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The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-07-04
BEING IDENTIFIED.
The Trouble Sometimes Incurred in Get
ting n Check CRshed.

The Trouble Sometimes Incurred in Get
ting "A Check CRshed.
A citizen of Detroit, who has resided
here for nearly twenty years, and who
has for the past dozen years run a small
carpenter shop on his own hools, got
check on one Of the banks the other
day and stepped in to have it cashed.
"Have to be identified, SIR" replied
the cashier, as he handed back the
paper.
"But 1 am John Blank, the carpen-
ter"
Possibly you are, but you'll have to
bring some one who knows you"
"I'll bring twenty in five minutes!'
somewhat tartly exclaimed the man as
he walked out.
Standing on the steps of the bank hL
scanned the faces of the passers-by, and
to his own great surprise it was ten
minutes before he saw the phiz of a
friend. The two entered the bank, and
the latter said to the cashier:
81 know this man to be John Blank"
"But, who are you?"
'I'm Stephen Dash"
"Never heard of you. He must bring
some one whom know is responsible"
"See here! This is all nonsensew
exclaimed the owner of the check, who
was in hurry.
perhaps So" was the cool reply
"Mr. Dash, do you positively know this
man to be John Blanli?"
"Of course do"
'Have you ever had legal paper
with his signature?"
moo"
ever pay him an account or collect
one by that name?"
"I-I don't believe 1 could. I've
just heard him called John Blank"
Mr.. Blank brought in three other
men, each one of whom started in with
the greatest confidence, but came out
of the little end of the horn when asked
the usual questions. At last he re-
membered man to whom he sold a
piece of property to three or four years
him to the bank.
"You identify him as John Blank, do
you?" queried the teller.
"Well, he signed that name to the
deed"
"Would you make oath that he is the
same person?"
"Um! I'm! think he is"
but will you sign bond to make
this two hundred dollars good if he
isn't?"
so, no! Now that look at him more
closely begin to see difference"
"Whatp shouted Blank. Haven't ]
lived within stones throw of you for
ten years?'
"Y-e-s," was the hesitating reply.
Didn't build your barn for you?"
II guess you did"
Haven't you seen me almost every
day for years and years?"
"Well, I've seen you or somebody who
looks very much like you. think you
are John Blank, but of course l can't
swear to it."
The money was paid, and the teller
afterwards said:
''He was the right party, of course,
but had carried out our rule to the
letter l doubt if he could have found a
man among all his neighbors to swear
to his identity. l don't believe we have
ten men in Detroit who can prove theil
legal identity without taking an hours
time to do it. One man knows another
as Smith, Jones or Green, but that isn't
legal knowledge, and it would bother
some of our leading merchants to fur
nish legal proofs to establish the fact
that they are the persons they claim tc
be."-Detroit Free Press.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-07-04

If you suspect the butter, rub piece
of it upon Il glass and look through it tc
the light. If there be but a smooth.
looking blur, your butter is pure, II
oleomargerine, all through the blur
there will be seen bright specks and
spots; these are the crystals of the
stearine or beef fat, With lard make
the same test; if pure, it will rub off u
soft, smooth blue. But if the same
crystals appear, you may draw your
own conclusions Times.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-07-04
ONE DAY LATE.
A Magnificent Joke, and How It
Ended.
ELL,-TALEp


"I'm not a tell
t a | e." a n d
Beth's eye S
fl l l G d with
tears. 81 only
S q i d W h e n
grandpa asked
me that 1 saw
you boys in the
pasture. I did
not know that
you let the calf
out and it broke
its leg. You
must not say I
did,"
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-07-04
SALADS FOR APPETlzERS.
How to Concoct Russian or Swedis
Salad.

How to Concoct IA Russian Swedish
Salad.
Nothing is better for an appetizer
than a nice, fresh, cold salad, unless it
be two nice, fresh, cold salads But to
make up delicious entity, everything
must be perfection. The salad plants
must be clean and dry, the oil direct
from Lucco, and the vinegar the purest
that can be brought forth from clean
apples and a new cider press.
If one is a bit dainty, rather critical,
almost eXacting, and feels the need of
a stomach ticker, a Russian salad is
the thing par excellence to accomplish
this end Mix for this tonic dish, equal
quantities of chopped beet-root, boiled,
and celery; add a dash of scraped horse
radish, and then pour over-not may
onnaise this time-but a mixture of oil,
vinegar, pepper and salt.
a Swedish salad is more com plicated,
and is good thing to eat when you
have already got a good appetite and
want a big dish of something This is
the way to get it up: Chop up nearly
the same quantities of cold potatoes
md boiled beets; put on couple of
teaspoons of the water in which the
beets We're boiled; add two picked her.
rings, minced, a raw apple, picked
cucumber and an onion. Cover the
whole business with sweet cream, and
when you feel just like eating, pitch in
and hope for the best.-Boston Herald.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-07-04
Hamlet as lie Was.

Amleth, as it was formerly written,
was u prince of Jutland. Medieval
writer's, however, differ as to the exact
century in which he lived. The best
authority on this subject, perhaps, is
Saxo-Grammaticus the Danish his
torian, according to whom Amleth lived
about 200 b. c. He was a son of Hor-
vendii, himself a prince of Jutland, and
Gerutha, daughter of the king of what
is now Denmark. Amleth's father was
murdered by his owu brother, Fenzo,
who soon married the wife of his vic
tim, Amleth would have been muir
dercd by his uncle at the time of Hor-
vendiis death at his brothers. hand but
for the fact that he feigned madness.
Soon after his mothers marriage Am
leth killed his fathers murderer. Vari-
GUS stories are told concerning the final
end of Amleth, none of which are au-
thentic according to modern' investiga.
tors. A French History Of Hamblet'
was circulated in England about the be-
ginning of the sixteenth century and is
supposed to be the foundation of the
famous Shakespearean play.-St, Louis
Republic.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-07-04
why He Felt Big.

Bobby-I shot bird with my toy
pistol.
Little Johnuy-That's nothing Las
Fourth shot my arm full of slugN.-
judge
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-07-04
Not IA one-Ring Circus.

Jacl1-I know Ethel loved ne.
Tom-But you had no show with her
father, eh?
Jacll-o, didn't l? had a regular
circus with him. That's where the
trouble came in,-Puck.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-07-04

&n Upon Atlantic's shore they
cast
Their lot in life and anchored fast;
The yoke Of toll the fathers wore,
The children's children gladly bore
For love OF thee,
Fair country, free
From mountain top to boundess sea-
Americai Americal
with loyal hearts and courage strong
They fought tho rising tyrant, wrong,
And freely their red e.blood gave,
The nations future good to save.
How brightly Independence day
Greets us through thom with banners gay,
And cl0ngs its bell,
The note to tell
or liberty we love so we'll
Amcrical Americai
For aye shall fond respect be done
Unto our noble Washington
And those brave souls that shared with him
The musket smoke and cannon din.
Truth, freedom, honor, glory, might
They wrote =pon the banner bright
That waved DER them,
Fair, starry gem,
Dur country's matchless diadem-
Americnl Americal
Strong union whose might overcame
Opposing foes of noble fame,
And on whose face intestine war
Could trace no lasting mark or scar,
We cheer thee and thy glories great
Oivaliant navy and of state;
While blue and gray
Proudly obey
Thy powerful and upright sway
Americui America
Firm union where sweet peace abides
In valleys green, on broad hillsides;
Where gallant sons anddaughters fair
Guard thy reuown with tenderest care,
We hail thy future from the past,
Where shadows came but could not last
And with warm zeal
To God appeal
For thy success ana lasting veal
America America,
Grace w. Hal ght, in Good Housekeeping.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-07-04
Munted Treatment.

"Your wife is run down, that's all
I've prescribed Jamaica rum and honey
That'll bring her around"
Jamaica rum and honey? BY jove,
doctor, Pm feeling sorter rundown my
self. Jury.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-07-04

-"Why do they have an Indian neat
on the one cent coins?" because they
are coins of LC denomination.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-19
Wash Goods.

A Chintzs, dark grounds with col
ored figures, new printings, were 1Sc
and 2oc; a 9o-piece lot to be closed
this week at Ioc a yard.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-19
SWAMPED BY A STEAMER.

George Kaufman Drowned and His Com
Have Become Frightened and Grabbed
John Carlin-Rather Queer Action.
George kaufman, a scrap iron dealer on
Penn avenue between Thirteenth and Four
teenth streets, was drowned in the Monon-
gahela river at Soho yesterday afternoon by
the upsetting of a skitf About $3.50 Kauff-
man and John Mclaughlin, of No. 50
Twelfth street, and John Carlin, of No. AZ
Spring alley, hired a skiffs from Louis
Pagan, theferryman at the foot of Brady
street, Soho. They rowed up the river
short distance and took on load of scrap
iron. They started to pull across the
river About half way over their
boat got in the waves caused
which was going up the river. Before the
became frightened at going so close to the
steamer. Mclaughlin was rowing and
Kaufman, as lit appeared to witnesses on
the shore, caught hold of Carlin. Carlin
tried to shake him loose, and they arose to
their feet in the rocking boat. Carlin, it
was stated, was seen to strike Kaufman
as If to free himself, and at that instant the
boat upset, plunging the three into
the water. Pagan, the ferryman,
who had witnessed the affair,
jumped into skiff and pulled out to the
scene of the occurrence. Mclaughlin and
Carlin were still aioat, but Kaufman, who
was unable to swim, had gone down. The
two rescued men were taken to the shore,
and search started for Kauffman's body. In
about half an hour it was recovered with
graphing irons near where he had sunk
In the meantime the police had heard of
the affair, and Mclaughlin and Car
lin were placed under arrest, and
locked up in the Fourteenth Ward station.
They were considerably bewildered, and
would not say where they had intended
going, except that it was across the river.
Where they obtained the iron their boat was
loaded with was not known. They will be
held to await the result of the Coroner's in
quest, which will be held tomorrow.
Kaufman, the drowned man, was 80 years
of age and married.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-19
THE RANDALL REUNION.
Given a Fine Day on Wednesday the An
nual Outing of the Club Will Be Most
Successful-Governor Campbell to b,

Given Fine Day on Wednesday the An
nual Outing of the Club Will Be Most
Successful-Governor Campbell to BE
Present-Programme for the Occasion.
General Guthrie, as marshal for the Ran
dali Club parade on Wednesday, has issued
his orders. The members will assemble at
the clubhouse, on Duquesne way, at 1
o'clock sharp. The club will move over the
following short route headed by the Great
Western Band: Duquesne way to Sixth
street, to Liberty, to Wood, to Fifth ave-
where the Duquesne Traction cars will be
in waiting to convey the members to Silver
Lake Grove.
A letter received from Governor Camp
bell gives assurance of his presence, and he,
with other distinguished guests, will have
the place of honor in the parade
The annual fetes of the club for the past
five years indicate that this organization
does nothing by halves, the lavish expen-
diture and careful attention to details being
worthy of commendation. 1t has always
been the ambition of the club to
make its guests feel that in bring
ing their wives, families and
children to these gatherings they would be
surrounded with all the safeguards and pro-
lection that it is possible to provide. Beer
or liquor of any kind has always been pro-
hibited. Detectives and police will be
present to see that no Objectionable charac-
tiers gain admission to the grounds under
any pretext. These rules are absolute, and
no infraction of them will be tolerated.
BY making these fetes absolutely compli-
mentary" the club have full power to con-
troll and enforce good order and harmony,
and should any member be found guilty of
selling card of admission to anyone the
penalty will be expulsion.
The Inauguration of these annual outings
in 1886 was prompted by the feeling on the
part of the club that it should in some way
reciprocate the many courtesies that were
being constantly extended to it as body,
both by the community and the press, and
they adopted this plan as being the most
feasible. The result has proved all it could
desire.
President Weixel says it never was the
intention to have these fetes assume any
particular political significance, further
than being social affair belonging properly
to the social side of a politico-social
organization. Given a fine day on
Wednesday this years outing of the
Randall Club at Silver Lake is bound to be
a thoroughly enjoyable affair.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-19
NOT MANY MISHAPS.

Five Accidents Happened Yesterday, Only
One Being Very Serious.
Of yesterdays accidents but one case, that
of miner at Monongahela City, is serious.
The record follows:
O'NEILL-Edward O'Neill, of Monongahela
City, was crushed between two cars yester-
day at the Cincinnati mines, MOnOngahela
City. His thighs were severely injured and
in falling his skull was fractured. He was
brought to the Mercy Hospital, where he
lies in IL precarious condition.
HALLER-Martin Haller fell in fit yester-
day afternoon at Twenty-third street and
Penn avenue and struck his head on the
curbing, sustaining n fracture of the skull.
He was removed to his home at Fourteenth
street and Penn avenue. Haller is married,
10 years old and employed in a Tenth ward
mill. His condition is serious.
O'BRIEN-Charles O'Brien, a laborer en-
ployed in q mill in Etna, fell from the porch
of his house OH Stanton avenue. Eighteenth
ward, yesterday afternoon and fractured his
collar bone.
FINK-John Fink, an employe at A. NJ.
Byers & Co.'S Southside mills, had two of his
fingers crushed yesterday by getting caught
in some cog wheels while at work. He was
taken to the Southside Hospital, where his
fingers were amputated.
BLoSs-Andrew BlOss, 20 years old, of 1904
Butler street, was thrown from q carriage
he was driving for Connor & Finn, on Small
man street, yesterday, and injured inter
nally. He was carried home.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-19
DAVID w. MILLER DEAD.
An Old Resident of Pittsburg Passes Away
Full of Years.

u
Full of Years.
A resident whose name has been connected
with the earlier commercial enterprises of
the city has passed away full of years. in
the person of Mr.. David w. Miller, who
died at his residence, 81 Vine street, yester-
day afternoon. Born in Germantown, Pa,
in 1903, Mr. Miller was brought here three
years later. He was for many years the
confidential secretary of the old commission
house of Allen & Grant. and in 1880 he went
to Louisville, Ky, and there established
the firm of Miller & Clark, one of the larg-
est commission houses West of the Allie
ghenies. This firm had IS steamboats, run.
ming TO New Orleans in the regular COM
mission trade. Mr.. Miller returned to this
city after a time and connected himself
with the firm of King, Pennock & Co.
The deceased had family of ten children,
of whom only three survive him: George
A. Miller, who is in Philadelphia; John H,
a druggist in Allegheny, and Mrs. A. T.
Irwin. He married when 81 He cele-
brated the sixty-seventh anniversary of his
wedding on the 18th of last January. He
leaves widow The late Reuben Miller,
Jr., was younger brother of the deceased.
The funeral services will be held at 2
o'clock, at the First Methodist Church,
Fifth avenue, Tuesday. The interment
will be private
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-19
AMALGAMATED AFFAIRS.

Moorhead Bros. & Co.'s Mill Expected to
Start Tomorrow - President weihe
Coming Home-The Fight at Duquesne
Given Up-The Trouble at Youngstown.
1t is said that the mill of Moorhead
Brothers & Co., at Sharpsburg, will resume
operation tomorrow morning. 1t
was reported at Amalgamated head
quarters yesterday that James Woods, a
well-known roller in the city, had
been engaged by the firm, and that the mill
will start tomorrow. Yesterday q DIS
PATCH reporter was shown the scale,
signed by David B. Oliver. The words ''for
the manufacturers represented in confer
ence" precede his signature, and the of
ficials of the association are at loss to
know how Mr.. Moorhead, being a member
of the conference, can consistently refuse
to agree to a scale which he allowed to be
signed for him.
President Weihe is on his way home from
st. Louis, where he failed to secure set
Element with Mr.. Neidringhaus. The trouble
is on the plate mill scale. In an interview
at St. Louis yesterday Mr.. Weihe said:
"a large part of the trouble is in this:
When the Tin Plate Association, (which Mr..
Niedringhaus was prominent member,
went before Congress to have the tariff on
tin plate raised they were afraid to 60 be-
selves, though they did a sight of lobbying.
They came to our association and
represented that an increase in the
tariff would start the tin plate in
dustry on boom and would be big
thing for us, and they wanted US to help
them out. 1t was necessary, they said, to
have us, the laborers to 90 before the COM
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-19
POTATO BUGS SCARCE.

One Of the Farmers Greatest Pests Not So
Plenty as Formerly-Ladybugs as Colo
RADIO Beetle Exterminators-A Story
About Ham and Eggs.
The usually despondent agriculturists
are rejoiced to find that one of the pests
that has assisted to make their lives misera-
bic appears to be in a fair way to be exter-
minated. 1t is the Colorado beetle, gen.
orally known as the potato bug, whose raw
ages have been very discouraging for a
number of years past. 1t has been noticed
all summer that not only were the
beetles scarce, but that the vines
swarmed with ladybugs. The parent
beetles made their appearance as usual, but
when paris-greening time came it was
noticed that in most fields the Young ones
were so few as to be incapable of doing any
damage worth speaking of.
The presence of the ladybugs was noted,
but little account taken of it until writer
in an agricultural paper announced that
he had discovered that they were devouring
the larve of the Colorado beetle As the
ladybug is believed to be harmless, the
farmers wish it the best possible digestion,
and if it manifest an epicurean desire to
add ham to its bill of fare, they will fur
nish the ham, as an inducement to linger.
Speaking of ham and eggs brings to mind
visit lately paid to the city by an
honest old granger from Ohio township.
He had made an unusually good sale of his
garden truck, and while his heart was over
flowing with gratitude concluded to give
his two sons and himself "square meal in
restaurant. When asked by the waiter
what he would have he replied "the best
you've got. The waiter then began an
enumeration of the bill of fare, beginning
with ham and eggs, when the old granger
roared out.
"Ham and eggs, be blanked! Why, you
blamed fool, ham and eggs is every day
doin's. We want something good. Give
us that list and We'll probably find some
thing fit to eat"
He went through it carefully, and all the
resources of the establishment were drawn
upon in the way of meats, pastry, strawber-
ries, strawberry shortcake, ice cream, etc.
1t was certainly Square meal" and the
cashier gave the trio but very little change
out of a SO bill, but they went away happy
and said that dinner would do them good
for whole quarter
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-19
IN GOOD RUNNING ORDER.
The Braddock and Ttrtle Creek Electric
Railway Re1f,s Business.

The Braddock and Trtle Creek Electric
Railway Begiis Business.
The Braddoek and turtle Creek Electric
Railway Company KEEP force of men at
work all Friday night and yesterday morn
ing the cars began to ran at O'Clock, and
were well patronized. 1t is now in order
for the Borough Treasurer to refund the
$1,000 guarantee deposited to insure COM
pliance with the ordinance granting right
of way.
A member of the opposition company
states that its road will be in operation by
August Is, Is days sooner than required by
the ordinance. 1t parallels the Baltimore
and Ohio Company's road, and crosses it
twice, but so far there are no indications
that the rivals will try to tntt each other off
the track.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-19
Snap Shots at Local Events.

WILLIAM BARRON and William Durbin, two
Pennsylvania brakemen, were promoted to
conductorships yesterday.
FIVE cars were derailed at Irwin station
yesterday on the Pennsylvania road.
Through trains were held for more than an
hour.
A COMPLAINT was made to the Humane So
ciety yesterday that a family living on
Adams street, in Allegheny, was cruelty
treating small baby in most distressing
manner. The complaint states that the baby
is beaten and abused horribly, and then,
while naked, laid out in the rain.
GUsTAvE HORNE, an Austrian, aged about
q years, is at the Homeopathi; Hospital
very sick with typhoid fever and unable to
give an account of himself. He wandered
into the hospital last Thursday, and if he
has any friends living in the city the hospi-
tai people would like to hear from them.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-19
A SANITARY IMPROVEMENT

That Has Long Been Desired by Wilkins
burg and Brushton People.
The people of Williamsburg and Brushton
have been trying to get sewer through the
valley, to improve the sanitary condition Of
the two boroughs. A committee, consisting
Representatives from Williamsburg, Brush
ton and Pittsburg, has been considering the
feasibility of building a sewer down to the
Monongahela, so that the use of the open
run that has so long been offensive to the
sight, and often to the smell of Wilkins
burgers, can be closed in.
The committee has reported conference,
with the result that it was decided to EN-
ploy an engineer to make survey and esti-
mate the cost of the work, the expense of
such survey to be borne proportionately to
the valuation by the parties.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-19
To Renters With Power.

Persons engaged in light manufacturing
are directed to the advertisement of commo.
dious rooms to rent in the building rs, n
and 10 Diamond street, with power, electric
light, an elevator and janitor service in
cluded in rental.
Great economy and better facilities than
can be had elsewhere. Central situation.
Following are some of the rooms:
About 1O0x60, lighted on all sides and
from central area, with power, electric light,
steam heating and janitor service, 81, 500.
6Ox3O, with power, light, steam heating
and janitor service, 8, 900.
2Sx1S, with power, electric light, steam
heating and janitor service, 5000.
Also spaces with power and light and
heat as low as S400.
Apply to John T. Shields, second story
Dispatch business office building, corner
Diamond and Smithfeld, between II and
P, NJ,