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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1910-09-23

TIST OF ELECTION OFFICERS
H. Appointed by the Board of Super
visors of Elections of Carroll County,
i'm the Place of those Heretofore APP
pointed Who Have Since Been Tx
cused, or found Disqualified.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1910-09-23
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SELLING OUT AT COST.

Having sold our interest in the Mack
ley Building, =. Main St., we are COM
PEELED to Sell out all our stock On Or
nofo,.L, Dat IL 1n1n
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-03

Young HUBBARD exhibited his silhouettes at the Penn
sylvania Academy of Fine Arts and in New York and
Boston He became ambitious do better work than
any maker OF shouettes could do and he finally
made quite reputation as 4 painter of portraits He
remained in country and died in Richmond, Vir-
gnia, in 1862 his death having been caused by the
explosion OF a shell he filing with compound
he had manufactured for the of the Confederate
Army
Another noted silhouettist coming to this country
from foreign lands Monsieur Edouart who ar
rived shores in 1888, and for nine years
he was kept busy making slhouettes of people who
admired this kind of Edouart kept copy of each
silhouette he made, and he valued his collection so
highly that it quite broke his when the entire
collection the bottom of the sea while Edouart
returning to his native land from America in
I847.
America produced a silhouettist thought by many
TO be as clever any who had come to our country
from foreign lands This was William Henry Brown,
who was but sixteen years old when he cut a very
fine silhouette of General lafayette who was then
visit to this country In respects Brown
was cleverer than any of his predecessors had
been He kind Of snap shot" shouettist for he
could make silhouettes of and women on the
street without the subjects of his pictures being
of the fact that they having their Ikeiesses"
taken Indeed he had such remarkable skill in meno--
zing faces and forms that he could look person en-
the and wonderfully good silhouette of the
person after returning his studio He farther
than other silhouettists had DONE for he made
tngs of ships and railroad trains and professions in
winch the figures readily recognized He made
cutting twenty-five feet long with sxty-fve per-
in II, and clever the execution that it
easy to recognize every figure in it.
One may in OF the public school buildings
in Boston, two silhouetes OF unusual interest for
they of George and Martha Washington. Possibly
they the work of Peale, but there is nothing to
indicate the of the sihouettist Underneath the
frame in which the prohles are is this information
IN regard to them:
The within profles of General and Mrs Wash
ington taken from their shadows wall They
perfect likenesses prohles give Presented
to by my friend, Mrs. Eleanor P. Lewis, at Wood
lawn, July, 1882
ELIZABETH BoRDLEY GIBSON"
The Mrs. Eleanor P. Lewis referred to great
granddaughter of Martha Washington.
The silhouettes presented to the school by Mr.
Edward Shipper, of Philadelphia. They the original
profe, and copies The invention Of the daguer-
reotype by NJ DaguerTe in 1859 put the nose OF the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-03

very crude picture popular at that time. It
made by tracing the shadow profile of a face
projected by the light of candle on sheet of white
paper and the outline defined with a pencil This was
srch very poor and cheap sort of 4 picture that it
was at once called silhouette, in further derison
of the very saving French minister and the name has
Stuck 1t is instance of the curious derivation
OF some words in common use, and this unkind sur
who really trying to introduce needed
reforms in the spending Of the public money has long
been accepted good and proper word Indeed
there is other word used for pictures of this kind
although there such pictures long before Mon
seur Etienne de Silhouette had his attached to
them in so embarrassing a way.
Madame Pompadour brought the silhouette into
popularity by showing a great liking for it. and the
pictures made by casting shadow with lamp
called prohles a Ia Pompadoar They were to be seen
all over France
Then the silhouette became popular in America
great many years ago, and named Charles VIII
Peale, who had museum in Philadelphia, became
famous for his cleverness in executing them He in
vented a kind of machine which traced the profile
with extreme accuracy. Even George Washington sat
to Peale for silhouette, ard al the prominent
gentlemen and ladies of the day felt that they
have sihouettes of themselves
Then there was a boy of seventeen named James
HUBBARD. who this country from England, and
went from place to place setting up Hubbard Gal
leries to which the people focked have shouettes
of themselves made by the clever artist" He had
many samples of his work exhibition and the people
paid fifty for admission to the gallery. This also
paid for silhouette, which young HUBBARD in
a very few seconds with a pair Of scissors He was
looked upon great genius, and he exhibited with
pride silver palette presented TO him by the Phio-
sophical Society of Glasgow in appreciation of his
usual talent On the palette the words Pre-
sented Master James Hubsrd by admirers of his
genius in the city of Glasgow Scotland February II.
1894"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-03
AN UNCONSIDERED TRIFLE.
BY S. Conant Foster.

"HE problem of how reach the moon
Is easily solved" said DR.. Spoon;
II If you'll but glance at my drawing here,
The scheme, sure, will be quite clear.
Now cannot you see,' this man began,
BY casting eye my plan,
The centripetal friction is plus the stran?-
But perhaps it's better to be plain
"What / mean is this: that, by your leave,
Ill borrow the to make a sheave;
Then cable I'll use, and mighty drum,
Which I'll turn till the planets together come"
"How simplep I cried when all was explained
Many thanks to you for the knowledge I've gained
But-eh-how is the rope to be got round the moon?'
Hml-well, that's detail I'll investigate soon.
COPYRIGHT BY TIE CENTURY cogzPAyY
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-03
By Annie e. lyman.

"VHE captain of the Swallow" had sacks and
To carry to old England from the land
across the sea;
- He had a hundred messages and errands by
For the link between Virginia and the dear old home
he
: This item seemed Ito please him, for he chucIed
he read:
~rSir feet of honest English flesh; I0d make
my son,
And lucky lad that lad will ber the jolly captain
said
The captain came to England; his erTands dwindied
His Swallow yielded up her freight of fragrant
woods and weed
He took the governors report of progress to the crown
And he scattered news and gossip as the farmer
scatters seed.
His gallant ship refreighted was ready for the
And but single duty still remained for him to do.
1--WE bought my and sold my PITCH" in thought
But haven't found six feet of flesh to bring to
Major Drew.
He pulled his pipe and puzzled and pulling failed to
scrTambling group of urchins who were busy with
their games.
He stumbled in among them why why my ladsp
said he
Then he stopped in recognition. Tom and Tedt" he
He stood and looked upon them. The scraggy, bare
legged three
Had smiling eyes and tangled mats of curly yellow
He'd known their father-ay, a soldier brave and bold
he,
Who had fought ard died at Naseby when the king
met Cromwell there
who keeps you now?" he asked them His tyyinkIinr
eyes surveyed
Half mirhfully their cheerful dirt their rags their
bare brown feet
Six feet Of honest English fesh'" quoth he; he
stopped, dsmayed:
Then he clutched his sides and roar of laugh
ter up the street
Six feet! vow I'll do it!' He turned and sought
tie door
That lanes had poin+ed orr az ,ybe-o tho IL, III,
Dame Carew
as Dame Carew Within" he called She crossed the
Uttered floor liz
"And if she is, she cried, what is her being in to
you?" 40 "
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-03

The captain bowed "Your servant, dame. John
Howard my friend.
These boys of his have been drain upon your
purse, I ween."
"Ay, ayl drain they've BEEN" said she. Their
hunger knows end.
Sir, they eat until my purse-sides meeti Their like
SEEN"
The captains blue eyes twinkled. "The place for
Them" said he,
"Is where the is plenty-wflere the fowl fly to
the grill
I'll take them in my vessel to Virginia colony;
It's a land where boys eat and eat and leave a.
plenty still.
Ten weeks the passage lasted the Swallows" trusty
At last are folded and her anchor cast into the
stream;
A dozen petty crafts push what she
brings;
church bell peals; across the dusk the lights of
jamestown CLEAN.
To jamestown rode the major upon his piebald mare;
His servant Simon led horse to carry back his
Six feet he pondered pleasantly, so, be he dark
fair,
It's well the horse we bring for him should be
sturdy one
WELL captain! Did you bring thenp-ry si, good
feet?" he cried.
"Ay, ay!" the captain answered in voice of hearty
cheer,
And gEasped his hand in greeting he scaled the
Swallows" side;
They're the finest bit of cargo that I've brought
in many a year"
The major was delighted his eager face grew bright
James Teddy! Toni" the captain beloved in
his deep bassoon.
Above the hatch three curly heads came bobbing into
sight
Here they are!" The captains beanng face was
like round red
The major looked bewi1dered; he heard the captain
Come, lads-come, Ted you rogue, come here;
show Major Drew your feet.
They're honest feet; better stand English soil
And you lift them from the mire of squalid Lon-
don street"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-03
FOOLISH FIDO,
By Annie Willie McCuIIoush.

N " DUTY is to drive out tramps,
VN But came overnight;
The snow had covered everything,
And even he was white
l boldly ran and loudly barked:
He didn't make a sound
But just stood there and wouldn't bulge.
Nor even once look round.
I did my duty like a dog:
His clothes were strangely damp;
But still he never moved a step
This cold, unfolding tramp.
/ don't know what to think of him;
It's made me rather blue
never saw his like before
Now what ans I to dor
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-03

were most popular Indeed the very word silhouette
something poor and cheap, and it had its origin
in spirit of rdicule. It is taken from Etienne de
Silhouette, who French Cabinet Minister in the
year 1885, when the treasury of France very low
because of costly with Britain and Prussia and
by the etravagances of the government When Etienne
de Silhouette became minister of finance, he about
making great reforms in the public expenditures. He
was, by nature very close man. and he
such extremes in keeping down the public expenses
that he brought great ridicule upon himself, and
finally anything that cheap and poor referred
to as q Ia Silhouette.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-03
Unknown.
By Morris Wade.

TVHE making of silhouettes hardly be
classed among the lost arts, since there is
little art about them. The best of them
~ represent the human profile in a crude way,
and they regarded as rather cheap
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-03
HIS LAST HUNT.

0, Duke you can't go. You're too oldi
You can't keep UP any more! Lie down
now in the sun, and take good rest
while we're gone"
New-York tribune., 1910-02-20

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It's ideal for polishing woodwork, furniture pianos All
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DENVER, COLO.
The Kohler-McLister Paint
Co., 1921 Arapahoe St.
CHICAGO, ILL.
Henry Bosch Co.. 33S Wa
bash Ave.
H. M. Hooker & Co., 65l
Washington Boulevard.
Remien & Kuhnert Co.,
Wabash Ave. and Lake St.
Geo. E. Watson Co., IOS
Lake St.
Jno. E. Rockefellow, 1921
Cottage Grove Ave.
PORTLAND, MAINE
Chas. NJ. Hay Paint Co.
BOSTON, MASS.
Carpenter-Morton Co., IT.
70 Sudbury St.
WORCESTER. MASS.
Clark-Sawyer Co.
4. Z. Lowell.
MINNEAPOLIS, MINI.
Gamble & Ludwig, 9Ol-9O3
Hennepin Ave.
Otto Rood. 4I7-4l9 Cen
tr1l Ave.
Twin City Paint Co.. 13 S.
Fifth St.
KANSAS CITY, MO.
Campbell Glass & Paint Co.,
1928 Main St.
NEW YORK CITY, N. Y.
CIV. Dyer, 104 w. 10Th St.
Ilsley & Held Co, 1854 Bird
Ave.
Pittsburg Plate Glass Co..
Hudson and Vandam SITS.
F. W. Gciler, 234S Sth Ave.
PHILADELPHIA. PA.
Smytn Bros. 3649 =
Market St
Gimbel Bros,
Paint Dept,
l7I2E Pass
yunk Ave.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-11
WOMAN IS WANTED
 TO EXPLAIN DEATH

Terre Haute, Ind, January IDA Sellsberry, supposed to be tonight on a train nearing New Orleans, is want ed by the police of this city to give information concerning the myster- ous death of w. H. Helman, jeweler. who was found unconscious in room in a hotel here this morning, and died soon afterwards, evidently from pol son.
 Telegrams have been sent to the police of Memphis and New Orleans asking them to detain the woman. The coroner will not give his verdict until chemical analysis is held.
 Helman returned to this city on a late train from Chicago last night. At the hotel he sent to the bar for whisky. A chambermaid found him lying on the floor in his room late this morning. He did not regain conscious ness before he died, but the coroner found two letters now on record, one addressed to the chief of police and the other to a friend of Helman's, in which he accused Fife Sellsberry of having administered poison to him in coffee that he drank in a restaurant In Chicago yesterday.
 He said that the woman was with him on the train returning to Terre Haute. and that she remained on 1t on her way to New Orleans. Her ad- dress there, he said, was 1929 Ram part street, and he asked the chief of police to have her arrested.
 Fife Sellsberry Is a stepdaughter of Helman. He was divorced from her mother, who lives in North Dakota.
 One theory of the police is that ,Hel- man was demented. It is possible. the po- lice think, that he voluntarily took the poison that killed him after he went to his room in the hotel early this morn- ing. It does not appear plausible, they say that he could have swallowed poison 1 nChicago yesterday and still have been able to reach this city before 1t took sf- feet
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-11
BIRMINeHAM's $2oo PRIZE.

From the Springfield (Mass.) Union
 The Chamber of Commerce of Bir- mingham, Ala, has offered a prize of s2o0 for the best design for an emblem "typifying united people cooperating in building up a great city and ex- pressing this spirit of cooperation among the future of Birmingham as one of the country's greatest manufacturing cen- ters." The contest is open to all, but each competitor may submit only one design. Such design must be suitable for an emblem to be used for a button, badge or sticker, and may carry a motto. The rules specify that the design shall be drawn on sheet of paper 12x14 inches, the name and address of the contestant not to appear thereon. but to be inclosed in sealed envelope accompanying the design, and mailed to H. W. Coffin, chairman of the emblem committee of the Chamber of Commerce In Birming- ham The accepted design Is to be the exclusive property of that organisa- tion- The contest will close March next, and tho name of the prize winner will be announced at the Chamber of Com- merce's monthly meeting, March Il.
 We are pleased to honor the re- quest of the secretary of the organiza- ton for a helping hand in this pub licity movement. and can only hope that the contest will yield something more suited to its wants than was the case with tho recent prize contest of the Springfield board of trade for the best detailed plan of campaign of publicity. While the ,6oo offered was duly awarded in this instance, it was found that no one suggestion was suit able to the demands, and the best that the board could do in making use of the material submitted would be to make composite of some of the best features embodied in the various plans presented. We do not understood, how ever, that any definite step has yet been taken in this direction.
 Birmingham. which has enjoyed phenomenal growth of late, owing to the establishment of great steel plants there, is advertised as "a city with a payroll of a million week." It is claimed that its population has grown in 10 years from Ss,415 to 125,o0o. Part of this increase, however, is due to the annexation of outlying towns. The thing that most pleases the Birminghamites is that the city promises to keep on grow ing. Judge Gary of the United States Steel corporation recently stated that when the construction work now under way and contemplated is completed it will be possible to manufacture steel in the Birmingham district at as low cost as in any place in the world, and as it is an ideal shipping place from which to reach both the domestic and foreign trade in steel products he expects Birming- ham will become one of the corpora tion's chief centers of operations. The city has nine railroads, 131 miles of street railway and derives satisfaction from the fact that its tax rate is only $10 thousand.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-11
INSURGENTS ARE
 VERY DEFIANT

washington, January 10.-A defiant statement which stampts the attempt to read them out of the republican party as unfair and malicious" and defines Speaker Cannon's administration in the House of Representatives as the "cli- max of autocratic control" was issued tonight after a meeting of the insurgent republican members of the house.
 The members decline to be put out of the republican party by the regulars. and announce their intention to carry on to a finish the fight against the speaker and the organization. The statement fol- lows:
 'In the effort to becloud the real issue an unfair and malicious attempt is being made to represent us as op- posed to President Taft's administra- ton and policies. There is not even a semblance of truth in this accusa- ton. Without exception we are firm supporters of republican doctrines and President Taft's administration.
 "We are banded together for a sim gle purpose and no other. Our sole aim as body Is to restore to the House of Representatives complete power of leg islation in accordance with the will of majority of its members.
 "We are striving to destroy the system of autocratic control which has reached its climax under the present speaker"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-11
NatiOnalizing the ManChurian Railway

Secretary of State Knox wants all the railroads in Manchuria turned over to China, and paid for with money furnished by an international syndi- cate. These roads are held by Russia and Japan. No doubt Great Britain, Germany and France would welcome naturalization of Manchurian railways, but Russia and Japan may find many obstacles to the plan.
 The sum involved may go to $200,- 100000, and China could not pay back this sum in less than fifty years. Equality of commercial opportunity in Manchuria for fifty years is indeed great stake, and Secretary Knox is giving the subject careful attention.
 The subject relates to the control of the Chinese Eastern railway system, 11SO miles long, extending from the Manchuria frontier to Dalny, and the 462 miles connecting Harbin with Vladivostok. Japan acquired by the treaty of Portsmouth a portion of tho Chinese Eastern system, and Russia holds the rest of it. It is plain, there fore, that the fate of the American proposal depends upon how Russia and Japan regard it. Until their answers are received no intelligent opinion can be formed as to the outcome.
 The subject is one of the largest the administration has in hand, and it con- cerns the south directly, for an open door in Manchuria means that our cotton mills could compete there for trade against the mills of Japan. At present American cottons are almost unknown in Manchuria.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-11

arrangement has never been advantageous to any one except the original owners of the Frisco stock who sold to non- dividend paying security to the Rock Isl- and at a very high price. Although the Rock Island sustained loss on the trans action, 1t Is well out of a bad bargain and is now in a position to apply the money which was annually drained by the per cent collateral trust bonds to the improvement of its own lines. In the hands of it's new owners, the Frisco will probably develop it's latent earning pow CT more rapidly than when tied to the Rock Island.
 ''The death of MT. E. H. Hartman probably signalized the end of the period of large railway combinations The only man remaining who mites the qualities of the railway builder operator and financier, in the same degree as did the late president of the Union Pacific. is not an exponent of the policy of conti- nent-wide expansion He favors rather the plan of intensive development of re- stricted territories. than continent-wids extension of financial influence. His views and the example of his companies are likely to be followed. Now that the pressing need of the financial upbuilding of weak properties has largely disap- peared, the financial argument for ex- tensive railway combinations has been greatly weakened. In the future, no mat ter what changes may be made in the laws regulating railway combinations they are not likely to assume forms which will bring them int oconfiict with the statutes"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-11
Another Polar DlscoyefeF

A little more than twelve years ago Dr. Andree sailed away from Spitz- bergen in big gasbag balloon to find the North Pole, and now from Rein deer lake, near Hudsons bay, comes the story that the records of the ill., fated expedition are in the hands of Eskimos and can be recovered Father Turquetil the missionary, brings the story to civilization, and he believes the Eskimos killed Andree and his two companions, believing them to be devils. The story remains to be con fr1ned, and the records of the trip recovered
 Andree's balloon had no gasoline motor and it was not dirigible, at least in the modern sense. Even if Andree came to land near Hudsons bay it is not at all certain that he passed over the North Pole Peary's triumph will scarcely be dimmed by anything to be found in the arctic world However. every effort should be made to rescue from the Eskimos of Reindeer lake any records they may possess of the brave Andree and of his two com panions. Nothing more daring was ever attempted in this world, and Sweden will certainly see that the Reindeer lake story is properly inves- fioatad