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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-09-15
Plan Of Study.

The following tograph letter from
President Garfield to q young man, in
answer to his inquiry relative to his
plan of study, is so sensible and SO
practical that we give it for the benefit
of those who may want just such adj
vice:
MENTOR, Ohio. October 27, 1879.
C. l.. WAYLAND, Danville, Indiana:
My dear Sir In answer to yours
of the 18th instant. 1 have to say that
your inquiries as to my early studies
show praiseworthy study in the work
of self improvement. Icannot say that
i found in any one book the suggestion
for plan of life and growth. In fact
l did not in advance mark out any
comprehensive plan of life. But l did
resolve at an early age, that would
acquire as good an education as the
college course would enable me to OBJ
tain; and to that general purpose l de-
voted all my energies until it was ac-
complished. In order to make my
work thorough, l made it q constant
habit to study each science a little
more broadly than the prescribed
course required, I thus got little in
tellectual life outside of the text books.
This habit has been of great value to
me in subsequent life, for l have al
ways managed to keep up some line
of reading outside the track of my pro-
fcssional and official studies; and these
side studies have been of great value to
me in many ways. As some one has
well said: IA man should have his in
tellectual homo with few great authors
like Shakespeare, Emerson and Mac
auley, from which he should make
excursions into the fields of literature,
but from which he should return for
his chief sustenance. Very truly yours.
j. A. GARFIELD.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-09-15
Chinese Life.

A peep into the Chinese quarter is
we'll worth taking. Here they fairly
swarm. The streets are dimly lighted.
Colored lanterns are strung along some
OF the balconies, or are hung from the
windows. Red and black signs in
crooked characters are everywhere,
and from all sides reSoundS the echo, it
seems, of hundred unknown tongues.
Lights stream from cellar flaps. creep
through open doors and window chinks,
but the shops are only lighted by sue
cession of dingy oil lamps. Discordant
noises of rasping fi.l,lles, GOngs. and
sundry unknown tunele's Instruments
minple with the clatter of strange
tongues and loud, discor,lant laughter.
The shops to the American eye are
singularly uninviting. The butcher.
VIII, is Il general merchant as well,
sells Joss sticks, teapots tobacco. and
scores OF other things. He flanks his
door on either side with huge carcasses
of slaughtered hogs. They are not
ouartered and jointed in civilized
fashion, but are hacked. hewn. and
torn asunder, Just as the meat is want
ed, and present. u mangled, shapeiess
mass, sickening 10 look ut. Split
chickens and birds are flattened out
like sheets of paper and nailed against
the wall. Delicate tidbits. stepped in
oil and dried. are strung up ana hung
like cherry-bobs across the WINDOWS
aud scores of oilv cakes, like Jumps OF
yellow soap, are laid on benches. Bar
bers - most important fsnctionarles
among the Chinese-are everywhere.
Within a radius OF half q mile there ara
no less than fifty Of them, ----- -
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-09-15
A Sweet Voice.

Elocutionary training is not neces-
sary in rendering voice pleasant and
sweet in quality. Any girl can culti-
vate the chest tones if she tries. know
girl whose voice is music itself who
never took a lesson in elocution in her
life. She never speaks in a voice of
high pitch, and yet everything she says
is of perfect distinctness. From early
childhood she has been trained by her
mother to speak and to talk. beautiful
ly-to express herself in the best and
simplest words the English language
affords. and always to appreciate the
fact that her voice in conversation
should be as finely and sweetly attuned
as in singing. l think all parents who
think at all. realize the immense power
of habit-of early training. 1t is al
most as difficult to convert a vulgar,y
bred young person into an elegant man
or woman, as it would be to change the
spots of the leopards skin. Repeated
" have / seen men and women who
have risen to social eminence by the
force of character and talent. and who
have ..taken ON much of the polish of
society, betray at times in their man.
ner, and in their conversation, their
choice and pronunciation of words,
their low bred origin. They cannot
wholly overcome defects of which they
are fully conscious. Fathers and moth
ers may think it silly and foolish and
'.hi-fa-lu-tin," may be, to talk in the
best English they can; it may be SO to
themselves, but if they have children
they have no moral ri ght to talk or to
behave in but the very best way they
know. 1t matters little whether they
have money to leave to their children,
but it does matter much that they ac-
custom them to exercise good manners,
SO that to be we'll hammered will be to
them an everyday garment A fine
and sweet, gracious words. are
often worth far more to q man than
mere money.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-09-15
Quick Fortunes.

That the oil rigion is acountry where
fortunes are made. quickly. is well
known. The man who is begging his
bread to-day may be wearing a dia-
mond in his s,irt-front tomorrow, and
the day laborer of last week is money
ed man of the next mouth. On our
streets we can point to men who
couldn't draw II check for ten cents six
months ago. Now they can draw their
check for $4,000, and the bank
wouldn't accept it. Yonder is a man
who walked into Oil City as q tramp a
year ago. To-day he is u porter in a
hotel Here comes man who bor-
rowed ten cents of us last week TO get
a glass of milk. Now he wants 10 bor-
row ten cents NOR. He says he wants
TO buy q meal. He dimes on liquid
meals. fu iaz aifeA
Go to Bradford. and you will see the
same evidence of prosperity. A man
who came into this field wien the ex-
citement began, with loss than one
hundred dollars, is now worth as many
thousand Another, who WAS put i'll
the lookup and borrowed money to
paw his fine, was arrested again last
week, and sent to Jail. He couldn't
borrow anything this time. Here's
another man, who went there with his
last cent in his pocket. Last month he
drew check for $4,000. He, too, is
in Jail. He signed another mans name
to the check. Such are the ups and
downs of oil life. Here to-day, i'll Jail
tomorrow The diamonds sparkling
in your shirt-front in the rays of the
morning sun may be pawned for tfty
cents ere the orb of day sinks to rest.
The man who hasn't q place to lay his
head tonight will be provided with bed
in the cooler before morning; but the
man with pluck and perseverance. who
has less than ten dollars on his arrival
here, will in three weeks own ten-acre
lease and an oil well, with - $4,000
mortgage on it.--M CITY Derrick.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-09-15
Relief From Cooking.

Philadelphia is developing system
for relieving the drudgery of house.
keeping which over-worked wives and
mothers will thankfully advocate "a
plan, by the way, which was adopted
in London centuries ago, and is an OLD
established custom there. Family bak-
ing of meats. pies. puddings, cake and
bread is being performed by bakers at a
very moderate charge. Thus. for pies,
two cents apiece; for bread loaves. four
cents a pan; for rice puddings, three
cents q pan; for a pan of roast meat,
five cents. By this method the food is
better cooked, and hours of tiresome
attendance on little cooking stoves are
saved A large amount of fuel is also
saved by this plan. One baker and an
assistant can cook dinners for hum
dred families, possibly more, at an ex-
pense of say seven cents per family.
The necessary pail of coal and kind
lings for cooking single dinner costs
twelve cents alone This amount of
fuel must be provided for each of the
one hundred families. and in every one
of them the time and labor of one per-
son for at least one hour will be re-
quired to get up each dinner Tne
economical moral to be drawn from
this is obvious and need not be detailed
in firureS.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-09-15
Fairy CostumeS.

Nev York. SIN: ..Have Won seen
the dress of spun glass said to have
been made in Pittsbnrgln?" was asked
IL Broadway dealer in curiosities.
mo, have not 1 have tried to get
one for my display, but failed. Some
years ago learned of a dress that was
made in Brazil out of spiders web. and
/ would have tried for that. but its
probable price and its delicacy made
the task foolish one to undertake..
had kept informed upon the use of the
spiders web, and had heard that all of
the attempts to employ it in the manu-
facture had failed. The Spaniards
tried to make gloves. stockings AMI
handkerchiefs of the thread spun by
the spider, but although fabulous sums
were offered, the articles proved so
troublesome to manufacture that they
could rot be made at a profit.
traveller told me that it required 7OO.-
600 spiders to make a piece OF silk. l
have heard that in some parts of South
America garments made OF spiders
web are worn. 1t may be true. be-
cause the spiders are large there. but
doubt the story"
E.What is the greatest curiosity you
ever saw?''
''That is a very broad question:.
s.Well, the most curious article OF a
lady's toilet"
.sIt was fan. It was in collection
of fans now famous. This particular
fan was of fine yellow lace, and had
richly-carved wooden sticks, each stick
inlaid with a crescent of clear shell-like
substance. 1t was made by lady OF
Normandy. The lace was made-well.
what do you think it was made OFF"
''Spider' web?'
..No.'' said the collector. laughing;
sit was woven from her own golden
hair. and the tiny crescents. so highly
polished, were the tips of her finger
nails
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-09-15
Graalau aud poa


A writer in Utica, New York journ-
al, says Poe and Greeley occasionally
met, and the latter often befriended the
former. for he saw how i'll adapted
such man was to contend with pow
erty. Greeley was born poor, and could
live OIL crust; was typesetter by
trade. and if he failed as an editor, he
could fall back on labor. Poe, on the
other hand, was a bred gentleman and
had the high-toned pride cultivated in
tho. first families OF Virginia. He
scOrned his Bohemian associates, and
only poverty kept him from hurting re-
proach on his employers. The only
one on whom he could rely for aid in
any time Of distress was Greeley, vino
freely shared with him his scanlY earn
ings.
After Poe's death, there was a de-
mand for his autographs, and. among
others, applications were made to
Greeley.
Il have a number was Greeley's
dry reply, to an applicant. "which you
can have at first cost"
They were Poe's due bills for loans
varying from ten dollars to TWENTY-FIVE
dollars. Greeley afterwards destroyed
them, in preference to exposing the
misfortunes of friend.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-09-15
He Loved Them Ali.

The following piece of poetry was
written and dedicated to the uptown
lady school teachers by gentleman
who saw them on railroad train dur
ing their late trip to Saratoga. This
gentleman must have been fearfully
struck. judoing by the manner in which
he tells his love in verse. 1t is as fol-
lows and is awful!
Here in your arm have other world.
Where ia the mad ambition known of yoref
All! Fled AWAY to some mad foreign shore,
All lost forever? Yes! love you, sweet
You oaly, you alone. My heart my life,
l lav a meagre Offering at your feet,
With tears, because it is so lit G worth.
You are my soul, my ali-my heaven and
earth.
love thee. Say of love there is no dearth.
And bauish heart pain and doubling strife.
Kiss me, with eager lips, and never moan
Shall tell you that never grieve my fallen
throne.
Though seemingly addressed to one
person, that is n mere poetic license.
He means all the school ma ans, and
where he says ''Here in your arm" it
is plain he means all their arms. 1t is
also quite plain if this had been fact
he never would have lived to write q
line of poetry. would have crushed
him like an apple in cider press. and
they would have ohoruseds s1Sn't 1t
perfectly l0velyess -----.s-- -, :.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-09-15
Romance.
Yon bells in the steeple, ring, ring

Yon bells in the steeple, ring, ring out your
changes,
How ualy soever they b.,
And let the brown meadow-lark'5 note as he
raERe5
Como over, come over to me.
No magical sense conveys,
And bells have forgotten their old art of tell
Ing
The fortune of future days.
"Turn again. turn again. once they rang
cheerily,
While a boy listened alone;
Made his heart yearn again, musing wearily
All by himself on a stone.
Poor bellsf forgive you; your good days are
And mine-they are yet to be:
No h,tening, no i1ngfng shall aught, aught
You leave the story to me.
The foxglovs shoots out of the green matted
Preparin1 her hoods of snow;
Sho WAS idle, and slept till the sunshiny
O, children take long to grow.
wish, and wish that the spring would go
Nor long summer bide so late:
And ] could grow on Ike the foxglove and
. For some things are i'll to wait.
wait for the day when dear hearts shall dis.
~ cover,
"The child Is woman, the book may close
For all the lessons are said"
wait for my story-the birds cannot sing It,
Not one as he sits on tree;
The bells cannot ring it, but long years, o
Such iasf as I wish M IT to be.
--.- JEAN INGELOw
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-09-15
The Lightning Express of the Seas.

Some time ago mention was made in
the papers of novel steam craft, the
invention of Californian, which, in
stead of plowing through the water
after the old fashion, is to be borne ON
buoyant revolving globes. the hull
being supported entirely above the sur
face of the water. When this strange
craft was mentioned before, only a
model had been experimental with,
and it was announced that the inven-
tor was about to construct passenger
vessel to ply between New York on one
of the watering-places not far from
there. The New York Banker says
that ..preIiminary experiments promise
astounding results. 1t already seems
certain that this vessel will be the light
ming express and fast mail of the seas.
There does not seem 10 be any good
reason to doubt that this craft will make
extraordinary time on smooth water.
and. as these are to be driven by en-
rines, there will be no more resistance
70 the progress of the boat than Is Of
fered to the progress of LOCOMOTIVES
passing over smooth track. But the
craft will necessarily be top-heavy. aud
will hardly be able to ride heavy sea,
or weather storm.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-09-15
Lady BARRIERS.
HE IaHy DafUefS' n -.
What Mrs. Gettmann TX nows of ShaviDi

! What Mrs. Gettmann Knows of Shaving.
..And so you employ lady artists"
said reporter, dropping into Fifth
!. street shaving saloon the other after
noon. ii
! Yes. said. the accomplished pro-
fessional, stepping forward, and quite
at your service. sir.
The professional aforesaid is the
equal if not the better half, of the es-
tablishment, and is able to shave or
/ ''fix up" a long haired customer as
neatly and with as happy dispatch as
her lie@e lori, any day.
'.How do you succeed in youy efforts
to procure lady apprentices in the busi-
neSs?'' 50 Be
''Very we'll, indeed" said the lady
half of the tonsorial firm. 81 hal
lady barber working with me during
some five or sio weeks past, and she
got to be able 10 shave gentleman rs
well almost rs 1 could do, or as my
husband yonder. She left few days
ago. and this young woman," said she
pointing to huXom lass present, ''ilts
been here but four OF five days, but
last evening she shaved fifteen persons.
and gave very excellent satisfaction TO
all so far as l heard them say"
'You think she can learn then?''
"Why not P learned, and asked no
odds of any man 10 shave n customer,
however particular or fine he may be in
his no:ions.''
'Wbat can a woman earn per day or
week at the business. Mrs Gettmann?''
''She ought to make good wages. I
have made as high as S22 in week
shaving on n percentage of 60 per cent,
but there are few women capable of
doing such work as that. I have been
ut it for fifteen years-sifaved in Cieve-
lard some years, went from there to
Detroit, and owing to my husbands
sickness we hal to leave and come here
10 CINCINNATI -
YES" said her husband. breaking
into the conversation at Ibis point, ssmy
wife has conducted my shop as efficient
ly as / could myself for six weeks at a
time. when have been incapacitated
by. sickness from attending to il, my
self'' l 5- fsss 80.
care there any other shops in Gin
cinnati except this where ladies oper-
ate?' \ ass
'.No, this is the only one, but there
are lady operators in shops in Detroit,
Philadelphia. Boston and New York.
GLOW long will it take to teach your
lady pupil to do good and cficieat
work?" ...--f... t.s,1.,...
''She ought in six weeks or two
months to shave man frst-rate. AT
the rate she is learning can make an
artist of her in that time
$50 she may make good wagcs?''
''Yes, she ought to earn six or seven
dollars per week. 1t is hard, constant
work, but it is honest and much better
for women who want to be respectable
than running in the street and doing
worse.' - Cincinnati IImes-Star.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-09-15
Hoop-Skirts.


The crinoline worn at the queen s.
state ball was something appalling. 1t
was the gossip of the room, to the ex-
clusion of love. politics, and war. that
crinoline, in all it's hideous defOrmity.
had not only arrived at England's door,
but had crossed the threshold. 1t is
said that Worth, the famous man mil
liner of Paris, found it necessary. with
the many rivals he had to contend with,
to do something that no one else was
doing, and by coup. AS it were, re-
assert himself. The reason why the
EmpressEugenie brought it into fashion
in 1857. is. as likely as not, the true
cause of IFS reappearance in London
this season, for more than one aristo-
cratic married belle, it is whispered,
would have had to absent herself from
public gaze for a certain period. had
not the obscuring hoop come kindly to
her rescue. Il.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-09-15
A Battle Ground Under Cultivation.

Hundreds and thousands of old Con-
federate soldiers remember Missionary
Ridge, near Chattanooga. 1t is the
site of one of the most decisive battles
of the war--ragged, rocky, steep. poor
in soil MS any part of the table land,
and was until recently regarded as
worthless. For what purpose men
held it was not known by themselves
or anybody else. Three or four years
ago its lands would not bring over
two to four dollars an acre. Now the
ridge is covered with orchards, and the
profits are such that no land can be
bought for less than forty or fifty doi-
lars an acre. 1t is thus old ideas give
wav before new conditions and new in
fusions of brains and energy.-Suoaa-
nah NevS -
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-09-15
Mary Anderson's Study.

This is a little bower of art, made ND
of favorite books, engravings. busts
and sketches in water color. In a vine-
clad bow-window stands an upright
piano, and resting on its lid is an ex-
cellent but rather idealized bust of Ed
win Booth, present from himself to
the younger light in tragedy. Near at
hand is very fine crayon of John
McCull ough, a gift from the original.
ard beneath it hangs charming en-
craving of that famous actress, Fanny
kembie.
In a corner hangs plaster masque
of Garrick, which Miss Anderson
brought from Stratford-on-the-Av
with her, and near it an admirable
picture of the great Ristori.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-09-15
A German Cavalry Race.

One of the beautiful horses. after
throwing an officer of the noted ''Black
Regiment who rode on him in ditch
of water, pluckiiy continued the race.
though riderless, jumping hurdles,
walls and bitches, with the others. in
magnificent style. On the ''home
stretch of course, the animal fell be-
hind, lacking his riders encourage
ment, whereuponseve men ran out to
stop him instead of letting the splendid
steetf finish the race as he intended TO
do. The poor horse tried TO dodge his
pursuers, got bewildered and jumped
the picket fence. caught and fell heavi-
ly, breaking his shoulder and ribs, thus
necessitating his death.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-09-15

The report that the New York brewer
who was robbed, the other day, has
been accustomed to send as much as
twenty thousand dollars in currency TO
the bank by a boy, who rode down
town on the elevated railway, is fol
flowed with the report that there is now
constructing for him wagon contain
ing a fire and burglar proof safe, OF
which one key is to be kept by himself,
aud Another by the bank officers. The
New York Eeeni,,g Post lectures
business men on the careless carriage
of money.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-09-15

Charles Martin, in Indiana, went out
the other night 'cooning, and at length
he found what he thought was an inn
mense coon up a tree and forthwith
he climbed after it. But the tree wasn't
cooniferous; the varmint was a bear,
and no member of the peace society,
either. A sharp contest ensued, and
Martins efforts were soon rewarded by
hearing something tumble TO the
ground. 1t was the bear which stayed
up in the tree, and the hunter was glad
enough to be allowed to limp home. in
stead of being carried there in Martin
box 4
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-09-15
Whitewashinr.

DROF. POULTNEY would inform the peo
& pie OF Ravenna that he Is on hand and
ready to do all jobs of Whitew ashing that may
be intI ustsd to him, in neat and workmanlike
manner. All orders left at his resldenee. on
East Street (.amiIiarIy sknoWu Is Rick etty
ROW., being the sixth house south Of corner.
or at the GroceFy Hkore of y. 81. Furry, will
receive .prompb attention.
Ravenna. April Is. 1881. sa
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-09-15

Fogg thinks the potter's definition
of biscuit t''-'.earthenware or por-
celain after it has been hardened by the
fire'-describes Mrs. Foggs's produce
tions perfectly.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-09-15

New Orleans can accommodate 969
ships at the levees. besides what can
be loaded in the stream. rssss1<s.s-asassiss-
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-09-15

Coffins are now made of paper, ac-
cording to the Paper Trade journal.
which Journal pronounces it "a ''rsther
running things into the ground"
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-09-15
Cabinet Repairing
UDhOlSterino.

rI1HE subscriber is prepared to do all kinds OF
J. Cabinet Ware Repairing and UphOIstering
on short notice. and in wOrk nlaDlike manner
Furniture of all kinds maize TO order Prices
reasonable, and satisfaction guaranteed.
Orders left at q Reeds Drug Store, in Op-
era Block. will receive prompt attention.
/ will call for and return all work entrusted
TO me. fl 8. DOTY,
Kavenna. January 25. 1881. 64s