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The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-10-04
THE NEW KENTUCKY.
Wherein 1t Differs from the Common
wealth Depicted in Old Books.

Wherein 1t Differs from the Common
wealth Depicted in Old Books.
Iseem to see in the perforation and
breaking up of Cumberland Mountain
an event as decisive of the destiny of
Kentucky as though the vast wall had
fallen, destroying the isolation of the
State, bringing into it the new, and let.
ting the old be scattered until it is lost.
But while there is no space here to deal
with those changes that are rapidly
passing over Kentucky life and oblit-
Grating old manners and customs, old
types of character and ideals of life, old
virtues and graces as we'll as old vices
and horrors-there is special topic
too closely connected with the fore.
going facts not to be considered: mean
the effect of all this development upon
the Kentucky mountaineers.
The buying up of the mountain lands
has of course unsettled large part OF
these strange people. Already there
has been formed among them a class OF
tenants paying rent and living in their
old homes. But in the main there are
three movements among them. Some
desert the mountains altogether, and
descend to the bluegrass region with a
passion for farming. On county y-court
days in bluegrass towns 1t has been
possible of late to notice this peculiar
type mingling in the market-places with
the traditional type of bluegrass farm
or. There is thus going on, especially
along the border countless quiet inter-
fusion of the two human elements of
y, ,Ia, Il
lucky lowlander, so long distinct in
blood, physique history and ideas of
life. To less extent, the mountaineers
go further west beginning life again
beyond the Mississippi
A second general tendency among
them is to be absorbed by the civiliza-
tion that is springing up in the noun
tains. They flock to these towns. keep
store, are shrewd and active spectators
In real estate, and successful developers
OF small capital. The first business
house put up in the new Pineville was
built by mountaineer.
But the third, and, as far as I can
learn, the most general movement
among them is to retire at the approach
of civilization to remoter regions, whore
they may live without criticism or OBJ
servation their hereditary, squalid, un-
ambitious stationary life. But to these
retreats they must in time be followed,
therefrom dislodged, and again set ago
inc. Thus whole race Of people are be-
ing scattered, absorbed, civilized. You
may go far before you will find fact SO
full of consequences to the future Of the
State.
Within few years this commonwealth
will be hundred years old. ALI in all,
1t would seem that with the close of its
first century the old Kentucky passes
away; and that the second century will
bring in new Kentncky-newin many
ways, but new most Of all on account Of
the civilization of the Cumberland. =
James Lane Allen, in Harpers Magazine.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-10-04

back OF the house. l saw smoke rising
among the trees little ways down tho
branch, and walking down that way 1
found my host, Deacon Bledsoe, build
ing fire under ono of the largest moon
shine stills ever saw He seemed as
much surprised as was, and in an in
slant 1t dawned on me that Deacon
Bledsoe and Moonshiner Newt Bledsoe
were one and the same person. Before
he recovered from his surprise had
him covered with my revolver, and tell
ing him who was, ordered him to sur
render.
.Drap that thar weepin'. I knowed
you warn't no parson.' said female
voice behind me at that moment, and
turning saw Bledsoe's wife. She had
the drop on me with long rifle, and I
dropped my pistol. Bledsoe picked up
my revolver, and was marched back to
the house prisoner.
""rhar's your critter ready saddled
an here's bite to eat; now git said
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-10-04
WITH BISHOP AsBuRy.
Pioneer Methodist Preachers who Were
witty as well ~ Pious.

| Pioneer Methodist Preachers who Were
witty ss Well - Pious.
Among Bishop Asbury's useful preach
ers was the Rev. Jesse Lee, pioneer
Methodist in New England. AS he rode
out OF q Massachusetts town on Mon.
day morning, having preached there
twice the day before, he was overtaken
by two lawyers, who, riding on either
side Of him, began to question him in o
hippant way about his extemporaneous
manner of preaching.
One Of them said, "As you never write
your sermons, but speak off-hand, don't
you often make mistakes?"
"Sometimes," said Lee.
"What do you do then?" said the sprig
OF the law.
The preacher, shrewdly suspecting the
occupation OF the men who we're trying
to make game of him, answered: "1f
the mistake is an important one, ] al
ways correct it; If unimportant let 1t
pass. For example, If l wero quoting
tho passage The devil is liar and by
nlip should say lawyer, l should not
attempt to mend IT."
81 wonder If the fellow is knave or
fool?" said one Of the barristers to the
other.
Judging from appearances" retorted
Lee, ] should say am just between the
two"
They spurrod their horses and left
him to jog on alone.
On Sunday afternoon Mr.. Lee was
preaching in a country meeting house.
The weather was warm, and number
of persons remained in the yard enter
tanning themselves with talk which
could be heard through the open win
dows, while many of those in the con-
gregation were drowsy some fast
asleep Rapping the book-board with
his fist, the preacher, raising his voice,
said, II will thank the friends in the
yard not to speak so loud; their talk
may disturb the slumbers Of the breth-
rem in the church"
There was no more conversation out.
side nor sleeping inside the church that
afternoon.
Another of Mr.. Asbury's famous
preachers was the Rev. James Axley,
whose field of labor lay mostly in the
Southwest. He was one of the delegates
W d kCntTul SOulcTouCo WhiOh ouU III
Baltimore. about seventy years ago,
and was appointed to preach in church
in the city whore the people had the
habit, whom they rose to sing, of turn
ing their backs to the pulpit, and facing
the choir in the front gallery. Axley
was amazed at this breach of good man.
ners and as he read the next two lines
of the hymn (the style in those days. he
turned his back to the congregation and
faced the wall The singers in the gal
lery began to laugh, the people on the
floor turned to see what was going on,
and when the preacher knew that they
had all faced about, he exclaimed:
swell what do you think of it? It's as
good-lool1ing back as yours, isn't it?"
The congregation in that church have
faced the pulpit ever since.-W. Ii. Mil
burn, in Harper's Magazine.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-10-04
FUTURE OF WOMEN.
MIR. Gladstone Makes Some Eminent
Sensible Remarks.

Mr.. Gladstone Makes Some EminentIy
Sensible Remarks.
In the course of brief address at
school for girls, where Mrs. Gladstone
distributed the prizes, Mr.. Gladstone
said:
THAT future Of society is of enormous
Importance to the world. think it is
not uninteresting to recall, if may be
allowed to do it, q little anecdote, when
some words were used to me more than
fifty years ago by an eminent physician
of that date-Dr Farr, who lived in
Charterhouse square. / went there on
account OF some affection of the eye, but
he entered into general conversation
about the political prospects of the
country, and he said to me these words.
which, think, were full of sense right
feeling and wisdom; You may depend
upon it, Mr.. Gladstone, 1t is not the
Wings who will save the country, nor
the Tories who will save the country: it
is the mothers OF England who will save
the country
81 think that should be to oevery young
wife the most cheering, the most con-
soling, and the most stimulating lesson
that could be learned. The value and
the Importance of this thought are such
that no new addition we can possibly
make to woman's vocation can ever
stand for moment in comparison with
their vital bearing upon the formation
of character In every one of us. And
what is the formation OF character but
that for which God sent us into tho
world? 1t is the sum and substance,
the beginning and the ending Of the
whole matter, and it is the formation of
character which is the pride and glory
of women as teacher, but infinitely more
rs mother, to contribute"
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-10-04
SELF-MADE CRANkS,
Men Who Feel Their Feeb1eness in the
World of Practical Affairs.

World of Practical Affairs.
One can not help believing that there
is variety of this gentry who are self.
made cranks-cranks because they want
to be. They seek some social dispro-
portion whereupon they can posture
with effect. The pleasures of conform
ity are humdrum: nonconformity is
piquant and startling. Such man is
not crank from abundance of virtue,
as he would have you believe, but
rather because he feels his feebleness
in the world of practical affairs and is
soured thereby. II he pose as an ad-
vance philanthropist, we suspect that
his love of mankind has some side
glances at personal profit. II facts be
against him, he does not hesitate to in
vent them, and visits with arrogant
abuse those who would expose his falsi-
ties. He is especially angry with those
hating disciples who accept his scheme
as something ultimately possible, and
then humbly inquire what they are tc
do Professionally as practical approxi-
nation to the distant good. If he be
rhetorician, he has no scruple in ad-
ministering the electric shock of para
dox, and seeks the levity of assent that
may be caught by the sudden spring of
a false analogy. No doubt this reckless
shooter occasionally hits the mara
Pope describes the talking bird who be-
rates the passers-by with epithets which
well-conducted periodicals have ceased
to print. But the poet confesses that,
though sometimes struck with the ex-
treme felicity of these characterizations,
he had never been able to extend his
admiration to the speaker whose entire
stock in trade consisted of this very
limited and abusive vocabulary. p.
Quincy in Atlantic
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-10-04
A NOTED SANCTUARY.
How tho Little Church Around the Co
nor" Received lts Name.

How the "Little Churcr Around the Cor
ner" Received los Name.
Upon the announcement of the death
of George Holland, called at the house
of the family and found them in great
grief. The sister of Mrs. Holland in
formed me that they desired tho funeral
to take place from the church, as many
Of Mr. Hollands friends would like to
mark their love and respect for him by
their attendance, and that the house in
which the family lived was too small to
receive the large gathering of the peo-
pie that would be likely to assemble.
The lady desired me to call upon the
pastor OF her own church and request
him to ofiiciate at the service. l at
once started in quest of the minister,
taking one of the sons of Mr.. Holland
with me. On arriving at tho house 1
explained to the reverend gentleman
the nature of my visit and the arrange
ments were made for the time and place
at which the funeral was to be held.
Something, / can scarcely say what,
gave me the impression that / had best
mention that Mr.. Holland was an actor.
! did so in few words and conluded by
presuming that probably this fact would
make no difference. / saw, however, by
the restrained manner of the minister
and an unmistakable change in the ex-
preston of his face that it would make,
at least to him, great deal of differ
ence. After some hesitation he said
that he would be compelled, If Mr.. Hol-
land had been an actor, to decline hold
ing the service at the church.
Whilst his refusal to perform the
funeral rites for my old friend would
have been shook under ordinary cir
cumstances, the fact that it was made
in the presence of the dead mans son
was more painful than / can describe.
/ turned to look at the youth and saw
that his eyes were filled with tears. He
stood as one dazed with blow just
realized as If he felt the terrible in
justice of reproach upon the kind and
loving father who had often kissed him
in his sleep and had taken him on his
knee when the boy was old enough to
know the meaning of the words, and
told him to grow up to be an honest
man. was hurt for my young friend
and indignant with the man-tOO much
30 to reply; and / rose to leave the room
with modification that can not re-
member to have felt before or since,
paused at the door and said:
swell, sir, in this dilemma Is there
no other church to which you can direc
me, from which my friend can be
buried?"
He replied that 'lhere was little
church around the corner" where /
might get it done; to which / answered.
"Then, II this be 80, God bless the
little church around the corner" and 80
left tho house.
The minister had unwittingly per-
formed an important christening, and
his baptismal name OF "The Little
Church Around the Corner" clings to 1t
to this day.-Joseph Jefferson, in Cen
tury.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-10-04
They Could Never Find It.

Husband-sayl you'd better take my
pocket-book.
Wife You surprise me! / don't un-
ierstand i'll
Husband--I noticed sign just now to
"Look out for pickpockets," and
thought 1t would be safer In your pocket
than In mine. Lowell Citizen
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-10-04
How He Changod HIS Clothes.

A prisoner recently escaped from,
Blackwell's Island, New York. The
officers soon discovered the fact and
started in pursuit The fleeing man was
in danger OF arrest at any moment by
civilians, as his prison garb proclaimed
him convict. He. therefore, proceeded
10 get rid OF his striped suit. He darted
through one house and got a coat,
through another and stole pair Of
pants, through another and secured a
flannel shirt and hat. All these he sue.
ceeded in putting on in the street as he
ran, at the same time discarding his
prison clothes. He made his escape
good. Y. Tribune.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-10-04
RAILROADS IN CHILL.
Operated so as to Produce n Maximum
Degree of Discomfort.

Operated as to Produce a Maximum
Degree OF Discomfort.
The New York Tribune correspond
ent, who is exploring South America,
writes as follows of railway travelling in
Chilli: 1.-THE Chilian capital is approached
from either Valparaiso or Los Andes by
the Quillota Valley opening between the
Andes and the maritime range. There
is railway owned by the Chilian Gov
ernment and operated on the English
plan. The cars are SO uare compartment
boxes, into which passengers are
crowded until no seats are reserved for
the late-comers, who are compelled to
sprawl over the baggage littering the
floor. There is an extra tariff of dol
lar for the transportation of small
trunk in the baggage-car, and conse-
quently every native travels with his
effects in portable form to avoid
payment of these charges. / have
counted as many as dozen pieces of
small baggage belonging to one traveller,
and the average certainly is not less
than seven. All this baggage is heaped
up in the compartment-car, so that it is
impracticable to change ones seat or
even to gain ones footing when the last
belated passenger, with his bundles,
sachels and band-boxes, is in and the
tickets have been examined by the
guard. At the railway junction of
Llaillai, three trains are emptied into a
large refreshment room, where break
fast is served with something of the
hustle and confusion of an American
railway station. On returning to the
compartment-car, every passenger has
to Chamber over the baggage mounds
and to regain, by gesticulation and ar
gument the seat which some other trav-
eler, possibly one of the previous late
comers, has seen fit to occupy in his
temporary absence. This is the English
railway service adapted to this southern
latitude, and it is operated SO as to pro-
duce maximum degree of personal an
poyance and discomfort At the end of
the journey passenger whose baggage
has been carried behind the engine,
where it has not been in anybody's way,
is compelled to employ and fee rail-
way porter to hunt it up, and possibly
snother one to put it on q coach.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-10-04

"He shouldn't say shoulder arms to
those cavalry-men."
"Why not?"
"They have nothing but swords. He
ought TO say shoulder blades. IN. Y.
Sun.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-10-04

Indians, and will shoot at an officer
from ambush but they are poor marks
men and seldom hit man. / have been
shot at dozen times without receiving
scratch. 1t is this shooting from
ambush and the pranks the moonshin-
ers play on revenue officer when they
catch one alone in the mountains that
makes hunting them exciting sport.
~ have often spent a night at the
home of an innocent-looking noun
taineer and next morning found my sad
die and bride cut to pieces or my horse
turned out of the stable and driven
away. Up in De Kalb County once l
spent the night at the house of man
who was supposed to be good citizen
and not in sympathy with moonshiners.
] slept in shed-room, and there was no
lock on the door. The next morning
my pants we're gone. Every thing had
been taken out of the pockets and left
in the room, but the pants had been
spirited away. My landlord expressed
much sympathy for my loss, but charged
me five dollars for secondhand pair
of his Jeans trousers that were probably
worth one dollar when new, and had
to pay him the money before could get
out of bed.
1.-THE wives and daughters of moon
sinners, as a rule, are smarter than the
men and much more suspicious of
stranger. / was over in Clay County on
raid once and was in locality where
almost every man owned still In
such place it is hard to locate still
and almost impossible to obtain evil
dence against the owners unless they
are caught in the act of making the
mountain dew l introd uced myself
as land agent prospecting for mineral
lands, but the natives did not all be-
lieve my story and was regarded with
more or less suspicion. was after
noted moonshiner named Newt Bl ed
soc, who was known to have been oper-
atiEg still in that locality for two
years. ! had trouble in finding place
where they would let me stay all night,
but finally a native suggested that Try
Deacon Bledsoe.
'''Ther deakin's sot on 'ligion. the
Bible, and sich, an e allus takes in
strangers said the native. ] was di-
rected to the deacon's house, two miles
down the valley, and arrived there an
hour after dark. 1 did not once associate
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-10-04

I'm the year 1919 sugar Is said Ia
have been sold at Is 91Sa pound, and
was considered very luxurious article
till the eighteenth century.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-10-04
what Could He Have Meant?

"Ethel," said fond mother to her
daughter, as the fair young girl sat
down at late breakfast in her morning
gown, 'did George leave any package
for me last EVENING""
Ethel biushed and said: falteringly.
why, no, mamma! What made you
ssk?"
80, nothing; on.y ] heard him say
at the door as he said goodbye: Now,
hero is one more for your mother, and
didn't know but what it was that
pattern for laco-edging that his mother
promised TO send me-"
Ethel said nothing. Rare Bits.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-10-04
Thirteen months.

"How long has your daughter been
practicing on the piano?"
''To be exact, she began one month
before our neighbor went crazy, and he's
been in the asylum year. The Jury.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-10-04

People eat twenty per cent. more
broad when the weather Is cold than
when 1t Is mild.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-10-04
NEWT BLEDSOE'S WIFE.
How She Got the Drop on a
United States Marshal

ONE days ago
an old deputy
United States
marshal sat in
a hotel corridor
at Birmingham,
Ala, , and talked
about hunting
m o on s h iners,
says a Chicago
Times corre-
spondent.
IS o m @ of
these moon
Sinners" said
he, ''are as
treacherous as
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-10-13
ibid GesI Represent E.y


He voted to domonetizc silver. in the
interest of Wall street and the eastern
bOnd>hOlders.
He voted for the infamous tariff BILL
which increases the price of all the peo-
pie buy. to 80 per cent, in the interest of
The east at the expense of the west
He voted for the Force bill, which
would take the elections for cogressmen
out of the hands of the people and give 1t
over to the control of the president
He voted to give the president author.
ity to take the tariff off and put it on at
his pleasure. giving him power to make
favorites rich, and running others.
He sat like a stouten bottle and did not
say word when a member from the east
moved to lay the back pay bill on the ia
BILE
He voted to unsest members who were
elected aud TO seat Adventures who were
not elected.
He was supple tool Of Boss Reed
He introduced no bills or measures for
the people of the district, but voted con
stantly for the eastern monopolies and
trusts.
The people of the Eleventh Illinois
congressional district want man who
will. ut least, vote for western interests
instead of voting the east richer al the ex-
pense of the west. Gest not only gave
his consent to have the district robbed,
but voted to have it robbed. -Aledo
Democrat
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-10-13
SOME LIGHT WANTED.
Questions that the High Takers
should be Prepared to An.wer.

Questions that tine High Takers
should be Prepared to Answer.
A man who is born and bred republi-
can. and who was over-proud. so he says.
to belong to a party that proclaimed it,
self the champion of great moral ideas.
but whose allegiance has been severely
shaken by the recent action of a republic
can congress on the tariff question, asks
the following questions:
/. When congress has tariff bill I'M
der consideration, why is the consumers
advice never asked as to the rate of duty
that shall be imposed?
2. Whose gain has the manufacturer in
view when he asks that others may be
forced to buy his goods at higher price
than they can be bought for in the mar
kets of the world?
8. If people at large were willing to
pay such prices. would such law be necS
essaryf
4. Why do political managers make
manufacturers the special objects of the
fat-frying p ocess?
5. How is it that manufacturers ask
protection thst they may may pay high
wages. then more protecuon because
wages are highr
Perhaps Mr.. Gest VIII be good enough
to furnish the requisite answers.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-10-13

We are frail creatures physically-the most
robust among The unhealthy man
woman is in great measure incapable OF benefit u
society. II, for instance, biionsness. n trouble
OF frequeDce and often obstnately resistant of
ordinary medication, ohstructs the harmonious
~ ton of the liver and the bowels the sufferer l.
st re- 10 dyspepuc. The three d'sordered condi-
tinn- are sure To be confirmed by neglect Under
the erroneous mp essioR that there il no hop-
for him. an impression in all likelihood confirmed
BY the use of Objectionable remedies the sufferer
l. apt 10 become negieCtful, nay. even reckless,
~ that the sooner he il removed from the sphere
of human endeavor the better for all parties con
cerned. What a series Of mistakes His liver il
responsible. IL Is an incorporate part OF himself
How Discipline il; By the aid of Hostetter's
stomach Bitters, a certain medium for the re
Is Adjustment of united, regular action in the
stomach, liver and bowels. Ii also cures aud
prevents malarial, rheumatic and kidney troubles.