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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-12-15

NEW YORK. PENNSYLVANIA & OHIO RAILROAD
(ATLANrIC & GREAT wE5TKRN.)
TIME rABl4k-AdOpted Nov. IBth 1883.
s5y- trains are run by Central or Goth Meridian
TC, which Is 28 minutes slower than Columbus time
the standard formerly I'm use by this road.
TRAINS EASTWARD
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-12-15

DR.. Frease's Water Cure Establishment
Health Institution In its B0th year For nearly All
kinds OF Chronic disea8es, especially the DIssas ~
Women. Circulars free. Address, -
s. FRRAsE. NJ n
sepzo-Lm Nc" brighton, Beaver Oo., Pa
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RAILROADS.

PTrTsBURGH. FORT WAYNE 4 CHICAGO X. II.
Schedule In effect Nov. 18Th, 1888.
Trains depart from and arrive at Canton follows;
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ooNNorToN VALLEY RAILWAY TIME TABLE.
In effect Sunday, oct 7th. 1888.
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JAMES E. TURK, suu't
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RAILROADS.

FNIIElh IHIIIW M
To Taks Eject Monday. Sep. Sd. 1888.
eourHwARp rRAINs.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-09-20
Extravaganza in Dress, Manners and Gus
f0mS

Fay" the Washington correspond
ent of the Louisville C0urier-Journal, is
now sojourning at Long Branch, and in
a letter to that paper comments with
just severity upon the extravaganza in
dress, manners and customs that pre-
walls in society everywhere now
Speaking of the fancy teams driven
along Ocean avenue by ladies, she
writes:
About twenty-five years ago it was
considered very bold and unfeminine for
a woman to drive one horse and to drive
two was sufficient to make her friends
ashamed of her. About that long ago
| drove a pair of ponies from my home
in the country to Louisville. The street
Arabs hooted and tried to hold the wheels
of the vehicle. My own mother was
mortified when she came to the door of
her house and saw only me and my lit
tie daughter in the buggy, and was
shocked when | gleefully said that, as
my husband could not come with me,
he had allowed me to drive the ponies,
and that was so pleased with the ex-
pertinent l intended to be my own
driver in future. That was the fist
duu ldoI Iiluo was CFSI iiIOWtu W
drive, for | dared not 60 against public
opinion. At present it is the swell
thing to do, and every girl in Washing
ton insists on having village cart and
horse, which she drives on the public
thoroughfares morning, noon and night.
Last Winter and through the Spring
months there was fashionable woman
in Washington who drove pair of ivo-
ry-tinted white ponies to an exquisite
equipage. The harness was tipped with
gold, and everything loud looking. The
lady dressed elaborately, and with long
mousquetaire gloves handled the white
reins with the skill of man. She had
two dogs of rare breed, and they sat be-
side her, one on each side, she in the
middle. The groom in livery sat back,
and she drove on the front seat with
her dogs. The lady has passed most of
her married life in Paris, and has
brought to this country the customs of
that gay city. She gave Sunday after
noon teas, and ''baccarat" was PLAYED
during the afternoon and evening
Everybody who was called fashionable
sought this charming and agreeable la
dy, and all the diplomats attended her
Sunday teas and enjoyed the foreign
gambling game. A young married man
and his wife who live in great style in
Washington, the wife being an heiress
and beauty, invite friends to spend
the evening with them and play roulette.
This young couple also have lived much
in Europe and brought home with them
European customs.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-09-20
A Quaint OLD City.

This is one of the most curious old
cities ever seen. Everything is narrow
and contracted. Although there are
only two or three of the real old houses
left, yet there are none modern. Que
bee IS much given to the use of board
plankings for sidewalks; and these are
generally in state of chronic dIapida-
ton. There are two lines of horse-cars
Qittle doll-looking cars), one for the
upper and cue for the lower town, and
the horses wear a regular string of
sleigh-bells, which always reminds one
of winter. Riding in one the other day.
a woman wanted to 90 into store and
get something, and the driver waited
for her.
Everything has French twist There
are no Chinese laundries. You never
see colored parsonage. And there is
just one person who asks aims. He sits
at st. Johns gate-his gate beautiful
and has his limbs tied up like the one
Raphael has immortalized. Silver and
gold gets he none, but plenty of cop
pers. In the city there are good many
houses for sale and to let, also vacant
stores, which does not indicate much
prosperity. Another way they have is
of neglecting to pull down walls after
building has burned, so that there are
a good many of these blackened monu-
ments. The walls of the parliament
buildings, burned over seven or eight
weeks ago, stand up gaunt and ragged,
and bid fair to stand. The new legis-
lature buildings, out on the Grand alec,
are going to be a magnificent pile when
complete. The part where the sessions
of the local parliament are to be held
will be completed in year or more,
and until ready they will occupy wing
of the department building, which is
already finished. In this building are
contained all the departments of the
local government, which heretofore
were scattered throughout the city.
Quebec is much more French and
Catholic than Montreal, and is becom-
ing more so all the time. They say
that the English leave it on account of
lack of business, and that if one has
been so favored as to make fortune,
he is very apt to take it away with him.
But greater harbor improvements are
going forward at the expense of the
Dominion government. They comprise
an immense wharf running into the st.
Lawrence, when another wharf at right
angles brings it into the neighborhood
of a third long wharf running from the
shore, thus forming an immense basin
for shipping-Que6ec Letter.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-09-20
The Graphic's" Ups and Downs.

The Graphic has had fair share of
success as daily newspaper, though it
has failed entirely of its original design.
When the original Montreal capitalists
put their money into it, they had a firm
belief that under certain processes
known to the Leggo brothers, who were
then in their employ, they would be able
to print in the afternoon a picture of an
occurrence in the morning which had
been instantaneously photographed.
The first number of the paper was
printedin the spring of 1878 amid q
tremendous blare of trumpets, and both
artists and writers expected to revolu-
tionize the journalistic profession. The
first attempt at illustrating the events
of the day" was with the 7th regiment,
which was photographed as it marched
down Broadway to the Battery. Rather,
an attempt was made to catch the boys
of the 7th ION the fly" but it did not
work. The negative was confused
mass of bayonets, legs and noses.
Other attempts in the same line were
equally disastrous, and then q council of
war was held, and it was determined to
anticipate coming events by the aid of
the pencil. and to exc out the remainder
of the illustrations by early copies from
English illustrated newspapers. The
Graphic at this point would have gone
by the board but for the fact that it had
shrewd Yankees at its business helm
and was edited with uncommon ability.
Public attention was diverted from the
promised illustration of passing events
by the building of the great Graphic
balloon, which was to carry Messrs.
Wise and Donaldson, together with a
reporter and naval officer, across the
Atlantic. The balloon was built, and
failed to go farther than the Connecticut
coast, but the failure was such big one
that the newspaper got all the free adj
vertising it had expected, and this set it
upon firm business foundation. Still,
there was no sham about the balloon
project. The publishers of the
Graphic were so confident that it would
prove a success that they had in type
at the time an. illustrated history of
ballooning, of which seven hundred
pages had been electrotyped, which
brought the story of air-ships down to
the time of their own venture. When
the great canvas dome collapsed in the
Capitoline park in Brooklyn, in sight of
twenty thousand sympathizing specta-
tors, the electrotypes of the big book
were packed away with the rest of the
ruins. Perhaps the new owners of the
Graphic will be more successful. N T.
Cor. PItlddelDhjG Record
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-09-20
Prof. Alexander AgassiEs Newport Labo-
ratorV,

A portrait of Professor Agassiz and
description of his Newport laboratory,
by Ernest Ingersoll, are interesting
features of the September Century. OF
the laboratory the writer says: ''No one
would suspect its purpose from the ap-
pearance of the building; all the pref
tiness of tasteful seaside architecture
--manygabled roof, outer stair-ways,
external beams and braces, latticed
porticoes, and slate-brown paint, over
grown with masses of vinery--feign ro-
nance rather than the realism to which
it is devoted. A few rods away, nearer
the shore, stands windmill-not such
an old-fashioned, shingle-sided relic as
those which used to flap their massive
arms in the face of frightened horses
all around the ancient town, but new
and ingenious contrivance of iron,
which, if it adds nothing to the fair
picture, at least does not disfgure it.
This refinement of windmill, moving
readily under the touch of zephyr
that the nerves of the old Hollandish
structures never would have recogniz-
eis supplies to the laboratory the pure
water and steady currents of air that
preserve its vitality. The soft cluck-
ing of its musical motion is rarely ST.
lent, for day after day the southwest
summer breeze comes lazily but steadily
in, as though Newport lay under the
track of trade-wind
s'Out from the windmill, some twen-
ty-fve yards into the harbor channel,
runs pipe which is bent up vertically
at the end, and capped with pair of
~. fhrorJnh tho snrnnnnd honnInrr fins
of which the clean sea-water is sucked
in in such way that 10 sea-weed can
enter and clog the pipe. Through this
pipe the windmill will draw ten gallons
minute, at moderate speed, pump
ing it into cistern in the attic of the
laboratory which holds about 1,400 gal
Ions. When this is full, the overflow
for the mill goes on regardless of the
demand-escapes into an open sink
down stairs. so that the condition of the
cistern is always apparent The water
used in the laboratory, however, does
not come by direct flow from the bot
tom of the cistern, but is drawn through
siphon. This secures the regular
pressure and avoids the variation of
s'head'' at different stages of water
which would result from the other
method. This water Gas have already
mentioned) is all clean sea-water, salt
as the open ocean, and is necessarily
renewed.
''The windmill also drives an air
pump, which forces the air into drum,
whence it escapes to the laboratory nm
der an equal and steady pressure (se-
cured by proper valves Of five pounds
to the square inch. These arrangements
for constant and uniform supply of
water and air under easy control are
the foundation of the facilities here af-
forded for the continued and successful
study of living marine animals
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-09-20
What They Both Thought.

1t was twenty-five minutes past sew
en-. The buggy was at the door to take
him to the train. His hand was on the
knob. ''Good-by," he called out.
There came from somewhere upstairs,
through the half-open door. feminine
voice, 'Good-by;n then he had gone out
into the glad spring. air, odorous with
the foretokens of coming life and Fmusi-
cal with the songs of the nest-builders.
But there was no song in his heart, no
spring hope and light in his life as he
took the reins out of his groom's hand
and spoke to his impatient horse sharp
''Get on!' And as he rode through tho
royal avenue that led up to his house,
this is what he thought:
Ii l had been guest, Martha would
have been up and dressed. She would
have had spray of fresh flowers at my
plate. She would have sat at the table
and seen that my coffee was good, and
my eggs hot, and my toast Drowned
And | should have at least parting
shake OF the hand, and a hope express
ed that l would come again, and per-
haps wave of the handkerchief from
the balcony. And should have carried
away with me that smile that is bright
er than the sunshine, as the last Gift of
her gracious hospitality. 1t is chance
if she would not even have proposed to
ride to the station with me to see me
of. For she knows, if ever woman did,
how to welcome the coming and speed
the parting guest
But am only her husband; and can
eat my breakfast alone as if l were a
bachelor; and get my coffee muddy or
clear, hot or cold, as Bridget happens
to make it; and take eggs hard or soft.
and toast burnt or soggy, as it chances
to come from a careless cook. And
nobody cares. And when | 90, Good
bye" is flung after me like dry bone
after an ill-cared-for cur. Heigho!
What's the use of being married any,
how?
And this is what she thought as she
put the last touches to her hair before
the glass. and tried hard to keep the
tears back from her eyes before she
went down to see that the family break
fast was ready:
Il wonder if Hugh really cares any,
thing Tor me any more. When we were
first married he never would haYe gone
OH in this way, with a careless good
by tossed upstairs as he might toss
well-cleaned bone to hungry dog. He
would have found time to run up and
kiss me good-by, and tell me that he
missed me at his breakfast, and ask was
l sick. He is gracious to his friends; a
perfect gentleman to every one but his
wife. believe he is tired of me. I
wish | could let him 90. 1t would be
hard for me, but it would be better for
him! Well! we'll! | mustn't think such
things as these. Perhaps he does love
me after all. But-but-it is coming to
be hard to believe it,
And so with a heavy heart she went
to her work. And the April sun laugh
ed in at the open windows, and the birds
chirped cheer to her all day, and flow
ers waved their most graceful beckon-
ing to her in vain; all for want of that
farewell kiss.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-09-20
A Dead Give-Away.

A certain young Hebrew travelling
man, now on the road, but with an old.
er companion, bought special ticket
of q scalper and got aboard the train in
good shape. When the conductor came
around he took up Isaac's ticket and
looked at the name, and then at Isaac,
shook his head, and said:
whats your name?"
LET me see my ticket"
Cant you tell your name withou,
seeing your ticket? This won't do.
You'll have to get of at the next station
or pay your fare
This agitated Isaac profoundly, and
he turned to his companion and said:
''Moses, I've forgot my name that
was on the ticket; can't you tell me
what it is?''
''Vill you leef me see dot teeket, Mr..
Coondogter?" inquired Moses. The
conductor showed it to him. '.Mein
Got, zeek, vot name is dees? Patrick
Moriarity! No Wonder you dond re-
commember dot name! Dond you nefel
got some teekets pi dem schoolpers nit
dot name on it Dey viii all de times
gif you afay. Dem Coondogter looks
at dot nose and den at dot name, und
he schmile nit himself ven he dinks of s
Patrick behindt nose like dot. Oh
iseek, ven you grows otter you vii
know a krate deal more as you knows
yoost now. Mr.. Coondogter, will pay
dis goslink's fare to de stchopping place
scrs " kitS of"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-09-20
Nothing to Worry Over.

A horse belonging to colored man,
and attached to an ash wagon was
standing at the corner of Woodward
avenue and John r. street yesterday,
when he suddenly lurched forward and
fell over. A crowd collected, and the
owner came hurrying up. Various
opinions. were expressed as to what
allied the equine, and the owner finally
appealed to a citizen to tell him what
he thought.
why, it seems to me to be plain
case OF poll-evil, pink-eye, string-halt,
glanders, bolts, and the epizootic, !"
was the reply.
Thanks. Dat takes a powerful bur
den off de ole mans mind. Do We
know dat when l fust cum runnin' up
an saw de ole hoss lyin' dar' wild his
eyes closed an his legs all twisted up
made up my mind dat sumthin' sorter
serious had cotched on. I'll walk him
home an gin him a leetle saleratus
water to brace him up. Glad you was
haah. sab. cause I'd have bin worried. :"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-09-20
The Philadelphia Girl.

A susceptible correspondent, writing
from Newport, says Her manners are
frank, cordial, unpretentious. Truth
rings in her every sentence, intelligence
governs her conduct, and courteous
consideration for others constitutes her
guiding rule of life. She makes de-
lightful companion, q friend of the type
whose very wounds are faithful, a true
and tender sweetheart, and the purest
and best of wives. Her rlaugh has ring
of sincerity, her conversation tone Of
healthful confidence in God and the
world and her attachments, whether as
friend or as a nearer one yet and a
dearer, are innocent of ofcoquetry and un-
touched by selfshness. Born to an in
heritance of good blood, perfect manners
and good old family pride, she views
worldly prosperity as merely an acces-
sorry of life's more important possessions
and regards the wealth with which she
is usually blessed-if, indeed, she ever
thinks of money, of the value of which
she seems Unconscious-as a simple
means to the far more important end
of human comfort and happiness. The
Philadelphia girl is indeed charming
creature, and to my mind the most at
tractive type of the American girl to be
found at Newport.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-09-20
WHOLE NO. 1907.
4 Baokwoods Home.

To the eastern eye how rough in its
outfit and how pathetic in its lack of
comforts is the home of one of these
pioneers. The one / have in mind
stands close to the brink of the river, so
near the waters that the rise of last
spring swept up to the door-sills. 1t is
made of logs squared and fitted at the
ends, with the long interstices between
the timbers closed by wooden wedges
and mud-work Two or three rugged
outhouses similarly constructed give
shelter to the farm cattle. The half
cleared tract of 100 acres, taken by the
settler under the homestead act, is
thickly SCARED with blackened stumps,
between which rise struggling patches
of grass or grain. Near the dwelling is
a scrubby garden covered with weak
growth of carrots, and the whole cleared
tract is circled by the ghost-like array
of those dead pines which all over
Michigan record the sweep of the forest
fires. The dismal environment of the
settlers home has its counterpart in the
rough walls, the uncarpeted floor, the
squalid children chasing each other
from corner to corner, the flock of
frowsy chickens that enter and 90 out at
will, and, most pathetic of all, the
housewife, worn with toll and child
bearing, who, with an infant at breast,
pulls wearily through her dreary round
of drudgery. In a closet fitted with
dirty berths sleep the children. Go up
now to the upper story next the roof,
where the grown people and visitors
sleep. The garret, for it is nothing else,
runs the whole length and breadth of
the structure. In each corner is a rude
bed fitted with sheets and coverlids on
which seem to have gathered the dirt of
ages. On one of these in the open
room slept nv comrade and myself. In
another was the mistress of the manse,
whose husband was away in one of the
lumber towns, and in third narrow
couch slumbered two hired men. With
one exception the nearest neighbor of
this backwoods family was some ten
miles away; all supplies had to come
from the lake town of Au Sable, fifty or
sixty miles distant, over sandy roads;
and the only visitors were the rude
lumbermen or an occasional sportsman
from Saginaw or Detroit. Yet amid all
these shadows of poverty, hardship, and
squalor there were some riffs of light.
Faint glimpses of culture OF comfort
were to be seen in the coarse prints on
the walls, the sewing and
some stray efforts at household decora-
ton. The children, though untidy,
were red-cheeked, and precocious in
speech and observation far beyond their
years; and the temper of the inmates of
the rude dwelling reflected the most
kindly and generous hospitality When
/ found that this backwoods home had
been wrested only two years before
from an unbroken forest, | realized the
real dignity and import of those humble
frontier beginnings from which the
greatness of nation has sprung
Michigan Letter TO Neao York Post
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-09-20
Ways and Means.

Oh. won't you purchase tickets, Mr.. Poodle,
for the balll
Ne've engaged two famous singers Signor
Screech and Madame Squall,
And lovely little German band TO nddle IN
the hail.
You can bring your charming family-we'd
like to see them all.
Mr.. Poodle looked considerate. "It would be
pleasant, quite;
Should one even not participate, t would be
beauteous sight:
But. if purchase tickets, my purse viii be so
light,
There'l be nothing left for fancy-dress, so we
needs must come in white,
And fear, my dear Miss Shorthorn, that you
would not think this right!'
Miss Shorthorn's manner froze at once. 1t is
If folks cannot come in costume. they'd best
not come at all!
The expense Of it would be quite too ridicu-
And she looked at Mr.. Poodle just as If he'd
been a wall.
Mr. Poodle meekly bowed himself out back
ward through the hall
Then he murmured, with pleasant grin,
"Ah. pride will have fallP'
The evening came, and-fancy it!-the Poodles
There were some attired in Persian dyes that
looked both rich and rare, =
And some in simple garments, most lnnocently
There were some in hi gh-necked robes, and
some with arms and shoulders bare,
And two with fluffy trains were thought very
charming pair;
The crowd all turned to look at them. as they
went up the stair,
And whispered: "Only Royalty to wear such
tints would dareP'
They chose conspicuous places, beneath the
gas-hghts glare,
Mr.. Poodle bowling right and left, with high
bred, easy air,
And Mrs. Poodle sitting in the very largest
chair,
While her eldest daughter-by request per-
formed the "Maiden's Prayer"
And Miss Shorthorn did not know them,
though she gave dreadful stare;
She'd have tainted had she realized that, with
much pains and care,
They had made believe to fancy-dress, by the
way they'd done their halrl
Margaret Vandegrift in st. Nicholas for
September.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-09-20
A Few Heated Remarks.

An Austin man was indirectly pros
trated by the heat one day last week.
1t was not so much, however, by the
heat of the sun, as it was by remark
made by his wife who enjoys warm-col-
ored hair and a corresponding tempera-
ment. They were walking on the street
and his wife was trying to inveigle him
into the purchase of thermometer by
which to more readily ascertain how hot
it was.
60 1t is no kind of use to have ther-
mometer in the house," replied the
man. ''It would indicate a much higher
degree of heat inside than there was
outside"
Why so ?" sharply inquired his
wife.
THAT head of yours would run it up
to 375 in the dead of winter"
g 1t would, would it you miserable,
old galvanized cadaver," said his wife.
81 just think myself that it might be
just as well not to have thermometer
in the house, for if you ever brought
that sizzling rcd nose of yours into
proximity to it, it would run up so that
boiling water sprinkled around the
room would cool off the atmosphere"
-I'eIGs Sittings.