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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-05-24

Is a compound of the virtues of sarsaparil-
la, stillingia, mandrake, yellow dock, with
the iodide Of potash and iron, all powerful
matchmaking, blood-cleansing, and life-sus-
tanning elements. 1t is the purest, safest,
and most cffectual Alternative medicine
known or available to the public. The sci
enceS of medicine and chemistry have never
produced so valuable a remedy, nor one so
potent to cure all diseases resulting from
impure blood. 1t cures Scrofula and
all scrofuioUs diseases, Erysipelas,
Rose, or st. Anthony's Fire, Pimples
and Face-grubs, Pustules, Blotches,
13ofls, T'uEnOrs, letter, Eumors,
Salt RheiIHl, Scald-head, Ring-worm,
Disease, Neuralgia, Female Weak
nesses and Irregularities, Jaundice,
Affections of the Liver, Dyspepsia,
Emaciation, and General Debility.
BY its searching and cleansing qualities
it purges out the foul corruptions which
contaminate the blood and cause tierange-
ment and decay. 1t stimulates and enlivenS
the vital functions, promotes energy and
strength, restores and preserves health, and
infuscS new life and Vigor throughout the
whole system. No sufferer from any dis
ease which arises from impurity of the
blood need despair who will give AYERS
StiRSAPAIiILLA a fair trial.
1t is folly to experiment with the numer-
orlS low-priced mixtures OF cheap materials,
and without medicinal virtues, offered as
blood purifiers, while disease becomes more
firmly seated. AYERS SARsAPARILLA is a
medicine of such concentrated curative
power, that it is by far the best, cheapest,
and most reliable blood-purifier known.
Physicians know its composition, and pre-
scribe it. 1t has been widely used for forty
years, and has won the unqualified conf
dence OF millions whom it has benefited.
Prepared by DR.. j. c. Aver g. Co.,
Practical and Analytical Chemists.
Lowell, Mass.
SOLD DRUGGISTS EVERYWHERE.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-05-24

Land on Wall street New York, is
worth S15,000,000 an acre; on Broad
way, 81, 100000.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-05-24

The tonic is obtained by the addition
Of a little seltzer or Apollinaris water
Its happiest effects are noticeable in
spring, because the system then seems
to require p change from the 'take it
straight practice of the winter months
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-05-24
BIG STOCK OF NOTIONS!

HOSIERY for Ladies, Gents and
Children.
KID, SILK and Isle THREAD
GLOVES.
BLACK and COLORED SILK MITS
Hamburg Edgiaags and Insert5ngs.
Plain and Dotted St0isses.
Lace Curtains, DC.
Table Linen and Red DomaskS,
Linen Napkins and I'o,0e1S.
Floor and Table OIL Cloths.
OIL Shades, WindoeU FiGtures, Curtain
FTinges, dc.
LADIES' and Gents Summer Under-
Wedr.
Large stock Of Ginghams, Prints,
Sheetings, Ticks, Deninss, dc.
LADIES' and Ch&ldren's Shoes, Mems
Fine Boots and Shoes.
We keep constantly on hand q choice
stock Of GROCERIES.
a We cordially invite the public
| TO give us call, as we feel confident
we can SELL GOODS AS Low AS
ANY HOUSE IN THIS COUNTY.
SN NYDER g FREEMAN
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-05-24

81 was drunk when I married her, ="
pleaded the defendant to the Court. y
Most men are who marry pretty
wives" returned the Judge. Beauty
Is nlNaNs iutoxicatino1 -
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-05-24
Black COLORED Silks!

ULALN s. UUEUslEU JiLMOi
Which we can GUARANTEE to our
customers.
Also, a nice line CASHMERE FOULE
ILLUMINATED MIXTURE,
NUNS VEILINGS in all new shades.
ALL WOOL BUNTINGS in Plain
Mattlesee and Lace Stripe.
ALL WOOL BLACK and COLOR'D
CASHMERE, at very low prices.
Black and Colored SILK VELVETS
and VELVETEENS
GUIPURE and SPANISH SILK
LACES.
BLACK AND COLORED SILK
PRINCES.
PLAIN BROCADED MOIRE AN
TIQUE STRIPE SATIN.
PASSAMENTRIES AND BEADED
ORN MENTS.
TWILLED and BROCADED SILK
PARASOLS.
LADIES' SACK1NG in all the New
Shades.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-05-24
Through every happy line I sing,
I fnnl thn fAlin a. 1 L. StA,,it. q

There is undoubtedly a great deal of
truth in the couplet of the Western
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1883-08-28
A SINGULAR CRIME.

The crazy Frenchmsn who ran through
Fourteenth Street, New York, the other
day, stabbing as many women as he
could reach, with pair Of compasses'
may have taken, his cue from the reports
Of the trial Of a singular criminal who
has Just been dealt with at Bremen and
Strasburg. The latter was a man named
Theophile Mary, hair-dresser. born at
Barr, whose vicious tendency took the
form Of inaicting slight stabs with dag
ger on young women. At Strasburg he
attacked no fewer than eighteen. nearly
all of whom he struck on the breast. He
made, his first appearance two years ago.
when for q month he spread terror
among the inhabitants. all efforts to cap
ture him failing. He then vanished from
Alsace, and sometime aferwsrd turned
up at Bremen, where he again distin-
guished himself In similar manner iA
There, however, he was soon arrested,
sentenced to seven years imprisonment,
and handed over to the strasburg author
tiles to be dealt with there. The eish.
teen young women whom the prisoner
had wounded (none Of them, fortunately,
severely appeared as witnesses aga against
him. An expert declared him him in posses
sion Of his senses, ascribing his acts to a
morbid vanity, and the court sentenced
him to one year, imprisonment to be
added to the seven years given him at
Bremen.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1883-08-28

\ This doctrine, so nearly corresponding
to the Hebrew account Of the fall O
Adam. tempted by the serpent, aud als'
the belief in neyer.ending torments, i
often quoted by freethinken, as proc
that these tenets Of the Christian religion
are but relics Of pagan mythology ant
superstition.
The offering of sacrifices was a mod.
of worship practiced by most all the
ancient nations. This ceremony was
performed by the Persians in the open
air. and generally on the tops Of their
highest mountains. The Druids Of Eng
gland before its conquest by Julius Cesar,
performed their religious orgies in the
darkest forests. where human beings fell
victims to the unsparing, sacerdotal knife.
The Persian priests or magi were estab-
lished by the elder Zoroaster 1900 years
d. c., and were regarded as the ssges,
philosophers and men Of learning through
out the Empire. From that day down
tdthe present period, the sacerdotsl classes
have, with few exceptions, controlled the
religious opinions Of the world.
At certain time, the intidels attacked
the doctrine Of Zoroaster, when the King,
Artsxerxes, called a synod Of the magi
to counteract their assaults and sustain
the popular faith. No less than 0.00O
met in council. One Of the number fell
into sleep and when he awoke. related
to the King he bad been to Heaven and
and had conference with the Deity,
whereby the doctrine taught by Zoroas-
ter was established throughout the En-
pire with certainty and precision.
Persia. from the remotest ages has been
the scene Of great political and religious
revolutions. The prevailing religion now
is Mohammedanism, which in the sew
enth century supplanted the faith Of 10
roaster. There are but two or three hun.
ired thousand, known by the name Of
Parsees, adherents to the former religion.
They have been greatly prosecuted by
heir Mohammedan oppressors. Many
IF the Parsees fed to Hindostan, who
low number about 10000 and 10000
n Persia. 1t is said their sacred books
the Zend Avesta-was revelation to
Loroaster. and taught man how to avoid
vii and expiate sin and impurity. The
writings originally filed 81 volumes but
we're mostly lost after the overthrow Of
he Empire by Alexander the Great.
LAYMAS.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1883-08-28
THE DRINK PROBLEM.

Dr.. Felix l.. Oswald's article on I" The
Drink Problem" in the International
Reriew, is a discussion Of the evils Of in
temperance from the physical rather than
the moral point of view; but its facts
and the deductions from them are OF
character which should quicken the in
terest of the public in this great question.
First, as to the proportions Of the evil,
DR.. Oswald states that in Great Britain
the consumption Of fermented and dis
titled liquors has increased since 1880 at
the average yearly rate Of 81 per cent.
and in France at the rate Of Q per cent;
in Northern Germany, the manufacture
of malt liquors has doubled since 1866 !;
and in the United States the consump-
ton of intoxicating drinks has advanced
at rate exceeding our rapid growth Of
population by one.6fth. Last year, while
famine was raging in Ireland and in
Eastern Brazil. and thousands OF men
we're dying in Persia, Armenia, Syria and
Cashmere for want of bread. nearly four
hundred million tons of breadstuffs were
converted into intoxicants, to become q
curse instead of a blessing. In England and
Scotland alone. half billion bushels OF
cereals have been consumed in the pro.
duction of alcoholic drinks, and in Rus
STA, Denmark and Austria, from one. fifth
to one-fourth Of the grain crop is annu-
ally used for the same purpose.
These are appalling facts. but it is q
still more suggestive circumstance that
wherever, for any cause. the use of dis
TILED drinks has appreciably declined.
the want has been supplied by other and
even more deleterious stimulants. In
Paris, alcohol is in part superseded BY
absinthe and Choral among the Spanish
Peruvians by coca, and in San Francisco
by opium. In London and st. Peters
burg many users of high wines have
abandoned them for ether.drinking, and
in Savoy and the adjoining Swiss csntons
arsenic eaters are the oaly abstainess from
alcohol. These facts suggest to DR.. os.
wsld the conjecture, supported by the
original meaning Of the word into1lcs.
ton, that ttpoison" and "timnlaat7 are
convertible terms. ..These Is hardly any
accessible poisonous substance in the min
eral or vegetable kingdom which has not
sometimes or somewhere been used as q
medium of intoxication, and the degree
of the accessibility seems, indeed, to have
decided the choice in many cases" Of
these poisons thus used it is the most
baneful which obtains the strongest hold
upon the system, and it is painful fact
that in the large majority Of cases the
appetite for 9 weaker stimulant, once
formed, is only driven out BY indulgence
! in . stronger poison. "GambEinus yield
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1883-08-28
to Bacchus, Bacchus to King Alcohol,
King Alcohol to Santa Cruceensis, and the

to Bacchus, Bacchus to King Alcohol
King Alcohol to Santa Cruceensis, and the
most stubborn poison 6end maybe exorcis'
ed by the Beelzebub of Opium" Herein,
as DR.. Oswald wisely urges, lies the true
danger Of the milder stimulants: They in
itiate a progressive habit, and ss the toxic
influence Of one artificial tonic pals. the
jaded appetite demands stronger incen-
tive. "We must aim our blows at the
root Of the upas tree instead Of looping
its prominent branches"
All physical snalogies speak against
the idea tia. the human system, in its
normal condition, requires any toxic slim
ulant; and the teetotalism of many an
Gent philosophers and modern brain
workers proves that mental vigor is COM
patible with non-stimulating diet The
history of the Western Saracens proves
that whole peoples may excel in both
physical and mental activities, while alb
staining altogether from all artificial ton
les. The great evil with us is that the
road to ruin is paved with milder stimu-
lants, and that the age Of confirmed hab-
its is reached by few who have not lost
their best safeguard against inebriety,
namely, an unsophisticated physical
conscience" Young children learn to
ask for tea and coffee, and even for beer,
and often they imbibe stimulsnts with
their mother milk. So the difficulties of
the fatal first step are fabricated by child
ish confidence and the force Of example,
and the transition from beer to brandy is
easier than from water to beer. To pro-
vide innocent amusements for the work
ing population, among whom intemper-
ance is most common, and to resist the
evil Of intemperance at its beginnings.
attacking the formation of the habit in
The use Of the milder stimulants, are rem.
edies which the writer suggests. Sum
ming up the whole case in sentence, he
says: "0nly abstinence from all stimu-
ants is easier than temperance.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1883-08-28
nets and chairs whose tall high backs
seem in strange disproportion to their
slender legs. These houses hold the his

nets and chairs whose tall high backs
seem in strange disproportion to their
slender legs, These houses bold the his
tories Of the place and people or the olden
time, and you can gather in legends Of
of the indians. stories Of Queen Sunny
eyes "~ho lived down youdsr on the
tongue Of land that stretches into the
pond.' OF The hardships Of the early set.
tiers Of occasional attacks from the saw
ages. Of revolutionary times-all handed
down from one generation to another and
carefully treasured. Or the road will
lead you from these quiet spots to busy
villages mile or two farther on, where
there is . great crash and roar Of machin-
cry and blowing of whistles and rafting
of wheels, and at night you can see the
streets full of men and women hurrying
for car and coaches to take them to some
restful place just passed as you came.
And again the road will lead through
dark, cool woods where the mountain
laurel shows its polished leaves and the
szalea woos with its delicate fragrance;
where curious orchids iie hidden and holly
is promising red berries for Christmas
and then the ponds again lift their fair
faces and the reflected glories of the sun.
set or the faint image of the stars warns
that the sea is only few miles away
and night may bring in the chill fog that
shuts out all things like shroud even
glorious summer days and all it brings to
one who spends it in the region that first
gave welcome to the Fathers Of New Eng
and. BErsEY TRorwoop.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1883-08-28
WHERE WOMEN CAN VOTE.

Inc recent report OF the bureau oil ed
ucation states that women may vote at
school meetings in Kansas, Nebraska,
New Hampshire, Vermont, Dakota and
Wyoming; at school cleo tions, in Colo
RADIO and Minnesota and for members Of
school committee in Massachusetts,. They
can vote at school meetings in Michigan
and New York if they are taxpayers ;
in Washington Territory if they are La
bic to taxation. Widows and unmarried
women in Idaho may vote as to special
district taxes if they hold taxable prop
erty. In Oregon, widows having chill
dren and taxable property may vote at
school meetings. In Indiana, women
not married nor minors, who pay taxes
and are listed as parents, guardians or
heads of families may vote at school
meetings" In Kentucky, any white
woman having child Of qualified school
age is voter; if she has no child. bu,
is tax payer, she may vote on the ques.
ton Of taxes. Women are eligible to
school Offices in Illinois, Iowa, Kansas,
Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Yer
mont, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Wy
oming; to school district offices in Colo
RADIO; to any office except superintend-
ent in Wisconsin. They may serve on
school committees in New Hampshire and
Rhode Island, as school trustees in New
Jersey, and as school officers in Connec-
ticut. Some offices are open to them in
Maine, and all Offices in California, un-
less especially forbidden BY the constitu-
ton. In Utah no discrimination on the
grounds of sex is made as to voting in
general.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1883-08-28
ALEXANDRIA.

:
Alexandria is no squalid, lazy oriental
town, but a fine modern built city Of
$50. 900 inhabitants which has grown "a
pidly for the last generation. II is de-
pot of commerce, not at all rivaled by
Port Said, the Mediterranean mouth or
the Suez canal, for it has the chief har-
Dor on the coast and Mehemet Ali re-
opened the canal OF antiquity to the Nile,
bringing to Alexandria all the advanta-
ges Of the natural wealth Of that river.
A narrow tongue Of land like T pro-
jects into the Mediterranean. Along
the stem Of this T lies the city Of Alex
andria, with Mehemet Ali Square, the
home of the Europeans, near the base;
the right hand or eastern arm Of the I
includes the new harbor, 80 called, which
is pretty much filed with sand and out
Of which Gorringe towed the obelisk in
big wooden box or caisson the western
arm incloses the old harbor, which is fur
ther protected by long breakwater curv-
ing around toward the main land, so as
to cover shipping. The palace OF Ras-el'
tin is also on the top of the T, being
nearest the sea, which here forms bay
90 that vessels can be wholly outside the
harbor in fair weather. The Egyptian
Notifications are around Ras-en-tin and
still more about Fort Gsbbari, which IL
on the mainland and opposite the ives.
hayhoy
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1883-08-28

A CHASTITY WEAPox.--Cspt. Sher'
borne of the British army, was wounded
in most singular way in Afghani'tan.
After q battle he found an Afghan lying
on the field. with both legs shot away,
He raised him in bis arms to an ambu'
lance. But the man suddenly wrenched
himself away. and standing erect on his
bleeding stumps. he seized one Of his
own severed legs lying beside him and
struck at Captain Sherborne with most
furious rage, making a. terrible cash
down his chest with the jagged bone.
He then dropped back dead and Captain
Shesborn fell fainting by his side.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1883-08-28

In Franklin Plantation, In the County Of
oxford. for the year 1883.
The following LIS Of taxes On. real estate OF
nonresident owners In Frsutltn, Plantat ION .
yov the wear isas1 bills commtfnnd % Charles n
Fsrrum, colie~tor OF said Pisnatou on the
soth siay OF June 1859. has besD raturned by him
90 one a. remsining unpaId ON the AID. day OF
remains unpaid and notice 10 hssrhy given that u
the said Tn xes interest asd cAnrIes not paid
INTO the Treasury Of said Piantstion within u
months nom the date OF the commitment o. said
suffieieut TO paw the amount due therefor iuclud-
ing interest and charges, will without further
notic be sold al public auction ~ the school house
m District No. said Plantation, on the stth day
Of January 1884, IT ten &C lock In the forenoon.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1883-08-28
A FORGERY.

The recent celebration of William
PENIS visit to America in 1852 has CIV
en- fresh currency to letter attributed to
Cotton Mather, which has for some years
been drifting about in the columns Of
American newspapers. The letter is dated
September. ye 18th, $685." and address,
ed to rye aged and beloved John Hig.
ginson," proceeding as follows:
There be now at sea shippe (for our
friend, Elias Holdcron, Of London, did sd.
wise me by the last packet, that 1t would
sail some time in August), called ye VEL
come, r.. Greene was master, which has
aboard a hundred or more OF We heretics
and malignants, called Quskers, with W.
Penn at the head OF them. Ye General
Court has accordingly given secret orders
TO Master Malachi Huxlett, Of ye brig Por-
poise, to waylaye ye said Welcome as near
ye coast Of Codd rs may be, and make
captives OF ye said Penn and his ungodlie
crew, 50 that ye Lord may be glorihed and
not Knocked on ye soil Of this new country
with ye heather worship Of these people.
Much spoil can be made by selling ye
whole lot to Barbados, where slaves fetch
good prices In rumme and sugar, and We
shall not only do ye Lord great service by
Furnishing ye wicked, but shall make gayne
for His ministers and people.
Yours, In ye bowels Of Christ,
COTTON MATHER.
This document was copied into the
Advertiser, last week, with the remark
that it seemed incredible that an eminent
divine like Cotton Mather could have
written 30 rascally letter. A friend has
since called our attention to the history Of
the letter in the proceedings Of the Mas
sachusetts Historical Society at the June
meeting in 1870.
DR.. Samuel A. Green then said that
the letter first appeared in Pennsylya-
MIA paper, the Easton argus of April 20,
1870. It was stated in the Esston pa
per, that the letter was found by Mr..
Judkins, the librarian of the Massachu-
setts Historical Society, in overhAuling
chest of old papers deposited in the ar
chives of that body by the late Robert
Greenleaf Of Maiden Dr.. Green was
himself, at that time, the librarian of
the society. No person named Judkins
have ever been in any way connected with
the library. No chest Of papers had ever
been deposited in the archives OF the So
ciety by Robert Greenleaf Of Maiden.
No member Of the society had ever
heard of Robert Greenleaf Of Maiden.
The letter was miserable forgery. and
all the circumstances Of its pretended dis
covery were invented with the intention
of deceiving the public, either for the
purpose Of putting its credulity to the
test, or to excite prejudice against the
founders Of New England. DR.. Green
also remarked that Cotton Mather was
only nineteen years old in 1882, and
this fact alone would be presumptive ev.
idence that he was not connected with .
piratical scheme like that set forth in the
forged letter. He was not ordained a
minister until the year l6s4.-Ponland
Advertiser.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1883-08-28

1t is semi-officially announced that
after retiring. General Sherman viii pro-
coed to kiss what few remaining girls he
has overlooked IN this country. 81.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1883-08-28
Commercial Department
Hattie P. Bailey,
Mus,e,
VOLUME so.

.Sui..i.l. tnstrcfOrS wall - iu-n shed in IA de-
pArtn,sut until permsne OF tcAeirr l. secuTvd i'r
the place.
A Catalogue. just issa~i. containing the e'ur'
- OF .tudV -rcouot at mp n-@s ara tthtfi NOR
nation vii b. srnt on application.
The scho,l has iOHr regular i'ac ers. gives Any
minutes 20 each recitation, has four tdl co1r--s
OF study of four veArs eseh, commercial depart
mant Aad an uaclas-inyd depArtm-ni iOr 10 'se
who rsnnot pursue rexnltr course.
The ela-ses - the Fall tenn - tli -: LaIn-t
cla-ses Greek-3 or = classes. FRENCH az
cla--rs, Algeb-s-S classes Arttem-rc-- as
e. t,eom@trv English l. iterstu-~. Meutai fhins
ophv Natural PHILOSOPHY. Ply seal 1ensr1phy,
Ensai-h History L =. History. krgii-h AnsIyss'
Grammar Retdipg, Book keeptHs and Penman
-hiu one class each.
This l. the term for beginning lsiin, freneh'
Algebra snd Geometry and therr may De class
beg inning O,r~~s
The excuses are very low; statement OF tue
exp.nse. OF some OF the studrnts the past year Is
given IN tho cNtslogue.
For any information nr 10 engage board or
rooms address tn Principal
Hebron, Me July - list
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-08-23
FURIOUS FLAMES.
Yesterday a Bad Day For Fires.
Serious ConHagrations Attended by Loss
Of Life, Reported From All Points
Of the Compass.

New YORK, August 22.-A fire broke ou,
shortly after eleven o'clock this morning
in the packing shop of the Empire oil
works a. Long Island City. The shop is q
brick structure go feet by 500 feet. Over
one hundred men and boys were employed
in the shop, and the widest excitement
prevailed among them. The flames spread
rapidly aud the shop was soon a seething
mass of flames, which the local fire depart.
ment
was Totally Unable 90 Cope with.
The tinshop building. l75x250 feet, next
caught fire and was followed by the barrel
shop, about the same size. The hames
next spread to one Of the largest agitators
in the yard, containing fifty thousand bar.
rels OF oil. The brooklyn Fire Depart.
ment was called on for sid and several
engines quickly responded, bnt although
they worked hard the danes spread in
every direction. AZ this hour the lard on
works are in great danger. The damage
already done IS estimated at
Five Hundred Thousand Dollars.
Patrick Coone, workman, was badly
burned and three other workmen we're also
injured severely. James Clare was badly
injured by ital!ippG wall. The fire IS be-
accidentally dropping some hot solder into
some oil.