The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-01-19

Ed. Press: The last type.settipg
you done for me was so much worse
than my writing that I gave up in
astonishment. But my courage has
somewhat recovered, and nay stylus is ,
disposed to swing around again in a
somewhat threatening degree. If you
think you can spell worse, choose your
weapons. defy your lead.
-FOUR excuse for the bad work com
planned of, is the fact that we were
compelled by circumstances to trust
our friends manuscript to one of those
" tourists without baggage" common
ly known as tramp printers ED ]
disagreement is not disproved by
sacred feasts, or numerous and expen-
sive festivals. The worst modelled ma
, tions of ancient paganism abounded
in them. Overjeyed populations, long
before Christianity, had their gift trees
and dances at the winter solstice, es
pecially in the more northern latitudes.
The supposed nativity was observed
ia small way, by local believing
sects, in various places and at various
times in the year, for two or three
hundred years. Some observed it in
April, some in May, and some in Jan.
uary, there being no agreement what
ever as to the day of the month,
Gradually it became Incorporated
with the pagan and NEUROLOGICAL re,
joicings and festivities which had been
long established and with which man
kind had felt disposed to welcome the
beginning of the return of another
season of flowers, fruits and crops
There is nothing more sacred than
farming and gardening. Agriculture
furnishes the foundation, the only
true inspiration. the real genuine or,
thodoxy of these tropical festivals.
Other systems may seek to appropriate
and steal away their uses they cannot
alter the original facts. Incarnations
. aud the PROFESSIONS of the seasons
have nothing in common in their ma
ture. It Is as immoral to lie today al
1t ever was. He'll fire yawns as wide
} today for the liar as it ever did, and il
it ever was designed or employed in
any good purpose, this was it
A sleek, wellsfed man stood up in /
SO called altar the other day, and sal:
r the river Nile was once cursed, ant
f ran blood until the country stauk an,
}. the people persisted, and nobody cas-
q him into hell. Had he said the Miss
. issippi ran blood during the late civi
i war he would have told just as mucl
q truth. But his bearers would no
q have continued to pay for his service
|. long if he did not drop such whopper
, out of his lessons.
d Morality and good government ar
a not measured by the number of steam
boats on the waters, or the number {
10 railroads upon the land by the iengt
n OF the telegraph wires, or the heigt
a. Of steeples by the avenues of palace
4. In cities. or the extent of crowded ho
pitfalls and asylums. There is as muc
o. demand for roona In Abraham's bosol
e. today for Lssarus IS there ever was
l. and the space between him and oil
:. modern Dives should under no earthl
r or unearthly circumstances be lesser
le ed or made less impossible. Yet
8 seems visuslly to have got pretty we
y, narrowed down, indeed, carele
,e observer might be excused for thinkir
o. that he could see Rothschild and Va
OF Fol for RIO III cFnr
rs away in that famous nursery, al
lg Lazarus cast away on the other sid
" piteously btgging, not for a drop
te water to cool his tongue, but for Il
10 customary crumbs of comfort whiC
al they used in this life to permit him
1t. eat from under their tables.
n. n. AS our new civilization progress
al and our modern christianity becom
az developed, improved and refined, Il
IN changes that take place are about
o. miraculous as when den of hung
.. Babylonian lions refused to eat DAM
10 and terribly hot furnace couldn't i
OF cinderats him.
~ The Jews always had wonderf
to stories to tell in Judea about VIII
he happened to them la Egypt and he
&c they used up their enemies down thel
and how they managed while down
W. Babylon so as to make their captC
AZ let them go. Their history as writt
IL by their prophets has heretofore en-
AZ tied them to especial pre- eminence
as the estimation of the powers of Il
Ir heavenly world. Elected to earth
es favoritism continually by a successi,
el of wonderful displays of Jehova
tn their Deity, it has not been the fashi,
al until recently to dispute with the
~ about their rank as to nearness at L
ne right hand of the throne in the Ne
of Jerusalem.
nd But new nation has just been bo
as and Ceveloped,> and delivered fro
. slavery and all it's enemies. It's ager
he'd are saints aud deiiverers are more u
m merous ana plentiful and marked al
10 unquestionable. Their claims in t
- hereafter will keep up with the clair
Ia. they have set up here. The old Pat
w archs and Prophets must move out
In the way. "A Rail Road King josll
.1 solomon, and Steamboat Capita
takes David's place, Peter draws /
~ sword again. but is told to put it U
cd Reecber, of America, is introduce
-. and new, novel, grand, glorious
i'd ception day is inaugurated. Let
he whistle. DEMuCRITUs
ch
re
ir. A MARVELLOUS cure of q young la
" in Cincinnati was effected by m