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The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-09-01
OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
OHIO

IT'S n saying trite repeated ofttimes,
"a housekeeper's work Ia never done;"
The household wheels must be oiled each day
And the work 90 on from sun to sun.
There is washing, and ironing, and baking to do
While swift as weavers shuttle time goes,
And the small Jobs sandwiched between these
tasks
No one but housekceper guesses or knows.
The Johns OF the household have their weak
points,
Although for the most part good men and
true;
Not faults that are glaring; oh, no; no, moi
But follies and foibles like me and like you.
Some Johns have penchant for de icate bread
And some for a mealy potato,
And some We have known covet polished shirt
fronts,
And this, we must own, is but nature.
The children, too, must be coddled and fed,
Their bruises court-plastered, and each little
sprite
schooled scolded and guarded from perils by
day,
And lovingly tcnderly cared for at night.
wearisome isn't it, sisters alls
Wearing alike to heart and brain.
No way to avoid 1t, no way to shirk
Doing the same things over again.
But would we exchange, for store, or shop,
Or the factory's busy, unceasing whirl,
The quiet home where we reign queen,
And go back again and again be girls
No; wen cherish our homes, and each pet her
John,
And nurture with care the children dear,
Patiently, cheerfully filling our lives,
Doing the same things year after year.
james Buckhdm, IN Hdrper's Weekly,
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-09-01
DOZENS OF DEFINITIONS.
Read Them, and Then You Will Kno
What Constitutes Lady.

1k08O VDe10p ana Vn6n You WIFI Know
What Constitutes q Lady.
To answer this qustion, we will
again have recourse to the dictionaries.
johnson defines lady as woman OF
high rank; an illustrious or eminent
woman; a woman-one OF the fair sex;
mistress, importing power and
dominion, rs lady of the manor. This
Is broad enough, it would seem.
StOrmonth gives these definitions: A
womap OF distinction or rank; the wife
of titled gentleman; the title of daugh-
ters Of peers Of the first three grades;
a familiar term applied to the mistress
or female head of house of the better
class; a woman in any station OF life who
is possessed Of refined manners and
Kindness of heart, and generally whose
character is adorned with those Chris
tian and social virtues which men most
love and esteem in women; term of
courtesy applied to any respectable
female. The fifth Of the above dehni-
tions is remarkably good one, il it
were not narrowed by the idea that
Christianity alone comprised all the
higher virtues
Webster's definitions may be next
considered. A lady, he tells us. is q
woman who looks after the domestic
affairs OF family; mistress, the
female head OF households; Il woman
Of social distinction or position; the
feminine corresponding to lord. In
England, he further says. it is title
preaxed to the name OF any woman
whose husband Is not OF a lower rank
than u knight, or whose father was u
nobleman not lower than an earl; also,
o woman OF gentle and refined manners;
the feminine corresponding to gentls.
mani wife or spouse. f
Worcester is more satisfactory, it
would seem, In his definition, ut least
TO the American notion OF what consti-
tutes lady Only one OF his definitions
need be quoted. He says u lady is y
term OF complaisance applied to almost
any well-dressed woman, but appr0-
priately 10 one Of refined manners and
education, Boston Herald AZ
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-09-01
GENTLEMEN IN AFRICA.
Chiefs Who Are Distinguished for Tact
and Pleasing Conduct.


and Pleasing Conduct.
In Livingston's travels he is contin.
ually referring to the dusky females of
Africa as ladies, but it is very seldom
that explorers have occasion to apply
the word gentlemen to the men they
meet. Among the great tribes north
of Victoria Nyanza, however, are a few
chiefs to whom Sir Samuel Baker, Emin
Pasha, Stanley and few other white
men think the word titly applies.
Baker said, for instance, that Kata.
grua was the only gentleman he met
at the big King Kabrega's court. and
Emin Pasha is equally complimentary.
He says that while he was in the So
ciety OF Katagrua that chief never once
asked his guest for present, and he
received very politely and with every
appearance of pleasure the few insig-
niticant presents the white man was
able to give him.
Before Emin Pasha met this gentle
manly person he visited Chief Anfini,
with whom he became very friendly,
and whom he descsibed as "the only
negro gentleman" he had met in four
years wanderings in Africa Antini
is one of the chiefs under King Kabre-
ga, and he rules district in Unzoro.
DR.. Emin describes this remarkable
person as Il portly, well-dressed
man of middle age. who is
possessed OF Unborn tact, never asks
for presents, and is not inquisitive about
the private affairs OF his guests. Since
the Arabs began trading in his country
Anfini has been able to procure many
articles of European manufacture. DR..
Emin says that Anfini is the only negro
Prince he has met to whom clothing and
whatever other civilized appliances
have found their way to his country haqe
become indispensable, He dresses in
English aannels and is scrupulously
clean. He is the only native In the
central regions OF the dark continent
who habitually uses plates and metal
spoons at his meals. When DR.. Emin
was his guest, bananas and other food
were passed around on China dishes.
His people never presume to appear in
public In IL nude condition, but all are
decently wrapped in skins and bark
clothing.
Both Stanley and Emin Pasha spoke
highly Of the personal qualities OF King
Mtesa's Katikiro or Prime Minister
DR.. Emin says he ''must be placed
among the few negro gentlemen Of my
acquaintance" 1t was this man, who
had raised himself from the lowest rank
to the highest place In Uganda next II
the King, who asked Stanley II he could
give him some quick poison with which
he might make way with himself II
case he shonld ever lose the favor O
the King and his life should in eonss
Quence be In peril.--M r. Sun.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-09-01
Toilet Recipes of Ancient Egypt.

Curious hair recipes occur on some
Of the papyri, some of which are very
absurd. One to prevent the hair from
turning gray directs that salve should
be made from the blood of a black calf
cooked in oil; in another that of black
bull is preferred for the same object.
Evidently the color OF tho animal was
to pass through the salve into the hair
In another place we read OF the tooth
Of donkey dipped in honey being
used for really strengthening the hair;
and the ingredients for an ingenious
compound are given for injuring the
hair Of rival, and the colnter-remedy
to be used by those who think their
hair-oil has been tampered with by Il
suspicious friend. Cakes OF some COM
position which absorbed oil were al
ways placed on the heads OF the guests
at leNst, and from them the oil grad.
ually trickled down through the hair.
A most disagreeable practice this may
seem to us, but to them 1t appears To
have given great pleasure; and with
the Egyptians as we'll Ms with tn.
Hebrews, oil was symbolical Of joy ano
gladness. Rouge and other coloring
substances were used by women Of
Egypt to enhance, as they thought
their beauty; the eyes had often a green
line under them; the lashes and eye
brows were penciled In black; and, AZ
In modern Egypt, the nails were Away
stained red with preparation from
the henna plant. Woman's World.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-09-01
WAYS OF THE WORLD.



1t Nowadays.
In these days we hear but little of the
good people in the world. We are too
busy studying the scandalous and
criminal side OF life to take any heed
of the deeds of charity and the tender
sympathy that are not as rare as they
seem to be. Really, looking at life to-
day, listening to conversation and not
ing what seems to interest people the
most, one would imagine that virtue
and charity had departed altogether,
and there was nothing pure or noble in
the world. We have grown selfish and
callous. When the lightning of death
or severe suffering does not strike us,
or near us, we are content to believe
nobody else suffers. The Grape has no
longer any significance; the bereave-
ment of friend gets the moments
meaningless coincidence, and we go on
with our busy life. We have no time
to mourn nowadays. There has crept
into our views of life 80 much philoso-
ply that little wreath OF flowers is
all we consider necessary to show our
respect for the dead friend; we pay
SO much money out in some form or
another and our mourning is over.
What do we care for the dead? Let
them go. They are beyond our SYM
pathy, beyond our love or our hate.
Let them pass. There are other peo-
pie to take their place in our affections.
We have too much philosophy to
allow our grief to interfere with our
pleasures. We are practical people,
and we have no fiddle-faddle sentiment
about us. We haveno real friendships
nowadays. We must not get too deeply
interested In anybody, or II any thing
happens to him or her we will perhaps
suffer little pain, and what's the
goodP Seltlshness is the first law Of
our modern life. Self-sacrifice may
still exist among women, but women
are weak things at best. Charityp
Give him five dollars; send him some-
thing to eat that is dainty; go and
knock ut the door and ask how he is,
and then go of to your fun. AffectionP
Say you are SO sorry he is sick, and
forget all about him. Deadp "Poor
fellow! He WAS good fellow. and I
am sorry he's gone. What card was
that you playedp" But perhaps after
all there are some eyes that the tears
come to; somebody's hand grasps tho
sufferers and sends the comfort OF true
sympathy through his weakening
frame; perhaps somebody sits in Q
chair by the fire in the lonely room
and fancies she SECS him there, feels
his arms about her, hears his voice and
pays a tribute to him with throbbing
heart. Somewhere or another, 1t may
be, some merry laugh stops half ut
tered, and somebody rises from the
joyous party and says; II can not play
Tonight; am not WE'LL" But 1t h curl
ous that the larger the world grows the
smaller the sympathetic circle seems
to get. The more friends man has
the less real friendship. To be happyp
| II Is to have one woman who loves you
| to love, and one man who trusts YOU t0
trust t-SGw Erancisco Csy0nielA
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-09-01
SWIMMERS or FAME.
Rsats OF the Poet Byron, Benjamin Franz
lin and other Noted Men.

lin and other Noted Men. ,,
The recent feat Of Steve Brodie, the
newsboy, who few years ago leaped
from Brooklyn bridge, in swimming
from Albany to New York in little
over six days, thus beating Captain
Paul Boyton's record, is without paral-
lei in the history OF swimming.
Even Leander, who nightly swan
across the Hellespont, q distance OF
four miles, to visit his lady-love, would
probably have demurred at a six-days'
trip. The unfortunate lover was finally
drowned while making his nightly voy-
age, but this has not deferred several
who wished to initiate his example.
Lord Byron, who was we'll developed
In his arms and chest, succeeded in
swimming the Hellespont In an hour
and twenty minutes, and it is much to
be doubted If a lover ever made better
time. The poet was q great swimmer
and proud Of his accomplishment, yet
he nearly lost his life at one of the
English watering places, being rescued
In an exhausted condition by the look
ers-On.
The English channel has long been q
favorite resort for swimming feats.
Captain Boyton swan across from
France to little town in Kent in less
than a day, while Captain Webb, thir-
teen years ago, swan from Dover to
Calais, a distance of thirty miles, in
twenty-five hours and forty minutes,
One Of England's Admirals, who
rose to his position from that of q cabin
boy, got his first commission for his
naval war between England and Hol-
land two centuries ago the Admiral OF
| the English fleet found that he was lost
unless he could communicate with a
number of his vessels that were hidden
from his sight beyond projecting point
of land. The only way to send an order
to these vessels was by swimming, for
it would have been impossible for any
boat to make the passage. A cabin
boy, strong, athletic young fellow,
who had run away to sea, undertook to
carry the order. Holding it in his
mouth he swan through the smoke Of
the battle to the reserve vessels,
brought them up in time, and saved the
day.
The annals of our navy record many
similar gallant deeds of sailors who
have risked their lives in the waters
while every year the Government
awards medals to people who have
saved others from drowning by theil
ability to swim. Indeed, one OF the
greatest of Americans, Benjamin Frank
lin, was famous swimmer, and wrote
two essays on the subject which are in.
teresting reading. Few men have pos
sessed such command over themselve:
in the water as he, for he was not only
able to fly q kite while floating, but on
one occasion aoated asleep on the water
for an hour. While in England, work
ing at his trade of printer, his swim
ming feats caused him to be so much
talked about that at one time he hat
serious thoughts Of opening swim
ming school.
The exploit of Brodie will doubtless
lead many to undertake risks of long
distance swimming, but it will do fal
more good if it awakens general inter
est in an accomplishment which is no
only likely to prove of great use to it,
possessors, but which can honestly bt
classed as an innocent and health,
amusement Globe.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-09-01
ROuMANIAN ORATORY.
Scenes in the Popular House OF Charles I.'s
Little Kingdom.

Little Kingdom.
Roumanian oratory finds its natural
and public forum in the lower house OF
the Legislature, and the style of the
deliberations of this body shows that
the people aspire after something to
which they have not attained. Both the
Senate and the House are elective
every four years, and over the former
presides Demetrighian, son of the late
Hospodor Of Wallachia. 1t is still
thought sufficient to provide them
hall which will not comfortably seat
more than one-half OF their number
(after the manner of the British Houses
OF Lords and Commons), and crowded
and corn-hurting condition of things is
the result, with pushing for seats and
perching of some members upon the
friendly knees Of their fellows, and the
lodging around of some of the many
pillars of the building when one of them
desires to address the president, and
the furious ringing Of his bell almost
continuously during the session, call
ing for order, and the SOLDERING shouts
of several secretaries going on while
members simultaneously demand hear
ing from different parts OF the house,
and lather themselves in their frantic
and heated efforts to be heard, and
only sure OF that when drawing
laughter by joke, or Kisses by attack
ing somebody or something. The Ian
guage is quick and sharp, the usual face
mustached and whiskered, the gestures
jerky, exorbitant and powerless. The
policy OF the Government Is always to
delay the House getting in order as
long as possible after the hour set. and
to make it adjourn as soon Us possible
without having done any thing; while
the policy OF the members mt large Is
to have time enough to deliver their
orations. The people are hardly yet
aware OF what are the true functions OF
II legislative body. and yet they are pa
triotic enough to feel satisfaction in hav-
ing one great honor in being its men,
bers, and general confidence in the
King from the west, that, no matter how
many mistakes they may make, he ia
still strong enough aud able enough to
keep them right side up. In the same
inclosure with the palace Of the Legis-
lature are the old church and much
finer palace OF Prince-Archbishop Ga
lenic Miolescu, the Greek metropolitan.
the stumpy colonnade OF the church
being terribly and hideously frescoed
with souls burning In purgatory, as Il
| in warning to all who join such q
church that they may know what to
expect hereafter, and had better keep
out Of 1t entirely.--M y, Mail and Er-
press.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-09-01

in it, you know. II we don't like It we can
come away in little WHILE"
every well, Cynthia" replied Nettie,
alphabetically. She was thinking how could
he have been so careless, when he knew
she wanted so much to see this playl But
she had invited Cynthia to go with her and
felt bound to make the best Of the matter.
Cynthia hastily put her head out Of the
window and told the man where to drive,
Secretly she was delighted at the change
in the programme. Shakespeare was very
nice, of course, but such a thing as 'Mad.
anne Roquette" was not to be seen every
| day. "Bennie do Forrest was telling me all
about it last night, Nettie," she said, "ha
says it is simply grand, and that Floria
de Brassi Is the loveliest, most bewitching
thing! The men are all wild about her.
She sings a topical song or something,
called Now He's Married Man, that
brings down the house. Bennie says. l
don't know that approve Of such things"
she added, deprecatingly, "but it's we'll
enough to go once In awhile, especially when
everybody is talking about thing; II makes
one feel like going to see 1t In spite Of ones
self; don't you think sol"
81 suppose it does, Cynthia; never heard
any thing about it,"
The operetta had begun when they on.
tered the theater. A little man accom-,
panied by two handsome ladies was raising
| great commotion about something with Oh
usher. Nettie just glanced at them as she
passed. Their seats were in the orchestra
and the house seemed quite full, with the
exception of one chair adjoining their own
Cynthia divested herself OF her jacket at
once and prepared to enjoy herself.
I'VE can put our things on that seat mex,
TO you, Nettie; II anybody comes we'll take
them away again." she said.
Nettie placed Cynthia's coat In the vacant
seat, and as she did so her eyes foil on ths
man beyond 1t; he was staring at her with
wide open eyes and hanging jaw; he looked
quite stupefied. The man was her husband.
"Why, JOhnl how came you ,herei
thoughts this surprise, or toke-wha
does 1t mean, Johni'
"Nettle," he said, hastily, 'there has beer
o mistake; found It out and camel mear
let vs. 60 qWckly-quickly, Nettiel" HI
rose TO his feet Nettie was quito bewildered
while Cynthia stared-'Qpick, Netle--'
'.Ah, Wheatloigh, I've found you, have IT,
cried little man bustling up; "such deuc'
Of time I've had. What on earth did yol
mean BY sending me one ticket Ter tht
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-09-01

--On windy day In New York re-
Gently thirteen hats were blown from
the Brooklyn bridge to return no more
70 the heads Of their Borrowing owpesA
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-09-01

Much sickness In farmers families
In winter is due to keeping large guam
titles Of potatoes and other vegetables
stored under slesping rooms
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-01-05
THE COLD BLAST.
Rapid Fall of the Temperature to
Points Below Zero.

Rapid Fall of the Temperature to
Points Below Zero.
The blizzard started in Manitoba on Satur-
day, and on Christmas howled through Mon
tana, Dakota and the Western territories. 1t
struck Omaha Monday night with velocity
of thirty-two miles an hour, the tempera-
ture being five degrees below zero, while
Bismarck and Furt Buford registered
twenty-five below. 1t had little effect
ON railroad traffic, the Burling-
ton and Missouri reporting one freight
train showed under ON the Schuyler branch
but all trains on time along the main line
On the Union Pacific the greatest delay re.
ported was three hours on the eastbound
''Flyer," all other trains picking up lost time
after the storm abated To-day agents all
along the line west Of Omaha report weather
cold and calm, with everything on time.
Trains arrived late from Chicago and will
delay west-bound "Flyer" forty minutes
starting.
At St. Vincent, MINES ota, the thermome-
ter registere SO below, at Morehead 26 be-
at Duluth IA below, at Davenport, Des Moines
and La Cross each below, at Omlha s, AMI
at Chicago below zero.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-01-05
DROWNED IN SIGHT OF RESCUE.
A Storm Beaten Ship Goes Down
just as Help Iomes-One
Survivor.

The schooner M. G. Moseley, of Boston,
from Hayti, came into Stonington, Conn,
and landed seaman Borden Manchester, of
Fall River, sole survivor of the crew of the
schooner Mary P. Collins, ofrPhiladelphia.
Captain Torrey, Of the Moseley, reports
that in latitude S0:1O longitude 71:40, while
hove to in severe gale, he saw the Collins
hove to and showing distress signals. He
launched boat with great difficulty and risk,
and the men had nearly reached the Collins
when she gave lurch to starbolrd and went
down with her Captain and five of her crew.
Manchester was found aaoat on plank and
taken aboard the Moseley. He says the Col
Inns was from Norfolk, with coal for Some1set.
She had ordinary weather until week ago
Sunday when hurricane set in The vessel
became unmanageable and sprang lie K,
which kept the men at the pumps until they
were exhausted, The water glined on them
constantly and they had given up hope when
the Moseley cane in sight The relief, how
ever, came to late aor all except Manches o..
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-01-05
MANUFACTURING NOTES.

A Chicago hinge comp my is shipping
large order to Australia,
The Glendon Iron Wheel Company, of To-
ledo, is building 5000, 900 factory.
A Scotch firm is reported to have received
from the United States an order for 10000
tons of steel.
The Cincinnati Southern Railroad Co.,
whose machine shops at Ludlow were recent
ly burned, will rebuild them at Somerset.
A new barb wire mill Is to be added to the
Cambria Iron Companys plant at Johnstown.
1t will contain IS machines, and will make
twisted wire
The Rea a1ing Lock Company, employing
from 600 to 1000 hands, offers to move to East
Brady, if citizens there will subscribe to
$4,000 of its stock.
A Trenton firm is making cables for the
Chicago traction cars, out of steel wire, Ia
inches in diameter, and to stand strain of
1914, 900 pounds to the square inch.
The Bethlehem Iron Company has had such
fuel gas from petroleum, that it is going to
put in two more plants for its purpose.
The new looms of the Wire Cloth Company,
of Newark, N. j., will be made entirely Of
iron and steel. The new factory will be in
running order in the course Of month or
So
1t is likely that the Laclede Rolling Mills
at s.; Louis, will be reopened to business by
a cooperative company, under lease tend
cred by its owners, and accepted condition
ally already.
An immense locomotive has just been con-
structed at Paris foundry. Its builder pre-
diets that it viii realize anapproximate speed
ofninety three miles an hour. A trial trip is
to be made in the near future.
The Indianapolis Car Works, in the month
of November, turned out 466 new cars for the
Atcheson, Topeka & Santa Fe, and the Mis-
souri, Pacific, thirty eight more cars than in
any month since the works were established.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-01-05
Western Railroads Consolidated.

Articles Of consolidation of the lndianapo-
lis and Wabash Railway Company with the
Indianapolis, Quincy and Missouri River
Railway Company, under the name of the In
dianapolis, Decatur and Western Railwey
Company, have been filel in the Office of the
Secretary of State The capital stock of the
Consolidated Company is $s,O0O,O0O in 10000
shares and the first Board of Directors are
the following: John D. Probst, of New
Jersey; Hiram Hitchcock, Henry B. Ham
mond, Horace L Hotchkiss, Stephen H.
Thayer, Charles C. Allen and Thomas B. At
kins, Of New York; John K. Warren, E. F.
Leonard and John r. Elder, of Illinois, and
Robert B. F. Pierce. of Indiana.