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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-12-21

When yon see a fellow mortal,
Without liked and fearless views, -5o
Hanging on the skirts of Others,
Walking in their caSt-of shoes.
Bowing low to wealth and favor,
With abject. uncovered head,
Ready 10 EefFact favor.
Willing TO be drove or led-
Walk yourself with stronger bearing.
Throw your mortal shoulders back
Show your spine has nerve and marrow
just the thinh which his must lack,
a stronger word
Was never heard
in sense and tone
Than tbis-Backbonc-
When you see theologian
Hugging close some ugly creed,
Fearing to reject or question
Dogmas which his prieet may read.
Holding book all noble feeling,
Choking down each manly view,
Caring more for forms and symbols
Than 20 know the, good and true;
Walk yourself with stronger bearing,
Throw yuur mortal shoulders back,
Show your spine has nerve and marrow
just the thing which his must lack
stronger word
Was never heard
In sense and tone
Than this-Backbone.
When you SEGA politician
Bfawling through contracted holes,
Begging for some fot position,
In the ring and or at the polls;
With no sterling manhood in him,
Nothing stable, broad or sounp,
Despite Of pluck or ballast,
Double-sided all around;
Walk yourself with firmer bearing,
Throw your mortal shoulders back,
Show your spine has nerve and marrow
Just the thing which his must lack.
A stronger word
Was never heard
In sense and tone -f
Than this-Backbone.
A modest song and plainly told
The text is worth a mine of gold;
For many men most sadly lack
A noble stiffness in the back, ,sz-sz.a
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-12-21
a MISSOURI nEAK sroRv.

4
Bear hunting is not always the
pleasantest kind of amusement. So
thinks Mr. Hamilton, of Missouri
This gentleman shouldered his rifle
one morning, and went into the timber
about mile off, to shoot squirrels
At night he had not returned, nor did
he make his appearance during the
following night. AS squirrels are not
| apt to devour a man, several neigh
bors went in search of him. About
3 o'clock in the afternoon they found
him up tree, thirty feet from the
| ground, and unable to extricate him.
SELF He said that about o'clock the
previous day he came across a large
black bear and shot at him but missed
him, when the bear made for him with
all his might. He ran, and finding
the bear gaining on him he threw
away his rifle and climbed up syca-
more tree, with the bear following
right at his heels. The top of this
tree had been broken off and was hol-i
low, in which hole he thrust one of.
his legs to keep himself from falling.
But he soon found that his leg was
fast when he tried to extricate him.
self, and he could not draw it OUT
The Bear in the meantime had torn
the boot off on the outside and was
gnawing and eating the flesh from the
foot and ankle. Mr.. Hamilton took
out his pocket knife and cut at the
bears eyes, but with one sweep of his
paw the bear struck the knife from his
hand, with apart of two of his fingers.
He could now see, no help and gave
up to die, expecting to be eaten up
alive by the beast. But soon happy
idea struck him. That morning he
had put some salt in his pocket to salt
some cattle he had running in the !
timber, which, providentially he had !
not found Of this he took small |
handful and csprinkled in the bears
eyes. It had the desired effect. He
shook his head, grewled and went
down. He soon, however, returned, /
when a little more salt drove him
away the second time, when, to Mr..
Hamilton's inexpressible delight. he |
now saw him trotting off into the for
est. And now Mr.Hamilton advises
hunters in Usage county to carry a
pocketful of salt1with them or else be
sure that they are s. dead shotsV be-
before they practice target shooting
on a black bear. 9S1aa all %. 9.s3t
avs-1---z-- -. s-.-------- --------------
LIFE's CHANGEs.-At almost every
step in life we meet with young men
from whom we anticipate wonderful
things, but of whom, after careful in
quiry, we never hear word. The
effervescence of youth and passion,
and the fresh gloss of intellect and
imagination, endow them with false
brilliancy, which makes fools of them
selves and other people. Like certain
chintzes, calicoes and ginghams, they
show finely on their first newness, but
cannot stand the sun and the rain,
and assume a very sober aspect after |
washing day.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-12-21

CHICAGO is very sorry, says the Post
that they could not keep their fire
until the arrival of the Russian grand
Duke. They would take pride, how
ever in showing him Mrs. Leary's cow
and the post Office cat. The same pa
per observes that no museum will be
complete without one of this cow and
an equal number of this cat.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-12-21

AN Edinburgh undertaken, noted
for his thrift, having occasion to take
the corpse of an old lady to the fani-
ly burying ground in the Highlands,
brought back the hearse full of SNUG,
gled whiskey. On boing arraigned
for the offense, he said to the magis-
trate, ."Why, man, there's ma harm
DONE / only took ava. the. body, an
brought back the speerit Z, - =
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-12-21

AN up town New York dentist will
stump the country this winter with q
lecture showing the advantages of
having natural teeth extracted and un-
natural ones put it. We hope the
makers of artificial limbs win not feel
called upon to emulate this advertis-
ing dodge.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-12-21

to complain of each other; they low
ed with drawn swords; and thanks
10 their ingenious bargain, they kept
for long years both their love and
their noses
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-12-21
GARRETTSVILLE HOUSE.
Isaac Parker & Son, Prop'rs.

Is aac Parker q Son, Prop'rs.
TyHE Proprietors having leased the above
Il house, respectfully informs their friends and
the Garrettsviile House. and is prepared to sup
ply the table with the best the market affords,
at low prices. Persons visiting Garrettsviue
even for a day, will find this House a home
Omnibusses leave this house for all day and
nfght traiFs, fs7-tf.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-12-21

TUsCARAWAs BRANCH.
Leaves
New Philadelphia, $40 a. m.
Bayard, 1910 p. m.
Arrives.
Bayard, 9.45a. m.
New Philadelphia. 3.Gc p. m.
T. 4. MYERS,
General Passenger and Ticket Agent.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-12-21

HE was an intelligent youth who
defined Darwin to be one who, said
we degenerated from the monkeys"
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-12-21

The country roads are filed with
tramps, idle vagabonds who would as
soon eat as steal.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-12-21
RAvEMNA WATER CURE.

RAVENNH WV 6N SON6S
q. W. STRONG, M Id,
(Late of Water Cure of Cleveland,)
r. PR IET Q R-4
Location Beautiful-Terms modcratc Send for
circular giving full details. J = = III J ~
April6, 1911, 1361y.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-12-21
DIR. A. M. POWERS, !,

Eclectic Physician and Surgeon, Rootstown,
Portage County, Ohio Chronic and Private
\ diseases treated successfully OFFI0E-Next
door south of Green & Barlow's Store.
ADec 81 1868 IL.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-12-21
CHARLES BROOK,

OHAhI41Ao DIsOOh,
B r r w II R
OF Stock and Cream Ale. Brewery on Syc-
: amore st. three doors north of the Catholic
Church. Also, Builder of Wrought Iron
Fence and Gates. AaA - 1saz=s
Rayenna. o. July %, 1870. 100-1y.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-12-21
Vol. 4, No: IT.
GoTN0 soUTH-sIAIS IN

cLEYE;LAND 8 PITTsRBRG RAzLRoAD
On and after Nov.Izt is7f. Trains will leave
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-12-21

A. q q. W. Ry-Change OF Time.
The following are the times of the departure
Of trains at the points below. 1t took effect
Monday, Nov. 18th:
GOING WEST.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-12-21

Never was finer wedding seen at
Prague aud never was there hapEi-,
er household. Coranda and the beau
tiful Helen were model pair. The
husband and wife were never heard
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-07-13
Matrimonial Superstiti0ns.

The lately revived custom OF throwing
shoes after newly welded couple for
luck is very old one. In the Isle OF
Man, the shoe is thrown after the bride
and bridegroom as they leave their respec-
tive abodes, but the ceremony is generally
performed elsewhere upon the departure
of the hero and heroine of the day for the
honey moon trip In some parts OF Kent,
oe.throwing does not take place until
after they have gone, when the single
ladies range themselves in one line, and
the bachelors range themselves in another.
An old shoe is then thrown as far as the
throwers strength permits, and the ladies
race after it, the winner being rewarded
by the assurance that she will be married
before any of her rivals. She then throws
the shoe at the gentlemen, the one she hits
laying the same pleasing JUNCTION to his
heart. Something like this is practiced
too. in Yorkshire and Scotland. In Ger
many il used to be a rule for the bride, as
she was being conducted to her chamber
TO take off her shoe and throw II among
the guests, who battled Tor It's possession
the successful he or she being destined to
be speedily married and settled. In some
places the threshold is kept warm foi
another bride by pouring kettletul OF
warm water down the doorsteps as
soon as the bride and bridegroom have
taken their departure; the fancy being
that before the water is dried up another
match will be made up, or flow on, ant
that 1t will not be very long before another
welded couple passes over the same
ground. In Prussia, the method of in
voking blessings on newly-married pail
used TO be the more expensive one o.
smashing crockery against the door of the
house in which they were domiciled.-
ChaD.ber's Journal.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-07-13
Very Little Fellows.

TIE keenest eyes see but very little of
the handiwork of God. Every drop OF
water teens with life. You can not
quench your thirst, even with the purest
water, without swallowing scores Of puny
lives. The ocean is stirred by the huge
leviathan, who maketh il to boil like pot
And therein, also, in myriad varieties, are
the lesser forms Of life, running down to
the animalcule, so small that one hundred
and fifty millions of them weigh less than
a grain
The atmosphere is full Of life, and the
dry land swarms with animals OF unwrit-
ten names and unknown orders, crawling,
burrowing, creeping. boring, leaping,
running, hopping and flying creatures.
Out of sight and beyond the hearing of
men are innumerable living things They
inhabit the air we breathe, the water we
drink, the food we eat. They move and
the toughest flint as well as the mellow
pulp of the peach--in blossoms and fruits,
in buds and leaves, in roots and branches,
in the bodies Of enthusiastically, In our
OWE human bodies are tiny tenants-pop.
ulous colonies of little inhabitants, dwell
ing and moving In our flesh, all too minute
| to be seen or comprehended.
Life is everywhere. Little lives are en-
veloped within large lives. Our little
| lives are free and isolated independencies.
| We recently looked through microscope
| in the office Of Sanford G. Hill, Esq, the
| almanac maker of East Liverpool, Ohio,
and examined drop OF rain water. In
that single drop we counted near hun
dred playful little creatures, apparently as
| large as the common house fly, tToicking
and frisking about as merrily as minnows
in a meadow brook!
Then we reached hook from the shelf
| and detected speck of white insect hur-
rying off at double-quick to hide behind
grain OF dust; for We had opened on
him by surprise. The little fellow was re-
treating rapidly; the shaking of book
| leaf, or even as much Of leaf to tremble
as would hold single letter, was to him
commotion equal to hundred earth
quakes. But we pursued him, excited as
| he was, until we chased him on bar of
polished brass, and, by grand stratagem,
drove him into an entrenchment on the
bar.
He was smaller than the dot Of an ! In
your pocket Bible. But we pressed him
into our service, prisoner in his house of
brass, and snugly covered him by glass
slide, until we reviewed him beneath the
microscope. His prison was less roomy
than the eye of fine cambria needle, yet
under the microscope, his liberties, as well
as his body, were greatly enlarged. That
creature, to the naked eye so small, was
now apparently, as large as a bee, aud
white as snow, with limbs OF perfect sym
metry and proportion. We were affected
by his efforts to be free He hurried from
side TO side of his prison-house, and tried
to force the walls apart Through his
clear, transparent flesh could be seen the
beating of his heart and the purple veins
of his blood. His movements were rest
less and pitiful as those Of newly Gagged
bird. II we could by some magnifier of
| sound, have heard his voice aud under
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-07-13
Poetry.
LITTLE BY LITTLE.

vrrr the new years come and the Ola years go
Tnr little by little, all things grow!
All thing grow-and all decay
little by little passing away.
little BY little, on fertile plain,
Ripen the haryests OF golden gram,
Waving and flashing In the sun,
When the summer al last II done
little by little they ripen 50,
AZ he new years come and the OLD years go.
Low on the ground an acorn lies,
Little by little II mounts to the sHies,
SHADOW and shelter for wandering befoh'
Home Tor hundred singing birds.
ysttle nv little the great rocks grew,
long. long ago, when the world wac new;
ainvIy and silently, stately and free,
cities of coral under the sea
Ii,tie nv little are builded-while 40
The new years come and the old years go.
r,,t,e nv little all tasks are done;
60 are he crowns OF the faithful won,
n h Heaven In our hearts begun.
with work and with weeping, with laughter ana
Little by little, the longest day
And the longest life are passing away,
Passing without return-while so
The new years come and the Old years go.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-07-13
Turning Everything to Account.

NEITHER large salaries nor extensive
facilities for making money ensure COM
| petence for man. What ones future ma
terial condition will be, depends not SO
much upon what he receives as upon what
he saves. Generally speaking the differ
ence between the individual who becomes
independent and the one remaining de.
pendent all his life, represents that diff.
ference between careful saving and reckless
spending.
Some become rich on what others throw
away. During the last century, a poor
emigrant and his wife who had landed in
New York, finding nothing else to do, be.
gan to gather cigar stumps about the
streets and bar rooms, and manufactured
them into snuff. They were industrious,
prospered, and laid the foundation for what
is now one of the largest tobacco houses
in the world. The gardener enriches his
soil with the dressing given away by the
improvident neighbor. The Celt fattens
his cow and hog on the slops thrown out
at back doors; and many chifoniers, in
large cities, fish out snug little fortunes
from waste barrels and cutters. There is
scarcely anything in the house that can
not be turned to account sooner or later,
no matter how valueless it may appear at
the moment.
There is no waste in Natures laboratory.
In the numberless transformations and
combination of things, material and i'm
material, nothing is lost or laid aside as
valueless. BY how much man initiates
Nature in this respect, by so much he In.
creases his worldly substance. Corpora
tons and companies amass fortunes,
through the application of genius and in.
ventive talent to what is looked upon as
refuse and of no account An article of
commerce is now made from the water
employed in gas works. Sawdust, which
was once cast into streams, blocking up
their channels, is now extensively used in
manufacturing oxalic and formic acids,
paper, gun.cotton, volatile oils, and blast
ing powder. 1t has proved highly service
able in curing hams, polishing jewelry,
cleaning furs, and for variety of other
purposes. Ivory dust, iron filings, sea-
weed, coal dust, and bones, which were
once cast away, are turned to good uses
II Is now proposed to utilize the Stag ofiron
furnaces tor block pavements. The dead
body Of horse, which owners were for.
merly in such hurry to put out Of sight
is now converted into vast number of uses
The name and tail, says contemporary,
are serviceable for hair-cloth, sleeves, bow
strings, and brushes 1.-THE skin is converted
into leather for cart harness, for boots and
shoes, and strong collars. The hoofs are
used for combs, homework, glue, and in old
times were the chief source of hartshorn,
now obtained from the gas. house. The
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-07-13

flesh is boiled down in the rends.;
and much oil and fat is obtaineS \
The stomach and intestines maxi !
strings and cords for musical ins,,Y
Out of the bones are manufac,n.a
tons, toys, tweezers. knife-handls- /
cups, dom noes, balls; and thu |
from all these things is burnt in.,
black, to be used by the sugar resss
puts in a second claim on the desd !,
and some parts of the bone-blatE y
ed white, to be used by the assaye, |
ing gold; and when the assayer All
er have finished with it, it is o..
into superphosphate to serve as y,
manure on our land. The teeth ~
as substitutes for ivory. Some non,
the bone-black is converted inn
phorus for the manufacture of n
and lately a valuable bread prersr,
made of the phosphate, and medicT'
prepared for the cure of consumrs
Ingenuity and economy of this cbs
have but to be exercised in our bor,
affairs in order to ensure a Comm
however limited may be our ine n
Hearth and Home.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-07-13

ring into the soft crumbs. ihen sue
dropped it playfully On the table qulte
close to the plate Of her neighbor Ana
after this adroit exhibition OF skill as an
actress she continued to eat as uncon'
cerned as though she had performed the
most insignificant action OF her life.
With the same apparent GOODNESS and
Indifference the Grand Duke picked up
the bread enclosing the ring, took the lat
ter out Of its ingenious envelope, ana con,
cealed Il in his breast. for it was too small
to fit any of his fingers. 1t was TINS rug
both the pledge OF Charlottes love ana
the suspicious omen OF his own elevation
to the imperial dignity-which Nicholas
wore on golden chain around ms meek 70
The very last day of his lite, and whlch,
if we are not mistaken, has even descended
with him into the vault OF his ancestors.
Three years after, in 1917, Princess
Charlotte, then only nineteen years OF age,
and in the full splendor Of beauty and
happiness, made her entry into ST. Peters
burg by the side of her husband, whose
eye had never looked prouder, and whose
Olympian brow had never been more Sc
rene than at this happiest moment OF his
life. Asihe looked down upon the vast
multitude who had tlocked together from
all parts of the vast Empire to greet the
young Princess with shouts and rejoicings,
and then again upon his fair young bride,
perhaps the inscription Of the ring recur-
red to his mind for, bending his head
quite close to Charlotte, he whispered,
Now Empress Of the hearts, and some
day, perhaps, Empress of the realm" :,
At this moment the procession reached
the main entrance of the Winter Palace,
where Alexander the First, the Emperor,
surrounded by brilliant suit of generals
and courtiers, came to meet his beautiful
sister-in-law, and conducted her into the
sumptuous drawing rooms Of the magnifi-
cent palace of the Cars. Who would believe
that eight short years afterward the bril-
liant young Emperor had breathed his
last, and that Nicholas and Charlotte
would succeed him on the throne OF Rus
STA? Truly the incription of the engage
mentring had proven prophetic!
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-07-13

stood his language, doubtless it would have
been plaintive cry for liberty.
How wonderful are the works OF the
Almighty Hand! In wisdom he hath mace
them all. How vast the lessons brougnt
to our minds by the telescope, from worlds
afar, and by the microscope, from marVels
so near, that to the naked eye they are all
unseen. -Journdl Of microscopy.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-07-13

TRUTHFUL JAMES, made so familiar by
Bret Harte, is an old Californian product
He appears in John Phnnix's sketch of
the return of the Collector from Stockton.
Squibob quotes statement of one "Cap-
tain j B" Familiarity known as
Truthful James" and in the postscript to
the narrative he remarks that Truthful
James" comes to inform him that the Col
lector did not arrive. The queer charac.
ter who rises TO explain at Bret Harte's
instigation, had name to live in the early
days Of California, and long before his
present manager had any use for him.
Truthful James is a revival and Tot an
original production.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-07-13

THE fire department of New York con.
sists of one chief engineer and nine assist
ant engineers, and 5s4 company officers
and men. The apparatus in actual use
consists of 81 steamers, with tenders and
hose complete, and Is hook and ladder
trucks, fully equipped. The number of
fires occurring during the period between
April, 1870, and April, 1871, was 1,105, and
the aggregate losses thereby amounted to
$2.389,O 900.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1871-11-22


THE unsettled condition of the Demo-
cratic party is illustrated by the following
comments Of the Detroit Pat; "Fhe
Democratic organs still continue 70 invent
new departures. The Washington Patriot
nominates Charles Sumner as Democratic
candidate for PRESIDENT The Cincin.
natl Inquirer goes ior Colonel Scott, who
was stanton's assistant during the war,
The 81, Louis Republican Is willing to take
anybody that any clique Of dissatisfied
Republicans may nominate. The Chica'
go Tines indicates that Governor Palmer
will be its choice. 1t only remains for
the Boston Post to nominate Wendell
Phillips, the New York World TO nOmi-
nate Fred. Douglass, and the Richmond
Enquirer to nominate General Grant, to
make the Democratic new departures
complete. As for the Democrats Of Mich
igan, tho Free Press seems to be preparing
to nominate Boss Tweed, aud Tweed iB
preparing to run away Those who do
not like this, but, like the Democrats in
other States, are bound to run Republi.
can, can go for Senator Trumbell or Chiel
Justice Chase; each Of whom has been
nominated by Democratic journals here.
tofore.n r n e KS