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The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1892-03-03

= A BILL. Of divorce-paytng the attmony.- :
Louisville Courier.
The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1892-03-03
August.
Flower

This is the query per-
is epetually on your little
boys lips. And he is
z no worse than the big
cos. oIdor hn1do,- heal
The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1892-03-03

VALUABLE pot plant-an carthenware
mandatory
THE wife OF baseball player need moi
lack for. n muff
The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1892-03-03

D. LoTHRop Co. Pubs, Boston.
The Banner-Democrat., 1892-12-17
"a LITTLE NONSENSE.

"A Rare Opportunity.-"Why is Miss
Jenkyns SO devoted to Yaltzing?" 1T
gives her chance s monopolize man
for awhile. - Chicago News Record
She sat on the steps at the evening tide
Enjoying the balmy air.
He came and asked: May sit at your side;r
And she gave him vacant stair.
Cape Cod Item.
Proud Young Teacher-ssY Yes, sir;
teach the young idea how to shoot. y
Stranger (who has had experience)-
'sThen look out for paper balls r-Kats
Fields Washington.
-'Its getting rather late" he said
Though to his seat he stili ciung fast
The gentle maiden raised her head
And said: you've found it out at Iastr
IN. Y. Press.
-Fin1ey-ssIs Smith IMP. Binlcy-
mo" FinIey-''IIas he changed his
quarters?" Binley-'Quarters! Jupiter.
man, he didn't have but fifteen cents to
his name when saw him last Inter
Ocean.
That beats me- said good Mrs
Jason, as she read that a FIRE was sup
posed to have been caused by mice
eating cigarettes. I've heard of pie
eating matches and sich, but this is
new one. ne."-Indianapolis Journal.
-visitor-'Is that your little son in
the next room whistling i Want to Be
= Soldier Of the Cross?' Fond Mother
(malxing for the door)--"Yes, he's try
ing to drown the sound Of the key turn
ing in the pantry lock. IN. Y. Herald
The Banner-Democrat., 1892-12-17
Tho ArIstocracy Of Enrland.

So far as have this summer seen the
ZONES and habits of the aristocrats OF
England, find them plain in their
manners, highly cultured as to their
minds, and many of them intensely
Christian in their feelings. There Is
more strut and pretension of manner
In many an American constab biz, or alder
man, or legislator, than you will find in
the halls and castles of the nobility of
England. One great reason is that a
man born to great position in Great
Britain is not afraid of losing it. He
got 1t from his father, and his father
from his grandfather, and after the
present occupant is done with the estate.
his child will get 1t and then his grand
child, and SO on perpetually. 1t is the
man who has had distinguished place
for only two or three years, and NAV.
lose it tomorrow, who is especially
anxious to impress you with his exaltar
ton. His reign is so short he wants to
make the most Of it. Even the men
who come up from the masses in England
to political power are more likely ia
keep it than in America, for the mem.
Der OF the house of commons NAV rem.
resent any part of England that desires
70 compliment his services instead al
being compelled to contest with twenty
small men in bis own district as In |
America a--Talmage, in Ladies' Home
Journal
The Banner-Democrat., 1892-12-17
USES OF ELECTRICITY.


- oe OtusAeo IN E0r01m8 the 0roRtl
Of Flowers and veeetables.
i Electricity Is about to find full en-,
ployment in horticulture Spring veg
ctables are already being forced by It
aid for the market. There is no doub
that roses and other flowers can b
made to bloom more plentifully an,
more profitably with its assistance.
In short the discovery affords promis,
i OF possibilities not yet estimated. /
has been found that lettuce Is particu
larly susceptible to the influence of the
electric light by means Of which it cal
be grown for market in two-thirds tn,
usual length of time. Other vegetable.
respond likewise in varying degrees.
But everything depends upon the prop
or regulating of the light, and how e
do this can only be learned by careful
study of the results produced under ali
sorts of conditions.
The effects Of electricity being to
hasten maturity. too much Of it causes
lettuce to run to seed before the edible
leaves are formed It must not be i'm.
agined that electricity is employed for
such purposes as q substitute for sun.
light It is merely used in a supplement
tary fashion. The greenhouse that has
had the sun in the day time is illumina.
ted at night with arc lights, toward
which the plants incline their leaves
and flowers, accepting quite innocently
these artificial counterfeits Of the orb
of day.
1t was supposed hitherto that vege-
tables required intervals of darkness for
their health and development, just as
animals need sleep, but it has been
shown that, supplied with electric rays.
they will go on growing thriftily be-
tween sunset and daybreak; staying up
all night seems to do them no harm. SO
long as the dissipation is properly reg.
ulated The electric gardener EMPLOYS
opal globes to diminish the intensity of
the light When it is left bare and per-
mitted to shed its unfiltered rays upon
the plants, the latter grow pale, run nm
quickly in sticky stalks and soon die.
1t remains to be discovered exactly
how much electricity Is beneficial, and
during precisely what period of the de-
vclopment it ought to be applied The
influence OF electricity upon the. color
and productiveness has been shown to
be extraordinary. Tulips exposed to
The light have deeper and richer tints,
lowering more freely, and developing (!
onger stems and bigger leaves.
suchsias bloom earlier under like con.
litions Petunias also bloom earlier
md more profusely, growing taller and
more slender. It is the same way with
many other flowers In fact, there is
very reason for believing that the |
lectric light will be very profltabl
lsed In future as an adjunct to force
ng establishments for beth flowers
nd garden vegetables = horticultural
Zines.
The Banner-Democrat., 1892-12-17
PERSONAL AND IMPERsoNAL

"A colored preacher, who partici.
pated in the recent race troubles in
Kentucky, was fined SO and is now
working on the streets of Paducah. KY.
with ball and chain on his ankle.
Prince Bismarck is quoted as say
ing lately to an American visitor: Il
should like above all things to visit
America For America and Americans
have the profoundest respect I take
the greatest interest in your worlds
| fair, and may visit America next year,
although it is yet impossible to form
ones plans so far ahead
THE king of Siam has recently pre-
sented to DIR. T. Hayward Hays, of Bal
timore, medical missionary to Siam,
representing the Presbyterian board of
missions, handsome gold watch and
chain, with locket, in recognition of the
doctors services at the birth of the
kings youngest SON. The gift bears
the kings monogram inlaid with dia-
monds.
"A bicyclist has been sentenced to
seven months imprisonment at Glas-
hutte, Germany, because every night he
would cross the railroad track at some
point inst IN front of the loconot;vs 40
that the engineer was IN GREAT stra;ts
not to kill him. One evening be was
accompanied by another wheelman who
fell, and thus the offender became
known. It was impossible to catch
him before.
Louis Kossuth told y regent snter-
viewer that he did NOT bel,sve the Hnn.
parian- Austrian e,nn;re wo,la bold -
gether more than one mora generat;on
and that the Maovars xvouId farm the
nucleus of the new stata =, ba for,,,aa
out of the wreck He had faith n tbe
nearness Of a rcnutlic IL Ita,r 49,
other on the Iberian peninsula. while
the radicals of Great Britain are sure to
shelve the Guelphs eventually.
Sir Edwin Arnold Is an ontsm;st IN
most things. and includes n his ort;.
nistic regard not only Jnnan but the
United States. To youno friend who
to him project for entering
upon q new business venture Sir IA.
win enthusiastically exclaimed: sI,m
ylad to hear IL Go ahead INV dear how
You'll succeed: Of course vou;ll spcceed
You'll make money: everybody makes
money in this wonderful country
Henry Laurens Dawes the sar;o~
senator from Massachusetts. who ha.
leclined to stand for re-alectio,, h..
,een thirty-five years in public ofs3ca
md seventeen wears in the senate He
5 now seventv-six. but vioornr. and
- -.-x-.Se
The Banner-Democrat., 1892-12-17
LOVERS THAT DIDN'T DIE.


When Rejected They Found Osherx Z,
Console Them.
The rejected may find consolation
from the knowledge that some of the
cleverest and handsomest men have
been refused, and that they have never
theless managed to live on and wiz
fame and fortune.
Shakespeare is generally credited
with considerable knowledge Of hu-
mapity and its ways, and he described
Romeo, the prince of lovers, as being
rejected by the fair Rosalind only lust
before Juliet fell in love with him.
A certain John Scott once proposed
to q Miss Allgood While smartiuo
from her disdain he happened to enter
village church during divine service.
and there for the first time saw the
pretty Miss SurteeS
He wooed her, and, as her father
would have nothing to saysto him, he
induced her to elope, and this though
three wealthy suitors were already at
her feet
John Scott lived to be earl of Eldon
and lord high chancellor, and never re-
gretted the day Miss Allgood rejected
him.
Byron was refused three or four times
He proposed to Miss Millbanke, a great
heiress, and was rejected, though the
lady expressed . wish to correspond
with him.
He then proposed to another lady.
and this suit was rejected, too. Moth
ing daunted, he renewed his proposal
to Miss Millbanlxe, and this time re-
ceived a very fattering acceptance.
They lived together, however, very un-
Sir Isaac Newton proposed to lady,
who had already had three husbands,
when he was 60, and was declined with
thanks.
His contemporary, Leibnitz, begged
lady to marry him when he was so.
She asked for time to take the matter
into consideration, and as Leibnitz thus
obtained leisure to think over the mat
Ter again. he did not repeat the ques-
lion.
One of the most persistent suitors
who ever proposed and was rejected /
vas the eccentric Cruden, compiler of
he concordance to the Bible. Miss
Abney. who had inherited large fort
Inc, was the subject Of his attentions.
For months and months he pestercd
Ter with calls and letters; when she
oft home he had papers printed which
y distributed in various places OF wor.
hip asking the congregation to pray
or her safe return; and when she
cached home he issued others asking
be worshippers to return thanks Miss
lbney never became Mrs Cruden.-l
'oston Herald
The Banner-Democrat., 1892-12-17
Read fhe R;bla To- 80,

-Read the Bible for yourself. Don't
depend on .. DIS. and Commentators.
They are worthy Of respect, but are not
infailible the Bible &. Those who lean
On expositors alone are like men who
should depend on lactated food and
matted milk for physical vigor.
The Banner-Democrat., 1892-12-17
ACTION OF SNAKE POISON.


Xoe OesoAlest Venom May He SWalloWo
Without Harm.
| Nature seems to have provided tina
40 poison which acts externally sha]
have any effect internally and vice verss
Thus the most deadly snake venom ca,
be swallowed with impunity, the Juice
OF the stomach presumably decompos
ing and rendering It harmless Man,
Experiments have been made 70 prov,
this On one occasion recorded b,
Humboldt one person swallowed tn
whole of the poison that could be OBJ
tanned from four Italian virers withou1
suffering any bad consequences. II
the same way the poison from the en-
venomed arrows of South American In.
dians can be swallowed with SAFETY,
provided only that there Is no wound
on the lips or inside of the mouth.
Fontana, who In 1887 published book
on poisons, remarks: ''Being reduced
by contradictory evidence to the neccs.
sity OF testing the venom myself, did
so, but not without rcpugnance, and /
shall advise no one to try it in gaycty
OF heart lest he should happen to have
some excoriation on the Tongues cir
cumstance not always easy to deter.
mine. could find no taste in it, except
OF very insipid liquor
s Among all people the sucking of the
wound has ever been considered the
most effective remedy Of immediate an
plication for snake bites. In Africa 3
cupping instrument is employed in emer-
gencies of the kind to draw out the poi-
soned blood The ancients followed the
same method. and when Cato made his
famous expedition through the serpent
infested African deserts he employed
savage snake charmers, called Psylli. to
follow the army. They performed
many mysterious rites over men who
were bitten. but the efficacy of their
treatment appears to have consisted in
sucking the wounds. A vivid notion of
the intensity of cobra's venom is given
by the experience of DR.. Francis T.
He put rat in o cage with
snake of that species, and it was
killed afser plucky fight. Upon ex-
amining the skin Of the dead rat imme-
diately afterwards he found two very
minute punctures, like small needle
holes, where the fangs OF the cobra
had entered. The flesh seemed already
% have actually mortified in the neigh |
oorhood OF the wound. Anxious to find |
'ut ii the skin was effected, DR.. Buck
and scraped away the hair from it with
lis fnger-nail. Then he threw the rat I
way and started homeward. He had
lot walked 100 yards before, all of q.
udden, he felt as il somebody had come
lp behind him and struck him severe
low on the head and back. At the
anne time he experienced q most acute
ain and sense Of oppression about the
hest He knew instantly that he was
oisoned, and so lost no time in seek
ng an apothecary shop. where he was
osed with brandy and ammonia lie |
anne very near dying. Undoubtedly q
mall quantity of venom had made its |
ray into his system through little
ut beneath his nail, where it had been
sparated slightly from the flesh in the
rocess of cleaning the nail with PEN
nife . little time before. Chicago
The Banner-Democrat., 1892-12-17
DANGEROUS For the ecorn.r.

Whats that you're bringing back?'
asked the restaurant cook of the waiter
who returned plsts at meat to the
kitchen.
That's corneG beef,
"Show me the chap that scorned it;s--
Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph
The Banner-Democrat., 1892-12-17

What has become Of your nieceY'
asked Mrs Donohue Of MrA O'Ranerty.
Och, sure, an she's done well wild her
sell She married lord" why, you
don't tell me! An English lordY' ssNo:
don't think he's an English lord. He's
2 landlord. He kapes hotel ont il
Belfast It'd Bita
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-08-11

The Teepportiohment bills passed by
the legislatures yesterday are In the
main equitable and just, and ought to
prove acceptable IN all fair-naiden
citizens. Their adoption by general
consent Is a decisive victory over the
gerrymander, and this result Is due to
the sturdy opposition of the republi-
cans to the underhand schemes of the
democrats to carry through at the out
set. 1t was only when the democrats
discovered that they were unable to
control the senate that they consented
ed to compromise.
The districts rs now apportioned In
sure the return of a republican legisla-
ture, which would be the result, in
fact, of any equitable apportionment.
But the districts are 30 well ar
ranged that any legislature which Is
elected will be fairly representative of
the people, and this is the object
sought in the apportionment. Repub-
licaDs may be congratulated on secur-
ing justice both to themselves and the
people through the Supreme Court
decisions and the extra legislative ses-
sion. They have killed the gerry
mander in this state.-Det. Tribune,
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-08-11

Under the influence of the McKin.
ley tariff the importation of wooden
goods have for IL months ending in
May, decreased from five years av.
erage of $40, 247, 900 to S32, 66s, 900,
which, making allowance for 10 per
cent differentiation corrected by the
Mckinley bill, represents decrease OF
$1S, 000,0 900 that would buy 80, O00, 0CO
pounds. This means the expenditure
of SEQ, 600, 600 In wages for producing
say one half that amount or As, 600.
600 pounds. In consequences new
mill, employing 500 hands, has been
established at Bristol, Pa. In nearly
all the New England States wooden
mills have been enlarged and employ
ment given to hundreds of additional
hands. A decrease of from SO. 900, 900
to S., 900, 600 of silk importations, with
consequent enlargement of plants and
increased disbursement of wages has
brought that industry into flourish
ing condition with steady employment.
The manufacture of seals, plushes,
and pile fabrics has been stimulated.
These are practical arguments for the
people who depend on wages, that no
amount of brutal, ingenious or false
writing up of the Homestead" affair
by the democrats and free traders can
counteract .-Det. Jonurdl.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-08-11

In his speech notifying Cleveland of
his nomination, Wilson, of West Vir-
ginia, addressed the following hifalu-
tin remark to the democratic candl-
date: -s 1I.
-Four years ago, in the mid-career OF
a service that well deserved the highest
honors your couutrymen could bestow,
as we feel sure that It will receive the
highest encomiums that history can
award, you were struck down because
as Democrat you could make no
terms with those who wished TO plum
der the peoples Treasury. or those
who sought to,perpetuate the passions
of civil strife"
Now, Il must be remembered that It
was the whole American people that
Cleveland threw his free trade message
foil In the, face of. IL Is true that,
after having done SO, he tried, and
his friends In every way tried to make
terms with the offended American
people, butithsy declined to be concil-
iated. And now this smart Mr.. Will
SOD has the inpertinence to say to the
nation that its refusal to be concili-
ated was due ia parpose to 'plunder
the peoples. treasury and ''perpetuate
the passions ,of, civil strife"
4 II
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-08-11

Extract fr,n the speech of Repre-
sentative Watson. (third party rela-
tive to the democratic majority In
Congress:--
1.-The congress now sitting Is another
illustration (of Democratic worthless.
ness). Pledged to reform, they have
not reformed. Pledged to economy,
they have not economical. Pledged
to legislate, they have not legislated
Extravaganza has been the order of
the day. Absenteeisln has never been
so pronounced. Lack of purpose was
never so clear, lack of common bush
ness prudence never more glazing.
Drunken men have reeled In the aisles,
disgrace to the republic. Drunken
speakers have debated grave issues
upon the floor, and In the midst
of maudlin ramblings have been heard
to ask mr.. Speaker, where was !
att" Useless employees crowd every
corridor. Useless expenditures per-
wade every department.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-08-11

Don M. Dickinson is to be the rain
bow-chaser of the democrat national
campaign. He IL is Who is depended
on to "hold Michigan for Cleveland, Z"
and he it is who has already guarran-
teed the delivery of Wisconsin, Mime
sofa, Illinois and several other western
states to the Cleveland camp. There
are beautiful rainbows in the political
sky this year, and Don NJ. Dickinson
may be trusted to see all of them in
all their radiance. He saw them all
four years ago. and he knows their
precise tints and just when they are at
their best. -Det. Tribune.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-08-11

The attempt os the democrats In the
House to make campaign capital out
of the investigation of the Pension
Office is turning out disgraceful fizzle.
1t Is easy to charge an official with
wrong doing for political effect, even
though there is no evidence on which
to base the charge. This was the case
with regard to Raum. The only things
brought out by the investigation were
some disgraceful proceedings on the
part of Democratic representatives
The Democratic House refused to
allow Enloe, of Tennessee. who was
chairman of the committee, finish his
speech accompanying the majority re-
port, but adjourned, thus killing the
whole matter. The trouble is there is
no corruption to be unearthed in the
Pension office. and the Democrats
know it.-Blade.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-08-11

A persistent effort Is making, on the
part of the democratic free trade press,
to convey the Impression that some
how the Homestead affair initiates
against the protective idea. AS a
sample of these labored efforts. we
quote the following from the Cincin-
natl Enquirer:
What we are discussing now is the
failure of the Mckinley law to main
tain high wages, give abundant en-
ployment, and allay the discomfort Of
those who toll. Homestead presents
~ case conspiciously in point, for at
that place are found a number of cap
ita lists who are especially beneficial
ries of the Mckinley law. The people
are interested In knowing to what px-
tent they divide the profits of high
protection with the men who work for
them. Nobody will deny that the
distinctive promise of the men who
passed the bill was that the condition
of the workingmen was to be vastly
improved. Homestead, where so many
men were employed, was surely a fine
field for demonstration.
Here Is the usual array of half
truths and unauthorized statements of
republican positions, SO characteristic
of the average free trade theorist. The
Republicans asserted, and now assert,
that a protective tariff maintains the
American wage-scale at much higher
average than that in Great Britain, or
that would be possible in this country
without protection. The wages paid
at Homestead are very high. The
wages under the reduction asked for
by the Carnegie Steel Company, are
still of the very highest IN the country.
There was steady employment for
every one of the locked out men. but
they declined it. They wanted to
work at their figures or not at all. No
Republican eyer declared any such
thing as that the Mckinley law
would allay the discomfort OF those
who toll" There are some forms of
discomfort which are ridiculous, and
outside the pale of popular sympathy.
BLADE.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-08-11

The Press announced more than a
week ago that the cotton manufactu-
rers of FallRiver had raised wages, not
only by paying the weekly hands the
same for the new legal week of fifty
eight working hours as for the old
week of sixty hours, but also by a
corresponding increase of the prices
paid for piece work. 1t is announced
by the American Wool and Cotton Re
porter that II majority of the cotton
manufacturing corporations at Lowell
have voted Ito continue substantially
the same rate of wages" This IN, of
conrse, an increase In the wages per
hourly. Y. Press.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-08-11

The taxpayers of Michigan are about
to suffer the infliction of what under
the circumstances may be called nec-
essary evil. The squawbucks are to
be called together in special session to
remedy a glazing wrong they inten'
tionally perpetrated on the people.
The senatorial and representative APP
portionment bills passed by the last
legislature have been declared invalid
by the Supreme Court, owing to their
corrupt and fraudulent character.
What a shameful commentary upon a
party which claims to embody the
principles of reform. The State will
now be fairly apportioned, but simply
because the party of pretense is pow
erless to practice its customary meth
DDS. Bay city Tribune.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-08-11

The number of pounds of tin and
terne plate manufactured in each of
the quarters of the fiscal year which
closed on June 3Oth, 1892, was as fol-
lows: Quarter ending September 3Oth,
1891, S26. 922 pounds; December 3lst,
1891. 1,409. 1921; March 3lst. 1892,
3.n04, 0S7; June Both, 1892. S,225, SOL.
OF the S,225. 691 pounds produced in
the last quarter over 5000. 900 pounds
were made from, black plates produc-
ed in the United States. The coupe
tent special agent of the Treasury De-
partment who has in charge the col
lection of statistics in regard to tin
plates estimates that the production
for the current fiscal year will be at
least 100. 0OO, 600 pounds, and that by
the close of the year the production
will be at an annual rate of 200. 600, 600
pounds. g.