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The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-10-11
A WORkADAY ROMANCE.
Toll and Privation Ennobled and Glori
fed by Pure Sentiment.

fed by Pure Sentiment.
This story was originally told by
Spurgeon: A young clergyman and his
bride were invited guests at large
party given by a wealthy parishioner.
bridal wardrobe, the young wife shone
among the throng, distinguished by her
comeliness, -vivacity and rich attire;
and when, during the evening, her
young husband drew her aside and
whispered to her that she was the most
beautiful woman in all the company,
and that his heart was bursting with
pride and love for her, she thought her.
self the hnppiest wife in the world.
Ten years later the same husband and
wife were guests at the same house,
where there gathered asimilar gay COM
pany. The wife of ten years ago wore
the same dress she had worn on the pre-
vious occasion, and, of course, it had
been altered and re-made, and was old
fashioned and almost shabby. Toll, and
care, and motherhood, and pinched cir
cumstances had taken the roses out of
her cheeks and the 1.-The spring out of
her form. She sat apart from the crowd,
careworn and preoccupied. Her small
hands, roughened with coarse toll, were
ungloved for the minister's salary was
painfully small.
A little apart the ten-year husband
stood and looked at his wife, and as he
observed her faded dress and weary at
titude, great sense of all her loving
faithfulness came over his heart. Look
ing up, she caught his earnest gaze,
and noticed that his eyes were filled
with tears. She rose and went to him;
her questioning eyes mutoly asked for
an explanation of his emotion; and
when he tenderly took her hand, and
placing it on his arm, led her away from
the crowd, and told her how he had
been thinking of her as she looked ten
years before, when she was bride,
and how much more precious she was to
him now, and how much more beautiful,
for all her shabby dress and roughened
hands, and how he appreciated all her
sacrifice and patient toll for him and
their children, great wave of happi-
ness filled her heart, and light shone in
her face so that it gave more than
youthful beauty. And in all the COM
pany there was not so happy couple as
this husband and wife, their hearts and
faces aglow from the flaming up of pure
sentiment that transfgured and en-
nobled and glorifled all the tolls and
privations they had endured. and WHOSE
reflected radiance no untowaro future
cOuld dim -GOOd Haalth
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-10-11
Suits for Little Bows.

The first colored dress which is put on
little boys after they are year old is OF
gingham, and is made with pleated
waist with rows of insertion between
the pleats and skirtlaid in side pleats.
When the boy is about three or four
years old, according to his size, he Is
considered large enough to put in a suit
with the kilt separated from the waist.
These suits are made of Scotch plaid
and plain wools of light weight, white
pique and white flannel. The skirt is
laid in fiat, broad kits, and If Of wool
is ornamented with decoration of
squares OF braid, The jacket is square
and short, to show the blouse vest OF
while linen or white or yellow china
silk entirely around. Short white
socks, which display the bare legs, are
worn with dark tan-colored hoots.-,
Good Housekeeping.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-10-11
SWARMING INSECTS.
How Stanley Was I,eset In the Great
African Forest.

How Stanley Was Bcset In tho Great
African Forest.
We do not care to probe into that
mighty mass of dead tree, brown and
porous as sponge, for already it Is a
mere semblance of a prostrate log.
Within it is alive with minute tribes.
1t would charm an entomologist. Put
your ear to it and you hear distinct,
murmurous hum. 1t is the stir and
movement of insect life in many forms,
matchless in size, glorious in color,
radiant in livery, rejoicing in their oc-
cupations, exulting in their fierce but
brief life, most insatiate of their kind,
ravaging, foraging, fighting, destroy.
ing, building and swarming every
where and exploring every thing Lean
but your hand on a tree, measure but
your length on the ground, seat your.
self on fallen branch, and you will
then understand what venom, fury,
voracity and activity breathes around
you.
Open your notebook, the page at-
tracts dozen butterflies, a honey-bee
hovers over your hand, other forms of
bees dash for your eyes, a wasp buzzes
IN your eur, huBo horheo mohaooS
your face, an army OF pismires come
marching to your feet. Some are
already crawling up and will presently
be digging their scissor-like mandibles
In your neck. Woe! woel
And yet it is all beautiful-but there
must be no sitting or lying down on
this seething earth. 1t Is not like your
pine groves and your dainty woods in
England. 1t is tropic world, and to
enjoy it you must keep slowly moving.
-Stanley's I'm Darkest Africa"
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-10-11
A TRAGEDY.

Walking up tho village street
Came q maiden young and fair,
Tripping on with fairy feet,
CLAD in gown Of texture rare.
Walking down the village street
Came gallant debonair;
And he could not help but meet
With the lily maid so fair.
And he whispered, as they passed,
Something In the maiden's ear; ~
She an instant stood aghast,
Then she screamed aloud with fear.
Seemed the maid Us one distraught,
Helpless In her sudden fright
Shame upon the wretch who brought
Her to such piteous plight!
Ere you heap upon his head
Scorn unbounded, can you guess
What unluclsy words he saidY -
"7heye's spider on your dressi''
-R. H. Titherington, in West Shore.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-10-11
A Lovers Description.

Miss Mugg-I don't see how it is your
sister failed to find me at the station.
You said you would describe me to her.
infatuated Lover (who sees a good
deal more in Miss Mugg than other folks
can)-Yes, told her to look for beau
tiful girl, with the face of Madonna,
and the form of a sylph. It's queer she
missed you.-N, Y. Weekly.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-10-11

"Who is the hero In that novel?"
"HeroP There is a prig, dude, q
minister and fool but you don't ex-
pect hero in a modern novel, do you?
Pshaw! II it was not for the villains it
would not he worth reading"
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-10-11

Young Wife Ito her husband, who
is starting for the autumn eneampmen y
But you will be careful, dear Carl,
won't you, and march very slowly"
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-10-11
Prof. N.wcomb's bad Break.

Prof Simon Newcomb, of Washing
ton, is known as man whose scien-
tific studies have tended to exaggerate
natural disposition to mental abstrac-
ton. The professors friends, who are
also his strong admirers, understand his
popularity, and overlook in him what
might not be excused in an ordinary
person. A Washington lady is very
fond of telling this incident; She was
at a reception giyeu at Prof. Newcomb's
house. The occasion had been made de-
lightful by the professors wife and
daughters, and every thing was very
enjoyable, Toward the close of the
evening, the lady, who had enjoyed the
affair greatly, approached the host and
asked him with much enthusiasm: How
often do you have these delightful re-
unions, professor?" "But once year,
madam-thank goodness!--but once a
year." There was no polite prevarica-
ton in that reply. Days.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-10-11
WITH TAIL IN AIR.
Tho Main Part of Tree Is That Which
Is Underground.

Ino MAIN Iarb OF Inau Wh1Cn
Is Underground.
Yes, tree is an underground crea-
ture, with its tail in the air. All it's in
telligence is in its roots. Think what
sagacity it shows in it's search after
! food and drink. Sogehow or other, the
rootlets which are it's tentacles, find
out that there is brook at a moderate
distance from the trunk of the tree, and
they make for it with all their might.
They find every crack in the rocks
where there are few grains of the
nourishing substance they care for, and
insinuate themselves into its deepest
recesses. When spring and summer
come, they let their tails grow, and de-
light in whisking them about in the
wind, or letting them be whisked about
by it; for these tails are poor passive
things, with very little will of their
own, and bend in whatever direction the
wind chooses to make them.
The leaves make deal of noise whis-
pering. / have sometimes thought
could understand them as they talked
with each other, and that they seemed
to think they made the wind as they
WdRBeu lOTWdEu
what j say. The next time you see a
tree waving in the wind, recollect that
it is the tail of a great underground
many-armed, polypus-like creature
which is as proud of its caudal append
age, especially in summer time, as a
peacock of his gorgeous expanse of
plumage.
Do you think thore is any thing so
very odd about this idea? Once get it
into your heads and you will find it
renders the landscape wonderfully in
teresting. There are as many kinds of
tree tails as there are of tails to dogs
and other quadrupeds. Study them as
Daddy Gilpin studied them in his
"Forest Scenery" but don't forget that
they are only the appendage of the
underground vegetable polypus, the
true organism to which they belong
Oliver Wendell Holmes, in Atlantic.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-05-10
A REPUBLICAN,
STATE CONVENTION
will he held i'm
Granite Hall, Augusta,
THURSDAY, JUNE 12th, 1890,
AtII O'clock A. WI.

For the purpose of nominating candidate for
Governor to be supported at the September cleo
tion, and transacting any other business that may
properly come before It,
The basis of representation will be as follows:
Each city, town, and plantation will be entitled
to one delegate, and for each seventy five votes
cast for the Republican candidate for Governor
In 1888; an additional delegate, and for fraction
of forty votes in excess of seventy-nye votes a
further additional delegate. Vacancies in the
delegation of any city, town or plantation, can
only be filed by residents of the county in which
the vacancy exists.
The State Committee will be in session in the
reception room Of the Hall at nine o'clock on the
ceiving the credentials Of elegates.
The voters of Maine who believe in the policy
Of protecting home industry, to the end that the
laborer shall have steady employment with ade-
Quate compensation for his toll who believe that
the agricultural industries Of Maine should be
freed from the injurious competition of foreign
products who Join in the policy Of prohibiting the
traffic In liquors, as immoral, injurious aud dan
gerous 10 the best interests of society; who be.
lieve in the wisdom of well regulated civil ser
vice; who approve all measures for the restora-
hon of American shipbuilding; who uphold all
measures for assuring an independent suffrage to
the people and an honest counting Of their ballots
ARE cordially invited TO join with the Republi-
cans In choosing delega es to this convt n'ion.
Per order Republican State Committee.
F. E. SoUTHARD, Secretary.
Augusta, Maine April %, 1890.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-05-10


oome OF the business men of Bangor are
apparently anxious to lease the city's rail-
road the Bangor e. Piscataquis, to the Maine
central, and petition has been started re-
questlng the city government to appoint
committee to negotiate to that end. No
doubt for the interest of Bangor this is the
best way the road can be disposed Of Rnt
it may be doubted if the Maine Central will
be so willing to lease it as it was some wears
ago when Bangor was unwilling. The Maine
Central has built road of its own up into
Piscataquis county, and perhaps itmay deem
this sufficient for its purposes. There
is lesson in this case which the towns
along the line of the Knox g. Lincoln road
that are resisting the sale of that road to
the Wade syndicate should ponder over
Years ago the Maine Central was anxious to
lease the Bangor g. Piscataquis at fair
rental, but Bangor's ideas of its value were
very high and the trade fell through. Years
have passed, the road has not apparently full
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-05-10

The New York Sun is of the opinion that
there is no burning desire on the part of the
general public to read the tariff serial which
has begun in the Congressional Record The
Sun is right. If Records containing this
debate were sent to every citizen of this great
country it is safe to say that ninety-nine one
hundredths of them would be used to light
fires with, without any more examination
than enough to show that they contained a
tariff debate. This is not because people
do not have any interest in the tariff, for a
great many of them do have vital interest
in it, but because they believe that they have
got already all they can On the subject from
congressional speeches. If the House had
limited the debate to one day the great pub.
lie would have made no fuss about it, though
Of course those gentlemen who had prepared
speeches for the purpose Of letting their con-
stituents know that they could make speech
would have kicked violently at being de-
prived Of an opportunity to fire them off,
Nevertheless the speeches of the leaders on
Doth sides will be interesting and valuable.
Iae speeches of many others will be dull
and yalueless.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-05-10

In tit OF inadvertance the other day the
PRESS announced that E. G. Allen, ESQ.,, was
shout to embark in the newspaper business
and remarked that the change from his pres
ent business would not be very great. The
Kennebec Journal agrees with us there, say
ing that man who spends $4,000 a year
for postage and advertising his periodicals,
might already be considered in the newspa.
per business. The gentleman who is about
to launch his canoe on the sea of journalism
is not E. c. but G. E. Allen and it is an
nounced that he proposes to upset with this
canoe the older and doubtless more seaworthy
craft now commanded by Hon. Nelson Ding
ley, Jr. Mr.. Allen has congressional aspira.
lions and hopes to be elected in the second
district. As the proprietor of a straightout
Democratic paper he may succeed as Dem
ocratic congressman he may-somerime, but
not this year. The other Allen has no politi-
cal aspirations.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-05-10

The report which comes from st. Peters
burg that the Russian government will re-
quire pledge from the delegates to the
national prison congress not to discuss the
Siberian exile system is altogether probable.
The congress meets at st. Petersburg, and
it would make it very awkward for the Car
to have the barbarities Of that system ex
posed in his own capital. Doubtless the
delegates will either have to exclude thi:
the Cars dominions.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-05-10

filed expectations, and now the Bangor peo-
ple-or at least some of them-are anxious to
get rid of it, and are appealing to the same
corporation whose offer they rejected to take
1t offltheir hands. rs rule the best thing for
towns that own railroad to do with it is to
sell or lease whenever they are offered a fair
price, provided of course the interests of the
purchaser are not inimical to the interests of
the towns. The general result of holding on
Tor Digger price Is sale at lower price.
---
New York had hardly got over the seven
Gays wonder which the presentment of the
Grand Jury that investigated the sherif's
once caused, when Senator Fassett's COM
mlttee OF the legislature swooped down upon
the city and developed new wonders. One
McCann, brother-in-law of Richard Croker.
the great Tammany boss, testified before the
committee that Mayor Grant had some years
ago undertaken to bride his way into the
office Of commissioner Of public works, and
Tor this purpose had raised big sum of
money, which he placed in the hands of
Croker to place where it would do the most
good, This astounding disclosure was met
by Mayor Grant by most positive denial,
but he very much weakened ii in the estima-
ton OF the public by admitting that he pre-
sented to Cookers infant child, for which he
stood as godfather, $4,000 at one time and
like sum later on. These gifts, however.
Grant swore. were made purely out Of affec-
ton for the child, and had nothing to do
with any corruption fund. Unfortunately
there has been no corroborative evidence of
the testimony of either Mccain or Grant
and the public are left to take their choice.
Of course the newspapers are vigorously
discussing the matter pro and con, but the
signs of great popular interest are not abun-
dant The truth is that the great majority
| OF New York people have come to believe
that they are destined to be misgoverned, and
the occasional evidences which crop out that
they are reaping their fate make no very
lasting impression. Occasionally when q
very bad case of official corruption is
exposed, there is some attempt at re.
form, but it is little more than spasm
and the community soon settles down into
| its old Indifference. There is no doubt, how
ever, that the great majority of the people of
New York are honest and desire good gov
eminent, but they have private business to
attend to and are unable or indisposed to
give much attention to the administration of
public affairs. Hence these are left largely
to the management of the professional politi-
clans of the city, most Of whom are corrupt
They pack the caucuses and secure nomina-
lions to their liking. Until the honest men
of the city take the management of affairs
out of the hands of the present ward politi-
clans and bosses and band together without
regard to political affiliations to put men in
office who are of good character and capacity
the misgovernment of the city will continue
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-05-10

Instead OF helping the rumseller the U. s.
court decision would seem only to complicate the
ancultles which have for years rendered his
business extra hazardous in this prohibition State
OF Maine. IL iddeford journal.
This is doubtless cheerful view to take,
but it is by no means the correct one. The
United States Court has decided that the
importer of liquor can sell it in the original
package in spite of state laws. 1t is obvious
that this must help the rumseller. And it
is because it does help the rumseller Con-
gresham Boutelle has introduced into Con-
gress bill to remedy it. We are afraid the
journal has not carefully read the Supreme
Courts decision.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-05-10
Cuticura Resultant

Inc new Blood and Skin Purifier and Humor
Remedy, internally, and CUTICURA The
great Skin Cure, and CUTIcURA soar am am
exquisite Skin Beauti6er, externalIy. sneediIv
cure In early lie itching, burning, bleeding, scay
humors, with loss of hair, thus avoiding years 81
torture and designation. 'N"i' VI
Sold everywhere. Price, CUTIcURA. Foe
SOAP Csc. !; REsoLvENT, 81. Prepared by The
POTTER DRUG AND CHEMICAL CoRPoRITION
rY-Send for show to Cure Skin Diseases"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-05-10

Before adjourn ment, the New York Legis-
lature adopted the resolution to submit a
prohibitory constitutional amendment to the
people; so the Empire State will have an
opportunity to express an opinion on the
subject. A man need not be a prophet. or
the son of prophet, to foresee what that
opinion will be- No doubt the desire of the
people at whose solicitation this amendment
has been submitted is to promote prohibition
but to voluntarily submit it to popular vote
with an almost certainty that it will be voted
down seems TO be queer way to do it.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-05-10

The New York legislature has adjourned
sine die. Its most notable and most useful
piece of legislation was the Saxton ballot
reform bill. 1t is not altogether satisfactory
simply because Gov. Hill would not let it be
so, but it assures great improvement on
the present system of voting and will re-
dound to the credit of this legislature
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-05-10
CURRENT COMMENT,
NO HARM IN OBSERVING FoRMALITIEs
rSnrinpfia1d Union

[Springfeld Union.l
1t does no harm to observe the formalities
in business or even philanthropic transac-
tons. 1t might be to the advantage of Mayor
Grant of New York If he had taken the two
year-old Croker baby's receipt for $4,000
which he gave him. Receipts are mighty
handy things sometimes.
DEMOCRATIC SUCCESS ONLY TEMPORARY
brooklyn Standard Union.1
TheDemocratic successes inOhio, Iowa an(
Rhode Island and Indiana, are purely loca
and temporary. The tariff question had nc
more to do with the Republican defeat in
Ohio than the dire ction the wind blew Oh
election day.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-05-10
THE PRESS.
SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 10.

We do not read anonymous letters and cominn'
nlcations. The name and address of the writer
are in all cases indispensable, not necessarily iof
publication but as a guarantee of good faith'
We cannot undertake to return or preserve
communications that are not used.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-05-10
Cured by Cuticura

Our Oldest child, now six years of age, when an
infant six months old was attacked with viruleni
malignant skin disease. All ordinary remedies
failing we called our family physician, who at.
credible rapidity, until the lower portion of the
little fellows person, from the middle OF his pack
down to his knees, was one solid rash, ugly, pain
full, blotched, and malicious. We had no rest al
night, no peace by day. Finally, we were advised
to try the CUTICURA REMEDIES. The effect was
simply marvellous. In three or four weeks COM
person as white and healthy as though he had
never been attacked. In my opinion your val
liable remedies saved his life, and to-day he is a
strong, healthy child perfectly we'll no repetition
OF the disease having ever occurred.
GEO. B. SMITH,
Atty at Law and EX-PrnS. Atty. Ashland O.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-05-10

Buyers Of Spring OVercOats will
find ON our counters these indis-
pensable garments in good quail
ties, i'm prices a little under the
market, in large variety, too.
Young Mems fine Black CheviOt
and Wide Vale OvercOats, Silk
faced, Silk sleeve Innings, tailor
made, and ONLY $l5 ; taiIOrs get
$50.
Our "Dexter CheviOt" OvercOat,
a medium light color, in ALL
WOOL, at $3.50, in Mems and
Young Mems sizes, is less than a
fair jObbing price; usually retails
at SO for same quality.
Boys London Top Coats $S; a
nobby article; Boston price $l2;
ages 10 to Ia.
Boys OyercOats, ages Ia to IL
all wool, only So; worth s..
Large Boys Custom Made Black
Cheyiot Refers, ages IL to 16;
only $S and $40.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-05-10

in the afternoon, for the purpose of nominating a
candidate for Representative in Congress, and
transacting any other business that may properly
come before them.
The basis of representation will be as follows:
Each town and city will be entitled to one dele
gate, and for each seventy-ive votes cast for the
Republican candidate for Governor in 1888, an
additional delegate, and for fraction of forty
votes in excess of seventy-fve votes an addition
al delegate.
The District Committee will be in session at the
hall, at o'clock, on the afternoon of the Conven
of Delegates.
Per Order Republican District Committee,
ANDREW HAYES, Chairman.
SAMUEL w. JUNKINs, Secretary.
Portland, May 8, 1890.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-05-10
Baby a Solid Rash

Ugly, painful. blotched, malicious. No
rest by day, NO peace by night. Doctors
aad all RENE dies failed. Tried Cuticura.
Effect marvellous. Saved his life.