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The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-08-08
FOR GIRLS AND BOYS.
HOW DAN WAS SURPRISED.

10 the Boston Museum, a long time ago,
little boy, impish as Puck,
Went one day with his nurse, who rcscmbled
a hen
In charge of n wayward young duck.
For our bright little hero was just at the age
Whom boys think IL manly and Zine"
To tease and to worry n nurse, without end:
His age was, think, about nine.
The Museum was reached, and our naughty
young Dan
Was determined to have his own way,
And at last he peeped into a small private
room,
In spite of all Blddy could say.
There big headed, ugly, and cross-looklng
boy,
who appeared to be just of Dams age,
Cried out: you young rascal, get out OF this
roomw
And stamped on the floor in rage.
Now Dan was fighter. At school he was
known
As boy whom no other could beat,
So now he said grimly "Don't try to scare
BY stamping your great ugly feet"
"Be off, cried the other, Tor I'll turn you
outr'
Said Dan: "Id just like you to try"
Then he took step forward, and doubled
his fists,
And measured the boy with his eye
Two minutes had passed. They were no
very long,
But they still were enough for the strife.
Our hero had had, in that small space OF
time,
The greatest surprise in his life:
He'd been beaten, and pounded, and pun.
meled, and thrashed,
And sent VITA kick through the door,
| Which was instantly slammed, while he fell
on his back,
| And lay in heap on the floor.
OF course he was hurt, but he scarcely could
:ccl
| His bumps or his bruises at all,
Nor hear Blddy's scoldng. His utter sur
prise
Was so great that all else appeared small
That boy of his age should have mastered
| him thus,
Whom older bows feared to offend,
So amazed ana perplexed him, he scarcely
felt pain,
But he understood all in the end.
For arrived at his home. Biddy made hei
complaints
"Indade and indade, maam, it's so;
| He entered a room, ma am, and fought will
the dwarf
| The dwarf they exhibit, you know"
| So the mystery was solved: he had fought q
| large dwarf
| a dwarf with the strength of man,
| Which, especially when it was used in rage
| of course was too much for poor Dan.
| He was stiff for week, and sore as could
| be:
| Perhaps you will say: "Serve him rightH'
| But he heartily laughed when he told me the
| tale,
| Some thirty years after the fight.
Alice =. Carter, in st. Nicholas.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-08-08

Then there must be plenty of green,
and lastly they must be as sweet smell
ing as possible.
All the summer and fall, with Davy's
help, those bouquets were made and
sold, and the music lessons easily paid
for.
As Juliet argued, there must be a
market for ones wares or there is no
use in expecting to make money"
1t isn't every farmer or village girl
that has the chance that Juliet (this
happens to be real transaction) had, vet
before she began to sell flowers, she
had thought long and anxiously what
could she do to earn the money to pay
for those music lessons"
Juliet continues to furnish bouquets
at higher price in the winter time,
taking care to not try to keep in the
house plants which require much tend
ing, and only free bloomers, wisely
thinking if she must spend too much
time or money with her flowers, there
will be no money in them. With a
thrifty rose geranium and several pink,
white and scarlet ones, blooming
roses, mignonette, verbenas, hyacinths
| and lilies she can do wonders by freely
cutting the blooms, allowing none to
mature.
Juliet's home is within an hours
walk to the depot, where Davy takes
fiowers.-Ella Greenway, in Prairie
| Farmer
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-08-08
BETTER THAN GOLD.


Better than gold arc tho drops that descending
Kiss the d,y earth and awaken to life
Plant germs that long on their moisture do.
pending
Peacefully slept through the early March
STRIFE;
Better tban gold-and the farmer well ,nowing,
Gratefully watched the gentle May shower;
Beauty and wealth from the raincloud are flow.
log,
Esau;y and wealth, in the grain and the
flower.
Better than gold arc the sunboams that
brightly
SLiiie on sod when the stormooud Is riven;
Better thnn gold the cool dew that falls nightly
Heavens soft blessing 80 silently given.
Treasures far richer than mines ever yielded
Generous nature filings wide DER the laud;
BY her maternal hand nurtured and shielded,
Earth pours her fullness on every hand.
Better than gold is heart where contentmen
Scatters its sunshine to tighten and bless,
Treadlng its path with no thought OF resent
ment,
E'en though than others its share may be
less
He who with blessings kind fate hath pro-
vlded,
Doeth his best and is happy, doth hold
Safe in his heart, though by many derided.
Life's truest rlches-far better than gold.
Mortimer @. Brown, in Good Housekeeping.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-08-08
JEwELRwANp ORNAMENTS.
Now aud novel Articles Now in Hi

Now aud Novel Articles Now in High
Favor.
The ruby, like the diamond, is never
out Of fashion
A new fish knife has fish carved on
ITS handle.
Tnc rage for collecting souvenir
spoons is at its height
Men and women, more than ever,
wear rings upon their fingers.
The pink pearl is lovely object and
commands high price.
With the summer season, silvermount-
ed belts increase in popularity.
Silver combs in graceful open work
designs are out to wear with white
toilets.
The spinel masquerades as the ruby
in many OF the so-called ruby orna-
ments.
White leather card cases dotted here
and there with gold feur-de-lis are
seasonable.
An elegant belt is provided in mar
row ribbon of gold fastened with a
jeweled clasp.
Some of the gold watch cases are
overlaid with translucent enamels in
brilliant colors.
Pendant earrings seen consisted of
two pearls, the smaller of which rested
close to the ear.
Double heart brooches pierced with
an arrow or united with true lovers
knot, continue to find willing patrons
The soft simmer of the moonstone
continues fn 1N1o np,,ania11,, ,x~1,o
enhanced with the encircling glitter of
diamonds.
Silver jewclry of all kinds is, if pos
sible, more fashionable than ever. 1t
is considered especially appropriate for
| summer wear.
An effective ornament for the hair
Stimulates in gold sword with thin
broad blade, and a diamond set and
openworl1 handle,
The opal,,no longer regarded an un-
lucky stone, proves an attraction toe
strong to be resisted, when its. fiery col
or is set off by encircling diamonds
The rarcst specimens of that most
| singular of flowers, the orchid, is now
faithfully represented in enamel ano
affords an effective addition to hand
some toilet.
Little gold bonbon boxes. the covers
of which are in nugget finish with q
| large sapphire sunk in the centre, AFFORD
elegant tritles to carry in my lady''
| pocket.
There are Russia leather belts claspet
with the owners mono G ram in silver
slender, flexible chain belts of silver
and perhaps daintier than all the others
black velvet belts clasped with buckle!
| of silver.
An attractive finger ring seen consist
ed of an overlapping shank of gold
the ends of which were set with five
small diamonds in a row, the gem OF
one end being large white pearl while
on the other was a large pink one; the
effect was that of diamond hoor
mounted with two pearls.
An effort is being made to introduce
nets of gold wire for the hair; these
costly affairs are fashioned somewhat
after the historic colts of Marie Stuart,
time, and are made to order. A few
have also been made in silver cord.
| jewelers. Circular.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-08-08
HE WANTED A SURE THING.
Tale of n Man, an Alarm Clock, and al
Irnte NeighbOr VIM Hnted Both.

Tale of n Man, an Alarm Clock, and an
Irate Neighbor Who Hated Both.
1t happened about o'clock one morn
ing.
A man with flushed face and attired
in white robe stuck his head out OF
bay window and yelled;
SIS that your alarm clock?"
A snore was waited through the win
dow of the next house, and that was
the only answer.
81 say? yelled the man again, ''is
that your alarm clock?"
"Huh?" came mnttered response.
SIS it your clock that's waking the
entire eneighborhood?' shouted the man.
"My clocl?" came the voice again.
Then after pause: Hold on min
ute and I'll see"
Then draped figure carrying a clock
appeared at the window of the next
house.
"By George! it was my clock, " it said,
SIT never seems to wake me. "
"Well, it wakes me, v roared the first
man.
And then you get up and wake me, 4"
returned the other That's kind of
you"
"Yes, get up and wake you, and
some time I'll throw brick through
that window"
mo necessity for that. You just
swear at me and it'll rouse me all right,
Suppose leave this other window
open, too. That would make it surer
you know, and must get up at 8 o'clock
If you go away from home you just LEI
me know and I'll put the clock where
it'll catch the man in the house on the
other side so that he can yell at me-
want TO make ure thing of it will
one of you, for l never hear the clock
Then he pulled in his heaG and it boot
jack whizzed by and shattered lamp
post on the corner. Chicago Tr' bune.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-08-08

after dark, but whether q night run
makes a man superstitious or not l
would not like to say. had a peculiar
experience myself on the mountain
some years ago, one which led me to
ask for a day run, although l didn't
get it. At that time was taking the
fast line east, leaving here about eight
O'Clock in the evening and getting into
Altoona little after midnight. That
night we pulled out of the union depot
half an hour late, the Pan Handle con-
nection being that much behind time.
"The first section, which took out,
consisted mostly of baggage and ex-
press cars, there being but two pas
senger coaches coupled on behind.
The sleepers We're on the second sec
tion, which followed us about twenty
minutes later. You know how wild
and lonely the country is along the
Pittsburgh division, and that outside
of Greensburg and Johnstown there's
no settlement worth mentioning.
when we reached the narrows east
of Biairsville intersection q rainstorm
set in. The wind howled through the
forest and blew a regular gale, the oc-
casional crash of a falling tree on the
mountain above showing how the storm
was raging. Jack, my fireman, got
scared and begged me to stop the train
for fear we would run into a log or Il
landslide.
81 didn't dare to do it, for as I said
before, we left Pittsburgh half an hour
late, and so far had not made up one
minute, and besides it wouldn't do to
get on the time of the second section.
1 shut off steam little so that in case
we should strike any thing we would
not be likely to roll down the rocks in
to the Conemaugh river.
"We passed through the Pack Sad
die all right, however, and reached
Johnstown near midnight This was
years before the great hood and was
glad when we came in sight of the
furnace fires and electric lights of the
iron works, for somehow felt nervous
and out of sorts.
when we got away from Johnstown
and began to climb up the mountain we
were again in the wilderness, for, as
you know, the stretch of track on the
NSoGGlu DCOWSch SIcSSOn anu
Johnstown runs through about as DESC
late section as you would find any
where. We were the only crew on the
hill that night, and l said to Jack that
there must be block on the west
bound track on the other side of the
mountain, for we usually passed half q
dozen trains of empty coal cars after
leaving Johnstown.
well, we found there had been a
landslide near Allegrippus when we
reached Gallitzen, but it had been
cleared away, and three west-bound
extras had already reached the summit.
1t takes three engines to bring up an
ordinary freight from Altoona, two in
front and one behind. The two help
ers are cut off at the top of the noun
tain and run back light to Altoona for
another trip.
when we reached the summit, there.
fore, there were six empty engines
waiting to follow us down. You want
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-08-08
A HEADLIGHT FLASHED INTO VIEW.

My engine gave a jump, and knew
that in less time than it takes to tell it
we would be making mile minute.
''If the engineer of the helper was
running rapidly but carefully under the
impression that we were far ahead, the
danger signal at the tower would warn
him and he would stop, but if he had
lost control of his engine-l thought of
the high embankments ahead and
trembled as the idea of rolling down
the mountain again came into my
brain.
"The wild and prolonged footing of a
echoed again and again through the
valleys. l knew what that meant-the
engine was beyond the engineers con-
troll. We had at least mile start.
Could we with six cars hope to escape
an engine without burden?
Zone thing was in our favor. The
helper was a locomotive built for great
power but slow running, and therefore
its small driving wheels must already
be revolving at n dangerous speed.
Possibly it might jump the track, and
so put an end to the threatening ca
lamity
II gritted my teeth in agony. A
short distance ahead was deep cut,
and then high embankment; if we
passed that point part of the danger
would be over. We whizzed down the
track faster than ever rode before or
since. A rumble and roar, and the
cut was left behind.
"a second later we were over the
hill and on solid ground. l glanced
back and saw the headlight of the wild
engine in the cut not one hundred
yards distant. With frozen blood
awaited the crash. 1t came. A sud-
den shock ran over the tram, and my
engine leaped forward, but luckily did
not leave the track.
"Instantly l realized the vestibule
arrangement on the coaches had broken
the force of the collision, aided also by
the rapid speed of our train. A Asecond
later the same whistle which had
thrilled us before rang out, but this
time it was the CHEEKY call for brakes,
entirely different from the former
shrieks. / shut off steam and put on
air cautiously to see whether the light
engine was pushing us with her full
power.
Grinding it was not, looked back
and saw the runaway come to stand
still just as we passed the tower
and rolled under the Seventeenth
street bridge at Altoona l afterwards
learned the levers on the helper had
caught in some way, and the engine
could not be stopped.
"When it struck the rear coach, how
ever, the shock loosened the machinery,
and the engineer at once shut Off steam
and put on the brakes on the driving
wheels.
"Well, there comes the Pan Handle
connection. Good night. - Boston
Globe.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-08-08

the brakes failed to work whom needed
going down there it would be good-by
j ohm when the first curve was reached.
[ got 10 thinking of that as we swung
down the track that night and fell to
wondering what it would look like to
zee an engine or car roll down the
mountain to the bottom, hundreds Of
feet below.
"The air was misty, the rain having
ceased, but now and then gust of
wind would blow away the fog and
for an instant the mountain tops and
sides could be seen. Then the fog
would fall again ana shut out every
thing, so that the track right ahead
could not be seen.
Just above Allegrippus, at tho
point where the track bends around
and runs down to the Horseshoe bend, is
n signal tower, and below the curve is
another. We got the white at the up
per tower, and, reducing the speed,
rolled on.
"a gust of wind blew away the fog
| just as we were rounding the bend, and
the wild mountain scenery was clearly
outlined against the darkness We
moved slowly down to the curve, for
the rules were very strict about keep
ing control of the train along there.
We rounded the Horseshoe and put on
little steam to get back to a fair speed
again.
Jack was sitting in the cabin half
asleep, for the fireman has rest on q
down grade. saw ahead the clear
signal at the Kittanning Point tower.
Something made me turn my head and
look across the valley to the other side,
from which we had just come.
"As gazed the mist cleared away
and sud denly headlight flashed into
view and an engine was outlined
against the sky beyond. In a second it
disappeared, but rattle and roar and
q faint light as from an open furnace
door told me that locomotive was
coming down the mountain at u terrific
| speed.
"The course of the engine was then
nearly parallel with that of ours, but
knew that moment later it would
skim around the curve and be right be-
hind. For an instant l was almost par.
alyzed with surprise and fear. The
idea of an empty engine dashing down
q grade in your rear with speed four
tunes that of your own is something to
benumb ones brain.
GA person accustomed to act upon
the impulse of moment does so al
most unconsciously, and in this in
stance threw off the brakes and put
on full head of steam, even while my
eyes were fixed on the engine behind.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-08-08
BE A GENTLE BOY.
Not bad Pantaloons But IA Bad Tempe
viii Keep You from Being n Man.

Not bad Pantaloons But IA Bad Temper
Will Keep You from Being Man.
"You see | am gentleman" said
VIII Thompson. II will not take an
insult" And the little fellow strutted
up and down with rage He had been
throwing stones at Peter Jones, and
thought that his anger proved him to be
a gentleman.
"If You want to be a gentleman, l
should think you would be a gentle boy
first" said his teacher. Gentlemen do
not throw stones at their neighbors.
Peter Jones did not throw stones at you,
and / think he is much more likely to
prove a agentleman.
But he has got patches on his knee,
said Will.
bad pantaloons do not keep boy
from being a gentleman, but a bad tenn
per does Now William, if you want to
be a gentleman, you must first be
gentle boy"
little further on the teacher met
Peter Jones. Some stones had hit him
and he was hurt by them. "Well,
Peter, what is the matter between You
and VIII this morning ?" he asked.
II was throwing a ball Mt one of the
boys, in play sir, and | missed him,
and hit win Thompson's dog"
"Then, when he threw stones at You,
why did not you throw back ?"
because, sir, mother says to gem
tleman must be a gentle boy. and
thought it best to keep out of his way
until he cooled off Il little" The teach
er walked on, but kept the boys in
mind, lie lived TO see Win Thompson
a rowdy, and Peter Jones gentleman,
loved and respected by all. Christian
ut Work.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-08-08
AN OLD MlNsR,s STORY.
How the Mexican Bandit Knew lie hs
Been Handing Lot OF Gold.


been Handing y Lot OF Gold.
"Thc good old days are gone" sig he'd
the Forty-niner, "and they'll navcr
come again. When youths pulse BEATS
high with pleasure, when the six is
clear and there are no black and low. ei.-
ing clouds on the horizon, when, in
abort, a man feels that all he has t., do
'io acquire controlling interest in the
narth is to apply at the Office and !. and
N his name then-why then liz. is
worth living"
whats the matter?" inquired
i've been thinking again. | tell on,
.iy boy, it doesn't pay an old mar to
think. If he can remember with put
thinking he's all right, but when he
kets to comparing the present with the
aast, he's in bad way, and he's ,ure
70 get downheartcd.
'California?"
yes Can't help it, will be tn. nix
glg of the days of 40, spite of all ,an
30 Here am, getting on toward thee
core years and ten, and I've only got
enough money TO procure the nect ssh
| les of life. And who is thankful for
nat? Who is grateful for roast beef
md potatoes when he has an appetite
Sor terrapin and champagne? And yet
hncc / had more money than | could
Save spent during my whole life"
How was that?'
"In 1851 I was prospecting in Califor-
:ia, and struck it rich. My partner and
located a claim that had millions in it,
apparently. We didn't have capital
rnough to work it, and so we went up
- Frisco to find a purchaser. We found
lin, too. His name was Moore and he
7ras well known character on the
Foast. He had made a couple of mil
lions working a mine he had bought for
1--WE hundred dollars. Well, we con-
'inced him we had good thing, and he
gave us two hundred thousand dollars
in gold coin for it. | was afraid to de-
posit my share anywhere, so I loaded it
in flour bags on Il cart and drove down
to San Jose. In the hills back of the
town was cave l had discovered a
! year before. 1t was so situated that it
couldn't be discovered except by acci-
dent.
81 buried the money III corner OF
tine cave and went gleefully back to
san Jose. AS soon as | got into town
Il party of Mexican bandits captured me
and informed me that if l didn't con.
duct them to my buried treasure 1 was
a dead man. Life was sweet to me at
that time and didn't hesitate. They
dug up my one hundred thousand dol
lars, gave me two hundred dollars to
keep me from want and rode off to the
southwark. L never saw any of them
again for ten years when 1 met one of
the band in Los Angeles. We had a
friendly conversation, in the course OF
which | asked him how he and his com
panions knew that l possessed that
treasure.
"'You couldn't have seen me carry il
to the cave, L said, for if you had
there would have been no need of TAX
ing me prisoner
No he replied, it was your hands.
My hands?
"'Yes | was in a saloon where you
were taking drink, and / saw your
hands were tarnished. Helena Jour
nal
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-08-08
A PRETTY SIGHT.
Appearance of a Great Cattle Drove Cross
ing a River.

ing River.
One of the prettiest sights in all the
world, to my notion, is n big band of
cattle fording wide, deep stream.
When the leaders have reached the far
ther side there is bow-shaped line of
horns and heads, showing how the mid
stream current carries them down. The
sharp-pointed horns look like a line of
bayonets. One time saw such a sight
That time, however, it was not so pleas
ing. We were driving about six hun
dred head of stock cattle to California
and had struck the Colorado river at
Fort Yuma The river was at flood
stage, so we split the drove up into
punches of twenty each. | was getting
the fourth bunch across, and had them
about half way over, when there was a
tremendous, terrifying roar. Looking
up stream, saw wall of debris and
drift, forty feet high, coming down like
an avalanche. In the few seconds
watched it sweeping down l could see
that there were houses, cattle, horses,
barns and haystacks caught in the great
mass. 1t was pretty close call, but
we made the bank just in time. AS
the last steer scrambled up the bank
the freshet rushed by us with the speed
of an express train. l got word over to
the main herd and told the men to drive
up the river until we could cross. 1t
was three weeks before we met again,
and in that time the herd and the men
on the other side had some terrible eX-
periences, struggling through miles of
sand where there was not blade of
grass or drop of water. There was
one stretch of eighty miles without
water Well, at last we got the rem
nant of the drove to Los Angeles. They
were so used up that Il great many of
them died before they got to market
st. Louis Globe Democrat.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-08-08
How to Air IA Bed.

It is not everybody who can make a
bed well. Beds should be stripped of
all belongings, and left to air thorough
ly. Don't, however, leave a window
open directly upon the bed and linen
with fog or rain prevailing outside,
1t is not uncommon to see sheets and
bedding hanging out of window with,
perhaps, rain not actually falling, but
with ninety per cent of humidity in the
atmosphere and the person sleeping ir'
that bed at night wonders the next day
where he got his cold A room may be
aired in moist weather, bat the bedding
and bed must not absorb any damp,
ness Ladies Home Journal
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-08-08
A PaIlntironle.

A palindrome is line or phrase that
reads the same backward as forward.
The Latin language is full of such lin
guistic freaks; the English has but few.
One at least is imitable; it represents
our first parent politely introducing
himself to Eve in these words;
Madam, I'm Adam" The following
phrase lacks but one letter of being
even more remarkable: "Lewd did
live, evil did dwell" From the Latin
we have: "Roma tibi subito motibus
ibit Smor" (Rome, love will come to
you anddenly with violence) Detroit
Free PraAA