car conductor. The other
day party of several women boarded
his car. They were not able to find
seats together, and two sat on the op-
posite side from the others. The wo-
man who paid the fares for the group
offered the conductor half dollar,
neglecting to mention how many fares
were to be taken from it.
you're paying for these four here"
he said, indicating those who sat in
line with her of the purse, "and," wav-
ing his hand in the direction of the
two on the opposite side, "are those
ladies implicated ?"-New York Times.
The Democratic advocate., 1908-05-29
MoonIiqht.

Many readers may not be aware OF
the fact that the full moon gives sew.
eral times more than twice the light
of the half moon. They may be still
more surprised to learn that the ratio
is approximately as nine to one. Pro-
fessor Joel Stebbins and F. G. Brown,
taking advantage Of the extreme sensi-
tiveness to light of selenium cell,
measured the amount of light coming
from the moon at different phases with
the result above mentioned The rea-
son for the remarkable difference
shown is to be found In the varying
angles Of reflection presented by the
roughened surface of our satellite to
the sun. The moon Is brighter between
first quarter and full than between
full and last quarter. The cause of
this is evident in the more highly re-
Elective character Of that part Of the
moon which lies west Of its meridian.
The Democratic advocate., 1908-05-29
BUENOS AIRES.
An Orderly City In Which Affairs Are
Well Conducted.


Things are done well in the City Of
Good Airs. There are good things to
eat, comfortable rooms to live in,
places where a man can get his exer-
else and outdoor sport. After the trop-
les the gringo feels like a man who
has been hopping from foothold to
foothold in a swamp and steps at last
on solid ground. The creature comforts
of q capable, wide awake, well ar
ranged city soothingly envelop him.
The cochero knows where he wants to
90, the waiter knows what he wants
to eat. The mounted policeman, in
breastplate and horsetail helmet, rides
and does it SO quietly and with
such sophisticated nonchalance that he
promptly conceives passionate ad-
miration for that policeman and his
beautiful horse, falls into the COM
munistic pride common to all city
there is no other policeman so fine in
the world. The streets are clean and
we'll kept, and the buildings which line
them, however gingerbready their archi-
lecture, are held within decOrous max
imum and minimum limits of height
Every thing is near at hand. The ho-
tel, club, bank, drive, the restaurants
and theaters are all within, so to say,
feeling distance. And this physical
compactness and neatness, this con-
tinental glitter and activity, set here
oasis-like, combine to give the whole
certain diminutiveness and cozy init
macy. There's a "little old Buenos
Aires" too.-Arthur Ruhl in Scribner's
Mo UaziDo
The Democratic advocate., 1908-05-29
The Grave of Adam.

April 1 was marked on old calendars
as the Memorial of Adam" The ori-
entails relate that Adam, when dying,
charged his children to bury his body,
embalmed with myrrh, incense and
cassia, in the cave Of Al-Kanuz, near
paradise. When they quilted the place
they were to convey his body to the
center of the earth, whence would
come salvation to his posterity. This
is said to have been done by Noah and
Melchhedek, who reburied him on the
sacred hill of Calvary.-Chicago News.
The Democratic advocate., 1908-05-29
EDUCATED Boards.
Wfiskers In Paris Reach the Pinnacle
nE Cultivation

Wfiskers In Paris Reach the Pinnacle
Of Cultivation.
It is in Paris that the whisker
reaches its highest state of civilization
and development. The luxuriant YER
dure on the faces of some Of the Pari-
SLAMS who strut along the boulevard
every day can be compared to nothing
but the riot Of vegetation in the trop-
les. Every Partisan has whiskers-
much whiskers if he can, but some
whiskers at any rate. He supplements
natures efforts with the best aids of
the barber and trains and nurses his
hirsute appurtenances with anxious
care.
The Parisians spend hours on their
boards and educate them into formal
gardens, set pieces, shrubbery, terrace
and vista effects. They lay out hair
scapes with them, arrange them in IN
dulating meadows and twine them on
pergolas. There is the long, spade con-
coction much sought by men with
black boards, which consists of about
a foot Of hair cut square across the
bottom and adds much glory to the
wearer, for the whiskers always shine
and glisten in the sun. There are side
winders and pointed ones, the heart
shaped and the curved, the waved and
the plain. A man who can train his
whiskers to grow in a new way is as
much of celebrity as man who
writes a good poem or paints a good
picture.-Samuel G. Blythe in Every
body's Magazine.
The Democratic advocate., 1908-05-29
His Fair Proposition.

"Are you able to support my daugh-
ter~ asked the old gentleman. "You
know she has pretty expensive tastes,
and don't mind saying that the bur-
den has been pretty hard for me at
tines
That's just the point" exclaimed
the prospective benedict. IF marry
her we can divide the expense"
The Democratic advocate., 1908-05-29
Ants and the Weather.

~When you go out on a cloudy morn
ing and find the ants busily engaged
in clearing out their nests and dragging
the sand and bits Of earth to the sur
face, you may be sure that, no matter
how cloudy it is, there will be no rain
that day, and the probabilities are for
several days of good weather." says a
gardener.
"On the other hand, If you see the
ants about the middle of a spring or
summer afternoon hurrying back to
the nest and a sentinel out trotting
round in every direction looking up
stragglers and urging them to go home
as soon as they can get there you may
figure on a rain that afternoon or
night. When the last of the wander
ers is found the picket hurries in, and
the nest is securely sealed from the
inside to keep out the water. 1t Is
very seldom that ants are taken by
surprise by the approach of a shower,
but once in awhile when belated or too
far away to get home in time they
mount a shrub and ensconce them
selves under the thickest, broadest leaf
they can find, and there they stay and
hold on until the rain is over. When
an ants nest is washed out and the
ants drown an examination will always
show that the disaster was due not so
much to lack of preparation as to acci-
dent, a stream from an unexpected di-
rection flowing down between two
bricks or a downpour that caused a
fall or the washing away Of the bank
in which the nest was placed"
The Democratic advocate., 1908-05-29

CT anu ureW IOrtn some CARDS. She sal
up very straight and dipped into her
change purse to find dime, a quarter
and an old German coin, souvenir of
Henry Dalton's student days in Ber.
lin.
Her face turned scarlet, then white
A horrible nervous tremor swept over
her. Frantically she turned everything
out Of the bag to find almost anything
businesslike yet distinctly feminine
person might own except money.
Like a fash she remembered her
mothers request. She had kept it all,
every penny of the fatty folded bills.
''Take what you think will last you
until 1 come back"
Fateful words!
Beatrice sent for the dining car con-
ductor and explained the situation. He
was polite, but behind the mask of
courtesy she read amusement, or was
it distrust?.
She became naughty.
''My host will meet me at the depot.
Until then-well here are my rings or
my watch
The darkies had gathered at the ia
BILE opposite Henry Dalton with heads
together, lips parted in ironical smiles.
He summoned his waiter sharply.
Anything happened to the lady,?
"Seems like she amt got the price of
her lunch.''
Just at the instant Henry Dalton
rose precipitately. Beatrice came down
the aisle, her head high, but her face
ghastly. 1t was not the attitude of the
conductor nor the grinning darkies, but
a sudden faintness, a realization that
for once her business ability, her su-
preme tact her resourcefu1ness, had
failed her. She did not read this as
physical exhaustion. Her one grim
thought was that she had lost her grip
on herself.
And then came Henry Dalton with
a hand outstretched and the love of her
shining in his eyes.
Beatrice, 1 am the most fortunate
Of men,"
ooh, Henry" she said, with queer
break in her clear voice, twill you
please
Henry Dalton carried her back to the
stateroom in the parlor car. Henry
Dalton took firm possession of her
luggage and firm control of the situa-
tion. Henry Dalton all but lifted her
into the De Haven Smith wagonette
when they left the train. And Henry
Dalton read the telegram, for which he
paid, though it was sent G. o. D. to
Beatrice Craig.
Forgot to put money back in purse.
What shall I do with it,"
"Buy flowers for yourself-every-
body" wired Henry Dalton to the first
amazed and then understanding mother
Of Beatrice. 'I am taking care of
Beatrice and always shall"
And that was why the smartest lay
cite shop in all New York passed to a
new owner and love came into its own.
The Democratic advocate., 1908-05-29
Pleasant.

The two men talked for time in the
train.
care you going to hear Barkins' lee
ture tonight?" said one.
EYES," returned the other.
'Take my advice and don't. hear
he is an awful bore"
81 must co." said the other. ~Pm
RarkinSn
The Democratic advocate., 1908-05-29
She Got the Chance,

Staylate III p. m.)-Do you really be-
lieve that absence makes the heart
grow fonder? Miss Cutting (strangling
yawn)-I'm sure I don't know. but
it's up to you to give me chance to
find out.-Chicago News.
The Democratic advocate., 1908-05-29

Office of Lumber, Coal and Supply Com
pany of Carroll County, Md.
Westminster, Md, May Is, 1908.
The Stockholders of the Lumber, Coal
and Supply Company of Carroll County,
Md, are hereby notified that the regu-
lar annual meeting for the election of
Seven Directors, to manage the affairs
of the company for the ensuing year,
will be held at the office of the West
minister Deposit and Trust Company, on
SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1908,
between the hours of 10 and II o'clock,
a. m. N. II. BAUMGARTNER,
may % st Secretary.
The Democratic advocate., 1908-05-29
Positive Proof.

Patron-How can you tell whether
couple are married or not? Hotel
Keeper-If he orders two whole por-
tions, they are not; If he orders one
portion for two. they are.-Judge.
The Democratic advocate., 1908-05-29
D ANK STOCK FOR SALE.

A number of shares of stock of First
National Bank and Union National
Bank of Westminster at private sale
in lots to suit purchaser. Apply to
BENZ. F. GROUSE,
apr10-tf Attorney.
The Democratic advocate., 1908-05-29
.TOCKHOLDERS MEETING.

The annual meeting of the Merchants and Man
ufacturers Association, this city, will be held at
from to D. M, for the election of Directors and
such other business as may come before the meet
ing. By order
CHAS. G. GORSUCH, President.
FRANK z. MILLER Sec. and Treas. may Is st
The Democratic advocate., 1908-05-29
Her Sweet Answer.

Tom-And when you proposed she
gave you sweet answer? Dick-She
did, indeed. Tom-Ah, she said. "YesY
Dick-No. she said "Fudge.'-C Chicago
News.
The Democratic advocate., 1908-05-29
WANTED.

Active, energetic men to sell Hoods Celebrated
Nursery Stock"-proftable, permanent positions.
Hustlers make big money handling our line. Ex-
elusive territory. Cash weekly advances. Com
farmers and others find our business very prof.
table. Write Immediately for our liberal offer.
w. T. HOOD & CO., Old Dominion Nurseries,
may % At Dept c., Richmond, Va.
The Democratic advocate., 1908-05-29

MORE than fifty patterns of Cypress
N1and Yellow Pine Mouldings and
Castings to select from at
Smith & Reifsnider's
The Democratic advocate., 1908-05-29
HORSES 8 MULES.

~I will receive at myn
!, stables, at Hanover, on
0ASaturday, May q, 1908, AZ
one carload of Horses by express for
sale or exchange. Also have on hand at
all times lot of Mules. Will buy fat
Horses and Mules for Southern market.
IL H. A. SMITH,
apr 10 Hanover, Pa.
The Democratic advocate., 1908-05-29
aNmnathN.

Young Actor-My Faust seems to
be a failure. Poor Goethe!-Fliegende
Blatter.
The Democratic advocate., 1908-05-29

WE try to make our stock a depen-
w dable one and if we haven't what
you want we will get it for you.
Smith & Reifsnider.
The Democratic advocate., 1908-05-29

TN order to close out our stock of lap
L robes and horse blankets we will sell
them at less than cost while they last.
DOYLE & MAGEE.
The Democratic advocate., 1908-05-29
ICE CREAM AND STRAWBERRY
FESTIVAL.

Stone Chapel Sunday School will hold their
Strawberry and Ice Cream Festival on June 6.
afternoon and night. If the weather is unfavor-
able that night it will be held on June g. Also at
the same place on May 81, will be Children's Ser
vices commencing at 7.30 p. m.
The Democratic advocate., 1908-05-29
ICE CREAM AND STRAWBERRY
FESTIVAL.

The Medford Grange will hold Strawberry and
Ice Cream Festival on Saturday evening, June 20.
The public is cordially invited to attend. If the
weather is too inclement it will be held the follow
inp Tuesday evening
The Democratic advocate., 1908-05-29
ELECTION NOTICE.

apr10-tf
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-29

For example, the writer conceived an I'M
usual combination of plan, design and low
cost in a small cottage. The design was
developed into a pastime during leisure
evenings for the mere pleasure It gave its
designer in producing it. 1t has expressed
in it the comforts and conveniences Of a
large home, filling what its designer knew
to be the greatest average requirements of
a small home. The result is, that at
present writing. this house is being built
in twenty-five different cities.
Right here it might be well to condemn
the m practice of many architects
in reproducing specially prepared plans
without the original builders consent. 1t
has been the policy of several large firms
throughout the country to a k copies OF
the plans which nave been prepared to
meet the special requirements of their
clients and publish them with a key num-
Der as stock plans at bargain counter
prices. This is not light. The man who
pays for having his ideas, requirements
and little family sentiments into
a pretty home has a property right in that
design. He has paid for It and his archi-
tect has no right TO steal from him this
design and reproduce It across the street,
~ AAO AN&N iO( VI even III ~ next ClIY
at a third the price paid for having those
plans prepared. 1t is to be regretted that
this practice started in this city by a firm
that has profited to a considerable extent
by it. 1t is a well known fact, however.
that their star left the zenith some years
ago and is now well into the haze of the
horizon. There is too much sentiment con
nected with home building for a firm fol-
4 lnNyAR1 Nhs. WRAaNN., - -
II is needless to add after the above ex-
preston that specially prepared plans are
never reproduced from the office of the
writer. An architect can carefully prepare
plans that are conceived in his own mind
and are intended to nll the average re-
quirements Cbut no one's Individual or
special requirements) and reproduce them
as many times as he likes at any price.
provided that each purchaser understands
that the privilege to reproduce them is re-
served. This, of course. puts the original
cost Of producing the plans upon the arohl-
tect, but it Is the only honest and morally
right way IN which a stock plan business
can be conducted, Another Infamous prac-
tice followed by some so-called architects
is to lake pictures OF houses designed by
other archit sets, have floor plane arranged
to fit them and publish them as their own
work, thereby deliberately stealing a repu-
tation for good work and working an I'm
justice upon the original owners and archi-
tects of the homes. as well as a fraud
upon the public This practice is archi-
t%ectural plagiarism in its worst form and
will probably only exist until II becomes
a menace to legitimate practitioners, when
a postal regulation will wipe II out. The
conclusion is that any architect in whom
the commercial spirit is % strongly de-
veloped that he will lower himself to CON
fiscating the specially drawn plans OF his
previous clients OF other people and sell
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-29
LITIGATION EATS UP ESTATE
Project of a PhiIan thrOpist Destroyed
by Litigation over

Through the recent death in st. Vim
cents hospital OF Edward Schenck, an
attorney, Alfred T. Simonson has become
the only survivor OF a little group of
men to whom in 1875 Samuel Wood. then
80 years old, revealed his intention OF
leaving his estate, valued at more than
Sc, 900, 900, to found the American College
OF Music in Central park, New York.
Mr.. Schenck's death recalls the cele-
brated contest over the Wood will and
the fact that neither the college of music
nor a great hospital to which Mr.. Wood
intended to give his name and his mil
lions was built. The town of Woods
burg, l.. l.. which he founded and in
which ne spent s5OO,OO for a hotel and
cottages, has persisted from the maps and
almost from the memory Of men.
Litigation, in which Joseph H. Choate,
B. E. Valentine, Judge Fullerton. B. F.
Blair. E. w. S~toughton, General II. L.
Burnett, Edwards Pierrepont and other
noted lawyers had a part, began In 1878
with the death Of Mr., Wood and continued
until 1890, when Surrogate Ransom de-
clared there was nothing left Of he es-
tate.
Samuel Wood, most of whose life was
spent on a farm on Long Island, was
born at Hampstead in February, 1895.
With his brothers. David. Abram and
Ebenezer. he went into the rum import
ing business in Front street In 1916. The
brothers made a compact never TO marry.
They also agreed to draw their wills so
that the surviving brothers should DE the
beneficlaries, They prospered in bust
ness. In 1884 David Wood died, leaving
an estate valued at $500, 600. In 1858
Abram died, leaving an estate valued at
$500, 600. Ebenezer's death followed
within a year and Samuel Wood became
possessed OF the fortunes left by his
brothers.
His expenses were less than $500 a
year. and the additions made 10 his es-
tate had no effect on the enlargement or
his expenditures. He lived simply, but
he had one object to attain, and for that,
he told his friends, he was willing to
spend every dollar he had. He wanted
to leave to posterity a name which would
be held in honor throughout all the years.
AS the first step toward realization of
this ambition Mr.. Wood founded near
Rockaway Beach. L. L., the model village
OF woodsburg, but he was not a good
business man in a business which he did
not understand and the town which was
intended 20 be something like Saratoga
OIL a smaller scale filled.
When Mr.. Wood Vas so years old he
auth orized Or. Elmer 10 issue a pros
pectus calling attention to the possibility
OF the establishment OF such a school.
The prospectus, in DR.. Elmer's name. met
with approval. Mr.. Wood was SO much
pleased that In az Interview at the time
he acknowledged he was the maj whose