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The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-12-22
FARM 7AND FiRESlDE.

1t is matter of economy az we'll
as mercy to properly matc horses that
have TO work side by side.
Growing a boy on the farm is q
mighty good foundation preparation of
him for any honorable business.
An acre of land devoted to small
fruits will sometimes give larger re-
turn than five acres devoted to grain.
White oak lirkins are recommended
pickles. and next to that stoneware.
ALI fall-planted trees, vines, etc,
must be banked with earth or shad-
ing of straw manure on the approach
of winter to prevent heaving.
When n man comes half n mile to
borrow hoe or a fork. you may de-
pend on his coming so1ne day TO bor-
row money, but never coming TO pay it
back.
Oyster Omelet: Beat six eggs to a
light froth. Add half cup of cream,
salt and pepper. Pour into a frying
pan, with a tablespoonful Of butter and
drop in a dozen large oysters. Fry q
light brown. Double over and send TO
the table Immediately.
Saratoga Brown Bread: Two cups
Indian meal, three cups flour, or gra-
ham meal, one cup molasses, one and
one-half pints sour milk, one and one
half teaspoonful soda, one teaspoonful
salt. Steam three hours and then
brown in the oven Albanu Journal.
Tongue Toast: Make some slices
of toast, not very thick, Drowned
evenly all over on both sides, and minus
crust1 butter it slightly; CRATE with q
large crater liberal supply of cold
tongue, and spread it thickly over the
toast; lay the slices side by side on q
large dish. Serve at breakfast, lunch
eon or supper.
Bees will come out Of their hives
on warm days. In so doing they clean
the hives and carry out the dead bees.
Every day some of the bees die, and
advantage is taken Of all favorable op-
portunities by the survivors to put the
hive in the best condition for winter.
The hives should not be placed in winter
quarters until the weather becomes
cold.
--Raisin Cocoanut Cake: One cup
of sugar, three tablespoonfuls OF butter,
one egg, half cup of milk, one and a
half cups of flour, one teaspoonful of
baking powder. For between layers,
one cup of raisins seeded and chopped
fine, one cup of sugar, half cup of
water boiled to a syrup. Then add
white of an egg beaten to stiff froth
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-12-22
SHORT FASHION NOTES.
Hints and Suggestions Concerning the Lat
est NOyeltias In Dress.

Hints and Suggestions Concerning the Lat
est Novelties In Dress.
There is an endless variety Of tea
gowns.
Black hats and bonnets will be worn
by every one.
Bridal toilets are trimmed with pure
white flowers.
The latest brides dresses are made
up in armure silk.
Pink, green, moss, absinthe, and
claret are the colors of the hour.
Lace holds its own as the favorite
trimming for evening dresses.
English walking dresses are made
quite short, but retain the hustle.
Triple capes are Il feature on long
redingotes worn as capes this season.
There is quite revival of the fashion
of wearing morning or breakfast caps.
Dress bonnets are made quite fiat to
the head, with light algrettes set in
lace on top.
One of the novelties this season is
the decoration of seal caps with punches
of violets.
Dresses for little girls are made up
of bright plaided stuff in combination
with plain ones.
A new hat made for the daughter OF
Queen Isabella is of black velvet and
is heavily embroidered with gold and
velvet.
The latest La Tosca sticks have a
cavity in the top, in which a pen, ink,
and pencil aud a small roll of paper
may be carried. The utensils are held
in place by the head of the stick,
which screws on.
An evening dress for debutante is
made of polka spotted pink silk, with
pink crepe bordered with green velvet
points edged with small gold beads.
1t is a novel idea, yet very pretty, and
gives youthful effect. Chicago NeaoS.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-12-22
THE WOMAN TO MARRY.
Bob Burdette Takes u Hand in the Dis
cussion of the Marriage Question.

Bob Burdette Takes IL Hand in the Dis
cussion of the Marriage Question.
"You say you demand a domestic,
useful woman as your wife. Ii that is
so, marry Nora Mulligan, your laun-
dress daughter. She wears cowhide
shoes, is guiltless of corsets, never
takes in washing, goes out house,
cleaning, and cooks for II family OF
seven children, her mother and three
section men board with her. / don't
think she would marry you, because
Con Reagan, the track walker, is her
style of n man. Let us examine into
your qualifications us a model husband
after your matrimonial ideas, my boy.
Can you shoulder barrel of flour and
carry it down cellar? Can you saw
and split ten cords of hickory wood in
the fall so as to have ready fuel all
winterP Can you spade up half acre
of ground for II kitchen gardcnp DO
you know what will take the lime taste
out of the new cistern, and can you patch
the little leak in the kitchen roof
Can you bring home II pane of glass
anu u Wdu VI l'utIy anu TcPhli ddiilttSco
in the little sitting room Window Can
you hang some cheap paper on the
kitchenp Can you fix the front gate
so it will not swagp Can you do any
thing about the house that Con Reagan
can? My dear, dear boy, you see
Nora Mulligan wants q higher type of
true manhood. You expect to hire
men TO do all the mans work about the
house, but you want your wife to do
any thing any woman can do. Believe
me, my son, that nine-tenths of the
girls who play the piano and sing so
charmingly, whom you in your limited
knowledge set down as mere butter
flies of fashion, are better fitted for
wives than you are for husband. If
you want to marry II first-class cook
and experienced housekeeper, do your
counting in the intelligence office. But
If you want wife, marry the girl you
love, with dimpled hands and face like
the sunlight. and her love will teach
her all these things, my boy, long be-
fore you have learned one-half of your
own lesson. = Bardette, in brooklyn
Eagle.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-12-22
FAMILY FASHIONS.
Stylish English Tailor Gowns and How
They Are Made.


They Are Made.
The plain styles of the English tailor
prevail in the street dress. They are
more pronounced in their severity and
simplicity than in any season past. The
plain smoothly-fitting bodices which
have been part of the street gown
for several seasons are retained and
are furnished with plain vests of heavy
corded silk with revers of braiding or
velvet at the sides. The bodice is still
short on the hips and is finished with a
slight point or square tabs at the back
Such bodices as these form the house
waist for the majority of tailor cos
tunes, though in some instances tailors
are using the short jacket reaching
nearly to the waist line with n closely
fitted vest which ends at the waist line
under a gathered First Empire girdle.
This jacket closely resembles the
Iouave jackets worn twenty years ago,
but the corners are square and not
rounding, and they are fitted to the
figure and extend below the waist at
the back. A high collar, as high as
the throat of the wearer will bear. and
u close coat sleeve, are still dc rigeur.
With either style of house waist given
isworn the plain draped Directoire skirt
previously described and which fashion
able tailors are adopting generally.
The simplicity of cut used this season
will be q relief to the home dressmaker,
,Ll oh l., of toll M
in the art, can easily model q stylish
gown of cloth and finish 1t as daintily
and deftly as a tailor's workwoman.
The greatest drawback is in the fitting.
If she is not skillful in this way, it is
far wiser for her to have the bodice OF
her gown cut, fitted and basted for her
1t may be a relief to women who ar.
struggling with home dressmakers to
know that some Of the best tailors
make mistits, owing in some cases to
carelessness induced by the rush Of
business.
The Directoirc polonaise with its
wide revers and tlaring collar is a
popular model for tailor dresses. En-
glish women do not wear an outside
wrap with the street gowns, but add
underneath their bodice or polonaise,
vest of chamois to give additional
warmth. The milder and more equable
climate of England, together with the
fact that English women habituate
themselves to an indoor atmosphere
colder than an American woman would
consider tolerable, renders u heavy
outside wrap superfluous. Innings of
furs, the softest and warInest woolen
wraps must be resorted to in our coun-
try to counteract the dangers of taking
cold in stepping from the dry atmos-
phere of furnace-heated house into
the chill air of winters morning -
Good Housekeeping.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-12-22
CANES IN HISTORY.
Important Information Gathered for the
Benefit of Dudes.

Important Information Gathered for the
Benefit of Dudes.
That canes have been put to nobler
uses than that Jof affording nourish-
ment to the abysmal mouths of dudes
is proved by history. In fact, the cane
is surrounded by historical memories
of SURPRISING interest The Mexicans
first used canes in America. When
the Spanish conquered the country a
queer custom was introduced The
chief executive of the town carried a
stick with gold or silver head. 1t
was kind of scepter. The people,
of course, rarely knew how to read or
write, and when any one was wanted
for crime one of the mayors sub
Ordinates would take the cane, find the
culprit, and place it horizontally upon
the latter's chest. The proceeding was
equivalent to summons, and the man
had to appear before the mayor under
he penalty of being cast into prisoS
The custom was borrowed from Spain
where it still prevails in the more i'm
portant sections.
The cane of early American history,
like that of Biblical times, was part of
the repertory of the leaders of the
church. II was the principal badge of
the deacon. Ihe cane was about five
feet long. One end was embellished
with u big knob, the other with
feathers. When the small boy rebelled
against the STRAIGHTFORWARD pew he got
a rap on the head with the uncharitable
end OF the cane. If the head of the
family got to dreaming about his old
English home and the cozy little nest
in one OF the shires the turkeys plum
age ON the deacon's cane feathered the
sleeper into life again.
The Irish have always been associ-
ated with blackthorn stick OF short
and thick dimensions. They used
these queer little sidcarms in the inva-
sions of the English kings and in the
religious wars. Even in It's unpublished
state the blackthorn stick is one of the
most cherished by cane connoisseurs
--CinctnnaN Enquirer.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-12-22
AN OBSTINATE WITNESS.
She vexed the Lawyer, But Afforded Great
ass,,aeiai fl. Ilae giancia tnrs-

She Vexed the Lawyer, But Afforded Great
Amusement to the Spectators.
Lawyers and judges hay agood deal
to endure from witnesses of u certain
class, who simply Witttalk in their own
way, and who seem to have no concep-
ton of the meaning Of the word
"brevity."
Such witnesses afford good deal OF
amusement to the spectators, If they do
fret and vex the lawyers.
"Now, please tell all you know as
quickly and concisely as you can" !" said
lawyer to n woman of about sixty
years, who had taken the witness-stand.
"All right" she replied; "rll do that.
It amt much / know about the case
anyhow, for don't meddle myself with
other folkses' affairs nohow, don't,
and it's my opinion"
"We don't want your opinion" inter-
rupted the lawyer.
go, don't youp Well, l s'pose not
If you did, could give it to you mighty
quick. I'm one of them persons that
says what they've got to say right out
and no beating round the bush, or
hemming and having over it, and it's
my honest opinion that"
"But l tell you we don't Uant your
opinion. We want facts"
80, yes; s'pose likely. Well. there's
a witness on this stand now who will
tell you facts, and nothing but facts.
If there's any thing do natchelly de-
spise, it's "a liar. never told lie in
all my born days, and what's more, l
never expect to; and it's my opinion
n
"Will you kindly keep your opinions
10 yourself, and tell us what you actu-
ally hnoW about this case?"
80, certainly, to-be-sure! Why,
that's what I'm here for; amt itp It's
mighty little l know about it, and 1
care good deal less. I'm a person
that minds her own business and let
others alone. and it's my out-andout
opinion"
"Now stop just where you are" said
the lawyer, sharply. Haven't told
you again and again that your opinion
cuts no figure in the caseP"
''Well, my good land! who said it
dtdF' cried the old lady, innocently.
81 simply said that it was my opin-
ion.---"
"Please leave the standn'
And, as she did so, the old lady
turned and said, sharply:
"Well, I've got my opinion OF yop
any howl Golden Ddys.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-12-22

The American Educational Aid Associa-
of homes for poor and friendless children,
is doing a noble work. Since it's establish
ment It has found good homes for seven
hundred homeless little ones. All children
received under the care of the Association
are of special promise in intelligence and
health, and are in age from one month to
twelve years, and are sent free to those re-
ceiving them, on ninety days trial, unless
n special contract ,s otherwise made. A
are now waiting adoption into families.
Contributions to this very worthy charity
may be sent to Rev. Glen Wood, Financial
Secretary, Room Al, $50 LaSalle Street, Chi
cago. Hev. NV. B. Van Arsdnle. BIS Sixty
seventh street, Englewood, Ill, is the f&en-
eral Superintendent
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-12-22

For SpRAiNS, BRUISES, BACK
ACHE, PAIN in the CHEST or SIDES,
HEADACHE, TOOTHACHE, or
any other EXTERNAL PAIN, few
applications act like magic, causing
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For CONCESSIONS, iNFLAM-
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RHEUMATISM, NEURALGIA, LUM-
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Small of the Back, ETC., more extended,
longer continued and repeated appl'-
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All INTERNAL PAINS, lin the Bow
SOUR STOMACH, NAUSEA, VOM"
TING, HEARTBURN, DIARRHGA,
CoLlC, FLATULENCY, PAINTING
SPELLS, are relieved instantly and
QUICKLY CURED by taking Internal
'iyas directed. Sold by Druggists. Price 5oc..
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-12-22
HOW DICE ARE MADE.
What a Reporter Saw in the shop of
Old French Turner.

What a Reporter Saw in the Shop of an
Old French Turner.
In a dingy little shop on one of the
upper floors of an old building in Ann
street, an old Frenchmam works day
after day making dice. He uses old
ivory cane heads, umbrella handles,
damaged billiard balls and job lots OF
ivory that he buys for IA song. The
floor around his workbench and lathes
is Uttered with the dust, chips ana
fragments OF ivory on which he is nj
work. He uses fine saw, which il
operated by II treadle, Il turning lathe,
bufiing or polishing machine and II
number of sharp chisels and drills.
The Frenchman has been u turner
and carver of ivory all Of his life. He
works from daylight until dark every
day, and frequently uses dilapidated
lamp to light him ut his work late at
night. He cuts out tno little squares
of ivory deity and accurately. Then
placing the cube in the lathe he bore
the requisite number OF holes. aud in
scrts small ebony plugs in them to
make the black spots. The surface is
ground smooth by whirling among
wheels, and is then polished with pumice
stone. Several sizes OF dice are made.
but the smaller ones are most in de-
mand. Sporting men prefer hand.
made dice to those made by machinery.
They are more perfect in shape and are
evenly balanced. The machine made
variety are often imperfect and have a
tendency TO throw one side up oftener
than other sides. 1t is an easy matter
to bore into one of the spots and put
in II plug of lead, causing the opposite
number to appear nearly every time
~. T. Mail end EgpIess.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-12-22
AROUND THE PlG-PEN.
How to Have Healthy Swine Told I'm u Few
lnCislve Paragraphs.

Inoisive Paragraphs.
Carefully abstain from giving any
medicine whatever.
Keep large and small separate and
not more than ten in a lot.
Feed regularly and literally vari-
ETY. of wholesome food. always some
bulky food, and let each feed be eaten
up clean before more is given.
Give wallowing places, ashes, char
coal and salt, and plenty of exercise
in timber pasture yielding shade, roots.
nuts, acorns, etc. But no doubly soured
slOps.
Provide ventilated shelters from wind,
rain and snow, but no litter. Hogs with
litter get too warm. If you wish dis
ease, put your hogs to the straw pile,
Maintain cleanliness in all things.
Breed only mature animals. and never
from a show herd. The offspring of
immature or pampercd animals is pre-
disposed to disease.
Give pure water, from deep wells
protected from surface water. Well
water is not freezing cold in winter nor
lukewarm in summer. Water from
creeks (unless fed by springs ponds or
pools, is disease-breeding
Pigs should be forwarded in early
spring and kept on only growing foods
milk, bran, slop, oats, green rye,l
grasses, clover, sweet corn until into
fall; then iatten rapidly on corn mostly,
but also green rye, blue grass, pump
kins, boiled potatoes and turnips with
bran, steamed clover hay, etc.-Home
and Farm
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-12-22

Compared with the ruthless impostors who
represent to invalids inquiring for Hostel,
ter,s Stomach Bitters, that certain local
nostrums they prepare are the equal of the
world celebrated tonic and alternative. It's
deep infamy to rob the sick of II chance OF
health. The Bitters restore vigor and
eradicate maaral complaints, dyspepsia,
constipation, liver and kidney complaint,
rheumatism and neuralgia.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-12-22
&" Handsome and Strong. "

/ have been selling the Buck Thorn
Fencing for several years, and find 1T
gives better satisfaction than any other.
It makes q strong and handsome fenrG
and stock can see it so they do not rsn
against il. L. OTTENHEIMER,
Lawrenceburg, Ky.
Tho BUok-TnoRN FENcE is sold by moro
than $500 agents in the United States
and Canada. Write to the BUcK-THosN
FENCE Co, Trenton, n. j., for Circulars
and Samples.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-12-22

For CoUGus AND THROAT DISORDERS use
Bro,Dn's Bronchial Trocles.-' Have never
changed my mind respecting them. except
/ think better of that which ] began think
ing well of."-Rev. Henry Ward Beecher.
Sold only in boxes.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-12-22

THE successful lover thinks he Is getting
ahead when he is getting heart.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-12-22

WILL be found an excellent remedy for
sick headache. Carters Little Liver Pills.
Thousands of letters from people who have
used them prove this fact. Try them,
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-12-22

"A certain editor is called "a crank;"
but then, you know, his paper is IAN
organ" and how could an organ get
along without n crank g-Bosl0n Bndgek
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-12-22

TACKLE an Obstinate Cough or Cold witt,
Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar.
Pixies Toothache Drops Cure in one minute.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-12-22

From the total number OF letters
dispatched by every nation it has been
calculated that an Englishman allows
himself on an average AN interval of
ten days between his letters; French.
man, twelve days; II Swiss. lo.tnight
and Russian, 290 days.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-12-22

THE latest out--the boyIwho is kept
after schooln
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-12-22

BY INVESTING 81 TO 81 you may secure q
fortune. Address with stamp, The Montana
Investment Co., Helena, NJ 4.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-12-22

THEY have no police on the prairies,
though coppice often seen there.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-12-22

No WONDER time is so often killed; it is
struck every hour.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-12-22

The best known remedy for consumption is
OxygenCure. Write DR.. Geppert, Cincinnati.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-12-22

A BAIL-PLAYRn can be put out and not
lose his emper.--Philddelphi Cali
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-12-22

The most cer-
tain and safe
Pain RENE DT
in the worlc
tn at instantly
stops the most
excruc latin q
pains. 1t is
truly the great
CONQUERoR
OF PAIN, and
has done moro
good than any
I.-..
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-12-22

A WICKED al-dealer's motto: "The
lighter the weight the heavier the prof
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-12-22

ARE unlike all other pills. No purging or
pain. Act specially on the liver and bile
Carter's Little Liver Pills One pill dose.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-12-22

"Man overborad !'--the editor. Boston
Commercial Bulletin.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-12-22
$50 l was not quite so plain,
With my wooden shoes,
With my wooden shoes,
But the king from his throne
Came to take me for his own,
With my ,unodpn Shnnsl,r

II is said that a machine has
been invented in France for making
wooden shoes. and ii is feared that,
under its influence, the rustic artists
will give up carving the SaJotS by hand.
and consequently that all the pict-
uresque side of a pretty country GUS
tom will be lost. Youth'S CompaRion
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1888-07-14
Japanese Mothers.

Even the religious observances of
pagans are not entirely devoid of
pathos to the truly sympathetic mind.
A traveller in Japan gives, in ga Cir
die round the EARTH the following
account of ceremonial to be OBJ
served in that country. 1t was GER
tainly as touching as many more ele-
waited rites:
We stopped one day before pref
ty ond rather modest temple shrine,
where sat clean-polled, benevolent
looking priest, with big-rimmed spec
tacles astride his little nose. Before
and above and about the shrine hung
little children's frocks, their tiny
shoes, pretty little belts, dolls and
other playthings.
"What is this?" we asked our
guide.
"When little children come to die.
their mothers bring their dresses and
playthings here, and put a little
money in this box. Every day the
priest offers prayers that the little
ones may be made happy after death,
and have nice things and pretty play
things when they 90 to stay up there
with God"
As we talked, a heat-stricken moth
er came and tossed her coin into the
box, and as she placed the little bun
die of her dear ones pretty clothes
in the tender priestly hand, we
thought there was but one thing bet
ter than this, the saying: "Suffer
the little children to come unto Me,
and forbid them not. ~
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1888-07-14
Mailing a Sunbeam.
Stanley.

| once heard of bright-eyed,
merry boy, who lived in an old house
in dark, narrow street.
One day, after many months of
darkness, the sun shone into his
room,-not a full, radiant food of
sunshine, such as comes in through
our windows day by day, but a little
narrow beam of light quivering and
dancing on the bare wall.
The child was filled with delight;
and putting his little hand to the
sunbeam, he cried:
"Run quick, mamma! bring a
hammer and a nail; I'll hold it while
you nail it, so we can keep it
alwaysl''
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1888-07-14

Then they waited rather impatiently
for him to come home. After while
Allan spied him going up the walk to
the house opposite. How the two pairs
of eyes danced when they saw Mrs.
Turner take up three bags Yes, she
was actually going to buy three, and
fifteen cents went into Olaf's tiny
purse. He was too overjoyed it
seemed to go farther; for he ran
nimbly across the street, and was
soon in the warm sitting-room telling
mamma, Lloyd and Allan all about it.
lie had sold seven bags, and had re-
ceived thirty-five cents towards
papa's present.
On the next day, and on the next,
he went out with more corn, and he
earned enough money to buy papa a
beautiful gift. Olaf chose hand
kerchief of blue silk, which papa said
was the handsomest he ever owned.
= Emma c. Dowd, in Our Little
Ones.