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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1889-02-21

Ira B. Cults, one of the pioneers o.
this place, died, ct his residence or
20 Ith Prospect ST., Saturday morning
last, at one o'clock, aged 81 years and
8 months. He had been confined to
his home forlmore than.a year.'preced.
ing his death, but was able most of the
time to be about the house. Fridsy
afternoon he fell into deep slumber
from which he never wakened, the
sleep of time merging into that OF
eternity. His funeral services were
conducted by Rev. e. D. Hol.z, at 2
O'Clock Sunday afternoon, from the
Methodist Church, of which he was a
faithful member.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1889-02-21

We dropped in to CLEwEII's, Mo-
day, and found all bands busy arrang'
irg and placing goods in position fol
his early Spring sale of French and
Domestic Satines. Zephyr Dress Cling
hams, Printed Wool Chall;es, Cam
brics, &c.
Mr.. CLEwELL told US he began Sc
lecting this line of French Satines as
early as last December. The stock
now on exhibition represents the
choice ct styles from Arnold, Constable
d Co., of New York, Gordon, Marsh
. Co., Boston, sharpless Bros. of
Philadelphia.
This sale is rather a new departure,
in its being inaugurated at a time when
ordinarily Spring and Summer Dress
Goods are not supposed to interest the
feminine heart. But CLEwELL says
he thinks this is the time to ''open the
ball"
The new choice things in French
Satines and all this class of goods are
always in limited supply, and the ear
ly purchaser gets the cream. And
then again, there is a growing tendeu-
cy among large class of ladies to buy
Summer goods of this character early,
and have them made up and be ready
for warm weather. 1t struck US that
the supply was ample for all demands,
and the styles were certainly ali that
could be desired. The Zaphyr Cling
hams look ed like flower garden, and
were delightfully."- suggestive of the
balmy days to come.
The French All Wool Chsllies are
in colorings, and we should
judge the styles are very attractive.
One or two, in particular, shown us,
are marvels in the printers art: One
with Pink Carnations on an olive
ground was very beautiful another
with graceful clusters of Fuchias on
delicate cream colored ground-but
why particularizs when all are so
pretty2
The French Satines are simply q
revelation to one uninitiated in the
mysteries of Dry Goods. We, in our
manly innocence, took them for genu
me silks, SO lustrous and beautiful in
,oiorings, charming and dainty in de.
ign.
MIR. CLEwELL Informed us that tb Q
ale Of French Satines increases large
y every season, and has substantially
upercedsd the sale of the old time
summer Silks.
We felt glow of patriotic pride to
ee the advances made. .sby our Ameri,
an manufacturers in the really choice
nd beautiful effects produced In the
inc OF Domestic Satines, shown Gus,
afriy rivaling many of the foreign J
oods. We were informed that the I
American Satines were very greatly !
in, styles and qualities over
ormer productions.
We. left the busy:place, more than
yer impressed that "tbere is nothing
ke Dry Goods, and wishing the Grand I
ale the success the enterprise merits. I
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1889-02-21
For q COED shave go to the Etns
House Barber Shop.

Just received. supply of the Latest
Improved Standard and Domestic
Sewing Machines, in walnut and an
tique oak furniture; are fine. Call and
examine, at t. F. Thompson's. If.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1889-02-21
THE DEMOCRATIC PRESS.
Ravenna Markets.

RAvENNA. THURSDAY. FEB. FL. 1889
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1889-02-21

Monday, when he gave expression to
bis feelings in the enc word, guilty"
The Court allowed him to pay the
costs, $l2.55, aud sentences him to 80
days in the Workhouse. to which in.
stitution he was escorted by Sheriff
Jones Monday evening.
Thursday evening last the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. O, P. Sperra, on East
Main street, was the scene of pleasant
surprise. 1t being the sixth anniver-
sary of their marriage, it was planned
by relatives and friends to apprise
them that the event was remembered
by others besides themselves. Mr..
and Mrs. Sperra, returning from an
evening call, were just about to enter
their home when Mr.. s. thought he
detected voices emanating from within
but attributing it to conversation be-
tween visiting relatives and some of
the neighbors who aad called to ex
change greetings with them, and net
until he had opened the door did he
dream of the real cause. With all his
legal acumen and ability to prevent
unlocked for events, this time "the
other side" completely surprised him,
and before he could say anything won
their case. Fifty guests had assembled
to give expression to their kind regard.
and good wishes for the future. After
an evening Of social pleasure and 9
fine repast, I. T. Siddall, Esq, In b..
half of those assembled, presented
Mr.. and Mrs. Sperra each with a beau
tiful rocking chair. Mr.. 8. responded
by saying that the gifts were accepted
in the spirit offered, and assuring hi
friends that no words could expires
the appreciation of himself and wife o
the assurances Of friendship witnesse,
that evening.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1889-02-21

Louis f. GriswOld and Hattie M
Cooley.
Morice o. Proctor and Jessie M
| Clark.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-04-13
WEST INDIAN PIRATES.
How They Attacked Trading Vessels and
Divided the Booty.

How They Attacked Trading vessels ana
Divided the Booty.
The West Indian pirates were COM
monty known by the name of tilibus-
ters or freebooters, which some author
tiles refuse to trace to free and
''booters," Cor plunderers), and find
it's original in the Flemish wlibot or
flibot, kind of small, swift boat, spe-
cially adapted to practical cruising.
The earliest filibusters were English
and French hunters, who lived by the
chase and by their plundering eXcur-
sions in the sea of the Antilles. In
order to provide themselves with a
common rendezvous and asylum they
made descent in 1880 on the island of
Tortuga, two leagues to the north OF
San Domingo, and captured it. The
settlement which they formed there
increased rapidly in numbers, and was
divided into three distinct clasSes-the
buccaneers, who were engaged in
hunting oxen and boars, the hides of
which they sold when sun-dried, or
buccaned ; the inhabitants, who labOred
at the tillage of the ground, and the
flibusters, who pursued the avocatlon
of pirates. The last-named were
recruited to a great extent from
the French marine, and obtained
their chiefs among the Knights OF
Malta But there were large bodies
of English seamen engaged in the illicit
trade, and some of the most successful
and notorious buccaneering chiefs were
English captains. Their ships, at all
events in the early years of West In
dian piracy, were small and badly
provisioned, and a fotilla of three or
four would not carry more than $50
men. They took up their positions at
the mouths of rivers, lying in wait for
the Spanish trading vessels. When
one appeared they threw out their
graphing irons and carried it by
boarding. Then they repaired to the
nearest island and divided the booty;
or, if their prize proved to be vessel
of importance, armed it as a ship of
war, appointed to it a captain, and,
with the assistance of half a dozen of
the foremost men, arranged a plan of
voyage, and, having settled every
thing, each mans rights, the partition
of prize money, and the extra allow
ances in money or slaves for wounds
received in combat, hung out their
canvas to the wind. In this way the
filibusters gradually (and even rapid
ly) replaced their tiny craft by we'll
found ships of goodly size and equip
ment. -Gentleman's Magazine.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-04-13
ings, and still the Mohammedan child

ings, and still the Mohammedan child
PLAYS with its doll. The women OF
Bagdad believe that doll may event.
ually come to life, and harm their chill
dren, and therefore prevent their use.
The girls, however. play with cushions
and pieces of wood instead, which they
nurse and dress. In Siberia and Arctic
America ivory dolls, clothed in furs, OF
beautiful workmanship, are found; In
Peruvian graves, dressed dolls OF clay
are found; and in Africa the girls play
with wooden or clay figures. In this
way Andree traces numerous ethnolog-
ical phenomena in their distribution
among various peoples, and shows that
the human mind everywhere develops
on the same lines, and that a migra-
ton of inventions must be supposed
only in such cases where its existence
can be proved by historical facts
S0ianoa
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-04-13
DIGGING FOR RU8IES.
The RothschiIds to Work the Gem-Ladt
Hills of Burmah.

The ROthschilds to work the Gem Laden
Hills of Burmah.
1t is reported from London that the
Rothschilds are about to organize
company to work the great ruby mines
of Burmah. This little patch of earth,
having an area of only fifty square
miles, was the only spot in his dOmin-
ions which King Thebaw would never
permit white man to approach. Even
under the rude native system of min
ing Thebaw derived an income Of
800, 600 a year from the mines. After
the fall of Mandalay Indian troops
were sent one hundred miles north of
that capital to take possession of the
ruby district, which has since been
leased to native miners, the income
being used to help defray the cost OF
the British occupancy.
There have been loud complaints
that the government lost chance to
derive large revenue from the mines
when it declined Lord Dufferin's pro-
posal to lease them to syndicate. If
the Rothschilds have now got foot
hold there, it is certain that the new
rulers of Burmah expect to make a
good thing by granting a concession to
the great capitalists.
The possibilities of the ruby mines
of Burmah are yet to be ascertained.
We know that the largest ruby ever
found there was escorted from the
Kings palace to the river, on its way
to Europe, by a military guard, and
that it was sold in London for $780,
600. The gems lie in thin stratum from
ten to thirty feet below the sur
face, and when this earth is lifted in
rude buckets and spread on the ground
myriads of small rubies glisten in the
sun. Most of them are too small to be
of value, and are thrust aside in the
eager search for larger stones. Com
paratively few rubies are found that
in color, size and freedom from flaws
answer all the requirements of first
class gem. But when such stone is
discovered, it is a treasure; and eX-
perts tell us that three-carat ruby OF
the best quality is worth eight to ten
times as much as the finest diamond OF
the same weight Most of the mar
ketable Burmese rubies are imperfect,
but they are among the finest in the
world; indeed, we are told by dealers
that large rubies of perfect color and
fawless are almost unknown.
About twelve hundred labOrers are
now engaged in the ruby district hired
by the well-to-dO villagers around
these gem-laden hills to do the heavy
work of mining. No machinery what
ever is employed, and only the most
primitive methods of mining are seem
Western energy, capital and appli
ances will soon make change there
IN. Y. Sun.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-04-13
AN HONEST WOMAN.
How a Long-Suffering Landlady Punished
Her Kicking BOarderS.

How a Long-Suffering Landlady Punished
Her Kicking BOarders.
II see you are advertising fine
creamery butter at thirty cents, " said
an old woman who entered a Michigan
avenue grocery yesterday. ''Is it but
ter or is it Oleomargarine?"
ITS butter, madame, and the very
best" said the grocer.
Sure it amt OleOmargarine?"
Perfectly so. I'll warrant it.
The woman turned to go, when the
grocer asked:
Wont you try a few pounds?"
mo, | don't want none. l want some
oleomargarine.
Il have that, too" said the dealer,
put up in boxes and labeled"
How much is that pound?"
Eighteen cents.
That won't do. want to pay just
us much for it as butter is worth"
You can do that if you want to; l
amt sayin' a word, am I?" said the
man. But why do you want TOP"
well, you see, I've been givin' my
eoarders the best butter, an they guy
me an call it cleo. l VOW it's butter
an they won't believe me. Now want
to get some oleo an tell EN- what it is.
They'll think lie an eat it for butter.
But / don't want to make a cent out OF
it. I'm an honest woman. Detroit
Free Press.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-04-13
PATHOLOGICAL FACTS.
A Series of Parallels Collected by Well
known Scholar.

A Series of Parallels Collected by Well
Known Scholar.
There are two methods of studying
ethnology-one by studying the growth
of a single culture, the other by COM
pairing isolated phenomena among
great number of tribes. While the
former yields results of historical in
terest, the second is of prime import
ance to the student Of psychology, who
investigates the laws of the growth of
human thought. R. Andree, who has
for long time continued the latter
course Of studies, has collected series
of essays on chronological parallels, !"
most of which have previously been
published in various journals. One of
the most important results OF such
comparisons is the exclusive evidence
that many similar customs must have
originated independently in regions far
apart. Among many other phenomena,
the author traces the occurrence of
masks among various peoples, and
shows that they occur all over the
world, in America as we'll as in Aus
tralia and all parts of the Old World.
1t seems that the games in which our
children delight are well-nigh univer-
sal. The children of the ancient Egypt
ians played tag;they had balls and dolls.
/ Bodies of dolls were made OF wood,
and might be mistaken for modern
fabrics. Undoubtedly they were
dressed by the Egyptian girls, as our
girls nowadays enjoy dressing their
/ dolls. There were even movable ones,
the hands and feet of which could be
moved by means of strings. Others,
made of painted wood, were very i'm
perfect in form, and had strings
beads instead of hair. In the museum
of Leyden there is an ancient toy thai
looks as though it had been bought 4
a Christmas fair. There were figures
of animals with movable mouths, an(
balls of leather Among Greek an(
or clay, and others of wax and ivory
are found. Dolls houses with leaC
furniture; the saving-box with a sli
on top; toy COWS, horses and hogs
were known to the children OF ancien
Rome, as they are to our own. From
this evidence it might be suppose,
that our dolls are descendants" of thu
ancient dolls; but must be remem
bered that there is hardly any peopi'
that does not have them. Their use i
so general, and so natural to tn
child, that even the laws o
Mohammedanism is disregarded b.
the childish desire. The Kora
! forbids representations of human be
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-04-13
SOILS AND FERTILIZERS.
A Subject of Never Ceasing Interest to
Progressive Farmers.

A Subject of Never Ceasing Interest to
Progressive Farmers.
The principal constituents of plant
food are nitrogen, potash and phos-
phoric acid Exhaustion Of soil may
be brought about either by the with
drawal of the ash ingredients con-
tanned in the crops that are annually
taken off without any return being
made, or by washing of the surface
that gradually robs it of its plant food.
Complete exhaustion would require
the removal of all the mineral elements
of plant food, which never occurs. AS
commonly expressed, soil is said to
be exhausted when the crops pro-
duced on it cease to be profitable. This
condition may be brought about by the
removal from it of one single neces-
sary mineral element of plant food, al
though all the others may remain in
abundance. In general the essential
constituents above named, phOsphoric
acid and potash of the mineral ele-
ments, and nitrogen of the organic, are
all that will be required to produce re-
munerative returns from worn soils,
providing judicious rotation of crops
! is observed by which liberal amount
of vegetable matter is returned.
If all the vegetation yearly produced
was allowed to remain and decay and
become plant food, the soil would be
constantly improving in fertility, but
to make cultivation profitable a princi-
pal part of each crop must be annually
removed and used for other purposes.
Hence it becomes necessary to return
to the land mineral substances equiva-
lent to those distracted by the crops,
! otherwise the soil will decrease in
fertility. If we had the power to de-
termine exactly what particular ele-
ment of plant food alone was wanting,
then the use of a single fertilizer might
be sufficient. This, however, can only
be done by chemical analysis of the
soil or experiments, or both cOnjOint-
ly, and so the attempt to supply sim
gle element usually proves failure.
From this cause it is only safe to use
what are called complete fertilizers, or
such as in their composition contain
all the principal elements of plant
food, and as nearly as possible in the
same proportions as they exist in the
plant to be produced.
Again, while chemical analysis will
reveal approximately the ingredients
contained in soil, it fails to show how
much of these elements can be used by
the plant in the process of its growth.
One or more of them may exist in such
state as to be wholly unserviceable
until reduced to soluble form oy the
slow natural process of disintegration
and decomposition, or the application
of some chemical agent that shall pre-
pare them for more immediate useful
ness. In this way the application of
lime to certain soils often proves sur
prisingly beneficial, although the
article itself is not considered strictly
! ! manure.-N. Y. World.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-04-13
HOME AND FARM.

To keep the house free from
moths, never put down carpets till the
floor is thoroughly dry.
If you are careful to keep the fur
rows straight you will do faster and
better blowing.
Old, WORKOUT and dull imple-
ments are the most expensive things
that can be used on the farm. They
cost the user more every year than he
would have to pay for new improved
machinery, and are always source OF
trouble and vexation.
The cherry, says the Rural Cana
dian, is about the only fruit tree which
can be recommended for shade In past
ures along roadsides, as the hardy vari-
cites of cherries are not affected by
the trampling of stock or the passing
of vehicles, which would prove most
injurious to most other fruit trees.
ALI the cereals, even rice, are far
better to be put to cook In boiling
water. This bursts the starch cells at
once, and prevents the raw taste and
stringy dark look which these prepa-
rations frequently have. They should
not be stirred while cooking, as it
breaks the grains and makes them
pasty.-Mother's Magazine.
When fat-irons become rusty,
black them with stove polish and rub
we'll with dry cloth. The yelk of an
egg to wipe them over with has also
been recommended. 1t pays to care
for ones irons. Good work in ironing
can not be done. without good irons.
And it pays to be careful about every
thing in our home, or how can good re-
suits be expected?
Home is the chief school of hui
man nature. Its responsibilities, joys,
sorrows, smiles, tears, hopes and So
licitudes form the chief interests OF
human life. Go where n man may,
home is center to which his heart
turns. The thought of his home nerves
his arm and lightens his toll. For that
his heart yearns when he is affair off.
There he gamers up his best treas
ures. God has ordained for all men
alike the highest earthly happiness in
providing for all the sanctuary OF
home.
"A quaint lesson in econo my was
given by an Englishman of wealth and
position to an American friend. 1t is
related to the method of preserving a
stair-carpet, and to keep it in its en-
tirety as long as possible. She and her
husband had agreed, the one to keep
always to the right in going up and
down, and the other to walk only upon
the left-hand side of the carpet. 1t was
expected that the company would keep
exclusively in the center of the stair
way, and that, as a result of the ar
rangement, the stair-carpet would
grow old with equal rapidity.
Have trees and grass and flowers
around the house to eat up the Stops
and dish-water thrown out and emp
tied here and there on the premises,
and to render harmless all these sub
stances that in their decay might en-
danger peoples health. This plan Is
better than to have drains or sewers as
usually constructed in and near farm
homes. There is a safer way, how
ever, of dealing with house-slops, wash
ing-suds and liquids Of that sort Keel
a barrel on wheels near the kitchen
door as fitting receptacle for all such
substances, and empty its contents
from time to time upon the garden, OIL
meadows. or upon the compost heap
| Amnrican A nricnltI1riSt
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-04-13
Did It Elect Harrison2

The following appeared in a Minnesota
paper: members of the Democratic
party have been using all subterfuges to
account for their overwhelming defeat, and
numerous are the causes alleged.
'tI was talking with several Of the van
ouished on Fourth street the other day,
opposite bill board, and one of the party
exclaimed: eff it had not been for the
closeness of the National Committee in the
expenditure of money, we would have
elected our man. The Republicans adj
yertised their man like a circus" Several
of the party remarked that no advertising
was done except small announcements in
the papers, and a few " hangers" on the
dead walls.
"Hangers?" said our informant. "What
do you call that but a circus poster?" point
ing to twelve-sheet medicine poster on the
bill board, bearing the cuts of Gen. Har-
rison and his grandfather.
eff the Democrats had advertised like
that, Cleveland would have been re-
elected"
The poster referred to was one of the
familiar black and white Log Cabin Sar-
saparilla posters sent out by an enterprising
firm engaged in the manufacture OF old log
cabin home-cures, under the name of War
equally valuable articles includes the ia
nous Log Cabin Sarsaparilla, which is
everywhere recognized as the best OF al
spring medicines and stands without riva
for the cure of all disorders which are the
results of impure blood.
The spring time of the year is the season
when the system needs renovation; the
long winter has caused the blood to become
filed with impurities.
There exists no better means to aid anC
strengthen the system at such an urgent
period than the use of Warmers Log Cabin
Sarsaparilla, which speedily restores the
blood to pure and healthy state, which In
sures health and happiness.
The reputation of the firm putting ou
the medicine is above reproach, and is the
same firm which manufactures Warner:
Safe Cure, the standard remedy for the
cure of all those diseases peculiar to the
| kidneys as well as those which are the re
suits of disease in those organs, and which
has met with such phenomenal success fol
the past ten years.
We understand that the posters referred
to made their appearance in many parts o.
the country sometime prior to the Chicago
| Convention which nominated Gen. Harrison
as a candidate for the Presidency-henc'
the use made of the portraits of the Harrl
sons, father and grandson-was either TIT
result of remarkable political foresight Of
in accordance with the historical assocla
ton of the old Log Cabin with the name o.
Harrison.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-04-13
Trims undertaken for HeaIth's Sake

viii be rendered more beneficial, and the
fatigues of travel counteracted, if the voy-
ager will take along with him Hostetter'
Stomach Bitters, and use that protective
and enabling tonic, nerve invigorant and
appetizer regularly. Impurities in air
and water are neutra1ized by 1t, and 1t is a
stomach, liver and bowels. 1t counteracts
malaria, rheumatism, and tendency to kid
ney and bladder ailments.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-04-13

"A resident of Santa Cruz, Cal, re-
Gently found two-headed snake about
foot long. The heads were distinctly
separate and both were perfect. The
heads were little over an inch in length.
When aroused the snake would throw
a forked tongue out of each head SIM
ultaneously, as if they were one.