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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-01-04
Winter Farm Economies.

There are so many things that the
farmer may do at home in his own
workshop, as we'll as another can do it
for him, that it is surprising that so few
are without kit of woodworking tools,
shoeing hammer, some horse nails,
pinchers for iron, copper, rivets, screws,
and other necessary articles as will en-
able him to complete many handy job
without the Intervention of the carpen-
ter. The time required to do the work
will often be found to be less than that
spent in going to and from the mechan-
les place of business. Thus with few
tools the woodwork of harrows, plows,
cultivators and other tools about the
farm may be repaired. By having a
few extra handles of forks and other
implements on hand these may be
cheaply repaired and made as good as
new.
Wagon tongues and many other du-
plicates for farm vehicles and machines
are now prepared so as to require but
little fitting. In the case of machines
all that is necessary, as rule, is SIM
ply to fasten them in place. In doing
this the farmer not only renders him
self handy with tools, but at the same
time he becomes thoroughly cOnversant
with the working parts of each individ-
ual machine-no small matter to the
practical man. In fact every farmer
ought to be able TO take apart and put
together intelligently any machine on
the farm. Unless this be the case they
cannot be worked as economically as
they should be.
While the farmer is thus educating
himself, he will come to see the neces
sity and economy of having everything
in its place, and place for everything,
when not in use, and when in use they
will be lust in place. So he will come
to occupy his leisure hours in repairs
of various kinds. Barn and stable
doors that are getting shaky on their
hinges will be repaired at once. If he
burn wood it will be prepared, and
piled secure from rain, and with proper
ventilation, so it may dry perfectly. II
he burn coal a proper shed will be built
to keep it dry. The pumps about the
place will always draw. Water troughs
will never have sloughs of mud about
them i'm soft weather, to mire stock, nor
glare ice in hard weather, to MAIN
them. Sheds will be made comforta-
BILE. The best facilities will gradually
be accumulated for accomplishing the
work of the farm, and a general air of
thrift will be observable, not only about
the homestead, but over the farm.
In this we do not mean TO assert that
the simple possession of the tools nee
essary to do odd jobs will accomplish
all this; but the handling of tools soon
gets common-sense man conYersant
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-01-04
drd Red Tape.

A SINGULAR illustration of the prev
alence of red tape in naval and mill
tary circles is said to have occurred
during the examination of Master Con-
way, one of the officers who was saved
from the wreck. In order that he
might swim ashore without incum-
brance he stripped himself naked.
Leaving the Huron, he was cast upon
the beach in that condition, and dragged
from the surf by the fishermen. Every
article of clothing which he had was
lost, and as he was without money it
was not convenient for him to obtain a
uniform Immediately. When he ap-
peared before the Court of Inquiry he is
reported to have been rebuked some
what sternly by one of the officers of the
court for venturing to appear before so
dignified a body without uniform.
He was asked if he was not aware that
the regulations required that he should
appear on such occasions in the uni
form of his office. "But, interposed
Master Conway, 81 have no uniform;
every garment l had was lost, and
was washed upon the shore" 1t is
only fair to presume that this fact had
escaped the memory of the officers of
the court at the time the rebuke was
given. Washington Dispatch.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-01-04
Cost of Living $50 Years Ago.

BARBER's " History of New England"
ed. 184l, p. 175, says: "The expense of
each planter to provide himself was
quite small, if we may judge from an
estimate furnished by Mr., Jocelyn for
the information of proposed emigrants.
A similar estimate had been previously
made by Capt. Smith (Pocahontas
john with reference to Virginia. He
says: 'Victuals to last one man a year;
eight bushels of meal, f2; two bushels
of peas, 6s.; two bushels of oatmeal,
9s.; one gallon of aqua vitae (brandy),
rs. Cd; one gallon of oil, IS. Cd; two
gallons of vinegar, 2s.,' total, f3 8s.,
equal TO fourteen dollars" Who has
the courage to talk about economy after
such an exhibit of the cash cost to live
250 years agoP Not word said about
tea, coffee, sugar, molasses, flour,
butter, pork, beef, fish, milk, beans and
tobacco, without which last many peO-
pie couldn't live week-at least they
think so. Is there criminal in the
land, or on the globe, kept on the above
square diet? The brandy must have
been very modest article at fifty-six
cents a gallon; one dram a week, and
the same of oil, 1t is curious scrap of
history and sample of very intense
economy.-COr. Boston Journal.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-01-04

music to a hundred ears in that din and
clatter. IL meant food and raiment.
To his old school-fellow went Barry
Munson in search Of employment.
al should have sent for YOU" said
Tom, "but didn't suppose you would
accept the place. You shall take
charge of the books, IL you will, and
help me in many ways. The position
will pay you 1900 year only, but
that Is better than nothing"
"Infinitely," said Barry.
And with that he threw away his eye
glasses, gave up all thoughts of aston
ishing the world, and went TO work in
his fathers old Office for the moderate
compensation of twenty-five dollars a
week. 1t is to be presumed that book
keeping was not altogether to his taste,
but nobody ever heard him grumble;
and he applied himself so diligently to
his work that Tom Finch declared from
the first that without Barry he should
have made miserable failure of the
superintendency. AS it was, he made
a complete success. The Barborough
iron-works weathered the storm, and
found smooth waters ahead.
Bending over his books, Barry Mum
son recalled often that memorable after
noon when he and Bessie walked side
by side under the over-arching elms.
He saw her but rarely now. The sud
den changes which year had wrought,
the sorrow and responsibility which
had come to him since that October
day, had driven thoughts of self from
his mind. Yet ever in his ears rang
those Words 81 would have you be-
come anything to show yourself manr'
What triumphs could he hope to achieve
in the narrow confines of that office?
What chance for heroism over those
musty books? What hope for fame,
adding long columns of figuresP What
noble aim in life, beyond caring for his
dependent motherp
Something of this he said to her in
the twilight of another autumn day,
walking again beneath the Barborough
elms. And she, turning her truthful
ey es upon him, made answer, saying:
BARRY, you have shown yourself a
hero You have won my respect"
II have nothing to offer you now,
Bessie, but my love- he added, quietly.
"And if you had 'all the world to of
fer me-" said she, L would prize only
that which now you give"
And thus if came to pass that Barry
Munson, the book-keeper, welded the
girl whom Barry Munson, the declaimer
on Platonic philosophy, wooed in vain.
-Harper'S Magazine for January.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-01-04

LIszT, the great pianist, who is now
in Rome, requires great deal of press
ure before he will play, and If he con-
sents it is only after much flattery. A
lady got the better of him the other day
by locking her piano when he was ex-
pected, instead of leaving it open, like
her friends and rivals. The famous in
strumentalist was spared hints and
prayers, but he was not at ease. He
wandered about the instrument for a
while, and finally asked the fair hostess
for the key, which she had in her
pocket. Her friends heard him at his
best, as though in protest for the slight
to his beloved art.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-01-04

with their use, and the investigations
necessary 10 enable man to do the
work intelligently broaden the mind,
and one soon comes to see where money
may be saved in many directions, and
how easy it is TO make all things tidy
about the house and place, and, also,
where the profit comes in, in rendering
the stock about the farm comfortable.
These may seem like small econO-
mics. In truth they are; but it is these
small economies that go to swell the
profits of the farm, just as in any other
industry in life. II is, in fact, attention
to small economies that makes the pros
ecution of business successful in its best
sense. Prairie Farmer.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-01-04
THE LFAp or ROUSHAN BE0.


ny HENRY W. BoNaFEIIow.
Mounted on Kyrat, strong and fleet,
His chestnut steed with four white feet,
Roushan Beg, called Kurroglou,
Bon Of the road and bandit chief,
Seeking refuge and relief,
Up the mountain pathway flew.
Such was Kyrat's matchless speed,
Never yet could any steed
Reach the dust-cloud in his course;
More than maiden, more than wife,
More than gold and next 10 life,
ROushan the Robber loved his horse.
In the land that lies beyond
Erizoum and Trcbizond
0ardcn5girt his fortress stood;
Plundercd khan, or caravan
JOurncying north from KOOrdistan
Gave him wealth and wine and food.
Seven hundred and fourscore
Men alarms his livery wore,
Did his bidding night and day;
Now through regions all unknown
He was wandering. lost, alone,
Seeking without guide his way.
Suddenly the pathway ends,
Sheer the precipice dcsccnds,
Loud the torrent roars unseen;
Thirty feet from side to side
Yawns the chasm; on air must ride
He who crossesithis ravine.
Following close in his pursuit,
At the precipicc's foot,
Reyhan, the Arab Of Orfah,
Halted with his hundred men,
Shouting upward from the glen.
La il Allah Allah-laW
Gently ROushan Beg caressed
Kyrpts forehead, neck and breast:
Kissed him upon both his eyes;
Sang To him in his wild way
As upon the tupmOst spray
Sings a bird before IL flies.
"0my Kyrat. O my steed,
Round and slender as n reed,
Garry me this danger throughl
Satin housings shall be thine,
Shoes of gold, O Kyrat mine,
o thou soul of Kurroglou!
Soft thy skin as silken skein,
Soft as woman's hair thy name,
Tender are thine eyes and true;
All thy hoofs like ivory shine.
Polished bright. o life of mine,
Leap, and rescue kurrOglOuW
Kyrat. then. the strong and fleet,
Drew together his four white feet,
Paused moment on the verge,
Measured with his eyes the space,
And into the airs embrace
Beaped rs leaps the oceans urge.
As the surge DER silt and sand
Bears a swimmer safe to land,
Kyrat safe his rider bore;
Rattling down the deep abyss,
Fragments of the precipice
Rolled like pebbles on shore.
Roushan's tassel-cap of red
Trembled not upon his head;
Careless sat he and upright:
Neither hand nor bride shook,
Nor his head he turned to look,
As he gallopcd out of sight.
Flash of harness in the air.
Seen q moment like the glare
OF sword drawn from it's sheath!
Thus the phantom hOrseman passed;
And the shadow that he cast
Leaped the cataract underneath.
Reyhan the Arab held his breath
While this vision of life and death
Passed above him. "Allah-huw
Cried he; " in all KoOrdistan
Breathes there not so brave n man
As this robber Kurrogloum
January AtidRti
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-01-04

IT is compliment to American manufac-
turers of musical instruments that DIR. Franz
List, of Pcsth, Germany, than whom nc
greater musician lives, uses Cabinet Organ
made by the Mason Il Hamlin Organ Co., with
which he expresses great satisfaction, men
tioning in a recent letter to friend how high
ly he prizes 1t. The same Company had recent
ly an order for an Organ for the King OF
Sweden, and have furnished their Organs ia
many of the crowned heads OF Europe. From
London they have had orders for more than a
thousand Of their Organs in a single year. 1t
is admitted that they make the best instru-
ments of this class In the world.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-01-04

HAVE sold Hatch's Universal Cough Syrup
for about three years. keep all cough reme-
dies that are considered standard in this sec
tion. None sell so well as the Universal" Z"
My customers speak uniformly in its favor. |
can refer any who may inquire, to those who
have been cured of the most severe chronic
coughs. 1t is said also to be unfailing in all
cases of Group.
s. F. Mason, Webster, N. Y.
Sold by Benton Meyers Co., Cleveland, o.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-01-04

Gould anything be neater than the
old negro's reply to beautiful young
lady whom he offered to lift over the
gutter, and who insisted she was too
heavy? "Lor', missus,n said he, Use
used to lifting barrels of sugar"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-01-04

An article is going the rounds of
the press under the head of "Why
Some People Are Poor" We haven't
read it, but suspect it is because they
haven't got any money or Government
bonds. Y Commercial Advertiser.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-01-04

If some men were measured by the
size of their hearts and souls gun
patch would make them a suit of
clothes, including an Ulster oyercoat.-
oil City Derrick,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-01-04
unru 20 make GOOD Esrcad.

Use DooLEYs YEAST POWDER, and you will
have no difficulty. The substances entering
into its composition are perfectly pure, healthy
and nutritious.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-01-04

BURNETT's COLOGNE received the highest
award at the Centennial Exhibition. II is
filed in elegant bottles and il for sale by all
hrst-class grocers and druggists.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-01-04

Never fails to relieve and permanently cure
all those diseases commonly known as female
complaints. Sold by all druggists. Send for
almanac. Graefenberg Co., Sc Reades Ny.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-01-04
motber.. motherr, NTothers.

Don't fail TO procure Mrs. WNsLow's SoorH-
mo SYRUP for all diseases of teething in chill
dren. 1t relieves the child from pain, cures wind
collie, regulates the bowels and, by giving relief
and health 10 the child gives rest TO the mother.
No PAPER issued of its kind equals the Hart
ford, Conn, POULTRY WORLD" 10 choice Chro-
mos year. $1.25, postpaid, with 75c. for the 10
Chromos, ,will give fowlraisers the best practical
monthly in America. Try 1t in '7S Specimen 10c.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-01-04
"VEGETINE," !"

Says a Boston Physician, has no equal as a
blood purifier: Hearing of its many wonderful
cures, after all other remedies had failed visit
ed the Laboratory and convinced myself of its
genuine merit 1t is prepared from barks roots
and herbs, each of which is highly effective, and
they are compounded IN such a manner as to pro-
duce astonishing results"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-01-04

vsgstIns 10 Sold by All Urusulsts.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-01-04

Prepared BY H.R. Stevens, Boston, Mass.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-01-24

HE'LL continues to be the leading top
ic in the pulpit east. Itisa fertile theme
for discussion and has been for centuries,
and apparently, no. nearer solved now
than a thousand years ago. Some i'm
portant questions have been solved in
these years-noble discoveries made,
grand and useful inventions to benefit
mankind and the end in this line of
usefulness is not yet. In this connec-
ton we need only refer to steam and
electricity, and then consider the prog~
ress-astonishing progress, and as we
say, the end is not yet. Men generally,
it would seem, follow on in the field of
wide speculation without material
change; but in this utilitarian age, the
race advances in the high march ofprac-
teal improvement. Were the pulpit
more given to topics Of apractical char
acter-topics and illustrations applicable
to social, everyday life, showing mans
kind the better, happier way, and thus
assist them to
Look through Nature up to Natures God
clergymen would better serve their mis-
sion. The N. Y. Sun thus speaks Of the
sermons delivered in that city on Sunday
last:
The Rev. Mr. rockingham; who
thinks the Bible no better than any other
respectable book, is naturally astonish-
ed that anybody should be found at this
late day preaching He'll. Itis, he says,
as though some monster of bygone age
an ichthyosaurus, for instance--were
to turn up, alive and vicious, on the
banks of the Hudson. On the other
hand, the Rev. Mr.. Rockford, Roman
Catholic, afirms that it is the thought of
He'll that has peopled Heaven, and says
that the doctrine of everlasting punishs
ment is taught not only by the Church
and the Scriptures but by human reason
ITSELF The Rev, Mr., Hepworth, form
erly Unitarian, but at present Congres
SdlOHdllSti 10 tlOuplCu III SOul Wy oOillS
aspects of the doctrine, and thinks it
imprudent to be dogmatic as to the du>
ration of the torment, when there is
such a wide divergence of opinion
among scholars on that point. To the
Rev. Mr.. Ludlow, Reformed, the end
lessness of punishment seems deducible
from analogy, as well as revealed in
Scriptures, and the Universalists impress
him as absurd reasoners, That Hell
will continue forever is also the belief Of
the Rev, Mr. Mann, Swedenborgian; but
he explains that it will continue by the
choice of the inmates, and that it is real.
ly hospital, in which the self>inAicted
suferings Of the wicked may be mitiga.
ted, as far as it is possible for divine love
and pity to mitigate them, Of the Uni>
versalist preachers who discussed the
subject yesterday, the Rev, Mr.. Pullman
was sarcastic, and the Rev, Mr.. Nye was
scholastic, ...'
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-01-24
MUNICIPAL AVIATION.


No subject is Of more practical impor-
tance to the business prosperity Of the
country than that of municipal taxation,
and the remedy can and must be appli-
ed, or all business profits will come to an
end. This subject was brought before
the social science convention in Boston
last week by Robert P. Porter Of Chica-
go, in paper, aud from which we gather
much interesting information, and
many valuable suggestions Of reform:
Mr.. Porter's paper shows an increase
of 1920 100000 in the past ten years in
the municipal debts of 1870 cities in the
United States.
Mr.. Porter read table, showing that
the total State indebtedness of the Uni.
ted States to be $500, l70,976, while the
municipal Indebtedness Of one hundred
and thirty cities is upward Of $275, 100000
more than the entire State debt, which
in the Southern States, through bad gov
ernment, is upward of $3.50, 100000, and
in better governed States mere baga.
telle. The vast bulk of municipal
debt is located in the Eastern
States, and of the State debt in the Sou.
thern States. OF the municipal debts,
New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylva.
mia, New Jersey and Maine probably
about $4l7,000,000, having by far the
lightest proportion to the great Western
States.
State debts in the East are very heavy
as compared with those in the West
Eight West States-California, Illinois,
Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio,
and Wisconsin-with an aggregate pop
ulation of nearly 100000, have a total
State debt of only 100000, or about
$3.50 per capita, while the great Eastern
States, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New
Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, Rhode
Island, New Hampshire and Maine, with
a population of II $685. l79, besides carry.
ing great burden of municipal debts,
have an aggregate State debt of nearly
So per capita.
The State debts of the South are even
worse. Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana,
Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia, S.
Carolina and Tennessee, with a popula-
ton of little over 100000, have an ag-
gregate State debt of $l79, ,443, ,207, or over
$22 per capita, to say nothing of the great
debts of Baltimore, New Or.
leans and other cities.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-01-24

THE only case of true reform on the
part ofa Democratic official on record,
is that of the Treasurer of Stark county,
who was forced through incompetency
to vacate his office, and place in full
charge the Republican exNTreasurer,
who found his accounts in deplorable
condition. .-Backeye State.
Our friend is usually we'll informed,
but is in error in the foregoing. Treas
urer Fessler is and has ever been since
he was sworn in, in full possession of
his office, and he has never turned it
over to the "Republican exSTreasurer, !"
so that his accounts could not have been
found in a "deplorable condition. =
ReboSttO,y.
Ali The John Sherman Repository
refutes the BUCKEYES lie in this case
Why not go on and explode its other
yarns, some of which we ventilated last
week. These two lovely John Sherman
organs are a precious pair
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-01-24

THE committee of the Senate
Election Committee has concluded a re-
port Of investigating charges of bribery
against Senator Grover of Oregon, and
it establishes the fact that there is not an
iota of testimony affecting Growers in>
tegrity. This committee went to Oregon
last summer headed by the late Senator
Morton, the Republican majority being
firmly determined to make out case
against Grover. A number of Republi-
can witnesses perjured themselves, and
have been indicted for that crime, but
nothing could be found after the most
malicious effort to blacken Mr.. Grover.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-01-24

THE telegraph brings the announce
ment of the death, at the advanced age
of 50 years, Of Gen. Cousin. Montauban,
Count de Palikao. He served with dis
tinCtion for more than twenty years with
the French army in Africa, and after.
ward commanded the French forces in
the Anglo'French expedition against
China in 1860, and for his services in this
campaign received the Cross Of the Le-
gion Of Honor, and was raised to the
rank of Senator with the title of Count
de Palika0. During the Franco-Prus-
sian war he acted as Secretary of War
until the overthrow of the Empire on
Sept. 4th, 1870, and in 1871 published a
work on the events which occurred dur
ing his brief tenure of office. This book,
both from the peculiar interest of the
subject as well as the graphic style in
which the story ia told, attracted univer-
sal attention.