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The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-07-26
NOT IN THE BOOKS.
An AiIment for which tho Medical An.
thorItles offered No Remedy.

AL AIIneut WniCn tn0 ueCiCbi hus
thorItles offered No Remedy.
Sir William Temple relates che fol-
lowing anecdote Of Or. Ruiean, the most
cele ebrated man Of the medical profess
sion in his time:
A certain great lady came to him in
much distress about her daughter, and
the physician began the investigation
of the case by asking:
''Why, what ails her?"
''Alas! Doctor" replied the mother,
81 can not tell; but she has lost her
humor, her looks, her stomach. Her
strength consumes every day, so as We
fear she can not live"
"Why do you not marry her?"
"Alas! Doctor that we would fain do,
and have offered her as good match as
ever she could expect"
"Is there no other that you think she
would be content to marry?'
'Ah! doctor, that 10 it that troubles
us; for there is young gentleman we
doubt she loves, that her father and
can never consent to-"
"Why, look You, madam" replied tho
doctor, gravely, being among al his
books in his closet, "theR the case is
this: Your daughter would marry one
man and you would have her marry an-
other. In all my books find no rem
edy for such disease as thia"'--N. Y.
Ledge.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-07-26
What Papa Could Afford.

1t not infrequently happens that ply
sicians base their advice to patients, at
least in part upon the latter's financial
condition. A case In point. A friend
tells me that his daughter consulted a
physician the other day, and the latter,
having satisfied himself as to the diff
Guilty, suggested trip to the Yosemite.
"But my father can not afford that, "
said the young lady. SIN that case,"
the doctor replied, task him to buy you
a pony and a village cart and take long
drive every day" 81 am fraid," said
his patient, shat papa could not afford
that either" The doctor was equal to
the occasion. "Then take good long
ride in an open horse-car every day." he
said; sit will do you just as much good"
My friends daughter is now engaged in
exploring the suburbs by open street.
cars and is improving rapidly under this
"treatment," which costs just ten cents
daily.-Boston Post.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-07-26
THE ORIGINAL ASToR.
His Opinion on Real Estate and His Love
of Literary Society.

His Opinion on Rcal Estate and His Love
of Literary Society.
j. w. Watson, in Frank Leslie's Popu.
lar Monthly, says: Well do remember,
when a boy, hearing John Jacob Astor,
the original of the name, say to my
father by way of advice: "Buy dirt, it
won't run away" On this principle,
which he instilled into his children, he
bought real estate, but never sold. I
heard him once say: 81 will never give
a lease, for, if it is good one, they will
sell it; il bad they will run away and
leave it." / think he hardly knew how
rich he was, Or, il he did, had full
appreciation OF It. once heard him say
to Philip Hone, who was mayor Of the
city of New York, and supposedly
rich man: philip, how much are you
WORTH" The answer was: 80, about
$3.50, 900, Astor." Then the thirty mil
lionaire responded: 81 don't know but
that's asgood as if you were rich man."
Astor was lifelong friend of Irving,
Spalding and Halleck, the latter being
for many years his secretary, and who
often related TO me that he told his en-
ployer that he did not want to be rich,
but that II he had a steady income Of
5000 year he would be satisfied. The
old man, as a grim joke. left the poet
exactly that sum per annum in his will,
which it is pretty we'll known that his
son, William b., increased to COM
Portable sum as longas Fitz-Green lived.
Astor had great liking for old Billy
Reynolds chop house in Thames street,
back Of Trinity church, and would go
there almost daily to enjoy his chop or
steak and his pewter of ale in company
with Fitz-Green Halleck, Irving, or
some literary man, sometimes Poe
though he did not like Poe, and de-
nounced him as quarrelsome, which he
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-07-26
A DANGEROUS WOMAN.
The Extraordinary Experience of a Young
Washington Lady.


Washington Lady.
An experience of rather sensational
character befell a young lady employed
in the Government Printing Office on
Friday evening, an attempt being made
to hypnotic, or mesmerically control
her, by strange woman, who, what
ever else may be true of her, seems to
possess great mesmeric power. After
accosting the young lady, who is the
daughter of Presbyterian Clergyman,
she at once entered upon the subject of
hypnotism, stating that she had just
come from an interview with lady who
had made that branch of mental science
special study, and whose experience
with it had been remarkable and thrill
ing.
Learning that the young lady she was
addressing was going to East Capitol
Hill, she declared she was going to Lin
coin Park herself, and resumed her re-
marks upon hypnotism, asking also
some questions in regard to it.
Miss W, as she may be called, is
not an imaginative young lady of the
emotional school, but plain, practical,
common-sense person, who has made
good use of educational privileges, and
is the orphan daughter of a well-known
Clergyman.
But in spite OF her cool head and good
Judgment, she felt an almost unuttera-
BILE fear of the stranRe-appearing wo-
man, who seemed bent on following her
and determined that she should listen
to ,ier remarks upon the subject. I
Miss W AYERS that she felt
strange but unmistakable mes.Aeric or
electric sensation in her hand and arm
nearest to her chance acquaintance,
nearly as pronounced as that from q
lightly charged galvanic battery. She
could see no policeman, nor, indeed, any
one to whom she could appeal, and she
feared to make an outcry, as her unwel-
come companion kept her right hand in
small travelling bag, the contents of
which could only be surmised
Determined to shake her of she took
a direction nearly opposite to her des-
tination, but the mysterious woman did
the same. Finally they were passing
rustic seat upon which person was
seated with whom Miss W was ac-
quainted, and the latter seated herself
and remained till the hypnotic enthusi-
asst disappeared around the corner.
Miss W. states that during the
time she was in the presence OF the
strange woman she felt obliged to make
the most strenuous mental effort to
resist the wonderful influence which
seemed to emanate from the stranger,
and that she could feel 1t for several
hours.
A person possessing the power that
the strange woman apparently does,
with reckless disregard of its use, or
who chooses to exercise 1t for improper
purposes, is dangerous character to b.
abroad. The incident will no doubt be
OF interest TO specialists in psychological
mysteries and OF some possible interes,
for the police. Washington Post.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-07-26
Loss Of Appetite.

If one has lost his appetite and can
not think Of any thing that he wants to
eat, the best remedy is to stop eating
entirely for twenty-four hours and then
1t is safe to guarantee that he will find
his appetite much improved. While
fasting he must not neglect copious
water drinking to dilute the blood,
which has become sluggish. 1t does
not do any harm to 60 without an occa-
sional meal, for what we eat to-day does
us good tomorrow. 1t requires about
fourteen hours for q meal to be fully
ligested and absorbed.-Dr. j. II. Kel-
OGg.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-07-26

General Lee at one time was very
much bored by Georgia man who had
made frequent personal applications for
furlough. One morning the General
asked his tormentor II he understood
tho position Of d soldier. Tne latter
said he did. He was ordered to assume
It, General Lee then gave the COM
mand, Right about face; forward,
march" AS he never gave the command
ito halt" the Georgian kept on march,
ing until he got tired. He did not get
his furlough.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-07-26
In tho Dlyorce Belt

"And whore is your little brother,
Flossie?"
20. we's been divorced"
"Diyorced?"
"Yes; mammals got him and papa's
got me."-N. Y. Sun.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-07-26

--''How are you and your uncle get.
ting along nowp" "We never speak" ("
"Quarreled?" mo. He's dead. Life.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1890-09-12

'Do YOU know said an old timer at the
Chicago club, "that that cpigrammatic bit
of ndvicc to young men, Go vest so gen
orally attributed to Horace Greeley, was
not original with him: Mol Well, it
wasn't 1t all came about this way: John
T.. Is. Soule was the editor of The Terre
Haute Express back in tho 'Bos, and one
day i'll 81, if remember right, he and
Dick Thompson, afterward secretary Of
war, were conversing in the formers sane
tum. Thompson had just finished advis
ing Soulc to go west and grow up with the
country, and was prnising his talents as Il
writer
"'Why, john he said you could write
an article that would be attributed to Hor-
ace Greeley if you tried.
"'No, couldn't responded Mr. Soule
modestly. I'll bet couldn't
".I'll bet n barrel of flour you can if
you'll promise to try your best, the flour
to go to some deserving poor person.
"'All right I'll try responded Soule
HE did try, writing column editorial
on the subject of discussion-the oppor-
tunities offered to young men by the west.
He started in by saying Horace Greeley
could never have given young man bet
ter advice than that contained in the
words, GO west young man.
"Of course the advice wasn't quoted
from Greeley, merely compared to what
he might have said, but In few weeks
the exchanges began coming into The Ex-
press office with the epigrnm reprinted and
accredited to Greeley almost universally
So wide Il circulation did 1t obtain that at
last The New York Tribune came out ed
itorially, reprinted The Express article.
and said in foot note:
'nrhe expression Of this sentiment has
been attributed to the editor of The Trib-
une enormously. But SO heartily does he
concur in the advice it gives that he in
dorses most heartily the epigrammatic ad-
vice OF The Terre Haute Express, and joins
in saying Go west, young man, go west.'"
Chicago Mail.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1890-09-12
WHOLE NO. 11O5.

San Francisco. Drake was there in 1879,
Cali in 1854, Cermenon in 1895 and Vizcaino
in 1602-3. Then the wonderful Spaniards
Of the Sixteenth century died and left no
worthy SUCCESSORS. There was n paralysis
of two centuries, and, save a few missions
near the coast, the beginning of this cent
ury found California just as Vizcaino left
it. This is all the more remarkable since
Sir Francis Drake had published his rea-
sons for believing there was gold in the
mountains and the Spaniards had explored
all their more eastern territory for that
metal
Soldiers, Franciscan missionaries and
cattle growers contributed Il slowly in
creasing population till 1912. The Rus
Sims left a small colony, and perhaps 5000
Americans located there in four years.
Then came the Mexican war, and Cali
fornia was formally "seized" in January,
1S47. Gold was discovered in 1s4s, and civil
orse,Ail=o.tie,, bses>..s~ >~,,nritv Military
Governor Gen. Riley issued a procIana-
tion for the election of delegates They
met at Monterey Sept. l, lS49 soon framed
state constitution, and when the Thirty
first congress met the following Decem-
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sheep are still important, but another
branch of production now eXcites more in
terest.
1t might almost be said that Californians
woke up one morning and found their state
famous on account OF its fruits. The
Spaniards had planted the grapevine and
left 1t to take care OF itself. It had done
fairly we'll; but from the days of Philip II
to the days Of CASTELAR, the Spaniards were
the last people in the world to apply expe-
rience to the benefit OF others. In the
curly miuing days peaches were accounted
cheap Mt three for q dollar" and wild
grapes at fifty cents II pound. The expert
inent of culture was tried. The result was
discovery as important Us that OF gold.
Every other fruit followed rapidly, and
California was soon prosperous in her
fourth stage-the stage of grapes, wine and
raisins, oranges, lemons and many other
delicate fruits. laundering was of some
Importance from the first, and manufact-
uring is fast arising to Importance, for cot
ton, jute, hemp and ramie can be grown
IN abundance, and wool is already lead
ing product. 1t would be rash to set a
limit to the future growth of such state.
The early history of California is econom-
ically of little importance, but OF great i'll
terest. Cortez conquered Mexico i'll l5l9-2l,
and within dozen years the Spaniards
were building ships at Acapulco Between
1885 and 1850 they explored the entire coast
as far as Cape Mendocino and in 154s or
'43 Don Juan Cabrillo entered the BAY OF
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dlebury, Vt, Jan. 49, 1925, aud at the age
of IS entered college graduating in lS45 as
A. b., and in 1s48 as NJ. y. He began his
professional life i'll Indiana, and later on
was connected with the medical branch of
the colleges Mt Ann Arbor and Kalamazoo,
Mich.
After declining many offers from vari-
Gus points, DR.. Allen was induced by the
late Professor Daniel Brainard to accept
the position at Rush Medical college
which he held up to his death, In his pro-
fession DR.. Allen ranked almost from the
start with the foremost, and he received
many OF its highest honors. The doctor
was a permanent ember of the American
Medical association. and in January, 1859,
was elected president Of the State Medical
society of Michigan. He was also Free
mason Of high standing.
Among the mass Of professional papers
written by DR.. Allen none has perhaps Mt
tracted wider attention than that upon
the Mechanism of Nervous Action" for
which the claim is made that it ante
dates works by Marshall Hall and other
distinguished psychologists. DR.. Allen also
gained large renowu by his frequent con-
nection with cases in the courts involving
questions in medical Jurisprudence.
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men are customers lie cannot see
life'' persistently and rise in his profession
or even retain his place. Said IN old timer
recently; There is no calling in which
personal character tells 50 strongly on Sue
cess rs in ours. Not only docs a reputa-
tation for wildncss destroy the confidence
Of buyer and employer alike, but the phys
ical cxactions of the business absolutely
preclude the dissipation Of vitality by ex-
cesses Of any kind. No Young man can sit
up all night and be i'll a condition to talk
business in the morning to 4 dealer who is
as smart as he is and Il good deal more eN
perienccd." z..a......
Life on the road today is exciting ana
eNactng because OF the immense co1npeti-
ton, and although the facilities forgetting
from place to place are far superior to
what they were half century ago, It is
doubtful if, in his old age, "Uncle Charlie
Lindley has an easier time than in the days
when he was the sample pioneer, and
had no rival to cat his prices or beat him
out of his customers. w. "..".O
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The Theatre Libre in Paris

One of the first plays produced by the
Theatre Libre in Paris was Il Evasion" by
the late Count de Villiers dc fIsle-Adan.
1t is the romantic story of felon who, after
killing his companion in chains, escapes
from the hulks and gains admittance to a
house where he is to murder the master
and his wife. At sight of the newly mar
ried pair and the love they bear each other
the convict is deferred by moral conscious
ness from his criminal purpose. Even
when by stabbing the couple he might
avoid falling into the hands OF those sent
to arrest him, he prefers to be taken and
sent to the gallows for the murder of the
maid servant rather than plunge his knife
into two such loving and Innocent hearts.
The play, intensely thrilling, is as moral in
tone as 1t is artistic in style and treat
ment, and the wonder remains that pro-
duction so high minded should, as 1t was
have been found among rejected pieces in
the waste basket of another manager.
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DEER LODGE, MONTANA SEPTEMBER 12 1890.

explotln this line included the quilting not
only of big New York newspaper, but
also of the country generally, with the har-
rowing account of the devastation wrought
by meteor i'll Texas, which buried nwhole
village and imbetlded ITSELF red hot and
steaming, a distance Of 200 feet in the
earth, while a mass of fiery metal, seventy
feet high, projected above the surface.
Many people think the life of the COM
mercial traveler-and those of the actor and
newspaper man rs WELLS zone contin-
ual round Of pleasure" The drummer
is supposed to be on continuous lark,
selling goods by day and dissipating by
night, and this supposition is responsible
for many jokes in the following vein:
Little Boy-How funny the town will
look tomorrow.
Mother-Why, my son?
Little Boy-l heard papa tell some drum
mers to meet him at the store after dinner
and they would paint the town red.
Naturally the commercial Traveller has
to be ali things to all men-that is if the
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NOTED AS A REVIVALI5T.
Something About Mrs. Maggie Van Cott
and Her Work,

Something. About ,1rs. Maggie Van Cott
and Her Work.
Although for twenty years Mrs. Maggie
Van Cott las been n successful rcrivalist
she has never sought ordination nor any re-
Cognitinn whatever, save such rs came to
her naturally as the result of her work. The
beginning of her lhbors was in 1867, when
series of meetings WAS being held at the
Duane Street Methodist church in New
York city.
Mrs. Van Colt was invited to this meet
ing to sing She had never, up to that
time, heard woman speak in public, save
on the stage Of a theatre. and believed that
no woman of refinement would do SO.
However, inspired as she believes by the
divine spirit, she spoke at this meeting in
{, most imprisoned manner.
Mrs Van Cott says Of this beginning of
her work. at certainly Was the inspiration
of the holy spirit, for had no gift of utter
ancc, was full of tmidity and fear and
had not been fitted in any way for such
effort. ;" @g.=
For nearly two years after this she CON
Quoted nightly meetings while devoting
her days to the requirements OF the busi.
ness which her husbands death had i'm
posed upon her, Two years later the acci-
dent OF insufficient light caused her to en-
ter a pulpit for the first time, From that
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1890-09-12
HAS COOKED FOR KINGS.


An Octogenarian Frenchman with
Long Record rs Chef.
An interesting old man is Victor La
Fort, who at the age of 50 has retired from
business and is living we'll earned life of
ease at Chicago. La Fort has been Il cook
all his days-chef is the distinctive titlein
which he rejoces. He is y nntrc OF
France, and was first introduced to the
mysteries OF the kitchen when but 8 years
of age at the famous Restaurant dc Che
vail i'll Paris. After the close Of his ap-
premiership he served successfully the Due
dc Choiscule. the Due dc Reichstadt {son
Of Napoleon u and the Count st. Hilnire.
His next employer WIS Meredith Calhoun,
wealthy citizen Of Alabama, with whom
La Fort Travelled through many parts of
Europe and Asia, and With whom lie came
to America.
In the United States he held among other
positions that Of chef at Dclmonico's ia
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LI~.-Ntl- VT Mt|-sI isisI. !'N'''
the property of the United States, and be-
fore the close Of 1850 about a quarter of a
million of gold seekers had tried their fort
unes there. AT present the wealth Of the
state exceeds g, GOO, 900, 900, and is increas-
ing at an accelerated rate,
The gold product. rated ut $4,000. 900 in
1s43 and s4o,oooooo i'll 1870, reached s65,ooo,.
900 n 1858; then it WIS announced TINT the
"best days Of placer mining were past, y
and many predicted the decline OF the
state Gold had converted ferba BuenA
village into the most lively and interesting
city in America. Gold had created Sacra-
mento and many other tiourishing places,
md all other enterprises We're subordinated
to gold. II was soon discovered, however,
that the wealth of the mines was but as
cents to the dollars in the soil. The east
wus soon astonishcd to learn that Cali
fon,ia was self supporting in food prod
ucts, and in an incredibly short space OF
time the state, from being the greatest gold
region on earth, passed to the condition OF
the most promising cattle region. Herds
multiplied till the rancheros scarcely knew
their own for multitude, but this indus
trial phase was brief, and soon yielded to
the wheat era.
in all industrial history there is nothing
pletensss Of this transition. One year, as
it now seems, people were reading in the
market reports that Chill -four was $50 per
hundred at Sacramento, and the next that
native -four was but third that price;
and the many jokes about high prices In
California were still current in the comic
almanacs when exporters from New
York were confronted by the rivalry OF
California wheat In Liverpool. There was
short, sharp conflict between cattlemen
and wheat growers; the No Fence party car
ried the day, and within five years Culifor-
ME astonished the world with her enter
pr;ses in farming on n lnrge scale. For
hour after hour the traveller could ride on
valley road, with infenced fields on each
side, the yellow cereals waving on every
hand as far as the sight could pierce. This
was the third stage. Wheat, cattle and
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MISSION OF SAN FRANCISCO Ray, 1887.
"Araban Nights" The state is indeed an
exception among commonwealth. While
its growth in population has not on the
whole been SO rapid as that Of some other
states, its history since 1s4S presents a gen
eral development without parallel. After
being for three centuries an unex plored
and almost unregarded and waste province
OF Spain and Mexico, it suddenly became
the land OF golden promise to millions,
and with Il scarcely perceptible interval,
without the slow process Of territorial
childhood, it sprang at once to prominence
among the states, like Minerva, full orbcd
and armor clad from the brain Of Jupiter
The nd mission of the state. by act of COLI
gress signed Sept. ., 1850, ended the longest
session Of congress held before the war and
with the other compromise measures
adopted at the same date put an end to n
long and furious sectional controversy, and
gave final form to the territorial system of
the United States-n form which continued,
with changes Of boundary only, till most OF
the territories became states, and still CON
tinucs with three Of them The region
which in 1872 contained a scmi-nomadiC
population Of some 10000 Hispano- -Me&i-
cans and perhaps 1900 wild Indians, WAS
in 1850 a state with nearly 100000 white
citizens; ten years later the number wns
819,994 ten years after that 90, 900, and at
present the total falls but little, if any,
below n million and a quarter
Its material growth has been still more
rapid. Iii lSi9-s5 il WAS noted us a remark
able fct If three American vessels arrived
In u scar tn bring Yankee notions and
fcT manufactures from New York and
Boston and carry away hides, and the
y = 7,
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Making Small Screws Easily.

A German matchmaker recommends
taking from the watch another screw,
fitting in the hole in which the new screw
is to be placed to grind that screw to the
form of tap. and to cut its thread in
piece of soft steel. hardening it afterward,
and thus making regular screw plate.
OF course the screw SO altered to tap
must be properly tempered. Instead of
ono screw two must then be made, but the
advantage is in the fact that after time
a collection of screw plates in which nearly
any screw may be easily cut In short time
will be obtained.-Jcwelers' Weekly.