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Do you fee dGli, Iangrisd. loF-epfrfted, life
less, and indescE ih5s3ly miserable, both physi-
cally and mentally; experience "a sense of
fullness or blJating after eating, or of gone
ness, or emptiness Of stomach in the morn
ing, tongue coated. bitter. or bad taste in
headaches, blurred eyes rut, floating speCks !"
before the eyes, nervous prOstration or ex-
haustiOn. irritabiiitJ OF temper hot fiughes
alternating with chilly sensations, sharp,
biting, transient pains here and there. cold
feet. GrOWslness aI-er meals. Wakefuiness or
indescriDable feeling OF dread, or Of impeDd-
ing calamityE
II you have all, or any considerable number
Of these symptoms, You are suffering from
Bilious Dyspepsia or Torpid Liver, associated
with Dyspepsia, or Indigestion. The more
complicated your disease has become, the
greater the number and diversity Of symp-
DR. EIerce's Golden Medical Discovery
viii subdue it, if taken according TO direc-
tons for reasonable length Of time. If not
cured, complications multiply and CClsump-
ton OF the Lungs, Skin Diseases, Heart Disease,
rheumatism, Kidney Disease. or other grave
maladies are quite liable to set in and, sooner
or later induce q fatal termination
DR.. Fierce's Golden Medical Bis
coycFy acts powerfully upon the Liver, and
through that great blood purifying organ,
purties, from whatever cause arising. il is
equally efhcdClOus iii acting upon the Kid
neys, and other eXcretOry organs, cleansing,
strengthening, and healing their diseases. As
digestion aT.C nutrition, thereby building up
both flesh and strength. In malarial districts,
this wonderful medicine has gained great
celebrity in curing Fever and Ague. Chil!s and
Fever, Dumb Ague, and kindred diseases.
DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis.
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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-04-05
First publication March Is, 1880 No. u
ADMINISTRATORS SALE.

= I-i'tII1 I'-AI1-''5'-1I' CO'4lI1' y tVI-J'
Scnmitz & hirwan, Attorneys. apr19
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-06-21
Can't Get Too Much.

There was bridal couple coming in
on the Bay City train the other day,
and the passengers in that particular
car were ON the grin most of the time
over their antics. The bride had got
the man she loved, and she didn't care
a copper who saw her pillow her head
on his shoulder. The bridegroom had
got a farm with his wife, and if he
wanted to feed her gum-drops or
squeeze her hand whose business, was
it? A little old man, dried up and bald
headed, sat directly in front of the
couple, and he looked around so often
that the young man finally explained:
Were just married"
Il knowed it all the time" chuckled
baldhead.
And we can't help it, you know"
mo, you can't-Illb be darned if you
kinr'
Il presume it all seems very silly to
an old man like you," continued the
husband.
docs it? Does it?" chuckled the
old fellow as he bobbed around. well,
you bet your life she doesn't. I've
been right thar three times over, and 1
am now on my way to Canada to mar
ry fourth! You orter see me week
hence. I'll hug and squeeze and fon-
die at the rate of forty miles an hour,
and durn the skunk that laffs at me!
Silly! Why, children, it's parrydise
billed right d9Ylr'-lssloit Eres-PFsss.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-06-21
Trying to Take Mrs. Cleveland.

Again and again has the attempt
been made by amateur photographers
to catch Mrs. Cleveland, but thus far
without success. An enthusiast who
mourns his last unsuccessful attempt,
thus described his experience:
81 thought l would stand on the til
ing under the big porte cochere of the
White House and catch her as she
came out to get into the carriage.
Pretty soon the seal browns drove up
to the door and stood there paving
away at the concrete. / must have
waited at least ten minutes before the
door opened. My camera was tucked
under my left arm and my forefnger
rested on the little spring that makes
the exposure. As the door swung back,
/ heard lady's step and began to feel
Just tritie ratified / squeezed the
box tightly and stepped toward the
door with the camera pointed right at
Mrs. Cleveland as she came out. She
did not pass on, but looked me right
in the face with a queer, cool little
smile that upset me completely. My
camera suddenly got as big as barn,
and taking off my hat bowed and
went down the steps two at time,
without thinking to push the spring.
wouldn't try that again for thous-
and dollars"
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-06-21
Where She Missed IL.

Ma and l." she said, shyly, ''are
more like sisters than mother and
daughter"
s.Yes?" he said, with a lingering in
Election on the afterguard of the yes,
which rose clear to the ceiling.
"Yes, indeedI" said the girl, the rosy
flush on her cheeks making her in
finitely more beautiful than ever. Ma
and / are 'inseparable. We have
never been separated single day
since was little baby"
'.N-no?" he said, this time with an
infection ON the second section of no
that went only half way up to the CELL
ing and back again.
s'Oh, dear, nO!' the girl wenton, in her
artless way. land ma and l always said
that when l was married she was GO
ing to love my husband like her own
son and come and keep house for US. !"
.'Oh-hr William said, with a cir
cumfex. Then he rose firmly and said
that he had note in bank to take up
at 8 O'Clock. and as it was now $50 he
would go. And go he did. And he
didn't come back agian. Not never.
And ma said to the girl:
That's where you missed it in not
fully trusting your mother. Why didn't
You tell me that man had been mar
ried before Had l known he was a
widower would have played the Home
for Old Women racket on him. DE
troit Free Press.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-06-21
A Little Boys Decision

One day a small boy entered store-i
The merchant looked him and askeds
''Well, my little man, what viii YOU
have tO-day?"
20, please, sir, mayn't / do some
work for you to-day? You see, sir, my
mother hasn't anybody but me; and
this morning saw her crying because
she couldn't find five cents in her pock-
et-book. She thinks the boy that took
the ashes stole it-and-I-haven't-
had-any breakfast, SIR"
Then his voice choked, and his blua
eyes filled with tears
81 reckon i can help you to some
breakfast, my little fellow" said the
merchant, feeling his vest pocket.
Here this quarter doP" The boy
shook his head, saying: Thank you,
beg, or take money unless did some-
thing for it.
You are plucky little fellow and T
like yOu," said the merchant. Let me
see, think you will do for cash boy
here. Go up to the clerk yonder, and
tell him your name, and where YOU
live; and then run home and tell your
mother that you've got place at four
dollars week; come back on Monday
morning, and I'll tell you what to do
Here's dollar in advance; I'll take it
out of your first weeks wages. Now.
60"
Tommy ran in to his mother, crying,
''Motheri mother! I'm took! I've got
place at four dollars a week. There
is the first dollar to get something to
eat with. And don't ever cry again;
for I'm the man of the house, now~
But the mother wept tears of joy
over him, and then she kneeled down
and thanked God for giving her such
treasure of a boy.-Goldea Rule.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-06-21
Beginning With Small Potatoes.

Fifty years ago, says the Pittsburg
Dispatch, Ignacio Inez lived in little
cabin on the bank of a creek in Santa
Clara County, California. Ignacio
kept pig and raised just enough po-
taf6es to support life. There was land
enough lying around loose out ofdoors
to raise ship loads of potatoes, bnt that
would have required work, and Ignacio
never suspected that providence put
him here to work. Sohe rolled cigaritas
and watched his few plants grow.
Potato patches like Ignacio's were
called ''milpas' in the Greaser dialect,
and the Spanish law permitted the
governor to issue grants to the holders
of milpas in order to protect them from
the cattle barons, who were in the
habit of driving their herds across
country devastating any little farms
that might be in the way So 1gnacio
asked for a grant. The Alcalde looked
at his milpa, and found it so small that
in derision he described it in his re-
port as a ''milpitas," or little potato
patch. In facetiOus spirit he called
the bitches ''creeks," and described the
lines as running from a certain tree to
a point on a creek, from one creek to
another, etc. Gov. Michael TOreno
approved and issued to Ignacio Inez a
grant for the Rancho Milpitas, and
Ignacio was protected from the raids
of arrogant vaqueros and their lowing
herds. When the territory came into
the possession of the United States this
country agreed to protect the rights of
all landholders. Ignacio's grant said
from creek to creek" The facetious-
ness of the Alcalde was not appreci-
ated, and Inez' milpitas of two or three
acres grew to the Rancho Milpitas of
$4,000 acres, and was so patented un-
der the laws of the United States. The
heirs of Ignacio, the igarita-rollipg
Greaser, became wealthy hidalgos and
their daughters We're sought in mar
riage by Gringo adventures.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-06-21
Giant Grabs of Japan.

The greatest marine curiosity of
Enoshima waters is the giaut crab that
trundles along body as large as tur-
ties and sweeps out claws that meas
ures ten feet from tip to tip. Former
ly the fishermen threw these creatures
back into the sea when they found
their nets tangled up with them, but
of recent years they clean the shells
and sell them for foreign museums.
The giant crabs are said to promenade
the beach at night, and one version
gives them phosphorescent eyes. If
imagination cannot supply picture of
these crabs on the beach it is detailed
in "Allan Quartermain." Rider Hag-
gard, in his careful owning up to
where he found the original of the re-
markable things in that book, owns to
having read somewhere about these
horrible crabs, and so borrowed them
to put in the canon into which his ca
noe-load of heroes emerged after their
underground baptism of fire. These
crabs and the six-foOt cucumber are the
few things in nature in Japan that are
enlarged instead of being in miniature
-hd1ldkurd Letter.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-06-21
Burmese Rats Get the Ham.

/ thought would place my ham in
q safe and secure position and defy the
rodents, says Burmah correspondent.
So before retiring to rest on my bum
die of mats on the floor / tied the
shank end firmly with some brass wire
had with me, then having broken
beer bottle strung the neck part on
the wire so that the mouth end rested
leaving the broken, jagged part up
East to protect food from rats. The
end of the wire was then thrown over
one of the joists overhead, there being
no ceilings in these houses, but free
space to the roof. The ham was pulled
up to hang about two feet from the
joist, and the end of the wire secured
to nail drove into wall-post. l
then retired, feeling l had placed my
precious ham in place of safety, and
soon slept the sleep of the weary. /
awoke in the dead of the night, being
disturbed by the sound of bodies fall
ing on the floor of the next room in
rapid succession. squeaking, horrid
noise going on the whole time.
took up my lamp, which / had left
alight, in my left hand, and grasping
my Colt in the right, 1 cautiously and
noiselesly proceeded to the opening be-
tween the rooms, which was covered
with a curious mat. On lifting it and
looking in / saw that the room was
full of rats. They climbed to the joist,
and, jumping at the ham, made bite
at it as they fell to the floor. The
broken bottle prevented their slipping
down the wire to get at the coveted
delicacy. Some entirely failed, but
others succeeding in taking a piece
out, and, had not been awakened, no
doubt by the morning my ham would
have been reduced to the bare bone. /
empted my revolver among the thieves
and for the remainder of the night
took my precious pigs meat to bed
with me, placing it under my pillow,
where the rascals dare not touch it.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-06-21
A well-Kept War Secret.

Professor George B. Wilcox, of Chi
eago, reveals in the COngregationdlist
a well-kept secret of our late war He
says that the purchase of Alaska flom
Russia by the United States Govern
ment in 1867 was really not for the ac-
QUESTION of more territory, but was for
the purpose of paying a debt of the
war which President Lincoln and Sec
retary Seward contracted. At the
time, during the war, when it
looked as though England and France
were going to take hold and help the
Confederacy in earnest, President Lin
coin secured from Russia a fleet of
war vessels to help defend our ports
and assist in maintaining the blockade
of the rebel ports. The presence of
Russian vessels off some of our har-
bors was a mystery at the time, and
they departed as mysteriously as they
came. Their departure was due to the
fact that the apprehendedd danger from
England and France did not material
ize, and then the question arose how
Russia could be compensated. Presi-
dent Lincoln had used his war power
freely, and Congress had backed him
up, but here was a bill for millions,
and he feared that he would be criti-
cised for incurring it, although it was
a wise thing to do when he did it,
While the President was hesitating
how to get at it, the war closed and
the President was assassinated, and
MIR. Seward was left to solve the prob
lem. Russia wanted the money, but
she appreciated the situation and wait
ed patiently. Finally the project of
getting Congress to authorize the pur-
chase of Alaska was hit upon and the
", 100000 that we paid Russia for
Alaska was really in payment of the
fleet bill, and Alaska was thrown in.
The secret was SO well kept that Gen
eral w. 7. Sherman heard of it for the
first time in Russia, and he kept the
story to himself until recent army re-
union. Secretary Seward must have
shared with some of the Congress
men his secret of the real reason why
he wanted Alaska bought, at time
when the United States Government
needed money more than territory, but
if he did they guarded well his conf
dence.-SpriRgfeld (lMass.) Union.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-06-21

The work shocking seems to be
causing almost as much tribulation as
Jersey and stockinet did in the days
when nine persons out of twenty spelled
the former with the capital and the
latter with three superfiuous letters.
Shocking takes its name from the gar
ment on which it is used, the smock or
frock of heavy blue or white linen,
worn by English butchers. The ma
terial is first shirred with great exact
ness, the number of threads ''taken"
and left being counted, and then the
little gathers are drawn together by
stitches on the back forming quaint
patterns. When the garment is washed
these shocking patches are necessarily
left unironed, but so long as the stitches
hold they are pretty and Ornamental.
Rules for shocking may be found in
old English books on needlework.-
BostQa IrGfeseriRt,
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-06-21

The reporter lodged back as if he
had inadvertently touched an electric
coil.
'Great heavens, mani Do you want
TO burn your fingers?n continued the
merchant, excitedly.
whats the matter?''
Matter enough. Those eyeglasses
of yours are framed in celluloid, and if
you keep twirling them around in your
fingers too near the gas-jet you will
have an explosion"
The reporter placed the dangerous
cOntrivance astride his nose, and the
merchant, who is one of the largest
dealers in celluloid goods in the city,
continued his conversation where this
incident had interrupted it.
''MOst celluloid is made in France.
Would you like to know how? Then
listen: A roll of paper is slowly un-
wound, and at the same time is satur-
ated with a mixture of five parts of
sulphuric acid. which falls upon the
paper in a fine spray. This changes
the cellulose of the paper into pylexy-
line (gun-cottOn). The excess of the
acid having been expelled by pressure,
the paper is washed with plenty of wa
ter until all traces of acid have been
removed. 1t is then reduced to pulp,
and passes on to the bleaching trough
1t is this gun-cotton which gives it itS
explosive nature.
''MOst of the water having been got
rid OF by means of a strainer, the pulp
is mixed with from 20 to 40 per cent of
its weight of camphor, and the mixture
thoroughly triturated under mill-stones.
The necessary coloring having been
added in the form of powder, a second
mixture and grinding follows. The
pulp is spread out in thin slabs, which
are squeezed in hydraulic press until
they are as dry as chips. Then they are
rolled in heated rollers and come out
in elastic sheets. They are from that
point worked up into every conceivable
form. You can get celluloid collars,
cuffs, hairpins, shirt-fronts, cravats,
penholders, brushes and combs, ink
stands, knife-handles, jewelry, andev-
erything else almost that you can i'm
agine. / have seen in Paris a room al
most completely furnished in celluloid.
The curtains, the furniture, the door
knobs, and even the mating mere
made of this material. You may be
sure no matches were ever carried
there. Indeed the room was never used.
1t was only curiosity, and the man
who owned it owned the factory where
it was made. These rooms will never
be popular. Few men, even in this
rapid age, care about being blown into
the kingdom come in small fragments,
scorched and scattered, and that would
be the fate of the man who let light
ed match fall in such roOm-Nes0
York Mail and Express
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-06-21
Six Children at a Birth.

The wife of the cyndie Mayor, Cas-
tagnola Ticino, has given birth to six
children. This fact is testified to as
absolutely correct by an authoritative
Berne correspondent The woman.
whose name is Rezzonico, is SS years
of age. and has already had three and
four children at birth. Her husband
is married for the second time and has
seven children by his first wife. The
six children-four boys and two girls
were born living, but died soon after
ward. The news of this extraordinary
event, perhaps hitherto unheard of in
the annals of anthropology, has created
a great sensation, especially in Italy,
and doctors are fastening to the scene
from Milan, Como, and other towns to
satisfy themselves of its truth.-LoTdo7s
Special
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-06-21
The Typesetter.

The typesetting machine has come
to stay, and good many fear that the
days of the typo are numbered. 1t is
not so. The typo was here first, and
will remain until the final blast upon
the bugle horn of ielresounds over
hill and dale-until the heavens are
rolled up like scroll of spring poetry.
The typesetting machine may do much.
1t may let the types drop out of their
boxes or puddle around in molten metal,
but there are things which it cannot
do. 1t cannot put on ''sub" and at
tend base ball game; it cannot use
lower registered notes, and yell out,
last word?" 1t cannot borrow sorts or
fake thin spaces, or JEFF, turning up
three mollies at will; it cannot reach
out for ''ffi" while keeping one eye
in search of fat take; it cannot hug
the fat rack like a brother and borrow
fine cut; it cannot cuss the telegraph
editor or believe that the proof-reader
is lineal descendant of old Mephisto;
it cannot vote sOlidly against the paper
it works for or punctuate matter cor
rectly for literary geniuses; it cannot
grubstake dismantled fellow, nor fit
foot-sore pilgrim for the night; it
cannot grow brain weary or paint the
office blue when it catches galley to-
ward morning; it cannot have its lunch
basket where the editor can hold a
midnight orgie over it, or eliminate the
photographic bone-spavin from a sem
tence, giving it elasticity; it cannot i'm
mortalize man by ignoring what he
did write and setting what he should
have written; it cannot sing church
music evenings while throwing in type,
or believe its dupes draw themselves up
when being measured; it cannot, when
the ghost walks on Monday and the
lunch man is paid, go forth hitting the
ground in high places, to carminate the
burg, or talk shop ON the corner. 1t
cannot do this or that or these or any
of them. Science may put fingers on a
typesetting machine, but it cannot
| furnish it with brains or heart. The
typo is here, and has his knitting with
him.-F0rt Worth Gazette.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-06-21
The PhOnOQraDh.

1t is suggested. that the phonograph
may be used as an automatic novel;
reader, with each character speaking,
as it were, in propria persona. That is,
the phonOgram will be produced with
the various voices as in nature, all the
infections of passion, sorrow, sympa-
thy, ridicule and sarcasm, and songs,
ETC., uttered to it originally by profess
sional elocutionists, dialecticians, and
singers.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-06-21
10 BeSs.

The spirit of old days comes DER me stealing,
Bearing me backward to a moonlit night
When the blue river flashed its thousand stars
And the fields round us slept in dusky light,
And the long road wound on mysteriously
Past rock and tree,
And John went home with you, and John-the
other
John-went home with me.
With mineing pace and most laborious talking
And smiles suave we-John and advanced,
Feigning enjoyment (as we feign most thingsl,
And oft the while l turned and backward
glanced,
For slowly, laughing came the other two
Without ado
And / was naught to John. and John-the
other
John-was naught to you!
Mary E. Blanchard,
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-06-21

A new use has been found for the
nickel 5-cent piece-it can be used as
a unit of measure in calculating by
metric system. 1t is exactly two cent?
metres in diameter, and weighs tVe
grains.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-06-21

There were 26,945 students at the
twenty German universities during the
last session, Of these, l,644 were foc-
eigners, .s-
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-06-21

There are now eighteen Avons in the
United States, the last town to be SO
named being in Massachusetts,
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-06-21
An Irish Wiid-Flower.

She felt, think, but as wild-fower can,
Through her bright, fiuttering rags. the dark,
the cold.
Some furthest star, remembering what man
Forgets. had warmed her little head with
gold.
Above her, .hollow-eyed, long blind to tears,
Leaf-cloaked. u skeleton of stone arose,
Oh. castle-shadow of a Thousand years.
Where You have fallen, Is this the thing that
grows? Sarah NJ. B. Platt.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-06-21
G. FL. GRIFFIN,

0ENTIsT. ONCE over First National Bank
- ONCE hours from q. m. to D. m.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-06-21
ALEX. FLETCHER, D. Y. s,

Having graduated from the American Veteri-
nary College is now prepared to treat all dis
eases of domestic animals. and perform neces-
sary Surgical and Dental operations
RATES 81 90 per visit; SOC mileage one way
for cases outside of city limits.
RESIDENCE on Walnut Street. 4ta door Nortn
Telephone No. 49, COas) RAvENNA.O.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-06-21
Love Thee So.

Thou art not near me, but see thine eyes
Shine through the gloom like stars in winter
skies,
Pointing the way my longing steps would go,
~ ~ ~ o
Thou art not near me- but feel thine arm.
Soft folded round me, shielding me from
harm,
Guiding me on, as in the days of old.
When life was dark and all the ways were
cold.
Thou art not near me- but hear thee speak,
Sweet as a breath of June upon thy cheek,
And as thou speakest forget my fears,
And all the darkness of the lonely years.
Oh, love, my love! whatever my fate may be,
Close to thy side, or nevermore with thee,
Absent or present, near or far apart,
Thou hast my love and fillest all my heart.
San Francisco Call.