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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-11-15
Scientific False Pretense.

There are those who have eVerS IA
cility for the pursuit of science, who
have an ample salary and every ap-
pliance for work, yet who devote them
selves to commercial work, to testifying
in courts of law, and to any other work
to increase their present large income.
Such men would be respectable if they
gave up the name of professor, and
took that of consulting chemists or
physicists. And such men are needed
in the community. But for a man to
occupy the professor chair in proml-
nent college, and, by his energy and
ability in the commercial applications of
his science, stand before the local com
munity in prominent manner, and be-
come the newspaper exponent OF his
science, is disgrace both to him and
his college. 1t is the death-blow to
science in that region. Call him by his
proper name, and he becomes at once Il
useful member of the community. Put
in his place man who shall by pre-
cept and example cultivate his science,
and how different is the result! Young
men, looking forward into the world
| for something to do, see before them
this high and noble life, and they see
that there is something more honorable
than the accumulation of wealth. They
are thus led to devote their lives to
similar pursuits, and they honor the
| professor who has drawn them to some
thing higher than they might otherwise
have aspired to reach.
| do not wish to be misunderstood in
this matter. 1t is no disgrace to make
money by an invention, or otherwise,
or to do commercial scientific work
under some circumstances. But let
pure science be the aim of those in the
chairs OF professors, and so prominently
the aim that there can be no mistake.
Ii our aim in life is wealth, let us hon
estly engage in commercial pursuits,
and compete with others for its posses
sion. But if we choose a life which we
consider higher, let us live up to it.
taking wealth or poverty as it may
chance to come to us, but letting
neither turn us aside from our pursuit. -
Prot. II. Il. RoOl01ad, IN Popular Scje1ac'
Monthly for November.
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A Million Dollars Depending on the Let
for g

Leonard Case, millionaire old
bachelor, charitable and eccentric, died
in Cleveland city several years ago,
leaving besides handsome legacy for
q school of applied science which bears
his name, a large property for his heirs
and next of kin to quarrel over in the
courts. One of the suits now pending
in the Ohio Supreme Court, the court
of last resort, hinges upon the appear
ance of the letter ''s'' in the statutes.
The other descendants of Leonard
Cases mother claim share in the es-
tate. The statutes provide that under
certain contingencies the estate of a de-
ceased person shall pass to the next of
kin of the blood of ancestors from whom
the estate came. If the word "ances-
tors" is to be construed in its full force,
the descendants of Mrs. Case can OBJ
tain their full share. On the other
hand, it is claimed that the letter ''s"
at the end of ancestors crept into the
statutes through the carelessness of
some printer or proofreader. The case
will be heard in the Supreme Court be-
fore long. The property involved is
valued at $1,0O0,0 Correspondence
NeW York San.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-11-15
Old Grimes.

This is a remarkable instance of per-
petuating mans memory, says 4 core
respondent of the New York Tribune.
who endowed no institution, founded
no public library, and reared n monu-
ment (by his friends) in no fashionable
cemetery. Every reader of this epi-
taph will give new lease to the per-
petuity of it, as the Greside memory of
the quaint story is revived, and again
repeat it DER and DER for the children
to take up and continue. The facts in
this narrative were incidentally CLEANED
from Mrs. Rebecca Harrington. nee
Wigging, who was born in New Jersey,
and raised near Niagara Falls, on the
Canada side. Her memory is that
''Old (John) Grimes" was born in Bel
| fast, Ireland, about 1776. He was an
educated man of cheerful disposition.
at one time an editor in Toronto, Can
ada, perhaps fifty or fifty-three years
ago. He subsequently engaged in the
! purchase of rags which he transported
on mule, and used to make his 'head-
quarters with one William Bigger an
uncle of the said Mrs. Harrington, who
lived at Lundy's Lane, half mile from
Niagara Falls. Here Grimes would
unload his merchandise, as he said, to
.'let the rags and mule cool off, and
would sometimes stay several weeks.
Soon after he began to be recognized
as regular visitor, he brought forth
several copies of ''The Epitaph," ''Old
Grimes is Dead" etc., which he said
he had written and printed while in;
Toronto. The mound that covers him,
the winds that sing his requiem, or the
blossoms that exhale their sweet per-
fume in commemoration of his simple
worth are unknown to me. | have
never seen any apparently authentic
account of ''Old Grimes" before, and
send this on a venture that you may
think it acceptable.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-11-15
An Indian Mother Rsclaims Her Child

Ten Indian girls were received at the
Lincoln Institute, Philadelphia, recent
ly. They range from 10 to II years in
age and are bright and intelligent AS
yet they know little English, but ex-
press their desire to begin the study of
it at once. They were brought to the
institute by young woman who has
spent six years in Dakota among the
reservations. The girls are to remain
at the Institute for five years and are to
be instructed in the elementary branch
es and taught to sew and knit and to
perform the duties of the household.
One mother, having consented to allow
her daughter to come East, repented
after the wagons had started and fol-
lowed them on foot over 100 miles.
She caught up with them at last and re-
claimed her little e.-PhiiateLphia
| Times.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-11-15
A Last Talk,

Come out in the garden and walk with me,
While the dancers whirl to that dreamy
tune.
And the world is fair as night in June.
Let me hold your hand as l used to do;
This is the last, last time, you know,
For tomorrow Il wOOer comes to WOO
And win you, though love you so.
You are pale-or is it the moonlight's CLEAN
That gives to your face that sorrowfn look7
We must wake at last from our Summer dream,
We have come to the end of our tender
book,
Love, the poet, has written well;
He has won our hearts by his poem sweet;
And now, at the end, we must say farewell
Ah but the Summer was fair and fleet.
Do yOu remember the night we met?
You wore Il rose in your yellow hair,
Closing my eyes can see you yet
just as you stood on the topmoSt stair,
A tiutter of white from head to feet,
cluster OF buds on your breast. All me!
But the vision was never half so sweet
As it is tonight in my memory.
Hear the viols cry, and the deep bassoon
seems Sobblng out i'll its undertone,
Some sorrowful memory. The tune
Is the SaddeSt one have ever known.
Or is it because we must part tonight
That the music seems 80 sad? All me!
You are weeping, Love, and your lips are
The ways of life are mystery
love you, Love, with Il love so true
That in coming years | shall not forget
The beautiful face and the dream knew
And memory al ways will hold regret
/ shall stand by the seas aS we stand tonight.
And think of the Summer whose blossoms
died.
When the frOsts of fate fell chill and white
On the fairest flower of the Summer-tide.
They are calling you. Must let you go?
Must say good-by, and go my way?
If we must part, it is better So
Good W q aIIoh a fII1 IN
Give me, my darling, one last sweet kiss
So we kiss our dear Ones and see them die,
But death holds no parting so sad as this;
God bless you, and keep you-and so-gOod-
by.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-11-15
Measuring the Age of Trees.

The counting of the rings added by
eXogenous trees every year to their
circumference can only, without risk of
error, be applied to trees cut down in
their prime, and hence is useless for the
older trees which are hollow and de-
cayed. Trees, moreover, often develop
themselves so unequally from their CEN
ter that, as in the case of q specimen in
the museum at Kew, there may be
about two hundred and fifty rings on
one side to fifty on the other. Perhaps
the largest number, of rings that has
ever been counted was in the case of an
oak felled in 1872, where they amounted
to seven hundred and ten; but De Can
dole, who mentions this, adds that
three hundred years were added to this
number as probably covering the re-
manning rings which it was no longer
possible to count. This instance may
| be taken to illustrate how unsatisfac-
tory this mode of reckoning really is
for all but trees of comparatively youth
full age.
The external girth measurement is
for these reasons the best we can have,
being especially applicable where the
| date of a trees introduction into q
country or of its planting is definitely
fixed, since it enables us to argue from
the individual specimen or from a num-
ber of specimens, not with certainty
but within certain limits of variability
to the rate of growth of that tree as 8
species. In these measurements Of
trees of century or more in age, sucf
as are given abundantly in London
"Aboretum," lies our best guide
though even then the growth in subse
quent ages must remain matter of con
lecture The difficulty is to reduce
this conjectural quantity to the limit:
of probability; for, given the aseer
tanned growth of the first century, how
shall we estimate the diminished growtl
of later centuries? The best way woult
seem to be to take the ascertalnet
growth of the first century, and thel
to make, say, the third of it the aver
age growth of every century. Thus,
we were to take twelve feet as tn
ascertained growth of an oak in its hrs
century, four feet would be its constan
average rate, and we might conjectur
that an oak of forty feet was a thou
sand years old But clearly 1t Nigh
be much less; for the reason for takln
the third is not SO much that 1t IS
more probable average than the hall
as that it is obviously less likely to Ell
on the side of excess OF rapl dlty.-
Popular Science Monthly for NoUem6e'
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-11-15
Bows Who Preferred "Whoppings"
No Pennies.

I know pair of boys beside whom
even Helen's Babies must have dwlndied
and grown tame. Naughty, wilful, mis-
chieVous loving little scamps. They
were at times as soundly thrashed as a
rather soft-hearted father would per-
nit. For time they would mind; but
they wouldn't stay minded" to use a
childish expression. Nothing seemed
as forcible method of punishment as
taking away their spending money-a
few pennies each day.
For some particularly gricvous, Of
fense this was resorted to two or three
days before the Fourth of July, and
great was their grief and Indignation,
Very early the next morning the
father who had visited this upon them
was awakened by hearing them at the
chamber door crying.
boys" -
"Oh, papa!"
s.Boys-go back to your room"
':Oh papa-dear papa-won you
please give US our pennies and go back
to the whoppings!'' Traveller
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-11-15
Angling for Pointers.

While Lord Chief Justice Coleridge
was in Chicago, reception was given
his honor by the Hon. Emery A. Storrs.
During lull in the brilliant festivities,
Me lud Coleridge felt some one pluck
ing at his sleeve, and upon turning
around discovered a long, lank, mascu-
line specimen of a native from the
Sucker State, with an anxious look on
his hatchet face, and piece of red flan-
mel around his throat.
''Jist step this way minnit, Mr..
Coleridge," said the apparition, ''come
inter this bay windy, want ter ask yer
suthin.
The astonished chief justice followed
the man into the alcove, and was thus
addressed:
''Jedge, they tell me you are a big
legal luminary over in England"
'Well, aw-I don't weally--"
Don't be at all bashful an diffident
in my presence, said the man with the
bronchial difficulties, 81 know suthin'
about the law bizzines myself, eff | do
say it, an I've bin elected justice of the
peace down in 10 Daviss county. Now,
what / want ter git onto is few pint
ers on some legal matters as has puz-
zled me considerable since l was cleo
ted. The ole common law, ef l under
stand the thing right, is the same in
| Illinois as hit is in England, amt hit?'
"Why-weally-I believe the COM
mon law of England is not-that is-has
| not been greatly modified since it's
adoption by the Tinted States.'
''That's what thought. Now, over
in your country does the cote allow
lawyer to 90 on the cost bond for his
client?'
"Well-weally-aw-that is not the
practice"-
That's just what I tole 'em down in
Jo Dayiss county, an spike-haired
shyster hit me with an ink-bottle be-
cause wouldn't allow no sich kind of
monkey work. Did you ever marry
couple, an did yer git yer pay in sau-
suges, spring wheat or cash?''
'Aw-marry a coupler"
"a Dutchman come ter my house
last week with license made out in
another county, an he insisted on me
hitchin' him an his gal right then an
thar. He was so full that yer could
hear the beer swash inside of him. I
tole the Dutchman he couldn't git
spliced on no sich q license as that
Yer can't marry an English couple in
one balliwick on a license made out in
another, can yer?''
''l-l-aw-you seem to-
"a damfool of a justice, who held
offiss before the citizens run me in,
oncet give verdict for the defendant
in suit, an then taxed him up with
the costs. / demonstrated with the old
grey-headed lunatic, an we left the
matter ter the judge of the district cote,
an when we had stated the case, the
jedge cooked up one eye like game
chicken an sed, Wal, gentlemen, 1
don't know but hits all right in 10
Daviss county, an the hull crowd snick-
cred right out"
''I-I-aw-weally-I must be GO
ing" said the poor Lord Chief Justice,
trying to edge away.
Zone minnit, kernel, or jedge rather
what do yer charge fer swearing wit
nesses in a civil suit, ten cents or two
bits?"
But the Lord Chief Justice had flown
from the horrid precincts of the deep
! bay window.-Tcrds Siftipgs.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-11-15
Cured His Hump.

A day or two ago, as the passengers
were leaving one of the ferry boats,
a gentleman who stood beside a GUS
toms officer remarked:
when | see a poor fellow like that 1
am consoled for not being rich
''Who?"
''Why, that man with the hump on
his back. had rather be poor all my
days than be deformed and have mill
ions of money!
Il can cure him in about five minutes
come and see,' replied the officer, rs
he walked towards the unfortunate and
invited him to pass up stairs. There
was a kick, but he had to 90, and three
or four minutes time sut1iced to re-
move his deformity, which consisted of
twenty-tw yards of flannel and six
pairs of socks.
''Purty smartr' growled the snug
gler, as he was allowed to go.
''Not so very" was the reply; "a
man who carries a hump on his back
should carry stiff neck. Yon didn't "a
Detroit Free Press.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-11-15

An exchange says: ga man was
driving an old OK when he became an
cry and kicked him, hitting his jaw
bone with such force as TO break his
leg" And we have been fairly wild
ever since we read the paper to know
who or which got angry at whom or
what, and if the OK kicked the man s
jaw with such force as to break the OK 5
leg, or now it is? Or did the man kick
the OK in the jaw-bone with such force
as to break the ox's leg, and if SO,
which leg? It's one of those things
which no man can find out, save only
the man who kicked or was being kick
ed, as the case may be.
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she can deny 1t all sne 90, ~--~
can't deceive me, and with this con-
solatory reflection Mrs. SpooPenddyke
popped into bed, and after thinking
for awhile got up and puttered around
in the dark, putting the room in order
in case anything should happen to her
self or husband in the night.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-11-15

Mrs. Lawrence, of Dresden, Me-, re-
ceived bequest of $4,000 from re-
lative, and, although poor, gave it to
the church.
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".Katie!'
SIN another moment the wife, kid
and Doubling Dixon were all mixed up
in a hugging match, and the handsome
woman from Massachusetts, who had,
at her own expense, brought about this
happy reunion, looked so pleased and
delighted over the success of her
scheme, that she really deserved hug
ging by somebody on her own account
THAT night, Doubling Dixon and
Ben ,Darnley, the vicious New York
gambler, met.
".You are positive said Dixon, that
phia faro dealer?'
'''Know it, said Darnley. Why she
even limited once that she would leave
home with me if | would come west
Say, Darnley, now be honest, didn't
you kinder try to take advantage of me
an make love to Kate?'
'.EYes, Dixon, since everything is all
over now, an you know just what kind
of woman your wife is, I'll confess
that did. But, then, to be honest
again, I'll just say that she fairly froze
the blood III my veins with indignation.
High, ho! This is id curious world,
an very few people ever get out of it
alive
"'Right you are, Kissed Dixon. You
are right, Darnley. Old man, my wife
is safe an sound in her own home, with
her own boy, an under the protection
of her own husband, an all this in
spite of your devilish- revenge. Ben
Darnley, for years you have kept my
wife an apart. For years you have
daily lied to me, an worked upon the
passions of a weak an doubling man.
"'Hold hard there, Dixon, or by the
gods of war I'll kill you!'
81 doubt it, Darnley. This is a day
of retributive justice. You will not
kill me.
''Ben Darnley was quick with his
gun, an a flash an report were his an
swer to Dixon. Then Darnley turned
an ran into a saloon. He had missed
his man. Cool an dispassionate, Doubt
ing Dixon, standing outside on the side
walk, looked down the long, brilliantly
lighted saloon. He looked along the
bright, shining barrel of his revolver.
At the farther end of the saloon crouch
ed Darnley. Cool an dispassionate,
Doubling Dixon took deadly aim, an
down through the ninety feet of glitter
ing light and gilded mirrors he sent a
bullet true to the heart of Ben Darn
ley. ."-Te1Gs SJtiaags.
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A Beautiful Woman in a Painters Eyes.

was standing on Broadway, a few
days since, talking with my friend
James III. Beard, the celebrated animal
painter, his tall figure and long white
locks attracting the attention of pass
ers-by. While we were discussing art
topics very beautiful woman went
past. Inudged him, and, calling his
attention to her, said:
''By jove, Jim, isn't she bcauty?"
Stroking his long beard he looked at
her critically, with the eye of Il connois-
seur, and finally said: Yes; she is as
beautiful as cow"
l don't know precisely how the lady
would have liked the criticism, had she
heard it, but it was meant as compli-
ment. He spoke as an artist, rather
than as man.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-11-15

Georgia has law requiring hotels
that do not use real butter to display a
sign conspicuously; "This house uses
pleomargarine.n
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me, an we will drive down to une

me, an we will drive down to Une
hotel
when they arrived, Dixon met his
wife with the coolest kind of reserve, an
she, poor woman, was almost heart
broken. The handsome woman and
Dixon had stopped on the way, an got
the kid, an Mrs. Dixon cried over the
boy, and hugged AMI kissed him, but
Dixon, he stood by as cold as an iron
clad, an never cried a drop, whilo the
woman washed the boys face with her
tears. Dixon spoke up, an said:
=" "'Kate, where's the gambler?'
"'What gambler?' said Kate. look
ing suddenly up, an it seemed as if the
fire in her eyes had dried up all the
tears.
"'The gambler chap you took up
with.
Its false, said the woman, false
as hell!'
''Doubting Dixon looked up wonder
fully puzzled at this.
''Didn't you leave me, Kate?' he
said.
"'I did, Harry answered the wo-
man, i left you for your own good. [
lc1J you Dec;tliSc L SAW IlObSlHD DuJ IulII
for you, body an soul, an weary pov-
erty for the little boy an me. You
drank the last cent away that you an l
could earn
"1 did bowl up too much, said Dix
on, but then
"'I left the child with its father in
the faint hope that it might work in you
a reformation. | knew he was the ap-
pie of your eye, and trusted he might
save you. He has. l now come back
to take last farewell of him an you,
an to thank God for having kept my
loved ones so secure t.
"'Ben Darnley said you eloped with
a gambler an went to Philadelphia
"'He lied!'
"'Your wife speaks the truth, said
the handsome lady, Il have known her
history since she left your humble
home, and stole away to trust, to wait,
to pray. She comes to you as pure an
as true wife as the day she left your
roof
Doubling Dixon leaned against the
door casing for support. The strong
mans tears were coming now, droppin'
full an fast He looked at the little,
wondering kid, an the kneeling moth
er, smothering it with caresses. Then
he stepped away from the door casing,
hesitated moment, as though fearful
of a repulse, threw open his arms, and
said: --.
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Fortune telling is prohibited in Nash,
vile by city ordinance, -
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Business Cards.

NJ STUART d. L. ROCKWELL.
STUART & ROCK WELL,
ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELORS
AT Law, Ravenna, Ohio Onices in Poe
Building, nearly opposite the Etna House
and Court House,
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]. FL. NICHOLS.
]. III. DUSSELL

Attorney at Law and Notary Public. Once
In Phenix Block over Second National Bank,
Ravenna, Ohio.
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p n CONANT.

A TTORNEY AT LAW, Counsel In
N English and German. Oftce over Flath's
Ciothin 4 store, Phenix Block, Ravenna, U.
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I. III, PHELPS &

A TTORNEY AT LAW, Ravenna. o
IN unice in Blackstone Block, North Chest
nuL street, Ravenna, Ohio.
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