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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-02-02
REeIt1,AR set-to between the Blaine

"a REGULAR set-to between the Blaine
and Sherman forces took place among
the negroes of the District of Columbia,
and resulted in two sets of national
delegates -one pure black, and the
other, the Sherman boys, mixed-one
negro and one white man, This may
be a gentle reminder to the Republican
members of Congress of the negro way
of handling politics when they run it
alore e. The capital city of the nation,
with big N, will be worthily repre-
rionAaA ....
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-02-02
DR.. Pillbags' Diagnosis.

TO DR. EIlppgs fatTlck came
With amost woefm faeoi
Says he, "Dear Docther phats your name,
VIII you plaze trate my case"
The doctor looked him in the eye,
His tongue he made him show;
Said he, my man, yOu'er going TO de-
You've got tic-douloureux."
"My faith" says Pat, "phat that you say?
I've got tlck-d5!!af' oh !
Yez lynn thafe always pay
Your bill before 60.
I'll have no more to do wild yez,
I'll docther me own case"
He took a dose Of p. p. P. P.'s
And wears a brighter face.
( Use Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pell
cts for torpid live, constipation, and al
of stomach and bowels
BY druggists.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-02-02

THE Repository claims to be opposed
to "low dives" and wants them put
down. Why not extend the Dow law
over them and tax themP We merely
suggest to the Rep. its own beautiful
tax medicine.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-02-02

In case of the contemplated exten-
sion of the Fair Ground, should an
overflow occur during the Fair, the
horses, cattle and pigs might take a
swim-and the Directors and Secretary
might join,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-02-02

THE young men of the Y. M. G. A.
are actively engaged canvassing to
secure the wherewith to purchase a lot
near the square, on which to erect a
suitable edidce for the Association.
The DEMOCRAT wishesthem God speed.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-02-02

LET the Rep give the names of
parties running gambling rooms and
olives" Of course they know, you
know. The Rep might also publish the
names of those who frequent.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-02-02
NORTHWEST AND SOUTHWEST.

NORTHWEST AND SOUTHWEST.
IBy one Of the oldest residents of Springfield, N
Bundle up. bundle up,
Bundle up warm
The cold wave is coming
Look out for q storm.
The black flag is waving
All over the land
And the fierce winds are blowing
From Dakota's bleak strand.
But the cold winds are tempered
BY timber and hills
Ere they reach this fine climate
'MOngst Ozark's green wales.
How happy and prosperous
Our people appear
with fuel In plenty
No cold do they fear.
Round warm, blazing fires
DO we read the sad news
OF the suffering and death
Mid the wild driving SHOWS
or the poor creatures caught
In the fierce driven storm
May the Lord In His mercy
Protect them from harm.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-02-02

THE late Carroll county Grand Jury
seems to have been a Cameronian af-
fair-not Scotch Cameronian, for the
latter were true and inhexible to right
and duty.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-02-02

THE recent numerous fires in Pitts
burg are attributed to natural gas
Carelessness in allowing the gas Il
dame up and thus drying the timber, Is
one reason, it is thought.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-02-02

SEVERAL towns in this state had
their supply of natural gas cut off for
several hours during the recent cold
snap. They realize that coal is the re-
liable fuel.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-02-02

THE Plain Dealer has completely
cornered the lying Leader as to the for
mer's circulation. We know of another
lying sheet in the same line, and that
also puts on lofty airs.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-02-02

IF any reputable citizin knowing of
lawlessness in Canton in the shape of
gambling, houses Of ill-fame, or any
thing else, viii make affidavit before
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-02-02

The blowgun slush "day ahead" or
gan of Saturday did not have in John
b. Taylor's death, although it occurred
at noon.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-02-02

PROTECTION" only means tariff tax
alton. That is, the many are taxed to
protect the few.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-02-02

THE infant industry has full grown
pigs appetite.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-02-02

THE new railroad route to the north
of Lake Michigan, connecting at Sault
ste. Marie with the Canadian roads,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-02-02

EXCHANGE is not robbery, when our
cashiers go to Canada and Canadian
cashiers come over to this side.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-02-02

In Dakota they should attend to
forestry. That region needs extended
forests. The sooner the better.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-02-02

IN Australia they celebrated their first
centennial the other day.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-02-02

THE Rep. as the DEMocRAT said,
continues to "gas."
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-02-02

THERE may be religion without
words; there can be none without
deeds.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-02-02

SEWERS are badly needed in Canton.
The Repository concern especially
needs sewerage to relieve their atmos-
nhere
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-02-02
HTbdT OH gas,
atinR power.

The Rep. has struck the very key
That suits those gas bags to a TT
They now may swell and blow their horn
From morn to night, and night to morn.
We tell them never to despair
Nor give IL up, and tear their hair!
'Tis gas gainst gas, 80 let IL fiOw,
The Rep. is well supplied we know;
At times explosive II may be,
But always lots on hand, and freel
The Rep. has found the very gem,
And gas is Just the theme for theml
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-02-02

LET the shackles of trade, as far as
possible, be removed. Freedom should
be the rule and not the exception.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-02-02

SOME farmers think the Fair Direct
OrS have undertaken big contract.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-02-02

THE DEMOCRAT has been congratu-
lating the Repository in having found
subject every way suitable for that
concern. The DEMOCRAT even devot.
ed a few lines of poetry commencing
gas as the very thing. The Rep, how
ever, does not copy these. Probably the
Rep. does not appreciate poetry. Some
people don't. The DEMOCRAT has
always credited the Rep. with being
great on gas, not of remarkable illumin-
ofinnr VNnyUQr
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-02-02

In the Mayors court in Canton
"mercy seasons justice;" and OF. course
the Repository don't like it.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-02-02

Last week went fishing,
And caught-an awful cold;
But Bulls Cough Syrup set me right:
'Tis worth Its weight In gold.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-02-02

THE protection Tory party is in pow
er in Canada and Great Britain.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-02-02

THE Repository is the organ Of lady
puyilists.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-02-02

also puts on loft airs.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-02
A Lending House.

Among the many important business
houses on Seventh street, there is, per-
haps, no store that is more of a credit
to this great thoroughfare, than that of
the st. Paul Hardware company; occu-
pying handsome double store of five
stories, at numbers 7S and so
East Seventh. The building used
by this firm corners on Minnesota
street, and was erected during the fall
of 1886, being fitted especially for this
hardware company, with all modern
cOnvenienceS; so with their large
stock, it is safe to aver, that this is the
most complete establishment of its
kind in the Northwest, or possibly any,
where. ii. E. Humphrey is manager of
this immense Institution, and being a
man of large business experience,
especially in this line, he conducts the
affairs of this large concern in satisfac-
tory manner, to all interested. This house
make a speciality of "Fine Building
Hardware and House Furnishing
Goods" and can number among past
orders the erectors of many of the prin-
cipal buildings, both public and private,
in st. Paul and the Northwest. They
have, without doubt, the largest and
most varied stock of guns and sporting
goods to be found in the Twin Cities.
They also carry everything pertaining
to heavy and light hardware.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-02
WESTERN JOURNALISM.

New Ideas That Have Been Intro
duced Into Newspaper Work
Within Year or Two-Chance
For Education.
The years of 1887 and 'SS are import
ant, eventful ones in the history of
Western journalism. Several entirely
new features have been introduced into
newspaper work, the most notable of
which is the deyoting of great amount
of space, in single issue of a daily, to
the illustration and description of
town, city or section of county. These
articles, which at times require the is
suing Of an extra four pages, are beyond
question the most valuable historical
and descriptive matter that has ever
been published. They deal not only in
the past and present, emitting no i'm
portant detail, but from reason
able deductions, they give a
expected in the near future. And the
cOStl Did any public, any growing gen.
Grafton ever have such chance for ed
ucation? Within the past six months
enough matter of this kind has been
published in st. Paul papers to fill
large volume; and the copies would
cost less than dollar! The person who
carefully preserves these papers and
ipiles them away will have store of in
structive literature, i'll time, that will be
Invaluable.
The idea of taking as a subject one
street OF city, and presenting it as a
distinctive feature, in a commercial,
historical and social sense, differs radi-
ralIy from the usual run of this class of
matter, though the object is much the
same. The publishers of the GLOBE
have attempted in this issue, simply to
show what Seventh street.-the most
remarkable, in many respects,
IN the Northwest-is, was and
will be. They have prepared
this edition, hoping that its thousands
of readers at home and abroad will give
It at least the attention it deserves and
gain thereby some idea of the wonder
ful progIes made.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-02

In the Real Estate Values in Ten
Years-Wabasha to the Seventh
Street Bridge The Property
Owned by ST. Paul People Who
Have Put on Substantial Inn
provements.
AS might be expected, real estate
values have, within the past decade,
shown marked advance; though they
have not at any time gone ''out of
sight," as in many other cities, nor have
they, in any single instance on record,
deprecated a single dollar. This fact
is exceedingly gratifying to the owners,
who feel that whatever comes, and
however dull the real estate market
may be, their property may be held at
it's present valuation. From Wabasha
to KittsOn street, near the west end of
the Seventh street bridge, there is
total frontage of about $500
feet. 1t is almost entirely
owned by residents of st. Paul, and the
by substantial brick business blocks.
Ten years ago, when good buildings
were exceedingly scarce Oh East
Seventh, S175 a front foot would have
been considered rather high figure for
an average. To-day, $3.50 might be
thought too low. According, then, to
these figures, which are really conserv-
ative, there has been an increase in
value of over four and quarter mill
ions. Much of it, too, is held by the
same parties who owned it then. A
sale of seventy-tive feet on the north
side, between Rosabel and Wacouta,
about ten years ago, was made at $3.50 a
foot. 1t was then the biggest price ever
paid for Seventh street property, and
was thought to be eXtravagant. The
same property is now said to be worth
$1,000 foot. Between that and Waba-
sha a little sitter price might be asked,
though there is scarcely enough of it on
the market to gain an idea of what it is
held at. On west, towards Seven cor
ners, prices vary greatly, owing
to the irregular improvements. They
are not few who claim that
it is only question of three
or four years when the street from
Seven corner to Wabasha will be built
up as solidly and with as good class of
buildings as are to-day seen on East
Seventh. 1t is certainly not unreason-
able to make such a prediction, and if
the corners continues to spread out as it
has in the past few years, it is an abso-
lutte certainty.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-02
SOME OLD BUILDINGS

That Have Seen ST. Paul Grow
From a Village to City of 2OO,-
900 People---Ihe New and the
Old.
There are few old buildings around
Seven corners which are entitled to dis
tinction. The old Winslow house,
erected in 1854, burned during the war,
and was some years later replaced by
the present structure. This house is
full of historical interest, but space for
bids its use here. The Irvine block. at
the junction of Third and Eagle, was
built in 1856, and may therefore be
counted as one of the very
oldest in the city. The Moore
block, opposite the Seven Corners
bank, was put up some eighteen years
ago. These were all considered fine
buildings when they were new, but
when compared with some of those
erected within the past five years they
look somewhat shabby. The elegant
blocks that now front on Seventh street
were hardly dreamed of in those days.
But Seven corners has become an i'm
portant part of st. Paul, and is not for a
minute to be looked upon as an outside"
point. Its merchants are among the
leading business men of the city, and
are everywhere recognized as such. Its
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-02
Dry Goods Houses.

Seventh street is ably represented
with first-class dry goods houses, there
being quite number that would be a
credit to any city in the country. Per-
haps the largest and most extensive
house, on this great thoroughfare, is
that of Habighorst q Co., Nos. 233, 235
and 237 East Seventh, corner of Wa
couta streets. This firm commenced
business in ST. Paul, some twenty years
ago, and have grown with the city, un-
til to-day it requires huge salesroom,
covering space enough for three aver
age stores, and basement to carry on
their extensive business. At Habig-
horst & Co.'s you can always find a
boundless variety of everything carried
by first-class dry goods house, and at
this season of the year a profuse array
of spring and summer dress goods. Some
of their leaders this spring is large lot
of Surah silks at so cents per yard, which
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-02
Robert Seeger.

1t is with a feeling of genuine pleas
ure that the writer undertakes to intro
duce Mr.. Robert Seeger. Not that he
needs an introduction at all; his resi-
dence in ST. Paul, Off and on, since 1859,
has made him so well-knOwn that but
very few people of half a dozen years.
sojourn in this city have not heard of
him, or, still better, made his personal
acq uaintance. Mr.. Seeger is one of
those genial souls, whom to know is to
remember kindly. His success in busi-
ness cannot be wholly attributed to
perseverance and shrewdness. His
makeup is not that of the
ordinary money-maker. Mr.. See
ger combines the good qualities
of modest philanthropist with those
of prosperous, iberal-minded mer
chant, who is content to live well, and
cheerfully allows others to do likewise.
Ten years ago he commenced business,
corner of Seventh and Sibley. He aft
erwards moved to No. 1856, where he con-
tinued until December, 1887, when he
moved into the present quarters at No.
260 East Seventh street, between Wa
cOuta and Rosabel. A branch store was
established at Minneapolis year ago.
The first floor of this establishment is
used as salesroom and office. Here,
samples of vapor stoves. fine
lamps, gold-headed canes and UNI
brellaS, ivory and amber work,
etc., are shown. There is not
another house in the Northwest where
such variety of these goods can be
seen. The second and third floors are
warerooms, where is packed away the
greater part of the goods carried. The
fourth, or top floor, is devoted entirely
to manufacturing and repairing all kinds
of fine goods by experts, in which line
the house has earned wide reputa tion.
The large basement is used for gas-fit-
ting and packing.
Mr.. Seeger's business is peculiar and
varied. He has for some time been the
contractor for gasoline street lighting
in this city, which requires the employ
ment of gOOd-siZed force for it alone.
Last year the house handled about 5000
barrels of gasOline-an immense guam
tity, when considered. In other illumi-
mating oils Mr.. Seeger probably does the
largest business west of Chicago.
A great speciality with Robert Seeger
just at this time are the "JeweI' vapor
stoves and ranges and the Jewel" and
Success" gas ranges. He has the sole
agency for these great inventions for
Minnesota, and has established over 100
sub-agencies throughout the state,
whose aggregate sales are enormous.
This branch of Mr.. Seeger's business
has been phenomenally successful,
though the gratifying results could
hardly have been attained by any one
less energetic and pushing.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-02
Opened to the Public.

The elegant establishment of Smith &,
Davidson, which is the finest in the
West, was opened Thursday. 1t would
naturally be supposed that the acme of
beauty and excellence in the way Of
architecture and decoration had been
reached in st. Paul long since, but it re-
manned for Smith & Davidson to out
strip all former efforts in that line
at their new ~, place at 1926
jackson street. This palatial resort
equals any similar institution in the
done by Finch, Van Slyck IL Co., and
the design and workmanship are the
finest known to art, and shows what
this firm is capable of doing in it's
line. The ceiling is paneled, made Of
rich relief coverings, every other panel
having life-Subject painting repre-
senting the seasons. These cost
about $4,000. The other panels are
in the form of a scroll, set
with Rhinestones, and all are sup
ported by columns made in Carton
to the ceiling. The cOloring is made to
represent sunset tints; the effect is eX-
qulsite. The entire interior wood finish
and furniture are made up in solid ma
hogany, specially selected for beauty of
grain and color, and were manufactured
by johnson Bros. d Loomis, of this city.
The work is richly carved in bold re-
lief, highly polished, and is fine speci-
men of elaborate and skillful
workmanship. The many beau
tiful private residences, banks,
etc. in the city. finished off
in hardwood by this firm had already
evidenced the high standing of their
work, and this shows that no finer cab
met work can be produced in this coun-
try than by johnson Bros. IL Loomis.
The floors are laid in white Italian
marble, and toilet rooms are lined with
same. This is the palace saloon of the
West. The actual cost of finishing this
room is about $4,000, and there was
$1,000 worth of beveled glass used. The
proprietors have secured the finest
that money could buy. They
have already received fifteen hogs
heads of imported wines and
liquors. They will carry line of old
wines, Burgundies, ports, etc., that are
carried by no other house in the West.
They will also carry the finest line of
Kentucky whisky. Messrs. Smith q
Davidson have established national
reputation as venders of the finest
goods in the market. You should drop
in and see the finest saloon in the
limited States
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-02

comnrising nearly all the blocks be-

comprising nearly all the blocks be-
tween Fifth and Eighth, and Robert
and Cedar streets, (Which includes the
Hotel Ryan, Chamber of Commerce and
adjacent property was an impassable
swamp, which but few persons at that
few shanties, occupied by foreigners,
and known as the "Bloody Second
ward" were scattered about in the
neighborhood. But in 1865 this be-
gan gradually to improve. Then
in 1880 the project of building a big hotel
was gotten under way, and the result
was the erection, after some parleying,
of the Hotel Ryan on its present site.
After this immense structure was
started, improvements all around it
were pushed forward, and the neighbor
hood began to assume airs of CONNER
cial Importance: the deep-voiced bull
frog was forced to retire from the scene,
and mercenary man planted his shops
all over the place. These shops have in
turn given way to more pretentiouS
structures, which are visited by more
pretentious people in silks and dia-
monds, who come in stylish carriages,
and with all that pertains thereto. But
this is only one little feature. Col
umn after column might be filled
with pictures of Now" and "Then." of
only recent years, and yet not half he
told.
There are few men still doing busi-
ness on Seventh street who have been
there continuously since 1860, and one
or two of these came there ten years
earlier. The building, three-StOry brick,
on the southwest corner of Olive, was
erected in go by Ferdinand Knauft. 1t
was then the only building worthy of
mention east of Jackson, six blocks
away. ''It stood there in the woods like
a shot-tOwer," said Mr.. Knauft, land
people laughed at me for putting up
such house there. But l guess it's all
right now. Anyway, they don't laugh
any mOrew and the old gentleman
laugh-best way which some of our
wealthy old citizens occasionally in
dulge in. In later years Mr.. Knauft
has put up several elegant, costly buSi-
ness blocks, which are ornaments to the
city.
In all the great Dayton's bluff district
there was nothing twenty years ago,
with the possible exception of farm
house here and there. Less than four
years ago that immense piece of work
known as the Seventh street fill'' was
completed. Before that the wide, deep
ravine cut off the bluff from anything
ness part of the city, and consequently
not much could be done there. The
street car company Immediately eX-
tended its lines up the long hill and out
towards Post Siding, and all that inter-
mediate section within reach of
the car line began to fill
up at tremendous rate.
the street is paved with cedar blocks to
the top of the hill, making compar-
atively easy the long pull for the
thousands of wagons that go over it
dailV