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The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-11-15
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mind my leaving this tin box here until
tomorrow afternoon? The road is
dead blocked with yesterdays snow
drift-an awful time for your poor
motheri to be buried in, Selenda,
wasn't it?-and I've been tele-
graphed to go down to Quarter-Mile
junction to take old Jones' place. He's
frozen his fingers and can't handle the
ticker OF course, I've got to go on
,nuleback, and this hanged box is too
heavy to carry, besides the probability
Of its attracting attention among those
brutes of miners who would cut a mans
throat TO get his tooth-pick!'
"What is it. Abram?" with curious
glance at the battered tin receptacle.
He glanced cautiously around, and
leaning forward so that his lips neariy
approached her ear, whispered the two
monosyllables:
"Gold COIN"
Selenda's eyes sparkled. She lifted
the box and set it softly down again.
''All that?" said she.
IN the whole course of her life she
had never seen so much.
'To be forwarded to Ditson's bank by
c3ptcoSi tA lJAAlhSu hy lCc, obi44 III Il
whisper. But there can't no express
come through so long as the road is
blocked. And the blamed box has got
20 be taken care of somewhere until to-
morrow when Ditson's people will come
for it. Your house is the only one within
n mile of the station, and reckon it'll
he safe here"
.Snlenda smiled.
II shouldn't wonder" said she. NO
body will think of looking for a box of
gold here"
just then the outer door creaked-the
cat came in, carrying miserable half
frozen squirrel between her teeth.
''But, all the same" said Abram,
e --yon'd best keep the doors bolted!'
''Oh! I'll do that" said Selenda.
''I've had no heart to see to any thing.
Hts hardly an hour since they carried
poor mothers corpse ont"
-'What's that standing up in the cor
aer of the bedroom?" asked Ayres, with
a start "A clocl1?"
No" said selenda; "it's coffin.
Father always keeps it there. It's for
Himself He'a carved and polished it at
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-11-15
REGARDING OBESITY.
Females More Predisposed to Grow Fa
Than Their Lessor Halves.

| Females More Predisposed to Grow Fat
Than Their Lessor Halves.
Obesity is not peculiar to any partic-
ular period of life. Age, however, does
undoubtedly exercise considerable in
fuence on the production of fat-for ex-
| ample, children are usually relatively
fatter than adults; and, again, after the
middle period of life fat often accummu-
lates in large quantities. Females are
more predisposed to the occurrence of
obesity than are men, and women who
| have never borne children seem to be
more frequently affected than those
who have had the cares and .anxieties of
bringing up large family. 1t is said
that hereditary tendency exercises a
marked influence in the production of
corpulence, and this statement is in
conformity with our everyday expert
ence. Race, again, is an important ele-
ment in the question; the Americans
are remarkable for their thinness, and
the Arabs are almost destitute Of fat;
while on the other hand Europeans, and
more especially the English and the
Dutch, are proverbial for the fulness Of
their figures. In Hottentot women, fat
accummulates largely in the neighbor-
hood of the posterior region, so as to
form o considerable prominence; and
it is said, we know not with
what truth, that if they fall
down on the side of hill they
experience considerable difficulty in
getting up again. individual popularity
or idiosyncrasy comes in as an import
ant factor in the production of obesity.
Some people are naturally fat, others
lean; some become corpulent on mod
crate diet, others remain thin when
reared in tho midst of plenty and in the
lap of luxury Overlooking will in the
majority of people induce fat, and SO
will the habit OF taking great deal to
drink, though it be only water. Fat
people are not always great eaters, but
they have invariably a great capacity
for imbibing fluids. Farinaceous and
vegetable food are fattening, and sugar
in all forms is an especially powerful
agent in the production of fat. Insugar-
growing countries tho negroes and cattle
employed on the plantations grow re.
marlsably stout while the cane is being
gathered and the sugar extracted. Dur
ing this harvest the saccharine juices
are freely consumed, but when the sea-
son is over, the superabundant fat is
gradually lost. Ease of mind and re.
pose of body are conditions highly ia.
vorable to the formation and accumula.
tion of fat, and SO are insufficient exer.
else and indulgence in much sleep.
Anxiety, frotfulness, and that condition
to which we refer when we say a person
is 'fidgety,' have directly opposite
effect t"-Family Physician.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-11-15

rs welll She sprang from her dismal
couch to bid them welcome-she ran tc
open the door.
Are you alive and we'll, Selenda?"
cried Abram. "Thank Heaven! And
the money? Those brutes have got it,
l suppose?"
"No, they have not got it," said Sc.
lenda, snatching it from the coffin head.
ut is here"
Explanations ensued, and each drew
deep breath of relief
"My girl is heroinep said old
Griffin.
"She is an angel!' cried Aaron.
And then Griffin told Selenda how, re-
| she, his only child, should need him,
he saw the camp-fres lighting up se-
cluded spot, and, led by it's lurid CLEAN,
found the young ticket agent alone and
securely bound lying beside it, and how,
startled by what Ayres told him, they
had both made all haste to the little
cabin whore Selenda kept her solitary
vigil.
"And thank Providence" said the
old man, "she is safe and sound. And
after this nights work shall set more
store by my cherry-wood coffin than
ever"
Selenda was quite composed and
quiet but she never forgot the horrors
of that night. And it was not until
Abram Ayres had married her and
taken her to pretty home in tho
suburbs of San Francisco, where he had
charge of a picturesque gothic railway
station and old Griffin officiated as
fagman, that her eyes lost their fright
ened look and became sweet and serene
again.
For there are moments in every ones
life that cast their lurid shadows over
whole life e-time.-Fireside Companion,
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-11-15
DIMiNUTlVE PONIES.
A Curious Fad That Has Evidently Had 1t
DAY.

The craze for understood ponies, in
our opinion, has had it's day. Except as
curiosities or for the purpose of the
menage, these pigmy animals are prac'
| tically lseless Perhaps the fashion OF
purchasing them at extraordinarily
high prices would not have lasted Sc
long had it been fully understood that
their production was mainly a question
of scanty feeding, either in the case of
the animals themselves or of their
more or less immediate progenitors.
And the same may be said of super.
abundant hair. The experiment can
easily be made by any one curious in
these matters. Subject pony to ex.
treme hardship, leaving it out of doors
in all weathers, and it will develop
hair-and, we may add, hoofs-a accord
ingly. A veritable Shetlander, picked
at random from the various breeds, is
just as likely to be smooth-haired and
clean-limbed as shaggy. 1t all depends
upon the treatment, or at least mainly
so. The conventional Shetland pony
tho animal represented in picture books
namely, about forty to forty-four
inches high, very tight jointed, and with
an impossible growth of hair all over
over him, is just about .as bad type of
this famous race as can we'll be i'm
agined. From his build he is generally
short-winded and thoroughly impractic-
able in his PAGES. A South Mainland
specimen, ON the other hand, long and
rakish in ild-hard-grown, as the say
ing is-and clean-limbed, will far sur
pass his companion in staying power.
One of this hardy breed-in our opinion
the ideal Shetland pony - has been
known to travel from Sumburg to Ler-
wick and back the same day, with
tolerably heavy riding weight, say
fifty-six miles altogether of extremely
hilly road
But, minor, differences apart, there
are certain characteristics - unfailing
tests in their way with the experienced
judge-which go to the make up" of
Shetland as distinguished from an Ice
land or Farce pony-e. g., a certain un-
mistakable breadth of build, set of pas
terms, and, more particularly, an apa-
thetic air which no other breed pos
sesses. Your "Shettle" is not quick
animal is inclined to be sleepy rather
thhh otherwise in his PAGES, and is, as a
rule, disposed to do no more than he can
help in tho way of exertion, though, il
put to it, he evinces great power of en-
durance and will go through an immense
amount OF work for his size. The Iceland
variety is altogether inferior, shorter
lived, narrower in build, and generally
fallacious, but, with all this, he is
quicker, livelier and lacks that air of |
pensive melancholy which haunts every
Shetland pony. Our advice is to avoid |
the inferior animal, however highly rec
His price is. roughly speak
ng, about half that of the Shetlander,
out the money is ill-saved. The aver.
sgo life of an Icelander is about twelve
Or thirteen years, while the other will
i've to twenty-five or even more.-Corn-
ill Magazine.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-11-15
GRIM CONSCIENCE.
Why New York Man "Comes Down "
Whenever Struck by n Beggar.
''That fellows toughl"

THAT fellows a toughl"
"Yes."
He'd hold you up at night"
81 believe it!'
'He'd rob your house!"
81 think he would"
"Then why did you give him quar-.
ter?"
The above conversation occurred bs.
tween two gentlemen standing on tho
corner of Broadway and Fourteenth
street.
"I'll tell you why" said the one who
had promptly HANDED out the piece of
silver when ''struck" for lodging money.
zone day two or three years ago / was
down on Canal street. A tough-looking
chap asked me for money, ana / not
only refused, but threatened to have
him arrested. didn't exactly mean it,
but he thought that / did, and in his
hurry to get away he ran in front of
big truck team, and was knocked down
and run over. The wheels crushed his
hips and he didn't live over ten min.
utes. l helped carry him to the walk,
and I'm telling you straight when say
that he kept his eyes straight on min0
until they closed in death. There was
that in his look which made me feel
contemplate compared TO worm, and
for the next month 1t see. ned to me that
everybody in New York looked upon
me as worse than murderer. That man
died blaming me for his death, and I'd
have given five hundred to see him live.
That's why come down Whenever Pm
struck; and II hadn't but half dollar
on earth 10 divide " II called upon."-.
n. Y. SUN.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-11-15
Kashmir,s Floating Gardens.

Among the most remarkable illustra-
tions Of human energy are certainly the
floating gardens OF Kashmir, In Eastern
Asia, the more SO that they arc the work
OF people OF naturally indolent dis
position. For the creation of these won-
derful gardens an expanse OF water
about nine miles in circumference has
been used, upon which masses OF weeds.
grasses and aquatic plants grow and
have become entangled. These form
the soil, as 1t were, on which the Won
derful system Of tillage is carried on.
Divisions are made in these floating
masses; they are cut nearly level with
the surface Of the water and the edges
banked with mud. Properly prepared
the thin soil, with its weed and water
foundation, Is sown with melons and
cucumbers; tho dampness always being
near the roots, they bear remarkable
crops. Proprietors OF these floating gar
dens often bring fresh, tender cucum-
bers 10 Wadji that measure yard In
lengthl--St Louis Republic
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-11-15
A CABBAGE ROMANCE.

An Englishman Owes His Happiness tC
the Indigestible Vegetable.
Romances and the rose go hand in
hand and the dainty violets and the
modest lily have often opened the port
ais of love, but it has been left to Cali
fornia to produce the only cabbage that
ever led to real romance that wound
up in wedding.
Eighteen months ago, according to
The unquestionable statement of Gran.
Vile w. Alexander, a grain merchant
IN this city, there stood in front of the
door of one of San Francisco's real
estate dealers a cabbage from San Ber-
hardino County weighing ninety-two
pounds, and said to be the largest ever
raised. While this production of Cali
fornia's greatness was on exhibition,
the Oregon express landed from England
two Britons, so fresh from their native
soil that they walked along the dry and
dusty streets with surtouts down to their
ankles and their trousers rolled up to
meet their coats. They were both
bound for Australia. Passing along
they espied the wonderful cabbage.
Both men stopped short. Up went two
single eyeglasses.
''By Jove, old boy, but that's doosed-
fy large cabbage doncherknow.
"Doosedly large" replied the second
surprised son Of Albion, and then they
both went in and inquired of the real
estate man whore it was grown.
Both men were wealthy. Both men
we're cousins, and while unknown to
them the busy hand of fate was now at
work, it only seemed to the curiosity
seekers that in deciding that life would
be misspent unless they saw tho land
upon which this cabbage grew, they
were obeying the idle whim of idle gen.
tlemen in going to San Bernardino to do
80. And so they went.
Englishmen rs a rule are not garru-
ious, and these two friends were no ex-
ceptions. Once in San Bernardino they
we're directed to the farm whore the
-.abLage grew They remained two
weeks. At the end of that time one of
them said to tho rancher:
81 want so much of your land in GER
tain section. Row much is it worth?"
-Four hundred thousand dollars"
1t was paid for. The other friend
said to the rancher:
Your daughter is very beautiful and
love her. l want to make her my
wife"
: Two months sgo there was wedding
1t the ranch. There were number of
people present friends of the family,
and the groom threw aside his taciturn-
'ty long enough at the supper table to
tell how the big cabbage had led to his
Francisco Chronicle.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-11-15
SIR moRELL MACKENZIE.
How the Gteat London Physician utilize
Every Minute OF tho Day,

| How the Geeat London Physician Utiltxe
Every Minute of tho Day.
In is said in the profession that nj
physician al London receives 30 many
patients in his consulting room as Sill
Morell Mackenzie. They come, moi
only from every part of England, bu,
from every part of the world, and The
list includes royalties and mobiles as well
as commoners. In addition to the pa
| tiepts who call, there are the patients
who must be called upon. And then
you may say the work is but begun.
For man whose working days are very
long, Sir Morell is an early riser. He
has breakfasted, read his mail and morn
ing papers, and is out of the house by
nine o'clock. He reserves the hour from
nine to ten for few urgent cases which
require timely morning visit Re-
turning home, he receives patients in
his consulting room for the next four
hours. All who call before two o'clock
may have audience with him. AT two
he lunches with his family. But there
may be dozen persons waiting at that
hour, and they must be attended to
after luncheon. Then he enters his
carriage and makes his round of calls
If he reaches home by 1880 he thinks he
has done we'll After dinner he goes
through his correspondence, and per-
haps finishes scientific article or adds
a chapter to one of his medical works.
He rarely dismisses his secretary before
eleven o'clock, and he is generally at
his own desk until midnight.
was much amused one day when he
showed me his arrangement" as he
calls it. His arrangement" consists OF
two consulting rooms, connected by
narrow passage, closed at each end by
swinging doors. During "ofilce hours"
the reception room is certain to be filled
with patients. The caller, in his order
of arrival, is shown by polite man.
servant into one of the consulting
rooms Presently Sir Morell enters,
greets his patient discusses the ''case,"
and when the discussion is at an end,
touches hidden signal, to which an at
endant responds, as thegreat physician
bows courteously to the departing WIS.,
itor, and then disappears through his
''private exit" to the second consulting
room whore another patient is in wait
ing. When this lease has been dis
posed Of" Sir Morell retreats again to
the first room, to which third visitor
has meanwhile been admitted, and dur
ing this interview fourth caller is
shown to an adjoining apartment.
Thus Sir Morell is never kept in wait
ing, and thus he saves his own time, as
we'll as the time of his patients. Like
pantomime, isn't it?" said he, as he
gave me practical illustration of the
efficiency of his arrangement" 81
am continually appearing and disap-
pearing through doors" But the visit
ing patient sees no evidence of the pres
sure that is always upon the genial
doctor-the arrangement is so perfect,
the polite attendants are so thoroughly
trained, and Sir Morell's manner
is SO cordial and attractive. "This lit
tie passage saves me at least an hour
and half every day." said the famous
physician, with merry twinkle in his
keen brown eyes-Boston Herald.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-11-15
Dindeau, not so easily discouraged,

Dindeau, not so easily discouraged,
opened the bureau drawer, rummaged
through the little chimney cupboard,
oven assembled the ladder to the loft
overhead; but, it is scarcely necessary
to say, without success, and the two
miners went muttering away, casting
scared glances over their shoulders az
the coffin as they did so. Selenda Griffin
must have swooned away, for the pink
light of dawn was irradiating all the
room when more voices reused her from
utter unconsciousness. But it was her
fathers deep, CHEEKY tone this time
and, could it be possible?-A BRAN Ayres
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-11-15
Thirty-Two Offers of marriage.

The guardian OF well-known New
York girl, who was married in London
come few months since to distin.
guished man Of her own nationality,
voucbed for it as positive fact that his
ward had received thirty-two bona fide
offers OF marriage since she entered
society. AS tho young lady is the heir
ess to a large estate it Is but natural to
suppose that some of the aspirants for
her hand were inspired by mercenary
motives. Others, and indeed tho greater
number OF her lovers, were in down
right earnest, wanting the girl for her.
self. But sternly resolute, the destroy
Ing angel kept up steady fire Of re-
fusals till the all-conquering thirty
second came along and won her as his
own. Interested and disinterested as
those lovers may have been, Mrs rs
records Of proposals would make painful
reading to not few Of her sex. 1t
scarcely seems fair that one woman
should have such monopoly OF honors
that are secretly coveted by many who
go through life without ever having
one to register. London Letter.
"A Georgia plantation has pear tree
measuring ten feetin circumference and
over threo feet in diameter.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-11-15
A TERRIBLE RISK.
Low a Girl Saved the Company's
Money by Playing Dead.

S YOUR father
at home, Sell
enda?"
NO" S e l.
e n d 4 Griffin
made answer.
HE didn't ex-
pect to get back
tonight. He
was going to
stay until to-
M o I I O w at
Zenas Bakers. "
"Well, look
here" S a j d
Abranl Ayres,
the tt C k e t
agent, do YOU
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-11-15

Tramp-Thankee, mum, it's fine
dinner you've given me, mum. There's
only one thing more I'd ask in tn
world, an that's smoke.
Kind lady-You can have that, and
Welcome. There is box OF cigars in
the closet, which gave my husband
for Christmas
Tramp (hastily)-Never mind, mum.
I've got pipe, an / saw an old cabbage
down tn road.-N. Y. Weekly.
Customer - "Give me fifty cents
worth Of real Delaware peaches. {"
Broadway shopkeeper--"We're not slic-
ing peaches this season, maam. III
sell yeu whole one Tor si.25."
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-11-15
New Jerseys sunken Forest.

There is sunken forest of white
cedar in New Jersey which has beer
continuously mined" for its valuable
timber for over eighty years. The curl
GUS industry Of digging for the sunken
logs is carried on by the people of Den.
nisville, Cape May County, village
which was brought into existence solely
through tho wealth OF the buried timber
in its vicinity. Over the sunken forest
trees of large size are growing, and In
many instances these are cut away in
order TO get at the moro valuable tim
ber, which lies only three or four feet
below the surface. All the sunken trees
are Of enormous size, two to five times
larger than those now growing oil the
surface. The exact age In which they
lived Is a matter Of curious conjecture.
1t is probable that they were buried
many centuries ago by the action of an
earthquake.-St Louis Republican.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-11-15

The fruit packers Of California will
suffer this year because Of their contracts
to deliver dried and canned fruits for
about one-half the ruling rates. One
large package firm will lose about $780,
900 on prunes alone, while several
smaller ones will probably 90 under.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-11-15

"A Georgia plantation has pear tree
measuring ten feetin circumference and
over threo feet in diameter.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-11-15

-''My husband is great inventor, p
said one woman To another, II hadn't
heard OF it." Eyes: believe he can in
vent more different kinds OF excuses
than any other man alive Washing
ton Post.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1890-04-03
Fire Bells "a ringing.

On last Thursday night about II O'Clock
the fire bells rang out distress upon the
air, which was intensified by the shrill
calls Of "Firer' Fire" "Fire!" In a.
jiffy hundred feet were tripping for the
Rotschild hotel on Main street where the
fire was said to be doing is work.
AS one after another filed into Main
street from the side streets every one
was aslonished to find the town no more
lighted than usual.
great crowd gathered at the hotel
and found that the fire was doing it's
work on the inside of the building. The
upper rooms were filled with smoke so
that no one could stay IN them long
enough to locate the fire. The walls OF
the building were hot and growing hotter
and it was expected that the flames would
burst through the top Of the building.
BY opening windows and doors the
smoke was cleared away, the walls cut
into and water poured behind the plaster
ing until the fire was extinguished.
1t was narrow escape for most of the
business part of town. Furniture and
building were damaged slightly. It was
thought that the fire came from a stove
t1ue.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1890-04-03

We are in receipt of letter from s.
w. VenabIe, Esq. OF Petersburg, Va.
concerning the supplies furnished to the
Confederate army from the great corn
section Of the Roanoke. Among other
things the writer says: A vast amount
of corn was gathered from the R6anok =
Valley for the Con rederate army from 60
to 81, but the efforts of the Quarter
master Department did not extend to
Hamilton, or Harnilton's Ferry, because
the Northern scouts or troops were as
far up the river as Hanilton. The great
estates Of the Smiths, Longs, Deyereaux,
Clarks, Johnsons and host Of others Oh
both sides Of the river furnished a vast
amount of corn ard forage. They did
this voluntarily and promptly at low
prices, and in many instances without
any compensation atall."
And then the writer further adds:
There were no nobler people than the
people who occupied the Roanoke VALLEY
in Virginia and North c .rolina, and none
more useful and devoted to the Con(ed.
crate cause"