The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1919-03-14


Wonders wilhI never cease. News
papers afef relQEttnG the tact that
Eaiser, ,WFiIhefmf is out 2, Of money.
s;nea leaving GefnAny 50 abruptly,
ne and HE SIAN hate been living IN
fine stylesin HOLLAND, II. seems to me
that the seven or. more millions or
Deople, OF different natiOnalitles, en-
FACED lr EhA fWGRidJ Waf. who were
kfi1ed. has mo effect on him. Now
hp IN trying TO- borrow "a large sum
~ money from kts followers in Ger
many IL Ill little wonder there Is
dissatisfaction and. tumult in the
Huns country? Soon the Peace CON
ference Will unite, in imposing the
sentence ON a Esafer vito, caused SO
much suffering j. and SORROW, May
our All-W1Se Father guide the Peace
conference to act wisely.
Americas biggest war secret - out
the wireless telephone has been
a1rought to such state of perfection
that since last February 191S)
American aeroplanes here and In
Europe have been equipped with ap-
Daratus which has made oral COM
Tnunicationi between them while n.y.
ing, as well as communication with
the earth, a simple matter. The war
Department has regarded the solution
of the problem of what now is called
"voice command flying as one Of
the most important achievements or
the age.
Mrs. Nellie Taylor, Of Plymouth,
Cal, has developed a process for
making acorn -four. which is salts
factory substitute for wheat flour.
This flour has the coloring matter and
bitter taste OF the acorn extracted.
A. soldier FROM Camp Funston,
where there were forty or fifty thou
sand men. says, I'm our barracks
were 100 MEN. 1t required three
bushels df potatoes and fourteen
Ioayes of bread for one meal" If
each company required SO much food,
some idea of the enormous amount
of food for three, millions of men in
arms and in training is obtained.
Even Farmers delight in having
something different" A farmer in
Delaware built O. cylindrical barn.
It is 73 feet irt diameter and "a feet
high and with the EXCEPTION OF the
dOme-like roof, which is of wood, is
made entirely of concrete. There
are no posts, beams, or other suppors.
It consists of "a huge chamber below
and a loft above which has storage
capacity for more than 800 tons Of
hay.
Listen. boys, who do not like the
woodpilet "A Wood-splitting machine
has been invented which automati-
cally splits the knOttiest wood, even
to IS inches i'm thickness. at the rate
Of so strokes a minute.
For some time we have been pre-
dieting that in this age of rush and
o,xfnnrnh1In
pass by" and something more exciting
and dangerous, would take, its place.
Aerial "FIiverSn are now being made
that weigh Idss than 500 pounds,
and can travel 20 miles ON one gallon
OF gasoline The. prices range from
$4,000 to -$2,R00r TAeyJ viii 90 at the
high rate Of speed so to- 100 miles
per hour IL people are, willing to risk
life and linlB in the air. 1t will be
nothing for a business man to travel
q thousand, niles from home and back
again with at good appetite for "din-
ner," caused by excitezAeAt and pure
air.
Speaking of an uftusua4 winter. we
read OF the finding 0f a head of
cabbage i'm a garden we'll preserved,
and a young man informed me that.
he was cutting wood i'll an apple or
chard and found quite, number of
apples in a bag chat were solid and
pleasing to- theataste.
Here is an interesting bit Of news
from Ohio: "APfew ladies' while pass
ing the JEFF Davis woods one evening
recently, encountered a ghost, which
j. described as having four. feet,
black i'm color with two white stripes
over its back, and when rnOlested it
would defend itself, by throwing Ii
quid gas containing a strong smell"
Meeting a man early one morning
last week who said, "I made a days
wages already, caught a muskrat
that will bring me $210," made me
wonder how long this state of high
prices will or can exist. Surely,
sometime. sooner or later, it will
make change
Sales are we'll attended. and enor-
nous prices are paid or pledged. At
Plain City, Ohio, the household and
farm stock and implements brought
100000 At sale in Bachman's
Valley, a grandfather's clock was
sold for $780,
J. ALBERT ZEPP Manchester Md