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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1878-11-28

petual ice-on and on over the tops OF
volcanoes, filling the craters until even
Chimborazo's top was submerged.
By actual estimation, according to
Moses account, the earth was covered
with water five miles deep. How
long did it rain? Forty days. That
makes the average rainfall per day
about seven hundred feet. Pretty
damp weather l take it. II Moses
was correct, there was eight times
more water on the earth just then
than was ever on it's surface before.
Where did all the water come from
Moses says the windows of heaven
were opened. I should say the whole
wall fell out. But Moses might have
been mistaken about a mile or two of
the water.
CONCLUSION.
1t would be useless to attempt fur
ther to follow Mr.. Ingersoll in his
search after Moses mistakes. The
lateness of the hour at which we write
will not admit of it. He followed the
fortunes of the Israelites on their
march into Egypt, and closed with a
definition of his own ideas of the here
after. who is the Atheist? he asked !;
the man who tells you these stories
of the creation and origin of the
world or L, who tell you don't know ?
Should you ask me whence came or
whittier 1 am going, I'll tell you I
don't know. I am on board q ship
which started from the unknown port,
and is bound for some place. I don't
know the Captain. have never been
introduced to the officers. l only
know that we are making pleasant
voyage, Storms may come up and
wreck US before we reach port. But
if we go down, have the satisfaction
of knowing that go down with those
l love. If at last we sail into some
lovely port with green, sunny lands
sloping down to the water, and beau
tiful flowers over all the land, I'll be
there to land with the brightest angel
of the crew. I shall not sacrifice this
world for one 1 know not of. One
world at a time is all 1 can well at
tend to. If when l die J come into
the presence Of an infinite God I'll
love Him if He is good God. No
need of coercion to force my love. He
can't make me love Him by getting
red in the face and declaring that if l
don't love Him I'll be damned. l
couldn't love such God, and would
certainly be damned before I would.
1 shall live to make my home happy,
and let me tell you that if you labor to
make those who love you and whom
you love happy, and succeed, you are
not living in vain. Ones good deeds
are worth all the creeds IN the world.
It is not what one believes but what
one does which makes him die happy.
When you have ended your journey
of life, have halted on the brink of the
grave, and can look behind you down
life's vista to see flowers blooming in
every footstep, you will realize that
you haye not lived in vain. Then
you will lie down to pleasant dreams
and sweet slumbers.
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Medical Notice.
To The Afflicted.
DR.. JOHN GoUcHER
Having had avery large and success
full practice in Chronic Diseases
for forty years, both Private
and Hospital, is prepared
to render satisfaction
in the different

varieties.
Among the diseases treated have
been many miraculous cures of the
two true species of Cancer-the Hard
and the soft /; or the Scirrus or ChrOn-
ic Cancer, characterized by a prcdom-
nance of fibrous tissue, and but few
Cancer cells; the Medullary, Brain, or
Acute Soft Cancer, characterized by
an excess of Cancerous cells.
Also, the different varieties of
GRAVEL, and disease of the Kidneys
and Urinary Organs. TumOrs, Rheu-
matism-InfammatO and Chronic
Fistula in Ano, Prolapsus of the
Phincfure, All and Rectum. Piles,
Tape Worms, Seat or Pin Worms, In
testinal Worms, Hip Disease, Goiter,
Enlarged Glands, ScrOfula, and all
Impurities Of the Blood.
CATARRH-thatm most insidions of
all diseases, which is destroying lis
tens of thousands annually-Invaria-
bly, cured. Also, SCALD HEAD, and
the different diseases of the Skin.
ALSO, THE VARIOUS DISEASES OF FE-
MALES,
Arising from Uterine arrangements,
Enlargement, inflammation, Ulcera-
tion, Tumor, Polypus, and all their
sympathetic accOmpaniments, on the
latest scientific principles, without the
use of the knife or caustics, but by
constitutional treatment and local abb
sOrbents, which we believe to be the
true method of cure, If timely and
properly applied.
CALcUoUs CoNCRETIoNs OF THE KID
NEYs AND BLADDER.
We have in our possession several
varieties of Gravel from different in
dividuals in this locality, which we
have removed through the natural
urinary passage.
The Doctor is q graduate in the Eye
and Ear Infirmary of New York City,
and has had o large and successful
practice in that department.. He abb
serbs the differant varieties of Cata-
ract while they remain soft, and re.
moves films and specks from the eye
without the use of the knife.
The Doctor is q graduate of several
of the leading schools of his profess
sion, the Diplomas of which are hang
ing up in his Office for everybody to
read and investigate.
The Doctor can be consulted at his
Office, No. 1196, Euclid Avenue, Cup
stairs,) Cleveland, o.
REsIDENCE-7OS Wilson Avenue.
OFFICE HOURS-From 10 A. NJ.
to IL M and from to 8 p. M.
The Doctor will leave his Cleveland
Office for Ravenna, at 1.45 P. NJ. every
Saturday. returning to Cleveland at
10 A. NJ. the following Monday,
JOHN GOUCHER, NJ. d.
p%Patients will be visited at their
homes, when desired.
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OUR LOST.

They never quite leave us. our friends who
have passed
Through the shadows of death to the sunligh
| above;
A thousand sweet memories are holding them
To the places they blessed with their presence
and love.
The VIZ rk which they left and the books which
they read
Speak mutely. though still with an eloquence
rare,
And the songs that they sung, and dear words
that they said.
Yet linger and sigh on the desolate air.
And oft when alone. and as oft in the threng,
Or when evfl allures or sin draweth nigh,
A whisper comes gently. MAY do not the
wrong.''
And we feel that the weakness is pitied on
high. fR q
In the dew threaded morn and the opalinc eve
When the children are merry or crimsOned
with sleep.
We are comforted even as lonely we grisve.
For the thought Of their rapture forbids us
to weep.
We toll at our tasks in the burden and heat
OF Lies passionate noon. They are folded in
peace. -.
1t is we'll. We rejoice that their heaven is sweet
And one day for us all the bitter will cease.
We. too. will 20 home DER the river of rest,
As the strong and the lovely before have
gone.
Our sun will go down in the beautiful west,
To rise in the glory that circles the throne.
Until then we are bound by orr love and
faith,
To the saints who walking in Paradise
fair;
They have passed beyond sight at the touching
OF death,
t But they live. like ourselves in Gods infinite
: 81 care. -t- .e la
-Adr0aret r. Sangsser.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1878-11-28

To CURE cough-First catch your
cough, then salt it and smoke it, and
hang it up to dry.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1878-11-28

The man who has persistensly clos
ed the door all summer now leaves it
wide open.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1878-11-28

sGLAD to see you dressed for SUM-
day school, George; it will be the first
time you have been there in elk weeks
George know it, father; but Tom
Greene says the new pirate and canni-
bal books have come, and I'm going
every Sunday, steady .rh
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L. III. & M. W. PHELPS,
Attornsys andCounsellors at Law. .Ravenna.
Ohio. Office over First National Bank. 3S5
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AN EXAMPLARY MAN.

There was one very exemplary man
among the directors and officers of the
City of Glasgow bank, who squander-
ed seven millions of money confided
to their charge. This was Lewis Pot
ter. Five years ago he built the Bur-
bank Free church and became respon-
sible for the greater portion of the cost
of the fabric, and in consequence of
this liberality enjoyed great fame for
pious zeal and benevolence. During
all the years when, according to the
inspectors report. he actively assisted
in falsifying the accounts, in making
away with the cash reserve, and in de-
ceiving the shareholders and the pub.
lie, he teadfastly refused to take in or
read Mondays newspapers, because
they were printed on the first day of
the week. OF William Taylor, also,
another director, it is remarked that
he occupied prominent position as
president of the Glasgow Young Mems
Christian Association, and as q repre-
sentative on several occasions of St.
Enoch's church in the assembly.
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Business Cards.

FRANCIS l.. CLARK,
Recnauioal and Architectural Draughts
man. Patent Office Drawing q Specially
No. ~ Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa.
June6, 1879. 1857.
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e. w. MAXSON,

Attorney and Counselor at Law possesses
SUPERIOR facilities for making collections in
ali parts of the United States. Office over
First National Bank, Garrettsville, ONO.
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A SOR RY FELLOW.

Girls, will you listen to a few words
of advice? Do not marry if you can
not find suitable husband, for a bad
husband is infinitely worse than none.
Never marry fellow who is ashamed
to carry a small bundle; who lies in
bed until breakfast, and until his faith
er has opened his shop or Office, and
swept it out; who frequents taverns,
bowling alleys prize fights, ETC., who
owess his tailor, shoemaker, washer
woman, jeweler, barber, printer and
landlady, and never pays his debts ;
who is always talking about his &C.
quaintances, and condemning them ;
whose tongue is always running about
nonsense, who thinks he is the great
est man in the neigborhood, and yet
whom every one despises and shuns.
We say never marry a fellow with all
or any of these qualifications, no mat
ter how handsome he is, or how agree
able he can make himself on occasion.
He will make bad husband.-[ Lady's
Journal.
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A POOR man on his death bed made
his will. He called his wife to him
and told her of its provisions. Il
have left,' he said, my horse to my
parents, sell it and hand over the
money you receive. leave you my
dog, take good care of him, he will
serve you faithfully The wife prom
ised to obey, and in due time set ont
for the neighboring market with horse
and dog. 'How much do you want
for your horse?' inquired farmer.
I cannot sell the horse alone, but you
may have both of them at reasonable
rates, Give me a hundred dollars for
the dog and one dollar for the horse ,
The farmer laughed, but as the terms
were low he accepted them. Then the
worthy woman gave the husbands
parents the dollar received for the
horse and kept the hundred.
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Tribute Of Thanks.

To Capt. Richard King-Re-
spected Friend: The handsome
monument you so generously
presentented to mark the last
resting place of my departed
husband has been erected above
his grave. With feeling ofdeep
emotion and eternal gratitude
/ thank you for this tribute OF
your appreciation of his pat
triotism and personal friendship.
1t viii stand a fitting emblem
TO mark his grave for ages, un>
changed by the rough storms
and tempestuous rams that may
sweep over it, even as he was
unchanging In his patriotism
and devotion to Texas during
his life. Whenever | visit the
sacred spot, rest assured a pray
err viii be breathed for you, his
friend; constant 10 his memory
in death, as you were faithful
to him while living. So much
fidelity is SO seldom found among
men, that none can fail to APP
preciate the superiority of the
nature from which it emanates.
| thank you in behalf of my
little children, who are not too
young TO appreciate this proof
of your friendship for their dead
father.
With a heart filed with crate
ful remembrance OF all your
kindness; l am respectfully,
your friend,
MRs. L. Fl. McNELLY.
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attention, PauperS!

II is hereby ordered tl.at all persons
whose names now appear upon the
County Records as paupers shall ap-
pear at the Feb uary term. 1878. in
person, if physically able to do so. and
Il not, then to be represented BY Sur
g-ons certificate in the ha; DIS of come
responsible person and that this order
he published in the Brenham Banner
and VolksbCte.
THE STATE or TEXAS,
;ounty of Washington.
/, H. NJ. Lewis, clerk of The County
commissioners Court of Washington
cnnnty. Texas, do hereby certify TINT
the foregoing is a true and correct copy
of the original order now OH record in
said Court.
49, Given under my hand and
iSS the seal OF said Court, Mt office,
in Br-nham, this the I'd DAY o;
*o-* January. A. D.'S7S.
II. NJ. LEWIS, c.. C.w.o.
Brenhsm. january 18th, 1878 4w.
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Being Too Particular.

NY acquaintance seems to me
a very sensible woman, but while
! respect her ideas and practices,
! am reminded OF an article |
saw in the household columns of
a weekly paper, last summer,
entitled "Too Particular" The
author, an elderly lady Of much
household wisdom, believes that
it is hardly possible for house
keeper tc be too particular
about her work, aud she advises
young house-keepers to lay
down on the start, certain rules
to gnide them in their duties,
such as. "Never put off until
tomorrow what can be done
to-day" Whatever is worth
doing, is worth doing we'll. y
aNever look at scarlets gcran-
inms trough smoky windows"
All rules must be used with
a certain breath of wisdom. 1t
will never do to defer till the
tomorrow which never comes,
the reading of your paper or
magazine, in order to conscien-
tiously search out and clean
away every speck OF dust in the
crevices of the room, nor to let
extra nice housekeeping prevent
your daily effort to edo well''
the patient training of your
children. If the house-keeper
is also wife and mother, she
has a great variety of duties
and must not make her family
unhappy by either over-zeal or
neglect.-Amerscan Agricul-
txrest.
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The Texas Prairies.

At the moment you start
westward on the "Sunset route, !"
the landscape salutes You in all
the loveliress of blossoming
prairie in its first luxuriance OF
green under the tender early sun.
The flowers are numberless.
When you have counted a couple
OF dozen varieties, you End you
have only begun. Here the
painted-cup makes the great
reaches gay; here yellow indigo
stars them, and presently lends
them its color, leading away into
the boundless horizon a field of
the cloth of gold; here it is scar
let-phlox. here blue with the
verbena; here the lilies. with
their long snowy filaments
wonderously alive. Written all
the windings of an unseen brook;
here clothed in the priceless
small clover, and greater than
Dante's freshly broken emcralds.
beneath vast and hollow heavens.
and "moulded in colossal CALM
the naked prairie rolls. away.
league after league, unbrokcn to
the guilt.
Oh! the glory OF a Texas
prairie under a vertical sun!
the light, the color, the distance,
the vast solitude and silence,
the Iimitless level, the everlast-
ing rest! A flock o. white cranes
rise flashing in the light and
soar away; a mirage lifts the
lofty timber that outlines a
distant river and shows you the
stream shining beneath, shak-
ing silver vapor at his feet, in
the creek besides you, fearless
blue ducks dip and dive and
swim away, scattering the wa
terdrops; drove of horses ris-
ing from beds of sunhowers,
with flying names end tails, go
bounding into space; vast herds
of cattle crop the clover without
lifting their heads IS you sweep
by; riders are rounding up their
droves, hawks are lowering.
bird are singing winds are
blowing, and what seemed only
solitude and silence is full Of
lite and action and music. Now
the forests of Brazos begin to
rustic; cypress and magnolia,
linden and locust and beech and
elm, hickory and blackjack,
dense to darkness, yet trembling
with dew and sun,. laced with
gay vines of trumpet and pas
sion flowers, and with huge ropes
of blossoming grapes slung from
tree to tree. with underground
of dogwood and redbud, wild
peach, cane, and their great
dark liveoak wrapt in the fan
tastic webs and standings wierd
and awful in their Drudical
beard.-Hdrper's Magazine.
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Safe and Sure.

Mr.. R Fl. STEVENS:
In 1872 your Vcgetine was recon-
mended to me: and, yielding to the per-
suasions OF a friend, consented to try
it. At the time Iva as suffering from
general debility and nervous pro,tra-
tim, sup.rinduce,l br overwork and IT.
regular habits. Its wonderful strength
eninn and curative properties seemed
to affect my debilits'ed system from the
first dose; and under its persistent use
| rapidly recovered. gaining more than
usual good health and COED feeling.
Since then have not hesitaied to give
Vegetine nay most unqualified indorse-
ment as being saf. sure, and powerful
agent in promoting health and restor-
ing the wasted system to new life and
energy. Vege,in-is the only medicine
| use, aud as long as live l never ex-
pect to find better. Yours. truly,
w. II. CLARK,
12o Monterey ST., Allegheny, Penn.
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SID H-adnris Depression OF
S:firi,s, Sour S,dp..ach, Hear; Burn. &c.
This sarivallrd Southern Remedy i.
warranted not 10 contain single psrti-
Gle 81 Mercury, or any injurious miner.
al subs'ancr. hui is
PUREYL VEGETABLE,
containing those Southern Roots and
Herbs, which an allwiss Providence
has placed in countries where Liver
Diseases rest prevail. Ii will cure all
diseases c'sAsed by arrangement of the
Liver and bowels.
The symptoms of Liver Complaint
are bitter or bad taste in the mouth:
pain in TIM back side or joins. often
mistaken for Rheumatisin; sour Stom.
ach; Loss of Appetite, bowels alterna.
7ely costivc and lax; Headache, L, ss
NJ memory, with q painful sensation of
having failed to do something which
oaght TO have been done; Debility, lew
spirits, a thick yellow appearance OF the
.kin and eyes, II dry cough often mis-
taken for consumption.
Sometimes many of these symptoms
attend the disease, at others very few:
but the Liver, the largest organ in the
body, is generally the seat of the dis
esse, and il not regulated in time, grea.
suffering, wretchedness AID death " i'll
rnsue.
can recommend as an efficncious
remedy for disease of the Liver, Heart
burn aud Dyspepsia. Simmons Liver
Regularor.-Lewis G. Wunder, 1925
Master Street; Assistant Post Master,
Philadelphia.
I'VE have tested its virtues, person.
ally. and know that for Dys,,. psia,
Biiiousness, and Thrnbhiug Headache,
1t is the beet medicine the world ever
saw. We have tried forty other rene
dies before Simmons Liver Regular,
but none of them gave us more than
temporary relief; hut the Regulator not
only relieved. but cured us."-Ed. Tel
egram and Messenger, Macon, Ga.
Manufactured only ly
]. H ZeiIin & Co.,
Macon, Ga, and Phiiadelpliia.
II contains four medical elements,
never united in she same happy proper
ton in any other preparation, viz: a
gentle Cathartic, wonderful Tonic. an
unexc-ptinnable Altera i've and certain
Corrective of all impurities of the DO.
dy. Such siunsl success has attended
It's use, that it is now regarded as the
EFFECTIVE SPECIFIC Tor ell diseas-
es of the Liver. stomach ard spleen
As a remedy in malarious fevers, bow
ell complaints, dyspepsia, mental de
preston, restlessness, jaundice, nausea.
sick headache. collie, constipation and
biliousness it has no equal.
CAUTION.
As there are q number of limitations
offered to the public, We would caution
the community to buy no Powders OF
prepared Simmons Liver Regulator,
unless in our engraved wrapper, with
the trade mark. stamp and signature
unbroken. None other is genuine.
J. q. ZEILlN & CO,
Macon, Ca, and Philade phia.
Your valuable medicine, Simmons
Liver Regular, has say, me many
Doctors bills, use it for everythingis
is recommended, and never knew it to
fail, have used it in collie and 2ubbs.
with NY mules and horses, giving
them about half a bottle at a time. |
have not lost one that gave it To. you
can recommend it tn every one that has
stock ne being the hest medicine known
Tor all complaints that horse flesh is
heir to.-E. I TAYLOR. Agent fer
Changers OF Georgia. nov23w1y
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VEGETINE


The following letter from Rev. G.
w. Mansfield. formerly Iastor of the
Methodist Episcopal Church. Hyde
Park. and at pr. sent settled in Lowell.
must convince every one who reads his
letter of the wonderful curative quail.
ties of Vecetine as a thorough cleanser
and purifier of the blood.
HYDE PARK, Mass. Feb IS; 1876.
Mr. r. II. STEVENS.
DEAR SIR-About ten years ago my
health failed through the depicting eff
fects of dyspepsia: nearly year later
| was attacked by tvphoid-fever in it's
worst form 1t settled in uy back, and
took the form of large deep-stated
abscess, which fifteen months in gath
-iing. had two surgical operations
by the best skill in the State, but re-
ceived no permanent cure suffered
great pain at times, and WAS constantly
weakened by profuse discharge /
also lost small pieces of bone at differ
ent times.
Matters ran on thus about seven
years, till May; 1874. when friend rec
commended me Ia 20 to your office, and
talk with you of the virtue of yegerine.
| did so, and by your kindness passed
through your mandatory. noting the
ingredients. &C., by which your rene
dy is produced,
BY what | saw and heard l gained
some confidence in Vegetine.
/ commenced taking it soon after,
but fel, worse from its effects; still l
preserved, and soon felt it was bene-
fling me in other respects. Yet | did
rot see the results desired till had
taken it faithfully for little more than
year, when the difficulty in the back
WAS cured; and for nine months have
enjoyed the best of health.
l have in that time gained twenty
Eve pounds of flesh, being heavier than
ever before in my life, and was never
more able to perform labor than now.
During the past few weeks l had
scrofulous swelling as large as nv
fist gather ON another part of my body.
| took Vegetine faithfully, and it re-
moved it level with the surface in a
uionth. l think l should have been
cured of my msiu trouble sooner if l
had taken larger doses, after having be-
come accustomed to its etfe ts.
Let y,'ur patrons troubled with scrof-
Ia or kidney diseases understand that
- axes time 10 cure chronic diseases:
nd, if they will patiently take Vege-
inc, it will. in my Judgment, cure
hem. With great obi gatinns, am
YOURS. very truly.
&. W. MANSFIELD,
Pastor o. the NJ. Z. Church,