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$2 PER ANNUM. JJ EADQUARTERS FOH URNI T U R Slnco our last card in the Advocate, wo have been compelled to enlarge our store rooms, and even with the acquired addition we are still pressed for room. We would like to show all the different patterns of CHAMBER SUITS, PARLOR SUITS, BUFFETS AND WARDROBES, Either in walnut or oak, in any ol’ 1 lit* stand nl finishes, but wo really have to crowd the [oods too much in one building to show them ill together, consequently we were compelled o add 8 more floors of show room. Our prices now are as usual the owest in the market. The variety is great as can bo seen, and styles up o the times. We invite your inspec iou of our patterns. Wo don't give iway chromes with our suits, but do five an honest cosh value in the mods. M. b. STRAUS Jk SONS, los. 1111, 103, 113 and 115 N. Howard St.. ‘ommeneing at Corner of Fayette Street, laltimore, Md. . jan 21 tf r (LEAKING SALE OF tor WINTER GOODS AT OAK HALL, NEW WINDSOR. A CASH DISCOUNT OF 10 TO 20 PER ’’ENT. will ho given on all Winter Goods, special bargains in Ladies’ and Children’s ; L’oals. SIO.OO Coats at $7.00 to $7.50. $7.00 and SB.OO Coats $5.00. Others in proportion. Our Coats and Suits Reduced in Same Proportion. Blankets and Comforts Very Cheap. . We have piles of GOODS that must he j dosed out. The Bargains are here. We are perfectly willing for you to have them. >oo YARDS BEST CALICO AT 5 CENTS | PER YARD. ♦ Onr Stock is large and must he closed nut. j Our stock for Spring will bo the leading * Due in the county to select from. Blurting, Muslins, Queenswaro and Housekeeping Goods Of all Kinds in Season. We invite you to call. Our discount sale is to prepare'the way for the Spring trade. Thanks for past patronage wc hope to have [yon continue dealing with us. Respectfully yours, jan 17 GEO. C. ANDERS. JT MAY SEEM STRANGE, But It is Nevertheless True, THAT I GIVE THE GREATEST BARGAINS To be obtained in this community, and treat : my patrons with fairness and justice unsur passed. The way to be assured of this is to give me n cull and see my large line of Staple and Fancy Groceries, Complete as they can be; Preserved Butters of all Kinds, Queensware, Glassware, Confectioneries, Flour, Bacon, Tobacco and Cigars, And judge by actual experience of the truth of this statement. I propose to continue giving bargains and accommodating my patrons as heretofore, and hope to receive a call, being fully assured that I can please all !in goods and prices. JOHN D. BOWERS, 47 E. Main St., opp. Catholic Church, janff Westminster, Md, M. H. KANNE, Manufacturer of Carriages, Wagons, Trucks and Wheelbarrows, AND BLACKSMITH IN GENERAL. Corner Green and Liberty Streets, WESTMINSTER. MD. Repairing, Painting ami Trimming prompt ly attended to. All Work done at the shortest notice. jan3l lyr Lime. lime. LIME. If yon want a LIME to improve your soi and that possesses all the requisites of Bom and Plaster, nse that furnished by S. W. BARRICK, Woodsboro, Md. Delivered on Frederick Pennaylva nia Line; Western Maryland and BaUiroon & Hanover Railroads. dec2o till jnne27* IVTEW STORE, ]> NEW GOODS NEW PRICES, NEW MAN. Don’t fail to call at 159 E. Main street an get prices on Groceries, Flour, Bacon, Lai and Country Produce. I have also added c LINE OF BOOTS AND SHOES For both ladies and gentlemen at a price fi cheaper than competitors can sell them. W. C. BENSON, . feb7 ly Westminster, Md. Miller & Kennedy, DEALERS IX Real Estate, Stocks, Bonds, &c., Charlestown, Jefferson County, West Va. Those looking for careful safe investmei are requested to correspond with us. jan 24 tf al)c Scmcurratic pUBLIC SALE. £ a 1 he undersigned, intending to quit farming, will sell at public sale, at his residence in Manchester district, between the York road and the Shauck road, about 31 miles north east from Manchester, IJ miles west of Ale sia, L] miles south of Lineboro, and near Tracy’s Paper Mills, on MONDAY, ICth DAY OF MARCH, 1891, nt 10 o'clock, a. m., the following valuable ' personal property:—l3 head of horses and . mules, as follows: 2 heavy draught mules, 10 years old, will work wherever hitched; bay > mare, 0 years old; bay horse, 11 years old; excellent brood mare, 2 mare colts, 2 years old, Perchcron stock; 2 horse colts, 2 years old, Coaching stock; 4 yearling mules, pair of sorrels and pair of blacks; C milch cows, Short Horn and Alderney; 10 heifers, 3 black Polled Angus, 2 with calf; 1 Hereford with calf, 1 Alderney with calf, 5 short horn, 1 with calf; 2 black Polled Angus bulls, full stock: Gal i away bull, full stock; 5 brood sows with pigs, Berkshire hour, full stock; 9 shoats, Scientific Sweep feed chopping mill, Keystone separa tor and mounted horse power, Osborne bind er, Champion harvester, grain drill with , fertilizer attachment; Warabaugh corn plan ter, corn shelter, 4 good wagons, one 4-inch tread, 4 or 6 horses; two 3 inch tread, 4 or C horses: 2-horse wagon, 2-horse spring wagon, wood bed, stone bed, 2 hay carriages, 4 plows, 2 Syracuse 2 or 3-horse plows, 4-horse culti vator, 3-horse hinge harrow, 2-horse harrow, 2 corn plows, wire tooth hay rake, fifth chain and spreader, single, double and triple trees, full outfit of harness for G-horse team, side saddle, one 2-horse family carriage, top bug gy, open*-top buggy, patent hay fork, dung book, forks, rakes, shovels, hoes. 2 log chains, lot of cow, halter and other chains, good axes, and many other articles. Household Furniture, such as cook stove and pipe, 2 bedsteads and bedding, table and a great many articles too numerous to mention. Terras made known on day of sale. JOSEPH PRICE. McCullough A Hoffman. Auctioneers, fob 7 ts Beck A Wentz, Clerks. I EXECUTORS’ SALE OP A Flint Quarry & Timber Land. By virtue of an order of the Orphans’ i Court of Carroll County, Md., the under | signed, as Executors of the last will ami testa i ment of Mary A. Shipley, deceased, will sell at Public Sale, at Marriottsville, a station on the Baltimore A Ohio Railroad, on TUESDAY, MARCH 17 , 1891, at 12 o’clock, m., the following valuable Real Estate, containing 236$ ACRES, MORE OR LESS, situated in Carroll county, about two miles from Marriottsville, about 75 Acres cleared, balance covered with Chestnut, Oak and other timber, well watered with ; running streams and springs. This properly is well located as to churches, rail* j road, schools, Ac., and is one of the best \ neighborhoods in the county. The land will he offered as a whole or divided to suit pur chasers. One tract, containing 99] Acres, is known as the “Flint Quarry,” and has been leased to Northern parties for a number of years who have profitably worked it. The flint is almost inexhaustible and is considered among the finest in this country. Possession given upon compliance with terms of sale. Persons wishing to view the premises or desiring further information can write to or call upon Wm. O. Shipley, Woodstock, Md. Terms of Sale:—One-third cash on day of i sale or upon ratification of the same by the court; balance in 12 months, credit payment f to be secured to the satisfaction of the under (signed, or all cash at option of purchaser. GILBERT E. FLOWER. ; WILLIAM O. SHIPLEY, Executors. Joseph W. Berret, Auctioneer. feb2Sts TO CURE CATARRH. Microscopical research by Pasteur, Huxley, j Koch, Tyndall. Beale and and other scientists ♦ of Europe has developed the fact that catar rhal affections of the nose, throat and other j parts of the respiratory tract are caused by | germs or parasites, which infect the mucous membrane of these parts, and cause inflamma tion that frequently results iu one or more of j the following diseases: Weak eyes, head ! ache, deafness, hay fever, laryngitis, bron chitis and consumption. A remedy that will not destroy the germ or parasite will not cure j catarrh. DR. J. YINGLING, 402 N. Eutaw Street, Baltimore, Has (bund a treatment that will do this and none thus afflicted would hesitate long in availing themselves of its benefits, if its great merits were folly understood. The Rev. W. Harris, of Baltimore, writes as follows ; That after having fully tested the treatment of Dr. Tingling, No. 402 North Eutaw street, and 1 leeling myself thoroughly cured of a most j stubborn and annoying form of Catarrh, I i ! desire thus to give my hearty and grateful i ' testimonial to him as a careful, honest and 1 sincere Physician in the treatment of Catarrh. 1 I can most fully and conscientiously recoin mend him and his treatment to all sufferers j ' from this and kindred diseases. I give this testimonial all the more cheet j fully because no word or hint from him solicited it, and because 1 feel that such a competent Physician deserves the grateful ' testimonial of one whom he has cured. WILLIAM HARRIS, Pastor of the Seventh Baptist Church, feb2B tf Baltimore, Md. JpUBLIC SALE. The undersigned, intending to discontinue farming, will sell at Public Sale, on the prem ; ises. at Carrollton, on the Baltimore A Heiaterstown turnpike, 4 miles from Weal i } minster, on TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 18!H, at 12 o'clock, in., Three Tracts of Land. No. 1, contains 80 ACRES, improved by a j Grain and Hay Shed, 30x00 feet. No. 2, contains 9 ACRES, j improved by a Frame Dwell j ing, containing 7 rooms, and a Stable. wL” I No. 3, contains 53iJ ACRES, Improved by 5 a Dwelling, Bank Barn, Stable for 34 cows, I hog house, corn crib, ice house and smoke house. These tracts will he sold separately or as a whole, for one-half cash and the balance in * one and two years, or all cash to suit pur chaser. Also at the same time and place 2 Horses, 1 Mare, 5 Cows, 2 Hogs, rtyfidK Wagons, and a general stock of Fanning Imple ■===> ments and household goods. Terms: —Six months credit on sums above SIO.OO. JOHN BAUMGARTNER. • | John T. Dill’onbaugh, Anct. feb2B St u \\T AKEFIELD ROLLER MILLS le ’ " Manufacture and keep constantly on hand, FLOUR, FEED, HOMINY MEAL AND CHOP OF „ ALL KINDS. •drHighcst Cosh prices paid fo s - grain, Longberry a specialty, n 14 It DAVID ROOF A .SON. j\I AGISTRATE ’ S OFFICE wd I take this method of informing my frienti a and the public that 1 have opened an offic for the transaction of the , DITTIES OF A JUSTICE OF THE PEAC tar iu the Haines A Co. Building, next dpor < the store, nearly opposite the First Nation . Bank, and respectfully solicit patronage. GEO. W. MATTHEWS, J. P., mayß if Westminster, Md. JpOR RENT. J| The Desirable Modern Dwelling, wi Lawn, Garden and Poultry Yard, No. 1 Pennsylvania avenue. Rent low. Possess!) shls given at-once. Call on or address, E. J. LAWYER, I jaoSl tf Westminster, Md. WESTMINSTER, MD„ SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 1891. I MARCH DAYS. n Richard E. Burton, in Harper’s Magazine for j March. The world today is a nun in gray. And the wind is her wailing prayer r To God, to give her a soul like May, Flower sweet, while, and fair. i Still os a lake at eveu is the air; i The heavens are gloomed; I mark not anywhere 1 A hopeful sign hung out by plain or hill; , Only the etched brown trees and barren Holds are , r there. ’ How like a madman's dream the thought of June! , Shall this warped pipe e’er swell with some soft p tune That calls for liquid stops and languorous skill. The piper lying prone beneath a glimmer moon? The mystery And magic of the spring! 11 seizes on tills bleak and sullen thing Called March, and see! Bland skies, faint odors as of slumbering flowers. Faint bin! songs in the bowers, A sort south wind, and. cradled In the wood. As sweet as womanhood, As shy as any maideu lured by love. The dimly flushed arbutus bloom above The harsh earth soon will peer. And April airs be here.’ Jfelwt J&oru. A CLASP OF AMETHYSTS. “Oh, you’re taking in dressmaking, arc you ?” said Lucia Fanshawe, rather super ciliously, as she glanced around the neatly furnished hack parlor, with its fashion plates on the tabic, its lay figure in the corner, and its sewing machine under the window. Miss Fanshawe was a tall, elegantly dressed young woman, with perfectly fit ting kid gloves, a bonnet that had been imported direct from Mademoiselle De vigne’s, in Paris, and a general “I am better-thao-you” air. Kllen Lilbnrne was pretty, too, hut her dress was cheaper, her manners less aggres sive. The two girls had been desk mates at Madam Dupont’s fashionable school in Philadelphia, hut since their graduation the wheel of fortune had revolved iu far different directions. Lucia hud become engulfed in the whirlpool of gay soicety, where a rich husband was the prize for which all were striving, and nothing more serious than the last german or the next progressive euchre party was talked about, while poor Ellen, driven by stress of cir cumstances into the noble army of bread winners, had dwelt in a more toilsome at mosphere. “Yes,” said she composedly, “I am tak ing in dressmaking. Have you any cus tomers that you could recommend me ? Since papa’s death mother and I are thrown upon our own resources, you know.” She had spoken quickly and with spirit. Something in Miss Fanshawe’s maimer had nettled her. “Oh, dear, no !” said Lucia, smelling rat the La France rose that she held in her hand. “My dresses are all designed in Paris, except the very commonest, and those I have from Miss Attiaelli, on Four teenth street. I never did care for ama leur work.” “Indeed!” said Ellen. “Then to what do I owe the pleasure of this call ? It is not at all probable that you have taken the trouble to come here merely to see me.” Lucia laughed a little awkwardly. “You always were so satirical,” said she. “Rut I am going to a fancy dress party as a heliotrope flower next week, and I re membered that pretty amethyst clasp that you used to wear at school. It would match my trimmings exactly, if you wouldn’t mind lending it to we for a few days.” Ellen opened a little desk close to the window and took it out—a crescent-shaped ! line of purple fire, set in a dull gold frame, j “So much obliged to you.” said Lucia smoothly. “And if I hear of anyone who desires to employ a dressmaker I shall cer tainly recommend you.” i Old Dr. Findley was in his study the next day when Miss Fanshawe was an nounced. lie knitted his shaggy brow, i “A silly, flippant votary of fashion,” he muttered to himself. ‘-‘What brings that grand-niece of mine here ? I’ve given her - to understand often enough that her visits are unpleasant!” But Lucia eame in smiling. “Dear Uncle,” said she, “I’ve heard that ; you arc making a unique collection of pre cious stones, and I’ve brought an humble I contribution to it.” Dr. Findley pricked up his ears, his eyes - grew bright. ’ “Eh ?” said he. e “It’s an heirloom in our family,” said Lucia. “An amethyst crescent that he n longed to my mother’s mother. Of course we are very much attached to it, but to q please you we would sacrifice any feeling of I mere sentiment.” “Let me see it,” said Dr. Findley, lie turned the trinket over and over— held it so that the sunlight was reflected from the facets of violet fire and scrutinized _ the setting keenly. S “Hump,” said he, “hump! It’s a good color, and the pattern is choice. But I shall not take your pretty ornament, Lucia, r , without making some return. A fair ex change is no robbery. Amethysts are rare, but diamonds arc more precious. Here.’ He took from a teak wood jewel casket a ring set with a dew drop of glistening jr whiteness —a diamond of the choicest water “Oh, uncle 1” cried delighted Lucia, col oring high with pleasure,” this is to< much.” “No, it isn’t,” he retorted, curtly, am I Lucia went away feeling that she had ; i ce ring handsomer than Miss Deßougainvillc’ solitaire that everyone admired so much. L’B It so happened that young Dr. Lindsa; to strolled in a few days subsequently to con "** suit with the old practitioner about som new combination of drugs, and found hit absorbed in the contemplation of his at ttiques. “Look here, Frank, did you ever see finer row of amethysts? Leave off talkiu ion about Materia Medica. One can’t eat an drink shop the whole time. Look at ill I. color —see the size.” “It's very pretty,” said Lindsay. I seem to have seen one like it somewhere. Although I can't say that I am especially interested in amethysts.” r “That you have not! cried the old gen tleman with decision. “This specimen is sui generis. I don't believe it s mate ex ists. Certainly not on this side of* the water.” Lindsay smiled, admired the drawers ol the jewel Ik>x, and diverted the conversa tion hack to the drug question as soon as possible. But his . pinion remained un changed. “There !” he exclaimed to himself* ns he came out from seeing a case of (lerman measels, an hour or so afterward. “1 re member now where I saw the match to that clasp of purple stones. Nellie Lilbnme used to wear it in her lace collar. lie drove directly to the Lilburne house. “Why, Nelly, said he, with the kindly familiarity fitting to old playmates, “how pale you are ! Doesn’t the dress-making business prosper?” She shook her head, but tried to sun* f moo a smile. “Frank, I have come to the conclusion that there are too many dress makers in the city already. But what brings you here? You don’t want a dress, do you?” “Nelly, will you sell that old amethyst you used to wear!” said he, in the abrupt fashion that was ordinary to him. “I believe I can got you a good price for it. .Old Dr. Findley is making a collection of antique gems, and I think he would pay you well for it." “I have lent it to Miss Fanshawe,” said Ellen. “She borrowed it to wear to a fancy dress party, and when I asked her for it, she told me she had last it. “Lucia Fanshawe?” “Yes.” “Humph!” said Frank. “In that case why don’t she make good the loss to you? ’ Ellen aVehed her pretty eyebrows. “I don’t think Lucia likes to spend money,” said she, “except where it will make a show.” “It’s very strange,” said Frank reflec tively. He mot Miss Fanshawe at a reception the next evening. She was superbly dressed and looked very handsome, but be could | not help remembering Ellen Lilburne’s last clasp. “I don’t see,” said Lucia, petulantly to her mother, “what makes Dr. Lindsay so cold and standoffish of late. They tell me he has got a very fair practice, and, of course, lie’ll inherit that old Lindsay estate in the suburbs stioner or later. He used to be rather an admirer of Ellen Lilburne, but since she has gone entirely out of so ciety ” “Don’t fret, dear,” said Mrs. Fansbawcj “men have their hot and cold fits; it’s their nature. Now, I’m quite sure that Frank Lindsay admires you. Give him plenty of —you’ll he pretty certain to land him at last,” added the accomplished old ma meverer. The very *aext time that Lindsay went to Dr. Findley’s .house the old gentleman alluded to the amethysts again. “Have you found that match for my circlet of gems yet?” he said, jeeringly. “No,” answered Frank. “Will you al low me took at the stone o.nce more?” “Much as you like—as much as you like,” said Findley, gleefully. “One or two experts have seen ’em, and they tell me I’ve got a real treasure in ’eiu.” “Did you tell me where it was that you obtained them ?” asked Lindsay. “No, I didn’t; but it is no secret. My grandniece, Lucia Fanshawe, gave them to me. They were an heirloom in the family, it seems —on her mother’s side— but Luqia is a good-hearted little thing, and she knows my fancy for rare stones. How ever, she has lost nothing by it, for I gave her in return u .S3OO diamond. I am not one who likes io be under obligations to anybody." “Ah!” said Frank. “Well, then sir, if I were to use a paradox, your clasp of amethysts is its own match.” “Eh !” cried the old gentleman. “This is the very ornament of which I was speaking,” said Lindsay. “It is the same <me I used to see in the dress of a - friend of mine—Miss Lilburne. Your ■ very obliging niece has been generous at someone else’s expense. She borrowed Miss Lilburne’s cresent of and ’ very conveniently forgot to return it. It is strange to what depth of meanness your society lady will stoop at limes,” he added I bitterly. Dr. Findley pulled meditatively at bis i grizzled mustache. > “Humph! humph!” said he. “The 1 diamond was clean gain, then, wasn t it ? But where does this lady live, Linday ? I must either return this trinket to her, or - see if she will part with it to me for a fair compensation. I must, say that lam un- willing to lose it.” “The clasp, sir,” said Frank. “I will d undertake that all shall he right. I am t going to ask Nellie Lilburne to marry me h —and, of course, the interests of husband c * and wife are one.” The old man shook hands heartily with him. “I congratulate you, my boy,” said be. “I’m a bachelor myself, but there are g times when I question the wisdom of my r. course of life.” 1- And Lucia Fanshawe had never received *> so severe a verbal castigation as that which Dr. Findley gave her that day. id “Niece,” said he, “you have been a thief a and a liar both. I don’t know from whom J 8 you cau possibly have inherited this moral obliquity, hut I am certain it wasn’t from iy my side of the genealogical tree. Be so n* good as to give me hack the diamond ring, oe which you neither earned nor deserved; I m intend to offer it as a wedding present to the n- girl whom Lindsay Is going to marry —the real owner of the amethysts.” a And poor Lucia had not a word to sa) ug in her own defence. All her life long sh< nd had practiced these little diplomacies, am he she had never before been found out. Bui . now, to lose diamond, lover and the esteeu of her rich old granduncle, all at once —it was rather overpowering. Dr. Findley kept his word. He sent the diamond ring to Nelly Lilhuruc with a pret(3' congratulatory note. Nor wits this all. On her wedding day she received as perfect a set of amethysts—brooch, ear pendants and bracelets—as New York could supply. “In their way they are perfect," said Dr. Findley; “hut they are not, like the elasps, antiques.” But Lucia Fanshawe received no cards to the wedding. Probably she would not have gone if she had. Failure does not like to walk behind the chariot wheels of success. On Teasing. It seems to me that one ol the most an noying traits of character which one can possess is a disposition to tease, for when it is freely indulged there is nothing that can cause more unhappiness toothers. To be obliged to spend one’s life with an in i' velerate tease is like living in a bramblehush or suffering constantly from the torture of innumerable pin pricks. To he sure, one pin prick is nothing much, but when one , hits to hear ton thousand of them it is quite another thing. “Pshaw !” says the tease, “I did not , hurt you any. I wouldn’t make such a fuss about nothing. I did not mean any- ; thing. I was only leasing.” Exactly. And it is just because there , is no meaning in it, nor necessity for it, , i because it is only “teasing,” that poor, in- i suited, tormented human nature cries .some times in a passion against it. If the tease cannot find anything else to annoy he will torment an animal or a little child, and he thinks it is fun; but it is the most mali cious, most dreadful and most dangerous fun in the world. I once knew a lady who was literally almost frightened to death by a miserable man who followed her home through the twilight; she reached shelter and dropped fainting on the floor, and the thoughtless fellow who had occasioned the distress explained that “he just followed her to tease her, because he knew she was I timid, and lie did it just for fun.” He found that it was not so funny as he waited, while she hovered between life and death, I the victim of the wretched joke. I think that a genuine tease is always a coward, for he never attacks his equals; his victims are the helpless animals, the little child, the timid woman. If you will notice, it is never the smallest boy who teases the larger one. And then a lease can never hear to be teased himself. Nothing makes him angrier than to he paid hack in his own coin. But really the most distressing thing about the whole matter is the effect which the habit of teasing has upon the nature of the one who indulges in it. A confirmed tease becomes positively heartless. He can look upon physical and mental distress quite unmoved. If there is a boy who reads these lines who likes to tease his little sister till she runs in tears to her mother, or who tor ments some little fellow at school just to see him crimson and bristle with impotent rage, if you want to make a man of your self stop it; for it Is a most ignoble and un manly thing to take delight in causing pain to any living creature, especially if. it is smaller and weaker than yourself. Look Out for Mother. Many wives and mothers are laboring whjh hand and brain almost incessantly, day a£ f cr day aiid after year, to supply the oft returning wajils of families; no other class lead such lives of daily self sacrifice as do our patient, plodding mothers. They anticipate our wants and needs, come and go at our slightest wish, with untiring love and interest in all that concerns us, from early infancy until they sink beneath the burdens and cares of this life. From force of habit, brought about by the tender devotion of their hearts, they are always thinking and doing lor others. Yet in many homes no one seems to think of the mother’s comfort, or that she can have any need of relaxation. Now every woman who has led an active life needs to be released from constant toil by the time she is 40 years of age. Those who love her should learn this before it is too late, and make it possible for her to take life easier and lay* by a store of physical force against a time ol* need fast approaching. The much needed rest the mother will always protest against taking so long as she I feels that any of the family need her care and labor, but her future health, and in 5 many cases her life, depends upon a few years of rest, rest, rest! —physical and men ■ tal. Who will say she has not earned it? * Can you let the time slip quietly by and do nothing while the life of one you dearly r love is slowly wearing away in treadmill r round which seems a daily necessity to the * family ? Arouse yourselves; see to it that yonr 1 mother gives up her cares entirely for a 1 time, even though your comforts are les e sened. Send her to visit a sister or some I dear friend, and make her stay a good, long time—six weeks or more. When she re -1 turns see that some one is installed to share 1 the burdens that have always fallen upon e mother. Take her out to ride often. En- Y courage her to take walks and call on her neighbors and friends. If she has long d regretted that she was always too weary to l> make the effort to attend church, see that she lias a day of absolute rest preparatory, ; f and then offer to accompany her. Make u her feel young again by your thoughtful >1 care; she has done so much for you. n . ♦ ——- :o An electrician who has made a specialty ;, of spectacular electricity says the day is I not far off when electrical fireworks will le supersede those now need. He declares le that for a comparatively moderate outlay he could arrange au electrical display that ly would last for many years and could be le repeated as often as desired. It would id comprise rockets. Roman candles, wheels, at Niagara Falls and all the the modern pyr m otechuical effects. The Making of Flint Glass. From Harper's Magazine. Flint glass is the general term for all the multiform utensils and ornaments (apart \ from windows and dark bottles) which i make glass an omnipresent, blessing in mod- i ern life. The distinctive peculiarity of 1 flint glass is the presence in it of lead, r which imparts a brilliancy unlike that of ( most other glass. The lack-lustre surface j of all the old objects of glass made before t the English invention of a lead formula is t noticeable. Lead oxide was originally used i only in most expensive glass, prepared from . calcined flints. But gradually it has crept t into many grades, down to the most com- ( mon material for household and fancy wares, and for all transparent bottles, giv- j ing them all a finer lustre than wxs other- t wise obtained until the recent invention ol* 1 lime glas*. And the costliest of all glass, \ that used for optical lenses and imitation ( gems, still gains its extraordinary weight I and refractive power from lead. The honors ] of skill in flint-glass production are broadly divided among the nations, England taking i the lead in the crystal or purest flint glass i used for cutting; Italy (Venice) in colored t designs more brilliant than any made in s the days of the republic, when flint glass i was not known; Switzerland in imitation i gems; Germany in cheap vases; France in a lens disks, and America in pressed glass a and cheap tableware. Recently a cheaper ; flint glass has been introduced into Ameri- t can pressed ware, in which lime is substi- s luted for lead, yet which retains much of ? the lustre and clearness of lead flint. Flint glass is either blown, moulded or j pressed, and frequently all three methods t may be seen together in the same establish- I meat. c A flint glass factory is a most entertain- 1 ing medley of’ marvels. As you enter the t great building that surrounds the huge i chimney, the first impression is that you i are in a human ant hill, rumbling with < inordinate activity. Or perhaps the sensa- 1 tion is better described as a plunge into a ; purgatorial chamber of industrious demons. 1 In the centre the openings in the gigantic 1 furnace dazzle you like glaring eyes from j a soul of tire; hut the glow comes really i from molten glass in the dozen “monkey t pots” about the blaze. Scores of workers, boys, youths and men, throng in restless I ronfusion. It. looks as if every one were t running about on some impish deed of his i own fancy. But stand still and watch I closely, and yon will see it is all a great 1 system of human clockwork, each move- l i meat fitting nicely into the whole effect. I The mep pt the furnace, who seemed at I i first to he devils thrusting pitchforks into ; 1 the blazing depths to toast their victims, i < are only gathering metal on their pnnties. i I When a sufficiently large lump has been i collected the man wanders off with it. You think he will certainly burn some one with that burning hall of fire, they are all hustling about him so incessantly. But : follow him carefully, and you will see him : silently hand the tube to an older man, who blows the glass into a large globe, and sits down to play with it at a bench which . has a horizontal iron bar on each side of him to roll the tube on. Back and forth he rolls it like a toy, and the glass keeps curiously changing its shape. He has made a hole in the globe and has enlarged it into a symmetrical ojiening, and now the glass is cooled, so that he can do nothing more. Will anybody in all that hurrying crowd help him ? Instantly a young man appears and, without a word, he holds up to the cool glass his long tube with a disk of red hot glass on the end, which fastens to it. The man at the bench scratches the globe, jars it, and it leaves his bur.- Off the other man runs with it to the “glory-hole,” where the broken end is quickly heated again into softness. Then he hurries back with it to the bench man. who renews his play. A couple of minutes more and sud denly you perceive that he has made a perfect lump shade, which a str< kc detaches from the iron rod into a small bed of sand- A small boy carries it off on a stick to the annealing furnace, and now the gatherer is on hand again with a fresh lump of metal to begin the process again. Turn to the next man sitting at his work, and you notice him finishing a smaller charge into a lamp chimney, shaping the top by a mould. Here is a man amusing himself with a small hunch of soft glass on his rod. You are sure he can have no serums pur pose in turning and bending it into ridicu lous shapes. Quickly a boy seizes it from him, and you cannot trace him. It has gone over to a fancy vase, where it was needed to complete the ornament. So each bench has its own little task of skill, and keeps repeating it over and over, and each hoy of the multitude (there are two > or more to every man) has his own par ticular duties. He pops up always in the I moment and place where he is needed. ‘ All the workers are busy as their wits can make them, for they work by the piece, 1 and the number of things made determines i their wages. They are grouped into sets • or “shops” of three or four, who work ; together and share profits together on a ; well-understood grade of division. Gener * ally four constitute a shop, the most skill * ful workman (the blower) at the head, the i gatherer (a young fellow) next, and two • boys, one handling moulds or tools, and r the other carrying the products to the ? annealing oven; The only way to learn ) the glass trade is through long apprentice t ship in these four stages. And no ap , prentice is permitted to enter the full privi b lege and wages of a master workman with- I out the consent of the order. By this severe means of apprenticeship the glass workers keep the skill of their trade in y r their own control, much like the old Venc -8 tiau artisans, and practically dictate their II own prices to employers. • A farmer residing near Gnilderland, N. Y Y., has been sent to an insane asylum t because he has a mania for whistling at all e times and in all places. He whistles from j night to morn, and after retiring he whis tles until he falls asleep. It he wakens through the night he immediately com '• radices to whistle and continues until he is exhausted. VOL. XXVI.-NO. 19 The Curvature of the Earth. From St. Louis Republic. Generally speaking, we say that the cur vature of the earth amount to about seven inches to the statute mile; more exactly, it is 6.90 inches to the mile, or 7.962 inches Tor a geographical mile. Any amount of artificial assistance with optical instruments does not make it possible for the eye to perceive the least ioto of curvature, even though the gaze is directed from the high est eminence. This is because the vision is not capable of comparing heights and distances. The effect of the known curva ture of the globe may be illustrated in the following manner: Take down your globe, place a book, pane of glass or even a ruler against it— either of the two objects first named being lest adapted to such an experiment; you will observe instantly that the book or pane only touches in one point, the globe’s sur face falling away in all directions from the point of contact. Now suppose the ocean’s surface to be calm and frozen, and a sheet of glass many miles square laid upon it. At one mile from the place of contact the glass will j stand out nearly 8 inches (this measure ment being upon the ocean, the mile is a , nautical one), in fact, will lack but .038 of i an inch of being 8 inches fVom the pane; ! at three miles it will be 6 feet, at nine miles | 54 feet and so on. The number of feet of • depression is equal to two-thirds of the! square of the number of miles for any ob- ■ servable distance. The atmosphere plays an important part ! , in estimating the visibility of objects. On I this account part of this depression must be canceled to make gmal the phenomenon of refraction, which causes objects of all kinds to appear higher than they would if there were no atmosphere. Careful meas urements have shown that the error from refraction averages more than one-seventh of that from curvature. The rule, there fore, commonly used for correction of cui vature and refraction is : Square the num ber of miles and take four-sevenths of it for the correction in feet. Thus, if an ob ject is visible at a distance of five miles we I may know that its height is at least 141 ! feet. Or, il the height of a visible object is known—say 100 feet —take one-fourth of j this, multiply by seven and lake the square root of the product (which gives the dis tance of the object), in this instance a frac- i tion of over thirteen miles. A man swim ming in the ocean can perceive a tower 200 feet high and nineteen miles away as a mere speck on the horizon; hut if the man were elevated 100 feet above the surface of the water he could plainly perceive a tower 100 feet high at a distance of twen ty-si'* miles. What the Baby Can Do. It can wear out a one dollar pair of kid shoes in less than 21 hours. ft can keep its father fyusy advertising in the paper for a nurse. Tt can simultapcously occupy both sides of the largest bed made. It can cause its father to be insulted by | every second class hoarding house keeper in the city who “never takes children,” which, in nine cases out of ten, is fortu nate for the children. It can make itself look like a fiend just when its mother wants to show it off'. It can make an old bachelor in the next room use language that, if uttered on the street, would get him into the jieuitentiary for two years. It can go from the farthest cud of the room to the foot of the stairs in the hall quicker than its mother can step into the closet and out again. It can go to sleep like an angel, and just as : papa and mamma are starting for the thfeaftfe it can wake up and stay awake. These are some of the things a baby caff do. But there are other things as well. A baby can make the’ commonest .house the brightest spot on earth. It can lighten "the burdens of a loving mothers life by adding to them. Jt can flatten its dirty little face against the window pane in such away that the tired father can see it as a picture before he rounds the corner. Ves, babies are great institutions, particu larly one’s own baby. Fire in Flouring Mills. “When a flouring mill gels on fire,” says John Lindsay, chief of the St. Louis fire department, “the department Is satisfied to save the adjacent property. There is noth ing outside of a powder mill ora pint shop that is as combuitible us a flour mill. I have heard a great deal about the explosive nature of flour dust, hut I know nothing on the subject. My own idea of the reason why a flour mill burus like a bonfire is that it is built of wood in the first place, and that every part is connected by conveyers, flues, elevators, etc. “Start a tire iu any one portion of a mill and within five minutes the whole structure is in flames. The department never did save hut one mill. In that case the fire commeuccd on an upper floor and we kept it there. There has been more money lost in flour-mill fires in St. Louis within ten years than from all other forms of large fires.” Paper Horseshoes. Tt seems not unlikely that a change is imminent in the method of shoeing horses for military work. The German papers are devoting a great deal of attention to the discussion which is now going on in the , military world as to the advisability of sub , stituting compressed paper for iron in horse shoes for the German cavalry and artillery. After many experiments under all manner of conditions* it has been found that Ihe shoe which appears to he most worthy of adoption is made up of sheets of parch , ment paper cemented together with a spec- I ial cement composed of turpenline, Spanish 1 white, lac and boiled Unseen] oil. The sep arate pieces are stamped out, cemented and pressed together in a hydraulic press, j When dry the shoe thus formed is rasped ioto the exact form and size required. Curious Chinese Medicines. From Wishing tun Star. The medicines of Caucasian civilization are derived from many a curious origin, hut if you want to find funny things util ized as remedies for disease you will dis cover them in the Chinese pharmacopoeia. Medical science in that country has been somewhat, impeded by the respect which the (’hinese pay to a dead body. Worship ing their ancestors as they do, their physi cians would never think of cutting up a corpse. Consequently they know nothing of anatomy. Such knowledge on the sub ject as they pretend to jtosscss is derived, according to their own account, from a man born some centuries ago, who had the mis fortune to be of a transparent consistency, physically speaking, as if he were made of glass, so that it was possible to see just how things went on in his insides. From observation of this extraordinary freak it was discovered that certain chan nels ran to each part and extremity of a human being, and that by these channels it was possible to convey any remedy that i might he necessary to any organ or member 1 requiring treatment internally. Ever since i then celestial doctors have been able to teH just what sort of pills or decoctions were ! intended for the cure of this or that dis order. The glass man doubtless suffered from the experiments tried upon him by j science, but medical knowledge was bene fited inexpressibly. Probably the Chinese pharmacopoeia is more elaborate than that possessed by any other people. Physicians in the Flowery Kingdom mix up together such extraordi nary things for remedial purposes as we should never dream of. One of their cures for liver complaint is obtained by adminis tering the fossil teeth of various animals, which are known to thorn as “dragons’ teeth.” Antelopes' horns, powdered, they believe to be excellent for rheumatism, and glue from the hides of asses is supposed to he an admirable tonic and diuretic. The shell of a certain fresh water turtle made into jelly is a sure thing for “misery in the joints.” A decoction from the hedge hog’s hide is excellent for skin diseases, ! and tigers’ hones mixed with hartshorn and terrapin’s shell in the shape of a jelly j is a first rate tonic in cases of diseases of the hones and of ague. Energy Always Wins. From the Chicago Tribune. Years ago—t hirtylive or more—Timot by (). Howe, who was afterwards Postmaster General of the United States, was traveling up the Fox river of Wisconsin iu a scow. In a corner of the fio.it he stumbled across a short, thick-set young man who was reading a big, calf-bound hook. The man was dressed like a lumberman, in a hickory shirt, and with his corduroy breeches tucked in long, thick-soled boots. Mr. Howe paused in wonderment at the contrast between the hook and the dress. “What arc yon reading there, young man?” he asked. The young man turned up the volume and the astonished Mr. Howe read “Tacitus.” It was many years before lhe two men met again in Washington, and then Mr. Ifowe was high in the Unvern ment and Thomas Withercll Palmer Was u candidate for Senator from Michigan. But Mr. Howe remembered the lumberman in the risen and rising politician, and he said he didn't wonder. This is the sort of man who has taken the Presidency of the Columbian Exposition Commissioners. The lad who could read Tacitus on a Fox river scow is not likely to lose his studions ncss in later years ; ami Senator Palmer can still read Tacitus and more with pleasure. He is a traveler, a man familiar with nations and their longues, and he is a dip lomat. False Teeth Prolong Life. Very few people realize how much the dentist has done for mankind. To men tion one thing only, says a prominent den tist, the perfection to which the manufac ture of false teeth has been carried has practically abolished old age—that is, old age in the sense that I used to know if. Vou see none of the helpless, mumbling old men and women that you formerly did- This is not because people do not attain the age their parents and grandparents reached, hat because the dentist has prevented some of the most unpleasant consequences of advancing years. Men of seventy no lon ger either look or feel old because they are not deprived of nourishing food at the time when they need it most. Estimates have been made showing that the average length of life has been increased from four to six years by the general use of false teeth. Will Not Stay Down. j From Singleton (Cal.) Courier. The engineers on the Fairhaven and Southern railroad in Oregon have struck I another natural phenomenon only second . to “the Devil’s Bread pan.” The gap of j five miles in the track two miles beyond the boundary is a low, swampy place, which it was found necessary to pile. A forty , foot pile was driven right into the swamp, ( and then another was driven over it. But the second pile would not slay down. As soon as the driver stopped pounding the pile began to rise again. Found as they would the workmen could not make that i pile stay down, for at every blow it seemed < to cry “resurgaui,” and rose again as soon i as the poutiding ceased. Tom Jones’ Rabbit Ranch. From AMantio Journal. Tom Jones, a worthy colored man, living near the Northeastern depot in Athens, r has domesticated a large colony of the old b field gray rabbits. Tom has about twenty - f five breeders, and says that rabbits are rai&d as easily as chickens. They run at large in the yard, and lecone as tame as i house cats. They increase very' fast, and - sell readily at ten cents each for pets or 1 cooking purposes. There are always orders . | ahead for them. They grow very fast, and 1 j from one pair he can raise more rabbits in I a year than the best hen will raise chickens.