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The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-11-17
A BOYS TIMETABLE
The Pleasant and Unpleasant Things In
Little Freddy's Life.

Little Freddy's Life.
Ny little nephew ran across a para
graph, somewhere, which said that
any body could save at least two hours
of wasted time day by running on a
timetable.
Freddy brought the clipping to me,
and asked what it meant. L told him
that / supposed that it meant that a
person could save two hours day by
having all his work or amusement
planned and arranged beforehand
such and such a thing to be done at
such time, and another thing follow
ing directly after, and so on.
Freddy seemed so much interested
that advised him to make out u time
table for himself, and try running on
it for few days. He said he guessed
he would because two extra hours
day would be great help to him in
learning to strike out the fellows, and
possibly would secure him the coveted
position of pitcher in the school nine.
The next day Freddy submitted the
following TO me:
FREDDY b llME-l ABLE.
G45 to Z Gettin up.
z to 73O Bath and gettin reddy fer
brekfus.
730 to Brekfus.
8 to S20 Prairs.
820 to $50 Hard study.
$50 Start fer skool.
8 Get there Ga feller must have sum
fun i'm life).
8 to 1890 Study and resite.
1880 to 1045 Reses (out to be longer),
1045 to II Study and resite.
12 to 1915 Coin fer lunch.
1918 to 1890 Eatin it.
1880 to Sloos OF things. Pldyin ball
mosly.
to Skool agen. Tuifest part of the
day.
Skool over. Fun begins.
3 to Bace ball Bisickle ridin.
Coin to walk (sumtimes with gurD.
Slidin and skatin in winter. Flyin
kite. Bothrin the dog. Penuts. Coin
to ride with pa. Shoppin with ma
oven / don't kno it befourhand).
Handy. In bad wether readin. Sloos
of other things.
70 to z Dinner (grate time fer me.)
to 730 Nothin much. Don't feel
like it..
$50 to s Pa gets dun with paper an
reads sunthin alowd.
Sez / must begin to study.
to S15 Kickin aginst it.
Sl5 to 915 Study.
9l5 Gwup to bed.
9l5 TO 935 Windin waterbury watch.
935 to 945 Undressin and gettin into
bed.
945 till mornin. Crate big time with
dreems, but Il feller cant stop to injoy
thing much. Wonder wy dreems cant
hang on more like reel thingsP
p, S. Ware do thos too eXtry ours
cum inP-laai Pastnor, in Pack.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-11-17
AN HONEST PEOPLE.
The Trusting and Unsophisticated Nature
of NOrwegians.

OF NOrWtSitnS.
| like the Norwegians. All travellers
here declare them perfectly honest.
certainly have not seen the slightest
disposition on the part of any one of
them to deceive or cheat, and if trust
fulness is an evidence of honesty these
people are wonderfully so. They have
! huge keys to their storehouses and
granaries keys big enough to brain Il
man with. The y are nearly always in
the keyhole or hanging somewhere
within reach of one feloniously inclined.
AT wayside stations curiosities--
times of small silver ware-are exposed
in the public room, where any one can
easily carry them Off. The cigars are
in open boxes for the traveller to help
himself from, with the expectation that
he will honestly account for any he has
taken. Farm-houses are left open when
the whole family goes off to the noun
tain to cut hay, and in some unfre-
quented localities the wayfarer goes
in, builds fire and cooks meal; goes
to the store-1oom, helps himself to milk
and "hat broed," and leaves ON the ta-
BILE money enough to pay for what he
has used. Frequently post-boy Che is
sometimes man and not infrequently
u girl or woman) has taken what | have
paid for his dues, putting it into his
pocket without counting. He always,
however, sees what you give him as
gratuity, and shakes you by the hanl
when de says ''tak'' Uhanks). gave
servant-girl too much for our dinner.
She was much amused, when she fol-
lowed me, that should have made
such blunder. AT wayside stations
they charge ridiculously low prices,
and as far as can learn make no dis
tinction in making charges to foreign
ers and home people. - Garter III. Har-
giSon, IN Chicago Mail.
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The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-11-17
A Good RiddnnCe.

The removal, through the agency of that
ungriping and genial laxative, Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters, of distractions from the
bowels is indeed good riddance. Constipa-
ton is no light matter. 1t gives rise to and
perpetuates other maladies, and occasional
~ winds up in inflammation of the bowels.
Danish, also with the Bitters chills and fever,
kidney troubles, dyspepsia and rheumatism.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-11-17

USE BRowN's BRONCHIAL TRocHEs for
Coughs. Colds and all other Throat Troubles.
--"Pre-eminently the BEST - Rer. Henry
Ward Beeclcr.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-11-17

A DINNER fit for n book. .keeper-a
pigeon whole. Puck
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-11-17

A ~" TowS-Ujiji, Central Africa.
Ie,rc Hdtte Express.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-11-17

AN uphill business-the mountain
guides.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-11-17

FoRTIFY Feeble Lungs Against Winter
with Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar.
Pixies Toothache Drops Cure in one minute.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-11-17

The man who can turn his hand to any
thing generally ends up by turning States
evidence. Time.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-11-17

Meat Dumplings; Two cups Of
-four, one-half teaspoon of salt, four tea
spoons of baking powder; water enough
to roll; cut in small pieces and drop into
boiling meat stock.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-11-17

GEPPERT Medicinum, Cincinnati, cures
lung, nerve, throat diseases. Send for book,
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-11-17

FORCED politeness bowling to neces
sity
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-11-17
-Four Books Learned in One Reading.
A Years Work Done In Ten laNs.

From the Chaplain of Exeter College, and
Houghton Syrac PriZeman, oxford.
Coll. Exon, OXon., Sept. 1883.
Dear Sir:-In April, 1885, while thinking OF
taking orders in September, suddenly received
notice that my ordination examination would
be held in n fortnight. had only Ten GOl days
in which TO prepare for the Exam. ! should
recommend a gears preparation in the case OF
anyone so utterly unprepared as Twas; but your
System lat so strengthened any natural m,molH
that was able TO remember and give the gist
OF any book at r T,diiHg Il OHc'. the Cfore
read Lghtioot Proctor, Harold Browne. Mos
helm, &c, &c, once, and was successful J. ''ry
one OF the nine papers. The present BlshU Of
Edinburg knows the facts Faithfully yours,
lRev.l JAMES MIDDLETON MACDONALD, MA
TO Prof a. Loisette, 23T Fifth Ave. n. Y.
Perfectly taught by correspondence. Send for
prospectus.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-11-17

Bakers Norwegian Cod Liver OH
Prevents, controls and cures Consump,
ton. To insure success, insist on Bakers
Oil. JNo. G. BAKER e. Co., Philadelphia.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-11-17

IT isn't every composer who has O
Handel to his name.-Teras Sifings.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-11-17

will be getting up n corner in glass. That
would be too transparent scheme. Bur-
iingtOn Free Press.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1888-01-28
TEN YEARS OLD,

Tonight the New York Folks
zejt'ng celebrates the tenth anniver-
sary of Its existence at Steinway Hall.
The career of this Socialist newspa-
per has been most successful, and
should lie an incentive to American
workmen to ego and do likewise. 3"
Continuous, persistent hard work on
the part of our German comrades
has created a daily Socialist paper,
and the same energy on the part of
American workingmen will create
one or more for them. Perhaps
they had better become Socialists
first, however; then they will appre-
ciate the necessity for an honest
press.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1888-01-28
WITH SOCIALISM,.

There would be no fear of suffer
ing for want Of employment. There
would always be work to do where
there were any wanting the products
of such labor. Half the labor of the
town and of the world would not be
wasted in competition. Goods would
be made to use, not to sell. The
prices for which the goods would be
sold would be only enough to pay
for their production. There would
be no millions to pay to spectators
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1888-01-28
SPAIN

The Spanish Socialist Party will
hold conference at Barcelona next
August. All the principal cities
have Socialist organizations. 1t is
reported that a new revolutionary
paper is soon to be issued in Madrid,
under the title of La Bandera ROja
(the red flag). A great many people
throughout Spain are without work,
and professions and demonstrations
of the unemployed are frequent in
the principal cities.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1888-01-28
griee ! Gents

in stocks, traders in railroads nor to
owners of capital, The compara-
lively few individuals who now own
noary y all the capital cannot, as their
interest or caprice may dictate, shut
off the wheels of industry, throwing
thousands out of employment with
all the moral and physical suffering
such state Of affairs implies. Mel
ther will this same few be allowed to
exact as profits on capital, from the
products of labor IN immense slice,
which they cannot consume and
which those who would like to con
sumo cannot buy, thus creating the
periodical overproductions" and
"panics." No one, not even the
humblest citizen would be by over
work or lack of time or facilities pro-
hibited from cultivating every talent
possessed to the fullest extent. Nei-
ther would there be anything to pro-
hlbit the individual superiority of
talent or eyertion from receiving
whatever recognition it deserves, but
"social and moral worth not wealth"
would be the standard of greatness.
-Aaugatuch 1gitator.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1888-01-28
ENGLISH MILITIA.
Socialists Becoming Soldiers for Good
Reasons.

Lord WolSley has introduced u
plan for short military service, three
years, and number of Socialists are
joining the English militia. They
are doing good work, sowing the
seeds of Socialism among the soldiery.
Recently, when the Royal Scots
were ordered to fire upon the brave
crofters of Lewis. they absolutely re-
fused to obey. The intelligent sold
iers don't propose to collect rent and
protect the stealings of robbers. As
a contributor to London JuStice says:
'1f they ever fire volley it will 90
into the air or into the Sheriff's party.
These men were crofters once.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1888-01-28
THE LAND-TAX MILLENNIUM

The Formation Of Castles and Classes.
A correspondent of the Cleveland
Industrial J0ayHal has been looking
up the single tax business, and makes
the following pertinent remarks:
How would the single land tax usher
In the millennium? George says tax land
and tax that only, and in his bigotry he
and his followers say by this method only
can the country be saved. Socialists are
superficial. He alone has got the potent
cure-all. People have been called frauds
for dealing out patent medicines which
they claimed would cure all the diseases
incident to humanity. And again we must
not tax the industrious for his industry.
Very nice Sounds well in the oratorical
flights of a McGlynn or Pentecost.
Looks well in print; but look, think, ex-
anime, investigate. A rich man
has A house worth say $4,000 in the
heart of the city. Next door a poor man
has by strict economy secured little
house on lot of the same size. Would
not common sense say that inasmuch as
from the government than the poor one
he should pay more taxes than he? # =
His rent would bring him in a vast reve-
nue. which would laugh at the taxes.
The man with the little house probably
could not rent, if at all, certainly not for
enough to pay the heavy taxes of the
land. What would be the result? The
poor man would have to sell that land
which he had iabored long years to get
to some rich man who would build u fine
mansion on it, and then go to live on
some poor land far from the comforts of
city civilization.
"Then would we see the new civiiza-
ton All the finest buildings together.
Those of next lower grade about them.
In circle of larger extent those still less
imposing, and so on down to the huts of
the INDECENT masses. Separated into
classes. Caste supreme. Workingmen,
how do YOU like the George millennium?
Gaze on the picture. Have capitalists
so few privileges that we must give them
more?
"The George movement is a side cur
rent made by some of the more far
sighted capitalists to divert tile rush of
the multitudes over the barriers Of
church and and state into the field of
economic liberty and cooperation. The
unpaid labor of the masses cries aloud
for redress. The fight, says George, is
between capital and labor on the one
side and rent on the other. He seeks to
divide our forces. May his attempt be in
vain. The fight is between capitalism
which gives a man chance to be brute
task master over his equals, which gives
to labor only a small portion of the value
which it creates when it should have the
whole which it creates, which robs the
many to enrich the few--a fight between
capitalism and labor, and it will be the
most tremendous fight yet seen in Christ
endom. And since right is right and
justice must prevail, labor will be tri-
umphant despite the tricks of charlatan
would-be labor leaders"
The hdustriM JQurnal is the Off
cial organ OF the National Trade
District of Machinery Constructors,
and naturally caters to an intelll,
gent class of readers. Let them
study well the propositions of the
various reformcrs and would-be re.
formers. Brain will tell on the right
side in the end.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1888-01-28

height, as shown by his passport.
Admitted to the freedom of the Uni
versity, where he received few sti-
pends, he exercised in thegymnasium,
fenced, swan. and roamed the fields,
as circumstances permitted, he grew
and improved so rapidly that his
father hardly recognized him after u
few months absence from home.
X x X
At the University, poverty asserted
its power, and the stipends were not
sufficient to support the poor stu
dent. He was compelled to add to
his income by writing, and he wrote
some novels, and two theological pa
pers. Notwithstanding this he had
to live in a room without fire in the
winter and live on poor fare. This
did not hinder him from joining, for
a half-year, with the students in
their rollicking life, and mourning
beer debts, ETC., for the sake Of actual
and new experience. For the same
| reason he travelled on foot all over
Germany, as was customary with the
journeymen workmen, having very
little money in his pocket.
After he graduated from the Uni
versity, he sought admission as stu
dent in philosophy and pedagogy at
the University Of Jena, in vain. 1t
would require two years of support
by private means to enter upon the
usual course of German scientist.
There was but one course for him,
and that was the acceptance OF a
good paying situation as private tu-
tor in Russia. This could furnish
him the means to continue his
studies and at the same time marry,
for he was betrothed to the Baroness
Won Beust, and received the consent
of her relatives only on condition
that he could, within two years, sue
ceed in securing a respectable and
paying position.
This was accomplished, but to re-
late all the adventures and contests
necessary to gain all this, would take
too long. Douai successfully passed
imperial examinations at the Univer'
sity of Dorpat, which entitled hin
to admission in Russian government
employ and to the title Of Doctor and
the rank of Professor, whereupon ht
claimed his bride. He soon became
conscious that the acceptance of an
office under the Russian governmen,
would involve the sacrifice of his
ideals and convictions, and so he ac-
cepted a position as private tutor al
a high salary, which left him will
enough time and means to continue
his studies. Here his conviction
and principles ripened; here h'
struggled against the uneducateC
public opinion, through to Social
Democracy, in which his own expert
ence, having comprehended the sys
tenn of exploitation and seen the con
sequent human misery, considerably
influenced him. Among other ex
periences, he lived through three
years famine, a peasant revolution
the first persecution Of Nihilists, an'
the forcibie or bribed conversions o
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1888-01-28
DIR. DOUAI'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY.

DIR. DOUAfS AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
Following is translation Of DIR.
Douai's biography, slightly con-
densed:
Charles Daniel Adolph Douai was
born at Altenburg, in the Duchy of
Saxon -Altenburg, on the 22d Of Feb
ruary, 1919. He was the son of a
school teacher, and a descendant of a
French refugee family who had fled
to Dresden and forgotten their
French. His father was the first
teacher of the "Semi-school" in
Friedrichstadt-D until the
pedsgogic reformer, Dinter, was
called tnither, and who in his auto
biography appreciatively referred to
the elder Douai. Here his son re-
ceived his education and training as
teacher of the people, so that teach
ership was inherited to the fourth
generation in this family.
Adolph Douai received good aca-
demic and university education, ac-
cording to the conception of those
days, for the Altenberg Gymnasium
and the University at Leipzig which
he attended were celebrated. But
although he had graduated from
both with honor, poverty was so
closely interviewer with his fate, that
he begged of his father to permit
him to learn the trade of a compost
tor, which idea was opposed and van
quished by his stern parent. From
bis eighth year he had to partially
support himself, and from his thir-
teenth year he was entirely depend
ent upon his own exertions for a live
lihood, so slight was his fathers sal
ary and perquisites. He wrought
out a livelihood as a newspaper car
rier, as assistant to his father in the
teaching OF a number of peasant
children, as copyist, as chorlster, as
assistant in the preparation of a
schoolbook by his father, as crocheter
of woolen shawls which father and
son manufactured in leisure hours,
as composer of special poems, as ped
lar of the schoolbook referred to, as
messenger, as children's care-taker
and as cook, when his mother was
i'll, as actor in child casts, theatrical
supernumerary and re-writer of act
ors' librettos, and finally also as com
poser of new years and birthday
poems for several wealthy relatives
who paid for the work, and in many
other ways. All this prevented a
thorough attention to study, nor
could he devote sufficient interest in
the teaching. Every waking moment
he was away from his studies was
necessarily devoted to the struggle
for existence, and he was permitted
to enter examination for graduation
from the academy year earlier than
was the rule, for it was considered
that he would fatally overwork him
self if he had 70 pass another year in
the struggle for an education and at
the same time for living. At the
age of nineteen he was a physically
undeveloped, half-nourished boy,and
measured four feet eight inches in
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1888-01-28

protestant peasants to the Greek
church-all these occurred under his
own eyes.
His personal circumstances were
now highly pleasing, lIenever expect
eda more congenial life, or moreappre-
citation. But, the certainty that
Russia would not prove field for
one of his opinions, and an uncer-
tain premonition of a coming revolu-
tlonary movement in Western
Europe, drove him back to Germany,
after five years residence in the
Cars domain.
s. u Il y
Doual had become thoroughly con-
vinced that the art and science of
education had IA great future-the
task of ennobling humanity and
that this was possible and imperious.
Possible, because humanity had lift
cd itself above the lower order of
animal life; but imperious, because
the ever-repeated destruction of civ
llization could only be prevented by
a socal-democratlc revolution in all
social arrangements, combined with
reform in the means of education
which should partly precede this rev.
olution, and partly follow it as a
support.
In his paternal city, Altenburg,
Douai endeavored to enhance the
value of his new primary and pre-
paratory school by never refusing ad-
mittance to ever so spoiled a scholar,
as he hoped by improving such to
gain a reputation. And this sue
ceeded. Although he bought and
fitted up building, and engaged the
best assistants with borrowed money,
he had paid all debts within year
and a half, and his institution pros
pered, so that scholars came from
considerable distances, while the
cr 1dron VI proloto,-iane wore ever
welcomed.
Then came the revolution OF lS46,
and as he had helped prepare for it
by the organization Of young citizens
clubs, journeymen's and laborers' So
cieties. he took an active part in the
political movement. Little Alien
burg declared for the Republic and
Social Democracy as early AS Freder-
ick Hecker (the name Social-Democ-
racy was spoken even then though
but partially comprehended). After
it had been vainly attempted to
swerve him by brides and promises
of high Office, he was threatened
with arrest as early as July, as were
two of his comrades. But the citl-
zens erected barricades, and repelled
a brigade of Saxon troops which the
government had secretly quartered
there, with such energy that they
were withdrawn. A Reform Coun-
Gil Landtag) was called, in which
Douai and his comrades were in the
Concluded on nert pagel
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Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1888-01-28
BOSTON,.
Cigarmakers Preparing for Contest.
The Socialist Agitation.

The Cigar Manufacturers Association
has notified Cigarmakers' Union, 81, that
the wages for making cigars will be re-
duced from - to $3 per thousand, and
that the matchmaking machine will be
introduced and the men be ordered to
work in teams. All this, they say, is to
take effect on the first of February.
The international Cigarmakers Execu-
tive Board have been notified of the facts,
and Union 81 will make a strong fight
against anything Of the kind, and will be
fully sustained by all labor organiza-
tions, ...