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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-06-15

The Lancaster Penn. Examiner
throws out this hint for the benefit of
sleepy jurymen; Yesterday we record
ed the fact of a juryman getting fined $40
and costs for Keeping the court waiting
on him one hour, while he took his after
dinner nap at his hotel. Another juror
with more tact appeared on time, an
swered to his name, and took his seat in
the Jury box and there took his afternoon
nap, perfectly oblivious to all that was
going on around him, while his right
hand neighbor, who had been fined sat
staring hard at the court and witnesses
all the afternoon. Ofcourse the one who
sleptin the court was not fned--and that's
the difference in the way of doing things"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-06-15
1arieh.

LOST DIP." There are truths which
for their importance and fruitfuness, are
called seed truths. The following Incl
dent is one of this class, and if buried in
the head of some boy or girl will bring
forth harvest
81 am sorry you were not at recitation
yesterday" said college professor to
one of his students, as the young man
rose to recite. "You lost dip by your
absence"
Lost a dip, Sir? do not understand
you" said the student.
"Did you ever see taliow candles made
by dipping?" asked the professor. The
cotton wicking for the candles is strung
on rods, dozen pieces on rod. One
by one the rods are held over vessel of
heated tallow, and the wicks are dipped
into the melted grease. Then the rods
are set aside for the tallow to cool on the
wicks. When all have been once dipped,
the process is commenced anew. AT each
successive dipping, the candles are lit
tie larger than before, and so they grow
to completion. We are doing similar work
in this class. day by day. Yesterday the
others of this class were dipped again,
and | trust their minds took on something
more of our subject of study, and are the
larger in consequence. You lost one dip
by your absence, and | fear you will not
easily overtake your classmates who were
here. If you want your mind to grow,
you must be careful not to lose single
Dip"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-06-15
A1oehy.
BUSINESS" IN MISSISSIPPI


Why, howdy, Mahsr Johnny is you gone t
keepin' storeY
Well, sab, is surprised neber heared of da
afore.
Say, amt you gwine to glib me piece o. good to
bacco, please2
rs long wild you in Georgia, time we all was reru
gees.
lknow'd you WOULD allus tells de people, white
an black,
Dat you'sa raal genlman, and dats de libln
fac'--
Yes, sab, dats what tells EN-, an its muffin else
but true,
An all de culud people thinks mighty heap oh
you.
Look hoah, sah; don't you want to buy some cot.
ton? Yes, you do
Deres oder parties wants 1t, but I'd rather sell to
you.
How much2 Oh, jes' bale-dat on de wagon in
de street.
Dis heah's de sample-dis Is cotton mighty hard
to beat
You'll fin it on de paper what de offers Is dat
made;
Dey's all the same sedltlOns half in cash an half
in trade
Dey's mighty low, sah-Come, now, cant you
prove upon dc rates
Dat Barrot Brudders offers only twelb and sebbon
eighths?
Lord Mahs'r Johnny raise it Don't you knows
dat lsa frlen',
An when has de Ii oney is willing for to spen'?
My customs wuf heap sah; jes you buy de
bale an See
Dere didn't nebber nobody lose muffin Off me-
Now, what's de good oh gwine an a-zamlnin de
bale?
When people trades wild me, dey alluzg gifts homes
sale;
amt no han for CheOtln'; beliebes In actin
far
An eberybody lltell you dat dey allua foun' me
squar'.
l isn't like some niggers; declar' it is shame
De way some OBJ EN- swin'les-what? de cotton
alnt de same
As dis dat in de sample? Well, I'm blest, sir ifit
Isl
Dis heah must be my brudders sampes-yes, sab,
dis is his
If dat don't beat creation? Here I've done been
totin' roun
sample different from de cotton2-I-wlll-be
-ConsOund
Mahs'r Johnny, you mus scuse me- Take de cot.
ton as II stan's
Aud tell If you're willin for to take it off my
hans
sho neber min de augur tain'ta bit 'ouse to
bore,
De bale is all de same as dis heah place the bag.
gins tore;
You oughtnt to go pullin' out de cotton dat
way,
1t spies de beauty of de-what, sab rocks IN da,
you say
Rocks In dat ar cotton2 How de debbil kin dat
be?
packed dat bale my myse'l-hol on a minnit,
le rue see
Ny stars Imus be crazy! Hahs'r Johnny, dis
is fine
rs gone an hauled my brudder'S cotton in in.
stead OBJ mine
Augusta (Ga } Chronicle.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-06-15
&AL0NICA.

The city Of Thessalonca, or, in the
shortened Italian from, Salonica, which
has recently been the scene of disturb
ance and bloodshed owing to the hostil-
ity of the Mohammedan and Christian
population, Is associated with the history
OF apostolic times. 1t took its name, $50
years before Christ, from Thessalonica,
the wife of its founder Cassander who
was sister of Alexander the Great and
It soon became the principal seaport of
Macedonia, preserving tsrank as a com
mercial town through all the ages, and
being to-day, next to Constantlnople, the
principal mart of European Turkey. OF
the importance of the city in the time of
the Romans, abundant evidence exists
in the massive ruins and beautiful CO.
lumns of verde and red antique which
have been eXcavatcd from the sites Of
temples and now ornament the mosques.
Here St. Paul founded Christian com
munity, and near the church which was
formerly dedicated to St. Sophia, is a
marble pulpit from which the Apostle is
said to have preached. Over the grave
of St. Dimetrius, who met a martyrs
DEATH, A. d. 900, under Galerius, large
basilica was built. But even of greater
age is the original mother church, around
building, with precious gold mosacs, and
the present mosque of Eska Djurna,
which originally was an Aphodite tenn
pie, afterwards a church, ornamented !
with Ionic columns. But the earth is
soaked with blood In 800 the people |
were driven, by the Emperor Theodosius,
to the number offs 900, according to other
5000, into the circus and cut
to pieces by the imperial soldiery. The
importance Of the city in every war made
itself apparent down to 1880, when the
place fell into tie hands of the Ouomans
under the Sultan Murad IL. United |
recent times the walls and towers testi-
fed to the art and style of Byzantine for
but now these are entirely fall
len and the citadel is a ruin.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-06-15

LIEUT.. CAMERON read a paper on the
Anthropology Of Central Africa, recently,
before the Anthropological Society of
Great Britain. lie gave an interesting
description Of the manners, costumes
and characteristics of the various tribes
he visited. Among other things he said
Owing to ages of Mahommedan immi-
grafton the pure type Of the negro did
not at present exist on the East Coast of
Africa from which they had been driven
inland In Madagascar there were many
tribes of Malay origin. Among those
tribes were some who wore their hair
down their backs to their waist, some
who had strong bark woven through their
wool, and others again who sported wigs.
In describing the industries and manu-
factures of the great continent, he stated
that the natives in some places ground
their corn with the trunks of trees; and
the pOtteryware manufactured strongly
reminded him of specimens dug up in
the ruins Of Pompeii and Herculaneum.
In his travels he came to country
where the iron trade was in Furnishing
condition, there being many founderies
about 80 feet long by 80 feet wide, where
they frequently got $50 pounds to POO
pounds of metal in q single smelling.
Here he had seen pieces of iron worked
simply by the hammer and nodded into
various shapes, including the human
form, as completely finished as if manip-
ulated by the most skillful English arti-
san. Among the Fetish men whom he
met, the priests were for the most part
clever yentriloquists, an art which they
put to very profitable purpose, as was
5hoTn by the answers of their idols,
which were favorable or otherwise, ac-
cording to the value of the offerings"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-06-15

The Danbuy Ae7OS says: There is one
thing on which husband and wife never
have and never can agree, and that is on
what constitutes a we'll beaten carpet.
When the article issclean, it's mans
impression that it should be removed,
and he be allowed to wash up and quiet
'ly retire. But a womans appetite for car
pet beating is never appeased while a
man has a whole muscle in his body.
And if he waited until she voluntarily
gave the signal to stop, he might beat
away until he dropped down dead. 1t is
directly owing to his superior strength of
mind that the civilized world is not a
widow this day.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-06-15

Mr. f. G. Spaulding, ofNew York. the
author ofthe legal tender act (the father
Of the Greenback"y, !, has been delivering
a lecture of financial matters, and the
New York Pest gives this recital of his
points:
"He tells us that the paper currency
Sprung from the dire necessity Of gi-
gantic civil war The author of the first
legal tender act describes the notes which
were issued under it as debt created in
the absence of ready money 1t was
simply temporary war currency The
real purpose and Object of the legal ten
der act was to fund the debt incurred for
war expenses. 1t was long aflerward
that the monsuous notion that these pro-
misses to pay money we're really money,
that the evidence Of debt cancelled
the debt itself began to prevail Mani
festly the greenback is Just what Mr..
Spaulding describes it to be; in the ma
ture of the case, and from the words prin-
ted upon it, it is that and nothing more.
Since, however, under an eclipse ofrea-
son, many persons in some parts of the
country are deluded into believing that
it is something else, it is well to recur to
what the Legislature oftourteen years ago
intended by their financial legislation.
Mr.. Spaulding says that the great mis-
take of the war was the abrogation of
the right to fund the greenback currency
into gold bonds.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-06-15
ASCENE SERIO. COMO.

Judge $, of Wisconsin, was port
ly, genial man, fond of all the good
things Of life, and especially fond Of his
cups; yet he was dignifed man.
The court had been in session at Span
ker's Cross Roads three days. and the
docket was almost clear. 1t was during
the forenoon Of the fourth day. The
judge and most of the lawyers had been
up all night playing poker, and it is not
too much to say that they came into
court on his morning far from sober, if
not very drunk.
The case on trial was a contested will.
A witness was.testifying who was direct
ly and deeply interested. Opposing
counsel quite tipsy, arose and addressed
the court:
May it [hic] please your honor l think
this witness is, by his own showing, Ihic !
interested in the event of this case.
(hic) object If he can be allowed to
swear himself into possession (hic) of a
thousand dollars in this court, than | say
hiC i say-such a court"
"Mr. Sp-sp-arkler," said the judge,
trying hard to look sober, "your objec-
ton, sir seems to be hic Justly taken;
but, Mr., Sparkler. this court. sir, allows
no profane language in its au-(hic) gust
presence, You were profane, sir-pro-
fame! You are fined five dollars for CON
tempt Of court.
why" replied the drunken attorney,
slightly sobered by the rcbuke and the
fine, "your honor just used profane lam
guage yourself"
"Eh!" cried the Judge, trying to steady
himself, and to collect his floating ideas
Did the court use profane language2
"The court certainly did
"Well, then, (hic) the court fines itself.
Mr.. he clerk, here is the money. This
court intends to preserve its dignity, re-
gardless ofcost. Go on, Mr., SpaIkler. "
-BtHch and Bar.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-06-15

SILENT MEN.---Washington never
made speech. Inthe zenith ofhis fame
he once attempted it, failed, and gave it
up, confused andl abashed. In framing
the Constitution of the United States the
labor was almost wholly performed by
the Committee Of the Whole, of which
George Washington was the chairman.
He spoke twice during the Convention;
but his words were so few that they could
not fifty be termed speeches. The Con-
vention, however, acknowledged the mas
ter spirit, and historians affirm that, had
it not been for his personal popularity
and the sincerity with which he spoke, the
Constitution would have been rejected
by the people,
Thomas Jefferson never made a speech.
He couldn't doit. Napoleon, whose ex-
ecutivc ability was almost without par
allel, said that his greatest trouble was
in finding men Of deeds rather than of
words. When asked how he maintained
his influence over his superiorsrn age and
experience, when commander-in chiefof
the army in Italy, he said, "By reserve "
The greatness ofa man is not to be mea-
sured by the length Of his speeches or
their number,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-06-15

THE DoCTORINE OF TRANSMISSION
A Canadian boy, in the quiet town ofSt.
Cath harines, had been punished by his
father with solitary confinement for lying.
He showed on his release that he had
been employing his time in theological
reflections instead Of using it for self NOR
tihcation. He asked his father
"Pa, did you tell lies when you were
little?"
The father, perhaps conscience smit-
ten, endeavored to evade the question.
But the child persisted.
"DM you tell lies when you were lit
tle?"
well, no" said the father; "but why
do you ask"
Did ma tell lies when she was lit
tle?"
81 don't know, my son; you must ask
her"
well" retorted the young hopeful,
zone of you must have told lies. or you
could not have had boy that would do
il "
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-06-15

TRUTHFULNESS TO CHGLDREN.-A pa
rent, unlike poet, is not born-he is
made. There are certain things he has
at once to learn or he will have no more
influence over his children than if he
were a common stranger. To gain OBJ
edence you must first set yourself to de-
serve it. Whatever you promise your
little one, however small the thing may
seem to you, andwhatever trouble it costs
you, perform it, Never let the doubt
once enter that innocent mind that you
say what you do not mean, or will not act
up to what you say. Make as few pro-
hibitory laws as you possible can, but
once made, keep them. In what gran
ted, as in what is denied, compel your
self, however weary, or worried or i'm.
patient, to administer always even hand
ed justice
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-06-15

A HARD CAsE!-"A young married
man doing business in Boston declares
that he finds it impossible to live on less
than $40, 900 year" 1t is certainly
mighty hard thing to do; but experience
teaches us that, where circumstances be
yond ones control enforce rigid econo-
my, and, forbidding all expenditures that
are not absolutely demanded by ones
daily necessities, render it quite out Of
his power to do any better, it is not Who'll
ly impossible that we may find it prac-
ticable to pull through on even as little as
SIo743,87I.2 Ii makes one feel like
pauper, though, merely to think oft
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-06-15

In Southern California you may see on
plains and hills thousands of sheep, but
not man to watch them Around each
flock or band, say thousand, are half
a dozen dogs of a peculiar breed, whose
progenitors were imported from the sheep
pastures of the Old World. These dogs
take the entire care of the sheep, drive
them to pasture in the morning, keep them
from straying during the day, and bring
them home at night,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-06-15

A sick bed is good place for observa-
ton. We learn some things there which
we could not very we'll acquire elsewhere.
One of them is that two women whisper
ing in the nextroom can be plainly heard,
while you might lay there and yell at the
top of your voice without making either
or even both of them together hear you.
We don't pretend to understand this, but
we know it is so.-Danbn,y Ne1OS.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-06-15

"ILL BREEDING" says Bellgarde, "is
not single defect it is the result Of
many. ltis sometimes gross ignorance
of decorum, or stupid Incidence, which
prevents us from giving to others what is
due them. tits peevish malignity which
inclines us to oppose the inclinatiohs of
those with whom we converse. 1t is the
consequences Of foolish vanity which
has no complaisance for any persons,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-06-15
HOME COMING.


When brothers leave the old hearthstone
And go, each one, separate way,
We think as we go on alone
Along our pathway, day by day.
OF Olden scenes and faces dear,
OF voices that we miss so much
And q emory brings the absent near,
Until we almost feel the touch
Of loving hands and hear once more
The dear old voices ringing out,
As in the happy time of yore
Ere life had caught share of doubt.
If you should place against yourear
The shell you plundered from the sea,
Down in its hidden heart you'd hear
A low and tender melody,
A murmur of the restless tide,
A yearning, born of memory
And though its longings be denied,
The shell keeps singing of the sea,
And sometimes when old memories throng,
Like ghOsts, the chambers of our soul,
We feel the yearning, deep and strong
A longing we cannot control,
To lay our cares and business by,
To seek the old, familiar ways,
And cross homes threshold, and sit down
With comrades of our earlier days,
For, though our paths are sundered wide,
We feel that we are brothers yet,
And by and by we turn aside
From hurrying care and worldly fret,
And each one wanders back to meet
His brother by the hearth of home,
think the meeting is more sweet
Because SO far and wide we roam,
We cross the heightened bridge of years,
Meet outstretched hands and faces true;
The silent eloquence of tears
Speaks welcome that no words can do.
But all the meetings hold regret
The sad sad story, often told,
or hands that ours have often met,
Close folded under Church-yard mold
or eyes that smile into our own,
Closed in the dreamless sleep of God
A Sweeter rest was never known
Than theirs beneath the graves green sod
A tender thought for them to night,
tribute tear from memory;
Beneath their covering of white
Sweet may their dreamless slumber be.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-06-15
STyAN ENGINE nor SALE.

firSt-rate order, forty or fifty horse power aud will
sell it cheap on good tire with proper security.
For further particulars enquire at my residence
in Pike township on the Bolivar road on the
township line between Bethlehem and Pike town
Ships or enquire at the Stark County DEMOCRAT
Office. JOSEPH BUCHTEL.
mV05.hS
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-06-15

A dewdrop, falling in the wild sea wave,
Exclaimed in fear. perish In this grave
But in shell received, that drop of dew
Unto pearl of miscellaneous beauty grew
And, happy now, the grace did magnify.
Which thrGst it forth. as II had feared to die:
Until again, =" perish quite" it said,
Torn by rude diver from its ocean bed,
o uubelievingl- 1t came to gleam
Chief Jewel in monarch's diadem.
-Richdrd c. Trench
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-06-15
MEDICAL,
DIR. TELLER, DECEASED.

The above named private hospital was estab-
lished In Albany in 1885 by Dr. Lispenard and for
number of years its affairs was presided over by
that gentleman but for the past 20 years, DR..
Teller who is now deceased, transacted the bust
ness of the institution.
Owing to the great demand for more spacious
apartments on account Of the large increase of
business, the hospital has been removed to No. 9
Beaver street. two doors above its old location
where patients will find magnifcently furnished
rooms for their reception, and are so arranged that
patients do not come in contact with one another
seeing only the doctor, thereby avoiding the un-
pleasantness Of meeting others, which always oc
Cured at the old Office
Ladies will find rooms provided fortheir especial
accommodation and entirely private.
Young men addicted to sei ret habits, who have
impaired their health aud destroyed the vigor of
their minds thus depriving themselves of the
pleasures Of married life, and those afflicted with
private diseases of any nature, are advised that In
consulting Dr. Young they will find physician
fully qualified to cure and restore them TO full
health and manly vigor.
DR.. Teller's gre7t work fort the married, or those
contemplating MARI age-2o0 pages-fnll of plates
Prizes d cents. Sent to all parts, under seal, by
mail post paid.
To the l.ades-Dr Young still retains the only
agency in America foT the sale of Dr. VichoPs
Italian Female monthly Pills. Sent BY mail on re-
ceipt of 81 90 price per box.
Dr. Young Is the Onl' agent for DR.. LaAott's
celebrated Galvanic Belts.
Inyalids out of the city can be cured by con-
sulting the Doctor by letter and enclosing remit
lance Medicines sent by mail or express, Sc
curely packed from observation, All letters must
be addressed to DR.. 5, V. K. Young Beaver street,
ofiice Hours-DaIly from a. m, to p. m >un.
days 10 10 a. M. and to p. m. nylSly
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-06-15

ASENTIMENT FROM EPICURUS.- Death
concerns us not; for that which has un-
dergone dissolution is insensble and
where there is no sense there is no mind
the mind survives not the senses. While
we are, death is not, for we are not dissol-
we'd; and when death is, we are not; for
this condition Of body, and its mental
functions, exists no longer; neither are
we.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-06-15

Mr.. EMERsoN says: In conversation
shun the negative side" but as this is
Dis the season for summer honnets, there
seems to be growing feeling among our
best citizens that it is q subtle and ingen-
ious effort on his part to subvert family
discipline.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-06-15

"MAMMA," asked precious youngster
at the tea-table the other evening, after
a long and yearning gaze toward plate
of doughnuts, Mamma, do you think /
could stand another one of those fried
holes?" She thought he could.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-06-15
Saturday, the 24h dag of June, 1876,

the following described real estate situate in said
county to wit: certain tract or lot of land stu.
ated on the west side of Poplar street in the city
of Canton and bounded as follows: Lying imme.
dately south of Feathers addition TO the city of
Canton, being ninety.one feet and one inch front
on Poplar street. and extending westwardly at
right angles with said street two hundred and
twenty-seven feet In the shape of parallelogram.
Appraised at $1,000.
Sale to commence at one o'clock p. m Terms
cash
my25.e J.P. RAUCH, Sheriff.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-06-15
Saturday, the 24M dag Of June, 1876,
SHERIFF. SALE,
,nrld A. Arter VS. Charles Pool ct

David A. Arter VS. Charles Pool ct al.
By virtue of an order TO sell issued from the
court of common pleas of Stark county Ohio, and
to me directed will offer for sale at public out.
cry at the door of the Court House In the city of
Canton, on
Saturday, The 24th day Of June, 1876,
the following described real estate situate In said
county to wit: Lot Number sixteen Q6) and
seventeen u1 in shrlver's addition u the city of
Canton.
Lot No. 46 appraised at 1895.
Lot No. II appraised at $3.50.
Sale to commence at one o'clock p. m. Terms
cash
my25.e ]. P. RAUCH, Sheriff.