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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-02-24
Julia Ward Howe,s Children.

F4ossy invented many queer amuse-
ments, then. There was the school
loan system. We had school in the
parlor at that time, and our desks had
lids that lifted up. In her desk FlossY
kept a number of precious things.
which she lent to the younger children
for so many pins an hour. The most
valuable thing was a set of three color
ed worsted balls. red, green and blue.
You could set them twirling, and they
would keep going for ever so long. 1t
was delightful sport, but they were
very expensive, costing, think, twenty
pins an hour. 1t took long time to
collect twenty pins, for of course it
was not fair to take them out of the
pin-cushions.
Then there was glasseye-cup with
out base; that cost ten pins, and was
great favorite with US. You stuck it
in your eye, and tried to hold it there
while you winked with the other. OF
course all this was done behind the
raised desk-lid, and l have sometimes
wondered what the teacher was doing,
| that she did not find US out sooner.
She was not very observant. and am
quite sure she was afraid of Flossy.
One sad day. however, she caught
Laura with the precious glass in her
eye, and it was taken away forever. 1t
was bitter. thing to the child q know
all about it, for was Laura) to be told
that she could never have it again.
even after school. She had paid her
ten pins, and she could not see what
right the teacher had to take the glass
| away. But after that the school loan
system was forbidden, and have never
| known what became of the three
worsted balls,-Laurie E. Richards, ia
| st. Nicholas.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-02-24
Henry Ward Beecher's Love Poem.

During the days of Henry Ward
Beecher's courtship it is related by his
wife that he once dropped into poetry,
and wrote a few lines of verse teeming
with affection for his sweetheart. But
the verses were always kept sacred by
Mrs. Beecher, as they are at the pres
ent day. and nothiag can win them
from her.
One day Mr.. and Mrs. Beecher were
in the Office of Robert Bonner. who
was then conducting the N. Y. Ledger.
why don't you write a poem,
Beecher?" said the acute publisher.
81 will give you more for such a poem
than I have for Norwood. !"
He did once," admitted Mrs Beech
er, and at once Mr.. Bonner's eyes
sparkled. ''Recite it for me, won't
you. Mrs. Beecher?" he asked.
But the eyes of the great preacher
were riveted on his wife, and she knew
that meant silence.
Come" said the persistent pub
Usher. ''Tll give $5. 600 if you will re-
cite that poem for me, addressing Mrs.
Beecher.
Why, itran--." began the preach
er's wife.
''Eunice," simply said Mr.. Beecher.
And, although Robert Bonner offer
ed to double the sum first offered. he
never got the poem from Mrs. Beecher,
and no one has been a whit more sue
cessful.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-02-24
Got The Wrong One.

A certain well-known railroad man,
who has lots of children of assorted
Sizes made very curious mistake in
identity the other evening. says N.
7. Recorder writer. He was sitting in
his library trying to read, but was very
much disturbed by the noise overhead
in the nursery. The nurse was putt
ting the two youngest children to bed,
proceeding to which they objected
vociferously. Finally he called up the
stairs that he would come up and
punish them if they didn't keep still.
There was silence for moment, and
then the shrill little voice of Ruth, his
youngest born, piped out:
s'Shut upI'
Fairly staggered by this irreverent
outburst. he stood a moment in silence,
scarcely believing his own ears, when
down the staircase floated again:
Shut up, your
This was too much. He bounded
up the staircase determined to chas-
tise saucy Miss Ruth. Rushing in the
darkened nursery. he seized the of
fender from her bed, and, laying her
across his knee. applied his palm in a
scientific manner. The victim kicked
and struggled considerably, and finally
shrieked out:
Papa, papal You're whipping the
wrong kid! I'm not Ruth; I'm
Horace"
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-02-24
A Geographical Question.

A great deal has been said and writ
ten about the woes which the COM
positor iniicts upon his helpless vic
tins, and, speaking from experience,
l know that they are many and varied;
but yet 1.-The gifted author" has occa-
sionally to put up with good deal of
ANNOYANCE from higher powers than
the poor comp" as the following ex-
perience of an intimate friend of mine
will prove:
He was the art critic, and he had
lust sent out an unusually brilliant ac-
count of recent exhibition of paint
ings to the desk editor, who. not hav-
naturally unfamiliar with the language
of the studio, but was preparing to
wrestle with his difficult task. He was
new at the work. and it was beset with
pitfalls. Heading the list was this
enigmatical sentence: "a Landscape
in Sepia."
Landscape in Sepia?' shouted the
scribe, addressing the sporting editor,
who was busily engaged in describing
a spirited set-to between two favorite
light weights. Where the deuce is
''Don't know" answered the sport
ing editor, thoughtfully. Never
heard of the place. Sepia can't be in
the United States, or must have heard
of it, surely. It must be in Syria some
where"
Il don't believe the place exists at
all, " snapped the puzzled genius of the
desk. 81 think"
A heavy fall in the adjoining room
broke off the conversation here, and q
hurried investigation revealed the art
critic in strong convulsions on the
floor. He had heard the entire con-
yersation, and was conveyed to his
lodging-place in an ambulance.-Harp
| er'S MQQQzli1e.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-02-24
Minds Mysterious Workings.

In the Marchioness of Dufferin's
Canadian Journal there is an account
of one of those "coincidences" which
Dr. Weatherly is at much pains to ex-
plain away:
You rememb Der that l told you that a
poor man servant of ours was drowned
at the Mingan. AS we knew nothing
about his people we were unable to
communicate the news of his death to
them, so d. ordered any letters that
might arrive for him to he brought to
himself. The first of these-which we
have just received-was from a servant
girl to whom he was attached at
Ottawa, and was dated exactly seven
davs after the accident. In it she
said: 81 have been in my new place a
week and like it very much, but l
had such a dreadful dream on the day
of my arrival. l dreamt that you and
NOVEL; were upset in boat together,
and that NOVEL; was saved. but you
were drowned" AS the spot is in an
uninhabited region on the coast OF
Labrador, more than five hundred
miles from Ottawa, without either
telegraph or posts, it was impossible
that she should have received the news
of her lovers death when this letter
was written.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-02-24
A FRESH-AIR FIEND.
Sally Was Determined to Have Her Own
Way and Had 1t.

She was a fresh-air fiend, says the
Buffalo Express. That is, she imag-
ined she never could breathe unless
there was a window open, and if she
could feel draft she believed she was
getting fresh air, no matter what color
it might be given by SCOT or other for
eign substance. She was riding on a
railroad car and, of course, she had to
have the window open. 1t was cold
day. The wind blew a gale. The
chilly air which came into the car was
laden with smoke from the locomotive
till you could have cut it into blocks
with meat-ax. The other passen-
gers coughed, changed their seats and
made savage remarks, but the fiend
was happy. If she overheard any of
the mean things which were said about
her she didn't mind them, because she
thought she was doing humanity a
service by teaching degenerate por-
tion of it the delights of oxygen.
OF course she had no means of
knowing that the black SCOT which
drifted in was settling on her face and
changing it to a color which would
deceive her best friend as to the race
she belonged to. Finally, when the
passengers were becoming desperate, a
young man entered the car with a
swagger which proclaimed him to be a
mild variety of tough. He took the
exposed seat just behind the iend,
which had been deserted by everyone
else. The cold draft struck him when
the train started. He glared at the
| open window, then at the person who
| had opened it. Then he reached over
and shut it with bang, saying:
Let's have that winder closed
Sally"
"Sirr' she finally gasped.
Il say y'know, we gotto have thai
winder shut, " repeated the loud youne
man.
This seat, sir, belongs to me, anc
1 shall do as 1 please with the window
beside it. You will have the kindnes!
| to raise that sash again"
well, 1 guess not. [ amt goin' tC
sit here an freeze or choke for no mig
ger girl"
mo what?n fairly shrieked tn,
young woman, and, burying her fac,
in her handkerchief. she began to weel
and complain that she was never so in
suited in her life, and that if thert
was a gentleman on the car he woulC
surely protect her. When she raised
her head she discovered that her hand
kerchief had changed to a surprisin.
color. A horrible suspicion came up
on her. Hastily opening her handbag
she produced a small mirror. On,
glance was enough. She began rub
bing her face with her handkerchief
which was already too black to hell
matters any. Then she tried he
glove, and that only made her com
plexion streaky. At last she drew
thick veil over her face, and thus dis
guised left the car at the next station
and took a closed carriage for tn
nearest hotel. The passengers al
smiled grimly, hoping that for one
she had fresh air enough.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-02-24
Cows Wearing Blue spectacles,

Deacon Green says he has never hap
pened to meet with one of this special
breed of Bostonian COWS, but he has
placed upon my pulpit an extract from
a letter, which he thinks is well worth
reading to you, my beloved:
During the past year thousands of
COWS in Russia have been seen wearing
blue spectacles! Yes. blue glass was
obtained from Vienna, Paris and Lon
don for the purpose, because Vienna
alone could not supply the quantity
required.
It must have been funny sight.
But it was not funny to the COWS.
They. poor things, had suffered so
much from the binding effect of light
upon the snow that their eyes became
diseased, and, to help them, the exper-
iment of making them wear blue spec
tacles was tried, and with good re-
suits, l am told.
So you see some kinds of animals
are kindly cared for in that far land of
the Czar.-St. Nicholas.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-02-24
Rustic Simplicity.

The fancy phrased in the line, God
made the country and man made the
town." suggests that in the dweller in
rural districts should be found sim
plicity of character, a freshness and
purity, in unison with his divinely
formed surroundings. Never was
there greater mistake. Long ago,
possibly before the influence stigma
tized as wicked city ways had crept
in and infected them, country-folk
may have been open and unsophisti-
Gated. But now
Whatever may have been the cause
of the change, there can be no doubt
of the result. He who wishes to get
ahead of the average farmer, or even
TO keep abreast of him in a bargain,
will have, as the saying runs,..to get up
very early in the morning. The hon
est yokel has no intention of being
overreached. He puts a high value
upon his own services, and expects
you to pay for them in accordance
with his estimate. Has he wares to
sell? He sets upon them the highest
market price you would be charged in
the nearest town, and it is useless to
argue with him that since you buy the
goods from him at his own door, he is
saved the cost of transportation and
the profit of the merchant to whom he
would sell them in the city.
'Tis throwing words away, for still
The honest man will have his WILL
and answers, What be they a-chargin,
for 'em in Peterson?"
In fact you are fortunate if you do
not find. after the bargain has been
bound, that you have paid more for
your country butter and eggs than you
would have been charged in the city
for the ''gilt-edged'' brands by the or
dinary hard-fsted business man who
has missed the advantage of a country
birth and bringing up.
The same spirit may be observed in
social matters. Nowhere is scandal
more rife, nowhere is criticism more
bitter, nowhere is the charity that
thinketh no evil, more rare than in the
country neighborhood. The devotion
to dress, the greed for gossip, the de-
light in depreciation. are no more
marked in sophisticated city circles
than in the quiet village. The great
vices may be less conspicuous, but the
same may be said of the great virtues.
1t is said that there is no form of
evil or degradation that may not be
found in the hill towns of New En-
gland. While the assertion is possibly
too sweeping to be applied to all viii
lagos, it may at least be allowed that
residence in the country does not indi-
cate supreme decree of virtue any
more than life in the city infers apt
ness to all evil and aversion to most
good. d.-HGrper'S BazGr.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-02-24
An Anecdote of Professor stowe

Calvin E. Stowe was man of mark
in college, and was universally esteem
ed and respected. He was an untiring
student and deeply religious man,
vet full of wit and quaint humor,
which he strove to subordinate to his
graver thoughts, that he might the
better qualify for the important life
work in which he so eminently ex-
celled.
Stowe, though usually calm and un-
ruf1led, did on rare occasions show that
the old Adam in his nature could be
provoked to wrath. In my Freshman
year, prompted by the spirit of good
natured mischief, l blackened my sface
one night, :and assuming the air of
Difference BETTING a colored mes
senger-boy, 1 entered Stoves room
holding out letter. He was deeply
engaged with book, but he rose to
receive the letter, remarking, ooh. it
is from Mr." at the same time tax
ing out piece of money to pay me for
my trouble. This unexpected boon so
upset my gravity that l laughed out
right. Stowe was first surprised, then
provoked, by my impertinence. and he
seized the tongs and cried, You black
rascal" Whereupon l beat hasty
retreat, closing the door behind me
just in time to escape the tongs which
came clashing against my guardian
shield.
I think that Stowe did not suspect
me, for we never spoke of the silly
prank for more than fifty years. But
after that long interval, having re-
ceived kind message from him, ask.
ing me not to pass through Hartford
without calling, l went to see him,
and we had a pleasant talk about ole
times. Then l made my tardy con
fession, to which Mrs. Stowe was al
amused listener. and she seemed tC
enjoy hearing this proof of her hus
bands ebullition of temper in his early
manhood, which I thought it safe tC
divuLge after the lapse of so many
years. Horace Bridge, o. S. N, n
| HdTDer'S MGOazi11e
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-02-24
Southern LocaIisms.

81 have a. swap for you," said a
smiling southern woman to a northern
acquaintance, and then to the latter's
puzzled understanding the meaning of
localism was unfolded. To give one
swap is to retail something compli-
mentary received from a third person.
The term is so used, apparently, be-
cause one retailing pretty speeches ex-
poets like return; so swap is really
an exchange of compliments obtained
at third hand. Another equivalent is
'tell," and the women who learns
that friend has a tell for her expects
q complimentary Y San.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-02-24
Mixes Mistake.

A couple of Erin's sons were taking
their MONDAY rest and heard one OF
them ask his companion:
How is it, Mike. that 'yez don't
spend the money that yez used t'P"
Mike elected about a quart of to-
bacco Juice from between his lips and
replied:
''Well, Denny, I'll tell yez va sees.
I get me SIG livery week, an used to
tell the old lady that 1 was only get
tin tin dollars. l usty put tin
dollars in wan pocket for the old
lady an the other six in me other
pocket for meself. d'y' seeP Well.
about three weeks ago. sure, I forgot
to separate the money. an when I got
home handed the old lady the whole
SIC. A little whole after she sez t.
me:
"How much did yez make this week,
MoikeP"
"'Tin dollars sez Oh.
"Th' So sez she.
tAn' thin it kem' t. me in a minute,
an / sez: oh, he must ha' med a
mistake an given me some wan else's
money. Give it here t me, anil tex it
back T. him agin.' But the devil a
penny would she gimme, an the very
next day she kim down t. see tn boss.
Of course she found out that / was
maxim me $16 a week, and now I have
to give her livery cent"
And then the boss came along and
ordered them to work before Denny
had a chance to convey his sympathy.
Brooklyn Citizen. ;
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-02-24
RhineStones.
Years are the poorest possible meas

Years are the poorest possible meas
ure of persons age.
In the case of bad temper and dys-
pepsia it is an open question as to
which is cause and which effect.
When a man begins his remarks
with the phrase, there's no use talk
ing" you may as we'll settle yourself
down to listen to long argument.
When a blackberry is green it is
red; it is different with newspaper.
Happiness and whiskers are two
things that money cannot buy.-I1'd-
iapGpOLts NeaOs.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-02-24
Housekeepers

WIFI E;rd great care necessary to prevent dan
w Ill Flnd ger to the family food through the
introduction OF the low grade baking powders that
contain lime and alum.
All baking powders that offered the public under
Misrepresentation as to their ingredients are to be
avoided.
Baking powders advertised as having published
upon their labels all the ingredients used in them are
shown by the Government investigation to have in their
composition four different substances upon their LABEL
amounting to large per of their entire weight two
OF which substances are lime and sWAwrTc QcidI Most
OF the alum powders sold by falsely representing
them as pure and wholesome cream of tartar powders
Protection from alum baking powders
can be had only by declining to accept
any substitute for the Royal All official
tests prove it to be a cream of tartar
baking powder superior to all others in
purity, strength and wholesomeness.
See that no baking powder is received
into your kitchen in place of the Royal.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-02-24
Ramie Steam-Pipes,

Steam-pipes have been made in Eng
land from the ramie fiber. The ma
terial is subjected to tremendous hy-
draulic pressure, and. having the
property of being unaffected by moist
ure, will neither shrink nor swell, be-
side being nonconductor of heat.
The pipes have twice the tensile
strength of steel pipes.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-02-24
"'Tin dollars sez Oh.
s..TL3 cAc
rhey Were the Combatants.

Harry and Bobby were brothers. 8
and 9 years of age. Coming late
from school one day, their mother said:
why are you late. boysP"
Bobby, the younger, was usually the
spokesman on such occasions. and he
answered:
1--WE stopped" -,
What did you stop forP" said
mamma.
ITO see two bows fghtin'."
Indeed! and vino we're the boysF
Harry was one"
IAN. indeed, and who was the
other?"
"The other was me.n answered the
unabashed Bobby. ReItgio- Pbilosophs-
cal Journal.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-02-24

London contains about 220, 900 for
eigners. The Germans number 62, 900,
Americans $4,000. French 10000,
Dutch $1,000, Poles 10000, Italians
5000 and Swiss 5000.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-02-24

There are thirteen miles of book
shelves in the British Museum.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-02-24

New York city employs 3.54S public
school-teachers.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1892-12-08
In W0MAN'S BEHALF.
WOMAN'S PART.
Furnishing Aid and Inspiration to Column
bus-One womau's Career.

Furnishing Aid and Inspiration to Column
bus-One womau's Career.
With q Haunting OF banners and a
blaze OF pyrotechnics, with peals of
martial music and cheers Of free-born
people, with floods of eloquence from
pulpit, platform, and press, a world dis.
covered has honored it's discoverer
during the great Columbian celebra-
tion But what of the woman who,
with a wolnan's divine, intuitively in
spired faith and impulsive generosity,
aided the Genoese dreamer whom kings
and councillors had despised and re.
jccted7 And what about the other
woman who brought to Columbus as
her her wedding dowry the valuable
maps and charts, journals and memo
randa compiled by her father, the dis
tinguished Portuguese navigator?
Columbus, like the average son-in-law,
apparently went into the business OF
his father-in-law, for we read that II
was while constructing maps and
sharts for the support Of his family he
imbibed the idea of land TO the west
ward, which he SO gloriously es'
tablished.
Dyes, christopho Colombo, you are q
great mani We honor your genius,
your indomitable will, your magnid.
sent steadfastness OF purpose, which
but for u woman's faith and courage
we might never have known anything
about.
This Isabella OF CASTLE, isabella
OF Peace and Goodness" as she was
called, did she not pose forever as the
gracious woman with the immortal
jewels opening a pathway to world In
which women are honored as never
before, would still be remarkable
figure in the history of the world.
Like Maria Theresa of Austria and
Elizabeth of England, she marks NJ
epoch in the chronicle of progress. Hac
she lived to-day she would be found a
the front in this great movement fol
the social, political, and educationa
advancement and recognition of women
and for the reform Of all economic con
ditions detrimental 10 the state or u
its people. She was n woman remarlC
ably strong in character, imbued with
the nineteenth century spirit of equality
and progress possessed of no incon
siderable beauty and winning grace,
but like all courageous women pro-
nouneed by her critiss as lacking in
true womanly gentleness
The romantic story of the love Of
Ferdinand and Isabella is well known
70 the readers OF history, yet the deeI
affection of the wife for the husband
never influenced the queen to relinquist
her prerogatiyes as sovereign. She wa
always present in meetings of council
and insisted on the use Of her name
along with that Of Ferdinand in al
public documents. In every roya
progress and in every honor she PLACED
Ferdinand before the people us hei
king and theirs, yet without sacrificing
an iota of her individual sovereignty
"Thou honor Of Castilian wives ." OK
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