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The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1890-03-20
a SUBLIME UTTERANcE.

Keplers' Rhapsody On Demonstrating the
Truth of His Calculations.
Kepler was seventeen years in discov-
ering the harmonic law of our system,
that the squares of the times Of the plan
etary revolutions are proportional to the
cubes of their mean distances from the
sun. When at last his calculations
demonstrated the truth he burst forth in
this rhapsody: "What prophesied
twenty-five years ago, as soon as dis
covered the five solids among the heay-
emily orbits-what / firmly believed long
before had seen Ptolemy's harmonies-
what had promised my friends in the
title OF this book, which named before
was sure of my discovery sixteen
years ago l urged as thing to be
sought-that for which joined Tycho
Brahe, for which have devoted the best
part of my life to astronomical contem-
plation-at length | have brought to
light, and have recognized its truth be-
yond my own most sahguine ex-
pectations. 1t is now eighteen months
since got the first glimpse Of light,
three months since the dawn, very few
days since the unveiled sun, most adj
mirable to gaze upon, burst out upon
me. Nothing holds me; / will indulge
in my sacred fury; will triumph over
mankind by the honest confession that
/ have stolen the golden vases of the
Egyptians to build up tabernacle for
my God far away from the confines Of
Egypt. If you forgive me, rejoice; If
you are angry, can bear it; the die is
cast; the book is written, to be read
either now or by posterity, I care not
which: it may well wait a century for a
reader, as God has waited six thousand
years for an Observation-Disclosures at
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POLITICAL DRIFT

The tariff-reform procession is get
ting to be so strong as to threaten the
breaking down the breastworks of mo-
nopoly in more than one place. Boston
Herald.
Failures among wooden manufact-
urers and commission merchants have
been one of the most striking features
Of the business results of the year.
Lewiston Journal (Rep).
The campaign of education" is
receiving great deal of ammunition
nowadays from the demands Of the sub
sidy hunters before the ways and means
committee. Boston Herald.
-Pinkerton warriors are knocking
out the teeth Of protected miners in
Pennsylvania Where there is SO little
food, however, the poor miners will not
need their teeth.-Louisville Courier
journal.
-Ex- Fire Alarm Foraker isn't as
breezy as a plain witness before Con-
gressional investigating committee as
he was when he offered to march to
Washington to retake the old flags. -
Philadelphia Times.
Every body is going to Washington
for protection-the iron men, the wool
men. the leather men, the sugar men,
the lumber men, the salt men and the
representative Of every other industry
protected and that wants to be. About
the only exception is Dudley, the
blocks-of-five man, who is already as
highly protected by Harrison, Edmunds
and other big Republicans as he needs
to be.Chicago Herald.
Mr.. Rockefeller, the gentleman
who declared that his income was SO
great that he had to go down on his
knees and beseech Divine guidance as to
the best way of spending it, has not yet
received an answer from the Lord. but
in the meantime he Is running half q
dozen first-class trusts, and in another
year he will be able to pay of the Ma
tional debit the spirit moves him.
st. Louis Chronicle.
i-Governor Campbell in Q recent
letter said: 1.-THE tariff will be an issue
in every election until one of theR two
parties keeps its pledges Of reducing
tariff taxes. The late election in Ohio
was carried on the issue of tariff reform.
We propose to make the Congressional
fgl on the same issue next fall In
1891, just . year prior to the Presidential
election, there is another Guberna torial
election. That will be fought On the
| issue OF tariff reform. We should COM
mence an educational campaign on THU
| question right on and keer It vs.
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FoRAKER,s DISGRACE.
Even His Old Friend. the "Indcpendent
Goes Back on Him.

Even His Old Friend, the "Indcpendent,"
Goes Back ON Him.
1t is painful to see a prominent pub
lie man like General Foraker, twice
Governor of the State Of Ohio, occupy
ing such humiliating position as he
occupied before the Congressional in
vestigating committee. In the Guber-
Material campaign in Ohio last fall it
was alleged that a certain paper was in
existence, signed among others by j. e.
Campbell, the Democratic candidate for
Governor. and purporting to be con-
tract to divide the financial profit in
volved in the furnishing of new ballot
boxes when pending bill providing for
such boxes should have passed and be-
come a law. Before the campaign
closed it was known that the alleged
signatures to the contract were
forgeries. A Congressional committee
is now investigating the matter, two of
the members of the House, Messrs. But
terworth and Mckinley, and Senator
Sherman being among those involved.
General Foraker was one of the wit
nesses. His testimony shows that he
heard soon after he was nominated that
such paper was in existence; that he
tried to get possession of it; that he en-
tered into an agreement with one Wood,
by which he was to recommend the lat
ter for certain municipal appointment
on condition that Wood secured the pa
per for him; that finally Wood got the
paper and the Governor gave him his
recommendation; that Wood professed to
get the paper OF John R.. Mclean. Of the
Cincinnati Inquirer, through the latter's
secretary; that when Foraker read the
paper he was surprised to find the name
Of Senator Sherman, as we'll as those Of
Messrs. Campbell, Mckinley, Butter
worth and others attached. Subsequent
ly he showed the paper to Mr.. Murat
Halstead, telling him that he had got
more than he had bargained for, and did
not see how he could use it. He testi'
fies that Halstead said that he could use
it with Campbell's signature simply,
Campbell being the only man named
before the people, and 1t being public
duty to keep such man from being
Governor Of the State. The document
was published in Halstead's paper, the
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, with
Campbelrs signature only. Before the
close OF the campaign the Gazette re-
tracted and declared the paper forgery.
Meantime, however, Foraker had used
the paper, with ballot-box as an OBJ
| ject lesson, in speech in Music Hall,
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"a LITTLE NONSENSE"

AN ingenious Western man has made
musical instrument from corn-cob.
Any one can play by ear on it.-Yonkers
Statesman.
-"Is it crime to be a woman?" said
the pretty agitator. ''If 1t is, it's very
capital crime, replied gallant auditor.
-Munsey's Weekly.
-Briscoe-"Those are rather odd
looking tiles on your hearth" Demps-
ter-s'Yes; those are some Of the first
loaves of bread my wife baked after We
were married. Time.
Miss Wayback ION board ship as the
fog horn starts upl-'.Mercy, ma, what's
all that tooting?" Mrs Wayback-.
Goodness graciousl there must be
whale on the track. Jury.
Asking an Impossibility. AT thu
door-..Marrier, thisis the fifth time I've
asked YOU to come and let me in. = From
the upper window-..Well, ! heard you.
Say it again and then sing it. Cant
amt got the key" Binghamton Re
publican
A Useful. Present. Mrs. Jobbs--f
''What ON earth is that?" Mr.. J0bbs--
.'This, my dear, is barometer--a pres
emit from your son at college" "Oh,
I've heard of them. Isn't the dear boy
thoughtful! Which way do we screw II
when we want the weather to be fine?r
IN. Y. Weekly.
Mrs. Wayback-s'That's mighty
interestin' book O. poems We brought
brought home, Cyrus" Cyrus-s'(slad
you like it, mother. Mrs. Waybaclf--
81 just noticed one singular thing about
It." Cyrus-'sWhat Is it?" Mrs. Way.
back-"Why, there's so many poems by
anon and he's an author never heard
tell of'-America.
-A-Jones-s'So you have sent on your
cookn Smith Yes, I've discharged
her" II am surprised to hear 1t, a. /
heard you say she was such an excellent
cook That's just the reason dis
charged her. She eoolxedsuch excellent
dinners that we ate SO much there was
nothing leftover for supper. Her good
cooking was her only fault"
They We're Differently Struck
Parent--sI visited our district school
this morning and was simply delighted.
The order was perfect; the recitations
excellent caller-stgThen you like
that dudish young teacher?n Parent
HE did not impress me as being at all
dudish. He struck me as being model. !"
Sammy putting in) Ma, II you'd
stayed till after recess you might have
seen how he struck me. brakes Mag
azine.
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JAvANEsE DANCERS.

They Move In n Sinuous Sedateness Quite
Impossible to Describe.
They were neither noisy nor aban-
doned. The music was slow, regular and
savage only in timbre. 1t tortured the
nerves in an insidious and unsupported
way only-like certain forms of Chinese
punishment, which at first seems wholly
unbearable-and did not assail them
violently, as did that of the Spanish and
Egyptian virtuosi. And to it's un-
phrased, unmodulate monotony the
dancers moved with trailing steps in
-slow-infinitely slow--curves, wreath
ing their arms, or rather their hands,
with the wrist as a pivot, in sinuous
sedateness quite impossible to character
Use or describe.
As they circled about the little stage
solemn-visaged youth in-perhaps---
full canonicals, surrounded by group
of attendant girls, they seemed to DO
performing q series Of barn-yard evoln-
tions, as of slowly-strutting cock en-
circled by his harem Of hens. 1t was
decorous to the point Of ,solemnity, and
/ the sense OF measure was certainly pre-
served to an almost measureless degree.
The dancers were never carried beyond
themselves by the entrain of the dance,
but very visibly and agreeably con-
trolled and regulated their gestures and
poses. In this sense the performance
was clearly an artistic one. But at the
end Of half an hour the observer who
did not find 1t monotonous must have
been determined seeker after sensa-
tions.
The elaborate but limited sinuosity OF
tho waving hands and fiexable wrists
seemed at last perfectly insipid, and,
instead of being intentional, merely the
reduction to Fictitious appearance OF
order, of movements, in reality hap
hazard and fortuitous, by a slowing Of
the pace to such an extent that the sense
i of slownox disguised the lack Of char
acter in the design. After the Gitanas
any exhibition of decorum was agree
able, but before long the emptiness Of
pure decorum made itself dismally per-
;eiyed, and one could not help thinking
that the Partisan amateurs who went
into ecstacies over the Javanese did not
analyzc their sensations with sufacient
assiduity Scribner.
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Cincinnati. With its help he felt thai
he was making brilliant campaign.
He says that while he believed the pa
per and signatures genuine at the limo
he now sees that he was too easily dc
ceived, and feels humiliated. He maj
well feel Inundated. He ought to have
known that it was impossible that soma
Of the men implicated could have signed
such apaper; but evidently he was too
willing to advance his own political
fortunes to care who suffered. OF course
he can mot expect any political prefer
ment whatever hereafter. His own
party could not carry him Y. indie
pendent (Rep.
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There are 80 many women who have
passed their first youth who appear 1T
the balls in New York and receive the
devoted Attentions Of men for whom they
must entertain most grandmotherly
interest, that the question Of light has
become most important one, 50 these
foxy caterers TO the female complexion
have taken . leaf out Of French books
and lighted their rooms with candles.
the silver candelabra being set in the
walls 50 that the light falls from the
side, not from above, while pretty little
fiuted petticoats Of rose silk shade the
colored candles. A side light especially
II it's rose-tinted, takes ton years from
= woman's, age No wonder we are II
favor Of abolishing the deadly electric
lamps, and the flaming gas, Il VA
candles are such thieves d time - clIlr
cage Journal.
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HAPPY YOUNGSTERS.
Little Japs Have Gay Times and Very An
Ing PlaythIngs.

Little Japs Have Gay Times and Very Amus-
Ing PlaythIngs.
Surely the children OF Japan must
have far better time than any others in
the world, since the grown people in
that far-away country are such pleasure
lovers, and the very toys the boys and
girls have to play with are such ingeni-
GUS inventions. In no respects has the
originality Of continuance, so character
istic Of the Japanese, exhibited itself
more markedly than in their playthings.
No European would ever have imagined,
however remotely, the least absurd Of
them.
The Japanese kite represents in itself,
In its endless notifications, the solution
of aerial problems suggested at by Ben
Franklin. Curiously enough no Anglo
Saxon boy can hy such kite; to accom-
plish the feat requires an instinct essen
TALLY Japanese, or Chinese IL you will.
A youthful Oriental, without specific
instruction, thinks nothing Of setting of
out Of the nursery window half dozen
paper birds, Of varied plumage, with
strings attached to them, some Of them
contriyed, maybe, to give voice to chirps
like those Of chicken cocks and other
fowls before. the breeze.
OF course, the kite itself Is Chinese
invention, and probably the same is true
Of the top. Any way it was gentleman
II Japan who first conceived the idea OF
q nest Of tops that should all fly out and
spin when the papa top was set a-going,
and similarly 1t has been with all sorts
Of other implements for yadolescent en-
tertainment--San Francisco Chronicle.
"A Melbourne barber shaves his GUS
toners with pieces Of broken beer bot
ties No city knight Of the razor ever
handled his implement with more skill
and dexterity In less than three min
utes the operation is over, and the som
sation is described = more pleasans
than that prodpsed BY tho razor. Sx-
vAnnah Ncws.
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HOME AND HAPPINESS.

How hsppy Is this home
Wherein contentnent dwells-
There labor's restless loom
song OF concord sweiis;
There comfort proud presldes
DER fortunes scenty store,
And gIadncss calmly gIidcs
Unceasing through its door.
How. happy 10 the sphere
Where love supremely rcigns-
There faith forestalIcthfear,
And Joy precludeth pains;
There pleasures crown the day
!. In sweet and swift increase,
Ard Heaven spreads DER the way
The golden arch Of peacc.
.-TIovard n. Fuller, In LesIie's Newspape
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The Sandwich Islanders p.Le is
made Of virgin cork, lined With meer-
schaum, and is curious by reason OF the
nattern of the cork made by the insect
that feed on the trees. 1t is like deli
cate lace-work.
The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1890-03-20

Warren Humes, the Oldest guide IN
the Adirondacks, has hunted there ior
forty-five years and has killed over Tour
thousand deer and more than two nun
drcd bears.
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''The joker?"

''The joker?"
Yes s. ---- :
swell, what is the joker?"
"a dummy card"
THAT'S clear, must say"
SWELL, it's card without any spots at
all on it."
whats it put, in for9p
.sOh, because it is"
S"why?"
.I-I don't know"
"And it's the highest card OF all?n
Eyes, it is"
.'Now, see here, John Baxter. You
said while ago that card with one
spot on was the highest card, and now
you up and say that card with no spots
on is highest, and just believe you're
making fun Of me.
mo, III not.s
"You are, sir.
"Indeed, I'm not"
"You are-anyhow, you can take your
old cards and go to Guinea with them!
/ don't want any thing to do with such
a silly, idiotic game! It's all nonsense,
anyhow. Bahr'--Detroit Free Press.
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A DlscusTEo PUPIL.


A DIsGuSTED PUPIL.
o. Lady who WIN Not Play Progressive
Euchre This season.
A progressive euchre craze had broken
out In the neighborhood in which tho
Baxters lived, and Mrs. Baxter, who did
not know an ace from . three-spot, con-
cluded that she must learn the game or
retire from society. Mr.. Baxter under
took to teach her.
ssNow, my DEAR he said, it's like
this: In euchre We discard exery thing
below eight and" 4
Eight WHAT"
'sWhy. all cards having less than eight
spots are thrown out"
ssWhat for?''
because they are not needed In
euchre. In whist it is different, for you
play with all the cards.
II should think you'd need all Of them
in euchre the same as in whist"
swell, youdon't. Now, after the cards
are shuified we cut for deal"
do what?
''Cut for deal"
whats that?'
"Why, we see who shall deal out the
cards. :, =---1.-=-=-=s.5--,.
'sOh, mercy, don't want to deal them;
you can every time if you want to-
But there is often great advantage
in having the deal"
''Oh, there is?''
"Yes, indeed. I'll explain that later
on. Now, let's cut, The highest card
counts aha! get the deal.
why, how's that? My card has ten
spots on it and yours has only one.
s'Yes, but mine is the ace"
"The what?'
1.-THE ace"
"Well, what if it is? You're trying to
cheat, sir. You can't make me believe
that one is more than ten"
"But tell you that this is the ace"
II don't care if it is. Ten spots are
more than one. You just the same as
said So"
I mo, / didn't
"You did. But don't care. Cheat If
! you're small enough to take advantage
I Of a beginner. 4-.----z-------.55--
Pm not cheating, as you'll under
stand when you come to know the value
Of the cards better Now, / dealt out
five cards to each Of us, first two at q
time and then three, and"
Why don't you deal them all atenee2''
Because it is against the rules"
81 don't see why?"
'sWell, it is, and
''Wel1, it's an awful silly rule. When
| play I'm going to give each person all
his cards and have done with it,
ssYou'lr get tripped up If you do.
Now, let's see. What cards have your
Clubs are trumps.
I. Clubs are what
seTrumpsn sz2---
'"What on earth are trumps?"
why, clubs, | said. >
''Oh, know, but what do you mean
by trumps?"
ssWhy, trumps are the winning cards. /"
sHumph! ] know as much now as
did before. think its al awfully silly,
anyhow" l+~
'Well, let's go on and see what kind
Of hands we have got. Whatcards have
| you?''
Mercy! don't know. Here's a
hideously ugly old woman with two
heads and a heart close to each head. y
/ THAT'S the queen Of hearts. Have
you the knave of clubs?"
1.-THE schdt?''
1.-THE knave of clubs?'' ?
How should / knew2-HeFe,s- a vii
lainous-looking rascal with club at
each end of the card
That's the kpave, and the right
| bower"
"What under the shining sun do you
cali the right bower?"
Fhe knave of the card that is the
trump is the right bowerand the highest
card you can hold until you play with
the joker. -
''The joker?"
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Rates Of Advertising.

Advertisements inserted 1t Il per inch
for first insertion, and SOC for each sub
scquent insertion, tor any less time than
three months.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-03-15
THE NEW BACK RIVER BRIDGE
Discussed by bridgeport Clti1cns-Ot the
I -.- Nrlilcrnnrt NnMa.

Discussed by bridgeport Clti1cns-Otiic
5a bridgeport News.
Several new dwelling houses arc 10 DO erected
In kltkwood this spring. ..I-r.. 1sI
Mcssrs. A. G. Downey Rmi Il. s. Wright, OF In.
dianapolls. arc here on business.
Tho probabilities arc that the Pennsylvania
Company will erect q new freight depot on tho
site 81 tho old G. 4 +. passenger depot. In tho
conla !, S, George Gordon, q the Cleveland,
Loraln y Wheeling. who was Injured In coils.
Ion o. Flushing last fall. Is improving slowly
and Is now able 10 DO about.
"Chuck" Handle. who moved his family from
thls place 10 point IN southern Georgh last
spring, returned Yesterday, thinking more Of
tue reputation Of tho South than Of the South
Mr.. Newman, Of BROOKLYN, tho pa.eu.ce Of tho
wa,chman's clock bearing his name, and which
Il 10 be manufactured hero, arrived hero ycster.
DAY LOT tho purpose Of supcrlnteudlug the con.
struc.iou Of tho plant, 5T57, 10. :.
Mr.. Conoway. living in Kirkwood, who was
one Of the unfortunate ones In! ured In collision
Y. \. & ". road about one mile west OF here lnSt
Fall, IL now lying ut tho point Of death. Il
turns out that his Injuries were OF an internal
character. aud while they were not thought
dangctons until quite recently, his condition Ia
upall hope OF bis recovery.
A citizens meeting was held at City Hall on
Thursday evening TO consider and talk over tho
proper course 10 pursue to get tho proposed new
bridge OF tho Wheeling Bridge Company over tho
lack river. FROM the Island TO !EtuRyllc, to DO
thrown over from tho Island TO Kirkwood. both
.Etnayille md kirkwood hru Incorporated In
bridgeport, mud the point Is simply what Is best
for the town III general. The meeting was call.
ed to order by Mr.. George Mckee, who was Sc.
lccted as chairman. and the object Of tho meet.
Ing was stated by Mir. Greedy Uranium. There
was 4 largo attendance and Views were freely
exchanged. A wide awake, catcrprislng So r I
was manifested throughout, and also dctcrml.
nation 10 project tho towns best Interests by a
liberal and generous policy. and II need be by
fighting any move made detrimental to the same.
\ committee consisting Of ". T. Graham, +. Z.
i!obinson., Il. @. Dranum. George Nc.
The committees work Is to confer With the
lirldIs Company aud also 10 confer with Conn.
Gil for the purpose OF having street opened up
from Bridgeport through .Etnnvllle to Martins
Ferry, running the entire distance on the west
side OF the railroad tracks This Is a highly
important measure In connection with the
other work tho committee have In hnnd, be-
cause one objection to crossing with the electric
street car. line Into kirkwOod and thence to
Martins Ferry Is tho fact that It would ncceSsi.
tate the crossing Of tho Cleveland & Pittsburgh
Hallway track. The opening Of this proposed
street would obvlate this difficulty and make
but ono crossing. This new road or street Is
Important for many other reasons aud should DO
made ut oncc. sgg. nr..1.s -
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-03-15
UNWlTrING GNOCGRS.

How Callow Vendors OF Soap and Candles
nrc Worked by Shnrpcrs. -.'
;. About three weeks ago two fine look
ing young ducks worked several grocers
for all their wrapping paper and bags.
Their plan was t. enter store, notice
the paper and bags not printed, and
offer to print it free Of charge for the
privilege OF placing small card OF their
own underneath. Several grocers gave
up their paper, but they are still long
ing for it, for it has not returned.
During the present week, another smart
young business man has more ellectually
pulled the lower limbs Of a number OF
groccrs. His scheme was just as simple.
He offered them splendid article OF tea
at fifty cents pound, in consideration
Of the fact that some one he represented
had been caught short. The sample he
showed was fine, and he sold in all about
5000 worth OF tea. 1t was delivered and
the money collected, but when he had
skipped and the tea was opened it was
found to be worth about twenty cents n
pound. Goods are no. always like the
samples,