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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1891-03-04

The colored women of this city have
learned that it is possible to take the
kink out of their hair, and there is
quite sensation over the discovery.
The rush to have crisp locks straighten-
ed is becoming general, although but
few of those who have successfully
been smoothed out are willing to adj
NIT that their hair was ever otherwise
than straight and glossy. The fad as
yet has not reached the male sex, and
at the Sunday evening meeting of the
A. NJ. E. Church one of the deacons
warned the sisters against their sinful
pride in attempting to improve on the
Lords handiwork. He was followed
by an aged sister, who said:
''If God had intended us to have
straight hair He would have given it to
US in the beginning. God never in
tended it, and l, for one, shall be con-
tented with what I've got. It's a sin
before the Lord and vanity to have
your hair Strengthened"
The idea was introduced by young
colored woman from Virginia. She
herself has glossy bang and back hair
as straight as that of the late Sitting
Bull. She says her own hair was form
erly crisp and kinky, but that an old
Canadian woman told her how to make
it straight, and this information she is
now imparting for a consideration.
The customer is told first to wash her
hair and come with it well dried. She
does so, and then the operation begins.
A preparation that is amber-colored
and of the consistency of cream is
taken from large jar and rubbed
thoroughly into the hair, and where it
was entirely lusterless before it begins
to assume gloss. This is rubbed so
thoroughly into the scalp that none of
the hairs can fail to have received a
portion. Then vigorous brushing is
resorted to, and the short hair begins
to lengthen. If it were an inch long
before, it is now fully two inches long,
and if before it had been done in what
old-fashioned Southern people term
into loose twist or loose coil at the
back. The operation takes about four
hours and is permanent in its effects.
1t gives the colored woman very In
dian-like appearance, and the few who
will admit having been treated claim
they did it merely to make the labor of
combing their hair so much the easier.
One of them said: "One thing / know,
and that is that it is terribly convenient
to have straight hair. / never before
realized what blessing it was. Before,
| dreaded the task of combing it, and
now 1 don't mind it at all" Hair
Strengthening promises to be the fad for
the winter among the colored ladies of
Boston. Globe.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1891-03-04
schiiemann's Queer Superstition.

Schliemann was very superstitious
for a man of learning. When he was
poor clerk in Amsterdam he dream
ed of the number Ill, GAL. He there
upon sent ten thalers to Berlin to be
invested on that number in a lottery.
1t had been sold and he was given an
other in its place, which drew nothing,
and he lost his ten thalers!
An old tailor at this time gave
Schliemann an infallible recipe for
getting rich, to which he considered
his own prosperity due. 1t consisted
in putting on the left stocking, the left
shoe, etc., first. Schliemann was
greatly impressed with the suggest
ion, and for the remainder of his life
he acted upon it. To put out his left
hand and left foot first became Sec
ond nature to him, and he used SER
iously to urge his friends to adopt the
practice saying;
1T does no harm, and l assure you
my luck changed from the moment l
needed the old tailor"
During the Crimean War he had in
vested his entire capital of 912. 500 in
indigo, which had been shipped from
London and Hamburg to Memel,
Prussia. On its way to Russia, when
upon arriving at Tilsit, Schliemanr
learned that the Town of Memel had
been wholly consumed. He hurried
thither and was told to look among the
ashes for his goods
But upon mentioning the loss to ar
official he found he was the only per
son whose goods had not been destroy
ed, as they had not arrived until afte
the conflagration was over. Schlie
mann always believed that his habit o
putting on his left stocking first haC
Something to do with his good luck
| BafdlO Courier.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1891-03-04
The Deadly Tornado.

When trying to escape from torna-
do, never run to the northeast, east or
southeast writes Lieutenant Finley in
F'orum. Never take refuge in forest
or grove of trees, or near any object
that may be overturned by the wind.
A frame building is safer than one
built of brick or stone. The former is
more elastic and holds together long
er; the latter goes down in the first
crash, and the debris is whirled into a
heap in the center of the foundation.
In frame structure the cellar is the
safest place, but in brick or stone
building it is the most perilous. In
the former case the debris is carried
away from the foundation, while in the
latter instance the cellar is filled with
it. The tornado cave offers absolute
security to life and limb, and no means
of protection can replace it for that
purpose. As regards protection to
property, no building can be made
sufficiently large, strong, high, or low
to resist the force of the tornado's vor-
tex. There is no changing the path
of the tornado by the employment of
explosives or by any artificial barrier.
To contemplate the dispersion of the
cloud by the use OF any electric contLl-
vance is also idle. All buildings should
be constructed as would be done with
out the knowledge of the tornado, and
then protected by legitimate insurance.
Protection must be accomplished by
organized capital, the safety on one
being assured by the legitimate and
successful cooperation of many. The
writer strongly advocated this method
of protection during his tornado inves-
legations in the West in 1879, and now
several million dollars worth of prop
erty are thus insured every year.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1891-03-04
An Attempted Kitchen Robbery

The mistress of suburban house
hold undertook to relieve her domestic
perpleXities in an extraordinary way.
A second suburban chatelain was seat
ed one day last week at her window
sewing when she saw a carriage with
liveried coachman halt at her door.
Presuming caller had arrived,
though not recognizing the estab-
lishment, she was surprised to see the
coachman descend, and, avoiding the
main entrance, vanish kitchenward. In
few minutes he reappeared. escort
ing her cook to the carriage, where
she remained for several minutes in
conversation with its occupant. Then
the cook retired, the coachman re-
mounted. and the carriage was driven
away. 1t was clear. and, to the
credit of woman be it said, a most un-
usual case of attempted kitchen rob-
berry. 1t is satisfactory to be able to
further report that the cook even re-
sented such manifest outrage and de-
clined to make the suggestet change
in her employer. Y Times.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1891-03-04
Cures For Rheumatism.

If it is in your wrist. fill a bucket
with very hot water and hold your
hand in it until the pain leaves. If the
pain is in your knee joint fill churn
with hot water and step into it. More
people know what to do for rheumatism
than for any other disease; the only
man we know of that don't know what
to do in a case of rheumatism is an
Atchison doctor. We called him for a
pain in the wrist once. aud he did not
suggest anything, although he talked
cheerfully, and tried to be entertaining.
Finally we told him we didn't want to
be amused; we wanted to know a REM
edy for rheumatism. Il don't know
anything that's good for it." he replied.
''If you hear of remedy, send me
word; I have had it forty years.
Atc5iSo7l Globe.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1891-03-04
HOW 1.-TWO STRIKE" GOT HIS NAME.

HOW TWO STRIKE" GOT HIS NAME
.'In a P. S." in letter that re-
ceived the other day from an old friend
is this query,
ITO what baseball club does Two
Strike belongP"
Two Strike is now playing outer
field in the Bad Lands club. Only
quarter moon ago he held the position
of umpire, but he made a decision in
favor of Gen Brooke of the Pine Ridge
team which so enraged the manage
ment of the Bad Lands outfit that they
fined him ten ponies and dubbed him
into his present position. Two Strikes
appearance, will take the trouble to
add, is a great compliment to his pro-
fession, and particularly his record.
He has three fingers that have been
broken and are all gnarled up, one of
his eyes has the appearance of having
been knocked all out of plumb some
time<pr other by very hot twister,
and he is lame in one leg where base
runner of the Government blues spiked
him with bayonet during the season
of 1876.
But the old man didn't get his name
on account of his baseball record.
HIS name was the result of a very in
|
an Indian can become chief he must
have taken the scalp of at least one
white man, and even then he isn't con-
sidered much of chief until he has
taken a second one. Having taken
two scalps his next ambition is to
place a ''strike." as they call it, to the
credit of his record. 1t is something
that very few Indians do in these
times. To do so is counted an act of
especially great bravery. The act con-
sists of rushing alone. horseback or on
foot, into a camp of white enemies,
killing a man, and then when he has
fallen dead-simply wounding him
doesn't count--to bend over him and
strike his body either with the hand or
any weapon, stick, or even feather.
The idea is that it requires the utmost
nerve-to use a modern white mans
term-to rush in among a lot of per-
sons all supposed to be looking out for
the safety of one another as well as
their own and to stay there long
enough not only to shoot or cut one of
them, but if necessary fight others un-
til the one dies in order that he may
bend over and give the heroic stroke.
An effort to earn this distinction, has,
a noted old Indian tells me, cost the
lives of more would-be chiefs than any
other one thing When, however, this
deed is performed twice the perform
er, so to speak, is entitled to perch on
the topmost pinnacle of red-faced
fame. Two strike is the only Indian
in this part of the country who has wor
such honors. and hence his name.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1891-03-04

The earth is the greatest distance
from the sun on the morning of the 9th
of July.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1891-03-04
FAD OF BosToN's DusKY BELLIES.

They Are Learning How to Take the
Kink Out of Their Hair.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1891-03-04

First-class securities and
time-locks. Transcript.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1891-03-04

OF every million people in the world
800 are blind.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1891-03-04
WIT AND HUMOR.

Ignorance of the law excuses no one
the lawyer. -Drake's MagG-
New-York tribune., 1891-12-20
S. p. WRITE g. CO.'S AFFAIRS.
THE ASSIGNEE FILES HIS SCHEDULEs-MR
WHITE WANTS TO GET TO WORK AGAIN.

THE ASSIGNEE FILES HIS SCHEDULES-MR
WHITE WANTS TO GET TO WORK AGAIN.
Stephen v White and Franklin W. Hopkins, COM
posing the firm OF s. v White & Co.. stock brokers at
No. 36 Wallst., who assigned TO Charles W. "ouo'
filed schedules yesterday showing liabilities, secured
81 ,742 600 and unsecured 81 ,013,543; nominal as
sets 52, ,O96, 500, and actual assets S253,22o Inc
difference between actual and nominal assets Is due 10
bad accounts and depreciation Of securities. Among
the unsecured creditors General G.. W. CLARK, OF
Washing on s499 60; J. J. Donaldson, S47 0O3 Ches
ter S. Lord 81 ,427; s. Il. Ingham, trustee OF Little
Fails n. ", S31 $50; Dr. J. J. Ransom, OF Boston,
$50 424: S. " White Co., Chicago, SS369'ooo, ana
Giovanni p Morosini s77,500. The principal secured
creditors are the Central Trust Company S35O,oOo:
Farmers Loan and Trust Company. 1900; BANK
Of North America 300 900; Brooklyn Trust Company.
Home LIZ. Insurance Company, Mutual Benefit Life
Insurance Company Newark, y. j. and Heidelburg,
Ickelhcimer Co.. 100000 each First National Bank
96O 900; and Nassau Trust Company OF Brooklyn
Importers and Traders National Bank, Telghman Row
g. Co.. Astor Place Bank, Corn Exchange Bank Ameri-
can Exchange National Bank and Phoenix National
Bank $4,000 each.
Thh assets consist Of securities, etc, OF the
nominal value Of s40s9 g. which are estimated TO
he worth actually s30 $50 GO. Other assets include
claim OF 81 So 1856 against A. II. Booman value un-
known s6o,474 OF against Ph. Bruins, value unknown
s4O8 OH against John s. Delano, value unknown
s252. I62 against DelanO Dwyer, value unknown
The assets may be increased by the collection OF out
standing accounts.
The filing Of the schedules OF Mr.. White revived
the story that his interests the attempted corn deal
OF last summer were sacrificed by Edward NJ. Field
Mr.. White made the following statement: Il
have only this to say This is not the
p!ace to examine books or business
As to the unfortunate speculation IN corn'
SUBSEQUENT events shown that my judgment as to
the commercial situation was correct, and aftcr tha
bears broke the price and gave away my corn TO ex-
norters there was not enough left in the country
10 supply the domestic demand at prices much higher
than looked for.
al do not enter into any hue and cry against man
now most unfortunate Rumor, especially In Cmcaso'
charges wrong dealings to the execution OF my or
ders I have no means verifying these things, ana
IT would not do any good for m, TO prove tnei d ~
is however fair 10 say that j have Deen disaP-
pointed i'm not getting large sums of money OWING 10
me on the settlement Of corn held for me Dy ms fIi
and that the failure to receive that money has most
Seriously .nterfered with settlements, which would
have aided me In renewing business: 49, II.
"Whatever is in store for me- the best thing tnaI
could happen for all my creditors would be that l
should have renewed opportunity for work."
New-York tribune., 1891-12-20
4 DANGEROUS CRANK ARRESTED.

San Francisco Dec. 10 Specian-Mchael Hawkins
was arrested today for initiating the tactics Of the
Sage bombthrowe He recently sent letter to Mrs.
Annie Donahue the widow Of the millionaire Peter
Donahue threatening to kill her II she did not give
him sc, 600 which, he says, her husband owed him.
Hawkins is a wellinown character about town. Since
the death Of Peter DOnahue, who left his estate TO
Mrs Donahue Baron Won Schroeder and his wife and
Mervyn Donahue (now deceasedl, Hawkins has been
trying TO get share OF the estate. He claims $4,000
from each Of the above mentioned persons and since
the death OF Mervyn Donahue he has added his ex-
ecutors to the list
Hawkins began to annoy Mrs. Donahue about three
years ago. In 1889, after having failed to extort
money from Mrs Donahue, he stopped her carriage In
the street and demanded interview. She refused,
whereupon he jumped into the carriage and fired shot
at her but missed his mark. Hawkins was convicted
of assault with intent to murder and sentenced to one
wear and a fine that meant 200 days more In the
county jail He has recently renewed his persecution
OF Mrs. Donahue. He was once member OF the real
estate firm Of DAILY Hawkins. but tho firm failed and
Hawkins took to drink. He was a cousin OF Peter
Donahue to whom he owed everything he ever made.
His grievance against the widow Is mainly because he
husband failed to leave him legacy. Hawkins In the
big bonanza days made small fortune In stocks and
was regarded the best dressed man In san Francisco
He still tres dress and Is type OF shabby genteel
swell" The police regard him as dangerous crank
for his mind has been unsettled by years OF nueauon
and gin-drinking
New-York tribune., 1891-12-20
rHE q MoNoN,sp FAIR ARRANGEMENT

Chicago Dec 10 (speciaD-A new project has been
originated by officials of the MOnon" road, by which
the handling of the Worlds Fair business Of that ROAD
will be greatly facilitated and passengers viii be
landed right on the Worlds Fair grounds. The
scheme is for the Monon" to take its Worlds Far
passengers by rail to Michigan City, From that point
to the Worlds Fair grounds new line OF spiehdialy
eoupped passenger steamers is TO be provided. each
.of which will have accommodations for 1000 pas
sengers. Passengers arriving at Michigan City IN
the evening will 20 aboard of these steamers thnt
will be In waiting them and will be furnished with
comfortable berhs for the night The trip across the lake
will be made in four to four and half hours and
after comfortable nights rest breakfast VIII be
served to the passengers at an early heur IN @ @ue
morning after paraking of which they can get of the
beat right at the grounds spend the day there ana take
the boat back TO Michigan City In the eNcln9
New-York tribune., 1891-12-20
rv,yERgrY c1UB FOR BOSTON.

Hoston. Dec 10 (speciaD.-Boston Is to have a
r-ni,,crstv Climb Alumni of Amherst Brown, Dart
month Williams and Harvard behind the project,
and the club has been incorporated under the laws OF
Massachusetts,. The number OF resident meinpcrS y
- - ,;,,ited a, prcsent 20 5o0 and the number Of
Dor- reeident members TO the same figure. The ad-
mission fee for resident members is now fixed at $40
and the annual dues placed at $36. For nom
resident members the admission fee is fixed at S2o and
tbe annual dues will be S1s. Applications ior mem
bership 10 be sent TO Wlnso" WARREN a'u "a
n Nrcr,cllan. The following are among the men who
have already signed the membership roll John Lowell
phillips Brooks william G. Russell, solomon Lincoln
w1nslow warren. William E. RUSSELL JohngD. Long,
Henry Higgmson Moses Williams, T. Jefferson Coohase'
IT, Nathan Matthews. ir, John y WhsewtigI d GirlS %
James c. White Arthur T. CABOT william VII a,sred r 9i Il
IMent"av George 81 TowIe DIR. Abner Post Marcus
Morton' Asa p French, Thomas W. Proctor, Dr. be,-
jamin Tcnney, Isaac F. Paul. william "asp'h anu ii'n
ord
New-York tribune., 1891-12-20
MINOR HAPPENINGS.

As the sloop =. VI. Banks, of Genwood, was going
up the East River last night, she was run into by
freight propeller The sloop was struck In the stern
and capslzed. The crew, consisting OF Captain Car
penter and two men, managed TO get into the yawl-
boat and reach the Astoria shore in safety
Mrs. Emily Pitt Stevens, the National organizer OF
the Woman's Christian Temperance Union will de-
liver her lecture, Who Is My Neighbour In Trinity
BAPTIST Church. in East Fifty ffth-st. this morning
In the afternoon she will speak for the W. G. T. L.
Of Brooklyn in their hail. and in the evening In tho
New. England Congregational Church, South Ninth-st.
Brooklyn.
The Republican Clubs custom OF having club
night every saturday broken into last evening
by the fact that the monthly meeting takes place to
morrow night
Professor william II. Goodyear's lecture on tie
Principle Of Illusion In Architecture in Cooper Union
last night was delivered before about 800 psrsSns
The speaker illustrated his points by drawings and by
comics Of photographs. Athenan and Roman types
of architecture were those mostly employed.
New-York tribune., 1891-12-20
RICHMOND TERMINAL AFFAIRS.

The committee OF stockholders Of the Richmond Ter
nal Company has yet been appointed by the chair
man Frederic p Olcott but hopes are held out that an
announcement will be early this week 1t is con-
,dd n,etav certain that Henry Bulge, OF Hangarten
Co win be member and it reported yesterday that
william Mertcns of L. Won Holman Co., would be ON
the comI;:ttee .
General Samuel Thomas expresses strong aiI thap 'ne
stockholders win be able finance the company without
tho adopton OF radical He said that OH Tues
dav meeting would be held Independently OF the olcot
committee OF men largely interested In the Terminal VINO
would form sort syndicate committee" To arrange
%, he advancing OF any funds needed relieve the COM
- NJ any on barrassment General Thomas denied that
there was any truth report that the Richmond and
Danyie MANAGERS decided 10 make no further pay
ents Of the obligations under the Georgia Pachc lease
New-York tribune., 1891-12-20
AN OLD OgAHREI RENEWED IN EINIRl, |,

Elmira y. Y, Dec. 10 tspecal.-~Shades Of Colonel
Hathaway. Barney Hoffman, Lucus Robinson and other
honest Democrats" remarked old Jacksonian fol
lower in referring to the tactics Of Hill Co. in the
Senate contest in the XXvlTth District. 1t was no
wonder said he "that the same element defeated
Governor Robinson. They will not make anything
out of it in the long run, for the best element Of
the Democratic party in Chemung will be found re-
corded against such robbery" The Tammany fight
against Lucus Robinson is recalled by the present local
Gght against Colonel d. c. Robinson, the late Gov
ernors private secretary the element confont
him at every turn. The feeling is intensified by the
fact that Mr.. Robinson has very large following for
tho Mayoralty and will be formidable candidate for
,he Democratic nomination. Mayor Dawson has been
honored with two terms and will probably let the
ofice seek some other man. Samuel ii. Laney is also
prominently mentioned candidate.
Dlphthera figures very heavily in the weekly NOR
taty report this city The doctors have many
In hand.
The death OF Postal Clerk Henry Baker removes a
good citizen from Elmirs. lie had been In poor
health for several years, although remaining on du
most Of the time. He leaves wife and four children
During the winter months the athletic clubs OF the
3Oth and o6th Separate Companies viii have many
Interesting contests. polo team Will be one OF the
features.
A site has finally been selected for the new home for
the CITY Club and plans for the building have been
adopted The building will cost about $4,000.
New-York tribune., 1891-12-20
AN Old OAKEy BUCKET.
IN in Garden and Forest.

l. b. Harrison in Garden and Forest.
I'm scituate saw the birthplace Of samuel s Woou.
worth. the author Of the poem "The oid oahs.i ne;
Bucket lie was born here January 10, ,.s To-. AZ
early chose be printer, and was apprenuoeo 70
Reniamin RuSseIl Editor OF "The Columbian sentinel
i'm iustOn. lie busy JOURNALIST anu Pio
inc ,uibor lie went New Orb Guy Ia loo0 ana
in sy3 was associated with George y. Morris In esab
iishinc The Mirror The Old Oaken BUCKET
Ioeu wa, written in the spring or summer OF loi,
Mr WoOdworth was then living an Dlane,s,' nc
came home 10 dinner from his Ofce, near the ioot VI
WaII-st on a warm day and took drink ol Ma.ei
saving that he would rather have drink from tne o
well at home. His wife said, Seam, thats Il pretty
snbect for n poem and he wrote It, nave rtau an
autograph letter written by him In August, looo, III
which he says that his second son, twenty years oi
are was at that time three years vOy age 10 ue
Pacific Ocean captains clerk 10 Captain MorTeii,
who discovered the tannbal Islands. hr MOod~or.h
died December 81, 81, and was buried In lork'
but his body aftcrward removed TO san FRANCISCO.
I VI sb 10 learn where IL Hes ana Whether thefe
is any monument his dust / think the brth
nlace should be marked In some appropriate way ana
should like to communicate with some OF MS ucscchu
ants dn order TO consult them egarding the matter.
he well and the little old mill appear To be the same
as when the poet them daily In his boyhoou. i
think w, ought preserve the well, and perhaps the
mIIIstones which are still IN use. The birthplace Is
Visited by an increasing number OF the summer
dwellers on that part OF the shore, sometimes a.
many as sixty I'm q day. The interest which atrncts
neople 10 a poets birthplace is wholesome ana sn0ulo
he Encouraged but IL cannot always be convenient
In ts results for the courteous family now having the
care OF the celebrated well