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The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-12-01
WAS OF SOME USE.
How Traveller Managed to Benefit q
Southern Community.

How Traveller Managed to Benefit q
Southern Community.
An old fellow, in Mississippi town,
stood with his arms resting on u rail
fence, when man drove up in buggy,
and asked:
what is the population OF your
town."
"Niggers.
"Yes, but how manyp"
1.-The Lawd only knows"
"How many do you supposeP"
Don't suppose"
"But can't you give me some idea7
| am out getting statistics of the agri-
cultural districts"
"Would give you an idea, but amt
got none"
"You seem to be in trouble"
cam"
"What's the matterp"
"Wife left me this mornin'."
THAT is bad, must say. Why did
she leave youP"
80, on account o little fool thing.
Couldn't ergree erbout the Scriptur'.
She lowed that Cain was older than
Abel an lowed they was twins"
"She was right"
"You don't say so."
Eyes, and can prove it by the Bible"
"You amt u foolin' me, now, air
youp"
mo, it's fact"
"Wall, now here, don't want to be
pig-headed. Jim, no, Jim calling his
son. hitch up ole Roam an go over to
Posey's after yo' mother. Tell her
that yo' pap lows that she is right.
An say, Jim, tell her not to furgit that
bottle O. Ticker that she tuck away with
her. Stranger, am powerful glad to
see that you have been O. some use ter
the curmunity. ."-ArkanSaW Traveller.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-12-01
puNoENr PARAGRAPHS.

High life below stairs In England
is nothing to the low life above stairs
In some other country.--N o. Picd-
yune.
"A policeman died in Decatur the
other day with yellow fever. Nobody
knows how he caught it, Washington
Post.
Judging by their doctors bnlle-
tins, all the great men who fall sick
continue to improve until they die
NJ Y. Telegram.
"A Denver fortune teller could not
tell what would happen If she at
tempted to ill a lighted kerosene lamp,
and this defect of forelsnowledge was
the death Of her.-M Y. Sun.
The ancients believed that the
earth was square, but then they had
never had any dealings with q travel
ing peddler.-B burlington Free Press.
"A comic opera has just been writ
ten which deals with base ball matters.
If there is an umpire in it. it would be
better described as tragedy. -Roches-
ter Post -ErpresS.
First journalist-"Is tho Morning
Kronikle witty paperp" Second jour-
nalist-"It used to be-" First journal
ist-"When did you leave itp" Second
ournalist-"Y Yesterday. boston Bea-
con.
One of the strangest freaks OF vision
is displayed by the rural postmistress,
who has to examine the message side
of postal card to determine in whose
box it belongs
-Talmage advises young men to
strike out This is particularly good
advice if the young men mean to go
into the newspaper business. At first
they should strike out nearly every
thug they write.-Journal of Educa-
tion.
Mrs. Bings-" There goes poor
Mrs. Blather. She bears up well under
the loss of her husband" Mrs. Bings--
Eyes! She stands it nobly. Blather
carried good deal Of insurance, you
know. ."-LoWeU Citizen.
-"Make yourself necessary, young
man." said Josh Billings long ago,
land success is certain" Yes, yes:
but suppose the young man makes
himself necessary in breach of prom
ise suitp Success isn't also so certain
as it might be.-Burdette.
-Scrawley-T understand that Jen-
kins has given up writing for the
magazines" Scribbler-"He is man
of considerable distinction" Scrawley
why? Because he writesp" Serb
bier - 'No; because he doesn't. y
Americd.
Man is awfully smart in some
things, but nobody has ever discovered
one that could jam hat pin clean
through his head and make it come out
on the other side as the women do
DanSCitle Breeze.
Wife Cat breakfasD D-"My dear,
will you have some more of the stewed
potatoes? 1 cooked them myself"
Husband - mo; I've had enough"
Wife-"What is the best way to keep
potatoes, JohnT" Husband-"I think
the best way for you to keep potatoes
is to stew 'em. "-Harper's Basar.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-12-01
EDUCATION OF GIRLS.
Too Much Culture VIII Enlarge the Band
of Confirmed Bachelors.

of Confirmed Bachelors.
Charles Dudley Warner in not I'M
kindly fashion suggests that not enough
care is taken to make young ladies in
teresting nowadays. In the eagerness 8
to become educated, girls neglect the
cultivation of those qualities which
Mr.. Warner regards as being the chief
charm of women, and which we may
sum in the two words, feminine fasci-
nation. Mr.. Warner, like most men of
ideal sentiment, shrinks from the wom-
an whose blue stockings are her con-
spicuous feature, or who sends power
fully intellectual gaze through double
extra eyeglasses. Man, who has found
it necessary to sharpen his intellect and
harden his mind in order to keep
well in the race, is rather averse to the
musculining process to which woman
has subjected herself so determinedly
in these days of cult and Kant.
Women are becoming learned, phil
osophical. even pedantic, at the sacri-
flee of much that gives them empire.
They become oppressive instead OF in
teresting in a continual string of know
ledge from which man hopes to escape
when he exchanges the cares or serious
hours for the relaxation and refreshing
zest of society. Comparatively few
women are interesting for more than a
half hour at a time; many are agreeably
entertaining for ten or fifteen minutes;
but what proportion have the inesti-
mable virtue OF being interesting to
the men who meet them daily, hourly,
throughout course OF yearsp
1t is much more difficult learning
how to be interesting than it is to get
a smattering OF Greek, German, French,
and art; it is much easier to
acquire faculty for discoursing
learnedly than 1t is to talk agreeably
and exercise the charm of an interest
ing personality. An irritating old
cynic at an evening party asked of his
hostess; "What has become OF all the
womenP / only meet petticoated pro-
fessors nowadays" But there are
plenty of women left in the world who
strive to and do make life interesting,
sweetly, hopefully interesting, and
many Of them could not tell the differ
ence between poem OF Browning and
the affidavit Of penny editor. CHI
cago Inter Ocean,
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-12-01
lNEANrs soLplERlNc.
How the German Emperor's Babies Art
Taught the Art OF War.

] How the German Emperor's Babies Art
| Taught the Art OF War.
With the advent Of Wilhelm ii. the
spirit OF PrussiaH militarism Is becom.
ing more and more apparent. Until
then it had been tempered by the ad
vanced age OF Wilhelm 1. and the sup
posed liberalism OF Friedrich Ill. ;s but
nothing can be 80 characteristic of the
tendency of Prussian aspirations, &c
comical and at the same time more sad,
than the way in which the sons Of the
Kaiser are brought up at Oberhof. The
Kaiser, who is very partial of being
photographed with his children, is OF
opinion that they are better away, both
from himself and their mother, and
therefore has sent them to a distance
of twelve hours by road from Berlin,
with their civil and military attendants.
And this is what is to be seen at Ober-
hof: Three small boys, aged respec-
lively six, five and four years, dressed
in military uniform, booted and
spurred, and dragging sword. Ap-
pareled in this fashion they study and
strut about day after day.
In the playground bastion has been
constructed and armed with couple
of cannon, and at a distance OF one
hundred yards or so there is bivouac.
On this spot, while one of the Princes
Justify beats drum, the other two
march up and down in military style,
with rifle to shoulder. Three non
commissioned officers-two on foot and
one on horseback-join in their pas
time and teach them their drill. The
ladies-in-waiting are posted short
distance off, in attendance on the baby
Prince, who is dressed in a long white
frock, but wears small cuirassier's s
undress cap.
The Kronprinz appears to take great
delight in these exercises. He is anx-
ions to have military matters fully ex-
planned to him, and on one occasion,
when he had been informed on the SUBJ
ject of camp life, exclaimed: "But in
camp one may smoke pipe"
Let it be understood that this is no
mere playing at soldiers. 1t is quite a
serious affair, for just lately on the oc-
casion OF the Second Battalion Sixth
Infranty regiment marching past the
chateau of Oberhof the Princes came
out and took up q position in front of
the gates, and as soon as the first line
of men were abreast of them the Kron-
prinz gave the word of command,
"Present arms"
They are not only taught the ways
but some expressions pertinent to bar
rack life. They ask to drink in tho
fashion common to Prussian soldiers,
they sit at small beer tables and have
their beer served in books. In this
way the Prussian military legend is
sustained. They are soldiers already,
these poor infants-almost before they
know right from ong.-LOndon Star.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-12-01
"A JAPANESE HOUSE.
IT'S Oddities Have No Counterpart In West
ern Architecture.

1 OOuntSrnHrt
! ern Archttecturc.
! How to describe Japanese house.
where nothing is like any thing corre-
spending to it at homer From the
outside it is an uninviting big black
barn; inside it is a spotless doll'a
house magnifed thousand diameters,
all wood and wicker and white paper.
The entrance hall is platform raised
couple of feet above the ground,
where you take off your boots If you
are foreigner, or leave your sandals
If you are a Japanese. A screen door
slides back and you are in-but that
depends on circumstances. Sometimes
you are in one room and sometimes in
another. 1t may be general sitting.
room, fifty feet square; in may be a
bedroom Gf you call early in the morn
ing); or you may find yourself in an
improvised sanctum and intruding
upon somebody writing labored de-
scriptions for a far-away press. For
here walls have not only ears, they
have also legs, and when you wish to
make new room you simply form
square" by sliding enough panels in
their grooves to inelose the space, or,
at your pleasure all the rooms can be
thrown into one, inclosed, in our
case, by forty-six panels. Those
forming the sides of the house
consist each of sixty little paper
panes. To wet ones finger, stick
it silently into the window, and
peep through-tbis is the natural
Japanese counterpart of occidental
surreptitious inspection by the key
hole. The floor is of mats; not mats
strewed about as at home, but solid
structures of delicate stuffed wicker
an inch thick, of conventional and
regular size, let into the floor-elastie,
spotless, immovable, never profaned
by even the daintiest of slippers. Chairs
and tables are, of course, unknown,
and the posture of repose is to seat
oneself on ones heels. This squatting,
by the way, is very painful at first,
and, like the "blameless dances" in
"Ruddigore, takes deal OF training"
At meal times you squat anywhere
and your food is placed before you.
When you are tired you throw your
self anywhere on the floor, with no
fear of soiling your white linen suit.
When evening comes you do not seek
your bedchamber; you simply make
it, by sliding the walls round the spot
you have chosen for your slumbers.
The rough and ready way, according
to my Am erican friend, is to tread
around on the floor till you find a
specially soft mat, and then lay few
walls upon it for a couch. A more
luxurious one is to have futon or
thick quilt spread out, and roll your
self in rug or blanket upon it. The
chief drawback for foreigner is that
his hip-bone, which is more prominent
than that of a Japanese, is terribly in
the way, and my journalism not hav-
ing yet advanced to graduation upon
the plank bed, have not learned the
trick of obliterating the natural pro-
jections of the body. But you sleep
comfortably in spite of the marauding
rat, whose immunity from attack has
him equally inquisitive and
harmless, and in the morning when you
return from the bath, bed and bedroom
have alike disappeared. 1t is the story
of Aladdin domesticated. Toledo Cor.
WlShin1tOn Star.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-12-01
THE HEBREW LAWS.
How They Are Prepared, Consecrated
and Preserved by Orthodox jews.

How They Are Prepared, Consecrated
and Preserved by Orthodox jews.
An additional roll of the claw" is
brought out from the ark in the sym
agogue for the Jewish new year in
ordinary service. Some precise facts
on the subject of these manuscripts
looming from the autograph of Moses"
were communicated to the editor OF
the american HebreD. "a festival, !"
he said, sis held ON the conservation
of scroll (sefer), which is always on
parchment specially prepared. Great
care is taken that this may not be desc
Grated in any manner, as from touch
ing the floor or wall before being set
in the ark.
"rhe roll is left unfinis he'd until the
time of conservation, when the final
words of the law are added. The priv
ilege of completing the work is pur-
chased, and the writing is finished by
the one who pays if he is qualified for
the task. Otherwise the scribe (sofer)
must do it for him.
"The original is followed in all re-
spects in these manuscripts. The whole
runs along without punctuation, and
with neither accents nor divisions into
books, chapters, and verses. A hiatus
in the early form appears in every
copy. The same is true of all inter-
linear insertions. A line invariably
ends with complete word, so that the
scribe must be skilled in the practice Of
driving out word in one place or
crowding in at another The cost of
one of these rolls is $400 or $500.
'In the printed Hebrew, when the
work is in strictly literary character of
high grade, the vowel points are not
used. 1t is chiefly in ordinary reading
for the multitude that these are intro
duced.
"The scrolls are mounted on two
rolls of wood, so arranged that as one
is unrolled the other is rolled. The
end-piece into which the rolls are set,
is adorned with two tower-shaped orna-
ments of silver, with small silver bells
in connection. A silver hand, which
is added, is used by the reader in trac-
ing the lines. The rolls are bound with
u wooden band, and further covered
with wrapping in silk when returned
to the ark. On the Yom Hazikorom,
the day OF remembrance, or new year,
the reader uses two OF the rolls, as is
done on other holidays and on the Sab
bath in new moon. From one of these
the concluding section only OF the por-
tion OF the law for the day is read.
"The Chinese-Jewish manuscripts,
which are brought from Kai-fung-foe,
and OF which portion has passed into |
the possession of the London Jews So |
ciety, with the remainder distributed
between the British Museum, the Bod
leian Library, and that OF Cambridge,
is receiving attention from literary He
brews. II will be seen from descrip- |
tions OF these Eastern productions that |
the rolls OF the law are in general cor
respondence, whatever may be their |
origin Y. Telegram.
-On Streatham Common still stands
a hollow tree, into which In boyhood |
Cardinal Manning used often to climb
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-12-01
A Doorstep Dialogue.

A woman called at house on Cass
avenue, and asked the lady il she could
sell her some paints.
~ am not an artist, and do not use
any paints" said the lady.
"But this is paint for the complex
ion" answered the woman.
~ do not paint my face" said the
lady, preparing to close the door.
"Well. II would look bstter II you
did, " retorted the other a. she turned
TO go.-DetroW Free Press
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-12-01
We LADS AND LASSES.

Ye lads and lasses, TO the fro
'ris yours TO lead the van!
Fight for the right
With oil your might;
DO all the good You can
In every cause that's good and Just
BE ready to appear;
b. brave and bold,
And lot the old
Fall to the rear,
with spirit enter in the strife,
Nor shrink from any test;
With purpose true
Your way pursue,
And do your very best
Upon the fatoful battle Held
Have courage to appear;
For honor strike,
Nor co7'ard.lilSe
l'nll to the rear
Lead on lead on to vlctoryl
March up the heights of famci
In every act
Reveal your tact,
Your carnostness proclaim
Be diliRent ut every task.
Be honest and sincere
From day to day
Though others may
Fall to the rear.
Old age to youth resigns its sword,
And bids IL take the field
To storm the walls
Till error falls
And foes are forced to yield.
So, lads and lasses to the front,
And bravely persevere
From day to day,
Till Death shall say.
Fall to the rearl"
--Joseshire Pollard, in ". Y. Ledger.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-12-01

-On Streatham Common still stands
a hollow tree, into which In boyhood
Cardinal Manning used often to climb
70 crack nuts ard eat barley sugar.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-02-20
Condensed Locals.

Rev Dr. Miller was installed yesterday as pastor
OF the Concordia church. The sermon was delty
cred by Rev. DR.. Peterson.
Washington Commandery No. !, Lafayette Chap
ter, X A. NJ, and Pentalpna Lodge, +. A A. NJ. at
tended the funeral OF Myron Z. n. Howell, which
took place yesterday afternoon from his late resi-
dence, 1lO3 5th street northwest. The 1ntermenl
was al Glenwood Cemetery.
Prof Herbert b. Adams. OF Johns Hopkins Uni.
yersity, delivered at the National Museum Satur
day afternoon the first OF the series OF saturday
lectures. The subject OF the lecture was "Univer-
efty Extension In England Baltimore and Wash
ington." The attendance was large.
Sister Mary de Sales O'Hare died yesterday at
the convent or the Visitation on Connecticut
avenue.
Friday afternoon the two-year old child OF Paul
Hyson, who lives at Terra Gotta, while Its mother
was getting wood In the yard, set IRE 10 It's
clothing, and was 50 severely burned that It died
IN a few hours.
A IRE last night in a closet at the residence Of
caused by defective nue. resulted In damage 70
A dead white female infant was found at 14th
and b streets southwest yesterday afternoon.
Philip Phillips, the singing pilgrim, Will give the
frst Of his three performances at Wesley chapel
this evening.
During the foEty-eight hours ending at O'Clock
This morning, the police made 13S arrests. This
morning In the Police Court there were SO prison.
ers In the dock.
Henry johnson alias Jarvis was tried for forgery
In the Criminal Court this morning and found moi
guilty. He was charged with presenting a false
order on which he obtained $40, but proved al
abb.