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The Press., 1889-08-29

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 LEADING Cl0tliGrs, AattGrS, FurniSherS. :. Have you seen them? Make haste, or the time is lost!
 STYLISH SUITS, $22.5O, S2O, SIS, $16.5O.
 ARE GOING FOR -... $14.75! $14.15! Entire lines swept into the offer. OUR OFFERS ARE ALWAYS RELIABLE, and when we offer bargains everybody comes. MOTHERS! An ocean of bargains. Cost or loss not thought of. 1 72 cent Shirt waist cut to 33 cts. $1 Shirt Waists (Star Goods) 50 cts. $4 Short Pants Suits Gall wool) $2.45. | You never saw such collection of fine suits at the price. Don't delay. Come at once.
 Mems FurniSh'g Goods. Don't lose sight of the fact that we carry an enormous stock of these goods, and as this is an unloading month you are sure of gen. erous moneys worth.
 Hat Department.
 We will sell you better goods at less prices than those claiming to be solely hat stores We buy these goods by the case and save you at least one profit.
 $2. 50 handmade Stiff Hats at 82!
 We are to make this hat speciality this season, and you will find it to your advantage to look this up.
The Press., 1889-08-29

TSOR SALE-Good Hand Fire Engine and N Hose Carriage. Address c. c. PARKESS, War den, or J. Fl. REED, Clerk of Borough of Stafford Springs. NOR SALE-Second hand Buggy, or would
 I exchange for good horse hay. H.C.WHEELER.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-08-10
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

Tanners little scheme of re-
rating pensioners has made the Ad-
ministration feel very sick. Kansas
City News.
Uncle Sans four new baby
girls are said to be doing finely. They
will doubtless grow rapidly and be a
credit to their sire, as they will nat
urally inherit good constitution
from the old man. St Paul Pioneer
Press.
--"Re-rating" is the name politely
given to the plan OF reducing the sur
plus pursued by Mr. Harrison's PEN
sion Commissioner. 1t would be more
accurate TO call il by simpler name
it is theft. st. Louis Republic.
No President before Harrison
ever so cynically disrcgarded the
pledges of his party, broke his own
promises and repartisauized the pub
lie service as has the pious Mr.. Har-
rison during the four months of his
incumbency. Y. World.
fan uncalled-for insult" is the
way Orator Horr characterizes the
tender of the Consulship TO Valparaiso
to him. There seems to be wide
discrepancy between Orator Horr's es-
innate of himself and other peoples
estimate of him. Boston Herald.
There is of course no reason
why Mr.. Depew should not go to the
Duke of Devonshire's ball, or Mr. Rus
sell Harrison dine with Queen Victoria,
if it pleases them. But the announce
ment reads somewhat oddly in con-
trast with the hatred of every thing
British expressed by Republican parti-
sans during the last campaign. The
journals which have taken so much
delight in abusing Mr.. Lowell and
Mr.. Phelps for "toadying TO the aris-
tocracy" will no doubt preserve dis
Greet silence in this instance. Boston
Post Und. J.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-08-10
ONE oF THE PANELS.

dress. The assembly then sang an ap-
propriate closing hymn by r. w. Thomas
Power, to the tune of America" The eX-
ercises concluded with proclamation by
the Grand Marshal. benediction by the
Grand Chaplain and the Pilgrim chorus by
the band.
Meantime the procession had been form
ing and ut IL o'clock moved over an ex-
tensive route in seven divisions. At the
completion of the parade the officers and
members of the Pilgrim Society, with the
orator, poet and invited guests, took their
places in the great dining tent, and the
feast provided for the occasion was dis
cussed for an hour.
Governor Long, the chairman, arose to
introduce the orator of the day. Con-
gresham Breckenridge. When Mr. Long
had finished speaking Mr.. breckenridge
arose and, amid appreciative applause, de-
livered an eloquent and appropriate ora
tiOn.
John Boyle o'Reilly. the poet of the
occasion, was then introduced and read
his poem, "The Pilgrim Fathers"
After the reading of the poem addresses
were made by Lieutenant-Governor Brack-
EFT ON behalf of the State, Senator George
+. Hoar, Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge, Hon.
William Cogswell Hon. L. A. Morse, Hon.
james G. Blaine and others.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-08-10
Decline of Sheep Husbandry.

In 1888 Republican administration
was in power and the protective tariff
was sin the hands OF it's friends. !"
The Democratic administration did
not come in until 1885. Nevertheless,
the State official reports show that
in 1884 the number OF sheep in Ohio
was but 4.96S, 794, decrease in one
year of 1872. 1876. That loss could not
be chargeable to u democratic
scheme for free wool and free wool
ens," nor to the constructions put by
Democratic Secretaries OF the Treas
ury on the meaning of the worsted
clause in the tariff-a construction, by
the way, which, when made, strictly
followed Republican precedents. 1t
was under the existing tariff, framed
by Republicans, construed by Repub-
licans, administered by Republicans,
and the loss in that one year was more
than five times greater than tho loss
in the two years following the intro
duction OF 1.-The Democratic scheme
for free wool" That is something
for the Ohio sheep.raising farmers to
think about Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-08-10
THE GREAT PROCESSION.
How the Long List of Humanity Ii Ever
Swelling and Swelling.

HOW the Long Llst OF humanity Ii Ever
Swelling and Swelling.
These life insurance tables that show
the expectation the average, the prob
ability of life are very curious and in
teresting. In a million births the males
outnumber the females $4,000, but the
girls don't die so fast, and by the time
they reach so years the females begin
to outnumber the men and outlive
them. Nine thouEand more women
live to see 20 years than men, taking a
million as the basis. Two thousand
more women than men live to see 80.
At 100 years there are 10 men to IA
women. The males start out most nu-
merous and this is right, for it gives
every girl fair chance for lover and
n husband-and it certainly was in
tended by kind Providence that she
should have one. She is entitled to
one, and if / had my way would make
every old bachelor marry or support
one.
If he wouldn't marry according to
nature, | would make him work for
one. In youth and middle age the
males outnumber the females. because
IL takes good number to defend the
country and do the fighting. But the
old women outlive the old men because
they are needed to nurse us and raise
the grandchildren. They have no bad
habits that shorten life. They do not
drink nor chew tobacco, nor smoke,
nor expose themselves. nor eat in q
hurry. They take life calm and Sc
rene. One hundred and twenty-five
thousand children are born every day.
What squalling and rejoicing if we
could hear it all at once! just think
ofit-45, 900, 600 OF brand new human
beings in year. But they don't stay
long-not many Of them. One-fourth of
them die before they are six years old.
While 125,000 are born in day. there
are 100, 900 funerals going on at the
same time
What weeping and wailing, what
grief and sorrow, If we could hear and
see it all! Verify the increase Of the
human family is mixed with great trib-
ulations. Births and deaths, birtha
and deaths with the births only little
ahead. and sometimes when war and
pestilence and famine come, the death
rate is ahead.--Bill Arp. in Atlanta
Constitution.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-08-10
A Substitute for Glass.

We read in our English exchanges
that new translucent substance in
tended as a substitute for glass has
been satisfactorily adopted in some of
the public buildings of London. 1t
possesses such degree of pliancy
that it may be bent backward and for
ward like leather and be subjected to
very considerable stensile strain with
impunity; it is also almost as transient
as glass and of pleasing amber color,
varying in shade from very light
golden to a pale brown. The basis of
the material is web of fine iron wire
with warp and weft threads about one
twelfth inch apart, this being inclosed
like fly in amber in a sheet of trans
lucent varnish of which the base in
linseed oil. There is no resin or gum
in the varnish, and once having be-
come dry it is capable of standing heat
and damp without undergoing any
change, neither hardening nor becom-
ing sticky. Briefly, the manufacture
is accomplished by dipping the sheets
edgewise into deep tanks of varnish
and then allowing the coating which
they thus receive to dry in a warm
atmosphere. 1t requires somewhat
more than dozen of these dips to
bring the sheets to the required degree
of thickness, and when this has been
accomplished the material is stored for
several weeks to thoroughly set.-
Science.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-08-10
AMERICAN CATHOLICS.
A Congress VIII BE Held Mt Baltimore I'm
NoYember Next

BALTIMORE, Md, Aug. Am important
gathering of representative Roman Cath
olics of the United States will be held be-
ginning the 18th Of November next, the
centennial anniversary of the establish
ment of the Roman Catholic hierarchy in
this country through the conservation
of DR.. Carroll as Archbishop of Balti-
more. The call was issued Wednesday.
The congress is intended to demonstrate
the unity of the entire Catholic body in all
that concerns the Catholic faith; the har-
mony, mutual attachment and good will
among the different orders in the church,
the hierarchy, the clergy and the laity;
and it will afford an opportunity to testi-
fly in public manner the loyalty of the
Catholics of the United States to the
laws and the constitution" The project
has the approval OF Cardinal Gibbons and
other Archbishops and Bishops OF the
United States 1t is expected that the
session will last at least two days The
local arrangements are in charge of a com.
mittee of Baltimore gentlemen. All Roman
Catholics are invited to attend, but Gre
dentials will have to be issued by the vari-
Gus Bishops and Archbishops through the
ordinary of the dioceses and archdiocesea
Coincidently with the meeting of the con-
gress will occur the formal opening of tho
Catholic University Of America ut Washing
ton,
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-08-10

ure OF advantage gained by the
American farmer, 1t benefits only
those who grow wool, and every other
farmer pays the tax without even this
small and questionable benefit. This
is only one example of hundreds
which might be mentioned, all OF
which bear heavily upon the farmers.
No doubt. every thoughtful farmer
will be able to give an answer to the
question just now SO widely dis
cussed: Why are farmers poorP il
he will turn his thoughts this way
N. Y. Times.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-08-10
WHY FARMERS ARE POOR.
A Condition of Things Due to Oppressiv,
Tariff Taxation.

|
Tariff Taxation.
Why are farmers poor? This ques-
| tion is exciting much discussion in the
special agricultural journals. Itseems
to be agreed that farmers are poor,
and all the communications published
that are written by leading farmers
all over the States and Territories
unite in this admission. The reason
for the prevailing poverty among half
the population is not so much a cause
of dispute as might be expected
Burdens that fall unequally and that
lie like an incubus upon the agri-
cultural interests are recognized by
all as the chief cause of this distress
among the farmers. Increasing taxes,
chief among which is that which
comes like thief in the night under
cover of false theory and pretense,
but which cuts into the farmers s
pocket at every turn and mulcts him
ruinously every time he makes pur-
chase of any thing needfu in house.
hold business. The onerous tariff
presses upon the farmer like those ex-
actions levied upon agriculture in
such misgoverned countries as Tur-
key, Egypt and India, and which take
every thing from the cultivator of the
soil except bare living, which is left
to him that he may continue to live
and work and be taxed.
One example of how the farmer is
fo Ua1 ha rri, ~ 10 fhn
knowledge of the writer. A manu-
facturer of woolen goods in Scotland
advertised in an English farmers
journal that he would sell his cloths
at retail to farmers or exchange them
for wool. The writer wrote for sam
pies and prices of the goods. They
were OF excellent quality; Scotch
tweeds, cheviots and such cloths us
make the best clothing for farmers,
and were OF pure wool and free from
"shoddy," "mungo" and the waste
trash that is so largely mixed with
wool in ordinary homemade goods.
The prices were SO low as to astonish
an American purchaser; so cents, 624
cents, rs cents and less than one dol
lar yard for the best grades. For
SO. so cloth for full suit of such goods
as cost $40 here could be purchased
But on looking up the list of import
duties it is found that our supposed
paternal Government exacts II tax
upon these cloths of so cents per
pound, and in addition thereto of 35
per cent ad valorem, thus increasing
the cost more than 100 per cent; on
the cheapest of the goods it is 17O per
cent. And this tax is said to be for
the farmers interest and for their pro-
lection.
Let us see how this tax protects the
farmer. 1t is supposed that the i'm
port duty on foreign wool makes up
for this loss to the farmers. In En-
gland the wool of which these goods
is made is worth 22 cents per pound.
In New York it is worth 80 cents.
the difference is the meas
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-08-10
THE SUGAR TRUST,
Tho Only Way to Relieve the People Is
to Put Sugar on the FREQ List

| Tho Only Way to Relieve the People I,
to Put Sugar on the Free List
Sugar raw and refined should go OF
the free list The tax paid last yeal
directly into the Treasury amounted
TO over three-fourths of the actua
value of the enormous quantity o
2,521, ,09S, 473 pounds (two Thousand
five hundred and twenty-one million
pounds). In addition to this tax q
known as the Sugar Trust is this year
taking advantage of the restrictions
imposed on this market by the tariff
laws to eXtort an enormous amount in
private taxation for their own benefit.
The estimated net profits of the re-
tiners' tariff ring last year was ;sl9,-
100000 This year the robbery will
be much heavier The trust claims
that the advance is due to u decreased
supply of raw sugar-to natural laws
of supply and demand. 1t is not worth
while to argue on that point while Il
tax of three-fourths OF the value of all
sugar used in the American market is
paid by the consumer Such II tax so
interferes with the laws of supply and
demand that while it exists it is ab-
surd to talk of high price being due to
natural causes. II with all sugar, re-
fined and raw, on the free list, the
Refiners' Trust can then control the
market, it will be fair trade and no
robbery.
AS a matter of fact no trust can long
control an open market on any staple
article Abolish the sugar tax and the
refners' ring will be abolished with it,
The Republic is heartily in favor of
the abolition of both the tax and the
trust created by the tax. The Repub-
lican party is urged by certain Repub-
ican papers to pursue this course ard
Republican speakers have frequently
attacked the tax as Il tribute paid to
Louisiana. This is untrue, rs the
Louisiana industry is already virtually
ruined under the tax, but even if the
Louisiana planters were highly pros
porous. it would be grossly unjust TO
the people TO keep them so. The tariff
question has assumed u shape whore
the fight, if made at all, must be made
for impartial justice. 1t is plainly
impossible to scale down the present
tariff horizontally. The only method
by which reform is possible is through
abolishing or cutting the tax on one
article at time, and this is the time
for sugar.
The Republican party has control of
both houses OF Congress and the Presi-
dency. 1t will be obliged TO show It's
relations to the sugar trust which now
'has its fingers in every sugar bowl in
the land" Without Government assist.
ance and connivance, the trust could
not practice this eXtortion. Tho tax
should be abolished outright. Put all
grades of sugar on the free list, and
ii the trust can survive by u fair trade
in an open market, let it survive st.
Louis Republic.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-08-10
He Strung the Doughnuts.

A waiter at the Metropolitan Hotel
on Washington street says there is a
rat OF unusual intelligence which haunts
the hotel kitchen, and, when occasion
offers, steals food from the cook. He
says this rat ought to be caught and
exhibited as u marvel at the dime mu-
seums. Several stories of precocity
are told about this rodent, of which the
following is one: "a few evenings
ago." said the waiter, 81 had occasion
to go down into the kitchen. 1t was
dusky when / arrived, and as soon as
my eyes would permit me to get used
to the light saw large rat walk de-
liberately up to a dish OF doughnuts
and begin to take them out one by one
and string them on to his tail, as you
would string beads. When he had put
on five and loaded his tail all up, he
turned around, took the end OF his tail
between his teeth and walked oil as If
he were going to muster. Boston
Globe.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-08-10
THE MONUMENT.

monument at 0:3o when the deai-
catory exercises were carried out by
tho Masonic Grand Lodge according to the
ritual of their order. These exercises were
very interesting. The band rendered u
choral by J. X. Paine. following which the
song of praise written by II. w. Thomas Pow
or, was sung by the Temple quartet Follow
ing song came the address of the president
OF the Pilgrim Society-eX- Governor Long;
the response of the Grand Master, Henry
Endicott; proclamation by the Grand
Marshal, George H. Rhodes; reading of
Scripture selections by Grand Chaplain
Rev. Charles A. skinner; prayer by
the Grand Chaplain; report on the
examination of the monument and liba-
tions of corn and wine by the Junior and
Senior Grand Wardens, respectively The
libation of oil, by Deputy Grand Master
Samuel Wells, was followed by the invo-
cation by the Grand Chaplain. Grand
Master Endicott then delivered an ad-
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-08-10
Thirty Years in a Whale.

There has just been received at the Ma
tional Museum in this city. to be placed
in the fisheries section, an interesting
souvenir of the Arctic whale fisher
which Captain w. }. Collins, the super
intendent of that department, greatly
prizes. 1t is an old fashioned, hand
nodded swivel harpoon, which has
quite story, as CLEANED from the pa
pers accompanying it. While in the
Ohkotsh Sea last summer, the ship
"Cape Horn Pigeon" commanded by
Captain l.. Nathan Rogers, captured a
whale, in the blubber of which was inn
bedded foreign substance. On inves.
broken off at the junction with the
lance, which had been in the whale
over thirty years. On the hinge of the
harpoon was stamped in plain letters
rs. L. D." ship Thomas Dickerson,
and the name of the maker, not so plain,
could also be made out. This was the
first and only messenger from the good
ship Dickerson, which sailed from New
Bedford in 1856, ana was lost the next
year in the very waters whore the crew
of the Cape Horn Pigeon secured the
harpoon thirty-two years later. Wash
ington Letter.
"A Southern authority says that
the watering-place girl wants three
square meals a day and round dances
ut night. t.-Ioston Post
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-08-10
HE WANTED VENGEANCE.
A Noble Husband who Didn't Prevent q
EIOnemant.

A Noble Husband who Didn't Prevent sr
| Elopement.
had been riding in the same seat
with very plain sort of man for the
last twenty miles, when couple
boarded our car at junction, and he
suddenly uttered cuss word as long
as my arm. l saw that he was excited
by their advent, and naturally inquired
| il he knew them.
"Know 'emP Why, that woman is
my wife!' he Kissed.
"Ard who's the mauP"
Its feller she is eloping With"
They haven't seen you yet, and they
are nicely caught. How long ago did
she leaveP"
Three days. I'll have terrible re-
venge."
Are you armedp"
mo, I'm too dangerous when I'm
armed, and | left my revolver home. ~
"Then you'll swoop down on the
man and break him in twoP"
81 orter, suppose, but when begin
to swoop don't know where to stop, l
might damage dozen others. My re-
veuge must be swift and terrible, how
ever"
"How do you propose to dop"
81 dunno. How would you do?"
81 should go for the man without de-
lay"
"Yes, that is the proper way, sup
pose but if get wild who's to hold Inc? /?
once started in to lick a man, broke
loose, and finally cleaned out whole
town meeting. l must take blood,
vengeance, however"
perhaps if you would show your
self the man would stink off. and the
wife return to your bosom,n l sug-
gested.
II dunno, if he would it would be
all right, but suppose he tried to bluff
meP That would make fend of me
in Il moment, and | should probably
kill every body in this car. | must
have blood, however"
Perhaps you could buy him off,"
said, meaning it for n stab.
Yes, might, but guess he'd want
more'n I've got"
well, do you propose to sit here
and let another man walk off with
your wife?"
No! By the canopy of heaven, no!
demand his hearts blood! Let me
think. He's purity solid, isn't hep"
Yes
"Would probably fght?"
81 think so."
Don't look as if he would let 90 for
twelve dollars?"
NO"
well, / must plan for deep and
lasting vengeance. Let me collect my
thoughts
AT that moment the woman turned
and saw him, and she at once arose
and came back to the seat. He looked
at her with open mouth, and she
pointed her finger at him and said:
Thomas jefferson Baily, you open
your yawp on this kyar and I'll make
you wish you'd never been born At
the next stop you git off, or my feller
will make your heels break your neck!
Eve gone and left you, and that's all
there is to it, and 'taint no use to
bother us. Mind, now, or you'll hear
from me!'
And she went back to her seat, and
Thomas Jefferson rode nine miles with
out another word and as stop was
reached he dropped off as humbly as
you please. He stood beside the open
window until the train moved, and |
then whispered to me:
II got off to collect my thoughts.
Look out for me when | turn loose for
Y. Sun.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-08-10
THE SUN HIDDEN.

Tho Orb of Day Unable to Pierce the
sDense Smoke Arising from Forest Fires.
HELENA, M. T., Aug. 2.-The forest fires
show no signs of abatement A great black
cloud hangs over the country west, north
and south of this city. The sun has not
been seen for six days. 1t is believed tim
Der to the amount OF $500,00O has been de-
stroyed The buildings and sidewalks of
Missoula are covered with ashes. The fire
now aging in Boulder canyon has been very
destructive to property. In the neighbor-
hood of Phillipsburg the damage has been
immense. The town of Granite is in immi-
nent danger of being consumed. The
mountains about the city are all on fire.
The heat and smoke Is almost sitting.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-08-10
OUR FOREFATHERS.

A Beautiful Monument Dedicated to the
Mcmory OF the Pilgrims ut Plymouth.
Mass.-A Big Parade-An Grafton by
Congressman Breckenridge, of Kcntuc cIsy
and n Poem by John Boyle O'Roilly.
PLYMOUTH, Mass, Aug. 2-The grand Ma
tional monument in honor of tho Pilgrims
has been dedicated. The sons and ddugh-
ters OF Plymouth were out in great num-
bers, also visitors from far and near. Tho
weather Of the early morning was unpropi.
tious. 1t was necessary to view the parade
from beneath umbrellas The celebration
began at sunrise with saute by Battery A
and the ringing Of bells. The morning
trains brought vast numbers of strangers,
and great throng surrounded tho now
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-08-10

ST. AIBAss, Vt, Aug. 2.-Lightn;ng
struck H. l. sowles' barn at Alburgk
Wednesday, shattering part of the build
ing, killing two horses, injurng other ami
mails, and moro or less prostrating a num-
ber of persons in the vicinity. Tho pc
culiar feature Of the ocurrence Is that there
was no storm within two miles of the spot
where the lightning struck.