davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-03-09
A REMARKABLE MAN.
How a Georgian Quilt Drinking, SmOkin
Chewing and CursInR.

=
Chewing and CursIng.
Citizen Gam, OF Athens, Ga, the
head of one of the leading firms there,
recently gave a reporters brief history
of life remarkable in some repects.
Forty years ago this last Christmas" ("
said Mr.. Gam, 81 got on spree.
decided it should be my last and 1t
was. But didn't quit drinking. One
day in the June following / went into
barroom. / didn't have but $15 to
my name. Icalled for drink, gave a
boy who was tending the bar 80 gold
piece to get five cents out of it, and he
accused me OF wanting to beat him out
of a drink, but finally changed the
money. My horse was standing about
twenty steps from the door, and be-
tween the barroom and the horse
made resolve to never drink another
drop. got on the horse, came on by
where my sweetheart lived, stole her,
came on toward Athens, married her
at small church near Princeton,
spent my remaining $l5 for some
clothes for her, for the old folks would
not let her have any thing. and COM
menced life without any thing. We
both went to work with the intention
to have some OF this worlds goods,
and every Christmas found us with
more and more. i chewed tobacco
twenty years, and one morning laid a
piece on the mantel with the determin-
alton to quit, and for over thirty years
have never tasted the stuff. l never
bought cigar in my life. and never
played a game OF cards in my life.
Twelve years ago l quit cursipg. !
was most proiane, and one night my
wife told me that ought to quit it.
] told her not to say another word
about it, and from that day TO this an
oath has never passed my lips- IN.
Y. Sun.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-03-09
SENTIMENT IN GIFTS.
A New York Jewrlcr Tells what Thai
Putativc Virtue Amounts To.

"No, we are not selling out, although
some people might suppose we were if
they formed their opinion from the
crowd of ladies in here every after
noon. To speak plainly, our receipts
are unusually small just now, as they
always are after the holidays. These
fair visitors have come to exchange
the precious trinkcts they received
from their many admirers ut Christ
mas time. We had large holiday
trade this year with young business
men who purchased great number of
presents for their wives, sisters or
sweethearts, and we are now cores
pondingly busy exchanging the articles
for others.
1T very often happens that Il young
lady will have more than one beau to
her string. and therefore may receive
several presents of the same kind. If
she is lady of tact she will not hesi-
tate to accept each with due show OF
delight. Then as soon as the holidays
are past she will come around here and
exchange, say, two OF the three dia-
mond bracelets she has received for a
watch and chain, IA necklace or some
thing else.
ut is often the case that lady will
see something she prefers to some one
of her presents, although she may have
only one OF that particular article. She
is willing to pay any slight difference
there may be in the prices of the two
articles, and we try to be accommoda-
ting. 1t is very easy to tell whether
the lady who wishes to make an ex-
change is married or not. II she is
married, and the present is from her
husband, she enters in n businesslike
way and picks out what she wants in
exchange for her husbands selection,
without fear of any one knowing what
she is about In the case of a young
lady whose present is from an admirer
we listen to dozen little excuses, and
are pledged not to say word about ii
to Mr.. So-and-so. And we never do
breathe "A word, for the ladies, bless
them, are our best friends. Jewellers
Waekly
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-03-09
The Duchess and the Doctor.

An old Duchess on one occasion re.
quested DR.. Abernethy to pay profess
sional visit to her house. The doctor
went as requested and was introduced
into the drawing-room, whore the
Duchess, with tears in her eyes, showed
him an ugly little monkey, apparently
in great agony, lying on elegant cush-
ions and almost buried in lovely laces.
The doctor felt thoroughly disgusted
at being called upon to act as a mon,
keys doctor He felt the monkey s
pulse in silence, examined it with at
tention and soon recognized the nature
of its illness, then, perceiving the lady's
grandson in "a corner OF the drawing
room rolling about on the carpet, he
advanced toward the child, examined
him also, felt his pulse. and, returning
TO the Duchess, said TO her in a grave
manner; MADAM, your two sons are
suffering from indigestion. BY drink
ing tea and living on u plain diet they
will soon recover" and, bowing pro-
foundly to the stupefed Duchess. the
DOCTOR retired, avenged. From "Tales
of Physician"
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-03-09
PEARS AND APPLES.
There Is No Reason why Every Body
should Not HIVE Supply of Each.

There Is No Reason why Every Body
Should Not Have n Supply OF Each.
The pear and the apple are the staple
fruits of our zone. Other fruits are
good. but transitory. Strawberries,
gooseberries, blackberries, are very
we'll, but perish in the using. Cher
ries, peaches, plums, belong to a few
brief weeks. They are the butterflies
of fruits. But besides their intrinsic
flavors, the pear and the apple, in one
form or another, last through the year.
The pear is dainty fellow. The ap-
pie is robust and hardy. The pear is a
cultivated gentleman, the apple n
plain. honest citizen. The pear is a
cavalier, the apple is very Puritan.
The pear is Norman, the apple a
Saxon.
The pear is fastidious. II has very
exclusive tastes. 1t disdains vulgar
conditions. 1t has gentlemanly dis
eases-the pear blight being kind OF
apoplexy, resulting from too high con-
dition. The apple is contented and
hardy yeoman, flourishing on all soils,
and upon any fare. The apple is food,
the pear confection. The one is a
necessity, and the other luxury. The
apple is the prose and the pear the
poetry of the orchard. They should
go together. They are congenjous,
and though the apple is the common
peoples fruit, and the pear the gentle
mans dainty, there is no reason why
every citizen should not have both of
them. For dainty Duchesse or Bose
languishes as sweetly upon plain
farmers tongue as if he were a prince.
Did you ever take pear supperP
This is the way to do it: Gather in
your friends at evening. Let tea be
taken and mere souvenir of bread.
Then, while all are fresh, unstutfed
and unsated, bring in your pears, seven
or eight kinds. Let one man carve.
Take the probably poorest first; and
yet, your poorest must be good. Give
to each guest section of the same
pear. Eat together from the one fruit
and be united and magnetized by the
spiritual essence of the one fruit. So
on from fruit to fruit and from kind to
kind. Thus each one, without cloying
or over-fulness, will have tasted of
each kind and of every specimen.
Pears thus discriminatingly and un-
selfshly eaten, will prove to be not the
forbidden fruit!-N. Y. Ledger.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-03-09
THE To5ACCC HABIT.
well-Known United States Senators Who
Are Addicted to 1t.

Well-Known United States Senators Who
Are Addicted to 1t.
Senator Coke, of Texas, has conceded
to taste what he never would to style.
He smokes cigarettes. Lest somebody
might say he was cultivating fashiona-
BILE habits he enjoys cigarettes only in
the privacy of his own room.
Senator Eustis smokes cigarettes al.
most exclusively. They are of the finest
Turkish tobacco, and each cigarette Ia
provided with holder. They are ex-
pensive, but those Senator Coke affects
are the plainest and cheapest of Ameri.
can make-five cents box.
Senator Kenna has his cigars made
in West Virginia of a select quality of
the natural leaf. he prefers them to
imported cigars.
Senator MCPHERSON chcws cigars in
preference to tobacco. He takes a
cigar from his pocket, bites off COM
Portable chew, and replaces the re-
mainder for future chewing. He does
not chew any other kind of tobacco.
Senator German chews in delicate
and sparing manner. He prefers tho
natural tobacco without favoring or
sweetening, and pinches off for chew
n small piece not larger than a vest
button.
Senator Edmunds chews strong tobac-
co, and is rarely ever without supply
In his mouth; as matter of fact he
does not chew it, but simply keeps it
securely resting in his mouth.
Senator Daniel keeps an unlighted
cigar in his mouth almost continually.
Ho never lights it, but chews vigorous
ly on the end, and when he is busy
writing IL small stream of amber-colored
saliva steals down from each side of
his mouth. In his seat on the floor he
munches at his unlighted cigar.
Senator Vance chews as he does
every thing, with earnest vigor. He
likes the plain North Carolina leaf best,
but can chew any thing called tobacco.
Senator Hampton takes his tobacco
in the shape OF snuff, or rather he let's
it dry thoroughly, pulverizes it with
his fingers, and then snuffs It,
When Senator Cockrell gets his feet
into pair of carpet slippers and puts
on his working coat he takes down one
OF those cob pipes, of which hundreds
of thousands are turned out by Mis-
souri, factory, and looks the intense
satisfaction he feels. The Senator
would not exchange his cob pipe and
Charlton County leaf for the finest
thing in Washington tobacconist's
sto,k. Washington Letter.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-03-09
GRIMES AGAINST SUFFRAGE.
Dr. GLADDEN. Argues That They Should BE
Punishable by Disfranc hisement.

Dr. GLADDEN. Argues That They should Bs
| Punishable by Disfran chisement.
The complete disfranchisement oi
men who have been guilty of the lesser
offenses would not be just or expedient
Such men ought to have space for
reformation. The first term of their
Acknowledgement might well be brief.
Conviction for drunkenness or dis
orderly conduct might exclude from
the polls for one year. More serious
misdcmcanors might entail a longer
Acknowledgement. And it would be
well to give large discretion to the
authorities who grant pardons, and
who regulate indeterminate sentences,
that they may restore the suffrage
more speedily to those whose conduct
In prison has been exceptionally good.
But we should make sure that every
conviction under the criminal law work
some temporary forfeiture of political
privilege. We should make it plain to
the dullest mind that good conduct is
the Indispensable condition of the pos
session of the franchise; that those
who wish to take part ia making the
laws must refrain from violating the
laws.
Some ofTenses should be followed, as
now, by perpetual disfranchisement.
That all "felonies" should incur this
penalty is not at all clear; many OF
those committed to our prisons for
crimes of passion may, under proper
care, be reformed and rendered useful
members of the State. That door should
by no means be forever closed against
them, nor should the opening OF it be
left to executive clemency. The felon's S
record, in prison, should determine
whether he may, after a space, be re-
stored to full political privileges. But
there is one class of crimes for which
the laws of many of our States do not
entail any political disabilities, which
ought to be punished everywhere by
the final forfeiture of political power.
These are the crimes against the suf-
frage itself-bribery both in the briber
and the bribed, fraudulent voting. the
falsifying of returns, and the like. No
man convicted of one of these crimes
ought ever to be permitted to vote
again. Some OF the States, with Il
moral obtuseness on this point which is
positively grotesque, provide that man
caught in attempting II crime of this
nature shall lose his vote 'in that cleo
toni" What a sense of the sacredness
OF the suffrage the men must have had
who could frame into statute such a
grinning jibe as that! The man who
strikes with poisoned dagger at the
very heart of the Republic-he shall
not be allowed to vote '.in that cleo
tion!" Could the force of anti-climaX
and of priori theory-go farther?
Such an offender deserves TO be BAN
ished and forbidden ever again TO set
foot upon our soil under penalty O.
death; certainly the lightest punish
ment that can with justice be meteG
out to him is perpetual exclusion from
the franchise. DIR. GLADDEN., in Cent
ury.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-03-09
FRESH FASHION NOTES.
Hints and Suggestions on Themes Pleas
Ing to Lady Readers.

| Hints ana SUGGESTIONS Tncmos GlsHA
ing to Lady Readers.
A few muffs OF velvet or dress ma
tcrial have broad band Of ducks
breast down the middle.
The violin gown is pretty, simple
and very much worn. It consists o
an accordion-plaited skirt, full oil
tucked waist, finished by broad sash
with high pulled sleeves.
A full skirt of peagreen crepe,
looped at irregular intervals over 8
petticoat of dark-green velvet, velvet
Directoire coat with full crepe bust
will make becoming gown for q
blonde.
Quite new arrangement for the boa
is to pin one end to the dress front,
draw it around the neck and carry il
down to the left side of the waist quite
under the arm. Pin here again and
let this one end hang.
Patent leather has been largely sup
planted by the kid and satin shoes.
This is hardly cause for grief, as the
constant contraction and expansion OF
the varnish by heat and cold rendered
them disagreeable for constant wear.
Fans, or rather the originality of
their makers, have relaxed sadly OF
late. The same lace, gauzes and rib
bons are used again and again with
the fewest variations. Shaded ostrich
feathers can not be called new, but
seem to turn the scale in the balance
of popularity.
The English nainsooks and wool
challis have soft quality and are
delicately tinted, but the new Ameri-
can stamped China silks and cheap
challis have failed to catch the we'll
modulated tones of color. graceful de-
signs and fine texture common to the
imported material.
A pink silk gown finished recently
for a pretty young woman, just out, was
trimmed about the top of the bodice
and down broad side-panel of the
skirt with curling delicate green ostrich
plumcs. Long feathers decorated the
waist, while short overlapping tips
were used upon the skirt.
Ginghams bid fair to open the spring
season with flourish. Already many
shop windows are piled high with bolts
OF stripes and plaids in every shade.
Some of these will make charming
house and street dress, digniiied by a
touch Of velvet, or, even better, made
up with extreme simplicity.
The new spring muffs and boas are
of short, stiff, little cock plumes. The
muff is small and the boa very short.
This latter admits only of a loop about
the neck and two short ends to hang.
AS yet only gray ones have been seen
with the gray costumes, but any color
may be obtained.
just now all far-seeing women are
shopping with the same vigor they
ever displayed in the fall. But this
time ii is all in preparation for the
coming summer. Counters displaying
piles of light-colored goods surmounted
by placard announcing the name and
price is sure to attract purchasers.
The square toe, used with so much
comfort in an ordinary walking-shoe,
is now being slowly engrafted on the
high-hceled satin and kid slipper. 1t
is now no longer considered necessary
to compress the tenderest part of the
foot to gain fine point, and those who
wear the square toes find greater ease
and pleasure in dancing. Y. World.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-03-09
GREAT FOSSIL MAMMALS.
The Order In Which They Are Placed by
French Scientific journal.

IreuCh
Some of the largest mammals known
to have existed on the earth are ranked
in the order of their size as follows
l. Dnother.um giganteum of the up
per miocene of Attica. From the size
of tibia or shin-bone that has been
found, it is estimated that this animal
must have attained height of 14I feet
at the shoulders and 16 feet at the top
of the head. 2. EtephaS an7yuus OF
the quarternary of the environs OF
Paris. A humerus OF this animal indi-
Gates that it must have reached 13 feet
at the shoulders and l4l at the head.
3. Eiephas meridionatis of the upper
pliocene of Durfort. The largest entire
skeleton of fossil mammal thus far
known is one of this animal in the
Paris Museum. 1t is 12l feet in height
at the shoulder bones, 13 3-4 at the top
of the head. and II feet in length from
the end OF the tusks to the back OF the
pelvis. 4. MaSt0dOn Americanus of
the quarternary of the United States.
5. ELcphas primtGenjus (the mann
moth) OF the quarternary of Siberia,
and the present elephants. The skele-
ton of the famous mammoth whose en-
tire carcass was found on the Lena in
1899 is III feet in height to the top OF
the head. 1t Is not likely, is added,
that man has seen the dinotherium, but
it is certain that he has come face to
face with the Eiephas antiquus and the
mammoth. In order to fight them he
had but stone axes, and yet he con-
auered them. This allows us to believe
hat our ancestors OF quarternary times
aad spirit ard courage. LA Nature
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-03-09
WHAT THOU DoEsT, DO WELL.
OHIO


II thou hast but one song TO sing.
A little song, may be,
o, sing 1t then the best thou canst,
All blithe and earnestly
Think not it is not worth thy while
To let thy voice be heard;
Some weary one may hear thy song
with JOY for every word.
II thou hast but task to dc,
Perchance a little one.
., slight 1t not because 'tis small.
But let IL be well done.
1t may be one will see thy work,
And, reading thy desire,
Say: He who doeth small things we'll
Is worthy, come up higher"
II thou hast but one hour to spend,
Don't think IL matters naught
How It be spent but spend it we'll
And give thy earnest thought
To its demands, for time alone
The story e'er can tell
or wasted time, so count thy hours
And spend thy moments well.
Who doeth small things well will prove
10 higher trusts most true;
Therefore be sure thou doest well
Whate'er thou hast to do.
And II thou hast a task 20 do,
Or just a tale to tell.
Remember. If It's worth thy time.
'Tis worth thy doing well.
Annie Wall, in Farm and Fireside.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-03-09
GOOD LIVESTOCK,
a Plan Which Enables Even Poor Farmers
to Improve Their Herds.


tn Improve Their Herds.
To breeders of improved stock the
idea of keeping common or scrub stock
seems like foolishness. But there are
thousands of cattle to-day being kept
after the conditions allowing such cat
tie to be raised at a profit have passed
away never to return. There is no
longer any excuse for this state of af-
fairs, and / am glad to believe that
most of our farmers realize it, and as
soon as they see better way will not
be slow to adopt it. The way is opon
to every man, though he may not be
the owner of Il single animal. Now
good male animals are kept in nearly
every neighborhood for service, and if
not it is an easy matter to club together
and buy one, My own experience in
this business has been satisfactory.
Six of us united and bought bull.
Our herds increased rapidly, and part
of us bought out the other shares and
added another animal. In a similar
manner about 25 of us bought a horse
for $1,000, and the investment
has proven highly satisfactory, and
the large correspondence l have
had concerning our horse company
convinces me that others are moving
in the same way. As imported horses
are expensive. brief summary of our
experience may be desirable, as our
plan has stood the test of experience
and no shares can be bought at par.
The company was formed on the plan
Of having, as near as might be, share
for each mare owned, and that each
owner should be expected to subscribe
for as many shares as he had mares.
The par value of the shares is S25.
Proper officers were elected and a con-
stitution and bylaws adopted. Service
fees for insurance were fixed, as / re-
member them, as follows: For each
share owned, $12,50; for members be-
yond shares, $15; for outsiders service
fee, $18. AS demand for service was
great. it was decreed that outside serv-
ice should not be rendered when il de-
prived shareholders of service. Thus
rhdTcholucrS BoD ioWcT PriccS duu
service assured. Our company is SO
popular that we could readily increase
our capital stock if we desired to do SO.
Our constitution and bylaws meet
every case liable to rise. and are so ad-
iusted that whether the member owns
one or six mares, or any other number,
the burden falls just in proportion to
what he owns. We now have our horse
paid for and will begin to get dividends
next spring, and hardly man feels
poorer than il he had not made the in
vestment, aside from the interest he
has in the horse. George Van Hoten,
in Farm and Home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Billus were enjoying
AN a
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-03-09

"A dying wife at Coyington owned
lp that she had gone through her hus-
bands pockets regularly for twenty
seven years, and thai she had purloined
about 5000 from him 10 use as pin
money.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-03-09

BE gentle with the COW, and sit
down TO her so that you can place your
head against her flank and control the
movement o: her leg with your left
arm, In case she stops around Or Ii ia-
clined TO kick.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-08-31

Where q Past tts | WheIe ti Waves tI Where q Rifted U Groups q
 4944@el Es! EEdgss 2 %! . Where tI On the e On tho ' On tho c nd, cd 0loWy M ThcvsN DrO0p q Srttn t So. to |
 \ nave W FuiI CI Thai \
 Meet 9l
 And. -
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1889-09-11

The Water Commissioners held their
regular session last evening. The
weekly pay roll, 1923, was ordered paid
The petition of Patrick Dillon for water
pipes on Jackson street. between
Fourth and Fifth, and on Rodney
street, between Third and Fonrti
streets was granted. City Treas
urer Griffith reported the balance In bank
10 The credit of the department. sos. SIG 90
The following bills were passed John
9. Brison, rs cents; Lawrence Burns
70. 40; Combs Coal and Lumber Com.
pany, 81 SO: Domestic Trade Depart.
ment, 81 Y; Every Evening Printing
Company, 50 3S; c w. Goodinr. IA s5.
John ). Grohe, 1910; Frank Ginelebacb
$oS; "a; Robert Hagan, $18; ]. r.
Hudson & Company, $45.ss; Inter.
Nos Manufacturing Company. 400
jackson q Sharp Company. AZ as
News Publishing Company, SO So. James
N sPherson, 50; Phillips & Kane. ge3 Sc:
Pickles Foundry Company, $37 Ii Henry
Read, 49, 75 William Simmons s70 II
William H. Toner, 49, 43; r. D. Wood &
Co, $441 or Charles Warner Comnanv
$l,Ol416; Wilmington Printing Com,
panv, $36. 25; Henry Nc Kinney S63.
D. Carter & Co, $4,000.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1889-09-11

You ought 60 see my lady paint
On leather, ivory, wood, or china;
He fancy knOweth no RES RANT,
The highly gifted Adelina;
You ought TO see the odes she writes,
The fervid, warm, impassiO ate stanzas,
And note the ardor she delights
To pour into her gay romanzasl
You ought TO hear her then dilate
Upon the ancient Magma Charta;
In animated terms debate
Upon the fame Of Rome or sparta,
You ought 90 read the book she wrote
With such unwonted force and pJwer.
You ought 10 hear my lady quote
From Huxley, Kant and SchOpenhaueri
And yet, 10 praise a learned wife
Is not the purpose Of my ditty;
You know VI all my inward strife,
SO, gentle reader give me pity,
I'm at the mercy Of the cook,
Oh, am tempted oft tO flee her:
My wifef She's on another book,
And nowadays seldom see her.
Munsey's Weekly,