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Pianine Mil Burued.

CLEVELAND, O., April l9-At 1:So this
morning a ire broke Oui in House & David
sons planning mill. Loss S25,00 on The
buildings and SIS, ,O00 on lumber. Insurance
$4,000. Two small dwellings adjoining
the works were also burned, the families
barely escaping with their lives. The cause
Of the FIRE has not been ascertsined.
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Captive. Liberated.

LITTLE Rock, Ask, April l9-In the
southern part of the Caoctaw nation in
ind!an Territory, early yesterday mora
ing. John 5: Lsnox. Texas desperado, at
the head Of band Of outlaws. surprised
ni'"d States Marshal D. H. Lyman. in
rhsrg- ~ certsin prisoners, killing Lyman
aud setting free tie captives.
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nhla nennRa afa

CoIrxBCs. April l9-Tbe Democratic
S's'e Centrsl Committ.e to day decided 70
bold the next State convention al Colum-
bus. June 2lst Toledo contested closely
H.! the convention.
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RasA Rail-.

NEw YORK. April 10. New Yorks6: Met
ropolitsns S.
WILAISGroS, DEL., April 9-Clevelsnds
10; Quicksteps I.
bALrxoRE, April ls-Bostops :. Bll,i,
morts2
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RRtiN EOanG.

ST. PAUL MINI, April l9.-At Currie,
MiHn.. ON the oath Of last August, Andrew
Bengston committed suicide by cutting his
| throat His wife was missing. A few days
sgo her body was discovered buried in
sheep shed. 1t is supposed now he muir
dered her.
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Miners strike.

GcRr, o, April IA general s;ri ke OF
coal miners in the Hooking Valley began
to-day against a;leduclion OF thirty cents
day in wages. The Akron Iron company
closed its works. The miners at Straits
willie are all out To day.
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Torn 20 PPaxmensS.

MuvAUKEE, April "a BelGit dispatch
SAYS: Thos. Knill, engineer in ThOmpson's
plow works. vas instantly killed by the
fsl ing OF an engine drive wheel. His body
yss torn In fragments
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SMART SERVANT GIRL.
She Got an Old Man To Give Her
Bonds. and at Once Sold Them.

WASHINGTON, April l9.-Inquiries re-
garding the transfer OF United States
bonds are often received at the Treasury
Department which, when answered, bring
back interesting and wonderful histories
from those most concerned. The latest Gu
riosity in this line is letter from a New
York lawyer, asking whether $4,000 in
bonds had been transferred TO a certain
named woman. An answer in the aitirma-
tive having been forwarded by the De-
psrtmeDt, the lawyer writes back that
his clients are relatives OF an old man
eighty years of age, who they had Just dis
covered has been influenced By q young
servant girl to make q formal transfer 70
her Uf this large amount OF money. They
wanted TO know at once IL there was not
some
IrreguIarity I'm Form,
or failure to observe requirements Of Law,
sufficient TO Justify them in taking the
bonds sway from her by law. The books
Of the Department. showed, however, that
hot only had tee transfer been properly
made. for vstue received" bat it had also
heen arrested by the President OF s
New York National bank. Further
han this, the books OF the Depart
mert showed that the en'erpri~ing SER
want girl, Immediately upon getting con-
troll OF the old mans wealth, had disposed
Of il sll in various amounts 10 brokers and
bankers about the city, and had recSived
full vslus in cash for the same. The reis-
tives of the old man are in despair, as there
is nothing to attach or seize from the eyi-
dently very bright young woman, Sho has
utnsged 10 make be- fortune so early iu
life, NiIh little trouble. This is one OF
m u
never ste The light of publicity through the
Courts. on account OF The hoIeieasnsss Of
,uhs rIt ce,dirg. Ur tn dead Of .,.a
d..
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Afhihisg.

nm l3.-lt has been resolve I
'.". Her ti.al Of Y hilisls bslurg the
L"eEiy perSOas will be A.
u " Charge II y-oussltIu. N,a:
'a> among wUTSlugm=q Fii,y
"a NeFe arrested for Nihi,ism I,S,
'Lef Include military crRr.-S
''''' =, sta-co'S. wO:k;nsmel a.,
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WUFFI M w VA FRIDAY MORNING. APRIL 20. 1888

ally Congress is Washington and Washing
ton is Congress, and in that pleasant way
neither amounts to anything without the
other.s
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Fatal EHpiS. lon.

geneva, April Io-An explosion in q
fire works frcIo'y ~ TODsIsi'tr. kille;
iCur lersons.
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WY suffer f-"m y state Of III heslth =
Wy s@ 'roub Ell with dyspepsia: 8rvwu's
ITUn SILttIS NiA cure YOU.
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scrrIo. Y T., Dec. 1, 1915

= EfIFIUf " l., DeI- Il. IoIo.
Tam The D1S,or Of the Baptist Church here,
ard sn educated physician | am not 10
prsctice. bur am my sole family physician,
ard sdvite in many chronic cases. Over Q
year sgo recommended your Hop B'tten
to my invalid wife. who has been under
Nc dh sl tr.s'mspt OF Albsny's best phy.i
tisLt several years. She has become thor
ouetly cured 81 her various complicated
ii,essfs by their use We bo'h recommend
u en- 20 our frierds many of w'o-n have
~ O beer crr d cf their g4rinu. siitnrni. BY
ueu. REV K z WAKksH.
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But le, US no, despair; there is a god
time coming: there always is. The first
Monday in December, which has been
without exception fair and beautiful for
fifty years in succession. will come again
And then will Teturn-1h, gliiSoma dtv,
the Senators, members, Territorial dele
gates. officers OF both houses, and wives,
and daughters and cousins, snd-and per.
sons interested in legislation; servants,
COOKS. clerks-much of the good and a
shall come, too, bridal couple' pleasure
seekers and visitors who wouldn't pay a
cent or travel on pass even to visit the
capital at any other season. and they will
eXpend good deal il they stay here long.
And then the President viii give receptions
and the legations give dinners and M
Smi'sx return ." her own agaiI, aad III
be repetition Of what has been, fvf soci
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-10-25
Sonethiuu hbaut Dress Reform


If there is a divinity which shapes our
ends, rough hew them rs we will, there
should, also, be some kind of an artis-
tic divinity to shape the abnormal
dresses of the present era. While the
male portion OF poor, struggling hui
manity manages to get itself up re-
gardless of cost. taste and everything
else, we must sorrowfully confess that
the beautiful forms of our wives, daugh-
ters, and other female relatives are
wrapped in the drapery of extreme
hideousness and fantastic design.
The Mother Hubbard must go. If
Mother Hubbard does not step in and
redeem her old clothes and place them
on the retired list, there is going TO be
trouble at Hot Springs, Saratoga, Long
Branch, Skowhegan and Kalamazoo.
Turn the Mother Hubbard out! AS a
balloon, it is all right enough, and en-
regle, but as dress, it is a lOck-stitch-
ed, gathered, pulled and ruffied failure,
and withering reproach to the boasted
culture of the nineteenth century.
The Mother Hubbard dress is all
skirt and no waist-a kind of q calico
ra9-bag, gathered at the neck, drift
ing away off into nowhere and floating
along after the wearer like q spanker
sail in a dead calm If the Mother
Hubbard dress is an old fashion reju-
Venated, we can only say, in the postum
nous language of a departed poet,
..shoot it, From the ashes Of the
dead past rises the Mother Hubbard
dress, like a Phoenix, and not so much
like a Phoenix, either, as like a coffee
sack, held in place at the swan-like
throat by silver arrow, and trimmed
with point lace and other frills. There
is nothing like it on the face of the
globe, unless it be another dress of the
same awful pattern.
Sometimes they are seen in pairs.
triplets and quartettes, bobbing along
the street like Oriental muttOn-legged
sails dotting the Mediterranean sea.
| Devoid of grace, shapeless and cumber-
| some, what is there about Mother
| Hubbard dress to commend itself to
the taste of our girls and other fellows
| girlsp We implore the dear creatures
to discard the Mother Hubbard before
it is everlastingly too late; before the
awful Mother Hubbard habit gets toe
firm Il hold on them. Then let them
adopt something less voluminous, bal
loony, and turgid, something neat, nat
ty and petite. Willingly would we yield
up dollar and II half to witness such
Il decided movement for dress reform.
Will our wives, sisters and daughters
| give heed to our timely warning, ol
will they persist in c!inging 10 the alb
normal Mother Hubbard, and leave u
hanging on the ragged edge of despair
--IerGS Sitti7lQS.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-10-25
The Usa and Ahnsa of Tobacco

1t is the abuse of tobacco, not the
moderate use of it, that does the harm.
Cigarette smoking is really no more
dangerous in the abstract than cigar
smoking, but because cigarettes are
cheap, and within the means of school
boys they aro- -ofion found -botMoon- tie
lips of lads who are not 10 years old.
If the experience of weil-known writ
ers is taken, it will be found that many
of them are smokers. Mr.. Froude says.
II wish for a small quantity of tobacco,
and this gives me pleasure. If l had
abstained | should have lost q certain
degree of enjoyment, and saved small
expense of money. Other good effects
must have followed also; but [ am un-
able to say that such effects would have
followed. / see no reason for changing
my habits" Herbert Spencer is doubt
full as to the advantages to be derived
from smoking, but cOnfesses that Ibis
experiences are not such as lead to any
positive conclusions concerning the
question" Carlyle was heavy smok-
er. using the strongest kind of tobacco,
and finding himself wretched when de-
prived of the stimulant. Wilkie Col
Inns, who is a confirmed smoker, writes:
when L am ill tobacco is the best
friend that my irritable nerves possess.
When am exhausted for the time by a
hard days work, tobacco nerves and
composes me. A man who
lives by his brains lives under artificial
conditions, and must have artificial
help. When a man, however,
allows himself to be a glutton in the
matter of smoking tobacco, he suffers
from it." Matthew Arnold believes
that smoking adds verv considera-
bly, to the "agreeableness" of life. In
the United States our women are cred
tied by European journalists with i'll
dulging in cigarette smoking to re-
markable extent. The statement is
made that half of the cigarettes smoked
are consumed by american ladies"
This assertion, from the same source, is
quite original: That ''dry goods stores.
as they call them in New York.. keep
regular tobacco counters, and the fra
grant weed is sent to the house for
young misses, done up in parcels like
haberdashery." There are :. great
many things which English newspapers
are acquainted with which are decided
ly novel to brooklyn Union.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-10-25
Three Samples Of German Humor.

Professor, to d class in surgery: 1.-The
right leg of the patient, as you see, is
shorter than the left, in consequence OF
which he limps. Now, what would you
do in case of this kind?" Bright stu
dent: Limp, too"
Woman, with dog jumping at her, to
Professor, owner of the animal: 'For
Heavens sake, man, call your dog off,
or he will upset me-" Professor, stand
ing on one foot and scratching his head;
Zone minute, madam, one minutei (to
himself) us soon rs | can remember the
Internal brute's name"
''How is it you are SO punctual at the
office every morning, Smith? You must
have an excellent alarm at your house.
"Yes, indeed, and cheap one. You
see, every evening before gong to PED
l push the cradle under the Black For
est clock, with the weights directly
over the baby's head. Punctuaily at
o'clock in the morning there is an un'
earthly yell, and l know what 1t has
Just struck. .''-PhiIade!phIG CaH'
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-10-25
WHOLE No. 791.
Hawthorne's Birthplace,


Salem cherishes the memory of its
martyred witches with singular venera-
ton. boarding canes and trinkets down
to their very shoe-latchets behind glass
eases in its Historical Society Museum,
but the birthplace of Americas great
est novelist is unmarked and put to tn
most mebial uses 1t is down a side
street, or rather, lane, in the least tidy
part of the town. The threshold almost
overhangs the curb. A blind man walk
ing in the middle of the street and
swinging his cane would touch the
house on either side.
Three premptory attacks upon the
brazen knocker failed to bring any re-
sponse. and we were on the point of
turning away when head was thrust
out of an upper window, and an un-
gracious voice inquired: "Phwat dye
wantP" ''To see Hawthorne. 8 house"
'...Well, look at it. then, ''and the window
was run down with 4 slam. After in
specting its square ugliness, from the
base board to the caves, until our eyes
were tired, q lady in the party, remark
ing that '.she was going in, - gave the
yellow nose of the gripper another
twist and stood back to await develop
nents. They came in the form of a
belligerant Milesian woman who stood
in the doorway with her sleeves rolled
up and her arms making triangles with
irregular base lines on each side, an at
titude full of indignant menace. Gould
we see the room in which Hawthorne
was born?' the lady who had knocked
asked deprecatingly.
'Well, Pm washing, and the children
are to school, but since We are so gener-
Gus. you may (Slipping the silver in
to her pocket, and leading US into
tiny hall, from which crooked stair
way climbed the next story.) ''The
room on the right with the quare paper.
Excuse the looks o. things, for Pm that
worried wild my work and the children,
and niver get 8 chance to clean moth
ing"
We believed her, and also when she
said that the room had not been altered
since it was built The bed might have
seen service in the eighteenth century,
and its mahogany frame was still whole
though much scratched and tarnished
about the oot-board. The ceiling was
low, the paper hung in moldy patches
from the walls, and where it was strip
ped off entirely, and tho plaster gaped
and crumbled, the baroness was render
ed more conspicuous by an attempt
made to conceal it with chromos of the
Mother and Child. While we were
making our way down stairs again our
guide grew loquacious. .'There's a
good many visitors comes here in the
summer. drives up in their carriages,
and goes away with their noses in their
hankerchers without leaving u cent to
help q poor widow and her children.
1t used to be a tenement with four fam
lilies. The owner offered it to the town
then, for $1,000. But the town had
Hawthorne's (she pronounced Hay
thorn's) chair and writing-desk, and
couldn't be bothered with house, so I
stepped in and took it off their hands.
-CMicG00 Inter Ocean,
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-10-25
a Depression in Business.

"Well, what kind of season have
you had?' inquired Il jaunty Grasshop-
per of round, corpulent Potato Bug,
at the same time picking his teeth with
rye straw.
''Nothing EXTRA replied the Potato
Bug; eve did fair business in Minne-
sofa this year. but didn't play to very
big houses in Dakota. How is business
with you?"
''Worst season | ever struck in my
life, so far, said the Grasshopper gloom
ly. ''We tried to worry the corn crop
around Salt Lake and in the southern
part of Oregon, but we all lost money
by it. The fact is, corn was glazed be-
fore we fairly got down to work. We
are going to play all our companies
through the east next season, and you
can just bet your nippers we will whoop
things up in Iowa and Illinois"
1.-The Chinch Bug combinations ap-
pear to have done well this season, p"
said the Potato Bug, quietly. ''They
have played to big fields of wheat in
Kansas"
''Yes, that's true" replied the Grass.
hopper.
The Chinch family are good draw
CttIttSs itlNl SOIIlo VI I1CiI SpCCistibJ
star parts are well done, but l notice
lately that the Army Worm is attract
ing considerable attention, and playing
to mighty good business in quite num-
Der OF states"
'Yes, the Army Worm has introduc-
ed some novelties this season, but for
packed houses, the Boil Worm and
Caterpillar have worked the country
for all it is worth down South. l see
that we have got to spring some kind of
q new racket, or we are downed," and
the Potato Bug sighed deeply, and nib
bled IL few caulitlower leaves
''I expect we will have considerable
opposition from the Weevil this seas
on" observed the Grasshopper
''Yes, l understand they are going to
put troupe on the road; heard they
had made up some kind of combina-
ton with the Cut Worm"
"Well," said the Grasshopper, "T
must go up to old Brockaway's corn
field and fill up for supper. If he has
built any bonfres and is trying to
smudge US out, I'll come down and
lunch quietly with you Oft Deacon
Jones. peach-blow potatoes. Ia, ia,
Chubby. ."-Ie1as StttingS.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-10-25
The Partisan.

A thousand articles might be devoted
to defining what is and what is not
Partisan and yet no progress be made
on this peculiar subject. There is but
one way to know about Paris and that
is to lounge through its streets, cafes.
theaters, clubs and restaurants. II is
Paris that votes death by dynamite to
all aristocrats and it is Paris which
goes wild over ballet dancers. 1t is
Paris which, at mi-careme, throngs the
boulevard to assist at the ridiculous
professions of Batignelles washerwo-
men, and the next day goes en- masse
to carry flowers to Victor Hugo in hon
or of the anniversary of his birth. Vol
taire's apostrophe-"Ah, Parisianst
Parisians! you never dance better than
when you are dancing around the
corpses of your brothers!" is as true to-
day rs when he uttered it. A Parisian
is generous and cruel, amusing and dis
gIsting, polite and brutal, q bon vivant
ami u beggar, honest and dishonest
in brief, much that is good and much
that is bad, and it is hard to say wheth-
er his virtues or his vices are the most
humorous. Cor. San Francisco CtrOn-
ice
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-10-25
Second Battle of Shiloh.

For two days and nights q party of
three OF us from the North were quar-
tered with n log cabin farmer while we
explored the battlefield of Shiloh. He
was good man, though rather shy at
frst, and his wife was an awful good
woman, though she had her faults.
Two of us slept in room divided from
the family bedroom only by a thin
board partition, and on the second
night. after we ought to have been
sound asleep, the old woman suddenly
began:
"Now, Jabez Smith, you'n I'll have
settlement
"Why, mother, what is it?'' he
asked. ..
What is it? Why, over since them
strangers showed up you've bin carry
ing powerful high head! You claim
ed you were in this fight"
.'Y-e-s"
t'Take it back! Take it back, Jabez
Smith, or Ilf make bald-head ST
you!"
She evidently gave twist in his hair,
and he yelled out that he was liar and
was sorry for it.
'.And you've been taking pains to
speak of your farm, and your team,
and your this and that. Jabez, who
owns this farm? Who bought them
mules? Out with it, or I'll get the
gouge on your eyen'
Ill reckon you dol" he stam-
mered.
...You bet do! | heard you telling
how you lost eighty niggers by the war
Jabez that was an internal iie Own
it up or I'll shet your breath OFF,
IL own it, mother"
''And you was telling as how your
father was Judge in North Carolina.
Jabez Smith, take it backn'
''Wcll, wasn't hep"
'Never! He was nothing but Ten
nessee 'coon-hunter, and you know it,!
Oh! you need pounding!'
He hadn't any opinion to express on
that point, and after an interval of 81
lence she raised upon her elbow and
resumed:
''Now, then, you hear mo! l own
this squat, and that mule team, and
the cow and all else. / run the bust
ness. | run you. If | ever find Won
prancing around again like you have
for the last two days I'll make dogs
meat of you! Do you listen?''
He didn't say.
''Oh! you don't! Then take that!
and that! and"
At this juncture the bed broke down
with an awful crash, followed by the
howls of the dogs sleeping under it and
the groans and jaw words of man and
wife, and we turned over and went to
sleep with the conflict still raging
IL OuuG
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-10-25
The Hunter 8 Music.

The thunder grew louder. The storm
gathered, lowered, and burst. In q
moment we are wet-but hark! through
the roll of the thunder and above the
swirl of the rain, there sounds the bay
of the hounds upon the mountain side
Old Spot is giving tongue. and that
means the game is a bear. Young Spot
joins in, and-booom. boooomm-down
the canyon they come. The younger
dogs stop chasing deer, and add their
sharper voices to the steady roar of the
infallible old trailer who follows on, as
sure and as relentless rs death. Where
else now is music? Where is any har-
mony other than that of the full-voiced
pack a-cry! Oh! Patti, Gerster, Nilsson;
OH Remenyi, Rubenstein, we love thee
all, but no, thank you! we can't come
lust now.-AmericGn Field.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-10-25
Let Him ha Heard.

Some day the Senate Committee on
Labor will have Russell Sage before it
in the witness box, and the examine
ton will lead off with:
Lets see ah-Mr. Sage, were you
the poor son of q poor farmer up in New
Hampshire?"
II was.
Had to study your books by the
light of cOrn-cob tire?"
81 did.''
event barefoot in winter and ragged
in summer, and up to your 18th year
you never had fifty cents to your
namer'
Correct, sir"
"At the age of 10 you began to spec
ulate. You traded So watch for a
$50 colt, and in the course of time
worked up the colt into fifty sheep polts
and brindled steer?"
Exactly, sir.'
"And you are now worth millions?"
eyes, u few"
"All made by selling tinware from n
peddler's wagon, and removing corns
and warts at ten cents a remover"
Every dollar, sir"
"That will do, Mr.. Sage. You and
Mr.. Gould and the other boys have
thrown heap of light on this labor
question, and our gratitude is unbound
ed Wall Street NecOS.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-10-25

Well it is for the woman who is shield
ed and guarded through life. There
are many lovely qualities to he develop
cd only in such u protected condition,
But sudden changes are Injurious in
proportion to the delicacy of the organ
ization- The old smile of the woman
and the plant holds good in that re-
spect. 1t is probable that, with the
most favorable development of free
dom, women will always be inferior in
judgment to men; always more liable
to make fatal mistakes in the conduct
of life. Ii they are to be always under
guardianship, let there always be q
guardian. If they are to have responsi-
bility, that doubtful good, let them as
far AS possible be fitted for it. Do not
rely too much upon your daughters $
good sense, fond parent. Your boy
may do unwise and even wicked things,
and may be q grief to YOU for time,
and yet go back and begin an honest
life and be honored and happy, and all
the past is forgotten; but your girl may
DO no wrong thing ut all. and yet en-
tangle herself so that she is unhappy
anu out OF her place for the rest of her
days. 1t lies with no parent to insure
happiness for his children. This is
true. But in the large number of
cases much may be done to lessen the
probability of misfortune. Watchful
care does not mean lack of trust, and
naCiVe good sense is not ill supplement-
eu Dy an education that teaches the girl
something of the conditions in which she
VIII be called upon to act.