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The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-01-28
MISS JOSIE HOLMES
Goes on the Stand and Tells What Sh
Knows of the Fidelity Bank Robbery.

Goes on the Stand and Tells What She
Knows of the Fidelity Bank Robbery.
CINCINNATI, Jan. 1S.-The government
quietly introduced Miss Josie Holmes as a
witness in the Hopkins trial yesterday.
She stated in reply to questions by Assist
ant District Attorney Bruce, that she held
the position of exchange clerk in the Fidel-
ity bank. ''The letters of credit in favor
of Chicago brokers'" said she, ''were die
tated to me by Benjamin +. Hopkins and
were signed by him. l received for them
nothing but memorandum checks. The
manner in which the drafts were obtained
was IN this way: Mr.. Hopkins would bring
Mr.. Hoyt to me and tell me to make out the
draft Mr.. Hopkins would give me a check
for he amount and tell me to take it to Mr.
Harper who would make it good. The
drafts were filled out by me, but Mr.. Hop
kins signed them'
Witness wrote the letter to the Chemical
bank dated June II, addressed to w. j.
Quinlan. cashier, stating that the Fidelity
had forwarded S1,OOO,000 of choice bills to
be held against any overdrafts until the
false rumors against the bank had subsided.
''Did you ever have any conversation
with Mr.. Hopkins in regard to the wheat
dealF' Yes, sir. Mr.. Hopkins bought
10000 bushels of wheat for me. He woul
said was making money on my deal"
Miss Holmes continued her testimony by
saying that Mr.. Hopkins spoke of the
charge tickets as troublesome tax lists'
to throw President Swift off the track. The
fifty thousand bushels of wheat were pre-.
sented to her for the matters she attended
to in the wheat interest. The understand
ing was that she was to Issue drafts on
Hopkins checks, then get Harper's checks
and substitute them. Miss Holmes carried
Harper's checks, though worthless. End
kept quiet. The fifty thousand bushels
were covered by Harper's drafts. When
the market dropped TO "a cents she told Mr..
Hopkins that she wanted to sell out, but
was persuaded by Mr.. Harper not to'sell.
"Have you a memorandum OF your wheat.
purchased" "No, sirs l destroyed it"
"Wheu and for what reasonl" "When-
he-market-dropped- -twenty-cents-a-
bnshel
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-01-28
CURE FOR GOLD FEET.
Some Medical Advice Furnished by q Ge
ulne buffalo HumOrlst.

Some Medical Advice Furnished by . GeIe
ulne Buffalo Humorist.
After long and careful research in
hithertofore unexplored fields of mcdi.
cal science. and moved by spirit OF
genuine philanthropy, we herewith
submit to suffering humanity the fol-
lowing remedies for cold feet.
With the understanding that you are
cold-feet martyr, place a piece OF
rough sand paper inside your stock
ings and sprinkle freely with red pep
por. You will find this the incest
warming-pan you ever saw.
If after wearing the stockings, or
rather the sand paper, a couple of
weeks, your feet are still cold and
pulseless, place the fiat of them against
the backbone of sleeping friend and,
as he begins to feel his spinal thermom-
eter running down towards zero, he
will, if he is a responsive soul, grab
you by the hair of the head and attempt
to twist your head Oft,
Four Oh five twists, properly twisted,
will cause the blood to circulate and
your feet will warm up accordingly.
Dose. one twist every second. A cure
guaranteed.
We said we would guarantee cure
We meant in all but extreme cases, OF
cases of extremities-colde eXtremities
There may be, now and then, an un-
fortunate who has tried the above
described exhilarating process with
little or no success.
The backbone generator may have
refused to work, or it may have worked
too freely.
The probability is, however, the pa
tient is suffering from what we shall
here be pleased to term pedal paralysis,
or chronic encrustation of the feet, and
in that event the feet must be dipped
in hot water, not too suddenly or too
frequently, so rs to surprise the feet,
but gradually, say every fortnight, till
they become accustomed to their novel
surroundings; then every week, and ul,
timately daily.
The patient may deem this mode of
treatment horribly severe, almost bar
barrie, but let him remember it is the
last resort.
Nothing will cure pedal paralysis, or
chronic encrustation of the feet, but
water.
II the patient shrinks with loathing
at these brilliant suggestions and re.
fuses to employ q little water semii
occasionally he may expect to stub
along through life with a couple of
poor, miserable non-conductors. an OBJ
ject of no special interest to his friends
and bu.Win~ reproaeh to himself -
2rgt
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-01-28
MysterIou. Escape Of Forser.

closely guarding the house OF Miss Maggie
Tate for over twenty-four hours, the police
were finally forced to admit that Frank
Gordon, the desperate and forger, had
given them the slip. How Gordon managed
to elude their vigilance is mystery.
Monday morning the Tate woman unbarred
her doors, opened her shutters and wei
coined those who called upon her. When
questioned she refused to say how Gordon
had succeeded in eluding. his pnrsuers,
simply remarking; "rhat is for them TO
find OUT" Chief Martin says he had no
authority to hrenk open the house and did
not care to assume the responsibility.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-01-28
FROM DAY TO DAY.

SNI ~ SSNus
Only from day to day
We hold our way,
Uncertain ever,
Though hope and gay desire
, Touch with their fre
Each fresh endeavor.
Only from day to day
We grope our way
Through hurrying hours;
But still our castles fair
Lift to the air
Their glistening towers.
And still from day to day
Along the way
Beclton US ever.
To follow, follow, follow,
Ger hill and hollow,
With fresh endcavor.
Sometimes, triumphant. gay,
The bugles play
And trumpcts sound
From out those glistening towers.
And rainbow showers
Bedew the ground;
Then sweet, oh, sweet the way"
Wo shiilnR say,
And forward press
With swift, impatient feet
And hearts that beat
With eagerness.
Yet still beyond, the gay
Sweet bugles play.
The trumpets blow,
Howe'er we flying haste,
Or tagging waste.
The hours that go;
Still far and far away,
Till comes the day
We gain that peak
In par.en; then, blind
No more, we find,
Perchance. what we do seek,
Nora Perry, In Harpers Aaqazine.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-01-28
An osa veteran sen.sncsa far, IAss.

MouNr VERNON, o., Jan. 1S-Mchariah
Hebbitts, was sentenced for life to the pen
itentiary Monday, fer the murder Of At
torney William Burris, at Buckeye City, on
July 4, 1887 The tragedy grew out OF an
old feud. The prisoner is sixty'six wears
Of age and served in the Mexican war and
the war OF the Rebellion, and Is now draw
ing pension Of thirty dollars per month,
by reason OF disabilities received in the
latl er service.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-01-28
French.speaking Statesmen.

Many of the leading statesmen are
good French scholars. Edmunds reads
French easily. Hoar has many French
books in his library. Allen G. Thur
mans amusements lie in the reading
of French novels, and John Sherman's
library is full of foreign books of
finance, and he reads the French,
though he does not speak it. Thur
man learned the French at the same
time he learned to snuff. 1t was when
he was hoy. A French professor,
who had worry pretty daughter, asked
Thurman's mother to take charge of
the ghl, and she did so ON the condi-
ton that the professor would give
young Allen French lessons. Prattling
with the maiden and taking lessons of
the professor he got q foundation in the
language which is not surpassed by
that of any of our public men. The
old professor snuffed and tho boy
begged pihches of the titillating powder
between the sentences, and thus ac-
quired tho habit, which has stuck to
him through life, and which, added to
his big nose and the gorgeous hand
kerchief which he uses to wipe 1t, has
given him the title Of "Knight of the
Red Bandana. Chicago Herald
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-01-28

would accrue 10 the entire country from such
construction. But the projectors of these roads
were not content, and the sentiment which then
seemed TO prevade Congress had not reached
the limits of its generosity.
Two years after the passage OF this law 1t was
supplemented and amended in various import
ant particulars in favor OF these companies, by
an act which provided, among other things that
the bonds mt the rate already specified should
be delivered upon the completion OF sections of
twenty miles IN length instead OF forty, that the
land TO be conveyed to said companies on the
completion OF each section of said roads should
be ten sections per mile instead OF five, that
only half OF the charges for transportation and
service due from time to time from the United
States should be retained and applied to the
advances made to said companies by the gov
ernment-thus obliging immediate payment OF
its debtor OF the other half of said charges-and
thnt the lien OF the United States o secure tho
reimbursement OF the amount advanced to said
companies IN bond, which lien was declared by
the law OF ls6. to constitute u first mortgage
upon oil the property OF said companies, should
become a lien and be subordinated to u mort
gage which the companies were, by the amend
atory act, authorized to execute To secure bonds
which they might irom time To time issue in
sums not exceeding the amount of the United
States bonds which should be advanced to them.
The immense advantages to the companies Of
TINS amendatory act are apparent; and In these
days We may well wonder that even the antici-
pated public Importance OF the construction OF
these roads induced what mast now appear to
be u rather reckless and unguarded appropria-
tion OF the public funds and the public domain.
Under the operation OF these laws the princi-
pal OF the bonds which have advanced is S3i,-
0235le, as given in the report OF tho commits
Bioners, the interest to November I, 1877, is
gate ut the date named OF si400i5,1labS. The
interest calculated to the maturity OF the bonds
added to the principal produces an aggregate OF
el7S,SSi, ,759.; o. Against these amounts there
has been repaid by the companies the sum OF
a09sb, ,0396i
1t is almost needless to state that the com
panies have ayalled themselves to the utmOs,
extent OF the permission given them to issue
their bonds rad to mortgage their property to
secure the payment OF the same by an encum
brance ha,ing preference OF the goyernmenI'i
lien and precisely equal TO IL In amounL
1t will ne seen that there was available To-
the building o. each mile OF these roads si600
elk per cent. interest, $4,000 in bonds OF thu
companies secuTed by hrst mortgage on u
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-01-28
The French Presidents Perquisites.

The President of France is allowed
fire-wood, candle and gaslight; men
servants, the wages and board of whom
the State pays, rs well as the liveries
of whom it buys; two carriages. a car
riage for his secretaries; two military
secretaries, three civil secretaries;
house linen and the cost for washing it;
vegetables for his table from the ex-
royal garden, flowers from his green
house and ball rooms from the city
nursery gardens; valuable preserves in
the forests of Marty and Rambouiliet.
which not only supply his table with all
the game it can consume, but enable
him to put away about $1,000 yeax
Tho President has box at the opera
and at the Francais paid by the State.
His sitting-room is fitted up with tels.
phones, which enable him and his FAM
lily to hear operas without stirring from
The chimney corner. This. too. Ia paid
BY the nation. IN Y Tribune.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-01-28
Fourtssnth Victim.

HAvERuiLL, Mass, Jan. lS.-John Mad
den, the fourteenth victiin OF the Bradford
disaster, WHO was injured 1t the tank
house. died yesterday mornipG
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-01-28

The age of COW has much to do
with her value as mixer. A COW
with her first calf never milks us well
as with her third or fourth one, and for
dairy animal, as rule, is unproft-
able. For this reason care should be
taken in buying COWS for tho dairy, to
obtain those with their second or third
calves, not with the first one,
Milford chronicle., 1888-11-30
A Chinese Opium Story.

Since the introduction of opium into
China millions and tens of millions have
given themselves up to its use, its vic
Tins being found In all the ranks and
conditions of life, among the old, the
middle aged, the young, and even chill
dren. But q case Of an infant becoming
a victim to its pernicious influence has
just come to our knowledge. A man and
his wife had been in the habit Of taking
opium for years, and one of their chief de-
lights was in indulging themselves over
the pipe in each others company, each TAX
ing alternate whiffs. One day the woman
gave birth to a boy, and all the household
was in an ecstatic state of joyfulness. But
before long the baby began to show signs
of illness, and although a physician was
sent for they could not discover the cause
of its symptoms. Every effort was made
to save the child, but he only grew worse
and worse until his parents gave him up
for lost.
In despair they took their pipe to
solace themselves, and behold as they
pulled at the pipe the smoke was waited
to the child's nostrils, and, giving q
sneeze, he instantly revived and began to
cry. Upon inhaling more of the smoke
he changed his crying into laughing and
became exceedingly lively. After that he
was all right as long as he inhaled the
smoke at regular periods Of the day.
One day, however, his parents neglected
to give him the accustomed dose Of smoke
and before they were aware he died
Chicago Times.
Milford chronicle., 1888-11-30
In a Mexican Market snuars.

Passing on through the market place l
emerged suddenly from a side exit into
the market square. Just in front of me
sat four or five groups surrounding a
bunch Of smoking faggots, and as 1 ap-
preached them a little girl or boy would
step forward and offer for sale strings of
glass beads or baskets of images made by
indians from clay. l bought several of
these images and narrowly escaped being
cheated in the process, for the little rogues
who are playing merchants know when
they have a stranger to deal with, and,
although they smile at you, showing their
white, pearly teeth, they will give you
the wrong change If they can.
Just beyond these groups I saw other
groups seated about large, square holes,
which had been dug in the ground. At
first l could not understand this, but
after awhile found out that they were
engaged in roasting the century plant
The holes in the ground were apparently
three feet deep and perhaps four feet
across the top. Inside these holes they
had placed half dozen stalks of the plant
over smoking faggots, and from the
smoldering fire there issued a volume of
smoke and the sound Of escaping puluue.
BY and by Mexican strobe up, threw
down three cent piece, and, without q
word, one of the agile boys jumped into
the hole, chopped off a bit of the wood
and delivered it to the purchaser, who
went away munching on it as though it
was the leg Of a chicken. The Juice Of
the maguey is sweet and Intoxicating, and
great many of the Mexican people are, l
regret to say, slaves of its power.-"R.
M. 7" in st. Louis Republic.
Milford chronicle., 1888-11-30
In a Mormon Sunday school.

1t is easy to see how largely the foreign
element prevails here among the Nor
mons. There were in Utah in 1880 about
$4,000 foreigners to 100000 natives, and
since then there have been about 13, 900
Mormon immigrants. These immigrants
are chiefly English and Scandinavians,
and you may see Swedish faces every
where. In the Sunday school which l
visited there was a Swedish class which
was taught in the Swedish language.
This Sunday school is worthy Of men
tion. After the administration Of the
sacramCnt the school divided up into
classes, and in these classes the sexes
were always separated. During my visit
one of the teachers kept constantly with
me as l went from class to class, and it
seemed to me that the teaching was
largely for the benefit of the visitors rather
than for the scholars. l was offered
the Book of Mormon" and asked to read
with the pupils in turn as the reading
went around the class. After reading q
chapter young man explained it much
as we Gentiles do in one of our Christian
prayer meetings, and he told us how a
branch of the Israelites came to the
American continent and how the Lord
again appeared upon the earth and chose
his apostles here. He told how the rec
ord Of his teachings in America among
the aboriginal tribes was transcribed upon
the golden plates of the Book of Nor
mon, and how these were found in the
state of New York It was interesting as
romance, but grew tired before he was
through and left.-Salt Lake Letter.
Milford chronicle., 1888-11-30
Try IT YOuRSELF

at is of no use to argue the question,
Philip, am neither stubborn nor opiniona-
ted, have simply had lesson that will last
a lifetime"
Look here, Jack you are like some old
bachelor who has been Tilted by one woman.
and goes about declaring all women are
false"
Not at all my brother Charley died of
Brights disease, brought on by using one of
these so-called blood purihers'-the kind
you see attractivelY advertised in every nook
and corner. It contains iodide of potassium
drug useful i'll extreme cases when eau
tiously given under a doctors supervision
but death-dealing to all who take it in guam.
tity. If r0WT brother had died under such
circumstances, you wonld hate patent medi
cines as l do"
Il do dislike the name of that mis-called
blood purifier for have heard first class
physician say it is the cause of halt the cases
of Bright's disease in the country, and it is
strange the proprietors have not been prose
cuted for selling it. But was recommend
ing Vinegar Bitters and that does not contain
any mineral, narcotic or other hartful drug "
"Oh nobody supposes that old womans
remedy will hurt anybody; the question is
will it cure anything? I'd as soon think of
taking some of my grandmothers herb tea. 3"
You would be better off, Jack. if YOU had
some of that tea to tone up your system now.
instead of taking glass of brandy to make
you sleep one night, and perhaps bottle of
beer the next"
rs this temperance lecture, Phil?"
No, it is a Vinegar BiHers lecture. I've
taken the medicine more or less for fifteen
years, and look the world over, you will not
find healthier man than am"
what is all this nonsense about old style
and new style Vinegar Bitters; are they
different"
Yes the old style looks like coffee with
milk in, the new style like coffee without
milk. The man who made the old style for
twenty years-a practical chemist-made
milder, pleasanter preparation, adding to 1t
here, and taking from it there, until he pro-
duced my wife says, the finest medicine ever
made. 1t cured her of constipation, and it
cures the children of hives and all of the little
ailments they ever have. If my wife thinks
they have worms, she does them with old
style With always have both kinds in the
house, and together, they keep the doctos
away.
And you insist that the proof of the
pudding"
''Is the eating-percisely Jack, get a
bottle of the old style Vinegar Bitters-men,
1 think, prefer old style usually-try it, and
you will then be like an old bachelor who.
after railing aginst women for years, falls in
love with a woman at last. You will say
there good and bad patent medicines but
Vinegar Bitters is the best of the lot "
"All right, Phil. to please you, I'll try it |
and report results"
Milford chronicle., 1888-11-30
New Fiber from the Cotton Plant

A manufacturing firm in New York has
sent to the department of agriculture speci-
mems Of a new fiber they are making from
the stalk of the cotton plant. The samples
received strongly resemble hemp, and seem
to be adapted to oil the uses that hemp is
put to. A few fibers of it twisted together in
the hand show remarkable tensile strength,
although no exact comparative tests with
other fbers have yet been made A collec
tion of the tbers of hemp, fax, jute, ramie
etc, from all parts of the world is being
made by the department, and a new instru-
ment has been invented by which it is ex-
pected that the tensile strength Of each will
be ascertained with great accuracy.
If the cotton plant turns out to furnish as
valuble 6 fiber as now seems possible, an inn
portant new source Of profit will be afforded
the cotton planters Of the southern states
upon their crops.-Science.
Milford chronicle., 1888-11-30
20 Revolts Arninst Crne1tv.

1t is rather In others and for others that
the modern civilized man breads pain. He
finds it harder to know that other men are
suffering the pains of cold or hunger in
Kansas or Ireland or India; or that "pris-
oners Of poverty" are working for pit
tances in the great cities or that laboring
men are driven to work sixteen hours a
day; or that criminals are tortured or mis-
treated in the chain gang; or that "'politi-
Gals" are driven to insanity in the Russian
state prisons. He resents and Furnishes
cruelty to animals where his great grand
father, perhaps, thought nothing of send
ing a slave to the whipping post. He re-
volts even against harshness in Just
punishment, and desires to alleviate some
of the horrors Of hanging. If he ignores
a case Of cruelty, 1t is from lack Of ON
niscienee; let him know about it, and the
world shall know his feelings about it.
Wilberforce and Copley might go on for
years telling Englishmen Of the horrors
of the middle passage and Of all the vii
lainies of the slave trade; and still the
slave ships sailed out from Liverpool, and
the slave trade was represented In parlia-
ment. Cruelty In more recent times lives
by stealth and bushes to find itself ia
nous in the newspaper pillory.-The
Century.
Milford chronicle., 1888-11-30
searrh for n1d 1Yatches.

There are great many funny things
attending the rise of the 'Jenldnses." 1
mean those people who have advanced in
material wealth without adding a whit to
their literary or social position. They are
Dragging of an ancestry they never had,
and are at a loss to establish themselves
as members of the old families. Just now
there is a search for old gold watches,
which will be paraded as family heirlooms,
handed down by this or that distinguished
Roundhead, or Mayfower pilgrim. The
old johnson watches, made on Church
street, Liverpool, are among those most
eagerly sought by the man who wants to
trade money for lineage. Few of them
are left, and in Baltimore an especial mar
ket has been established, and large sums
are paid for them. Money is great deal
plentier than blue blood, and the exchange
Is willingly made by those who have
lately acquired the shekels. Matchmaker
in Globe Democrat.