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The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-03-16
DEPEW ON TOBACCO.
Why the Railroad Magnate Gave Up the
Use of the Weed.

Obe Oh tHe Weeus
The following remarks are attributed
to Mr.. Chauncey NJ Depew, the Presi-
dent of the New York Central railroad,
and well known for his prominence in
affairs of public interest. His example
and experience are instructive to young
men everywhere:
81 was confirmed smoker, smoking
twenty cigars day, up to about p
dozen years ago, when l gave up the
habit. do not now use tobacco.
Twelve or thirteen years ago l found
myself suffering from Indigestion, with
wakeful fits at night, nervousness and
inability to submit to much mental
strain. 1 was in the city of Albany one
day, and bought a twenty-five cent
Partaga. l was walkingup Broadway,
and at the corner of State street took
the cigar out of my mouth and looked
at it. l had smoked about an inch of
it. A thought struck me. had been
reading German savant's book on the
1 looked at my cigar, and said, you
are responsible for this mischief. l
threw that Partaga into the gutter and
resolved not to smoke again. For six
months suffered the torments of the
damned. / wanted to smoke, but l
resolutely refused. My appetite, mean
while, was growing better, my sleep
was growing sounder, and | could do
more work. After | had worked con-
tinuously one day, late at night 1
thought would try a cigar as sooth
ing influence. lighted cigar; it was
delicious. enjoyed the aroma of the
smoke and the pleasure of the cigar
more than can say. The next day l
smoked four cigars, and the next two.
found that the use of tobacco was af-
fec.ing my physical iystem, and l
stopped it entirely. and have not COM
menced again, and probably never
shall. l.'-Phrenologica journal.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-03-16
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

From the way society women start
on the stage it would appear that there
is always room-at the top.--Puck.
Mrs. Gabb (reading)-"Walkefield
has millionaire who sleeps in the
barn with his horse" Mr.. Gabb (bru-
tally)-"Well, horses don't talk."-
Philadelphia Record.
One of the curiosities never seen
in the dime museums is the man who
is deaf, and knows he is deaf and still
is willing to admit it.-Somerville
journal.
The valentine business was created
to catch soft-heads, and it is the only
day in the year that the old fool and
the moon-struck youth can call their
own.-Detroit Free Press.
Only Half the Job.-Hobbs-.I
understand that Dobsons wife is Ger
man, and that he mastered the German
language to win her." Jones' We'll.
he must have expended all his .ener-
gies on the language, then. He has
never mastered her. r."-Burlington Free
Press.
Daughter, aged 33 Cfacetiously)-
"Papa, / found II dozen gray hairs in
my head this morning and pulled them
out. Don't you give me away, though" \"
Father (sighing heavily)-"Give you
away, Emily' I've abandoned all hope
it."-Chicago Tribune.
1T is asserted that nearly all the
idols now worshiped in India are of
English manufacture. John Bulls
principle would seem to be, "Let me
but make the idols OF a country and l
care not who makes its religion. IN.
Y. Tribune.
The term gentleman horseman, !"
which is now frequently used, is a
curiosity worthy of place in any
museum. There has not yet appeared
such thing as "lady horsewoman, ="
but no one can tell what the future
may bring forth in the way of syntacti-
cal horrors. Chicago News.
-"Your honor" said lawyer to the
judge, ''every man who knows me,
knows that am incapable of lending
myself to u mean cause" "Thats
So" said his opponents 1.-The learned
gentleman never lends himself to a
cause; he always gets cash down."
WHATS the matter, Smithers-
don't your books balance?" mo. the
expense side, thanks to my wife's dress
makers bills, completely outweighs
the income side. tell you, Jones,
marriage isn't exactly a failure, but it
comes mighty near bankruptcy. -
Harper's Bazaar.
--"Come home with me, and we'll
have little game OF drap," said Cob
wigger to his friend. "My wife will
be away" "How do you know she
willP" inquired Merit. Because"
was the convincing reply, "her new
bonnet came from the milliner's last
night, and she's sure to be out all day."
IN. Y. Sun.
Recipes sent "from pure love Of
humanity" (on receipt OF stamps) for
cures of various diseases, generally
contain ingredients not obtainable at
druggists, and the philanthropic be-
slower, in his solicitude for the afiiict-
ed. must himself put up and sell the
bottle OF medicine.-Abby Morton Diaz.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-03-16

never thought of 1t before. It don't seem
right ter be idle nuther when every thing Is
so bright and busy. Them fishes and birds
aint idlin', know. They're worlsin' to get
somethin' to cat. Poor things an they get
caught every time they make a mistake in
their work. an nibble the wrong food. I'll
feed 'em now without tryin' to catch 'em."
For brief instant Jim Poulder forgot his
own lopesomeness In his endenvor to make
the fishes in the stream happy, and he
leaned over tho bright, gurgling brook as
he threw all OF his bait away, and watched
| 1t while IL was eagerly dcYoured by the
creatures of tho water. He iid not know
| that, in this simple act, he was learning one
| Of the greatest lessons OF lifo; that the best
panacea for cnnui is.to turn the mind and
energies towards the helping of others, and
| thereby making the lot of sufferers happier
| and more endurable.
The next morning Jim Poulder was up
bright and early, but his father had antici-
pated him, and had already fed the ami
mails. He could really do nothing before
| breakfast, and he returned TO tho house
little disappointed, though still strong in
the resolution that he had made the pre-
ceding day. He had at last become thor
oughly disgusted with himself, and he
meant to make his apology by actions as
well rs by words.
"Father, want to do my regular work
to-day" he said, boldly as he saw his father
getting ready to leave for the woods. "I'm
tired of idleness."
Mr. Poulder looked Mt his son for brief
| instant, while peculiar CLEAN of satisfac-
tion came into his dark eyes He did not
answer for moment, but let the boy have
time to hide his blushing face from his gaze.
"The other day you were tired of work;
now you're tired of play. Isn't that rather
contradictory, JIM"
"Yes, but 1 didn't know what wanted
then. I rant 10 oork nor. I've got to hev
somethin' ter do. It's too lonesome up hero
to loaf. 1t don't agree with me-"
The eimpulsive boy blurted out the sentences
so forcibly that his father could not doubt
his earnestness, and the two rode away to
the woods together. 1t was a clear sum-
mer's day, and the air was sweet with the
scent of wild mountain flowers. Similar
days had been enjoyed before in the woods,
but none seemed so bright to Jim as this
particular morning, when he chopped the
great trees down by the side of his father
| and forgot all of his complaints in his work.
His two holidays had taught him lesson
that he never forgot, for, after all he con-
cluded that work was the greatest blessing
that is given to young men on this earth.
His love and respect for his father were
also increased by the little incident in his
monotonous life. Instead OF reproving him
in violent words, Mr.. Poulder had taught
him the folly of his wishes by letting him
feel it himself, which, after all, is the keen
est punishment that can be devised. Jim
was bright enough to see the subtlety of
his fathers actions, and he admired the
scheme no less than the originator of it,
George Ethelbert Walsh, in Youths Com
nanion
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-03-16
a QUEER DISEASE.
What n Sceptical Victim Has to Say About
Kleptomaniacs.


"The kleptomaniacs who confine
their attention exclusively to Jewelry
stores are multiplying to an alarming
extent. A few years ago we used to
read about their exploits in dry goods
houses and wonder how it was that
they would be tolerated. We know
now.
II venture the assertion without fear
of contradiction that nearly every re-
tail ieweler in New York has his regu-
lar kleptomania customers. Well
dressed women of respectable appear
ance generally seem TO be afflicted with
this disorder They attend church and
have families. When caught walking
off with some of our property we have
to politely remind them that they have
picked up something by mistake. To
accuse them of theft, would result in
an action for damages in most cases.
Their pastors come to us and plead;
their husbands also put in an appear
ance, and what can we do except with
draw our charges and keep quiet? III
we don't. their friends trade elsewhere
and denounce us as villains.
Why is 1t that men are not subject
to this disease, and if they are, how is
it that they are sent to prison? Posi-
bly, kleptomania attacks the gentle sex
only; but don't see why it should, nor
how it is that there is not some disease
by which the persons afflicted would
have an Unsuitable habit of leaving
their personal property in stores in
stead of taking out ours without paying
for it. ."-Jeweler's Weekly.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-03-16
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

"A mile down the water has q pres
sure of ton to the square inch.
Eminent microscopists find that
genuine honey can be readily distin-
guished from manufactured honey by
the microscope, as the former has few
or no sugar crystals.
Our hot-air blast-furnaces date
from an invention OF Nelson in 1928;
and the same principle, when applied
in the regenerative gas-lamp, results
in more heat and light, with economy
OF fuel
The distribution OF bread after Ii
is bakel now costs the average work.
man in the city as much as it does to
grow the wheat, mill it, barrel it, move
it 1000 miles and convert it into bread,
all put together.
Among the curious facts brought
out at the late Congress on tuberculo-
sis was that persons who have had small
pox are peculiarly liable TO tuberculo-
sis. M. Landouzy stated that for this
reasons persons pitted with smallpox
should never be employed around the
tuberculous wards of hospitals
M. Cow, an Italian savant. has
presented n paper to the French Acad-
emy Of Sciences, in which he claims
for Calico the distinction of having
discovered the microscope as well as
the telescope. He has found u book
printed in 1910 according to which Gal
ileo had already directedh is tube fitted
with lenses to the observation of small
near objects.
"A sea-glass consists OF square
pine box about twenty inches in length
pane of glass about ten by twelve
inches placed in one end, water-tight.
To use it, the glass end is thrust into
the water, and the face of the operator
is placed to the other. By this means,
the wave motion Of the water is over
come. and a great depth readily seen.
A London jeweler recommends dia-
mond cutting and polishing as an ex-
cellent employment for women, saying
that he believes any woman or girl
with quick intelligence could learn to
polish diamond Every fairly in six
months" He says the qualities neces-
sary in this art are "great honesty,
good education, quick intelligence,
great patience and good eyesight.''
The Russian physician and pub
licist, Portugaloff, declares that strych-
nine in subcutaneous injections is an
immediate and infallible remedy for
drunkenness. The craving of the ine-
briate for drink is changed into posi-
tive aversion in day, and after a
treatment of eight or ten days the
patientmay be discharged. Even should
the appetite return months afterward,
the first attempt to resume drinking
will produce such painful and nauseat-
ing sensations that the person will turn
away from the liquor in disgust.
The fact that the elementary sub
stances now number, according to
chemists, full seventy, shows an in
crease within the last fifty years of
nearly one-fourth in the number known.
The size of an atom of oxygen or nitro
gen is said to have a diameter of one
ten-millionth part of centimeter; they
are supposed to be in state of con-
slant motion, at the rate of seventy
miles a minute, and, to make them
visible, the present highest known
magnifying power of the microscope
would have to be increased nearly a
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-03-16
a FAMOUS CAMELLIA.
Ono That Is Thirty Feet High and Bears
Six Thousand blossoms.


On the banks of the Ashley river,
near Charleston, stands Middleton
Place, the home of Arthur Middleton
signer OF the Declaration OF Inde-
pendence. Though the hall was burned
during the last war, gardens, ter
races and hedges remain substan-
TALLY as they were hundred years
ago. This remarkable place is still
widely known, and in the proper sea-
sons rows of azaleas, japonicas, with
all other Southern plants and trees arc
the delight of its many visitors.
Some time ago, Mr.. William Middle
ton went to London, and there met an
old college chum who procured for
him O. ticket to visit the Queens gar
deus, The proud gardener-in-chief
took his visitor all about and finally
stopped before the queenly treasure of
the place. II was under a large glass
case-perhaps five feet high-a beauti-
full camellia shrub in gorgeous bloom.
"Now confess" said the inflated func-
tionary, .'you haven't seen any thing
like this before"
'It is beautiful-very beautiful" an
swered Mr.. Middleton.
"But tell me, you haven't seen any
thing to approach this?"
at is wonderful. 1t is marvellous" !"
But" said the disappointed head
gardener, "you haven't answered my
question. This surpasses any thing of
the kind you have seen, ehP"
al did not answer you," replied the
Southern gentleman, "because was
unwilling to hurt your feelings; but
have in my garden at home, and grow
ing out of doors, camellia thirty feet
high, that has on it six thousand bios
SONS"
Sir" said the gardener, "if that is
so, you are Mr.. Middleton of South
Carolina! | know that bush, 1t was
planted by Maclaux in 17S0"'-Youth' S
COMPANION,
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-03-16
Educate Them Together.

Experience clearly demonstrates that
on the whole there is less danger of
moral contamination in well-managed
school, where rich and poor, high and
low, meet together on II common fra
ternal basis, than in schools founded
on class distinctions; and certainly the
hot-house system of education which
many parents favor has never produced
good results. Your healthy child is
safer amid the rough and tumble ef the
public-school yard than in the society
of the nursery. Sturdy morality is not
secured by seclusion from the world.
nor by continuous application to dry
tones concerning tho haps and mis-
haps of the past ages. Theological
journal.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-03-16
HUMOR IN ElEGY.
Ten Queer Epitaphs on Ten Queer Graves
in Georgia Cemetery.

Ten queer Epitaphs on Zen queer GraVeH
in n Georgia Cemetery.
A cluster of ten graves attract the
eve of every one who visits the grave
yard at Griffin.
These graves and the legend above
them awaken an Irresistible sense of
humor At the heads of the five
larger graves stand plain marble slabs,
each being simply floriated and bear
ing the name and age of my Wife,"
The five little graves have small slabs
of the same design, each bearing the
name of child.
One husband has buried here his five
wives, and one father his five children.
By the side of each mother sleeps her
child, and one husband father buried
them all.
He said the reason he had the same
kind of tombstone placed over them
was his strict sense of impartiality. He
had loved each alike, and no one wife
more than the other. No later Rachel
had supplanted Leah: and he did not
wish to show any partiality in the mat
ter of their graves.
The slabs are so arranged that the
first is over the first wife, then comes
the head stone of the little child-grave;
then the second wife and the second
little child. So that reading them in
proper order you get the following le-
gend and moral:
my wife Mary, aged 25."
Little Simeon"
''My wife Jane, aged 81"
Little Georgia"
"Mv wife Anna, aged e.
Little Birdie"
my wife Maria, aged 2s.'
Little Ruth"
my wife Betsy, agedS0
Little Hope"
He had buried the ''little hope" he
had, but he was still a marrying man,
and after being ''consoled" he began
inquiring among the neighbors 'if
they knew of desirable woman who
wanted to marry" - Atlanta (Ga.)
journal.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-03-16
A NATURE PRAYER.
OHIO

o birds, thnt sing such thankful psalms
Rebuking human fretting.
Teach us YOUR secret OF content,
Your science Of forgetting;
For every life must have its ills,
You too have hours OF sorrow,
Teach US, like you. to lay them by
And sing again tomorrow.
For gems OF darkest jet may lie
Within golden setting,
And no ia wise who understands
The science OF forgetting.
o Palms, that bow before the gale
Until its peaceful ending,
{. Teach us your yielding linked with strength,
Your graceful art OF bending;
For every tree must meet the galo
Each heart encounter sorrow,
Teach us, like you, to bow, that we
May stand erect tomorrow.
For there Is strength in humble grace,
Its wise disciples shielding;
And he is strong who understands
The happy art OF yielding.
Obroolss which laugh oil night, all day,
With voice OF sweet seduction,
Teach us your art OF laughing still
AT every new obstruction
For every life has eddies deep
And rapids lerccly dashing,
Sometimes through gloomy caverns forced,
Sometimes In sunights flashing;
Yet there Is wisdom in your way,
Your laughing waves and wimples,
Teach us your gospel OF content,
The secret OF your dimples.
o trees, that stand in forest ranks.
Tall, strong, erect and slightly.
Your branches arched In noble grace
Your leaflets laughing lightly,
Teach us your firm and quiet strength,
Your secret of extraction
From Shiny darkness in the soil
The grace OF life and action;
For they are rich who understand
The secret Of combining
The gocsi that's hidden deep in earth
With that where suns are shining.
Omyriad forms OF earth and air,
or lake and sea and river,
Which make our landscapes glad and fair
To glorify The Giver;
Teach us to learn the lessons hid
In caoh familiar feature,
The mystery which still perfects
Each low or lofty creature;
For God is good and life Is sweet,
And suns are brightly shining
To glad the gloom and thus rebuke
The folly OF repining.
Each night is followed by the day,
Each storm by fairer weather,
While all the works of nature sing
Their psalms OF joy together.
Then learn. heart, the song OF hope;
Cease, soul, thy thanlSless sorrow;
For though the clouds be dark to-day
The sun will shine tomorrow.
Learn well from bird, and tree, and rill,
The sin of dark resentment
And know the greatest gift of God
Is faith and sweet contentment.
Il. Edgar Jones in Louisville Courier.Jour-
nal.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-03-16
THE ENGLISH GIRL.
An Admirable Example OF Genuine vere
do We're Repose.

| do We're Repose.
suppose no girl in any land, taking
specimens from among the aristocrats,
is so altogether manner-perfect as the
English one. She is an admirable ex-
ample of that repose that, according
| to the Laureate, belongs alone to the
"Vere de We're" Few things rouse
her, fewer things amuse her, nothing
under a heightened and laborious ex-
planation could bring her to see joke.
Yet, at the most trivial, the most ordi-
| nary little quips and cranks OF life,
matters that would hardly raise a
smile in you or me, she will laugh i'm
moderately. But tell her rattling
good story that has sent you half an
hour ago into fits, and has grown so
dear to your soul that you must needs
pour it into the ears of somebody else,
and grief, indeed, will be your portion
as YOU watch her reception of it.
Perhaps this inability to grasp jest
is born of that great determination |
have before this limited at. To range
herself creditably to take high posi-
ton in society, that occupies all her
thoughts, sleeping and waking, to the
exclusion of such frivolous matters as
"a merry tale well told"
To-day she is to be presented to her
sovereign, tomorrow night she will
20 to her first ball. Very few girls
marry in their first season, unless, in
deed, very big fish happens to be
landed, and this is seldom unless the
debutante is one of those rarely lovely
creatures above alluded to. Sweet
seventeen, though very anxious to be
appreciated, and by no means gauche
or shy, is still little incomplete; and
as tho ingenue has been rather played
out by this, she has to wait year or
SO spent in acquiring the subtle charm
that distinguishes her more mature
sisters, before bringing to her feet that
ambition of her soul-a rich parti.-
Minneapolis Tribune.
-
Tha Atlantic liners accOmDliSh
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-03-16
HAVE YOU A MOTHER?
If So, Do All In Your Power to Cheer Her
Declining Years.

Have you a mother? II so, honor
and love her. If she is aged, do all in
your power to cheer her declining
years. Her hair may have bleached.
her eyes may have dimmed, her brow
may contain deep and unsightly fur
rows, her cheeks may be sunken; but
you should never forget the holy love
and tender care she has had for you.
In years gone by she has kissed away
from your cheek the troubled tear; she
has soothed and petted you when all
else appeared against you; she has
watched over and nursed you with Il
tender care known only to mother;
she has sympathized with you in ad-
versity; she has been proud of your
success. You may be despised by all
around you, yet that loving mother
stands as an apologist for all your
shortcomings. With all that disinter-
ested affection, would it not be ungrate-
full in you, If in her declining years
you failed to reciprocate her love and
honor her as your best. tried friend?
We have no respect fora man or woman
who neglects an aged mother. II you
have mother love her, and do all in
your power to make her happy. Chris
tian at Work.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-03-16

In the Berlin Observatory a series
OF astronomical panoramas has been
prepared to explain the phenomena OF
solar eclipses.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-03-16

The Atlantic liners accomplish
their high speed with a consumption
OF one and half to one and three
quarter pounds Of coal per horse power
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-03-16

The corset, though rallied against
by few dress rcformers, will not go.
II has good grip on its wearers. and.
as it were, has come TO stay.-N. o.
Picayune.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-03-16
Tommy Had Plenty of Time.

The little boy drew long breath
and fixed himself for a nap in the end
of the pew.
Tommy" whispered his mother,
"don't go to sleep. The sermon will
soon be over"
IL can't stay awake fifteen minutes
longer, mamma" said Tommy, drows-
lily. "He's just got to In conclusion,
my friends, let me remark. '"-Chicago
Tribune.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-27
ANOTHER PURCHASE MADE.
The Plan of Widening Cherry Alley stiI
Progressing.

The Plan of Widening Cherry Alley Still
Progressing.
Day unto day uttereth speech and some
times night uttereth knowledge respecting
real estate purchases IN the squares between
Liberty, Grant and Smithfeld streets and
Fifth avenue. Several purchases heretofore
made, but not reported, were heard of yester-
day. Among them was a 2O-foot lot belong
ing to Mr.. McEldowney, for which s., 900
was paid. 1t was purchased by Black &
Baird, but the seller was not informed of the
ultimate object, nor does be seem to care.
W. c. McEldowney, ESQ.,, said the price
paid was fair one, but had not the option
been taken on time the property would have
been withdrawn from the market, as it is
highly productive. It is only 60 feet deep
and rented for $40 month.
Madam Rumor says. and she seems to be
pretty we'll supported, that the Sehenley
leaseholds bounded by Cherry and Straw
berry alleys and Grant street have been
sold, supposedly to the same party. or par
ties that are buying property around there,
and it is supposed the leaseholds would not
be purchased unless it we're understood thar
the ground itself can be bought.
In discussion of the many rumors in cir
culation, Hon G. F. McKsnna said: You
knot there is talk of a syndicate buying
Grace Reformed Church at the corner Of
Grant street and Webster avenue