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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1909-04-09
MAKING DYNAMITE.
,hilation Threatens at Every
Turn.

- thoroughly deceptive is dyna-
~ IN the making that you are apt
nl'I - disappointed on viewing the
10 s w of things. You could more
sull 5iIT fancy thunderbolts leaping
reaun flashing from tender blue skies
anu that the most fearful forces in
tha a+;on are hidden under such a
cre HoofuI exterior. Nitroglycerine, a
pea asrI Of which would distribute you
cup SQUARE miles of landscape, is
S9i,iqently making around you in hun
g inads of thousands of gallons. 1t
al' making itself in big iron reterts,
h,nading down laden cutters, and
ca nrrilv tumbling in minute Niagaras
nv nv immense watts, where the de-
ilihu "U yellow peril pursues it's
ng powderward. Out of one re-
5o"ntabIe it fares furiously through
t Copil lead coils, driven only by
sizing blasts of air, and is drawn off
IiJo draught ale and piped on to the
n n perfecting stage. Gaze with the
nn;Ttrroglvcerine, expert into one of those
hig caldrons. The interior is bril-
, %1 Illuminated by electricity, the
nn1v Illuminating agency permitted
=, dDOuI IuS ddA6C1 hOuOO0s
At the bottom is a molten, sullen
Amid CHANGING cautiously at the
.Ihormometer, the guide tells you that
tho writhing mass is nitroglycerine.
II is being fused with nitric and sui
nburic acids, and you are casually in
formed, as the expert sends a cooling
cream through the pipes, that it is
yarv necessary to keep the tempera-
tnre below 80 degrees. Once above
the so degree dead line, so to say, the
troacberous liquid might instantly
voice itself in such a deafening eX-
nIosion as those in close proximity
NAV never hear but once. Let the
composition be quiescent for but a
few seconds, and it's stiffness sudden
" Incomes that of death, in conse-
auence of which extreme vigilance is
nracticed in keeping it constantly agi-
fated as well as properly tempera-
tured.
Around you are other houses, at
uniform distances apart, and con-
npcted by a series of narrow-gauge
tracks, wherein workmen are rail-
roading nitroglycerine from here and
min cotton from there, to be COM
pounded into dynamite and blasting
qelatine. Greatest care is taken in
rolling the product from house to
house. AS soon as loaded cart is
ready to pass out, Of the nitroglycer-
inc house, for instance, a semaphore
signals from an adjoining station, to
which the consignment is carefully
hurried. Around you are long store
houses packed with pulp in tons of
innocent whiteness: Presently the
Dulp will assume a tan color under
the nitrating process, and then, sud-
denly becoming Carbonite, Red Cross,
Hercules, Judson and Giant Powder,
Forcite, or what you order, it develops
the quasi virtues Of dynamite-dyna-
mite or blasting gelatine, in which
more natural forces are condensed to
the cubic inch than exist anywhere
else in creation. Death, curbed and
sleeping, encircles you in gallons and
tons. Annihilation threatens at
every turn, in the form Of potential
pulverizing forces. But the man and
the mercury are there also, alert, re-
sponsive, reliable.-Leslie's Weekly.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1909-04-09
Elliott's
EmuIsified Oil Liniment

is not prescription of specialist, but
an emulsion of kerosene oil, spirits tur-
pcntine, origanum, ether and ammonia.
BY machinery process the oil globules
are broken up into minute particles and
rendered very penetrating, being quickly
absorbed. 1t is as fine formula for
man or beast as medicine can produce.
Every bottle sold on guarantee 1t is
put up in ha1f-pint bottles yellow
package), 25c.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1909-04-09
Rydale's
Stomach Tablets

for indigestion and dyspepsia, are com
pounded from the prescription of man
who has made a lifelong study of the
digestive organs. They are not purely
artificial digestant that relieves only
temporarily, but are a combination of
the best drugs known for their tonic
effect upon the stomach and digestive
organs. They stimulate the stomach to
do its own work.
Two sizes, CSC and soc.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1909-04-09
Rydale's
T O n &c

is the acme of perfection in medicine as
a nerve and blood tonic. In combina-
ton with other very valuable medicinal
agents it contains iron, quinine and
;strych1line, and nothing has ever been
discovered yet that would tone and build
Up a rundown system quicker or better
than this combination of remedies. For
old people and weak, puny children or
anyone with d rundown system it is far
superior to all other tones. Guaranteed
to cure malaria.
Two sizes, soc and $1.oo.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1909-04-09
Rydale's
Tablets

are made from the prescription of a
professor in an Ohio medical college
and are especially recommended where
there is a catarrhal condition of the
stomach, bile, ducts or bowels They are
the pleasantest liver medicine on earth to
be as effective and powerful as they are
For biliousness and torpid liver they are
without an equal. so chocolate coated
tablets In metal box, 25c.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1909-04-09
Rydale's
Cough Elixir

The prescription for Rydale's Cough
Elixir was secured ii western North
Carolina near Ashevillc, where SO many
persons with lung trouble go. It viii
not and can not cure consumption, bat
for coughs, colds and bronchial troubles
it never fails to benefit or cure. If it
does not you get your money back.
Two sizes, 25c and SOC.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1909-04-09
Barney's
COMPOUND

is another preparation for stomach
troubles. It is impossible for one remedy
to cure all forms Of dyspepsia, for the
reason that some people have too much
acid in their stomacils, while others do
not have enough. It is a physical inn
possibility for the same remedy to re-
lieve both of those conditions.
Barney's Compound is especially rec
commended where there is an excess of
acid, and where catarrhal conditions
exist. For that soreness of the stomach
it never fails to relieve.
Two sizes, soc and $I.oo.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1909-04-09

F. Webb Snyder, Sykesville, Md.
Milton D. Shipley, Sykesville, Md.
John w. Forsythe, Sykesville, Md.
Mrs. Betty Harmon, Sykesville, Md.
Geo. w. K. Ridgely, Sykesville, Md.
M. M. Arlington, Sykesville, Md.
Jas. B. George, Freedom, Md.
Robt. Hughes, Freedom, Md.
Streaker Bros, Berret, Md.
Basil Dorsey, Berret, Md.
Joseph Brown, Berret, Md.
William Fowble, Day, Md.
Ohio Fleming, Day, Md.
Jesse Leatherwood, Day, Md.
Chas. Fleming, Winfield, Md.
John Wolbert, Winfield, Md.
Calvin w. Pickett, Winfield, Md.
Lloyd Barre Shipley, Winfield, Md.
Henry Knauff, Winfield, Md.
A. Clayton Bale, Winfield, Md.
Isaac E. Frizzell, Winfield, Md.
Jesse Stuller, Dennings, Md.
Mrs. Clara e. Lindsay, Dennings, Nj
Mrs. Elizabeth Greenwood, Dennings
Edward Naill, Dennings, Md.
Mrs. Polly Kyler, Dennings, Md.
Jesse L. Franklin, Marston, Md.
Robt. Flohr, Gambler, Md.
William Miller, Bird Hill, Md.
E. E. Stoner, Warfeldsburg, Md.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1909-04-09
For Nervousness.

If you are nervous remember this
simple rule. Nothing is so effective
as taking drink of water every hour
or two. Medical men declare that
we should be helped in. various ways
II we were more thoughtful and per-
slstent in this respect. 1t is certainly
simple rule. and one that is within
the reach of the busiest among US.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1909-04-09

TRY the Screened Georges Creek
i lump coal from Smith & Reifsnider,
they recommend it highly.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1909-04-09

Augustus Barnes, Taylorsville, Md.
Thos. F. Gosnell, Day, Md.
VIM. A. Harrison, Mt. Olive, Md.
Calvin c. Penn, Mt. Olive, Md.
A. F. Conway, Mt. Olive, Md.
Joseph Gosnell, Mt. Olive, Md.
Chas. o. Welsh, Mt. Olive, Md.
Upton Henry, Mt. Olive, Md.
James Gosnell, Mt. Olive, Md.
Hon. John S. Stem, Winfield, Nd.
Edward Stem, Winfield, Md.
Wesley Barnes, Winfield, Md.
VIM. Bowers, Winfield, Md.
Columbus A Conway, Winfield, Md.
Theodore Gosnell, Watersville, Md.
A. D. DeLashmett, Morgan, Md.
Oliver Hutchins, Morgan, Md.
Geo: Lemon, Morgan, Md.
Fuller Wright, Cooksville, Md.
Chas. Lemon, Cooksville, Md.
Beldin d. Patrick, Lisbon, Md.
Ad. Mullinix, Lisbon, Md.
|. Mrs. John Henry Mercer, Lisbon, Md.
Joseph Fleming, Poplar Springs, Md.
Joseph Murray, Long Corners, Md.
Mathew Murray, Long Corners, Md.
Harry c. Dorsey, West Friendship, Md.
Preacher Shipley, West Friendship, Md.
VIM. Farver, Dennings, Md.
Chas. S. Conway, Winfield, Md.
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NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC.

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of w. B. Smien
thoroughly
The branch
will
the best material
all
protect buildings from
durable surface of IA
everybody knows that the best conductor for
buildings should
ground and connected in metallic circuit The points
the than twenty-five feet
complete explanation pertaining to
of within
HUTCHINS Assistant
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The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-01-08

DR.. Francis H, Herrick says spar
row will pluck horsehair from the
mouth of a Nesting, while another bird,
like an oriole, will stand by and see
its mate hang until dead without at
tempting to release it.
A robin will tug at string which
has caught on limb, but is never seen
fully to meet the situation by releasing
the string 1t viii make several turns
Of cord about limb and leave the
other end free without any relation to
the nest, so that its effort is useless,
1t ties no knots.
The gull. according to abundant and
competent testimony. viii carry shell
fish to a considerable height, drop them
on the rocks or hard ground and repeat
the experiment until 1t gets the soft
meat.--Chicago Tribune,
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-01-08
LION 1NvADEs THE CAMP.
African Traveller Tells of an Excit-
ing Adventure in Thorn IncIosure.

African Traveller Tells of an Excit-
ing Adventure in Thorn Enclosure.
'When in SomaliIand, Africa, | had
an exciting adventure with a black
named lion,' writes correspondent
Il had intended to reach a village one
night, but 1t was getting dark, and we
were couple Of hours march off so,
finding an old zareba, or thorn inclos
ure, we went into it. This zareba GOV
cred half an acre. 1t was only about
four feet high and four feet thick, the
thorny branches composing it having
sunk down and fallen apart.
I'VE repaired about 100 yards of it
pitched our tent, and the cook got his
fire lighted, gave me some dinner, and
turned in. Our nineteen canels are
squatted in a circle to the right of the
tent, our horses were tethered near to
them and our twenty-one men lighted
three or four fires, cooked their food
and lay down to sleep around the cam
els. We also had five donkeys teth.
cred to two or three saplings, which
were growing about two PAGES in front
Of the tent, and, Therefore, toward the
center of the Zareba.
About 2 o'clock in the morning
was awakened by two feeble brays, fol,
lowed by a third. Lighting a candle
I tumbled out in my pajamas and got
hold of my rifle and couple of car,
tridges, to meet the Somali hunters
showing their woolly heads through the
tent door, saying, 'Waraba! (hyena)
Deep growls were going on, and | al
once f.i: sure that it was no hyena
but a lion, in the zareba. Fortunate
ly. the camels did not stampede.
at was pitch dark, but l saw thai
one of the five donkeys tethered in from
Of the tent was gazing intently toward
the left and center. The other foul
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-01-08

even against Kathleen herself-came
into his heart.
So it was all. a put-up job, was it,
he thought. A reconciliation over the
soup and declaration of eternal affec-
tion after dessert. He would see him
self somewhere first. If they came to-
gether again they should come together
in his own way. and not at the time and
place dictated by well-meaning friends
Then they went down to dinner. And,
though she was as beautiful as ever,
she failed. In some intangible, elusive,
indefinable way, wholly to please his
critical eye. But how she failed he
was utterly at loss to discover.
Then, hating Kathleen's voice, he
tried to lose himself In the contempla-
tion of her beauty; to watch the pleas
ant lights in her blue eyes, eyes which
were, it seemed, always gay They were
too gay, he thought. Adela's eyes could
be gay; but then he loved their sadness
best. But, of course, though in way
he was very fond of Adela, he could
never love her as he had loved-and
could still love Kathleen.
Still at 10 o'clock next day he went
to see Adela
She saw him come up the short drive
as she sat writing letters at the study
window, and she, herself, opened the
! door to him.
us anything the matter?" she asked
little anxiously.
How soft her voice sounded-and
how different from Kathleen's!
quite lott" he answered, But he
smiled.
She turned towards the study with
gesture. AS he followed her the quiet
neatness of her dress and hair gave
him sense of perfect taste. Every
thing about her was, he felt just right,
impossible to better.
Inside the study she shut the door.
Now" she said courageously but
with fear cold at her heart, tell me
all about it,"
For answer he walked up to her and
took her in his arms and kissed her
| passionately upon the lips.
"You never kissed me like that be-
fore!" she marveled, as he held her
away from him to look into her eyes.
perhaps not, dear!' he admitted.
But now!"
And he caught her in his arms again.
what is it that you have to ask?"
she presently ventured
Then, since the er0wning wisdom was
come to him he answered graveiy:
Il want you to marry me imme-
diately"
And for once perhaps for the first
time in his life, he knew his own mind.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-01-08

do you KNOW" pretty bride of
three months said to a friend the 9TH
cr day, II think all these jokes about
young wives having so much trouble
with butchers and grocers and being
cheated and all that is just too fool
lsh"
Then l presume you are getting on
all right with yours, dear?" her friend
inquired.
why. of course l am Anybody
would if they would just deal at a re-
liable place" the young wife declared
Now there is my grocer she contin
ued, "he is just as obliging and thought
full as can be The other day ordered
a dozen oranges. and when they came
found there were but eleven in the bag,
so went to the store again and told
him so.
why, yes, ma'am, he said, 4 know
there were | had put in a dozen, but
| noticed that one of them was spoiled,
and, of course, wouldn't send you any
but the hest goods, so | took 1t out
Now, don't you think that was nice
in him to be so thoughtful and hon
estY she concluded.-Harper's Weekly
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-01-08

Small movements of ascent and descent
can be made and controlled readily Dy
manipulating the compressed air valve
In case of accident a lead weight OF
1900 pounds, which forms the amid
ship section of the keel, can be instant
ly detached causing the llghtened Ves-
sci to rise rapidly to the surface.
The boat is propelled by means or
two steel oars, with feathering blades
The oars pass through the hull IN
water-tight spherical joints which give
freedom of motion in every direction,
Similar Joints are used on the torpedo
tubes of warshlps.
Attached to the forward fixed sec
ton of the keel is a wheel on which
Able Raou expects his unique vessel
to travel over the level bottom OF hard
sand on which the sponges are found
BY regulating the supply of compressed
air to the small ballast tanks the pres
sure of the wheel on the sea bottom
can be made MS small as is desired. and
there Is no apparent reason why the
vessel should not be propelled over the
bottom by the oars-for it has no other
motor. The purpose of this device Is
TO evade the necessity of rising from
the sea bottom, and consequently draw,
Ing on the supply of compressed air in
moving from place to place in search
OF sponges, Raoul's first boat had q
similar wheel, which worked very well
The sponge fishing apparatus con
sists of movable arm which projects
from the lower part of the curved bow
through a water flight spherical joint
and carries cutting pincers at its ex
| tremity. BY means of this device
orerated by man inside the hull, tn,
sponge is cut loose and deposited in {
| large iron basket suspended from the
end of fixed tubular arm of Shee
iron, which occupies nearly the place o
the bowsprit Of ship, To the middl,
OF this fixed arm are attached electrl,
lamps and a reflector for the purpose o
illuminating the sen bottom, which car
be observed through a bull'S eye in tn,
bow Of the boat These lamps, MS wei
as those which light the interior Of tn,
vessel are supplied with current by
small battery of accumulators, A bal
of lead attached to a steel wire can b,
raised and lowered by means of a wind
lass inside the tubular arm, and thu
serves the purpose of an anchor Th
windlass is operated by gearing ter
minatlng in a shaft which passe
through a stuting box into the interio
OF the boat and which hears crall
handle at Its inner end, Provision |
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-01-08
Gathering Roses.

I've gathered roses and the like In
my glad and golden Junes, but now,
down the world | hike my weary
nands are filled with prunes. I've gath
cred roses DER and DER, and some were
white and some were red, but when |
took them to the store the grocer want
ed eggs instead. gathered roses long
age, In other days, in other scenes, and
people said, "You ought to go and dig
the weeds out of your beans" A million
roses bloomed and died; million more
will die to-day That man is wise who
let's them slide and gathers up the bales
OF hay,--Emporia Gazette,
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-01-08

one who understands as you under
stand! I"
"Ah!" she happily smiled. "But l.,
you see, have made a lifelong study
of you! And If l didn't understand,
who in the world should?'
The picture of Kathleen flashed
across his mind; Kathleen in blue
frock which matched her eyes, Kathleen
with the blush rose cheeks and laugh
ing lips that challenged and provoked
his frequent kiss. Not even Kathleen
understood as Adela did, but then
well, Kathleen was just everything
that Adela could never be-
But he put the picture out Of sight,
turned its face, as it were, to the wall.
Have you, then, made an exhaust
i've study of your servant?" he ques-
toned, searching her heart with feign-
ed humility.
Always! Always" she answered.
The sincerity, the look, the self-aban-
don that underlay every word which
she spoke killed the last germ of COM
pun ction in him. To-day was to-day !;
to-day with its great moments, such as
he loved. They should live the present
hour, at any rate Tomorrow he would
write what he could not bring himself
to speak.
So for the next half-hour he made
love to her out of the ripe fullness Of
his own experience. And his philoso-
ply was as the Spaniard's. To-mor-
row, tomorrow, always tomorrow
which means the completest plucking
of to-day.
Then he met Kathleen Steele at a
dinner party.
Kathleen was there, not fortuitously,
but by design. For she had found out
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-01-08
A SUBMARINE BOAT FOR SPONGE FISHING.

had disappeared. There was a black
mass discernible in the center Of the
zareba, which, however, | found In the
morning to be simply mass Of old
dried thorn branches, so the six or
eight shots fired at it in the darkness
did little HARM
'The men were now bushing the fires
and the cook supplied four or FIVE of
the men with sticks and with kerosene
and rapidly made some torches. | then
noticed that the donkey was gazing
more to the left of the center, and,
guided by the growing which was go.
ing on continuously and furiously, |
crept on my hands and knees past the
donkey for couple of yards The
men with the torches were then little
behind my right shoulder.
Suddenly the torches famed VI
brightly and, the light being behind me
somewhat. was not dazzled by it, but
saw the lion dragging off a donkey. II
did not take me more than one second
to snap both barrels at him, and his
growls at once ceased. After putting
in two more cartridges and having the
torches retrimmed, we again advanced
to find the lion lying on his side giving
a few expiring gasps, His nose touched
the donkey's throat, trickle of blood
flowed down from under his left eye
and, as | afterward found, he had go
my second bullet in the nape of thu
neck"
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-01-08

Through the ingenuity of Vicar Cen
eral Raoul, of Carthage. a submarine
boat for sponge fishing has been per-
fected, and bids fair to displace the
dangerous and health running process
of sponge gathering by divers. The
submarine boat Of Able Raoul Is cery
much smaller and simpler than its
naval prototypes. 1t is 1G1a feet long
and 81 feet In diameter and carries
two men. It's general form is that Of
cylinder with rounded ends. The
only opening is a man-hole at the top,
which is surmounted by turret her.
metlcally closed by cover that can be
operated equally well from below.
When the vessel is afloat, it Is possible
to walk on the convex top with the
aid Of steel handrails which extend
fore and aft on each side Of the turret.
The vessel is caused to sink by open
Ing three sea-c0cks and thus filing as
many water ballast tanks. Two Of
these tanks. placed amldship In the
blge, to port and starbOard, have a
combined capacity Of 1j4 gallons of sea
water, the weight Of which balances
most of the buOyancy and brings the
top Of the boat nearly awash. These
two tanks are to be kept filed, as a
rule, but they can he emptied by means
Of hand pump. The third tank, which
Is placed between the other two, holds
only seventeen gallons.
The water flows in directly from the
sea and is forced out by connecting the
tank with two reservoirs which contain
air at a pressure of $50 atmospheres.