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The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-02-08
MEMORIES oE MOORE.
The House which tho Poet Occupied
while n Resident of Canada.

The House Which tho Poet Occ"pie"
While Resident of Canada.
The house is still standing at Ste. Anne
Belle Vue, on the Island of Montreal, in
which Thomas Moore passed some OF the
days he gave to Canada. A stone, white
plastered, high-walled house. like most
of the houses erected at that period In
French Canada, it has gray, slanting
roof, from which projecting windows
start like astonished eyes; house to be
remarked upon at once, in viewing
which one mentally and Immediately
calculates, "That house has history.
But what house has not? Time turns
all things into the history which, all
unknown, unread, moves the universe
of souls.
When you muster courage to climb
the crealSing steps, to push open the
door, trelissed in cobwebs, you find your
self in the room the poet inhabited, ana
in which he wrote that melodious strain,
"The Canadian Boat Song" In the cor
ner stands the clock by which he tlmea
the inspiration-sublime idea! a trad1-
ton VIII ich, though it has but transitory
value, q moments thought does away
wi tn it as effectually as Sappho's sui
cide. Solomon's Songs, Cleopatra's Gun
ming End! the truth being that these
simple verses were written in an open
boat on the st. Lawrence during hve
days' Journey between Montreal and
Kingston, and were suggested to the I'M
aginative mind of the poet by the pecu'
| liar measure of the ooydgeur's ohansoh'
! no thcy plied the oars.
The same meter is found in that eX
ouisite poem, paradise and the Perl;
| the Perl's closing cry has caught the
musical JINGLE
Joy ioy for ever-my task is done
The gates are passed and heaven is won.
We are authentically informed thai
/ the words and music of 1.-The Canadian
Boat Song" were ever dear to Moore, re
calling vividly a happy period OF lie
This is easily realized, for where the
affection is concerned the association
has much to say, and time turns te
treasures many trivial things. Ihose
who are not poets also possess precious
! memories: landmarks of long ago. Bu
it seems almost inconceivable that
man of Moore's mental caliber should
the moment have considered the llne
worth committing to paper.
So we wander with this touch iron
Genius torch still flaming the memory
"And of the time when full of blissfu
sighs we sat and gazed into each other
eyes; silent and happy: as though Go'
had given naught else worth looking a
this side heayen!"-Toronto Week.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-02-08
WhAI Is a klSS2
A Strange, Thrilling Mystery That the
Young May Study with Delight.

A Strange, Thrilling Mystery That tine
Young May Study With Delight.
All. who can tell? Surely if any thing
in the world ''goes without saying it is
a kiss, and the more one says the farther
one seems removed from the true COM
prehension of the idea.
Viewed in the calm light of reason, a
kiss is rather an absurd, rather disa-
greeable, certainly very extraordinary
proceeding. Two opeople set their mouths
against each other, contract and press
the lips together and emit sound vary
ing from the explosion of a toy pistol to
a faint sibilation or gentle concussion.
Why, now, should any one have hit
upon this strange performance as an ex-
preston of affection? VAST an unborn
instinct of humanity. like eating or
looking at ones reflection in 'mirrored
pools?" Did Adam kiss Eve, and did
she understand what he was attempting,
or did she fancyhe was about to eat her?
A very strange, decidedly uncouth
proceeding, and yet how very natural
and how very common!
What divers manners of kiss have been
invented since that Adam and Eve in
aupuration. Theirs would be the kiss
of tender and assured conjugal devotion;
we'll, that is very nice and very satisfy
ing to the feeling, but then there is the
timid experimental kiss of the newly
declared lover and the faint responsive
kiss of the gentle beloved, and there is
the mad burning kiss of passion, and
the ouivering kiss of separation when
loving hearts are rent asunder, and
there is the cold kiss of despair, pressed
by bloodless lips upon an icy brow-the
kiss of death that all of us have at some
time felt through our hearts core.
Then there is the tender and emotion
less kiss of friendship and loving kim
ship, and the light touch of ceremony,
as in French fashion, we family brush
the cheeks of our dear five hundred ac-
ouaintances, and there is the enforced
kiss of relationship that is not loving,
or of the husband and wife who still
keep up the form from which the life
has fled; and there is the kiss of loving
reverence for the hand of the monarch
or the priest, or the holy relic or tomb
and there are grades and shades of al
these almost innumerable, and ye
after all there is but the one kiss wortf
the talking about, and that is the kiss
of love, pure and simple and mutual
the kiss which clings and trembles an(
throbs with delight, and yet is too nea
heaven to know the stain of earth; th'
kiss in which the soul swoons and ye
resembles God; the kiss that one woulc
die in giving, and can give to only one
the kiss that once freely given bind
! two souls forever in one-no matte
what chances and changes" time ma.
bring.
, The indescribable and yet the univer
s sal delight of love is as sweet to-day a
: it ever was in Eden.-Mrs. Frank Les
0 lie. in Uoosier.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-02-08
THE GERMAN DOMESTIC.
She Wears No Bangs, But She Does tn
Work of Two Men.


Work of Two Men.
The German servant girl has no bangs
nor bangles, nor fur-lined coats, nor
four-buttoned kid gloves. She is square
shouldered, heavy-featured and large
limbed. She is neither clean, quick,
nor intelligent, but she can work. She
has the strength of an OK, and is always
willing to use it. Most servant girls in
German cities are peasants. Daughters
of the poor town-bred families usually
become factory hands, shop girls or
waitressess.
The conservative peasants, however,
with their old prejudices in favor OF
every thing feudal, prefer domestic
services for their children to any en-
ployment. AS soon as the peasants
daughter is fourteen or fifteen years old
she learns how to split wood, hoe pota-
toes and plant cabbages. She milks the
COW before breakfast, bitches her to the
plow after breakfast, and often turns
burrows all the morning under the direc-
ton of her father, who, in the mean
while, smokes pipe and rests. She
mows hay and digs water trenches.
During the harvest she carries great
basketfuls of vegetables from the helds
to the barn On her back. When her
Younger sister becomes old enough to
helm her parents to work the little farm,
however, the eldest daughter loses her
grin on her fathers heart She is re-
garded by him as an incumbrance, for
nothing is more useless in the eyes of
German peasant than grown daughter
who does not earn her living. There
fore, If no Hans or Fritz wishes her to
be his helpmate in raising cabbages and
potatoes, She must go into domestic
service in the city.
Like almost all novices in an occupa-
tion on the continent she serves an ap-
premiership. For several months she re-
ceives no wages, nor does she deserve
any, for her stupidity is phenomenal.
She has never walked on carpet be-
fore, and doesn't know napkin from a
dishcloth, or coal-bucket from ket-
tie. She blacks the Herr's patent
leather sh oes and oils his rubber boots
She puts the table-cloth on the floor and
the rug on the table. In fact, shc Is as
strange to most of the furniture and
customs in comfortable house as a
Persian or Indian. She learns slowly
and laboriously, but she never forgets.
Indianapolis News.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-02-08
THE BUSY MANaRovE.
Interesting Data Concerning the Harvest
Worker in Jamaica.


Worker In Jamaica.
Everywhere, where the water is quiet
in bays and harbors, one sees the man
grove at its silent, ceaseless work. The
parent trunk, growing from a little pink
stem, shoots up into low shrub with
wide spreading branches, clothed per-
petually with glossy green leaves. From
these branches long slender roots drop
into the water beneath, whore, in the
muddy soil at the bottom, they them
selves take root, and in turn become
trunks and trees. And everywhere un-
der the snake-like network OF roots
which rise out of the muddy soil, and
in the tangle of branches above, life
is pulsing and rustling. Innumerable
crabs, with long red legs and black
bodies peppered with white spots,
scurry and crawl in and out upon the
rank mud beneath the arching roots
and droll hermit-crabs draw themselves
with a click into their borrowed houses
strange-looling shells with long spines,
curious spirals, mottled with blue and
gray and yellow.
In the days of the Spaniards vessels
used to sail up the Rio Cobra to Spanish
Town; now it is well-nigh choked with
the wash of centuries. To enter 1T you
pass around a long spur OF sand thai
stretches far out in the bay, a roosting
place for sleepy pelicans resting from
their fshing-"old Joes," as the island
ers call them. The channel, barely
deep enough for the light canoes of the
fishermen; is tortuous and winding, an(
further up along its course is nearly
rooted in by overarching trees, and Dor
dsred by impenetrable thickets that nov
forever shut out the life that used v
come and go between the harboren'
San Jago dc la yega.--Howard Pyle, Y
! IIarper's Magazine.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-02-08
EVEN a Toad win nit Back.

"I once saw something when small
boy" said an old stager, "that never
heard of since, that was toad attack
snake after the latter had been forced
to let go his hold. 1t was In a black
smith shop, built of logs, in Indiana
county. The blacksmith was working
at his anvil when asqueaking sound was
heart at one side of the shop, which at
tracted attention. Turning to look the
blacksmith and the narrator saw large
toad dragging himself into the inclosure,
with fifteen-inch garter snake follow
ing. The snake had the hind leg OF the
toad swallowed. With q pair of hot
tongs the blacksmith caught the snake,
which released its hold as quickly as
possible. Instead OF hopping away. as
was to be expected, the toad turned
itself around, and leaping six inches
| high in tho air, came down on the tody
| Of the snake and bit " sayagely -
! Pittsburgh Dispatch.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-02-08
LIGHTS IN PEklNG.
Where the Emperor of Chin Resides an
Holds Court.

Where the Emperor of Chin Resides and
Holds Court.
The common people of Peking are not
permitted upon the walls, but foreigners
NAV walk around them, and from them
NAV be obtained the best idea of this
great capital. Standing at the busy gate
which separates the Chinese city on the
north, you see this great metropolis
spread out below you. 1t looks more
like great military camp'than a city,
and it is hard to imagine that itcontains
nearly 100000 people within its blue
brick walls.
The spires of no churches point their
fingers toward heaven. No life insur-
ance palaces nor fourteen-story teno-
ment houses lift their heads over hum
bier neighbors of brick and mortar. All
is a wilderness of small trees, cut here
and there by wide streets filled with
curious masses, ant-like in the distance.
and with the low-ridged, heavy tiled
roofs of one-story buildings, which come
hardly above the smallest trees.
Standing at this gate and turning
your head to the north, you see inside of
this walled Tartar city another walled
space, the sides of which are about two
miles long, and the tops of whose walls
are as of bright yellow. They glisten
like FURNISHED gold under the bright
rays of the sun of North China. This is
the Imperial city, and there is within 1T
another walled space, the sides OF which
are covered with the same yellow tile,
including a section of five acres, and
Of tho Emnnrnr
himself.
These royal palaces are not the grand
structures of Windsor or Versailles.
Your barbarous eyes are not permitted
to examine them closely, but standing
here upon this wall you see them rising
out of the trees, perhaps 800 yards away.
There are said to be 200 of them, and
their heavy roofs ofporcelain 'old gold''
tiles dazzle your eyes as you look.
There is the hall of "Highest Peace"
on terrace of white marble, which
rises 11O feet frcm theground, measured,
however, from the walls only by the
eve. 1t is 200 feet long by 90 feet broad,
and it has a throne in its midst where
the Emperor holds his great levees OF
his birthdays and at New Year, and
where the princes and the highest
mobiles fall down upon their knees be
fore him.
There is the hall Of Central Peace,
with that circular yellow roof, where
This son of heaven examines the writer
prayers which are to be offered, and put
his royal o. X. on them.
There is the hall Of Intense Thought,
where sacrifices are presented to Con
fucius, and the hall of the "Literar,
Abyss" which contains the royal Ii
brary Of books and scrolls upon who's
pages almond eyes alone can look.
There, farther over, is the hall o
"Secure Peace" and there beyond it is
whisper it low-the Palace of Earth
Repose," where tho pretty fifteen-year
old Manchu maiden, the virtuous Tet
ho-na-la, who has been chosen as heay
EMS consort, rules the royal palace an
dispenses justice and order to the SEE
ondary wives and the numerous slave
under the eyes of goodly number
the 5000 eunuchs who act as the serN
ants of this little city OF palaces. Cos
mopolitan.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-02-08
Too peep For Him.

Gifted Young Man-Don't talk to me
Of religion or philosophy! What light
do they throw on the problem OF exist
ence? Why do live? What is tho
object Of my being?
Venerable Sage contemplating him
mildly-My young friend, am sorry TO
say cannot see any good reason for it.
--Chicago Tribune.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-02-08
THEY TWAIN SHALL BE ONE.

The task is done by toll, dear.
The task is done by toll;
But only half the toll, dear,
When the twain are one
Then let's Join hand to hand. dear
Let us join hand to hand,
That my strength may be thine
And thy strength may be mine.
And our hands be one
Till the task is done.
The race is run by speed. dear
The race is run by speed;
But only half the speed, dear,
When the twain are one
Then let's join foot to foot, dear.
Let us join foot TO foot,
That my speed may be thine
And thy speed may be mine.
Aud our feet be one
Till the race is run.
The prize is won by might, dear,
The prize is won by might;
But only half the might, dear,
When the twain are one.
Then let's Join heart to heart, dear.
Let us Join heart to heart,
That my might may be thincl
Aud thy might may be mine,
And our hearts be one
Till the prize is won.
The day is full of cares, dear,
The day is full of cares;
But only half the cares, dear.
When the twain are one.
Then let's join soul to soul, dear.
Let us Join soul to soul,
That my cares may be thine
And thy cares may be mine.
And our souls be one
Till the set of sun.
Stephen Smith, in N. V. Independent
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-02-08
Exnlorer stanley,s Hair.

Tho correspondent who won't up coun'
try to meet Stanley describes his hair as
being quite white. This he ascribes to
the privations of the expedition. But
those who met Mr.. Stanley when he was
formerly in this country will be re-
minded by the kilograms of an incident,
regarding which the great explorer was
some years ago twitted by his friends.
As a matter of fact, his hair had become
white long ago. But Mr.. Stanley did not
appreciate the venerable appearance
which his gray locks gave him. They
became black again good deal more
suddenly than they had grown white.
In view OF the chance of another curious
change of this kind, it is rather awk
ward that their present color should
have been SO universally made known
London Letter.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-02-08

AT Pittston there is man who says
he was never i'll minute. He explains
his good health by the fact that his
mother sewed rabbits paw in his
clothing when no was a baby, and he
has never been without 1t on his person
sinco
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-02-08

"A woman may refuse man her hand,
yet be perfectly willing to give him her
arm. -Kearney Enterprise.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-02-08


walked slowly forward, stumbling and
sliding along at every step. Echo
whined and looked appealingly at Allie.
''We have escaped from our enemies,
thank God" said Allie, looking behind
him. They can not see to follow US
now"
Eyes, but we have another danger"
replied his father. "These blizzards are
terrible things. We are now travelling
due north, think, and if we keep Ii up
we will come out to the camp"
The storm increased in fury. The
wind chilled the riders through, and
made their teeth chatter. The snow
piled up in drifts with astonishing ra-
pidity. Their pathway was blocked, and
to proceed seemed impossible.
Bronco finally stumbled, breaking his
: leg in the fall. The poor animal whin-
MED and neighed, but there was no help
for him. Mr.. White dismounted, and
examined the beast, but Bronco's day OF
) usefulness was over.
. 1--WE must leave him, Allie" he said
/ with slight quiver in his voice. "You
get on my horse, and | will walk for q
distance"
There was no other alternatives; bui
/ Allie dropped two or three tears over
, the body of his suffering pet before hi
: could leave him.
+ The journey was now doubly difficult
. The two took turns in walking ant
riding. Echo scrambled along by thu
I side OF his master, nearly blinded b.
o the snow.
( 1t seemed like an age TO Allie as the,
y struggled through the binding, drifting
S snow. Then came another catastrophe
r The horse, tired and exhausted, refuses
G to 90 any further. No amount OF coax
ing and whipping would make him move
d He was finally abandoned, and Allie. hi
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-08-30
PETERSBURG.
The New Almshouse Hospital-A Dull
Week in Tobacco.

PETERSBURG, VA. Aug. o. Special. f.
The delegates from the Virginia Pharma
ceutical Association to the American Phar
maceutical Association, which meets al
Old Point. on the Sth of September. are: DR.
T.. II. Craighill (chairman), of Iynchburg
Robert BrydOn. of Danyille; Hugh Blair. O
Richmond; G.. ID. Santos, of Norfolk; +. Il
Beckwith, of Petersburg.
At the meeting Of the Board of over
scers of the Poor Committee appointed tC
look after the building of IA new hospital at
the aims house was requested Ito urge
upon the Common Council at its next
monthly meeting on Monday afternoon
next the importance Of having the hospital
built as soon as possible.
In the Mayors Court this morning vii
liam Coles, negro, was charged Will
breaking into an unOccupied house on
Perry street belonging 10 Mr.. Robert l.
Watson. a prominent tObaccOnist Of thi:
city. and stealing a large lot of pipe, gas
burners. brackets, etc. The accused was
sent on to the next term Of the Hastings
Court for trial.
The past has been very duh week in
tobacco, and the amount sold has been very
small. especially .by auction at the EX
change. The small sales by auction were
owing mainly 10 the poor or unsOund char
acter Of the tobacco, and for which there il
no demand. except at mserably low prices
while sound, desirable grades are still
wanted. and at good prices. Yesterday
nineteen hOgsheads were offered by auction
and only four hOgsheads were sold, and
which brought from 500 to 49,
There is nothing doing in cotton, and
prices are nominal at about 1917 cents tOl
middling. There are no changes in the
limitations Ol peanuts.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-08-30

fer's Cyclops in the trotting class in the
Pcrcheron class W. :. Purselfs Ramoz won
the blue ribbon, and q. &. Crayen's Eu'
gene won it for grades. In the Hackney
class Henry fairfaX's, Matchless won the
first honor.
The racing was a feature and was as good
az is usually seen on any Of the regular
tracks. In addition to the regular race
purses. special prizes were offered for hun
ters aud high jumpers. The first was won
by +. T. Mason's Judge" and the latter
by A. Il. Dindas's "sImmsyille," with a
record slightly under six feet.
ON the last day about fifiy members OF
Rathbone division uniformed rank knights
Of Pythias, Of Washington, accompanied by
a drum corps visited the fair. Among the
strangers present on that day was Mr..
Frank Hume, of Alexandria county, whose
attitude IN the political field is just now ex-
citing some curiosity.
On Monday last Il regular cyclone blow
passed along the Goose Creek valley, and
at Outland's blew in a large part Of the
north side of the Episcopal Church OF Our
Saviour, the falling bricks demOlishing the
organ and doing much other damage to the
interior Of the building. There was con-
siderable hail with the storm. and the corn
was stripped of blades and ears and the
trees of leaVce.
Last week an old bachelor named Carter
died in the upper part of the county. lie
was supposed to be worth some three or
four thousand dollars. When his executors
came 10 90 through his effects, however,
they found stuffed about i'm various corners
Of an old desk $1,000 in cold cash that he
had at odd times stored there.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-08-30
THROUGHOUT VIRGINIA.
REPORTS RECEIVED FROM ALL
SECTIONS OF THE STATE.
Norfolk Merchants Anticipating Brisk
Trade-Additional Frost stations Es-
ON the y. and ". Railroad, Etc.

NORFOLK. Va, Aug, s. Special. r.
The business outlook is very promising in
Norfolk. Merchants expect 10 have an inn
mcnse trade this fall, and money is expected
TO flow into the city. The reason for this
season being good one is on account Of the
immense North Carolina cotton crop and
the large amount OF money made by the
truckers this fall. Then, too, number Of
farmers have sold their lands around Nor
folk to syndcates for very large prices, and
as most Of the money came from the North,
the cash has been very abundant around
Norfolk.
A new industry has been taken up by the
farmers on the Eastern shore. They have
gone to raising sweet potatoes on an cNten-
siye scale. and hundreds OF acres of land
were planted IN sweet potatoes this season
Good prices have been obtained for these
vegetables, and all the farmers have made
money who planted them. Growing sweet
potatoes in the summer and catching oys-
ters in the winter promises 10 become avery
lucrative business for these truckers.
More rain has fallen in Norfolk this Au-
gust than for years. Hardly day has
passed during the month that there has not
been one shower. Nearly twelve inches OF
rain has fallen, and it is feared that the
cotton crop may be somewhat damaged If
the rain continues much longer.
There are "a large force of WOrkmen in the
Norfolk nayy-yard now employed on the
hattleship Texas and new cruiser No. :.
Work ON these two ships is progressing very
rapidly. and is being done 50 well that ii is
thought the vessels will reflect much credit
on the southern yard when completed. Be
tween now and election time the nayy-yard
viii bc filled with politician workmen-iel-
lows who Congressman BOwden will have
put to work 20 secure their votes.
There will be a double funeral from st.
Paui's Catholic church, Portsmouth, to-
morrow morning at 10 O'Clock. Mother and
son will be inferred at the same time in the
graveyard. They are Mrs I. O'C0nnor and
Mr.. j. T.. O'COnnor. The mother died yes
terday morning at II O'Clock. and last
night her tmrty-twO-year-Old son followed
her.
4 party Of l2j Mormon immigrants
reached Norfolk, last night, on the Old Do
mini0n line steamer, and LETT for the West
via the Norfolk and Western road-seyeral
Mormon elders accompanying the party
and will look ont for them until they reach
tab. one OF the mothers i'm the party had
hve-months-old infant TO die in her arms
Just before the train left. She did not wait
over 10 see it buried. but left it behind for
the city 20 plant.