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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-07-24
The Paradise OF Women.

Miss Emily Faithful, says the Pail
Mall Gazette, who has just returned
from her third lccturing tour in the
United States, brings back % great
store of information concerning the
position and prospects OF women who.
work across the Atlantic The field
for female labor is much wider there
than it is in the Old World; prejudice
against the employment of women,
which are rampant here, are there
either non-existent or so attcnuated as
to be innocuous. Women occupy al
most every profession, and the Ameri.
cans have realized much moro than
tho Old World nations tho ideal of Ia
carricre ouverte aux talents so far as
the sexes are concerned. In the States
there are female barristers, pastors,
doctors, and, in short, members of
almost every profession except the
army and navy, the nearest approach
to naval officer being Mrs. Captain
Mary Miller, who recently succeeded
to the command of a Mississippi steam
boat on the death of her husband.
There is hardly n newspaper in the
country of standing and influence
which has not 1T least two or three
women rs regular members of its staff.
One of the leading newspapers in New
York has Il lady rs its second-best
writer, and one of the best newspaper
properties in the foreign press of
America is edited by q German lady,
who took over the business on the death
of her husband. Women ACT us regular
reporters. and one has achieved consd-
siderable notoriety as - critic of cattlo
shows. AS interviowcrs women arc
very successful, and tho specially of
the female journalist in America is a
certain indetinable iightness of touch.
combined with q grace and brightness
of expression, which her confrere ON
ulates in vain.
One point which impressed Miss
Faithful much in her American jour-
neyings is the fact that women in
America are much less ashamed to
earn living than in this country. In
England it is regarded as natural and
right for q man to work for his daily
bread, but for lady to earn salary
is too often regarded rs discreditable.
Nine women out of ten who are earn
ing their living will preface the state
ment of that fact by more or less
Cl1oois stoo 'I'oloSy III hs'f1liS " "oA n
| for their living. In other words, work
is not regarded as the normal state of
women, and this shows itself in many
ways. English ladies applying for a
situation will give false names, and in
one case, which only recently came
under Miss Faithfull's notice, q lady
threw up profitable situation rather
than to allow her name to be known to
her fellow workers. In America it is
otherwise. Fine-ladyism is creeping in,
no doubt, but it has not yet attained
that universally which it enjoys in
England. America, however, is un-
questionably the paradise for Ameri-
can women. nor is there any country
| in the world in which the husbands are
so good, so kind, so afl'ectionate as in
the States. In fact, they spoil their
wives. In railway carriages the wife
lolls at her ease, surrounded by cheap
novels, while her husband nurses the
children~and supplies all their wants.
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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-07-24
philosophizing on well-spent Life.

'.Do you think that life is worth hv-
ing?" asked Mignet five or six years
ago rs discussion was going on
around him on Schopenhauer, theory
which M. Caro- was then expounding ut.
the Sorbonne, and, indeed, in the FASH
ionable drawing rooms where he spent
his evenings. The historian must have
been then not less than SO. and had
had an unusually wide experience of
life. His answer is worth recording.
Il was" he said, ''not born to fortune.
and have never been rich. Yet, if 1
had the option of taking a fresh start;
in life on the conditions under which L
sat out should not hesitate to accept
the offer. [ feel like person who has
witnessed a great drama which is
drawing to its close, and who has done
his best to understand it. | have not
had II box ticket of my own, but / was
able to enter the best boxes. which be-
tween the acts is an advantage. .
Human existence is full of interest to
me still. 1t greatly depends upon our
selves whether we 60 through it in
manner TO be satisfied with it or other
wise. The German pessimist says the
mistake of nature lies in a universal
effort to arrive at consciousness. L
don't see the harm of that state. The
mischief lies in trying to remain in the
nursery of sensation when we should
be putting away childish things. -
London Truth. i
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-07-24
Sam Wards Way of Testing Wine.

Mr. Sam Wards death is deeply re-
GREETED in England. l doubt much
whether his friends in this country
knew OF cared much about his person.
al history in America, beyond the fact
that he took care of them when ''in the
states'' as nobody else ever did. His
dinners, his introductions, his advice
to travelling Britons, were tho founda-
ton of his extraordinary popularity
among the Britons at home; and q very
sufficient foundation it was. They all
said when they came back that they
had never had SO good time as when
under Sam Wards care. lie even, as
you perceive, taught them to speak
American, and in this they delighted
almost as much as they did in the BAN
quets with which he regaled them at
Delmonico's. He really did much to
make America and Americans better
liked in England, and that is service
waich may be set off against consid-
ertbir catalogue of faults which, in
common with other mortals, he I'M
doubtcdly was chargeable with. The
fact that he did it by what arc called
hospitalities neither enhances nor di-
minishes the merit of the service. Dim
inc with him was one of the most seri-
Gus functions of life, and a criticism of
u dish or an opinion of q vintage was
never lightly delivered. Nobody can
ever forget it who ever behold the series
of evolutions by which he first acquired
for HIMSELF and then impaired TO tho
company, his Judgment or II glass of
| claret. The keen eye upon the latter
to see that he wrought no harm upon
the precious fluid us he lot it flow from
one crystal to another; tho delicate
| adjustment of the thumb and finger to
the glass; tho poiso of tho glass as he
! lifted it; the concentration of his whole
being in the sense of smell rs tho bou-
uuet of the wine reached the nerves
that transmitted it to the brain; and
the touch of tho lips which followed,
and tho instant, subtle, decisive COM
parison of bouquet with flavor; the de-
iicious content which spread over his
features if both senses satisfied; the ap-
peal to friends hard by To share in the
delight; the graceful invisible lines
which the glass described in the air as
he set it down-he who has not seen al
this and much more in the simple ac
of tasting and testing new bottle has
never seen Uncle Sam in his best estate
"a. w SDaaIiey'S London Letter.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-07-24
The Wart Disappeared.

"Do you remember Joe Grimes" in
quired Fitzgoober at dinner.
'.Who, that old scar-faced monkey
that used to hang around you SO muchP"
asked Mrs. Fitz.
'.Yes, the same man." replied Fitz.
''he has returned to the city to stay"
1.-THE hateful wretch. wish he
could have stayed away; he has an old
wart on his jaw that always made me
sick to look at; you say he's come back
to livep"
"Yes he went West, you, remember,
and has made half million dollars; he
has bought the finest mansion in the
city. and is
''Oh, Fitzy," broke in the lady, ''do
bring him with you to tea this evening"
will be so delighted TO see him
again. "-AtLantG Consultation.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-07-24

The majority of people in this State,
are not rich. There was time when
the glamour of wealth seemed to be-
over all the State. There are not SO
many rich people in California to-day
in proportion to the population as
there are in each one of the older
States of the Union. There is less
warrant for costly living or for do
mestic expenditures on the scale of
prospective fortunes. Looking to the
future, one might inquire what are the
prospective sources of wealth? There
are no more great fortunes to be made
in railway construction. few or no
great fortunes to be made in mining
ventures, the stock boards are no
longer prominent. Only the slow
processes of wealth are left-agricult-
ure, manufactures and Industrial pur-
suits generally. which are most fitting
for a people who are not wealthy, but
who have not yet quite forgotten the
lives of their fathers and mothers-the
domestic economy by means of which
large families were well brought up,
educated and sent out into the world
to make their own way successfully
S0n Francisco Bulletin.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-07-24
On the Advertising Power of Good
Name. .
An editorial under the above title in

An editorial under the above title in
the July Century closes as follows:
For years we have watched the
workings of this system of patronage
of advertisement by means of good
names-here in the city of New York;
and we must say that we have seen
great harm come from it, in many Ii
rections. The persons are not rs
numerous as they should be who reso-
lutely refuse the use OF their names to
every movement to every institution.
to every committee, to every board of
management, to which they are unable
to give the necessary time and atten-
tion, or in whose affairs they are not
competent to deal with full intelligence
and with fitness of taste and educa-.
ton. We say that such scrupulosity
seems to be exceptional in New York. !,
and yet events are constantly occur
ring TO showthe danger, even the i'm
morality, of allowing the use of ones
do not follow. (;
|. 1--WE have barely alluded above to!
the reprehensiSle course which somes
pursue of using their own good names.
as an investment, for profit, in con-.
neetion with financial corporations, or.
shemes of various sorts, which they d0l
not in reality control. OF tho impro-..
priety of such action there can be nos
question. Recent events have made
the danger and wrong of such an act.
lamentably conspicuous, and we do
not need to dwell upon this phase of
the subject. What we wish to do now
is to call especial attention to the loose;
manner in which good names are coma.
stantly being used by way of advertise!
ment, in charitable, social, education.
al, and other praiseworthy lines. We
ask our readers if they cannot each re-
call some instance where the public
has been misled, or where honored'
regulations have -sufferedP The fact iss
that, when any scheme or institution.
however proper or even virtuous its OBJ
iects. wants from any respectable per-
son, nothing but his name. his name
is the very thing he should stoutly re-
fuse to give. ="
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-07-24
Hunting With BelIed Dogs.

81 hunted with an Englishman in
Michigan, once, who put bells on his
dogs when he went Notwithstanding;
when the dogs got into the thick covert.
he could trace their course by the
sound of the bells, and whenever tho
tinklng ceased, he knew they were
pointing birds. .. !.
s.He told me that one day he went
out to woodcock covert with belled
dog, and after following the sound
back and forth and around and around
in the tangled growth, suddenly the
tinkling ceased. Very much pleased,
he went to the spot expecting to flush
a bird, but he could find neither his
dog nor any woodcock. Long and
patiently he tramped about the spot. to
no purpose. Then he called his dog;
it did not come. Here is a mystery.
Could it be possible that his dog had
fallen dead in some dense clump of the
covert? He called until he was hoarse,
and finally went back to camp tired
and mystiiicd. And there lay his dog az
the door, doing in the sun. 1t had lost
tho bellr'-Mourice Thompson, IN st.
Nicholas for June.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-07-24
In The First Stage.


Her lips are like rosebud steep'd in dew,
What time Aurora biusEes i'll the skies;
And there is such a sparkle III her eyes
Her large black eyes-that when they gaze
on you
Your heart awakes to love, a captive, too.
A single glance of beauty: Checks whose dye
The crimson ro Sc of June to initiate
Would gain n fairer color; and 81 brow
Where reason sits with beauty tete-a-tete-
All these are hers-all these and more-and
yet
Altho' to see her is to love her, even now
wou d that had never seen her face
For Love has fall enfrom his lofty place,
And has become the slave of Il coquet.
Sing, sing, We birds that to the forest throng,
And make the woodland ring with bolster
GUS glee.
Till solitude shall wed with melody
And nature seem one long unending song!
And you, ye brooks that speed your way
along
To Join the waters of the purple seal
o, fill the air with musici For to-day
She met me as passed, and smiled on me,
Till I forgot her heart could e'er grow cold; ;
Forgot the gay coquet of yesterday
deeper gre en- the spreading fields unfold.
A deeper azure decks the cloudless skies,
For Hope has colored all with brighter dyes
And Love rewakens to Il fairer world.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-07-24

The boy who stole up behind the
hammock and cut the rope at the head
end, under the impression that his
brother was in it. and let his father
down on the stoop so hard that it shot
his artificial teeth out of his mouth and
halfway across the lawn. will never
undertake to cut another hammock
rope, if II solid opinion may be based
on sound. And that boy will never
forget how mean and crest-fallen and
! low-down he felt when he saw his lit
tic brother, whom he had set out to
play the joke on, looking around the
corner of the house while the old
gentleman was prescribing the sprig OF
ocage-orange tree. Puck.
-~yTNszE Es.lR
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-07-24

"Because l was afraid of Aunt Jane
and you weren't. or said you weren't
Didn't / prove itP"
81 don't know how you proved it.
s'There arc some people who can't
see the most obvious things"
And once more, with tho most OBJ
streperous rudeness, he relapsed into
the shrill strains of 1.-The Shrew of
Ballycannon.
"Here," cries Ethel in desperation,
seizing o match and carrying it to him,
stake your match, but for mcrcy's
sake do stop that detestable tune"
Bob receives hand and match togeth-
er, pulling Ethel down into a seat by
his side.
.If there is any tune you like bet
ter" he observes, ~ am at your SER
vice."
bob, I certainly shall not sit over
here unless you light the gas. "
"Why notP | surely can't tlatter
myself you want to look at me. "
VI might"
.It's more likely you want mo to
look at you. ..
'.It's possible.
IL assure you that your image is so
engraved on my heart that l don't
need the gas"
.'That reminds me. Bob, what did
YOU ever do with that horrid picture
of me you took to ChinaP'
81 cave it to my washerwoman for q
ioss," although It Is in his pocket at
that minute.
SAT least I'm glad you didn't keep
Il. [ don't think ever had picture
of you"
NO." returns Bob calmly. fully
aware that the picture he gave Ethel
when he went to China Is at that mo-
ment In the locket hanging at heI
chatelaine, 81 never was in the habit
of distributing my pictures promlscu'
ouslv."
"You know, Mr.. Tracy" Ethel OBJ
serves, with dignity, attempting tf
rise, ..that you never gave my picture
away, and l wish you to return it t'
me this moment"
"Well. to tell the truth, Miss Mott. ;
he answers restraining her. II didn'
give it away. must have lost it Of
thrown 1t away sometime wlthou
noticing. You knew you always SAT-
it was horrid. "
ayes, it was," she retorts, releasing
herself and going off again into tn
darkness, ''but you were so dreadful
spoony you wouldn't have known low, tn tn
} difference if it had looked like tn
head of Medusa as long as it was PIC
ture of me-"
r Strange how one RECEIVERS from hi
youthful follies.
| .More strange than admirable Whe
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-07-24

A horoscope cast by an astrologer in
Pittsburg, and recorded in the DIS
gatch, predicts violent death for Jay
Gould within eight years ut the most.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-07-24

Cousin Alice They tell mo, Tom,
that you can be heard !. mile oil when
on duty. How is it you can't speak
above whisper when you talk to
mep" Capt. Tom (much smitten
but rather nervous) We'll = er-
you see, | haven't any authority over
you; buff you'd give me the pros
pect ofs having it some day, | think
you'd find / could make plenty of
row." Would you believe it9 She
didi
Leland Stanford offers Gen. Grant
aud his family home us long as he
lives.
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Business Cards.
I. IL nuSSELL
P. b. CONANT,

TrOMNEY AT Law, Counsel in
IN English and German. Office over FIa his
Clothing Store. Phenix Block, Ravenna,
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&. Ell. GRIFFIN,

DENTIST. Office over First National Bank
~ ONCE hours from a. m. to D. m.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-07-24

TTORNEY AT LAW Ravenna, O..
IA Onice in blackstone Block, North Chest
nut Street. Ravenna. Ohio
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-07-24

mast csear oar shelves TO make
OF NE" AND DESLRABLE GOODS from Largest
celebrated Mdnafactrers
C1AL LINE TO OUR ORDER. Believing Destgners,
ho make Speciality please better
una T0f Tess money than could
s1te haze concluded
ness ot to conaHe DIFFICULT RE-
PALRING OF WATCHES, CLOCKS IND JEWELRl. II. nddi-
ttos to s0htcf sOU LINE OF All GoODS
USUALLY FOUND IN FIRST CLASS STORE
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-09-11
General Buffers opinion.

A st. Paul reporter sought General
Butler and found him lying with an up.
lifted. half-chewed cigar in his mouth,
and an old silk cap drawn over his eyes.
He looked tired, and at first declared
that he would not be interviewed, say.
ing that he would sooner sleep than
talk politics. Later he called the re.
porter to his side aud talked to him on
various subjects. He said he had to be
in New York on the 18th, would do most
of his campaign work there. He consid.
cred New York the pivotal state. If
Blaine can carry that he will be elected.
he answered, on inquiry as to what he
thought of Blaine's ability as to
accomplish snch reault, by o
shrug, and a leer of his game
eye. He said if Cleveland could get
10000 independent votes in Massachu.
setts he would beat Blaine, but he
couldn't do that. He thought Blaine
would carry the state, as be (Butler)
would get more votes than Cleveland.
Ibe independents are losing ground in
Massachusetts,, and, in fact, all over the
East. In Connecticut the movement is
about played out. Blaine's vote, he said
VIII not be greatly affected by the in
dependents. Gen. Butler said he re-.
garded the failure Of the democrats at
Chicago to nominate him not simply as
q mistake but national calamity. Had
be been nominated the southern demo.
Gratis would have carried the states for
him, because they are hungry for the
offices. The negroes would. all have
voted for HIM, because he was their
friend. He would have thus broken up
the solid south. and his election would
have been certain. He was confident
that the combination in Michigan would
carry the state; was much pleased with
his reception there, and said his trip
through the state was perfect ovation
from beginning to end. He thought the
republican and democratic managers
would be surprised at the size of his
vote in the western states, particularly
in Wisconsin, Iowa and Kansas. He
would say nothing about the fusion
plans Of the Illinois democrats.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-09-11

alive to the New Orleans exposition
and the part Dakota is expected to take
therein. He makes the excellent sug-
gestion that brief sketches Of the adj
vantages Of the various counties be pre-.
pared which will be printed for distri.
button during the exposition. It is the
purpose of the commissioner to have
each county's exhibit SO arranged that
they can be readily pointed out to visit.
ors who, after reading the book, may
ask to be shown the products of any par.
ticular locality in Dakota. The exhibit
and the book will form an excellent ad-
vertisement for Dakota-one which will
be seen by hundreds Of thousands Of
people. This arrangement will stimu-
late rivalry among the counties which
will lead to good results. Governor
Pierce promises to aid in securing ter.
ritorial appropriation to pay the ex-
penses of the exhibition and has ap-
pointed an auditing board, of which our
townsman, Treasurer McVay, is q mem.
Der, to make returns of expenditures to
the legislature.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-09-11
First publication Sept. 8.
Proposals for Building Materials

Headguarters Department of Dakota,
Office of Chief Quartermaster,
Fort Smelling, Mimi, Sept. 5. 1884.
SEALED PROPOSALS, in triplcate, subject
this Office, until II o'clock noon, on September
., 1884. at which time and place they will be
opened in the presence Of bidders, for furnish
ing and delivering building materials, reQuir-
ed by Quartermaster's Department.
The government reserves the right to reject
any or all psoposals.
Preference will be given to articles of domes-
tic production and manufacture, conditions of
price and quality being equal, and such prefer
cnce will be given TO articles Of American pro-
duotiou produced on the Pacific coast to the
extent of the consumption required by the
public service there.
Blanks and full information as to bidding,
&c. will be furnished by this office, or office Of
Depot QuArtermAstcr. st. Paul. MIMI. on ap-
plication. JAMES n. MOORE,
Deputy QuartermAster General. q. g. A.,
Chief QuArtermAstcr.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-09-11
A telegram from Milbank gives the
following political information.

A telegram from Milbank gives the
following political information:
At the republican county convention to-.
day, the following delegates we're elect.
ed to the Pierre convention: II. Neill, N.
Thorndike. A. H. Louis. 8. 8. Lock hart,
w. F. Crawford, ]. B. Whitcomb, @. B.
Williams, N. j. Lowthain. The conven-
tion unanimously adopted resolution
commanding Delegate Raymond for his
efficient work in congress in behalf of
Dakota, and expressing confidence in his
honesty and ability as delegate. The
delegates, however. were uninstructed,
and left to pursue such course at Pierre
as might be deemed best for the interests
os this section. A strong sentiment was
expressed in favor of supporting cen.
trail Dakota man il Delegate Raymond
could not succeed. The following dele
gates we're elected to the sixth legisla.
tive convention at Aberdeen: A. Wardell
N. ]. Lowthsin. Il. J. CHASER, W. M
Evans, w. Empty. A. s. Young, ]. s
Cole, J. y. Lockhart, l. P. Ferrin, n
Finley. They were instructed to sup
port Col. A. B. Smedley, prominent
farmer near Milbank, for councilman
and F. A. Eldridge Of Big Ston,
City for representative. The Legislative,
campaien in this county has been take,
mp by the farmers, who have organize,
systematically to work for their own in
teresta,