The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1919-10-31
Letter from Manchester District.

letter from Manchester District.
American ingenuity to save time
and labor cannot be excelled On
Saturday afternoon an automobile
nassed through here with a two
Wheeled vehicle loaded with baggage
fastened to the rear.
In conservation with one OF our
farmers. he denounced the use OF the
tractor on the farm, a. thu weight,
tnpether with the cleats in the large
wheels. do much damage to both Sod
and pasture fields. Recently a
tractor passed Through town, select
ing the sides OF the road, as II dam
aged the macadam.
There is much dissatisfaction in
England. There are strikes In dit
ferent localities, III and will soon RI
nationwide. The poorer class of
! Deople living iii the cities on account
of high rents, ARE migrating 10
places where little settlements are
fnrmed. doniciled in all sorts or
buildings. on wheels, and in temper
ary wooden buildings. Evidently,
there will be much suffering, not only
fn England, but in our own united
states. if this winter will be q severe
one, as il predicted.
Some of our people are not feed
Ing hogs this season, and, #ltnout
doubt, they are doing wisely. with
tie prices of corn and with mill feed
advancing, and price Of pork deciin-
ing. 1t IL somewhat discouraging TO
the pork owners.
Hanover butcher recently paid
IA 18c a. pound for calf delivered to
him, weighing nearly two hundred
pounds, netting the owner the neat
sum W $34.23, more than was paid
for good cow several years ago
From Japan comes the refreshing
news that wages are as low as 6Oc
Der day. and coal is listed at $500
ner tom. Even the Oriental people
are having a taste OF the III. @. L. .
An adventurous girl wanted to
cross the Atlantic Ocean. Being a
moor girl, she had no money for the
trtp, % she had her hair clipped,
ionned a. sailors uniform, and pass
WI successfully over the ocean az a
coal stoker.
liz seems that the Germans are
not conquered or satisfied. There is
a standing army i'm parts of the En-
pire which caused the Allies to form
q blockade, not allowing any food TO
enter Germany. This will cause un-
told suffering.
Newspapers say sugar famine is
In sight. Well, il sugar goes to soc,
as predicted, we are helping to make
soma rich men multi-milliona1res.
olive and let live" is rapidly sink
ing into oblivion.
1t is hard to believe that trees
grow to such an enormous size on
the Pacific Coast that when new
macadam road j. planned, IL IL
cheaper to tunnel road through one
OF the trees than to 60 around IT,
but such is a fact, according to
magazine articles and illustrations,
produced by those who were eye wit |
neSSeS.
man of much gray matter in his
skull must lie Wilfred Stevens, trans !
lator for the State Department at .
Washington, who has mastered 33
languages. Besides that, he knows ;
Esperanto, lido, and one of his own
conception, which he has named
Ufone. He also speaks and under
stands Dakota Indian, which he says
represents the Japanese language.
OHC WIN AIcIO 1ALclNC IL c~ DIANy oNyD
that the first vehicle propelled by
gasoline was built by a Rochester,
n. Y, man in 1877, AZ years ago.
It was rude i'm construction compared
with thS noiseless, expensive limou-
sines of the present day.
Corn cutters on farm near ,
Marion, Ohio, have gone on strike
for $500 a day and lodging. This is
$1 a day more than they have been
receiving.
Roland Rohlfs made worlds at
titude record on September IS at
N. ", when he rose 34,61O
feet in an aeroplane, equal to nearly
seven miles. He also broke the re Nv
cord for speedy climbing, rising 49, !
500 feet i'm minutes and Az seconds, 4
nearly a mile in 2A seconds.
Truly, this world il large. From :
South America, comes
The message dated, June 3Oth, Of this 7
year, "A cold, wet snow and strong
wind all afternoon and night. We
see many little barefooted children I
through the cold slush Of 9
snow and water, doing duty as err
rand boys. Farther south we pass =
through section that had a real :
heavy SNOW" y
Taking into consideration the I
wonderful increase OF the number of :
automobiles on the roads this year, 1
to 1918, there we're fewer
accidents. Perhaps it can be &C I
for i'm no BETTER way than \
he fact that the consumption of c
,pirituous liquors il rapidly on the q
decrease a
The most wonderful clock i'm the i
world is in .Strassburg, a city in il
Germany, near the Rhine River, y
With normal population of 100000 il
vt ~ o'clock two little angels ring v
heir bells, the rooster on the top J