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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-03-04
THE BORE.
By JOHN G. SAXE

Again h, ar the creaking step.
He's rappins at the door!
Too well know that boding sound
That ushers in the bore.
do not tremble when meet
The stoutest of my foes,
But Heaven defend me from the friend
Who comes but never goes.
He drops into my easy chair,
And asks about the news,
He peers into my manuscript,
And gives his candid views;
He tells me where he likes the line
And where he's forced to grieve;
lie takes the strangest liberties
But never takes his leave.
He reads my daily papers through
Before I've seen a word.
He scans the lyric Chat wrotc)
And thinks it quite absurd:
He calmly smokes my last cigar,
And calmly asks for more;
He opens everything he sees
Except the entry door. .Nt.
He talks about his Fragile health.
And tells me of his pains.
He suffers from q score of ills ...ss. ...
Ofwhich he ne'er complains;
And how he struggled once with death
To keep the fiend at bay; ..t l"H .--
On themes like those away he goes lT-
But never goes away. r -...-
He tells me of the carping wor,is 49, 90
Some shallow critic wrote, ....,- -.., .
And every precious paragraph
Familiarly can quote.
He thinks the writer did me wrong, .
He'd like to run him through .tf g
He says thousand pleasant things,
But he never says "Adieu.''
Where'er he comes-that dreadful man., (;
Disguise it rs may,
know that, like an autumn rain,
He'll last throughout the day
In vain l speak of urgent tasks,
In vain1 scowl and pout,
A frown Is no extipguisher-
u 1t does not put him ont! ".-i-#
mean to take the knocker on;
: Put Grape upon the door; 'uu rs 9'
Or hint to John that / am gone -. 4-uu
To stay u month or more; . s.....-
do not tremble when l meet
Tho stoutest of my foes; - . 1890
But heaven defend ME from the friend d,
Who never. never goes! gI ~. ..g.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-03-04

AFTER Garfield preacher had con-
cluded his sermon in one of the rural
meeting houses, Deacon Malaprop
was called on to pray, and in his pray
er fcrvently thanked the Lord ''that
we have once more been permitted to
hear the gospel dispensed with" On
the way home Miss Malaprop, who is
faithful student OF the New York
Ledger, complimented the sermon by
enthusiastically declaring that she"had
never haard the truth more beautifully
eliminated.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-03-04

THERE are two gentlemen in New
York, says The Sun, brothers, well
known as men about thwn. We will
call them Bill and Jim, Bill shutters n
little. Said Jim one day: "Biil |
want you to go with me and see a
Scotch terrier. He is the greatest
ratter in tins city. We must have that
dog" "Ill go," said Bill. They went.
The terrier was brought out and rat
was looscned with him. To fulfill the
character ascribed to him, the terrier
should have dispatched certain num-
ber of rats within one minute. But a
single rat seemed TO be fully match
for him. Indeed, the longer they
fought the more it looked as if the rat
would prove the better of the two
The dog shook and the rat bit; but
the rat seemed to bite the hardest
Finally Bill broke out: "J-J-J-Jim,"
said he. "B-b-J-6~y the rat!'
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-03-04

= A zoologfeal Ysrn. Ts -
From the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.
Rumors being in circulation to the
effect that new consignment of ami
mails for the Zoologi cal garden has
reached the city, reporter calls at the
office of the society to obtain some in
formation respecting the matter. The
secretary is out, and the Office is in care
of a boy, who is sitting with his feet
on the stove fling skate. The fol-
lowing conversation lensues:
Reporter-Anything new at the gar
den to-day, sonny? f-l 5a'
Bsy-Dunno of nothip'. The skeet-
in was good yesterday, and I seen a
whole lot of fellers goin' in there.
Rep.-Any lot of animals arrived
lately?
Boy-I b'lieve not. Leastways
amt heard of any. But L heard the
ole man say he hoped they wouldn't
bring any more cassowaries.
Rep.-Why not? -a-. ft-. 7s e. 4l,,
Boy-They've got one out there
now. Leastways, the ole man calls il
a cassowary, but 1 call 'em ostriches
And the ole man says that animal
busted loose night afore last and rails.
ed Hail Columbia; went scooin
around that garden behavesia sscanF-
lous. Nobody kpowed it,was loose
until mornin, and then It had played
hob with things, the ole man says it Ell
all the door Iknobs Off The. monkey.
house and the restaurant and then
swallowed six croquet- balls that wal
piled up by the pump. One of the
keepers found an ole heopskirt durin
the day and hung it agin the wall. The
ole man says the cassowary, must have
ct that too, and then it broke into q
cage and put. away two horned owls
and . coockatoo; b'fieve they call It
Ono of them birds like parrots, any
way. .n,i t-as .. .l:aed. i-o- - lii
Rep.-Ats them, do you mean?
Boy-That's V hat, the ole man said
And then ii went Sboomin' around
taslin' almost every thing, and il got
away with two trace chains on one 81
the Wagons, and half a kas OF nails
that was set;in' On the porch Inevel
know Ell them birds had such ape ties.
but the ole man says they have; aul
they'll tackle. almost anything; aud
swaller1t 'sii il was confectionery. He
says he saw one once eat a litter oi
five pups and tnes lbegiu on a. crow.
bars thoagh Il hadn't hsdAnothin'A fol-
= month. And this one, out yer at the
garden, it etithe ole man is keets and
two butter crooks that was in the res.
tauraut winder, and then it stuffed in
two Of lse(pfairiesd ogs that happeDcA
TO be wanderin' about.
Rep.-Did it seem well afterward?
Boy-O middlin'! But. one of IL {
keepers left his revolver llayin' on a
bench, and the ca.sowary scooped that
in too, and in the mornin', while they
was driyin' it into the pen, it ran agiu
the fence, and two or three explosions
kinder smothered ike, was heard
growlin' ndlrnmblin' on its insides
and the next minute the smoke came
Dustin. out ofits mouth, and it rolled
over and stepped out. The ole mar
says the jolt must have started thai
revolver.
Rep.-Anything else newt? ca
Boy-No, nothin'; but you come
round yer Whenever you want All item
There's most always somethin' goin
on. You see the ole man he'll 'ston.
ish you with information. Good
mornin'.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-03-04
,CSURY LAWS.

! s.-..--...rrt ,CSURY LAWS. h.-- I10,
AT various times tine question of u
repeal of usury laws has been agisated
in the various States, and in some of
them there has beenat times very fat
! tering hopes for all abolition of an
ancient device which has proven very
inimical i'm numerous instances 10 bus
mess enterprise. The principal advo-
Gates OF the perpetuation of the usury
laws have been the farming classes,
which ohave essayed thus to protect
borrowers who confess business inca
pacity in the implied inability to pro-
tect themselves. All legal restriction
as to the rate of interest were abol-
ished i'm England az long since as 1889
but in other European countries the
rate per cent. is established by law,
and the diversity is fully as great as
in the different States in the Union
/ 1t would certainly seem TO be valid
proposition that the rate of interest
should be in proportion to the dura-
.tion of the loan, or higher or lower in
direct proportion TO the risk, to COM
pensate properly for the risk. 1t is
altogether at the option of the bor-
rover, and it seems the height of sun
wisdom" to hamper the hands OF
many in the guardianship of a few
classes of the community.
The laws of the various States, ac-
cordipg to Mr.. Medill, of the Chicago
Tribune, stands in this wise on the
subject of usury: ..... TO-.
Forfeiture Of all Hinterest--Alabama,
Connecticut, District of Columbia,
Florids, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky,
Louisiana, Missouri. Nebraska, New
Jersey, North Carolina, Rhode Island,
South Carolina, Tennessee, Wisconsin.
Forfeiture Of all interest n eccess
Of legal rate-Dakota, Indiana, Iowa,
Maine, Maryland. Michigan, Ohio,
Pennsylvania, Vermont, West Vir-
ginia. ...
Forfeiture Of all rights under the
COUCS uCt -@Ai haDsaS, bCi"WaIc, A>SW
York Virginia. +......-. .-...r
No tegal restrictions = California,
Colorado, Massachusetts,, Mississippi,
Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas,
Utah, Georgia. ,.. =.
r Mr.. Medill also gives the following
useful information:t,. .--s..
The abolition of the usury laws in
Great Britain required thirty-five
years of agitation. 1t is satisfactory
to note that all the agitation in this
country tends undevia'inglyr in the
direction of that good sense and po-
iitical economy. which is nothing but
industrial good sense gencralized, long
since pointed out as the true way. 1t
is safe 10 predict the disappearance of
restrictions on interest and an un-
trammcled era OF free trade in money.
In Europe, outside of England, the
diversity in the usury law is as great
as between the United States. Spain
and Austria enforce penalties almost
As severe as New York. France. Nor
way, Sweden and Dcnma: confiscate
the excess OF interest over the legal
rate. In England alone is money
lending frec.--Er.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-03-04


control them. The testimony Of our best citi-
zens, of all classes, establishes. the fact, that
CHERRY PECTORAL VIII and does relieve and
cure the affiicting disorders of the Throat and
Lungs beyond any other medicine. The most
dangerous affections of the Pulmonary Organs
yield to it, power; and cases of Consumption,
cured by this preparation, are publicly known,
SO remarkable as hardly to be believed, were
they not proven beyond dispute. As n remedy,
it is adequate, on which the public may RELY
for full protection. BY curing Coughs, the
forerunners Of more serious disease, it. saves un-
numbered lives, and an amount Of suffering not
to be computed. 1t challenges trial, and con-
vinces the most sceptical. Every family should
keep it on hand as protection against the early
and unpercefved attack Of Pulmonary Afrec-
tions, which are easily met at first, but which
rlected. Tender lungs need this deience; and it
children, amid the distressing diseases which
beset the Throat and Chest Of childhood, CHERRY
PEcToRAL is invaluable; for, by its timely use,
multitudes are rescued from premature graves,
and saved to the love and affection centred on
them. It acts speedily and surely against ordi-
nary colds, securing sound and Misunderstanding
sleep. No one will suffer troublesome Infu.
enza and painful Bronchitis, when they know
how easily they can be cured
Originally the product of long, laborious, and
successful chemical investigation, no cost or toll
is spared in making every bottle in the utmost
possible perfection. 1t may be confidently relied
upon rs possessing all the virtues it has ever
exhibited, and capable of producing cures rs
memorable as the greatest it has ever effected.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-03-04

IL the lexicon Of yohths which fate reserves
For bright manhood there is no such word .i
As-FAIL.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-03-04
A LSo Agent for the
National Steamship Company.

Sells Passage tickets to and from Europe, a nc
Drafts on England. ireland and Scotland.
The vessels of this line consist OF twelve Firs
Glass British built Iron Steamships, one. o.
which will leave Liverpool every Wednesday
Queenstown every Thursday, and New Iorl
every Saturday. ..sy i ...- 7r-
For passage or further information, apply tc
p SIIEH AN, @sf. West street: New York, or
~ BERNARD KINNEY,
: l4O-tf -a'-f - Rayenna. Ohio.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-03-04
SCIENTIFIC.

Useful Recipes for the shop, tho Household,
and the Farm.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-03-04
:rEAyer's pa
Cherry Pectoral,
such as Coughs, Colds, Whooping-
Cough, Bronchitis, Asthma, =.
and CONSUMPTION.

Among the great
discoveries of modern
| science, few are OF
l more real value 10
/ mankind than this eff
. fectual remedy for all
[ diseases Of the Throat
and Lungs. a vast
trial of its virtues,
throughout this and
other countries, has
shown that it does
surely au1 e0ectuaIly
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-03-04
,,.t ..,- ...taf t-sxOII84 EA'-lJ
/ ''' Ayers -. -. -. =,
HairV'l';igol,r11', "
.,irgli, ,sioos L.baail- ~ - TO
For restoring to Gray Hair it's
natural Vitality and Color. - =

A dressing
which 8 s. at
once agreeable,
healthy, and
efectual for
lprsservingth the
hair. Hvsoon
resto,,esS faded
or gray hair
to ats original
rn16ze aiyih. The
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-02-21
The Dressed Weight of Animals.

Farmers, who have had but little eX-
perience in feeding animals for the mar
ket, are often disappointed because their
beef and pork does not weigh as much as
they thought it would. They are likely
to overlook certain points which ought
always to be taken into account when es-
timating the dressed weight of animals.
1. Age. An old animal will not dress
as much in proportion to its looks as a
young and growing one.
2. The degree of fairness. A creature
which will weigh great deal more than
one equally as large, but which has not
been well-fattened.
3. Amount of grain which has been
fed. An animal which had twenty or
thirty bushels of meal will dress much
heavier than one which was In equally
good order when the fattening was com,
menced, and which may look equally vel
when it is finished, but which has only
been fed on half as much meal.
4. Length of time in which gram has
been fed. A creature which has peen
mealed for five or six months will weigh
more than one which has had about Inc
same quantity of meal, but which has
been fed only about half as long
In all cases liberal and long continued
feeding is essential to the attainment o
any great success in fattening ANIMALS
any kind.-Neso England Homestead.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-02-21
FARM AND GARDEN
Over-Petting Animals.

Bows and girls are fond of pets. an,
they generally like large better than smal
animals to amuse themselves with. !
bow would much rather have colt thar
rabbit; and a little girl would take :
lamb in preference to a bird. Colt. lamb
and even calf, make a very agreeable
pet when skillfully trained, but there is \
danger of over petting, and we write this
for the purpose of giving word of eau.
ton to our young friends.
While you are teaching young ami.
NAL to love you and to be quite familiar.
do not lose the mastery over it, and do
not allow it to chase you as if YOU were
afraid of it, for bad results will be almost
certain to follow. A lamb can easily be
taught to butt, and calf to push with its
head. a colt to bite and to strike with its
feet. all of which are very amusing when
the animals are 80 young that they can
do no harm, but the trouble comes after
wards, as they arc not going to forget
their means of defense, or to forget that
they are the stronger and you are afraid
of them.
The answer to this may be that they
can be mastered after they become older
and held in perfect subjugation, but ex-
perience teaches differently. We have
known many pet sheep that had to be
killed because it was absolutely dan
gerous for children to enter lots where
they were kept, and no amount of punish.
ment would break up the habit of buttine
every person they could get a dick at
A lady friend of ours, not long ago, wa
carried from farm yard insensibe anc
nearly lifeless, having been gored by ,
yearling heifer that had been over-pettec
and taught to pursue party and push
with its head. This animal could not be
broken of its habit, and after greatly in
juring several parties had to be killed
We have known several instances, also,
where pet colts have nearly killed men
who were handling them, by payfully
rearing and striking the parties at mo-
ment when there was no thought of such
a move. Horse trainers would much
rather have a colt wild from the field, one
that had never been touched by human
hands, than colt that has made itself
very familiar with its keeper. A wilC
colt when subdued knows its place ant
keeps it with submission, while a colt tina
has been taught that it is the master will
more likely be found out of place than
otherwise.
We believe in petting animals, but be-
| lieve at the same time that the only safe
course is to never allow them for mo-
ment to get the impression that you are
not able to annihilate them instantly if
they trespass upon your rights. If 8
lamb or calf butts, whip it soundly and
SO that it will not attempt it again, and
never, as we have said before, allow it tc
chase you as if you were attempting tC
escape. With the colt adopt similar
course, and you will have pleasant com
panions and pets. Door and Ont.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-02-21

and unnatural, and that future genera
tons would hold in horror and hatred
the memory of the man who had con-
demncd his own son to death. Their
prayers and arguments seemed, however,
to render the old king only the more i'm
placable, and he dismissed them, saving
that if the law forbade such things, and if
that law was inviolably observed through
out the kingdom, how could he justify
his conduct to his subjects, were he to
allow the same to be infringed upon in
his own palace, and the offender to re.
main UNPUBLISHED merely because he was
his son; that it should never be said of
him that he made laws for his subjects
which did not apply to his own family.
When XOcotZincatzin, the prince 8
| mother, heard that he was condemned to
death, she gathered the rest of her sons
about her, and coming suddenly before
her husband, she fell on her knees, and
besought him with many tears to spare
the life of her darling son, the first
pledge of love that she, his favorite wife,
had given him. Finding all her entreat-
les fruitless, she then implored him, for
the sake of the love he once bore her,
to Stay her and her other sons with Huex-
otzincatzin, since life without her first
born was unbearable. But the stern old
king still sat to all appearance unmoved
and immovable, and coldly directed the
attendant ladies to convey the wrotched
mother to her apartments.
The execution of the prince was de-
layed in every possible manner by those
who had charge of it, in the hope that the
king might even then rcent; but Neza-
hualpili having been informed of this,
Immediately ordered that the sentence
should be carried out without further de-
lay. SO Huexotzincatzin died. As soon
as the news of his sons death was carried
to the king, he shut himself up in certain
apartments called the "rooms of sorrow"
and there remained forty days, mourning
for his first-born and seeing no one. The
house Of the late prince was then walled
up, and none were allowed to enter it,
and so all tokens of the unhappy young
man were destroyed.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-02-21
A South American Town.

~ south American letter-writer says
buenos Ayres is a modern commerce
CITY, built upon an old Spanish town. it
IS iaid out INTO squares by streets crossing
al, at right angles with perfect regularty
ne narrow streets were originally lined
with rambling one-story houses Of bricf.
raced with white cement, each with is
patio in the CENTRE and its large street
windows etfe tually protected bv.a net
work of iron bars. In recent times H..
wonderful commercial prosperity of tie
CITY has rendered necessary more crowd
ed style OF building, and these structures
nave been ruiz up to two, three. and rare v
Tour stories in height The shop windo,
OF the Florida, the principal street, vi
remind you OF New York or London, b;
glance at the editices will bring volr
thoughts back to Buenos Ayres. The
sights In the streets have the same two
Told character. The old custom of horse
back riding still prevails largely, and the
CHATTER of hoofs without the rolling Of
wheels is marked popularity. The
baker outfit is donkey or a sorry jade
OF horse, with huge panniers on either
side, between which sits the man of the
ioaves galloping down the streets. l be
lleye that, fortunately, pies are not in de-
mand here. The milkman, dressed gau-
cho fashion, with SLOUGH hat, shawl
over his shoulders and another about his
legs, comes trotting in from the country
with his cans slung on either side of his
morse. He IlltS wafar int htu i'll
there is another variety" who does not.
He may be seen driving two or three cows
down the street with calves tied to their
tails. When hailed he will draw the
milk for you before your eyes, unadulter-
ated, OF course, unless he may have
syringe full of water secretcd in his sleeve,
as one ingenius fellow is said to ha, :
done. You may see drove of turke,
DOWN the street and if you desire one FL
dinner, the agile driver will catch the oil
ject of your choice in moment and
wiring his neck in your presence. The
carts, you see, are all very high two
wheeled vehicles, with the shafts thrust
into saddle on the back of one horse,
while another, fastened to one corner by
chain caught in one side of his saddle,
gyrates about as much as he pleases.
These are tritling matters. but they are
street pictures. Along with street-cars
of New York manufacture, the driver
winds a horn at every crossing to clear
the road, and equipages as fine as any to
be met on the grand boulevard in Chi
cago.--G0Lden Age.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-02-21
The Death of MOtley's Wife.

The London correspondent of the New
York Tribune gives an account OF the
death of Mrs. Motley, the wife of the emf
nent historian and diplomatist:
Mrs. Motley died in London, December
81, 1875, at half-past two. She had long
been an invalid. Two weeks before she
was thought to be dying; but the extra
ordinary strength of her constitution sus-
tanned her beyond the limit expected by
her physicians. She suffered much. Her
death will be lamented in Boston, her
old home, and not less widely in London,
where, of late years she has lived a greater
part of the time. Long before MIR. Motley
became Minister here they were we'll
known in London. During his ministry
the American Legation had all those adj
vantages which personal and social fame,
quite independent of official rank, can
give, and which mere official rank cannot
give, though it sometimes enjoys the APP
pearance of them. Mrs. Motley was IA
miliar with social laws, and there have
been few American ladies who understood
so we'll the myriad ms and outs of London
society, with its intricacies of family re-
lationship requiring diplomacy all its
own. The brilliant house in Arlington
street was brilliantly kept up. Mrs.
Motleys tact and elegant simplicity, her
refinement and good sense were admired
by everybody, while her friends knew that
underneath these qualities were to be
found the warmer traits of sincerity, warm
feeling, conscientiousness and real force
of character Her loss falls upon Mr.
Motley while he is himself still an inva
lid. But he had been gaining steadily
and his friends have of late been hoping
to see him resume his studies and com
plete his noble historical work, which
completed or not, will remain his i'm
perishable monument.