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The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-07-17
HOME AND FARM.

Corn Oysters: Six ears Of boiled
corn, cut from the cob and seasoned
with salt and pepper, mix with it tho
yelks of three eggs, well beaten, and |
one and half tablespoonfuls of flour, |
whisk the whites to q stiff froth and add |
last, fry in hot butter one spoonful at q |
time. -Phiiddelphia CaU.
Another thing. mothers is saffron
ten for baby. 1t is the very best in fever,
bowel trouble or scarlet fever that there
can be. 1t was the dear old grandma's
cure, and / think they had better success
than most of us nowadays. Too many
drugs are used now.-Fdrm and Fire
side.
Fires resulting from burning oil
are inextinguishable with water, but
may readily be smothered by throwing
flour upon the burning oil. If clothing
is set on fire by spilling oil, or by the
bursting of u lamp, handful of flour
thrown on Immediately may be the
means of quenching the flames. and
thus saving life. Montreal Witness.
A correspondent of the Ohio
Farmer recommends half pint of
! common table salt for bloat in cattle
| Put round stick in the cows mouth,
throw the salt as far down the throat rs
you can, and she will swallow it. This
! farmer says he has cured several cases
of clover-bloat in short time in this
manner.
Cheese omelet, n supper or lunch
dish: Butter and cut in quarters a suf-
ficient number of slices of bread to line
medium-sized pudding dish. Sprinkle
over small pieces of stale or dry cheese.
Another layer of bread, then cheese, and
so on until the dish is full. Make a
custard of one pint of milk, two eggs
and little salt. Pour over the bread
and cheese. Bake one-half hour in a
quick oven.-Good Housekeeping.
-Hominy: Soak cup of small
water to cover it, drain; put over the
warm water slightly salted, and cook
If it has not soaked up all the water,
pour it off and supply the place with q
a cup of warm milk; bring it to boil
and serve. Eat with sugar and cream,
-Erckange.
If by letting horse stand in the
, stable one day without exercise you in
Jure MN, now much more are horSeS IN
jured which are compelled to stand il
narrow stalls for n week at time with
out any liberty whatever? Yet there ar
plenty of farmers who, when they ART
+; not using their horses, will keep then
imprisoned for days or weeks at time
and then wonder why they have trouble
; in keeping them in good condition.
. Western Rural.
: An Ohio amateur gooseberry grove
, succeeds in growing very fine fruit, bot
in size and quality, on a cool, clay soil
, keeping the plants open in the center b
pruning. When they start into growtl
in the spring, he Immediately disbuds
I to prevent them from becoming to-
+ dense, and thus admits free circulation
, of air. He mulches heavily during TIL
4 summer. With this treatment he is lit
= tie troubled with mildew. Cevelan,
, LeQder
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-07-17

men take him In hand, look after his
meals and find him lodgings. A work.
man Is likewise permitted to change
from one trade to another, where he Ia
made member of another artell. The
Russian operative classes consist of n
number of artclls, whose only aim,
however. is to provide food for all.
Among the cab drivers the artell has
already assumed the form of co-opera.
tive societies; cabs and horses arc pro-
vidcd at the common expense, and busi-
ness is carried on in the same way. The
Russian cab proprietors have to thank
these artells for their exemplary organ
izations. Besides this there are many
villages where only people of certain
trade, as, for instance, tailors and join
ers, live. Here the "artclitschik" takes
the orders, distributes the work as well
rs the profit and forwards the goods
NJ Y. Commercial Bulietin.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-07-17

size, from twenty to fifty feet in cir
cumference, and from sevcnty-five to
one hundred feet in height. 1t Is an
immense umbrella-shaped tree, with
feather-like foliage. One tree will
bear five thousand margoes. The fruit
is heart or kidney-shaped, and grows to
the weight of one or two pounds each.
at has skin like n plum and its flavor
is that of all our best fruit combined
the plum, peach and grape and some
thing of the apple. 1t is a delicious
fruit, and Is universally used as part
of food. The cocao tree, from which
cocoa and chocolate are made, grows
everywhere, and the fruit, which is
shaped like musk-melon, grows right
out of the body of the tree. There is
no stem to it at all. The samsop grows
in the same way, and has very deli
cious fruit. The cassara is n substitute
for bread. The yam grows everywhere.
1t grows solid and is very different from
that of this country. 1t Is more like a
root. The root is fifteen TO twenty feet
long. They break it up into pieces and
sell it in sections. The cocoanut palm
abounds everywhere. One tree drops a
nut every day in the year. 1t drops
three hundred and sixty-five year.
The banana produces bunch a
month every month in the year
1t is perpetual in its growth. All they
have got to do to cultivate it is tn chop
the brush and stick in the plant, and it
needs no cultivation. 1t is the same
with all their fruits The sugar cane
grows from twenty to twenty-five feet
high. l was told that by the officials,
and it produces eight thousand to ten
thousand pounds to the acre. 1t never
needs replacing, but grows just like
clover. Cotton grows in the same
way, reproducing itself 1t becomes a
great tree and bears a great amount OF
very fine fiber. Corn produces five
crops year. Coffee grows abundantly,
and Nicaragua coffee is among the best
in the world. No finer coffee is pro
vided anywhere. The country is pre-.
eminently country of lazy people
One can live there as nearly withou
work as anywhere else. The people
are very independent in spirit and worl
only when they feel like it. Ont
strange thing is that the English Ian
guage seems to be the coming languag,
of all America. Spanish and English
are spoken, but the whole business o
the place is principally done in English
Colonel Pat Donan, IN Chicag'
Journal.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-07-17
TURKISH BRUTALITY.
An Incident Illustrative of the Moslem
Hate of Christian Travellers.

An Incident Illustrative of the Moslem
Hate of Christian Travellers.
While waiting to be presented to Ali
Bashaw, Belzoni managed to see the sun
rise from the top of the Great Pyramid,
and to visit those of Saccara and Dajior.
and to meet the great traveller Burck-
hardt, meeting to which we owe q
good many of our best Egyptian an
tiques. Riding up to the citadel with
Nj Baghos to see Mehemet Ali, he ad-
mired ''the majestic appearance of the
Turkish soldiers" but soon found that
looks are not every thing. for one of
these noble looking fellows passing on
horseback, managed, out of pure spite,
to cut two inches of flesh out of his leg
with the sharp corner of his shovel-like
stirrup. The wound.was so serious that
it kept him prisoner whole month, and
when "Ali Bashaw" noticed his limp
and learned the cause he simply said:
.Such accidents will happen when
troops are about The soldiers
just then hated the very look of
a Frank, for Ali was trying TO teach
them the European drill. There was a
mutiny about this not long after, and
the attempt had to be given up, the
mutineers getting off scott free, though
Belzoni remarks that just then there
came on an unaccountable mortality
among the higi, officers Of the army.
BY and by, after he had got into high
favor with Ali, our traveller was nearly
killed by Bimbashi, out of whose way
he could not get. a loaded camel filling
up the street. The Bimbashi Ueuten-
anti gave HIM blow in the stomach,
which he repaid by cutting him over
the naked shoulders with his whip.
1.-The fellow then took out his pistol.
1 jumped off my ass; but the shot
singed the hair near my right ear and
killed one of his own soldiers who was
getting behind me. He took out a
second pistol, but his own men dis
armed him." This was narrow
escape, for just then the daughter of
Chevalier Booty, Swedish Consul-Gen-
eral. was riding with party of ladies,
her mother among them, to get a bath.
when soldier shot her dead out of
pure wantonness. All the Year Round.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-07-17
WON THE BALL.
How an Aged Turkish Liar Fairly Won
the Prevaricator's Prize.

How an Aged Turkish Liar Fairly Won
the Prevaricator's Prize.
Ages ago it pleased one of the Sultans
to issue q proclamation throughout the
empire, promising to present a golden
bali to whomever among his subjects
should prove himself the biggest liar,
giving it to be understood beforehand
that no "merely improbable story"
would stand the ghost of chance of
winning, since he himself was to be the
judge, and nothing short of a story that
was simply impossible would secure the
prize. The proclamation naturally
made quite stir among the greater
prevaricators of the realm, and hundred
of stories came pouring in from COM
petitors everywhere, but they were one
and all adiudged by the astute monarch
as containing incidents that might un-
der extraordinary circumstances have
been true. The coveted golden ball still
remained unawarded, when one day
there appeared before the gate of the
Sultan's palace, requesting an audi
ence, an old man with travel-worn
appearance, and bearing on his
stopping shoulders an immense
earthenware jar. The Sultan received
the aged pilgrim kindly, and asked him
what he could do for him. 30 Sultan,
may you live forever!" exclaimed the
old man, ''for your Imperial Highness
is loved and celebrated throughout all
the empire for your many virtues, but
most of all for your love of Justice"
..Inshallah," replied the monarch re-
verently. "May it please your Imper-
ial Majesty" continued the old man,
calling the monarch's attention to the
jar, '.your Highness' most excellent
father-may his bones rest in peace!-
borrowed from my father this jar of
gold coins, the condition being that
your Majesty was to pay the same
amount back to me.' "Absurd, impos-
sible!' exclaimed the astonished Sui
tan, cycling the huge vessel in question.
"If the story be true" gravely contin-
ued the pilgrim, ''pay your fathers
debt; if it is as you say impossible. l
have fairly won the golden ball." And
the Sultan Immediately awarded him
the prize.-S0n Francisco Argonam.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-07-17
FOREST DESTRUCTION.
Evils of Deforestation as Seen on the On,
Fertile Plains of Spain.

Evils of Deforestation as Seen on the Once
Fertile Plains of Spain.
The evils of deforestation have been
so many times rehearsed that it is only
necessary to mention them briefly here.
Trees are necessary in the hills and
mountains to perfect the springs and in
sure steady supply of water through
out the year. If all the trees about
sources of the springs are cut away the
springs flow but short time after the
winter rains cease. In early summer
they have disappeared entirely, and
with them the small brooks they have
fed, and which were wont to supply the
creeks and rivers now either greatly re-
duced in volume or vanished. COnse-
quently drought. poverty and suffering
from tine agricultural possibilities
ruined with a soil deprived of its needed
moisture. There is another evil scarce
ly less serious. This results from the
inundations which almost annually
devastate those parts of Europe which
in the long course of ages has been
gradually denuded of their forest with
little or no effort at renewal. Spain
has in this respect been the worst suffer-
er. Except in certain favored local
tiles, principally along or not far from
the southern base of the Pyrenees, or
along the Mediterranean, it may be
described as an absolutely tree
less country, its vast olive Or
chards aflordng here and there partial
exception. One may travel by train for
days here and there over the great CEN
trail plateau, which constitutes the
greater part of the peninsula, and
scarcely see tree, not even an olive,
on the plain, and not grove on hill
or mountain side. Such desolation
seems appalling. AS natural con-
sequence, the rams that fall, not being
detained by groups or forests of trees,
run off at once into the valleys, where
they swell the creeks and rivers to
enormous volume and cause those
frightful foundations which two or three
times every year form the burden of
Spanish dispatches and deplete the
purses of the benevolent in every part
of the world. In Austria, Hungary
and in different parts of Germany, there
are similar experiences, with meal
culable loss of property and loss of life,
and to certain extent in France and
Italy, though the two latter countries
find II remedy in the universal dissemina-
ton of the olive and vine, one or the
other of which clothes, and to great
measure protects the most barren hill
sides. There are also in both countries
efficient laws regulating both questions
of deforestation and atforestation, which
have done much for the protection of
all interests concerned. San Fran
CISCO Chronicle.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-07-17
IN NICARAGUA.
A Wonderland of Fertility, Natural Re
sources and Prosperous People.

A Wonderland of Fertility, Natural Re-
sources and Prosperous People.
The largest forest tree-the ceiba
tree, for instance-grows to the height
of ninety or one hundred feet, straight
as an arrow and without limb. At
that height from the ground it widens
out to vast parasol-shaped affair, lit
orally covered with heavy lunches of
crimson, bell-shaped flowers. Out of
one of these trees can be made boat
which will carry forty or fifty men. AL
boats are made of one piece. saw
great many mahogany boats from thirty
to fifty feet in length, forty-six feet
beam. The bread fruit tree grows
everywhere. 1t is an immense tree, as
large as the largest living oak in Florida,
with green foliage. The bread fruit
ooks Ike small water-melons. 1t forms
he principal portion of the food of the
inhabitants, who usually split 1t open,
,ut piece of salt pork or other salt
neat in it. and bake it, and then cat it.
)ne tree will supply whole neighbor-
iood with fruit. The tree that is
pronounced the most beautiful is the
nargo tree. 1t grows to an immense
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-07-17
COUNTRY CEMETERIES.
Why They Should Lose Their Old Charac-
ter of Horror and Repugnance.

Why They Should Lose Their Old Charac-
ter of Horror and Repugnance.
In single verse Whittier has well
described the old-fashioned country
church-yard:
"a winding wall of mossy stone
Frost flung and broken, lines
A,ionesome acre thinly grown
With grass and wandering vines"
Who has not seen these dreary, dis
NAL places? The grass grows out over
the walks; blackberry vines climb
over the graves; a few bushes lean over
the wall. Through the broken gate the
sheep come at will. A few wild flowers
struggle through the tall grass as
through ashamed to show themselves to
the sun. Now and then some mourner
cuts the grass from few graves, or
some member of the district takes the
contract for moving the whole yard for
the sake of the hay. Careless feet go
tramping over the graves. the frost
throws the grave-stones out OF line and
the moss creep over the letters. 1t
seems as though our ancestors wished to
make death appear as dismal and horri-
BILE as possible. There is no reason why
this feeling should continue, Flowers,
trees, shrubs and clean-kept graves add
much to. the beauty of the graveyard,
and take nothing from the sacre'lness
of the place. In fact they add to it;
their beauty gives feeling of rest to
the mind, a thought that our friends are
resting in peace. Decoration Day has
done much to improve our country
grave-yards. The graves of the soldiers
are always trimmed and beautified, and
the crowds that annually come to wit
ness the ceremony have taught the
owners of grave lots a certain pride.
The graveyard should lose its old look
of horror and repugnance. Each neigh
borhood should combine to take
measures for identifying the place.
We do not believe in erecting costly
monuments to the memory of the dead,
but we believe the harsh and ugly
features that so often characterize their
resting places should be removed =
Rural Nei0 Yorker.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-07-17
a DISCERNING TEACHER.



Valuable Lesson to Instructors.
A teacher had charge Of school in a
country town, early in her career, and
among her scholars was q boy about
fourteen years old, who cared very little
about study, and showed no interest,
apparently, in anything connected with
the school. Day after day he failed in
his lessons, and detcntions after school
hours and notes to his widowed mother
had no effect. One day the teacher had
sent him to his seat, after vain effort
to get from him correct answer to
somewhat nettled, she watched his con-
duct. Having taken his seat, he pushed
the book impatiently aside, and espying
fly, caught 1t with a dcxterous sweep
of the hand and then betook himself to
a close inspection of the insect. For
fifteen minutes or more the boy was
thus occupied, needless of surroundings,
and the expression of his face told the
teacher that it was more than idle
curiosity that possessed his mind. A
thought struck her, which she put into
practice at the first opportunity that
day.
Boys" said she. "what can rou tell
me about fliesp" And calling some of
the brightest by name she asked them if
they could tell her something of fly's
constitution and habits. They had very
little to say about the insect They
often caught one, but only for sport,
and did not think it worth while to
study so common an insect, Finally
she asked the Ounce, who had silently,
but with kindling eyes. listened to what
his schoolmates hesitatingly said. He
burst out with description of the head,
eyes. wings and feet of the little Great
ure, SO full and enthusiastic that the
teacher was astonished and the whole
school struck with wonder. He tolC
how it walked and how it ate, ant
many things which were entirely new
to his teacher. So that when he haG
finished she said:
"Thank you. You have given us {
real lesson in natural history, and you
have learned it all Yourself"
After the school closed that afternoon
she had long talk with the boy, ant
found that he was fond of going into thu
woods and meadows and collecting in
sects and watching birds, but that hi
mother thought he was wasting his time
The teacher, however. wisely encour
aged him in this pursuit, and asked hin
to bring beetles and butterflies ana cater
pillars to school, and tell what he knew
about them. The boy was delighted b,
this unexpected turn of affairs, and in |
few days the listless Ounce was th
marked boy of that school. Books OF
natural history were procured for him
and a world Of wonder opened to his ap
preciative eyes. He read and studie'
and examined: he soon understood tn
, necessity of knowing something of math
ematics, geography and grammar TO
, the successful carrying on of his favor
, lite study, and he made rapid progress il
his classes. In short twenty years late
| he was eminent as II naturalist. an
owed his success, as he never hesitate,
to acknowledge, to that discerning teach
, cr.-Fdrnl and Firestde-
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-07-17
WONDERS OF AN EGG.
A Question Which, Despite All Scientific
Researches, Remains Unsolved.


Researches, Remains Unsolved.
Mr.. Matthieu Williams, in one of his
lectures, says: Every one who eats his
matutinal egg eats a sermon and mir
acle. Inside of that smooth, symmet-
rical, beautiful shell Turks a question
which has been the Troy town for all
the philosophers and scientists since
Adam. Armed with the engines of
war-the microscope, the scales, the
offensive weapons of chemistry and
reason-they have probed, and weigh
ed, and experimental, and still the
question is unsolved, the citadel un-
sacked. Prof. Bokorny can tell you
that albumen is composed of so many
molecules of carbon and nitrogen and
hydrogen, and can persuade you
Of the difference between active
and passive albumen, and can show by
wonderfully delicate experiments what
the aldchydes have to do is the separa-
ton of gold from his complicated solu-
tons; but he can't tell who one egg
comes little rid hin, and from anoth-
er bantam. You leave your little sill
ver spoon an hour in your egg cup, and
1t is coated with q compound OF sui
phur. Why is that sulphur therep
Wonderful, that evolution should pro-
vide for the bones of the future hen!
There is phosphorus also in that little
microcism; and the oxygen of the air,
passing through the shell, unites with
II, aud the acid dissolves the shell, thus
making good strong bones for tho
chick, and at the same time thinning
the prison walls. Chemists know good
deal now about albumen; and, il they
can not tell us why life diflerentiates
itself therein and thereby, they can toll
you how not to spoil your breakfast"
Bestoa Budget.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-07-17
A HARD LESSON.
A Composition Illustrating the Beauties OF
English Pronunciation.

EngnNu
The following composition of words
in common use will afford much enter
tainment If read aloud by several, as a
test of ability to read it correctly.
Hardly one in hundred can get through
it successfully without previous study:
Comcly Diana had voice like a
calliope; yet, although it was not encr-
waited by laryngitis, she was not virago.
She wore stomacher set with jewels,
that gave an interesting idea of her
fathers finances. There was no squalor
in their vicinagc. She sought to in
veigle her charity coadiutor into a
hymeneal association without tedious
delay. She sent him her miniature, a
iessamine flower and an invitation to
dinner of anchovies. He was a coadju-
tant in the church. He had cadaver-
like complexion, and in ioost he had
been houghed. Taking some almonds
as n bridal gift, he mounted drome.
Diary with the epizootic, and hastened
without disgression, along Pail Mall
| The guests were sitting on a divan
with no evidence of evil The diosccsar
was waiting, having finished an abso
lutory service. When suddenly, above
the clangor of the wedding bells. wa'
heard a manacal' shrek. The groom
had pierced his carotid arteries with {
carbine on hearing that n deficit in hi
church collections had been discovered
He was cremated. - Boston Transcript