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The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-11-08
THE 'possuM AND THE SAGE.

A A'Possum who had carefully Surveyed
himself in the clear Waters OF Pool
came to the conclusion that Something
ought to be Done. He therefore Hied
himself to u Sage and said:
so, Sage, look at me and tell me What
you Think of my Personal Appearance?
Can ever Become Handsome"
Never"
"Nyill always be as Homely as l am
now?"
"You always will"
"But can't do something's"
"You can. Go into Partnership with
the Hedge-Hog and the Sloth. They
are so Much Homelier than you are that
you will Show off by comparison.
MORAL: Plain Looking Women
adopted this Idea a Hundred years ago.
Detroit Free Press.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-11-08
A Rival of Johnston.

Judge Ito burglary has been proven
that you made burglarious entrance
into jewelry store on Broadway and
forced the safe opon. What defense
have you to offer?
Burglar-Ploase, your nonor, am not
burglar, I'm mind-rrader. 1t was a
combination safe and opened it blind
folded, on hot.
Judge Well, I'll bet you don't open
any moro for good while. Safes are
safer with such men as you in Sina
J Sia..-a'exas Siftipgs
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-11-08
His WIG Was at Home.

''Ten days for vagrancy'"
"But your Honor, ! wasn't committin'
no such crime"
'You arc found guilty OF having no
visible means of support"
"But can't help that, your Honor:
I'm too poor to take me wife travehn'
with me."-Harper's Bazar.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-11-08
AMERICAN FABLES.
Not Quite as Good as Esop's Tales But
just as Practical.
THE FLY AND THE SPIDER

THE FLY AND THE SPIDER.
A Fly who was wandering around the
house Suddenly found himself Stuck on
sheet of Fly-paper, and after Many
vain Exertions to Recover his Liberty
he called to the Spider:
"My Friend, if you do not help me
am Undonen
"But don't you see, My Dear Fellah,
that if rescued you from your peril il
would be only to Eat you?"
MORAL: If you Refuse to pay the Doc
tor you will fall in the hands of the
Lawyer.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-11-08

-"Bridget, this is altogether too
much; you have new follower in the
kitchen every week." "Well, ma'am,
you see tho food in this house is 30 bad
that no one will come here for longer
than week. "--Courrier des Etats- Unia
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-11-08

Mrs. Faddle-"Thomas, II you were
TO meet knight of the Bath in En-
glish society. how would you ad'iess
him?" Mr.. Eaddle-'lt would depend
on whether it was soap or towels that I
wanted. ."-Someryille Journal ---..
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-11-08

The assessment valuation oi
Spokane Falls, WASH, 10 $40, 0eG
above that Of last year.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-04-17

the prolongation of life depends on
the preparation and Finds of food
eaten. Probably majority Of peo-
pie in this country eat three meals a
day: this gives to each person hay
ing that number of meals daily, 1905
in a. year. The difference in the
preparation Of these meals is various
and no doubt in a great majority of
cases, without understanding the in
.fuencer on. health in combining the
articles used. Two different family
cooks prepare dinners from materl-
ais precisely alike: one maybe en-
ioyable, the, other insipid. Some
knowledge of chemistry, to avoid
'unWholesome combinations, is i'm
portant for cooks to understand.
Some people take it for granted that
if what they eat is only satisfying, it
is we'll enough. Those who have the
testimonials Of being good cooks
will have no difficulty in finding en-
ployment at remunerative wages.
The frequency which inquiries are
heard for cooks leads 30 these OBJ
ServatiOrlS.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-04-17
State Historical Society.

a MADISON, April II, 1890.
The State Historical Society Of
Wisconsin has received q life sized
portrait of Hon. Michael Frank, ele-
gantly framed, c, W. Burritt, artist,
presented to the society for art gal
lery by his friends in Kenosha, for
which addition to its collection | am
directed to present the society's
grateful acknowledgements.
Very respectfully, your obedient
servant DANIEL S. DURRIE,
r "a s3a:1 1'<. Librarian.
The undersigned in response to
the above announcement, takes sim
,cere' satisfaction in rexpressing his
thanks to friends for this kind mani
Hesitation Of regard in2 causing his
portraitsto be placed il the historical
gallery, where those of early settlers
.havena place. He only wishes he
felt, assured, this mark of respect is
one he really merits. 54a'a = .,,, :. -
~.E .ss'.si .'"2. .@sf NJ. FRANK.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-04-17
Washington, Letter.

T. Oh. if,t 4
s Senator Sherman's. antitrust BILL.
as reported back fromathe Judiciary
Committee, has been passed BY the
Senate. "a The Judiciary Committee
made a number Of changes in the
bill ia order to make it conform to
the constitutional objections raised
against it, and it issfeared that'in its
present condition It will not hamper
the trusts to any marked extentif it
should become a law: -,a..,
A bill has passed botha House and
Senate appropriat'ing $75,ooo to pay
the money stolen by SiIcott, it haV-
ing been decided by Secretary Win
dom not to appeal from the decision
Of the Court Of Claims making the
Government responsible for 1.-THE
money. = .. ~ =, - +. .r1rra.f
The members of the Three Amer
cas- Congress were much pleased
with the military review here this af-
ternoon, which was gotten up in
their honor. All branches Of the
regular army~and Of theamilitia were
represented and there was also. a
battalion of cadets frolnalthe WASH
ington, High school, J The foreign
ers will Start on their Southern tour
!, >xf IL Il ' ss'i a ~ %a@''7s''>'' ' '''
srA. special committee Of = Thirteen
Republican Senatorsg9ls engaged in
preparing a silver bill at the REQUEST
Of a conference Of Republican eSena-
tors. 3Itr1is believed that the z new
bfllcWilf deal more literally with silver
than any measure now before either
! House or Senate, r4rn 4 <cqssl7a !
sRepFesentativeS BdtterWo'rth' Bill
to, levy a special tax Of Sr,oooaandta
tax 2of 5.cents per Poqnd. and go
cents per busheL upon the sartieles
which are. the subject matter Of safes
under futures and .option" con-
tracts1has been favorably reportedto
the House The. report says the
Bill is intended.to. apply to specula,
tive gambling in fictitious faFlns pro
! duets, land does not injufioasy az
| fleet any legitimate .tiradercor dealer
lin farnspnoducts.af stsfFs 1850 .1FR'f1 7
| The Democrats Of the House are
/ afraid4to attempt to get'aupa a tariff
! bill of their own l, and. have an
! nounced thatsthey will sin1plyopposc
the Mckinley Bill It will become
q lawoalI the. same. Tet4t13ia
An attempt was made this. week tc
suspend the rules ofp the House and
| pass a limited service pension bill. as
a substitute fofathe ) dependent pen:
/ sion billnwhichArecertiy passed the
Senate, .bat it,faiEed owing to- the
Hack of fewswetes make the nee
fessary- two-tlbllEgdssss Representative
Boothmangoh Ohio, has Introduced !
'|'new service pension bill. .aS.. sss- %
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-04-17
Cooking Schools, !.

There is a growing ademand for
family help thaeshas had instruction
in the science of cooking "a ; 'ftis is
accounted foTr from ,t ths fact that q
large proportions of the female help
employed 5is' from foreign lands,
where the methodslof preparing food
for thestab1e differ from our Ameri-
can. So urgent has been the &c. cal. for II
family help, having knowledge OF
the ,modern ways OF cooking that IN
some.,.of the 1eities school Boards
have made provision for instruction
ii the art Of cooking 3. tfortqzk it has
justly, BEEN ailed. zesFhls iis'aa0t.f a
nattefyof small imp oreancesas some
people suppose: heath, eomfoft and
s-1a s Es1.ss 4 5tf 3 @a.4s
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-05-01
ON THE ROAD TO RUIN.
Honest Men Everywhere Are Tired of
Republican Corruption.


The Republican majority of the Sem
ate Of the United States, animated by
the same unreasoning craftsmanship
which has induced the Republican ma
iority in the House to unseat Democrats,
has refused admission to Messrs. Clark
and McGinnis, Democratic Senator's
elect, and has seated Messrs. Sanders
and Power, Republicans. A fair mind
ed man who attentively followed the
controversy might reasonably reach the
conclusion that neither set of Senators
was strictly entitled to seats. A reso-
luton was offered to that effect, but it
was defeated by a strict party vote, and
so the Republicans gain two Senatorial
votes, to be cast by two men who repre-
sent a Democratic State.
The Republicans in both houses thus
acting are cumulating reasons for the
overwhelming defeat of their party
in the Congressional elections to
be held this fall. Mr.. Speaker Reed
is welding the gavel of the National
House for the last time. Such d
tidal wave as swept over the Republican
party in 1874 will ingulf it again. There
is little doubt that the Democratic ma
iority in the next House will not be less
than fifty. The party that promotes the
corrupters of elections, that to gain vot-
ers ignores the claims of Democratic
Territory while admitting new States
with bizarre or dangerous constitutions,
that to stifle the minority departs from
the parliamentary construction which
has obtained unbro1en for a hundred
wears that mockS the demand for re-
duced taxation with vicious tariff legis-
lation proposing net increase in levies,
that proposes extravagant appropria-
tions, that prostitutes the civil service to
partisan ends, that while decrying fos-
tiers trusts and monopolies, that
brides from the public exchequer the
pension-hunting, the subsidy -demand-
ing, the tariff-asking class-this party,
degenerate, eXtrayagant, corrupt, is
doomed to defeat -Chica0O Times.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-05-01
DOMESTIC CONCERNS.

Put dozen common marbles on the
bottom of your preserve kettle, and you
| will not be troubled with your fruit be-
coming burned or scorched.-Ihe
| Housekeeper.
On making an apple pie, make it
without sweetening it, and when 1T IS
done, remove the upper crust and add
| the sugar. The flavor is superior
Never sun feathered beds. 1t is
great mistake, as the sun will draw the
oil and give the feathers a rancid smell.
Air the beds on windy day in cool
place. where it is shady.-Household.
Fairy Cookies: Two cupfuls of
sugar. one cupful of butter, three eggs,
one level teaspoonful of soda dissolved
in two tablespoonful of water, and flour
enough to roll out. Bake in quick
oven until light brown.
In warm weather light and tender
paste may be made in this way: Mix
large teaspoonful of baking powder in
three piats of sifted flour; into this rub
one cupful of butter, and add cold, sweet
milk to form the dough. Put it on the
plates with as little handling as posi-
BILE.
Scraps of Ham: Melt piece of
butter in stew-pan until it is slightly
Drowned. Beat one egg and add to 1t,
then put in the ham, finely minced; add
as much water as will make it moist,
stirring it quickly, and pour it on some
buttered toast. This makes an excel
ent breakfast dish-American Agricult-
1rist.
Whom rno1v fn Stapah tho fino
clothes, the starch should be as hot as
! the hand can bear, the articles which
are to be stiffest, dropped in first, and
the others after. The clothes should be-
we'll shaken out, until free from
wrinkles, and securely fasten on the
line, so that the selvage edges will be
even--The Home.
-Get plenty of help for the heavy
work The fashion many women have
of doing all the extra work of house
cleaning in addition to the ordinary
cares of the family, which are quite
enough for them, is the poorest kind of
economy; and overwork at this season
OF the year, when the system is natural
ly relaxed, is especially hazardous.
Fish and Rice Croquettes: 10 one
breakfast cupful of any remnants of fish
add two or three tablespoonfuls of boiled
rice, little onion chopped and fried,
one ounce of butter, a little sugar. pep
per and salt to taste. grating of nut
meg, and few bread crumbs. Warm,
| mix we'll with one or two yellls of eggs,
make up into balls, fry brown, and
serve with mashed potatoes.-Good
Housekeeping.
Furniture covered with rep, or
similar goods, should be first whipped,
then carefully brushed, and all dust
wiped away with damp cloth. \ soft
cloth is best for satin-covered furniture.
Eaack walnut or mahogany furniture
may be washed quickly with soapy wa
ter and a soft brush, then wiped dry and
rubbed with an oily cloth. Rotten stone
and sweet oil are used to polish, and are
excellent. Then all that can be rubbed
off is removed, and channels skin
makes it as good as new.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-05-01

The last public man the New York
Sun has flattered by its rude taunts
gibes and coarse epithets is Mr. Cleye-
land. The paper has made speciality
of denouncing, ridiculing and black
guarding the ex-President for about
seven years, and it seems to have
reached point at which the object of
it all sees fit to pay some attention to
the attacks. The bounding of Mr.
Cleveland, man used to take and give
sturdy blows, was bad enough after he
retired from the Presidency to the
privacy of his home in upper New York
and his law office; but when it is
sought to harass and wound him by
striking his amiable, lovable. gentle
wife, the work becomes simply in
famous an indecency an outrage
which not alone Mr.. Cleveland. but
every gallant man, every gentleman in
the whole world will resent. if the
source from which the outrage proceeds
IS worth the notice Of good men. In
the South or West the Sun would have
to mend its manners or take the con-
sequences-personally-of its odious,
illegitimate proceedings. Chs ttanooga
Times.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-05-01
TO PREVENT BURkiNG.
Professors OF Anatomy Make a Frank APP
peal to Congress.

Professors OF Anatomy Make a Frank APP
peal to Congress.
The bill which was reported from tho
Senate District committee a few days
ago. providing for the promotion of an
atomical science and to prevent the
dissertation of graves in the District was
accompanied by a report which incor
porated long argument signed by "a
large number of professors more direct
ly interested in the subject in the Dis
trict medical colleges. The bill, it will
be remembered, provides for the distri-
button of the bodies of those persons
dying in tho hospitals, etc. and I'M
claimed by friends Or relatives to the
different colleges and institutions in tho
city in proportion to the number Of stu
dents in each.
physicians, SAYS
Ana tony and surgery can be learned
only by the dissection of human bodies.
There is no other way. If there were
any other, physicians and students
would be glad enough to give up dis
secting and medical colleges would be
glad to avoid the expense and bother OF
building and running dissecting rooms.
I'm the District of Columbia, during
the last sixty years or more (the oldest
medical college is now in its sixty-eighth
SESSION., the bodies used for dissection
have been surreptitious1y obtained,
often enough at the risk of life and
limb as well as liberty. The police and
judicial authorities are fully cognizant
of this method-the former often visit
ing our dissecting rooms at their pleas
ure-and could, if they chose, arrest
every one of us.
but the authorities are familiar with
the necessity for dissection, and they
know that our methods of obtaining
bodies are the same as have prevailed
in other cities, all over the world, until
suitable legislation rendered a legiti-
mate provision of bodies possible.
Not only do the medical colleges re-
quire material for dissection, but tho
Government of the United States act
ually commands that persons DESTROYS
of entering the medical corps of tho
United States army and the United
States navy shall, as a prerequisite
therefore, perform surgical operations
upon the cadaver."
"A number of lie tters from the heads of
the various departments are given show
ing the requirements SO far as disscc-
ton is concerned in the various medical
departments of the Government.
The business of robbing graves would
no longer exist in the opinion of the
committee if this bill should pass. as
the colleges would not go to the ex-
pense of purchasing bodies at the high
prices paid resurrectionists when they
could obtain them at less cost and in
d legal manner. "-Washington Star.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-05-01
POLITICAL DRIFT.

The essential idea of the new ia
riff bill is to protect Pennsylvania and
the West from the pauper labor of New
England. -Proyidence Journal.
The new tariff bill raises woolens
from about 80 to so per cent. Cottons go
up from 1854 to $500 per cent. More
patches and fewer shirts VIII be the
order Paul Globe.
The municipal elections are local
issues" but as whole throughout the
country they show the political under
current. The country is certainly Dem
ocratic in it's town vote. The only hope
of the Republicans is gains among the
farmers, and with the Mckinley bill as
an issue their prospects are gloomy
n. Y. Star.
The statisticians have figured it
out that the new wool tariff will add
from twelve and a-half to thirty-three
cents yard to the price of carpets. But
it is the opinion of Mckinley and the
Republicans that poor men do not need
carpets as much as the wool raisers and
carpet weavers need protection.-Chic
go Globe.
1t was Mr.. Randal,'s pride to live
in a small house in one of the obscurer
parts of Washington, and on a street
which, though he was Speaker and
chairman of appropriations during many
years, was among the last streets of the
city to be decently paved, because he
would not have it said that he used his
great power to benefit himself.-N. Y
Herald.
Senator Evarts has at last intro
duced the queerest bill ever heard of.
When General Lafayette came to this
country in 1924 he was brought over in
the ship Cadmus. The descendants of
the then owner want the United States
to pay Lafayette's fare, and they charge
the modest sum of 90, 371.6 81. Mr.. Evarts
is the champion of this claim. Senator
B1-ir ought now to introduce a bill in
favor of the Norwegians, to pay Left
Ericson's fare to this country. -Chicago
Herald.
1.-The people at large little know
says Senator Ingalls,. in an interview
published in New York paper, @'what
tremendous undercurrent of thought
is moving with irresistible force
throughout the whole length and
breadth of the West The Senator is
right The current of thought he refers
to is moving with irresistible force, and
it is moving against Ingallism. When
it has moved little further the ban
tam buster of the Kansas Senator will
have been silenced. Let the undercur-
rent of thought move, and move quickly
as well as irresistib lv--Chicago Mail.
The farmers have good deal to
learn on the subject of taxation. While
they are complaining of State and local
takes and the crushing weight of their
mortgages, they forget the National
taxes and the blessings of the protective
policy for which they are paying. 1t is
in reality She National taxes that are
crushing them. They sell the products
of their land at prices fixed by competi-
ton in the markets of the world. They
pay for what they buy at prices fixed by
a tariff that enables monopolies and
combinations of manufacturers to draw
enormous profits from the consumers of
their products. That is where the
farmers burden comes from.-N. Y
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-05-01

1t is now believed that the mann.
moth abounded to as great an extent
upon the east as on the west coast of
Behring sea. In fact, mammoths have
already been discovered in Alaska, and
news comes that a syndicate has been
formed for the purpose of procuring
their ivory tusks, which are now of
great value, and which will undoubted-
II continue to become more valuable az
the elephant is being exterminated.
For about thousand years Northern
Siberia has exported a large amount of
ivory to Russia And at present it IS
estimated that not less .han hundred
pairs of tusks are found every twelve
months and shipped to The Cars COM
mercial couterS.
An OLD bachelor wo*5h 500. 900 and
noted for his shire wdness and selfshness,
died lately at Newton, Conn. When
told that he must die he expressed Il
wish that he might swallow every dol
lar he had amassel and Leave none Of il
for others to sqLander.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-05-01

not sufficient and more taxes are de-
manded. And yet you have it in your
own hands to stay this oppression. If
yon were any way outspoken in your
demand that this curse of protective
taxation should cease, then would pro-
lection, like its original ancestor.
Lucifer, be hurled from it's present high
place to that bottomless pit where it be-
longs. -From Moore's Letters to Farm
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-05-01

For obvious reasons | omit any reference
here TO the $9l,1g0.00J expended for tea,
coffee and cocoa. but emitting these, we
have still the enormous sum OF S26b,2 d. t3S
imports of agricultural products, the far
greater part OF which, amounting probabl y
to not less than $40, D0,OO) or S93J,0JJo)0,
duced our own soil. The establish
mcnt of our agricultural experiment sta
/ tlons, the cn@rs tic research by the Depart
ment of Agriculture into the resources of
different sections of this country, inNestIga-
| ton of their soils and climate, and the APP
/ plication, in general. of scientific principles
! to agriculture. all combining, M Ike this as
| Sura1ce doubiy sure. provided always, that
| this divers tcation be encouraged and los :
| tered by the application of the principle of
/ protection to the development OF new INDUS
| tries on the farm. 1t is simply the extension
| to- our agriculture of the protection so Den-
| efcially extend ii in the past to our manu-
| featuring industries. In the days when the
| farmers were prosperous, when good crops
| were accompanied by high prices, and the
| value of agricultural land went up accord
| inglN, the farmers, to man, stood by tue
| pfincipic OF protection urged on Dehali OF
| the manufacturers, who, Guracned then
| upon them by the civil war. were threatened
| with grave disaster in the face of European
competition Now, in the face of the severe
! competition which to -day cOnfronts the
| farmer in foreign markets, duty. fairness
| and, IN the long run. self interest demand
| that we should afford him the benefits of d
| home market for all that he NAV he able to
| produce on our own soil. This includes all
| the sugar and molaSseS, all animal products.
| wool, slik, flaN and other fibers, all our
| breadstuffs, fruits, hay, hops, rice, to-
| OF these things will never, can never
| be produced on American soil in competi-
| ton with the labor OF European nations,
| especially when, as in the ease of sugar, the
| industry abroad has been helped by liberal
| Government bounties. 1t is worth while
| noting that the prices per pound OF the
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-05-01

In Buenos Ayres an opera box for
sixty nights costs $1,000. Coal for range
or Fireplace is from S3s to $40 per ton.
You may go to the circus for S. So Shoes
are worth from $40 to S12. To be buried
in style costs thousands. The cheapest
luxury in town is to have your boots
BACKED often at cents shine.