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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-02-15

Gladly now We gather round it
| For the toiling day is done,
And the gray and solemn twilight
Follows down the golden sun.
Shadows lengthen on the pavement.
Stalk like giants through the gloom.
Wander past the dusky easement.
Creep aroHnd the fire-lit room
Draw the curtain, close the shutters,
Place the slippers near the 6re,
Though the loud wind rudely mutters.
What care we for wind sprite's ire.
What care we for outward eming?
Fickle Fortunes frown or smile:
If around us love is beaming,
Love can human ills beguile.
Meath the cottage roof and palace,
From the peasant to the king
All are quaiiing 1rom m Iife's chalice
Bubbles that enchan tmcnt bring.
Crates asc glowing, music flowing,
From the lips we love the best;
Oh, the joy. the bliss OF knowing
There are hearts whereon to rest!
Hearts that throb with eager gladness-
Hearts that echo to their own
While grim care and haunting sadness
Minglc near in look or tone.
Care may tread the halls of daylight,
Sadness haunt the midnight hour.
But the wierd and witching twi light
Brings the glowing hearthstone's dover,
Altar of our holiest feelings
Childhood's well remembered shrine!
Spirit neutrality-suspicious.
Wrcathcs immortal round thee twine,
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.sa MEDICAI
TO THE AFFLICTED.
DIR. JOHN G0UcHER

/ Stiilcontinues to treat every variety OF
CERONIC DISEASE,
at the corner Of Sycamore and Cedar
Sts., Rsvenna, Ohio, where he located
the 26th of October, 1868. Since that
/ time have successfully Treated TWEEN
TY-SIx THOUSAND, FIVE HUNDRED
CASES among which have been many
miraculous cures of Cancer, Gravel,
TumorS, Dropsy. Rheumatism, Fistu-
la in Ana, Prolapsus of the Rectum,
Piles, Tape Worms, Seat or Pin
Worms, Intestinal Worms, Hip Dis
ease, Coitre, Enlarged Glands, Scrofu-
la, and all Impurities of the Blood.
scaid Efend Invariably Cured;
and that most insidious of all diseases,
Catarrh, which is destroying its tens of
thousands annually. Also, the varied
Diseases of Females, arising from Uter
inc Diseases, Displacement, Enlarge
meDt, Inflammation, liberation, Tu-
mors, Polypus, and all their sympa-
tiietic accornpaniments, on the latest
scientific principles, without the use of
the knife or caustics, but by constitu-
tional treatment aud local absorbents,
which we believe to be the true meth
od of cure, if timely and properly ap-
piled.
CaIculous COncretions of the Kid
neys and Bladder. There are several
varieties of Gravel in our possessions,
that we have removed through the
natural urinary passage, from different
individuals in this locality.
The Doctor is a graduate in the Eye
and Ear Infirmary of New York City,
and has had a large and successful
practice in that department.; and is
also q graduate OF several of the lead
ing Schools of his Profession, the Di-
plOmas of which are hanging up in his
Office, for everybody to READ and IN
vESTIGATE.
Thanks to an intelligent community
for their extensive patronage.
TERMS-Cash. Positively no trust
OFFICE HOURs--From 8 a. M. to p m.
7FncerE' J.GOUCHER, NJ. d.
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A SINGULAR CONDUIT.

Yesterday morning about 8 o'clock.
as Sergt. Williams was approaching
No. Station, he noticed two men on
their knees at one of the gratings, hold
ing, as he thought. conversation with
some of the prisoners inside. On ap-
preaching nearer and getting better
view OF the pair, the Sergeant made a
discovery Of different character. The
man nearest the wall-who, by the
way, was Dan Dewan, of Stanley
Street-was in the act of holding one
end of long, slender, tin tube to the
mouth of one of the prisoners below
a man named Jeremiah Sheehan-
while his companion was pouring the
contents Of small bottle of whisky in
at the other. The two worthless had
just emPtied one bottle through this
singular conduit, aud were in the act
of uncorking another, when the Ser
geant stepped forward and interrupt
ed the performance. After giving
the two reprimand for their con-
duct, the Sergeant took the tube and
whisky from them and sent them
about their business. As they were
moving of, Dewan begged that he
might have the tube back again, as 1t
might be useful to other poor creatur-
es some O. these cowld mornin's s.
The Sergeant did not see that the ar
gument was strong enough, so he car
ried the spoil into his Office. The
tube in question has evidently been
made expressly for the purpose 10
which it was seen to be put yesterday
morning, aud may have been used un-
der similar circumstances rep eatedly.
Toronto Globe.
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THE WEALTH OF BRAZIL.

All intelligent travellers who have
visited Brazil speak in the most glow
ing terms of the country. Professor
Agassiz regarded it as the most pro-
ductive and interesting country on the
globe, and the one in which it is easi-
est to obtain livelihood. Some who
have sailed up the Amazon declare
that vessel can be loaded with Brazil
nuts at only a few pence per bushel.
These constitute valuable article of
commerce, while the oil extracted
from them is very desirable. All the
tropical fruits are produced in Brazil
almost without cultivation. The soil
in many parts of the country will pro-
duce twenty successive crops of cotton
or tobacco, or sugar cane without ap-
plication of manure. No country in
the world approaches the land of Dom
Pedro in the variety of its forest pro-
ductions. Professor Agassiz stated
that he saw lit different kinds of val
liable woods that were cut from q
piece of land not half mile square.
They represented almost every variety
of color, and many of them were ca
pable of receiving high polish. One
tree furnishes wax that is used for
candles another . pith that is used
for food, and still another yields a
juice that is used in the place of in
toxicating liquor. There is single
variety of palm from which the ma
tives obtain food, drink, clothing, bed
ding, cerdage, fishing tackle, medicine
and the material they manufacture in-
to dwellings, weapons, harpoons, and
musical Instruments. Doubtless the
day is not far distant when the valua-
Bile woods of Brazil will be used for
various useful and ornamental pur-
poses New York Mercury.
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WALNUr-trees sometimes attain
prodigious slze and great age. An
Italian architect mentions having seen
at St. Nicholas, IN Lorraine, single
plank of the wood of the walnut.
twenty five feet wide upon which the
Emperor Frederick III had given
sumptuous banquet. In the Baidar
Valley, near Balaklavs, in the Crimea,
stands walnut-tree at leastone thou
sand years old. 1t yields annually
from $4,000 TO 100000 nuts, and be-
longs to five Tartar families, who
share it's produce equally.
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struggle. Hiding their gleamln.
knives in the folds of their blankets
one by one they silently stole out OF
the council chamber till all were gone
leaving Rhon-yan-ace alone with bi
friends-the acknowledged victor o
the field without having struck {
blow.
Never again was the imputation o.
cowardice cast on this noble red man
whose msgnanimity and lofty char
acter were SO grandly displayed in
this incident. He lived to be an old
man, and was among the first of his
people who professed Christianity un-
der the teachings ofa good missionary
named Finley, who labored success
fully among the Wyandots for many
years, and in whose published report
of the mission our savage hero is spo-
ken of as one of the most pious and de-
voted of his Indian converts.
LIFE.
1t glows in the lily-bell; it warblcs
forth from the throat of the nightiu-
gale. If it departs the lily is dead,
and the bird is sill mt. 1t tpsses the
ocean and tints the sea-shell. 1t comes
on the sunshine and only fingers i'm
the shade. 1t rests on the grand old
mountains, and sighs with the wind
through the solitude of the forest.
Where it is there is beauty and per-
fection; aud where it is absent there
il dreariness aud desolation. 1t is to
this that Nature owes her charm her
everlasting life, perfectly indestructi-
BILE. 5 T f
Wonderful and mysterious is the
life that pervades our bodies; that
links the material aud immaterial. 1t
throbs at the heart, bounds a. the pulse
and speeds through the brain. 1t
CLEANS in JOY and dulls with sadness.
1t either flashes or subsidies with love ;
a strange mixture of perfections and
imperfections. 1t is beautiful in truth
despicable- in falsehood; glorious in
faith and most sad in despair.
1t is not the human portion of those
that are dear to US that we loye, but
the life that ani,nates aud is in itself
beyoud price.
The life of man is blemished; all
other life is beautiful in purity and ir-
responsibility but ours; accountable
to ourselves and to the same source
from whence came our animating
spirit. It's origin and termination are
lost in obscurity. Like river, it
merges into the sea, and we can trace
it no further.
Who would not value the life placed
like sacrificial fire upon the altar Of
our innermost being? Fed by the
fuel of the love and protection of the
Deity it burns. Then it blazes in fit
ful CLEANS that flicker in the draught
and sinks and rises, and sinks again,
unfit eiie fame dies in he ashes. and
the new life springs to other regions.
Then the fire is out, the altar is cold,
and 8 few sorrow stricken worship
pers stand around, aud then, throw.
ing q sad pail over the deserted shrine,
they 60 their way and depart.
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A CHINESE SHOWER OF GRAssHOP
PERS,


1 saw sight the other day that put
me in mind of that fair State, Minne-
sofa, viz: a flight of grasshoppers, or
rather locusts, only they look far mere
like the former than the latter, as we
see them at home. They began to
rise about ten miles off, and resem-
bled a dense column of smeke. Grad
ually they deployed into line and
started for "green fields and pastures
new," which, by the way, were the
sickest specimen of agriculture inside
of twcnty-four hours, ever saw in
my life. While on the line of flight
an observation was made by the Har-
bor- Master, who reported the column
as eight miles long and one mile wide.
No other observation is necessary, if
you please. They darkened the heav-
ems, like dense cloud, aud in the
surrounding country, it was impessi-
BILE to avoid crushing them under foot
by the dozens. 1t would make you
heart-sick to hear of the terrible pri-
vatioa and suffering caused by these
pests. Indeed, China had bad year
of it altogether. Long droughts made
short crops, and these the locusts have
consumed; and now, the winter has
come, and, though '.John" is always
represented with an umbrella and 6
ian, it is bitterly cold all the same, The
thermometer falling below zero
[China Cor. San Francisco Chronicle
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There is much nourishment in fish
little less than in meat, weight for
weight, and in effect it may be more
nourishing, considering how, from its
softer fibre, fish is more easily digest
ed, Moreover, there is in fish sub
stance which does not exist in the
flesh of land animals, namely, iodide,
a substance which may have benefi-
ciai effect OH the health and tend to
prevent the production of scrolulous
or turbercular disease, the latter in the
form of pulmonary consumption. one
of the most cruel and fatal with which
civilized society ia afflicted. Compar-
alive trials have proved that in most
fish the proportion of solid matter,
that is, the matter that remains per-
feet digestion or the expulsion of the
aqueous part---is little inferior to that
OF the several kinds of meat, game or
poultry. If we give attention to class
es of people, classed as to the quality
of food they principally subsist on, we
find that the ishthyophagous class are
especially strong, healthy and prolific.
In no class, except that of fishers, do
we see larger families, handsomer wo.
men, more robust and active men, Or
a greater exemption from the maladies
just alluded to- Boston Transcript.
ffff
RELIEF FOR THE ASTHMATIC.
A smoke from the leaves of bellad on.
ma possesses much more power in cut
ting short an attack of asthma than
that from Stramonium. A long pipe
is the best means of smoking them,
the patient being instructed to draw
the smoke deep into the chest. If
when the attack is at its height he has
not the power of doing this, the leaves
may be placed in saucer containing
lighted charcoal or wood-ashes, which
should be plrced on chair in front of
the patient, this chair, a. well as his
own, being covered with large sheet,
so as to confine the fumes, before the
leaves are put on the hot charcoal.
From two and half TO five grains of
the leaves are sufficient when smoked,
aud from five to twenty grains when
burned. If the smoke is drawn deep
ly into the chest, the relief is immedi-
ate, expeetoration of phlegm taking
place. 1t is in the spasmodic form of
asthma, where there is little or no ex
pectoration, that the greatest relief is
obtained; for, when the tubes are
loaded with mucus, the smoke cannot
get access to their muscular tissue.
The relief is most marked when the
remedy is used soon after the parox-
ysm has commenced, before the spasm
prevents access of air to the smaller
tubes and air-cells. Tocacco smokers
do not. receive the same amount of re-
lief as others. Temporary headache
of a throbbing character may be pro-
inced If the leaves are used too free
ly.-[ Melbourne Medical Record.
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MILITARY INTERFERENCE In POLL
TICS,

1t should be the rule that the ring
of sabres and the fash of bayonets
should not be seen or heard IN halls
consecrated to civil legislation or to
the voting BY free people. The army
should only be called in to preserve
the peace and suppress insurrection
when the civil authorities fail. II, to
preserve peaces it is necessary for
troops to take possession of court
houses or legislative halls or voting
booths, they must understand that it
is no part of their duty to discriminate
between the rights of one and another
class of claimants to seats in the legis-
lature and upon the bench, or to the
right Of casting votes Disputed claims
to seats or votes are entirely civil mat
ters, and must be passed upon by civil
authorities only /; and it is essential
that claimants shall be admitted to be
personally present in the assembly to
which they claim membership. The
soldiers first idea is to obey orders,
and he looks to some Que to give them.
Relying on this, the first to gain pos
session of the seat of authority order
out their opponents, and the soldier
blindly executes the order. We do
not mean to speak of any particular
cases past, but of the natural and nec-
essary results of the military interfer.
ence, if it is not most strictly preserv-
ed and guarded. The uneasiness Of
thinking men, not blinded by parti-
sanship, arises from the fear that the
military may be needlessly called for
and used beyond their functions.-
North American Review.
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THE LONG-EXGLED CHILDREN or IS
: RAEL FL0CKING BACK re THE
LAND OF THEIk.FArHGRS

Mr.. William Knighton writes to The
London Times: During the early
part Of this year was in the Holy
Land. Everywhere, from Dan 10
Beersheba, l saw evidence of the re-
newed energy and activity of theJew-
ish race. AS a people the Jews are
iocking back to the land of their fore
fathers in great numbers from all the
countries of Europe. In Jerusalem
and its neighbOrhood, particularly,
every plot of ground for sale il eager
ly bought by them. The Jews are
wealthy race. The Turks, who NOM
Inally govern their promised land, are
grertly in want of money. Would it
not be possible for the jews to issue
among themselvey a newTurkish losn,
on condition that they should obtain
the right of governing their own land
under the guardianship of the great
powers of Europe? Would not many
wealthy Christians be ready to assist
them in this matter if the leaders of
the Jewish community throughout
Europe undertook it with some de-
gree Of vigor? A republic or q sar-
cerdotal government might be thus
established in Jerusalem, nominally
under the Turks still, but really under
the guarantee of the great Christian
powers of Europe "A government
which might be of incalculable benefit
to Palestine, in which scarce farth.
ing Of public money is now spent for
its improvement or the development
of its magnificent natural resources
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-02-15
FAIR HAIR AND BLUE EYES IN GER.
MANY,

For long time the idea of Ger
man, more particularly of German
lady, was that ne or she had blue eyes
and fair hair. The Germans them
selves have frequently protested
against this sweeping assertion, and q
careful examination of a German reg
iment or of German school would
have sufficed to show the strong ad.
mixture of black hair and brown eyes.
But anthropologists went on asserting
their-own views, formed on what they
called their own long experience, till
at last the public insisted on having
the matter settled by regular census.
Government assented, and on cer-
tain day every school in Prussia had
to make return of the black aud blue
and brown color of the children's eyes.
Many of the pupils came home on that
day, telling their parents with mys-
terious air. that their eyes aud hair
and skin had been examined at school.
Some of the parents thought it an un-
due interference with their rights, but
the thing was done, and angry pro-
tests against what the Government
commands or allows to be done are Of
little avail in Germany. After short
time, the results of this anthropologi-
cal commission have been published,
and they are, at all events, curious,
though, perhaps, not of much scientific
value. The number of persons exam
ined in Prussia amounted to 4, ,l27, ,766.
Out of that number 4.070,923 were un-
der fourteen years of age. With re-
gard to the color of their eyes, AZ 81
per cent. had blue, "a 81 per cent. had
brown eyes. With regard to the color
of the hair, y per cent. had blonde,
26 per cent. brown, and l 81 per cent.
black hair. With regard to the color
| of the skin, Prussia has only 53 per
cent. of a brunette complexion. In
Bavaria the brunette complexion
claims Is per cent, the black hair
per cent, the brown hair Al per cent,
the fair hair 81 per cent: and it is ar
gued from this that the darker COM
pleAion in Germany came from the
South-rather bold generalization, if
one considers the mixture Of tribes in
Germany, even at SO late time as
the invasion of the barbarians into the
Roman Empire. The report contains
number of curious observations; for
instance, that nearly one-third of the
jewish school-children are fair, which
would certainly not be the impression
left upon a casual spectator by the Or.
dinary run of the Jewish population
Coop WoMEN.-The modest virgin
the prudent wife,o the careful matror
are much more serviceable in life thar
petticoated philosophers, clustering
heroines or virago queens. She who
, makes her husband and children hap
py, who reclaims the one from vic,
and trains the other to virtue, is
: much greater character than ladies de
! ecribed in romance, whose sole occu
patton ia to murder mankind witt
| their shafts from the CULVER of thei
D eyes,
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WE'LL DIGGING
AND DRILLING.

Having recovered from my late misfortune, I
tender my services to the people of Ravenna
and vicinity
WELL DIGGER AND DRILLER.
am also prepared to clean and repair Wells
and CisternS
Having had over forty years experience in
the business, can guarantee satisfaction to all
who may employ me. -
~ Prices as low as those of any other m an
in ksvsnna sss ssaaty; Dec a 9sRsEIaE.s KAY
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w. H. MCCONNELL, Nj. d.,
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON

Twenty years experience All forms OF acute
and chronic diseases sEiIIfully treated HAY
ing for years made chronic disease speciality
] will continue to give particular attention 10
that class OF cases
ONE and residence No. 53 Sycamore street.
4yf:3mo Rrvcnna, Ohio
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what is the difference between an
editor aud his wifel' sOne sets arti-
cles to rights, and the other writes ar
ticles to set.
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Atsorucx and Counselor at Law possesses
suvcrior facilities for making COLLECTIONS IN
All parts of the United States ONCE over
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SHE was fond of coundrums, and
when she learned that muller was
Latin for woman she thought she had
q good one. So she asked her husband
what was the difference between her.
self and mule. And as he had been
married several years, he was too
thoughtful to trouble her by guessing,
but kindly remarked that he had new
er been able to see any.
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MOP WRINGER.

THAVE secured the exclusive right TO sell
i Henry ]. ilotchkiss' MOP WRIN6EE in the
several townships Of Portage County.
The Indies will find this great labor saving
implement.
will sell this cOnvenien. and useful inven-
tiOn ut retail. will sell township ri ghts or my
entire interest therein. at very low figures. 1t
is an implement which finds ready and rapid
sale and an active, energetic man can make
good wages in selling it,
Tor terms, apply at the Office of K T.. HAT
FIELD. over Second National Bank er on Sat
urtiays at Otto Sontum's. next door to Poe
I House JAMES NcMULLEN
Rlvcnpa, Nov. l3. 1876 42o
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"HYsICIAN AND SURGEoN--Onisa in
Emyirc Building. Residence on hing
Slrset nr.s door south of Main.
Ravesanz, May =, 1876 4b-y
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G.M. PROCTOR, NJ. Dr.
Physician and Surgeon.

VIII attend to all calls in the line OF his profes
sion. both day and night
OAce one sioor East OF shaIersvilie ExchsnSe
Hotel iiSIy
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One pound Of gold may be drawn
into wire that would extend round
the globe.
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/. cKaFrsx.p. JoHS N. CRAl
CRAFTS s. SON,
=. w. MAxsON,

Eiosk Manrua Station. Portage County, Ohio.
aas-
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J. H.NICHOLS.
x&torney at Law and Notary Pablic Ofhce
in Phenix Block, over Brainerd & sons DfeS
Ssv.mber 10 tsT2- ss-u.
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2. P. HATFIELD,

atscruex and Counseinr at Law. once
c..r Secoud NationSl Bank. Pbenix Biocs,
RaycanA, Ohio 1o9-A-
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20 arTcHIss- ws rHon AS
IFS HUTCaINs & THOMAS,

Emuire BuiI,Ing- Mr. Hutchins viii attend
- =, p,rt.~e t,ouuty lily
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INSURANCE AGENCY,

" caau Life and Firs Insurance
Aren't. Onice on 2d floor, over the second
HSt;onai Bank, Ravenns, Ohio =
G1pt -, 1869, 55-ly- tss
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I. III. & NJ. w. PHELPS,
Attorneys and Counsellors at LaE.eavenna'
ONO. once over First National Bank. 80
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Rates OF, Advertising
Business Cards.

FRANCIS L. CLARK.
H..x.uIc.l and Architectural Draughts-
mAz Parent Once Drawing q speciaitS
Ne = rfNh Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa
Juuc5. 1914. Eftl