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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1917-03-30
VILE.

Miss Elsie Jones entertained the
Junior Gard Club last Thursday after
noon.
Mrs. Willard Weer spent several
days last week at the home of Mrs.
John Wolfe, in Baltimore.
Mr.. GOWN Dorsey, of L. 5. Health
Service. visited friends in Sykesville
last week.
MIR. and Mrs. J. Brooks Mellor and
little daughter, Rose, spent Sunday
and Monday in Baltimore.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Graham nave
been visiting Mr.. Graham's sister,
Mrs. R. c. Clark, of Relay,
Mrs. Marion Harris entertained the
Embroidery Club Tuesday evening.
The foundations for the canning
factory, which will be in operation
here in the near future are laid.
Mrs. Edwin Mellor entertained at a
dinner party Sunday. Rev. Robert E.
Zeigler, Mr.. Iegler's father, from Ha-
gerstown, Mr.. and Mrs. w. Melville,
Mr.. Robert Graham, Mr.. Brooks Mel
lor and Mr.. VIM. Shipley.
Mr.. E. g. Carter, of Ellicott City,
spent the week end with Mrs. Grace
Brown.
Mrs. William Wordsworth and Miss
Ruth Buckingham, of Baltimore, and
Mrs. VIM. Hobbs, of Howard county,
spent last Friday at the home of Mrs
VIM. Gather
Miss Janet Sprecher, of Baltimore,
spent several days last week at the
home of her parents, DR.. and Mrs. D.
B. Sprecher
The District Teachers Institute
met at the public school house here
last Friday and was we'll attended.
Rev. Robert E. Zeigler left Tuesday
for Baltimore to attend the Methodist
Episcopal conference which will be
held in Walbrook Church.
Mr.. Irving Harris, son Of Mr.. John
Harris, arrived Sunday night from
the West, bringing with him a very
sweet looking bride. Mr.. Harris has
been in Montana for eight years. His
many friends here wish him a lone
and happy life.
Miss Phelps, of Ivory, Howard coun-
ty, is visiting her brother, Mr. Harry
Phelps, of this place.
Miss Marjorie Sprecher, of Phil
adelphia, arrived here at the home OF
her parents, DIR. and Mrs D. B. SPEECH.
~AB "h~AC "AAA opClA0 5CfCl Il
weeks. The wedding bells will rims
in the near future, as her marriage
is announced to take place in April.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lee and Mr.
and Mrs. William Lee visited St. Ag
mes Hospital last Sunday to seu Mr.
Allen Lee. We are sorry to hear III
is having so much trouble with hi!
limb.
Mrs. D. B. Sprecher is visiting be-
daughter, Mrs. J. Ward Disbrow, C
Newark, N. J.
Mr. and Mrs. VIM. Shipley visitec
Westminster last Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Clark, Of Bal
timore, spent the weeks end at tn
home OF Mr.. John Wilson.
Mr.. Ebert L. West, who spent tn
winter in Cambridge, paid Sykesvill
a short visit last week on his wa
TO Ono.
Miss Lula Stevens, OF Baltimore
spent Sunday at the home OF her par
ents.
Mrs. Arthur Brown is on the sicl
list at this writing.
Miss Francis Jones spent seyera
day OF last week at the home OF Mis-
Grace yelling.
The Outlook Club met at the horn
OF Mrs. Nicholas Jones last Monday
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1917-03-30
BLOOM.

Last Saturday evening about 10
o'clock Mr.. Henry ]. Muller heard a
noise and upon Investigating caught
man in his smoke house in the act
of carrying off two hams and some
corn which he had in a sack. The
thief hit Mr.. Muller back of the head,
dropped his booty and escaped. The
party is known and Mr.. Muller would
like il he would return and get his
sack which he left behind i'm his hasty
departure.
Sunday school Sunday at $50 a. M,
followed by class at 1890 a. m.
Miss Hilda Barber, daughter OF Mr.
John H. Barber, is very i'll at this
writing.
Ladies' Aid Society Of Salem church
will hold chicken and oyster supper
April 7. II weather unfavorable next
fair evening,
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1917-03-30
10 PAIR TWINS TO EACH 100
BABIES.
That's Proportion Born i'm L. 5. and
Great Britain, Physicians Find
Greater Number Found In Cold
Countries Than I'm Warm Chimes.

Greater Number Found In Cold
Countries Than I'm Warm Chimes.
In England and the United States
there are ten pairs of twins among
each 900 average babies born. In
countries of lower latitude the pro-
portion is considerably less; so rar as
the matter has been studied the rela-
tive number of twins in a warm coun-
try has been found much smaller than
in a cold country. For a given pro-
portion of the population nearly
twice as many twins are born in Rus
STA as in Spain, for example:
1t has been found that twins run in
families, that is, the tendency to give
birth to more than one child at a
time is handed down from mother to
daughter. If a woman has given
birth to one or more sets of twins
the chances are that her daughter will
do likewise.
In about two out of three cases
twins are of the same sex. In the
case of "identical' twins, however,
either both are boys or both are girls
Identical twins are different from the
ordinary kind, being practically one
person in duplicate and having almost
single identity, very much as if
they were halves of the same indi-
vidual. The mental, moral and
physical attributes of the one are the
same as those of the other.
While the ordinary twins resemble
each other more or less, Identical
twins usually cannot be told apart
Another peculiar distinguishing char
acteristic of identical twins is the
extraordinarily close sympathy that
exists between them, each being ap-
parently connected with the other
through some peculiar psychological
medium
"Coalesced" twins, as they are call
ed by doctors, are believed by some
authorities to be identical twins who
for some reason have not been fully
separated from each other Evident
ly in the earliest stages of their ex-
istence they were formed as a single
individual, then, through some
strange, unknown physiological &C
cident, the embryo was partially sep
arated into two parts. While COM
paratively rare, these physiological
phenomena are by no means unfa-
miliar to the medical profession. Usu-
ally they die in early infancy.
In this country triplets occur once
in each 1910 births and bankruptcies
once in each 81, 125. Medical records
show only Twenty-Five instances, in
which five children have been born
simultaneously to one mother.-Path-
finder
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1917-03-30

THREE DAYS IN A SUBMARINE"
That's what the ParSOn advertised az
his text and then preached about
Jonah and the whale. We are really
going to have some good Coal within
the next ten days. 1t will pay to buy
early this year of Smith & Reifsnider.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1917-03-30
A Sad Reminder.

ct went into mani office this
morning and he had notices stuck UP
all around his desk. lilE e DO II now
BE BRIEF and This ID my busy day
Have you anything OF that sort I'm
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1917-03-30
your Officer"

mo, 7 don't need them. nave
note framed and hung up on my
that I Endorsed for man anu e
tually had to pay myself. "hene'''
I look at it | remember ali ln'
toes ever heard OF"
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1917-03-30
BARON TELL.

The Baron is a black roam horse,
seven years old, and family broke,
and weighs about 1000 pounds, and
can trot just as fast as anyone wants
to ride. This isn't conversation speed,
he is here to show and will be let
step at 1915 p. M, on day of sale, and
If anyone is interested in this horse,
they should not miss being here when
he is turned loose, for we will show
you the fastest trotter that ever came
through Westminster.
Anyone in need of horses or mules
should not miss this sale, for we will
have any kind of a horse or mule that
your heart desires, and the best of
all is if you take them home and
they are not as you bought them, you
bring them back and get all your
money back.
Don't forget the day and date,
TUESDAY, APRIL 10th, 1917,
in the rear of the old Montour Hotel,
Westminster, Md.
SALE RAIN OR SHINE
at 1890 o'clock sharp
A credit of six months will be given
CHARLES w. KING,
Westminster, Md.
Bradley McHenry, Mgr.
mar30 ct
New Britain herald., 1917-08-15
SEND THEM IN.

athers and mothers visiting this
 to give accounts of their boys in service of Uncle Sam bespeak the f interest manifested in the dds campaign for complete er of those who went from New ain to the colors. At the same E they show what neglect has been
 alent in the keeping of any sort of I'd for our boys and young men patriotically, volunteered to fight he army and navy.
 l1e gathering of these names ald go on until the last man who | away is duly recorded. There 1ld not be one name left off the {, Every boy who went away must s one friend at least who takes Ugh interest in him to see that this
 k is done. It does not require
 " moments in which to fill out a
 lk It does not require mucn
 1T. other than the use of a pen or rcil. This being so, there should be of returned blanks to i, office every day.
New Britain herald., 1917-08-15
The Cost of the Dog,
(Portland Oregonian)


 The dog is coming in for close scrutiny from the economic viewpoint. It seems inhospitable, to say the least, to count the value of devotion in dollars and cents, and "mans best friend" has always heretofore been re- earded on a sentimental basis, but war is war, and there Is growing in clination to investigate.
 It is estimated by 1.-The Manufac- turer's Record" that there are 25,00O,- 900 dogs in the United States. As a source of revenue they would produce s5O,OOO,O00 if taxed at the rate of $2 a head, provided the owners Of lot of worthless CUTS did not kill them rather than pay the tax. The same writer estimates that the average dog consumes food worth 70 cents every week. Authority for this figure is not given, but the argument that much of the food a dog eats would not be con- sumed by humans in any event can be anticipate with the statement that i if it were fed to other animals, such as pigs and poultry, it would be 1 converted into food supply for the l people.
New Britain herald., 1917-08-15
POPE'S NOTE MAY
 AFFECT RUSSIA
German Agents Only Too Ready
 to Make Use Of It

New York, Aug. 15.-Charles Ed ward Russell, returning to the city with the Root commission, expressed the fear last night that the Pope s peace proposal would have an un- favorable effect on the situation in Russia.
 "One of the dangerous elem ents of the situation in Russia" he said, "is that the people have been told by cer- tain arrivals from the United States that the war is unpopular here, and that America entered it only because of the influence of the intuition makers. Any encoura cement, there fore of pacifist agitation in the United States, such as will unquestionably re- suit from the Pope's proposal, will in evitably be reflected in Russia. Ger man agents, who are circulating the reports of the unpopularity of the war in the United States, will say, You see, I told you so and the situa- tion will be aggravated by just so much.
 "It is unfortunate for the Russian situation that the Pope's proposal should follow by such short interval the La Toilette resolution in the sen ate. First came that strange and sin ister outburst of pacifsm in the sen- ate, and then this announ cement from
New Britain herald., 1917-08-15
man possibility have a chance to sack Paris and London and thence to turn

man possibility have a chance to sack Paris and London and thence to turn it's destructive forces to our country.
 Americans are sometimes dazed by the report of the unspeakable out rages committed by German soldiers. They cannot quite grasp the reality and the horror of these things They wonder how Germany can have so completely slipped from what they thought was civilization into barbar ism. This slipping into barbarism Is not, however, a new thing.
 No one who has studied this phase of life ought to have been surprised at what Germany has done, for while outwardly Germany was to the public a country of civilization, those who had cared to look beyond the veil saw the certain death and destruction or rottenncss that was sapping the life of a nation.
New Britain herald., 1917-08-15
COMMUNICATED.
WAR TAX ON LETTERS.
Raising Rates From Two to Three Cents Would Curtail Business,
 Thinks PrOtaStpr

To the Editor of the Herald:
 The proposed 50 per cent. war tax on our eWo-cent letter post would be a, crime.
 Will It secure the expected fifty mill ron dollars revenue for carrying on the war in behalf of a world demo- cracy?
 On the other hand, will not the in crease rom two to three cents in our democratic letter post so diminish the use of the mails within our own ter rltory and with Great Britain, Mexico, Canada New Foundland, New Zea- land, Established in October 1e16l, Panama, Cuba, the Dominican Repub- lie, only established in June, 1917 and the other West India Islands with whom we have two-cent letter post conventions, as at once to reduce postal revenues, check up business, hlnder all reform movements, and to heaV1ly burden the poor?
 Mlgnt we not advance the common "e1are lnnnltely more by preserving our democratic two-cent letter post. and, following New Zealand's lead at the opening of this century, by de- clar1ng similar service to all our allies, to China, Japan and especially to the Republics of South America? ?
 lneSe questions should be answered, l think, before this proposed fifty per cent. tax on our democratic letter post is made law. (Postal Comnission-The 59th U. S. Congress, January 18th, 1917.)
 Upon the postal service more than upon anything else, does the general economic, as well as. the social and political development of the country depend'
 What is true of the United States is true of the world.
 JAMES l.. COwLES,
 Washington. D. c. August 13, 1917.
New Britain herald., 1917-08-15
OJTW AND INWARDLY.

Some thirty or more years ago there was graduated from Vienna medical school a young Baltimorean who is now practicing in his native city. Not long ago he was led to give some of his observations as 6 student in Aus What he saw in Austria was not much different from what he witnessed in the hospitals in Germany, where he also snent much time as a student. It was rottenness then, it is rottenness now. It was not so noticeable then; if has come to the attention of the wide wide world now.
 According to this statement of the Baltimore physician. there was dur ing his stav in a hospital in Austria, about 14,OOO births annually in one Of the hospitals which it was his duty to visit. Of these there was an average of 12.O0O inecitimate births and of these 10000 was the average of those due to the violence of the soldiers, who could not be reached by the civil law because they were protected by the military law.
 The fearful moral condition illus trated in that one hospital opened his eyes to what was then going on in Austria and Germany. Though he continued for many years to number among his friends many people of those countries he foresaw the end to which those nations were hastening by reason of this moral degradation.
 In the light of such facts as these we can comprehend something of the conditions which exist in the overrun sections of Belgium and France, and view with awful, unspeakable horror the bare thought that a nation thus sunk in immortality should by any hu-
New Britain herald., 1917-08-15

The victory of Germany in this lar means that an outworn sys- m of society, which most of the |orld has been striving to throw
 i, will be perpetuated and eX-
 nded. It means the victory of itocracy over democracy, and it
 cans this not merely for Europe, 1t for us; if we should escape @ actual domination of Ger
 any, we would still be com ,lled, in pure self-defense, to aintain great armies and lvies, to change our govern ent into an effective military achine, and to treat with other .untries upon the basis of
 med duelists. That, to my ind, is the reason why we are rhting. Just as in the Revolu- 5nary War our forefathers hght England in order to win le chance to live in freedom, st as in the Civil War many of 1T fathers died in the belief that
 ey were struggling to extend Id make permanent that free nm. so we of today must bend cry energy of body and mind
 perpetuate and make safe that me freedom.
 < MARCUS H. HOLCOMB.
New Britain herald., 1917-08-15
Get Thee Behind Me, Worry!

Bishop WoodcOck of Kentucky preached a sermon recently in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in the course of which he declared: Ivory is an evil which destroys more than rum or vice. Worry wastes life. It is as sinful as drinking or gambling. It Is a guilty, sinful and covardly thing. It is always a per sonal weakness"
 This utterance seems to have struck many persons as unusual for a re- port of it has been printed in several
 morning newspapers, and space is
 precious in newspapers nowadays.
 Perhaps one reason why it sounded like an excessive statement is the
 prescription for worry offered by the right reverend speaker. Said he:
 The absolute cure for worry is to be
 as the bird which flies above the wind
 blown dust and is therefore not sul-
 lied. So we must fly above the wor-
 ries of the earth.
 There may be an infection in these words to convey hint of something
 fanc1ful in the Bishops point of view
 But beyond the certain degree of ex- ultation which has filled almost every
 serious mind contemplating the world
 at war, mankind fighting for all that
 makes human life precious or. indeed, worth enduring, there seems to be nothing but a lofty sense of duty and
 one of the most insidious of f1eshly
 cleear vision in Bishop Woodcock' S remarks. He Is crying out Retro
 Sathanas!' against self-indulgence. lusts. Under cover of the virtue of prudence, it is easy for sloth and a slack sense of moral obligation to out weight the duty of active cooperation
 with the rest of the world at a mo-
 ment when action is golden, and de- lay and questioning are conspicuous elements in the great heap of dross which American character should shake out and repudiate forever.
 Bishop Woodcock's words are vivid with living truth. Senseless worry 1 as he warns us, is actually shortenine g lives in worse than useless waste. 1 Worry run wild leads to panic and if any nation in all the world has no cause to be panicky it is the United 1 States. Indeed, this strong scourge l our manhood into war is unuuestion = ably the instrumentality through 1 which Americans are to be recalled to a sense of what all men should re- l alize; that the days duty is some- thing for each man and woman to do for himself and herself, and not i by a hired substitute, and that chill l dren who have never heard this l teaching are wretchedly unequipped 1 for human life. When the issue is l clear as light and the duty as plain as that owed to parent, let not pitt 1 full worry over details clog the feet ] for an instant. In the great forward , movement now in progress all lesser 1 considerations become as artificial;
 none can provide against countless 1 unforeseen contingencies. Let each 1 do his duty, simply and fearlessly. 1 The outcome is in stronger than mor- tai hands.
New Britain herald., 1917-08-15

the Pope, which, prompted though 1t was by the most humane of motives, will inevitably result in the greatest agitation by the pacifsts the United States has known.
 ''Unquestionably the majority of the people in Russia. want peace, but there, as here, are the men of vision and courage who know the world must stand against a peace that would be worse than the war. The stimulation of pacifst agitation in the United States, due to the La Toilette resolu- tion, and the wellintentioned pro- posal from the Vatican, cannot but complicate the situation"
 MT. Russell said that the people of Russia who were loyal to the allied cause would realize, like the friends of democracy everywhere, that the peace proposal was "impossi ble" since it contemplated the return to Germany of her colonies.
 That would mean the restoration of Germany's colossal empire," said Mr. Russell, and able her to rebuild along the lines followed before the war. It would enable Germany to resume her grasping policy of coloni- zation, and this would mean another war, ten or twenty years from now, more terrible than this Germany knows she cannot win this war, and her sole thought now is to save her colonies. It was Germany therefore. that prompted the Pope's peace pro- posal, and is behind the pacifsts' agi- tation in this country"
 Referring to the proposed socialist conferehce at Stockholm, MT. Russell who was expelled from the socialist party here because of his attitude on the war, said he could not see why anv real socialist should desire to attend 1t.
 There is nothing to confer about" he remarked.
New Britain herald., 1917-08-15
The Song of the Banjo.

 You couldn't pack a Broadwood hal1 You mustn't leave a fiddle in the You couldn't raft an organ up the
 Nile,
 And play it in an equatorial swamp. I travel with the cooking pans and I'm sandwiched tween the conee
 and the pork And when the dusty column chechS
 and tails, You should hear me spur the rear
 guard to walk! With my "Pilly- willy wlnky-W -Wlnky popp' ooh, it's any tune that comes into my headD So keep lem moving forward till they drop; So I play 'em up to water and to bed. Tn the silence of the camp before the fight, When it's good to make your will and say your prayer, You can hear my tum py 
 overnight Explaining ten to one was always fair. I'm the prophet of the Utterly Absurd, Of the Patiently Impossible and Vain, And when the thing that couldn't has occurred, Give me time to change my leg and go again. Let the organ moan her sorrow to the I have told the naked stars the grief of man. Let the trumpets snare the foeman to the proof I have known Defeat, and mocked it as we ran. My bray ye may not alter nor mistake When I stand to jeer the fatted Soul of Things; But the song of Lost Endeavor that I make, Is it hidden in the twanging of the strings? With my tiara -rara-rara-r ra- ra-rrrp!" Gs it naught to you that hear and pass me by?) But the word-the word is mine, when the order moves the line And the lean locked ranks go roar ing down to die.
 -Kipling.
New Britain herald., 1917-08-15
TO THE FINISH.

t is now recognized throughout
 ! world that a premature peace dch would not be lasting ia little
 ker than no peace at all; that a
 T-e than a truce would be but a uathing spell for Germany after cch she could again sharpen the Grd and go out on the war path.
 as because of this thought that the 4igerent powers against Germany Hv with suspicion every move that
 made in the supposed interest of Ice.
 l&he latest advance toward the Elaboration of worlc suffering comes .m the Vatican. This in itself is
 spiring were it not for the fact that Vatican and Vienna are such Be friends. The court of Emperor 1ar1es has been in touch with Rome Ire than ever since the beginning . hostilities. Since Vienna is able ' do nothing without the consent
 l advice of the !touae of iIohen- hi ern, much of the power of Pope ahedict's appeal ia lost in any at pipt to bring the lighters to terms. a yhtly or not, it will be thought that
 rman intrigue is again working in " own interests. that the diplomat is of Kaiser Wilhelm are trying ,Ain to hood wink the world
 Desfrable> as peace. is, the world snts no peace that will not show 'a ear-marks of permanency. This Ing we call civilization has received krude blow from the hands of Ger t,ny. There can he no living until is estab blished beyond the shadow ! doubt that Germany will never hin be able to upset the balance,
 at Germany cannot again rock the vrid to its very foundations. And Es necessarily calls for a fight to finish. Any different end to the ar, any truce, would merely mark neriod in which Germany, bragging "a clustering, would again break out