The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1919-06-13
Letter from Manchester District.


stant1al way Of building q foundation
for an automobile shed. Ten holes
were dug in the ground, several feet
apart, each with nail keg filled with
cement
The Melrose blacksmith shop has
about disappeared but a garage and
supply store has come to take it,
place.
Several years ago Mr.. Edward
Stermer, then on a farm, purchased
an automobile. So far as we have
been able to learn, he never had the
misfortune to run into any fences.
and he soon learned that it would
pc easier and cheaper to own and
operate than horse, and he sold all
OF his horses, his farm, implements
and live stock and moved to the city
OF Ebbvale, the terminal of the B. V.
r.. R. About this time music took
possession of him and his wife. They
purchased one of the best pianos, and
sold number of them. Again they
moved-this time to the city oil Mel
rose, on the B. " branch of the W.
M. R. R., and now are ready to
Dodge" around the corner at you if
you are in the market for an automo-
bile, or will convince you that the
kingdom of the Kaiser is overthrown
by playing Kaiser Bill' on the play
er piano, and will sing it for you if
his foot which was hurt several weeks
ago does not cause too much pain.
You will find him and his wife
domiciled in the property once known
as "Zepp's store"
According to the calendar spring
was ushered i'm on Friday the 21st Of
March. Meeting a tramp in Bum
Hollow" who had thrown off his
overcoat, and was taking his ease
both mentally and physically, 1 re-
marked, Il see you have thrown aside
your overcoat." The man looked up
at me and said" All, but, mister, I'll
keep it by me yet for awhile, we will
get cold weather yet"
Now that the work or fight" law
has been thrown aside, more and
more tramps will be seen. One wet
morning met one of these ease-loving
people searching for material with
which to feed the fire he had roaring
by the side of the railroad. why is
it that you can have fire with wet
wood and have difficulty in building
up fire with dry kindling% I en-
quired. Looking up, he quietly said,
Mister, it takes patience"
The DEMONSTRATING" every ten years
will begin promptly January 1, 1920,
and will give employment to one hun
dred thousand people, and will be
annoyance to many single ladies who
have passed the manageable age.
According to newspaper reports,
millions are now starving in Europe
Former reports stated that more than
seven millions were killed during the
four and half years of war, and yet
millions are starving. Very little was
said about starvation in Europe before
the war. This is easily explained by
reading in the New Testament what
dire misfortunes follow wars.
Recently we had occasion to peep"
into VIM. Monath's broom making and
harness shop, nearly 100 feet in
length, He was barely visible, work
ing in the midst of broom corn and
harness piled up on every side. When
we intimated that either he did not
work fast enough, or that too much
work came in, he admitted that it
may be both, as his health is failing
He hereby sends warning for people
not to bring any more work, or he
may not be found at his post of duty.
Hurrah! We learn that it is an
assured fact that work will be start
ed in completing the abominable
piece Of road north of here this week
More particulars next week.
/ Three giant aeroplanes, soon ready
to make the test in crossing the At
lantic Ocean, expect to travel 1000
miles per day, thus cutting off about
j half of the time required to make the
trip with the swiftest steamships.
On Saturday afternoon a man told
me that years ago hs brother plowed
piece of new ground early in the
spring season, \furrowed it, laid the
potatoes in a row, foot apart, COW
ering them only with a thick layer
of straw, and was fortunate in har-
vesting a large crop of the tubers in
the fall
| Conditions in Germany must be
alarming. Mr.. Nevinson, in Solingen,
large town in Germany writes, "The
almost absolute want of milk is most
serious, no child over three is allowed
any: the births have reduced 60 per
cent. The head physician Of a
! children's hospital told me more
children have been lost in the war
than men on the field of battle. He
took me to see his wards, and though
have seen horrible things among
mankind, 1 have never seen anything
more pitiful than those lines of
babies fevered for want Of food,
wasted till their limbs we're like lit
tie bits of sticks, and stareing about
them with hopeless faces"
J. ALBERT ZEPP, Manchester, Nd.