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THE HIGH PRICES PAID EARLY N THE sEAsoN-THE
BERRIES BROUGHT TO wAsHISaToN-wHERK THE
BEST BERRIES GROW AND HOW THEY ARE GATH
ERED-ABouT GAPING THE BERRIES
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AFTER THE STRAWBERRIES.
ABOUT GAPING STRAWBERRIES.

1t is not always pleasant and never an easy
matter to cap Strawberries, and many would
forego the pleasure of eating them rather than
do it. By a very simple method they can be
capped without MASKING the berry or getting
the hands badly stained. Get a pair of ordi-
nary pocket tweezers with broad prongs, which
can be had at any hardware or drug store for
cents, and with them the caps can be easily
extracted by simply holding the berry lightly
in the left hand and plucking the cap with the
tweezers with the right. 1t Is neat and clearly
and leaves the berry in perfect condition.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-05-25
HOME MATTERS.

PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS TO INDUSTRIOUS HOUSE
wIvEs-EvERY-pAY HINTS FOR THE HOUSE
HoID-usEFUL RECIPES AND THINGS WORTH
RENEMBERIya
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-05-25
THE MARYLAND CROP.

The Maryland crop, by which the prices in
Washington are somewhat regulated, will be
enormous. especially in the Anne Arundel sec
ton. These beds produce their finest berries
the latter part of May, and some of the varic-
ties raised in Anne Arundel, Calvert and St.
Mary's counties are said to be equal to any in
the world. This section is not only supplying
baltimore, but is sending train loads to New
York, where they are quoted by wholesale at
less than cents quart, berrio commanding
10 to II cents quart being regarded as extra
fine.
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HOUSEFURNISHINGS.
INSURANCE.

TIVE MUTUAL RESERVE FUND LIFE ASSN OF
NY, has furnished insurance 20 eIghtytwo thous
and members during past eight years, saving them
over sixteen million dollars, by reducig cost below
rates charged by level premium companies JAS o.
WEST. supt,, 1909 st. Nv. LIZ. KNIGHT Ger. Ag't.
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Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-10-24
CalifOrnia's Growth.

Forty years ago the harbor of San
Francisco was filled with a great feet of
shipsthat were lying idly at their anchors.
They had brought cargoes of me,, and
merchandise, but they could find no car
goes to carry away. Many of these ships
never left the port. They were hauled
up to the land, and the hulks furnished
temporary shelter for hundreds of pio-
neers. Today the docks are lined with
a great feet of merchant ships-a larger
number of sailing vessels, probably, than
can be found in any other port in the
Union. These ships are nearly all dis
charging or taking on cargo. There is
hardly an idle ship in this harbor among
seaworthy vessels. Aside from wine,
wool, ores and lumber, there will be a
million tons of wheat for transportation
to foreign markets. The OK teams no
longer plod a weary way across the con-
tinent. But nearly every day train
load of fruit is sent to the Atlantic states,
and these shipments will be rounded up
with the largest citrus crop, save that Of
Florida, ever produced in the United
States. San Francisco Bulletin
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-10-24
A SLAVE BOYS STORY.


Strange vicIssltudes That Led Him from
Central Africa Down the Congo.
A letter from the Congo tells the story
of a slave boy from Central Africa who,
by series of strange vicissitudes, has
recently come into the possession Of Mr..
Holman Bentley. the well known mis-
sionary, and is now living on the river
near the west coast The boys name is
Kayembe. and he lived near the Congo.
about 1000 miles from its mouth. A
while ago a large party Of. Arabs from
Nyangwe and their Manyema slaves at
tackled the village djoining that in which
Kayembe lived. They heard the shoot
ing and saw the marauders seizing wo-
men and children. Then they fled into
the Jungle, and the Arabs, coming over
to the deserted town, burned it to the
ground.
1t was three days before the villagers
ventured to return to their ruined
homes All was quiet then, and they
spent the days tilling their fields around
the place where they had lived. At
night they slept in the jungle, as they
feared a night attack. They were not
without fear for moment, but they
still fingered around their fields because
their food came from them.
Ono day, after they had led this
wretched life for about three months, a
gang of slave hunters suddenly rushed
upon the village, beating their drums
and firing guns. Kayembe's father
threw spear at one Of tho slavers,
wounding him in the shoulder. The
wounded man then shot the father dead
and cut off his hand as a trophy. Kay
embe dashed into the jungle with sew
eral men after him. They caught him,
and he was dragged away with other
prisoners to neighboring villages, where
the slavers killed the men and captured
many women. The little children whom
many of the women carried in their
arms were snatched away from them
and thrown into the bushes there to
perish miserably. Some Of them. how
ever, were struck dead or wers stunned
by a blow from q stick. Others who
attempted to follow their mothers were
struck with switches and driven back.
In about ten days the savers, with
their captives, reached Nyangwc, and
the poor people were soon scattered fal
and wide, their owners taking them ir
all directions. Kayembe's master tool
him 800 miles down the Congo. where he
sold him to Zanzibari. Soon after the
boy had an attack of dysentcrv. and hi
new master, thinking he wo;ild die, solo
him for song to a Housoa soldier i'll thu
service of the Congo state. The soldier
took him 900 miles further down th'
river, to Leopoldville, where Sir Francis
de Winton set the boy free and put hin
in charge of the Baptist mission.
He has learned the language of th'
lower Congo, and Mr.. Bentley write
that he is bright and interesting boy
But the tragic events in his old hom
are craven in his memory, He wants tt
return to his own country when it is saf
to do so, and the missionaries have prom
ised him that when they are able t
start station far up the Congo, wher
he came from, he shall go there wit
them.-London Telegram,
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-10-24
A Magnetic Well.

The artesian well in Cordele, Ia, is a
wonder. After going down into the
earth for about 450 feet, the contractors
struck what was seemingly strata rock
Of quicksand. Leaving the pipes all
in the well over night, they found the
next morning that all the piping was
heavily charged with magnetism. A
small nail laid on the side of the pipe
will not fall off. The needle on a sur
veyor's compass is attracted by this cur
rent at least ten feet from the mouth of
the well. The magnetic current is SO
strong that the power of the engine, to-
gether with all the prizes they have been
able to put on the piping, will not draw
it from the Chicago Herald.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-10-24
The Old Commodore.

Commodore Vanderbilt made $780,
100000, beginning with no money and
very little education. He could write
his name, and that was about the extent
Of his scholastic requirements. His
name, which was good for any amount
on check, was not muchto look at. He
could not pronounce the letter v, and
always called himself Vanderbilt. A
new clerk at the postoffice greatly an
noyed him by looking for his letters
under the WIS. "Don't look among the
WIS; look among the Wees" said the
millionaire AT the age of so the COM
modore was a match for the whole street.
He opened all his own letters, dictated
his answers on the margin; spent an hour
in transacting business involving many
millions, and then went to his stables.
He was very proud Of his horses, and
liked to lead the road--and be generally
did. Exchange.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-10-24
pranl, from All the Glasses,

An eye witness at Spa relates as fol-
lows: During his stay at the Kurhaus
the shah one day wanted to take some
refreshment, and member of his suite
ordered glass Of punch la Romaine.
The waiter, who had probably received
similar orders from some of the other
guests, though of inferior rank, appeared
before Nasr-ed-Din with tray contain
ing dozen glasses of the beverage. The
shah, smiling, took glass, drank half
of the contents. and then took sip out
of each of the other eleven glasses, SO
that the waiter could notno hand them
round to the rest of the company. His
majesty thus tried to make it plain to
the waiter that shah is not to be placed
on level with ordinary mortals in the
matter of ving.-Dusseldorfer An.
zeiger
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-10-24
Inside of the Melon Was a Snake.

"Last week / purchased some water
melons from a countryman and sent
them home. After / had eaten all the
melons but one, and having an appetite
that demanded more, placed this one
on the table and cut it. Imagine my
surprise, if you can, when I found that
there was no heart to the melon, but it
had a smooth opening on each side. By
placing the two halves together could
see that the space was made by some
thing round. l began to look around to
try to discover what could have made
the place, when right under my nose,
on the table, lay small snake. Of what
species was it? / don't know. 1t was Of
a light green color, about sixteen inches
long, and had a horned head. l never
saw or heard of one like it before"
"How can you account for it getting
into the melon?" was asked.
"Can't do it, The rind of the melon
was perfect, and it could not have
crawled through it. The nearest can
guess at it is this: 1t must have been a
very small snake when the melon was in
bloom, and when it developed into q
small melon the snake went into it,
Athens (Ga.) Chronicle.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-10-24
sb. Po,,pea tn. Question.

Judge Burr performed marriage GER
emony Of rather remarkable charac-
ter. The groom was Horace Warner,
aged 81 years. and the bride Mrs. Annie
Brown, a widow Of IS. The bride has
been living with her daughter and SON.
in-law, John Gibbons, on farm in Dako-
ia county, and the groom has been em-
ployed by Gibbons as Alarm hand. Glib
bons and his mother-in-law, to whom
! the farm belonged, were wont to quar-
rel often and violently, and the widow
reasoned that, II she could get married
again, it would be an easy matter TO run
the farm without Gibbons, and she could
get rid Of him.
She cast her eye about her in search Of
the proper man for future husband. 1t
rested on the young and healthy Horace
Warner She proposed to him secretly
and he accepted. he was delegated to
inform Gibbons of the match, for the
widow, who had known his wrath,
feared to speak. While hitching up a
team of horses to 60 to the timber land
for wood at daylight, young Mr.. Warner
plucked up courage enough to tell his
employer all about it.
Gibbons few into a rage and threat,
ened to shoot Warner if he did not give
up the idea of marriage with the widow,
The whole conversation was overheard
by Mrs Brown, and when Gibbons haG
done swearing vengeance and gone away
she slipped up to the side of her intended
and suggested that Warner, instead o.
driving to the woods, should drive to thu
city and she would como with him
Mounted ON u farm wagon rugged fol
hauling wood, he in his overalls and sh,
in gingham gown, they eloped. They
had no trouble in getting license, anC
were man and wife thirty minutes afte
their arrival. A few hours of shopping
and gazing at the city sights sufficed TO
their honeymoon, and they went back tt
the farm prepared to face the wrath o
the son-in-law and his wife.-St. Pau
Cor. st. Louis Republic.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-10-24
Natural Gas.

Natural gas as fuel has been in use
about fifteen years. There are now en-
ployed i'll its transmission for fuel pur-
poses 27,350 miles of pipe mains. In
Pittsburg alone there are 500 miles, and
the consumption of gas there represents
an annual consumption of 1000, 900 tons
of coal. The head of Pittsburg gas and
oil firm said recently, during a discus
sion Of this question: Eastern people
are still afraid that natural gas will play
out. So far there is no indication of it,
though when we first commenced to use
it in Pittsburg four or five years ago
that is, using it generally-there were
many people who did not look for it to
last more than six months or a year.
Now that it has been in general use for
several years and the supply keeps right
up, there is not much apprehension at
home, but meet it everywhere outside.
The science of natural gas is not fully
understood yet, and no one can tell how
long it will last. t."-Exchange.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-10-24
A Prophecy About Ives.

Talking of Ives recalls to me the first
time I ever saw him to know him. He
and I were riding on Broadway car,
bound up town, and were vis-a-vis. It
was about $50 p. m. on a spring even
ing. He was divinity student sort Of
looking young fellow, with his spectacles
and side whiskers. l had been told that
he was the "rising sun" in Wall street,
and my informant ina loud whisper con-
tinued his remarks about his being the
man who was likely to enable the boys
to get even with Jay Gould, and also
that he would make some Of the shrewd
ones remember that they had not cut
their eye teeth before they met him.
My friends predictions have been par
TALLY verified. New York Star.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-10-24
Cutting Down Expenses.

The czar has been cutting down family
expenses at a great rate lately. The
grand dukes and grand duchesses who
have lost third of their incomes under
the new dispensation are in an awful
fake about it. Poverty stares them in
the face. They will be forced to keep
less establishments, to drop less fortunes
atcards, and to forego the joy Of strew-
ing emeralds and diamonds at the feet
of favorite ballet dancers and prima
donnas. 1t is going to be very hard
winter in Russia's toploftiest social cir
cles, but the czar had to economic in
state expenses in order to keep the army
of Nihilists at bay. 1t is expensive work
preventing assassination. Boston Her
aid
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-10-24
WHAT THE GOOSE BONE SAYS.
II WIN Bs an Open winter. 10 There's Any
Tr.sh in the Bones Story.

II WIN Bs an Open winter. 10 There's Any
Tr=th in the Bones Story.
Henry Stillman. of Woodstock, is the
goose bone prophet Of eastern Connecti-
cut. He gets his bone from a goose that
is Matched in May, and when Henry
Stillman is bending over his goose bone
TO read the future each fall all Windham
county is hushed, and it hearkens to the
prophecy. Virgins and De Voc, and
even Uncle Daboll, of Groton, who has
been getting out ''almanacks" yearly for
the past 1T years. may do very well
fumbling with the weather during the
rest of the year, but when the first fall
wind comes piping over the hills, and
the "frost is on the punkin," then Henry
Stillman sits down with the goose bone,
and something happens that is "tolsrabr
sartin."
Mr.. Stillman consulted the bone last
week, and his prediction has been pub
lished orally all over the eastern end of
the state. Prediction is weak, narrow
word to apply to the proclamation, for
Mr.. Stillman doesn't predict; he deter
mines. 1t is going to be an open winter,
he says, and "that settles it" says Wind
ham county.
The magic bone, hanging by the side
| of Mr.. Stillman's kitchen chimney, and
| by which he ciphers out the season,
shows row of dots around its shank,
and those dots announce what the tenn
perature is going to be. The darker the
spots the colder the weather is the read
ing of the bone. Then there are circular
marks which divide the bone into the
three winter months, December occupy
ing the space between the first partitions,
January the next apartment and Febru-
airy the remaining one. Mild, regular
weather will prevail in all the months,
and it will be milder than even that of
last winter. There will be few days on
which running water will freeze. The
coolest weather will be in the latter halt
of January, when there will be some
frosts of considerable severity.
"Near the point of the bone" says the
seer, sis a marked discoloration, indi-
eating that the first day of winter will
give decided intimation of the seasons
change" Christmas will be green one,
but it will be wet and cold. January
will step in warm and sunny, but soor
! it will turn cold, though not very cold
The coolest day will be Jan. 81. There
is going to be a "regler old time JIM
wary thaw," and February will have &
"thawy SPELL too. October will be 6
cold, disagreeable month, with heavy
rains and SHOWS. There will be an early
spring, but February will melt intc
March in disastrous thaw, in which th'
features will be swollen mountain
streams and terrible foods
Faith in the goose bone is invinciblt
in this part of the state, and each yeal
many farmers are wont to take one from
the May goose, and it is dried and hung
in the front hall or against the chimney
in the kitchen. There it bangles unit
spring in the next year. The best BON
is taken from goose that has trace o.
wild blood in it's veins. But not ever,
one can read a goose bone as Henr,
Stillman is able to do it.-Willimanti
Conn., Letter.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-10-24

About year ago Joseph Bloedel, a
17-year-old boy, of Huntington, w. Va.
ran away with Agnes Jarvis, aged ii,
S%he daughter of a well-to-do South Caro-
lima farmer. Agnes, being unusually
large for girl of her age, and seeming
older, consequently, than she really was,
had no difficulty in prevailing upon a
minister to unite her in marriage to her
boy lover. Since then they have lived
together happily until last Friday, when
Joseph died very Unexpectedly of ty-
phoid fever, just as his child wife was
giving birth to a girl baby. And SO, be-
fore she is quite 10 years of age, Agnes
Bloedel is wife, mother and widow, all
three. A remarkable occurrence, sure
ly.--Exchange.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-10-24
strIppln: the ocean GreyhouDda.

The recent order Of the British admi-
ralty directing that all the subsidized
merchant steamers intended for use in
time of war shall strip themselves Of
yards has been complied with by all the
subsidized vessels sailing out Of New
York. Not only the British vessels, but
those of other nations, are accepting. the
new order of things, and all appearances
point to the doing away with spars Of all
descriptions aboard the great liners. The
vessels entering the port Of New York
coming under the recent order of the
British admiralty belong to the White
Star, Cunard and Inman lines.-Phila-
delphia Tires.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-10-24
Thrown Into the River by an Elephant.

A Cairo, Ills, special to The Philadel-
phia Press of recent date says: "While
circus was unloading its paraphernalia
from small steamboat and barges at
Metropolis one of the elephants showeda a
great disinclination to go ashore Sew
eral Of the employees seized poles and be-
gan a systematic course of prodding,
which threw the beast into a terrible
rage. His long trunk was suddenly
twisted around the body of his nearest
tormentor, the man was raised high in
the air and cast unceremoniously into
the Ohio river thirty feet distant. The
excitement was great, and by the time
the elephant was ready for another in
stallment the men had all scampered out
of danger. The regular keeper having
come to the rescue the maddened ami
NAL was quieted, and the two marched
ashore without accident. The man was
unhurt and swan ashore"
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-10-24
A Maryland Prodigy.

Maryland, not 10 be outdone by Ger
many, which produced Josef Hofmann,
has brought to the front child which
promises to be as great a marvel as that
infant prodigy. He is a manly little tot
only years of age. His name is Guy
Hoppe. He was born in Emmittsburg,
and inherits his musical talent from both
parents. His special instrument is the
cornet, one of the most difficult instru-
ments upon which child can perform.
His rendition of difficult selections is
marvellous. He has played before the
leading musical critics of Baltimore, and
has been engaged by manager of that
city. New York Star.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-10-24
Smallest BABY in Connecticut.

Christopher G. Andel is the father of
the smallest mite of humanity in New
Haven, and, in all probability, in the
state. His only child is a baby boy that
is II days old, and weighs two pounds
and five ounces. The boy is about eleven
inches long, but very thin. His arm is
about twice as thick as the stem Of a
clay pipe, and his fingers are SO slender
that it is difficult to institute a compari-
son. At birth the babe weighed only
one pound and twelve ounces. Mr.. An
del is contractor at Mallory, Wheeler
& Co.'s lock shop, and is a good sized
man. His wife is below the average
size, but is strong and hearty woman,
Hartford Times.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-10-24
Parted Forever by Bleached Hair.

A young woman who has been visiting
Saratoga for the past three years, and
who has, it is said, an income Of $4,000,
has left that town, leaving about 81 900
worth of debts, SO goes the story, and
one broken heart in the breast of young
man who "clerked it" in Broadway
shop during the past season. It is re-
ported that the cause Of her sudden de-
parture was the fact that he failed to
agree with her regarding the color of her
hair, which is said to have been bleached,
Albany Express.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-10-24
Just Like Human Beings.

A Canadian farmer named Woodtree
went into the stall the other day to feed
his old horse, and was so bitten that his
life is despaired of. He had owned the
horse nineteen years, and had never
known him to even show his teeth be-
fore. Horses are just like human be-
ings in many respects. You may get
along with a man all right for twenty
years, and then get knocked down for
joking him about the color of his nose
Detroit Free Press.