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The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-02-18
MY MorHER.s SLIPPER.

rts mighty Gurus, so 1t is, how these here poets
To bring sympathetic teak 70 some poor fel
lers eye,
A-rhymin and singin' Of mothers love and
care,
An touchin' ON her faded gown, or stout, old
fashioned chair.
But none Of 'em, I've noticed, an I've won.
Gcrcd DER and DER.
Has sung about the slipper that my good old
mother wore.
Irecollect as we'll as IL TWAS only yesterday,
When II seemed dreadful waste o. time to
study stead o. play
With other little youngsters who were hoolsin'
n OF from school
An goin' to the swiinmin hole, so shady, deep
and cool,
An many time I'd we missed my chance,
through learnin's heights to soar.
Ell weren't for the slipper that my good old
mother wore.
An later when the female sex began to interest,"
An other fellows called on gals dressed up in
their best
She lsnowcd that though couldn't keep myself
to save my life,
That like us not I'd undertake supportin' Of o
wife;
But waited for maturer years and her whom I
adore
All OWN to the slipper that my good old mother
wore.
She's settn in her armchair now q smilin' all
benign.
A-talkin' to our neighbors bout that "grownup
son o. mine,"
An she tells OF all the time she felt obliged my
self to whale,
To keep me out of prison, or Mt very least from
jail:
An she alters makes me own that I'd been there
long BEFORE
Ef 1t wasn't for the slipper that my good old
mother wore.
-C;nciuD0ii ENQUIRER.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-02-18
VATICAN ETIQUETTE.
How tho Pope Entertains Princes and
other Important Personages.


other Important Personages.
The etiquette of the Vatican requires
that the Pope shall dine alone, and
while eating he reads the newspapers.
When he wishes to show especial honor
to Il foreign Prince or to any parsonage
of Importance, he invites him to take q
cup of coffee with him after the morn
ing mass. On such occasions the guest
is expected to attend the first mass and
to receive the communion from the
Pope's hands. The visitor, however.
does not sit ut the same table with his
Holiness, but smaller one alongside
of him. Among those recently honored
in this way were Don Carlos, the Span
ish pretender, on the occasion of his
sons confirmation, the Grand Duchess
of Tuscany. the Prince Borghest, Aldo
brandini, Altievi and Pombino. while
the same favor is often shown to the
Pope's nephews. Cardinal Pecci used
to live in the Vatican, and he frequently
visited his brother while the latter was
eating dinner.
Dinner is served at one o'clock, the
uSull uOur Ill hOIus lOT tildG Ileil.
This repast consists of soup, dish of
roast meat and vegetables, fruit and
some old Bordeaux wine. No boiled
meats or pork in any form or cheese is
ever seen on the table.
The meal ended, his Holiness in.
dulges in nap of an hours length
while seated in large armchair; then.
weather permitting, he goes for walk
in the gardens, accompanied by one of
his private chamberlains and Lieu
tenant of the Papal Guards. His car
riage is also in attendance, so that he
can ride when overfatigued by walking.
His Holiness still considers himself a
pri soner and never leaves the precincts
of the Vatican; but the gardens of that
palace are very extensive, the main
drive measuring quite mile in length.
At one end of the park is II vineyard.
cultivated by the children of an agri
cultural orphan age that was founded
by Plus IX., and named after him the
Vinga Pia. Leo XIII. often visits the
vineyard, and whenever he notices one
of the boys doing his work intelligently
lie stops to have chat. He takes
much interest in agricultural matters.
and is well posted in botany.-Rome
Letter.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-02-18
NOTES OF THE DAY.

Not until the sectional issue has
absolutely been obliterated can the
Republican party hope to ever gain u
foothold in the South. Atlanta Con-
stitutiOn.
1.-THE White Mountain Freezer
Company has been organized in New
Hampshire. Here, perhaps, is a chance
for John Sherman to be president -
Chicago Herald.
That must have been depraved
Michigan woman who took her babe to
Oh 10 to abandon it. What is to keep
the poor child from growing up and be-
coming an Ohio Republican newspaper
writerp-LOuisUilie Courier-Journal.
With Grover Cleveland to lead
'.he cause of better-paid labor and
James G. Blaine to uphold the claims
of monopoly and the "Trusts." it is
easy to predict that the result in 1888
will be the same as in 1884, save that
tho pop ular condemnation of the Re-
publican policy will be far more en-.
phatic than it was four years ago.
Boston Globe.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-02-18
A FUNNY EPISODE.
An Esquimau Medicine Mans AstOnish-
m0nt and Fright.

AhSht nhu CEi6h1
There was another episode which
these peculiar people seemed to eonsid-
er as huge joke, which 1 will explain
as briefly as possible, to show what the
native people consider as funny in the
frigid zones. One of the Esquimau
men had peculiarly distigured face,
to which he pointed so often that one of
the party was finally led to ask him the
cause. He most cheerfully assented to
explain, amidst the grins and suppressed
laughter of the others. When he was a
young boy he was one of a small band
of natives that came upon the remains
of one of Sir John Franklin's unfortu-
nate parties, that had starved to death.
and they found many curious things
among the scattered material at the
site of the sad scene. One, which i'm
mediately took his boyish eye, was a
flattened can that he found. full Of
"black sand," as he expressed it. Tn.
"black sand" was of no possible
use to him, and, ON the first occasion he
had to utilize the can, which was one
winter evening. when he was sitting
by the lamp in his snow-house, he
poured this useless material out on
the platform of snow that held the lamp,
and in doing so some of it splashed in
the flame. There was an instantaneous
explosion. which he tried to explain by
yelling "boom," until l thought the
top of my head had been knocked off.
and when some of the shock had passed
away he found that the top of his snow
hut had disappeared in the dark night,
the stone lamp was broken into pieces.
and the kitchen utensils and parlor
furniture ull mixed up. He was medi-
cine man of the tribe-that is, one sup.
posed to cure sickness by magic, incan-
tations, etc.-and Mt the time the pow
der-can exploded patient was visiting
him, who disappeared in the confusion,
and his whereabouts was not known
for month or two afterward, when he
turned up in another tribe farther south,
whose doctors. he claimed. We're not
of such pyrotechnic school of medi-
cine. Tho medicine man said that his
own nervous system WAS badly shat
tered for long time, and his hands and
face We're fearfully Scared as evidence
of his story, but If his appetite was at
all injured he had more than fully re-
covered, for he was tho most enormous
eater, savage or civilized, that l ever
saw in my life, and could easily dis
pose of a reindeer ham ut lunch, whom
over he came around to repeat his
story, which was altogether too fire.
quent; but we luckily found u good
plan of Kidding ourselves OF him by the
apparent careless handling of II powder.
can.--Lieut. Schwatka. in Woma,a
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-02-18
A Remarkable Texas Plateau.

This celebrated plateau, comprising
about teu acres, and rising sixty feet
above the surrounding prairie, and
ninety feet above the level Of the sea,
lies six miles northwest of Columbia.
1t is covered by n fertile soil. with ared
clay foundation, resting upon II SUBJ
stratum of shalc, which is richly
charged with sulphate of iron, magne-
sia, lime and other salts usually found
in mineral waters emerging from states.
This sbale, disintegrated in water and
stepped, possesses medicinal properties
of great value. A yet lower stratum
consists of q compact limestone, yield
Ing good quality of lime. There is
but little doubt that the mound is Of
seismic origin. Deep crevices abound
penetrating it would seem, into the
very bowels of the earth, as a stone
dropped in can be heard striking
against the lodges of rock until the re-
yerberat,c~' are lost in the mysterious
depths below.r-.Old Capitos
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-02-18
SECTIONAL HATRED.
A Republican Campaign Cry Which Is
About Played Out.


1t is certain that the Republican
party will make its last fight for
power under the domination of its old
sectional bitterness and prejudice. Its
violence and viciousness will make
clearer than ever the great advantage
the Democratic party has always en-
joyed rs National party-reprcsent-
ing the whole country and not par
ticular section of it. Looking at every
thing from single point of the COM
pass, the Republican party will con-
tinue to attack the Southern States; to
do every thing in It's power to ex-
asperate their people and to revive
old animosities. 1t has made its calcu-
lations and adopted this policy delib.
erately in the hope of preventing
break in the Northwest, where its ma
jorities have grown smaller and
smaller every year. until now, with its
other policy of obstructing tax reduc-
tion and reform, it can have no hope
of retaining control in these agricult-
ural States of the Northwest, unless it
can succeed in binding reason with
prejudice.
On the great question at issue in the
campaign, the interests of the South,
the West and the Northwest are iden-
tical. They all pay tribute to the pro-
lection barons of the "industrial
States;" their agricultural popula-
ton is everywhere more or less ham,
pered with mortgages forced by pro-
lection and held by the beneticiaries OF
protection. Commercially, too, they
are closely identified with each other.
and they have only to unite to
free themselves from the gross injus-
tice by which their progress is retarded
and their wealth drained from them in
steady stream for the benefit of the
more favored States. 1t is to prevent
this union that the Republicans indulge
in frenzied appeals to all the hatreds
of twenty-five years ago.
The Democratic party is not under
the necessity of replying. The Repub-
licans are out of power; they have no
issue to present except issues on which
they have been repudiated, and by
continually dwelling or the past they
show that they are incapable of seeing
the needs of the present. II the tariff
reform fight is made hot in the West
and Northwest, no amount of "shirt-
shaking" will blind the people to
their real interests. A fight that
will put every protcctionist and mo-
nopolist on one side and every lover
of fair play and good government on
tho other ought to be made in the COM
ing campaign, and to lead here in the
West we want Democratic candidate
for Vlce-President who can add 1000
votes to the Democratic vote in Minne-
sota.-St. Louis Republican.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-02-18

--"How is that feud between Colonel
Blood and Major Bluegrass getting onP
Are they rs bitter as everp" 20, no;
the whole thing is happily ended"
"I'm glad to hear that" "Yes, they
killed each other. LITE.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-02-18

An engagement ring on the finger
of young lady is apt to he made con-
spicuous by the wearcr. 1t is the same
way with Il scalp worn by IN Indisn ia
his bolt. M O. Hcayu.e.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-02-18

Venus, the morning star, is
brighter than it ever appeared to any
man now living, and nearer to the
earth than it will be again for 340
years.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-02-18

With Kellogg and Pinchback
both headed for the Republican con-
vention. it's nigh the time for Flana'
gan to set out, too. Philadelphia
Times.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-07-11

That generally careful journal, Hr~
Dsr'y WeetlH prints frighltnl libel upon
81 large class OF our most prosperous citi>
zens in its issue No. l,G44 The libel,
observes the New York H,~dj3. is IN the
shape Of a full page engraving. drawn by
W. A Rogers, person upon whom the
police should keep their eyes 1t pre-
sents a scene Of desolatinu--a few crazy,
tumbled down shantics thrown together,
fences broken, squalor, misery aud pri-
walton. Ii is unblushingly called A
Street IN Mining Village in Pennsylva-
MIA The text explanatory contains a
column Of mendacious statements like
these:
There is no human existence more
purely animal than that which moves on
from the cradle to the grave in the coal
villages Of PENNSYLVANIA,
From days end to days end, year in
and year out the miners and their families
plod along on their hard. toilsome brutal
2inE, gnmy pain 10 the grave, loEItsH
and hopeless, their wretchrd homes in
keeping with their still more wretched
lives
Now, as every careful student of the
utteranccs of Major Mckinley, eN candj>
date for the presidency; VIM D. Kelley,
the apostle of protection, Tom Reed, CT
Maine, and other eminent sages knows
there are no homes so happy ami envia-
BILE rs those of the workingmen in the
mining districts Of Pennsylvania Under
the benign influences of a protective tar
i'll, misery and want are unknown. Plen>
ty smiles at the heaEthstoue The days
are full OF sunshine, the evenings OF
song The grateful workiugmen. out Of
their large wages, secured through pro,
tective tariff, subscribe money and send
their employers like Andrew Carnegie,
of 10 Europe on coaching trips, and give
them palaces aud yachts ls marks Of al
lection.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-07-11

NEW York. July Il-At the request Of
Senator Laucbein who was last Friday ap-
pointed receiver Of the COOPERATIVE Life and
Accident Association Of the United States,
judge Andrews in the supreme court yester-
day relieved him of the receivership. The
receiver found that the visible assets consisted
Of s.. 2O0 III bank. and office furniture and a
safe worth in all 500 Against tins three
attachments were issued to three widows,
which aggregated 81, 5t1 Assessments of
from g. to = each are due from 5.2,p policy
holders and assessments of Sl4 each from
about pa holders. To recover this money
individual suits would have to he brought i'll
the district courts at an expense exceeding
the amount due The association owes $40
90 in p0hcieS
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-07-11


JOHN W, NORTON between her s"hN she
declared she would not return lie Will XII
me 1t l 20 back, She exclaimed lie
threatened t" take my lie, ana dare MOI go
ha'k. VIII ho' 60 ha'N. VIII stay WIN
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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-07-11
AD!SGRhCEFUL TRAFFIC.
How New England Farmers Utilize Foreign
Iauper abor.

RosToN, July 1.-THE Globe prints
Springfield, Mass, special giving an inter
view with a P0landar and wife, who have re-
ported to the police the following story:
They came to America three months ago
and were induced by a man they met at
Castle Garden to sign "a contract with Charles
Parsons, of Northampton, TO work three
months at so month, payable at the end
of the period, with deduction for nece.Saries
purchased They say on reaching North
amptOn Parsons sent them to a farmer in
Franklin county They worked there nearly
three months, when they We're turned adrift,
no reason being assigned, and were paid
Dnly 81 altogether They tramped their way
Oack 10 Northampton and thence to Spring
field The story is that Parsons receives $40
from farmers for every person furnished
them under such arrangements as the fore
gong.
There is mu,'h Indignation over the matter.
Parsons has hern engaged in this traffic a
number OF years, and has netted 500 a
month therelrom This help is secured at
very low wagrs-men receiving 800 year
and the women $50 Several cases Of extreme
cruelty have come To light, where parents
have been separated from their children,
where young girls have complained Of at
trmpts At outrage, on the part Of their en-
pioyers but usually the circumstances were
such that no witnesses could be- obtained.
One section Of Parsons circular TO farmers
states that being poor and ignorant Of onr
language aud ways they expect to work
| cheap To some this is no disadvantage; in
fact we would rather have them ignorant Of
l.I .,f
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-07-11

NEW YORK, July ll-Thomas }. White,
individually, and as president Of Lodge No.
Of the United Order OF Carpenters and
JoinerS, has instituted proceedings in the
supreme court against Peter ". Birch and
others composing the grand executive coun
ell OF the order, to restrain them from per
fecting a proposed amalsamatiou Of the or
der with the order OF the Brotherhood Of
Carpenters and Joiners Of America Both
organizations have Tor their ubiect the len
eft Of the trade and for charitable and be
nevolent purposes. During the arguments it
was shown that of the thirty-three lodges
OF the United Order, twenty-five have voted
in favor of the amaIEamaton rs being for
the best interest of the organization Judge
Iugrnham reserved his decision.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-07-11

una WAYS we're mem fillt'E MOORE.
captive Entering thu room Mrs Norton
recognized her with a slight nod hut id not
arise from her char TO offer her hand
Moore looked at Mrs CasweH but
did not speak to her Then Mrs Gas.
well turned upon Moore and abused
him bitterly. You wretch :" she exclaimed
~you are to blame for all this Emma would
never have left her husband if it had not
teen for your work You have ruined your
own family aud have ruined MIR. Nortons
home Are You not ashamed Of yourself, you
vile wretch Moore paid no attention to
Mrs. Caswell, hut became very much irri-
tated and paced up and down the room in an
excited manner
Mrs. Norton ATTEMPTED to stop Mrs Cas-
well IN her abuse OF Moore and exclaimed
"No he Is not to blame he dbl not make me
leave Norton take all the responsibility
for that myself
Then Mis- Caswell turned to the woman
and pleaded with her To- return to st auis
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-07-11

CHICAGO, July lI-Base ball playing in
the National league yesterday gave the fol
lowing results: At Chicago-Boston /, Chi
cago 6. at Pttsburg- New York =, Pittsburg
0; at Indianapois-Ph Philadelphia ., lndianap-
oils : at Detroit-W ashugton O. Detroit 1.
American association: At st. Louis-Brook-
lyn >, st Louis I; at Cincinnati athletic I,
Cincinnati 3; at Kansas CIty-Baltimore H.
Kansas City ! al LouisvilIe-Cleveland 4.
Louisville :
Western association: At MinneapoIis-Nl
neapois 1, Kansas City Il; at Milwaukee
Milwaukee ., Sioux City .: at St Paul-St
Paul /, Dies Moines :. at Omaha-Omaha &
Chicago
Inter State league; At Davenport Bloom
ington , Davenport 3
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-07-11
SHERMAN AFTER THE TRUSTS.


WASHINGTON CITY, July l1.-Sherman'
resolution relating to trusts, adopted by the
senate Yesterday, directs the committee on
finance to inquire into and report, in cmnec-
ton with any bills for raising or reducing
revenue that NAV be referred to the com
mittee, such measures as 1t may deem ex
pedieut 10 sci aside, control, restrain or pro
hihit all arrangements contracts agree
ments, trusts, or combinations that tend 70
prevent free and full competition IN the pro
luction, manufacture, o. sale Of articles Of
domestic growth OF production, or of the
sale of imported articles or that are designed
or tend 10 foster monopoly, or 10 advance
artificially the cost 10 tie consumer Of neccs-
sary articles of human life; with such penal
ties and forfeitures As will tend to preserve
freedom Of trade or production, the lower
ing Of price. 10y such competition and the
full benefit designed by and hitherto con
ferred by the policy of the government to
protect aud encourage American industries
by levyiug duties on imported goods
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-07-11
FIGHTING THE AMALGAMATED.


knights aud Association Men Prevent
Singer, Nimick 4 Go. from Working.
PrrrsBuRG, Pa, July 1.-THE effort of
Singer, Nimick & Co, steel manufacturers,
70 run their extensive works with non union
men, is assuming rather serious phase. The
Knights Of Iahor and Amalgamatrd aSsOcia
tion have Joined hands i'll the attempt to
prevent the success OF the move made by the
company and yesterday they gathered about
the works and attempted to induce the men
who were going 10 work TO join them. They
So far succeeded that it WIS found necessary
10 close down the works almost entirely In
the afternoon the proprietorS applied to
Chief Brown, OF the department of safety,
iof force OF policemen 10 protect their en-
pIoyes, They say they will give their men
ample protection If it should require a pc
liceinan for every empIoye. The knights and
amalgamated men deny that they have any
attention of creating a disturbance but they
certainly prevented number Of men from
working yesterday.
At O'Clock III the afternoon W. II.
Singer met number OF his former employees
in the mil, and reiterated his previous state
ments that the firm was willing to pay wages
equal to the highest He stated very firmly
| thnt hereafter the mill will be run indepeud-
| ept of all organizations. Mr. Singers re
| marks had only the effect of strengthening
| the discrimination of the men To stay away
from the mill
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-07-11
ILLNESS OF SAMUEL j. RANDALL.
The Distinguished Pennsylvania Has q
/ severe iten'rrhage-His Condition.

The Distinguished PENNSYLVANIA Has q
severe ucnsrrhage-His Condition.
WASHINGTON CITY, July ll-Ex-Speaker
Samuel ] Randall lies i'll at his residence
Oh Capitol hill. He was taken i'll Monday
night at 10 o'clock with n hem0rrhage of the
bowels, which lasted fully fifteen minutes
before it could he checked. He lost in that
time nearly pint of blood As a result he
was very much exhausted, and was in imni-
Hent danger for a short time He rallied
however, under the ministrations of DIR.
Thomas F Mallan, his physician, and dur
ing the night, under stimulants, obtained
some sleep, Yesterday he steadily gained
in strength, and last night was resting east
ly. His physician states that he is in no i'm
mediate danger unless there is recurrence
of hemorrhlge, of which, at this time, there
is no indication. During the day Mr.. Ran
dali partook freely of liquid nourishment,
which assimlated well. His family are not
apprebensive as to his condition A daugh-
ter, who is away, it has not been thought
necessary to send for, she being merely in
formed that her father was i'll, but not dan
gerously i'll.
DR. Martin Mr. Randalls Philadelphia
physician, who during the past three months
has been treating him for troublesome
hemorrhoids, arrived here last night, and
will remain until Mr.. Randall has recovered
from his presnt attack The most alarming
rumors about Mr. Randall's condition were
prevalent about the capitol and hotels during
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-07-11

on the SwataTH.
NONQUITT. Miss, July 1.-THE following
bulletin was issued at p. IN yesterday
Gen Sheridan has had some periods of
nervousness and restle>Sness during the day
hut at the present time he is very quiet. He
rested well last night His general muscular
system exhibits II fair degree of strength, but
his voice Is weak HIS respiration continues
to improve He has taken to-day good
quantity of peptonized mllis with crackers a
small portion OF boiled fish aud mutton
chop
BROOKLYN, ". Y, July 1.-THE United
States steamer Swatara arrived at the
navy yard from Nolquitt yesterday The
gossip aboard is that though Gen. Sheridan
is comparatively comfortable in his new
quarters be can be expected to live but
short time.