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The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-06-08
THE DAIRY.

System and brain power in the
dairy and creamery always produce the
best results. Dairy World.
When milk is good price 1t may
not be profitable to raise the calves, un-
less of an especially choice breed. The
question must be definitely settled by
each dairyman.
Rusty cans or pals should never
be used, as the iron will absorb and re-
tain a portion of the milk which can
not be removed by washing and scald-
ing, and will be very likely to taint
the new milk.
ALI who are engaged in butter
making should strip the COWS clean, as
the strippings contain from % to 80
per cent. cream. II milk is left in the
cows bags to dry away there will be
Jumps In the teats.
On well-managed dairy farms it Is
often the best policy to feed the COWS
on the richest food, thus increasing the
value of the fertilizers which are OBJ
tanned, and this being put on the pas
lures renders them more productive.
But this, also, is a question which only
the dairy note book and the ledger of
the dairyman can settle. AS a rule,
the nearer to city the dairy is located,
and the more valuable is the land, the
more nearly on high pressure system
must it be carried on.
There is in every business worth
the following need of attention to de-
tails, but in none is this so manifest as
in the work of the dairyman. The ex-
perience of all who have made sue
cess in this occupation will, we think,
be unanimous upon this point. Rich
pastures, good cows, complete dairy
appurtenances are of slender avail
without tireless and comprehensive
attention to those minor matters too
often neglected, yet of such Importance
in the aggregate.
-Dairying as business, to be sue
cessful, needs first to be attempted with
dairy cow-not one conspicuous for
her beefy qualities, but small, bony.
deep milking COW, which converts the
food she eats into milk that is sold
every day, and not into fat that can
only be sold once, after from six to ten
years. The big 1400-pound COW that
can at best make only an ounce or two
more butter in d day than one of $50
to 900 pounds weight, is carrying at a
daily loss this 500 pounds of beef that
requires daily support and gives moth
ing in return, and consumes food that
could otherwise be saved, at least
Country Gentleman.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-06-08
A NATIONAL DISGRACE.
The Shameful Hunt for Spoils Encour-
aged by President Harrison.

The Shameful Hunt for Spoils Encour-
aged by President Harrison.
The man who turns his eye toward
Washington beholds return of all the
scandals of Grants time, without the
bright shield of victory to conceal
some part of the grossness of the situ-
alton. The chief figure is Tanner, an
irreclaimable demagogue. dangerous
as well to the Republican party as to
the Nation. He already takes credit
that he has not yet exceeded the
eighty odd millions of pension appro
priations set aside by the profigate
Congress of 1888 and 1889, although
he can not promise the Republic that
Congress has supplied enough money
to meet the certificates he will issue
between now and the 30th of June.
Meantime, the office-seekers who
went to Washington to obtain comp
trollership have stayed to demand a
janitorship, and the scene among the
regular messengers, watchmen and
laborers beggars description. 1t is
probable that every Democratic scrub
woman in the Interior, Treasury and
State buildings will be displaced to
make way for a scrub woman who fol-
lowed the star which rose at Indian
apolis. Lists of this base prescription,
unparalleled IN the history of political
spoils, have been prepared by all the
appointment-clerks, and nothing short
of Congressional influence will now
maintain a gardener in his monthly
stipend.
1t is the pharisaical contention OF
the spoils-hunters that this latest
degradation of government is made
necessary by the hold which the Civil
Service law gives to the incumbents OF
Office who have passed examination
for labor in the higher walks; but the
utter falsity of this statement has been
noted in the letters of dismissal which
almost every Democratic civil servant
already holds or will shortly receive.
The victim of the spoils orgy is not
discharged from work. He may work
If he choose He is informed that on
and after a certain date pay will be
withheld on the ground OF in
competency.
And the hunt for Office would be less
shameful If the Republican holdovers
were not equally with Democrats the
objects of political conquest The dis
charge of Pearson, the Republican. at
New York City, has shown that Gen
eral Harrison feels no compunction in
acknowledging that, when he took
office, he set forth to oust every other
servant of the great Republic, no mat
ter what his politics.
Democrats who were impatient that
Mr.. Cleveland should forbear with Of
fensive partisans, bent on establishing
the present regime-these Democrats
may look upon the spectacle now Of
fered and thank their fortunes it was
not seen four years ago, for 1t is so
monstrou5 and unsightly that the po-
litical organization watch has COM
manded it will not outlive the disgrace
of it, Chicago Herald.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-06-08
"A LARGE PENDULUM.
It's Swinging Proves Beyond n Doubt That
s.the Earth Do Move"

The longest pendulum on this conti-
nent swings in the chronological school
at Atlanta, Ga. 1t is heavy, pear
shaped piece of iron, attached to
brass wire forty-two feet long. The
upper end Of the wire is pivoted in q
steel point, which rests on the centre
OF steel plate, so as to cause the least
possible friction. The swinging of the
pendulum gradually describes IA circle
on the floor in a direction following the
sun, showing in this that 1.-The earth do
move" Directly under the pendulum
is a large circle divided into twenty
four parts, of fifteen degrees each, to
correspond with the hours of the day.
The north pole is placed directly under
longitude meet there. The parallels of
latitude make smaller circles inside
the first. DR.. j. S. Hopkins, president
of the school, who made and put up
the pendulum, performs the experiment
as follows: The iron is brought to the
edge of the circle in the meridian OF
Atlanta and let swing across. Appar-
emily it goes straight across, but grad
ually it traverses the circle in the di-
rection taken by the sun and opposite
to the revolution OF the earth. The
pendulum. not being directly over the
axis of the earth, does not move in
exactly the same time as the sun, but
falls behind some hours day. 1t
is said that il it were at the north pole.
where it would be Immediately over
the axis, it would traverse the circle in
exactly twenty-four hours, and at the
the equator it would not traverse it at
all, for gravity would operate to pre-
yent.-Jeweler' Review.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-06-08
The Farmers and Protection.

Now is n first-rate time to buy land. 1t has
been many years since land in this section has
been held at prices SO low as at present.
There is no need of going West when you can
buy improved Eastern farms for twenty-five
dollars an acre, and good buildings on the land
at that.-Granville Journal
Improved farms with good bull d.
ings for twenty-five dollars an acre!
Yet the farmers have had the benefits
of the boasted "home market" and
''protection," and all that for these
many years Mr. Tiller of the Soil,
you are Peter, and you are being i'm
poverisbed to make protected" Paul
rich. And he makes fool of you
with it all. He tells you that you,
too, are protected, and for proof
points to the tariffs on wool and
potatoes and grain, etc. But what
have they profited youP You are run
ming behind all the same, growing
poorer, that's certain; you know it.
and the fast-accumulating mortgages
in the county clerks Office prove 1t.
For every cent that "protection"
puts into your pocket it takes out a
dollar. That's why you are becoming a
pauper and Paul is becoming a mill
ionaire "Protection" is a fine thing
for the Pauls, but how has it been
with the Peters during this twenty-six
years experienced The twenty-nine
thousand four hundred and eighty
eight pages of mortgages written
within that time in the books at the
clerks office of this county speak
eloauently in answer. r.-Catskill IN.
Y. J Recorder.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-06-08
MINERS BADLY FOOLED.
Poor wording Men Dupcd by Scandal
Gus Political Trick.

Poor working Mon Dupcd by Scandal
Gus Political Trick.
Early in the last Presidential cam
paign the coal-miners of Clay County,
Ind, were notified by the operators
that IL would be for their interest to
vote for the Republican candidates.
To bring the matter home TO them
with greater force, as the day of cleo
tion drew near, some OF the mines
were shut down and the men reduced
to idleuess. In announcing the closing,
the officers of the mining companies
explained that it was due to the tariff
agitation. To make this clear, letters
were published from o. b. Potter and
other manufacturers in Chicago, who
are also heavily interested in Clay
County mines, stating that the pros
pect of Cleveland's election and the
passage of the Mills bill had compelled
them to close their works and hence
to suspend their purchase of coal, and
that the suspension would probably be
indefinite unless Harrison was elected,
the protective tariff saved and pub
lie confidence restored" The corre-
spondence was published in the Indian
anpolis Journal-Harrison' home Of
fetal organ-and other Republican
papers, and was placed in the hands of
every miner in Indiana and of thousands
of other worliing-men. 1t undoubted-
ly had it's desired effect in changing
many votes from Cleveland to Harri-
son, and in Clay County the majority
for the Democratic candidates was re-
duced to u very narrow margin.
Mr.. Cleveland was not elected,
the Mills bill did not pass; General
Harrison was elected, the high pro-
tective tariff was saved, and, it is to
be presumed, public confidence was
restored. How was it with the Clay
County minersp Were they saved as
we'll as the protective tariff? Having
given their votes as the bosses direct
ed did the bosses keep faith with them
by reopening the mines and employing
them at old ratesp Not much. The
men had simply been duped by a
scandalous trick, and the parties to
the fraud laughed at the simplicity OF
their dupes.
When the operators were ready to
reopen the mines they fixed new
scale of wages, which the men refused
to accept Harrison is President, and
the high protective tariff saved, but
the operators insisted on a cut in
wages of from twenty TO twenty-five
per cent. the heaviest cut ever made
in the State. The operators through
out the State made common cause
against the men and insisted on the
reduction. For two days the oper-
ators and the miners were in confer.
ence at Brazil, Clay County, the men
proposing that the differences between
them be submitted to arbitration.
The operators would not consent tc
arbitration, and told the men they
could either take the reduced wages
or go without work. k.-Cleveland Plain
Dealer
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-06-08
THE LITERARY MANIA.
A Man Who Was Ruined by Writing Re-
ply to Uncle Toms Cabin.


A. fellow may get over general de-
bility, renew exhausted vitality, and
come out in n very astonishing way
after case of smallpox, but If he has
the literary craze, in nine out OF ten
cases his case is hopeless. The victim
of this disease will waste enough time
and labor to make him Il fortune, If ex-
pended in business-like way, and
have nothing to show for it.
recall an instance as i write. Some
years ago / met gray-haired Profes
sor, who informed me. con6dentially.
that he was writing "A Reply To- Uncle
Toms Cabin"
ut will vindicate the South" he
said, 'and paralyze the North. The
book will be n sensation, sir"
The Professor wrote industriously
He gave up his school and devoted
himself to his book. Finally he finished
it.
II know it is good" he said, "be-
cause my wife read it and praised II
highly"
The poor man spent his savings and
had to sell his home, but the book
never came out. Disappointed, and al
most heart-broken, the author died,
leaving IA helpless family, and no prop
erty except his REPLY to Uncle Tom's
Cabin. Atlantic Constitution.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-06-08

bribing the people. 1t seeks TO tighten the bur-
den OF life in every home and to take from the
citizen for the cost of government the lowest
possible tribute.
I'VE know that we have espoused the cause
of right and justice. We know that we have
not permitted duty to country to wait upon our
expediency. We know that we have not traf-
ncked our principles for success We know
that we have not deceived the people with
false promises and pretenses, and we know
that we have not corrupted nor betrayed the
poor with the money OF the rich. who shan
say that these things promise no reward and
that triumph shall not follow the enlightened
judgment and the sober second thought of our
countrymen? There nre to-day no weak,
weary and Respondent members OF the true
Democracy, and there should be none.
Thoughtful attention to political topics is
thoroughly aroused. Events are day by day
leading men to review the reasons for their
party afflliations, and the supporters of the
principles we profess are constantly recruited
by intelligent, young and sturdy adherents
Let us deserve their confidence, and, stunning
all ignoble practices, let us remain steadfast
to Democratic faith and to the cause of our
country. II we are true and loyal to these tho
day OF our triumph will surely and quickly
come and our victory shall be fairly and nobly
won through the invncble spirit of true
Democracy"
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-06-08
STRANGE ANIMALS.
How an Elderly Maiden Lady Was Fright
ened by Scientific Name.

1t can not be denied that "a rose by
anv other name would smell as sweet, J"
but certainly it would not be as availa-
BILE for poetry if called by some preten-
tious, scientific term. Indeed, the
names of science, when heard by ears
unfamiliar with their meaning, have
often terrifying sound.
Two young men were studying, under
the microscope, the bacteria found in
ditch-water, and one of them proposed
that they should take their work home
from the classroom, after the usual
hour for remaining there. One OF them,
who lived with maiden aunt, said
that he was sure she would allow them
to use her dining room table, where
they would have plenty of light, and
on arriving at the house, he made his
request.
"Why don't you look at your live
things at school. and leave them therc|
she inquired, with manifest distaste for
the whole subject.
because we've found suchH beauties
to-day, we can't bear to stop looking
said her nephew. Let us have the
table, won't youP'
'.Ye-yes, you may have the table,
was the somewhat grudging response,
and the young men. wondering why
auntie was so peculiar, set to work.
Presently she appeared again, this time
holding her skirts gingerly about heI
ankles, that they might not touch the
floor.
Boys" said she, taking IA careful
glance in every direction, ''do be care
full OF those things, won't you?"
What, the bacterial"
"Yes. Don't let any of the creatures
get out. and hide about the room, SC
that you can't catch them. ."-Youth''
Companion
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-06-08
1t being unlikely that there wi

1t being unlikely that there will
be any radical change in our tariff laws
during the Republican Administration,
and as this is rather an OIL year in
politics anyhow, Messrs. Andrew Car
negie Il Co., stalwart protectionists
and friends of the working-men, have
reduced the wages of their employees
twenty per cent. Whether the reduc-
tion takes place in blocks of five or oc-
ours all along the line simultaneously
President Harrison has not yet been
informed. Chicago Times.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-06-08
PuNeENT PARAGRAPHS.

"A man without character is always
making fuss about having 1T vindi-
Gated. IN. o. Picayune.
When an Indian dies his relatives
pay his debts. And yet some people
think Indians can be civilized. Life.
Some men "live and learn" Others
devote their time exclusively to for
getting all that they ever knew
Gloucester Advertiser.
When an orator becomes great
gun in his own estimation he is apt to
be good deal of smooth-bore in the
estimation of others. -Harper's Bazaar.
--Dandykin (who has tried on a new
suit and found it satisfactorily: "Aw--
excuse me; I'll just step ovaw to the
bank and cash a check" His tailor:
"Quite so; and if you'll excuse me I'll
follow suit"
One OF the examination papers OF
young miss in a city school contained
the question: (Which zone produces
the highest type of man?" In unmis-
taxable characters the answer read:
'"The temperance zone" " Hartford
Times.
Miss Gusherly (young and stylish,
rising from her seat)-"Won't you
take my seatP" Miss Prudely elderly
and plain) but why should deprive
you of itP" Miss Gusherly-"O, I'll
have n seat given me when you
wouldn't, you know"
Mrs. Grimes-"Johnny has been
! G., L.
his coat ripped up the back and black
eye. If you can stop his fighting i
wish you would do it. l can't" Mr..
G.-"Tll make prize-fghter of that
boy. If that doesn't stop him nothing
will. Chicago Herald.
An Atchison paper says that most
of the girls of that city are so beautiful
that they would do for angels. This
is taking rather a new view of the
Kansas girl, and is not likely to any
more than double her matrimonial
chances. Women, and not angels, are
wanted for wives in this world.-Ex-
change.
Il say! You hare improved that
foot these last few weeks! | should go
on drawing the human foot, and moth
ing else, if ] were you, Brown-.any-
how for another two or three years or
So" 40. thanks, awfully! And then"
"Why then you might be a shoe
maker, you know, and get an honest
! living!n-Punch.
Miss Prime-''Ph Philosophers dis
agree as to which period of life seems
the longest to mankind. What is your
opinion, Doctor?" Doctor Cmeditative-
ly)-"Well, it varies. In women, for
instance, the longest, generally, is be-
tween twenty-nine and thirty. know
in my wife's case ten years elapsed be-
tween her twenty-ninth and thirtieth
birthday. IN. Y. Ledger.
-"Ah," sighed Jones, II suppose
these new explosives we read of are
useful, but have one which can blow
up any number of men at once and i'm
mediately be ready for another attack.
| would gladly dispose of it to any
foreign government, the more distant
the better. 1 REFER, gentlemen he
explained to the interested crowd, ito
my wife. Time.
so you are at your old tricks, are
you?n said detective, as he arrested
three card monte man. Yes; but
it was necessity that drove me to it. :"
Necessity" II didn't have a dollar.
| went to a church fair last night and
got beat out of every cent | had in the
world. ."-Merchan Traveller.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-06-08

will have better apple crop this season
than for many years.
WHITE CAPS demolished saloon at
Leipsic.
A TuREE.YEAR- OLD child was burned to
death at Columbus.
LEEToNIA will have a water works sys-
tenn supplied from a standpipe at cost of
$36 900.
RUssELvILLE voted on the 9th inst. to
tax itself for natural gas purposes.
MATAMoRAs has the largest town mar
shall in tho State. He is six feet seven
inches and weighs 250 pounds. His name
is w. b. Talbot.
CARL RHEEL was seriously injured by
machinery at Dayton.
A NEW Il, 100 canal boat has been
launched at Akron.
SANDusKY Odd Fellows are building a
new templs
CHAIRMAN CALVIN s.. BRIoE has been
cl cted member of the Grand Army post
of Lima.
A GIRL named Crow was married by u
preacher named Gosling, in Jackson
County, the other day.
A GUARD In the Ohio penitent tiary was
murderously assaulted by prisoner
named May.
The Marietta Improvement Company,
with a capital STOCK of $50 OOO Is going to
reclaim land In that city.
PAUL DoRAN and Wm McGushon were
nrre sted at Sandusky, charged with rob-
bing freight cars on the c., =. & G. rail-
road. Some of the stolen property was
found In their possession.
A MIDNIGHT courtship was interrupted
near Mt. Vernon by the appearance OF a
masked robber, who presented revolver
at the head of Henry Parker and demand
cd his money. Henry had one dollar, al
tho robber got 1t.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-06-08

"A celebrated barrister, retired
from practice, was one day asked his
sincere opinion Of the law. "Why,
the fact is" rejoined he, Iii any man
were to claim the coat upon my back,
and threaten my refusal with law
suit, he should certainly have 1t, lest
In defending my coat, l should lose my
waistcoat also. .
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-04-08

: The confession OF Ellison Hatfield,
one Of the leaders Of the famous Hat
held'McOoy leud' which is published in
TINS mornings lSFELLIaEScER' Is inter
esang' All the more SO because 1t Is the
voluntary statement OF a man whose
hands ARE red with the blood OF muir
dered people, and who knewthat States
evidence would not save him from pun
lshment' his story confirms all that
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-04-08


The dazzling frauds committed against
the customs by the French smugglers in
New York point a moral. The moral is
old, for smuggling on a large and daring
scale is not new. twill do good to point
1t again and again until 1t shall be we'll
worked into the public understanding.
Congress may pass the most stringent
laws to provide revenue or to protect
home industries, and unless the laws be
enforced all the legislative effort goes for
nauyht. The goods Struggled by the
Allards were supposed to be well looked
after by the customs officers, but the in.
genuity Of the smugglers, aided, perhaps,
by the officers, knocked in the head the
acts Of Congress.
Free Traders have been pointing to
the duties on those very goods, and the
industries which they were supposed to
protect, and asking why 1t was that the
country was still flooded with the i'm
ported competing articles. Tho Free
Trade answer has been that the Ameri-
can commodities were so inferior in de-
sign and workmanship that they had no
chance to compete. So long as foreign
wares may BIO smuggledto supply the de-
mand for commodities Of any given
kind, It is idle To look for such progress
in home manufacture asshall drive those
wares out OF tho country, or even give
the American goods q fair chance in COM
petition.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-04-08
west virginia a. Washington.

As soon as II was known that there
was to DO a change In the National Adj
ADMINISTRATION, the INTELLiGBNcER tookthe
liberty OF submitting to the Republicans
Of West virginians some suggestions
looking TO q fair distribution Of the good
things and the preservation Of that party
harmony which had remained intact
through the four years when there was
nothing TO distribute among Republl'
cans.
One Of these suggestions was that the
party, through its acknowledged leaders
should confer with regard TO the dis
tribution Of tho offices, agree upon the
places 10 be asked and the men for
whom they should 10 asked, and with
this comfortable understanding go Boz
fore tho President 1t was not sup.
posed that q programme Of this KIND
could DO carried out 10 the letter In re
spect Of every aspiranti but tho lNrEtli'
oEScER was surs that every step In tho
proposed direction would DO a party
gain, H.,
last week BY Republicans from West
Virginia was In the line Of this 9ug'
ReStlon. Tho Conteroes, 90 far az they
Won't yielded something all around, and
The result, though dl%SappointinE TO some
good men, will satisfy the party The
same mode Of procedure could DO car
fied farther with excellent effect
There are aSpirAnts for offices not 10
Gated within the slAte-iorelsn posts
and posts at home The very best
course for the asplrantsa and for the party