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The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-08-14
PITH AND POINT.

If civilization continues its onward
march the next century will see the
penalty for eating raw onions twice as
ncavy as for se-breaking. .-DanUiiie
Breeze.
Says recent writer: "Man Is .
romance to woman" Does he mean
TO insinuate that man Is never true?
Recent writers should beware of gcncr-
alizations. Chicago Journal.
The Greek Statesman PapamichncI-
opoulos declined to form make-shift
Ministry. Naturally he wanted to stay
in Office long enough to write his name
on the page of history.-Springfcid
Republican.
Dickens says, "No man hates him
self" And it may be added that he
doesn't need to. He will always find
pcople-particularly those to whom he
has extended favors ready to take that
job off his hands boston Courier.
When you see man take of his hat
TO you it is u sign that he respects you,
but when he is seen divesting himself of
his coat you can make up your mind
that he intends to try to make you re-
spect him. Shoe and Leather Reporter.
| evening quarrel their only child, little
Johnny, rushed in and exclaimed: "Pa.
what does my teacher mean by saying
that inherited my bad temper?' Pa
hesitated, but ma spontaneously replied:
"She meant that you are your fathers
own boy,' and then burst into tears
NJ Y. Ledger. >
So Betscy Briggs has written book,
eh? Who is she, and what has she been
doing? Has she Just got married or has
she only been divorced? or is it u muir
der that she has been committing? Don't
remember ever having heard about her
before. Must be some mistake-the
wrong name probably Tran
script.
"A blind man was sitting IN COM
pany with some visitors when one of
the company left the room. "What
white teeth that lady hast said the
blind man. why" said friend. in
great surprise, chow can you tell?"
because" answered the blind man,
'.for the last hour she has done nothing
but laugh. '-Erchange.
--"Gawgc, nav boy, I've glorious
news for you. "faw don't saw!
What is it Oscah?" "Collaws are to be
worn two inches highaw.' 1.-The deuce.
you say-that'll keep fellah's head
from wobbling-when the whaebone in
his cawsetts sticks into his wibs. Cleval
continuance. Oscah: so wcally
Anglaisse, don't chew know?" White
hall Times.
We respectfully suggest to the lem
onadc vendors that they purchase II new
lemon this year. The cost will be
trihing, and the lemon will last them
for many generations. The lemon
which they have used for so many years
is. doubtless. valuable as n historical
relic, and is fragrant with the aroma OF
old associations But the present gen
Grafton is thoughtless unromantic. and
tickle, and Graves for something new
Lynn Union.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-08-14
THE VULGAR PENNY.
After Many Struggles 1t Has at Last
Reached the Pacific Coast.

After Many Struggles 1t Has at Last
Reached the Pncitic Coast.
There has lately been introduced in
several large retail houses on Kearney
street an innovation regarding the pay
ment of change which may lead to im-
portant results for the general public.
1t is no less than the payment of cents
when less than five-cent piece is due to
purchasers, and is simply an imitation
of the Eastern system. For many
years the ten-cent piece was the lowest
specimen of subsidiary coin that Il Cali
fornian would design to notice. After
the mining times tive-cent pieces were
introduced, but We're exceedingly scarce
and little used. Car fare in those days
was ten cents ride, and nothing of
any consequence could be obtained for
n five-ccnt coin. In 1876 the nickle
piece was introduced in great quantities
in California. AT first its circulation
was quite limited, but gradually it eX-
tended its influence, and is now II rccog-
nized part of the system of exchange in
trade. But California has never de-
scended below the nickel, and has for
years repudiated the cent piece. In tho
East the cent piece has an extensive cir
culation. and has purchasing power
that would astonish native-born Cali.
| fornan, who has always regarded tho
tive-ccnt piece us the lowest denomina-
ton of money in the financial system of
the United States.
A reporter called upon the proprietor
of large dry-goods house which has in
troduced the small coin, and asked him
some questions regarding the innova-
ton. to which he replied:
1T is only Il question OF time when
the eastern system of using cents in
trade will be followed on this coast.
The downward tendency of prices will
cause the introduction of one cent
pieces. OF course the injustice of
buyer paying two and half cents more
than he owes is not recognized by the
seller for the reason that it is his advan-
tage. He will, therefore, object rs long
as possible. But pennies are bound to
come. as the nickcls came. The banks
were the first after the Government
offices, to adopt and recognize cents, be-
cause their business requires the utmost
eXactitude in accounts. Several stores
have followed in the wake of the banks
i own one of them-and have adopt
ed the Eastern system. find the plan
works well, our customers are satisfied,
and there is no trouble or confusion
arising from giving exact change, in
stead OF retaining part, rs under the bit
iystem. San Francisco Chronicle.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-08-14
ALL is FORGIVEN.
4 Deliberate Man Who Didn't Object q
Being Called u Crank.

4 Deliberate Man Who Didn't Object -
Being Called u Crank.
A man from sequestered township
of Washington County called, the other
day, on the president of the Arkansaw
Industrial University.
II have come ter see YER" said the
visitor, ''bercase have learn that yer've
got cr heep O. sense"
The president bowed and the visitor
continued: IL come ter ax yer or ques-
ton that consarns me or good deal. Er
feller over in my nelghborhood called
me crank. knowed it want much
uv or comperment but lowed ter mer-
ye'f that wouldn't hit him till found
out whut he ment. Whut did he
meanp"
"According to Carlyle" said the
president. "a crank Is u very headlOng,
very positive, loud. dull and angry kind
of man. The American Specification of
the term, MS employed by the newspa-
pers, is sort of fanatic, semi-crazy
man"
"Then ! recken he thinks that am
ezbout ha'f crazy"
"Yes, should think so."
"Wall, l won't Int him ef that's all,
but at fust IL made me powerful mad
fur l lowed that he ment that want ne
!sdge Nv or hoss "-ArGanSaw 1TavslsA
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-08-14
HOME AND FARM.

The laying of soft-shellcd eggs
sonnet mes results from over-fceding,
and sometimes lack or lime or shell ina
tcrial.
The Farm journal says that tho
animals must drink in hot weather and
must take what they can get. But they
hate nasty water Us much as we do.
Lemon Cream: Peel three lemons
and squeeze out the juice into one quart
of milk. Add the peel, cut in pieces.
and cover the mixture for few hours;
then and six eggs. well beaten. and one
pint of water, well swcctened. Strain
and simmer over II gentle fire till 1t
thickcns. Serve very cold. Boston
Globe.
Coffee Cake: One cup of brown
sugar, one cup of butter, onc-half cup
Of molasses. one cup of strong, cold cOf-
fee, one tcaspoonful of soda, two tea
spoonfuls of cinnamon, one tcaspoonful
of cloves, one cup of raisins or currents
and five cups of siftcd flour. Add the
fruit last, rubbed in little of the flour.
Bake about one hour. - -Erchange.
A Western farmer advises stringing
seed corn by tying the ears together
with husss in some place where the
gra n can be saturated with coal smoke.
The odor, he says. repcls squirrels and
worms from eating the seed. The seed
comes up quicker, the plants grow more
vigorously and rlpen several days
earlier than from seed not so treated
Troy Times.
Too many farmers neglect to bed
the horses. They are foolish. A bed
is needed, even in summer. Wheat
| straw is the best for the purpose. 1t is
brittle, and the animal will not get his
feet tangled up in it, Oat straw is too
tough Barley straw is too dusty. 1t
causes irritation of the skin. A few
straws will not do. Give good, soft
| bed. - Western Rurnl.
A practice that has been tried with
good success, says Colmdn'S Rural, is
to mix the green hay with some old hay
or straw. putting first II layer of the
straw. then one of hay, then another ot
straw. and SO on till the NOW Is full OIL
the stack complete. The straw not only
absorbs the moisture from the hay, ant
thus aids in pre- 1rving it, but it is itself
improved by this absorption of the odor'
of the fresh hay, so that stock will ca,
the straw up clean, when before they
would hardly touch it.
TO crystalline fruit, pick out the fin
est of any kind of fruit, leave in thu
stones; beat the whites of three eggs tt
n stiff froth, lay the fruit in the bcater
egg, with the stems upward; drain ant
beat the part that drips off again; selec
them out one by one, and dip them int
| n cun of finplv-Ooyydprpd eupor Cover
a pan with Il sheet of fine paper. place
the fruit on it and set it in n cool oven
When the icing on the fruit becomes
firm, pile them on q dish and set then
in cool place. .-BoSton Budget.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-08-14
HORSEBACK RIDING.
The Different Styles of the Cowboys and
the Cross. Country Men.

The Different styles OF the Cowboys ana
the Cross. Country Men.
Last spring had to leave the East in
the midst of the hunting season to join
a roundup in the cattle country OF
Western Dakota, and it was curious to
compare the totally different styles OF
riding of the cowboys and the cross.
country met. A stock saddle weighs
thirty or forty pounds instead of ten or
fifteen, and needs an utterly different
seat from that adopted in the East. A
cowboy rides with very long stirrups,
sitting forked well down between his
high pommcl and cantel, and depends
greatly upon mere balance. In cutting
out steer from herd, in sitting n
bucking broncho, in stopping night
stampede of many hundred maddened
animals, or in the performance of n
hundred other feats of reckless and
daring horsemanship, the cowboy is
absolutely unequaled; and when he has
| his own horse-gear he sits his animal
with the grace of n ccntaur, and yet he
is curiously helpless the first time he
gets astride of one of the small Eastern
saddles. Last summer, while purchas-
ing cattle in Iowa, one of my ranch
foremen had to get on an ordinary sad
die to ride out OF town and see ranch
of steers. He is, perhaps, the best
rider on the ranch, and will, with
beasts that doubt if the boldest rider
in one of our Eastern hunts
would care to tackle; yet his uneasiness
on the new saddle was fairly comical.
At first he did not dare to trot, and the
least plunge of the horse bid fair to un-
seat him; nor did he begin to get accus-
toned to the situation until the very
end of the journey. In fact, the two
kinds of riding are so very different that
Il man only accustomed to one feels al
most as i'll ut ease when he first tries the
other rs if he had never sat on q horse S
back before. 1t is rather funny to see a
man who only knows one kind, and is
conceited enough to think that that Is
really the only kind worth knowing.
when first he is brought into contact
with the other. Two or three times l
have known men try to follow hounds
on stock saddles, which are about as i'll
suited for the purpose as they we'll can
be, while it is even more laughable to
see some young fellow from the East or
from England, who thinks he knows en-
tirely too much about horses to be taught
by barbarians, attempt to do cow-wOrk
with his ordinary riding or hunting rig.
Each kind is best in its own place, and
tho man only accustomed to one will at
first find himself ut disadvantage when
he tries the other. 1t must be said, how
Il L., an hal itty tb.,
would learn to ride well across country
much sooner than tho average cross.
country rider would master the dashing
and peculiar style of horscmanship
shown by those whose life business it is
to guard the wandering herds of the
great Western plains. A cavalry officer
trained at West Point IS, perhaps, for
all-round work, not unlikely to surpass
as II horseman both cowboy and fox,
hunter. - Theodore R0oSereH, IN Century,
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-08-14
Webster and the Matchmaker.

Mr.. Webster used to tell story at the
expense of Peter Little, who had in early
life repaired clocks and watches, but
who had for some years represented a
Maryland district in the House. One
day he had the temerity to move to
amend resolution by John Randolph
on the subject of military claims. Mr.
Randolph rose up after the amendment
had been offered, and, drawing his watch
from his fob, asked Peter what o'clock
it was. He told him. "Sir," replied
the orator, "you can mend my watch,
but not my motions. You understand
tictics, sir, but not tactics" Per-
ley PoOre, IN Boston Budget.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-08-14
Eight-Hour Farm Laws.

Young Man in Search of a Place
Do you need any hands, Mr.. Hayseedp
Farmer Hayseed-Need emp Ger
tainly do. Pull of your coat and pitch
right in.
"IIow about the-er-eight-hour
rulep Do you believe in that?"
"That's the rule on this farm. young
man. You go to work ut four in the
morning and knock oil at noon. Then
you go on again at one o'clock and
work till nine, Eight hours ut time
is enough for me, | tell yon. ~ -Maad,!
pAia cal.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-08-14
THE oLo.FAsHloNED GIRL.

know times haio's round the past
And boyboods dreams are fair,
Though retrospective vision cast
DissOlves them Into nir-
1et memory comes to mo betimes-
Red lips and teeth like pearl
The ringing laugh like silver chimes
or the good old. fashioned girl.
Time has It's transmit Rtions,
Throwing off old ways for new,
And the law OF compensations
Bribes us not to make ado
But there's one thing mss sndly,
Mid life's hustle and Its whirl,
And I'd give n few years gladly
To see II good old. ashioned girl.
without airs or nffectation,
A modest voice and low,
Not 81 Orning occupation,
Cheeks all with health aglow--
Such were our girls in other days;
Don't tnke inc for n cliurl,
Don't ciide me that like the ways
or the good old fashioned girl.
There was true love in the olden time
Not love ofvain display,
And poverty was not the crime
1t seems to be to day
And loving girl was well content
Nor strove for knight or earl
But welded ut her hearts sweet bent,
Did the good old d-tashioned girl.
.-Phifadeiphin Nows.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-02-27
SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 81, 1856.
Death Of John b. Cough.

John B. Cough, the most earnest,
effective, and eloquent temperance
lecturer Of his time, died at 4:40 o'clock
on the 18th inst. at the residence of DR..
r. Bruce Burns in Philadelphia. His
death wal caused by a stroke OF paraly-
sis while at his post of duty, in the act
Of delivering a lecture at the Frankford
Presbyterian church a few evenings
previous. Mr.. Cough was born at Sand
gate Kent, England, on the 22d day of
August, 1917, and was therefore in his
69:h year. He started in life poor and
penniless, coming to America in the
year 1929 he vas employed on a farm
in Oneida county, New York, for two
years, he then went to New York City,
obtaining a situation in a publishing
house at q salary Of one dollar per week,
losing his situation in a short time, he
was reduced to extreme want. His
course from this period vas marked
with dissipation of the direst character
until the year 1910, when he was Undue
ed to attend a temperance meeting,
where he signed the pledge, from which
date he ever after lived a life of sobriety,
aud taking the lecture field, he continu-
ed therein without intermission, visit
ing every city and town of note In this
country and England. until four or five
years ago, when i'll health caused him
TO retire from the field. Mr.. Cough has
accumulated many fortunes by his
lectures, but being extremely charitable,
he WAS always in modern circumstances
He Was buried at Worcester, Mass.
near which place he has made his home
for many years.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-02-27

Washington Special The house COM
mittee on public lands reported in favor
of Judge Chords bill creating new land
districts in the Big Sioux reservation,
in the event of the Dawes bill becoming
a law. The committee believe that
part Of the reservation lying west Of the
l02d meridian can well be attached to
the Deadwood district. AS there will
be a rush for the land opened for home
steads, it is not regarded as wise TO at
tach that portion of the reservation east
Of the l02d meridian to the present land
districts of south Dakota, and compel
settlers TO travel hundreds of miles in
order to make their entries. Pierre and
Chamberlain are to have the Offices in
these new districts.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-02-27

The largest pumping engine in the
world is that at F~riedensville, Pa, used
to pump water out Of a zinc mine. 1t
was built at Merrick's foundry, Phila-
delphia, in 1870, at a cost Of nearly
81, OO0,OOO. It's parts were so heavy that
all the bridges along the line Of the
North Pennsylvania Railroad, from
Philadelphia to Center Valley, were
strengthened to insure against accci.
dent. Its cylinder has a diameter of
ITO inches. The piston rod is fourteen
inches in diameter. 1t has a stroke of
twelve feet, and in one minute forces
yer 10000 gallons of water, or 10000, 900
gallons daily, out of the mine to the
height of 100 feet,-Chicago Mining Re-
view
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-02-27

charter for some $50 miles of extensions;
the Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul
will rapidly push a line to Kansas City,
and at the same time reach further out
in Dakota ard other parts OF the west ;
the Chicago and Alton appear to be
threatening IN extension to Council
Bluffs; the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy, while reaching out q great tenta-
Gle to st. Paul, are also extending an
other toward Southern Kansas; the
Atohison, Topeka and Santa Fe have
definitely announced their intention to
add about $50 miles to their system
forthwith. These are some Of the evil
d~ences, already beyond question, of
. large extent Of railway construction
the coming year.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-02-27

Detroit, Mich, claims to have the
Oldest man in the world in the person
of Andrew Lucas, an ex-slave, who, it is
claimed, is 127 years old. As usual in
such cases, he was a body servant. but
not Washin:ton's, the last Of his Wash
ington'sl numbering over a hundred in
the aggregate, having died in 1884. Mr..
Lucas claims to have acted in a similar
capacity for General Jackson, and is
also rendered famous bv being pattern
ally recognized by twenty.four sable
sons and daughters
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-02-27

The men of Michigan have been max
ing some figures and have ascertained
that it costs $3.50 per acre in that state
to raise wheat. Wheat at eighty.four
cents per bushel hardly pays the ex.
pense OF raising, and Michigan is one of
the foremost embarrassing states Of the
Union a state where the soil is easily
cultivated ard the crop is AS certain as
In any other state. Oats in the market
there are selling at thirty cents per
bushel, and ii costs t%wenty-nine cents to
raise and harvest the crop. If these are
the results in Michigan, think how
many despairing hearts there must be
In the homes Of the farmers ofthe north
from the Atlantic TO the wide stretches
Of Dakota. Cotton raising ia not much
more profitable. Is it strange, then, to
find in a New York paper that there is
likely to be another good. feeling period
In regard to mines? Why should there
moi be? There are mining failures, to
be sure, but mining as a whole makes
no such showing rs agriculture has for
the past year. If the ten millions of
voters in the United States had done as
well as a few thousand who were en-
gagged in precious metal mining the past
year, the wealth Of the whole country
would have been increased from seven
to ten per cent. There is a vast amount
of idle capital in the east the land
offers no inducement for investment /;
manufacturing is overdons until com.
merce offers nothing to the capitalist I;
railroads by the score are passing into
the hands Of receivers; the rage for
stock farms has subsidized there are no
more government bonds to be bought !;
the gambling in stocks is but gambling
at best. Why should not men be sensi-
BILE and say 10 themselves: "All men
are working for money; all the real
money in the worlds circulation was
dug CT: nf the ground; why should not
] dig some, alsor" 1t it the ~cleanes.,
neatest work that a man can do it car
ries more blessings with it than any
other industry why should not men
consider It on its merits Salt Lake
Tribune.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-02-27

A most disastrous fire ACQUIRED at
Wilmington, North Carolina, on the 2lst
inst. involving the loss Of property es.
timated at 81 100000. The fire origin
ated on the river steamer Blondin, cot.
ton laden, which set fire to the wharf,
a strong wind blowing at the time, the
fire spread rapidly consuming almost
the entire businers portion of the city
Many valuable residences were also
DESTROYED.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-02-27
Under the Edmunds law. the Mo,

Under the Edmunds law, the Nor.
nom are being hauled over the Goals to
some purpose. Many arrest are being
made, and conviction is the common
result. At no time in their history
have they been so sorely pressed, and
many of them. in order TO evade arrest,
have abandoned their homes and de-
parted for "greener fields and pastures
new" where government espionage
does not prevail, and where polygamy,
for a time, may be quietly practiced.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-02-27

The Union Pacific Railway Co., &C.
cording to the Railway Age, cortem-
plates building next year some 800
miles of new track in Nebraska, Kansas
and further west. The Burlington and
Missouri River Co. are at WORK on sew
eral hundred miles in Nebraska and
Kansas; the Chicago and Northwestern
will make great strides In Nebraska,
Dakota and Wyoming, and will proba-
bly, build also to KanAas City; the Mis-.
sour Pacii: have hundreds Of miles in
prospect In Nebraska, Kansas and In.
dian Territory; the Chicago. Rock Is
land and Pacific have crossed the
MisSossd st.st.i Joseph, and obtained i
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-02-27

Bill Nye says: The cowboy who can
at once grapple with the great
problem of where TO put the steer with
b bar B on shoulder, Key, circle G. on
left side, Heart d Heart on right hip,
len ear crop, waffle tie waffle. and sever
hands round, with Dash b Dash on
right shoulder vented waffle on dew
lap vented, and p ID O. &C o D. and N
G. vented on right side, keeping track
OF transfers, range, and postotfice of last
owner, has certainly got a future which
lies mostly ahead of him.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-02-27

The president, in a conversation with
an Ohio visitor the other day, said II
would sooner dispose Of dozen offices
in any other state than one in Ohio.
They are the worst lot Of wranglers
there that l have TO deal with
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-02-27

The Worlds Exposition, now being
held at New Orleans, ia, by all accounts,
a very slim affair. The exhibitors, in
consequence Of the small attendance,
are badly disguised. The managers of
the big show are cutting expenses on all
sides, and the enterprise will doubtless
result in a most dismal failure.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-02-27

There is at this time more national
banks in the country than there has
been since the passage Of the national
bank law Of 1858, there being on the
first day of January Of the present year
eco. Only Jos failures are reported
out Of 3,400 banks established under this