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The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-07-27
BLANKER'S MISTAKE.
He Acts ns Chief Mourner at the Wrong
Mans Funeral.


A week or more ago gentleman
whom we will call Mr. Blank died, and
the time and place of his funeral We're
announced in the papers. Another
gentleman, whom we will call Banker,
saw the notice and said to himsslf:
Dear, dear, my old friend and
benefactor is dead. / knew he was in
Washington and intended to call on
him, but now it is too late" And he
censured himself for his neglect of the
man who had been his friend when he
sorely needed IL friend.
Tortured by his conscience he sought
to make up as best he could for his
fault. He sent the most magnificent
floral piece he could buy and, on the
day of the funeral, was one of the most
demonstrattve of the mournerc.
After the casket had been lowered
into the grave and the ceremonies We're
at an end the repentant Mr.. Banker
turned with tears streaming from his
eyes and said to a gentleman walking
beside him toward the carriage:
II am alllOsI HSdfOprchel dI tie loSS
of my dear old friend"
WAS he relative?" asked the other
compassionately.
mo, but we went all through the
war together and he was my best
friend and benefactor afterward."
"There must be some mistake" said
the gentleman. "Mr. Blank was not
in the army. He has been in this coun-
try only IA few years"
THE duece you say!" said Banker,
forgetting his grief; "then, by thunder,
I've been chief mourner at the wrong
mans funeral" And he straightway
looked up his old friend, who was in
excellent health. 1t cost Banker a
good deal for flowers, but that isn't a
circumstance to what it has since cost
him for wine.-Washingt Post.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-07-27
A Dog Awed by Thunder.

An interesting story was told last
year of supposed mad dog out in
Litchfield County that was killed be-
cause of its strange conduct, and after
ward il was found to have been only
frightened by the thunder. 1t had run
twelve miles, and then taken to u
strange house, run upstairs and re-
fused to stir, and so was shot 1t was
"a Scotch collie. and those dogs are
peculiarly susceptible to and utterly
cowed by thunder. There is one in this
city not quite so bright as the sunshine
in fair weather, that becomes an utter
imhecile as soon as thunder or even u
fire-cracker is heard. Yesterday after
noon, amid the distant rumble of far
away storm, he laid aside his intelli-
gence and ran wildly off from home
withoutit. Along search for him proved
futile but in couple of hours he turned
up, all wet and muddy, at his owners
office, ready to be escorted home. On
the penitential journey homeward they
met another dog. not quite so big as
this one. and, at the sight of the large
and rufled collie, the strange dog
dropped fiat upon his belly, and lay
cringing and trembling, the victim of
abject fear, until the dog scared by
crack of thunder had walked proudly
by.-Hartford Courant.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-07-27
GARDENS IN JuDEA.
fheY Played No Conspicuous Part in Royal
and PriestIy Life.


We tfiay conclude that while gardens
were known and priced in Judea they
played no such conspicuous part In
royal and priestly life as they did in
most Oriental countries, while the
private citizen, usually devoted to agri-
culture and devoid of wealth, rarely,
If ever. created them on an extensive
scale. Moreover, we can divine that
the royal gardens themselves were
primarily places for the propagation
of fruit trees and other useful plants.
Even the poetical imagery of the Bible
reveals this fact, speaking much more
of fruits, sweet-smelling herbs and
servicable trees than of plants priced
for their beauty or for the luxury of
the shade they gave. Flowers were
not required in religious ceremonials,
but incense was, and odoriferous herbs
are constantly referred to in the Scrip
lures, sometimes as very precious
things. A "balsam garden" at Jericho
was important enough to be noticed
by Strabo, but in reading authors of
his time we must not forget the great
influence which Greek and Roman
conquest had then had upon the
world. OF course flowers can not
have been neglected in Judea-there
is no civilized time or country when
this has been the case. But their role
was private, not public; and plants are
only mentioned in connection with the
temple in those simulated forms of
pomegranates, palms, and 'howers OF
lilies" which entered into the carven
decoration. So learned and enter
prising King as solomon may well
have filled his gardens with eXotics OBJ
tained from his constant helpers, the
travelling and trading Phmnicians, and
the mention of planting ''strange
slips" in Isaiah, xvii, 2, seems to in
dicate that they were especially valued.
| The Levitical law against the propa-
CATION of mixed species must, how
ever, have stood in the way Of such
horticultural operations as have en-
riched the garden fora of modern peo-
pies. The Jews had peculiarly keen
sense for the beauty and grandeur of
natural scenery and of wild-growing
forms of vegetation. Why, then, were
| their gardens less numerous and inn
portant than those of other Oriental
nations? Partly, as 1 have said. be-
cause of their relative poverty and
simple ways of life but partly because,
while the Egyptians, for example,
were artists by nature, the Hebrews were
not. The same difference which shows
in the history of gardening shows in
that of other forms of art. Art of every
kind was vitally essential to the
religious ceremonials of Egypt, but it
played minor part in Judea, and in
many of its developments was abso-
lutely outlawed. 1t was prescribed as
spring of spiritual danger. But it
would hardly have been prescribed for
this or any other reason among peo-
pie endowed by nature with a strongly
artistic temperament. The Jews were
highly imaginative race. but their
imagination concerned itself most of
ali with moral and spiritual things,
least of all with the things of art
| Eordn and Forrest
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-07-27
POLITICAL OPINIONS.

Mr.. Butterworth may speak OF
the South as "a man in fever" but
he is inaccurate in so expressing him
self. The fever" is only the heat
from the blast furnaces which are
giving cheaper iron to the over-bur-
dened people of the United States. -
Louisville Courier-Journal
The appointment of William
Walter Phelps to represent the coun-
try at Berlin shows that Mr.. Harrison
is anxious to impress the Germans
with American elegance. AS type
of American elegance, with its hair
parted in the middle, William Walter
is pronounced success. Detroit Free
Press.
Mr.. Robert p. Porter's claim
that he has been an earnest advocate
of protection ever since he was old
enough to have any opinions is con-
troverted by the Albany Argus, which
calls attention to an article written by
Porter for the Galaxy Magazine of
December, 1877, wherein he expresses
unmistakable free-trade sentiments.
AS if it were not enough that all
of President Harrison's relatives, COM
rades and partners should be provided
with offices, the cronies and chums of
his son and the sons of his Cabinet
officers are now coming in for plums
from the patronage tree. If Charles
Sumner were alive what material he
would have for philippe against
nepotism! Plumb knew his party.
Public office is private snap. IN.
Y. World.
After Mr.. Clarkson, Corporal
Tanner seems to be doing more than
any other man to shape the policy of
the Administration. The President
may preach virtue in the White House
and his Cabinet may turn up the whites
of their eyes as he discourses of the
loveliness of reform. but the people
will Judge by performances and not by
promises. Clarkson and Tanner are
men of action. n.-Philadelphia Record.
One proof Of the advance of the
Democratic party on the line OF tariff
reform is furnished IN the attitude of
dissidents within the party lines, who
quarreled with the evasive platform
of 1884 because of its protective lean
ings, and who now insist upon the re-
adoption of that platform for 1892.
Even the laggards are unwillingly
marching forward. drawn by the
movement of the masses in the right
direction. n.-Philadelphia Record.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-07-27
How to Keep Things Moving.

All progress is motion, but not all
motion is progress. In any enterprise,
spiritual or worldly, those eager spirits
whose only concern is to 'keep things
moving" are not always guides to
progress. Activity in work is ever
necessary, but never sufficient.
Things must be kept moving" but it
is essential to success that the motion
be toward right point, and on Il right
track. There are retrograde motions.
and backward moves. and down-hill
pushes. In keeping things moving, it
is of the utmost Importance that fatal
moves be avoided. The first way that
opens itself to view may be the worst
way on which to move. Tho shortest
cut across may prove to be the longest
way around. The slow and circuitous
approach may be the only approach on
which real progress is possible. We
can not afford, for the sake Of indulg-
ing our feverish eagerness TO keep
things moving, TO rush on regardless
of the warning voices that protest
against our too hasty choice Of the di-
rection in which our energies shall be
exercised. IS. 5. Times.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-07-27
MICROBES AND pIARRHGA.
How to XIII the Bacteria Contained In
Milk and Other Fluids.

Milk and Other Fluids.
We shall confne ourselves in this
paper to the diarrhna of infants. Mi
crobes abound almost everywhere.
Several different kinds have their
habitat in the secretions of the
mouth and throat. Most kinds
are harmless. while others are
the cause of various infectious dis
eases. Among the diseases caused by
them are cholera infantum and other
forms OF infantiie diarrhpa.
Breast-milk is wholly free from bac-
terra, therefore it is chiefly bottle-fed
babies who have cholera infantum, and
such patients are readily cured If not
already too far gone, by being trans
ferred to a healthy wet-nurse. Breast
milk does not curdle and form hard,
cheesy Jumps, which keep up con-
stant irritation of the bowels, as cows
milk does. This curdling is due to
microbes which the milk absorbs from
the air.
Another kind of microbe effects still
more dangerous changes in the milk,
known as tyrotoxicon, which has so
often proved fatal to eaters of ice-cream
and milk pies. This same microbe is
believed by some investigators to be
the cause of cholera infantum.
Experts are assiduously searching
for some effective means of destroying
the noXious microbes after their in
vasion of the digestive tract. Mean
while the great aim should be preven-
ton. This may be attained by ''steril-
izing the milk that is, by killing the
microbes contained in it. Sterilizing
is best done by steaming the milk in
bottles. Soxhlet, of Germany. con-
trived an apparatus for the purpose,
which is now extensively used in that
country. DIR. Il. Nj. Rotch, of Boston,
has prepared an improved apparatus
and tested it in the wards of the ln-
FAINT Hospital.
DR.. John A. Jeffries, of Boston, who
has made a special study of the sub
| ject, declares that no expensive and
complex process is needed. Take the
flask from which the child is to be fed
"a mere medicine bottle will do upon
pinch-put in stopper of cotton
wool, and heat the bottle and the stop
per in an oven for thirty minutes at Il
mild baking-heat. or until the cotton
becomes brown. Then pour the milk
into the flask, put in the same stopper
and heat in steamer for fifteen min
utes. When the milk is to be used.
take out the cotton plug, and put on u
short rubber nipple without any tube.
Milk thus prepared will last a long
time. A number of bottles may be
prepared at once, enough for a journey
of several days, or for voyage across
the Atlantic. If it is desired to sweeten
The milk, the sugar-millI sugar is pre-
ferable-should be put in before the
milk is steamed. Of course, overfeed-
ing is always to be guarded against,
especially during the heated term
| Youths Companion.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-07-27
Another Victim.

LONDON, July 1Z-One more murder has
been added to the long list credited to
"Jack the Ripper" in Whitechapel The
body of woman, evidently one OF the dis
reputable frequenters of the district, was
found in Castle alley Tuesday night,
only short distance from where the other
murders were committed. The body was
horribly mutilated and bears undoubted
evidence of the work OF the fiend whose
atrocities in Whitechapel have terrorized
the whole district repeatedly. The police
are as far as ever from clew to the iden-
tity of the murderer and seem perfectly
paralyzed The excitement throughout
WhitechaDel is at fever heat
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-07-27
Harrison's sickening Brutality.

When the President desires to get
rid of IL Democratic otfice-holder, he
uses something like the following brief
and brutal formula:
You are hereby removed from the office OF
collector OF customs for the district OF George
town, In the District of Columbia
BENJAMIN HARRISON.
The gentleman to whom this was
addressed gave Harrison lesson in
good breeding, saying; "One reads
your communication through from
date-line to signature without finding
u word to indicate whether it is adj
dressed to man or horse. ALBANY
On. Y.) Argus.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-07-27
80, no'A''''' .'''', ''''' 80 '''''', ''"''
The total value of mineral products

The total value of mineral products
of this country in 1887 was officially
reported at $542, &c., ,535. From the
above statement it is seen that there is
an apparent increase OF $177, $50, 407
over 1887. But this does not represent
the actual increase, for there is Il long
list of minor mineral products in the
1887 report which are not included in
the preliminary statement for 1888.
The exhibit for last year shows con-
siderable Auctuation. In domestic
iron for instance, there was an increase
of 760, 900 tons in quantity, but de-
crease of 81, ,956, 900 in value. In pig
iron there was an increase of 1880
tons in quantity, but owing to low
prices the value OF the output was SIG,
D25, 800 less than 1887. Steel products
decreased in both quantity and vaiuo
being worth $l4.Sll,0O less than in
1887. Silver shows Il large increase
over 1887. The coal product of 1888
was $50, 625, ,994 greater than that of
1887.
The figures giving the worlds min
eral product for 1887 or 1888 are not
attainable. and IN exact comparison
can not therefore be made. But ac-
cording to Mulhall the total value of
all minerals produced in 1880 was
1,215, 600. There has certainly bSen
some increase since. But there seems
to be no reason to doubt that nearly il
not fully one-half of the mineral yield
of the whole globe at the present time
should be credited to the United States.
Truly our possessions are marvellous in
their richness. Troy IN. ~ Timea.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-07-27
SMOOTH-FACED DUDES.
The Latest Whim of the Young Men Who
Pretend to lie in Style.

Pretend to lie in Style.
1t is becoming fashionable for men
to shave their boards and go around
with smooth faces. This applies par
ticularly to the young men who have
been wearing close-cropped pointed
boards and mustaches as long as the
points of their boards. 1t is not con-
sidered the best of form for these
young men to be seen in public bar
Der shop. OF course to have their
faces constantly smooth they must
shave themselves or get shaved some
where, but there is beginning to be n
prejudice against sitting in line in a
public barber shop, just as there has
been for some time past against sitting
on the public bootblack stands at the
street corners. A man must have his
shoes shined. unless he wears patent
leather or russet shoes. and even then
they need some looking after, but he
is expected to have the work done
in some place where he will not be
seen during the process.
This recent whim against appearing
in the public barber shops will not
hurt the barber shops any more than
the prejudice against public bootblack
stands among the same class of men
has seriously injured the business of
the bootblacks. The class of men who
pay attention to all these things is not
so large as tn hurt the trade of more
than II dozen places.
The theory of it is that man is
shaved by his valet and that every
good form to pay attention to all these
things has enough money or credit to
have a valet; or, if he has not valet,
to make bluff at it. On the same
assumption that his man looks after his
clothes and shoes is the other assump-
tion that his man also shaves him. No
fashionable young man would be seen
taking his clothes to his tailor's to be
pressed, and though most of them who
have the creases in their trousers fire.
quently renewed get the work done at
their tailor's, they make a pretense of
having it done by their man, and to
the other duties of this man, in many
CdoCo u ouppoSltlulouo pSibfzt 10 uutNo
the care of his masters face.
This fashion of the smooth-shaven
face is said to have come from the
actors. just as actresses influence the
styles of dress of women, actors have
been to less extent influencing the
apparel and appearance OF certain
class of men. The way of wearing the
hair which was prevalent u year or
two ago was begun by actortL Almost
all actors have smooth faces, especially
almost all the actors who pose on the
stage and who attract audiences OF
women to admire them.
The fashion of having smooth face
is just coming in, and it has not yet
been taken up To n great extent. A
man may sacrifice his beard, but if he
has bad mouth or a face which would
be harsh in outline without the curves
of his mustache to change it, he will
not abandon his present advantages
quickly.-N. Y sun.
H. H.. h. ....f.. a
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-07-27
SECRETARY WINDOW.
His Experience with Treasury Watch
man who Didn't Know Him.

man who Didn't Know Him.
Secretary Window, though giving
up so much of his time to Treasury
appointments, is unknown even by
sight to n great many of his subor-
dinates in Washington. The other day,
returning to the Treasury building
after lunch, he met some newspaper
correspondents in the street, and
stopped to chat with them until after
two o'clock, the hour at which the
Department is closed to the general
public. The party applied for entrance
at side door, where the new watch
man recognized the journalists and
passed them in without challenge. The
Secretary attempted to follow, but
found the wire gate closed in his face.
at is after hours, sir; You will have to
go away" said the man. Don't you
know who amp" Mr.. Window began.
II am sorry, SIR" interrupted the
other, "but no matter who you are, my
orders are imperative, and i must keep
you out unless you have II pass" II
am the Secretary" pleaded Mr.. Win-
dom. The watchman only shrugged
his shoulders incredulously and smiled.
He was going back to his seat, when
the correspondents, laughing, came to
the rescue, and succeeded in convincing
him that he had made bad blunder.
He was pr ofuse with apologies and
overcome with confusion; but Mr.. Win
dom good naturedly assured him that
he had only done his duty, and that he
deserved double credit for doing it
politely in the face of what looked like
so bold piece OF eifrontery.'-N. Y.
Post.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-07-27
OUR MINERAL WEALTH.
1t Represents One-Half of the Yield OF
the Entire Globe.

the Entire GlODe.
Details are made public, taken from
advanced sheets of the sixth annual
report of the mineral resources of the
United States by David 7. Day, chief
of the division of mining statistics and
technology, United States geological
survey. They are of the greatest in.
terest and Importance as showing the
wealth of the country in this particu.
lar. Below is taubulated statement,
compiled from the report, showing the
value of the leading mineral products
Of the United States in 1888:
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-07-27
LIGHTNING STRIKES A KING.
Remarkable Escape of Charles of Wurtem
burg from Instant Death.

BERLIN, July 17.-sunday afternoon while
King Charles of Wurtemburg was watching
a thunderstorm from the verandah OF the
castle OF Friedrichshaten, lightning bolt
descended and buried itself in the
ground n short distance from the King.
The violence of the shock prostrated the
King, who lay unconscious for some min
utes, but he gradually regained his pow
ers and his physicians now announce he
sustained no permanent injury whatever
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-07-27
Secretary Rusk Talks.

WASHINGTON July II. - Secretary Rusk, in
nn interview, denies that he is candidate
for the Senate to succeed Mr. Sawyer, and
says the latter will doubtless succeed HIM
self, and 30 will Mr.. Spooner. He says he
will not be candidate for President in
1892 because Harrison will undoubtedly be
the candidate, and be reelected.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-07-27
Death of a Noted Priest.

PHnADELrHIA, July livery Rev. James
A. Corcoran, s. II. d., one OF the most
learned Catholic divines in this country,
and o. voluminous contributor to church lit.
erature, died Tuesday at St Charles Bor.
romeo Seminary, oyerbrook, Pa, aged 0
years
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-07-27
HARRiSON'S POLICY.
Tho Indiana Man Brings Forth Mouse
Instead of Mountain.

Tho Indiana Man Brings Forth Mouse
Instead of a Mountain.
One of the most offensive features
of President Hayes administration
was the Indifference with which he
permitted his Secretary of the Treas
ury, Mr.. Sherman, to build up a
machine in the South. 1t was based
on the spoils system, and Government
patronage was distributed in so
shameless a way that the feeling OF
Indignation then aroused did much to
keep the South solid. But the Sher-
man machine, in spite of all its de-
fects, was effective in securing dele
gates to the Republican National con-
vention of 1880.
The friends of President Harrison
seem to be most actively engaged just
at present in efforts to rehabilitate the
Sherman machine. They know that
it is gross misuse of power for the
President to appoint to Office dis
honest carpet-baggers who do not
represent in any sense the people in
the localities where they live; but such
a course, they think, looking back
at the result in 1880, may bring
their chief votes in the National con-
vention in 1892. So the offices are di-
vded up as they will do the most good.
This proceeding naturally results in
serious scandals in some places, as in
North Carolina, but the Harrison
manages console themselves for the
present by dreaming of the future.
In view of the rose-colored prophe-
cies that were made as TO what Cen
eral Harrison proposed to do in the
South, the result is very disappointing.
He was to build up great protective
party there and to break the solid
Democratic party. And now, instead
of any OF these great things being ac-
complished, we are simply to have the
old Sherman machine resuscitated. III
we had not been told TO expect u
mountain we would not be so grievous-
ly disappointed to find that mouse
had been brought forth.-N. Y. Star.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-07-27
-President Harrison replies to-

President Harrison replies to
the carpers about his Sunday excur-
sions: They know that j have no
other time for rest, and they know
that must have rest If am to keep
on with my work" So far as appears,
this work is exclusively finding places
for friends and good people. He might
take day or two off in ths we ok. st.
Paul Globe.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-07-27

"A gorilla in the Bombay geological
gardens takes bar OF iron two
inches thick and bends it double in his
hands, and with one bite of his teeth
he shivers mahogany knot into match
wood.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-06-06
THE MARKETS.

CORRECTED WEEKLY FROM THE REPORTS
CHICAGO