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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-09-07
FooLINc THE MlLcH cows.
Natives of India Resort to Strange De-
vice-Hindoo Fatalism.

Not even Kipling can do more than
hint at the awful problems of India.
1t is one thing to read of its conditions,
says writer in the Boston Transcript;
it is another to face them. wish
could tell you what the journey to Tel
ECU from the coast was like-my first
introduction to India. Fifty miles
and a two days journey! If we make
two miles an hour it is counted good
speed. Sand and sun, glare above
and glare beneath. Practically no
vegetation; the trees look pestilence-
stricken. There never comes time
when they seem to renew their leaves
though sometimes we used to think
they moulted; the old leaves rattle
off. and still there are leaves on the
trees, but they never look new. OF
course am speaking of my own part
of India; near the rank vegetation OF
the iungles it is doubtless different.
And one day is like another; year
like another; thousand years like an
other thousand years. The impassive
native stufing the calf skin, that his
COW may be deceived and let down
milk, might be his own immemorially
great grandfather, for all the advance
he has made on his grandfather's hab-
| its of mind or body or soul. You don't
know what 1 mean about stufing the
calf? They believe the COW will give
no milk unless the calf takes first its
share; so when a calf dies they stuff it
with weird results, I assure you
and solemnly lead the COW to where
this appalling caricature is propped up
on sticks every night before they milk
her.
The Hindoo fatalism extends even
to the intellectual side of life. In
grammar with them, as in destiny, a
thing is SO because it is so; fatalism
kills out reason as it kills out spiritual
effort and aspiration. l shall never
forget trying to get an explanation
from a Hindoo teacher of finding, in
some of their writings, plural sub
stantive mated to singular verb.
"Why does not this plural noun take
a plural verb?"
because it takes a singular verb.
"WhyP"
because it is right that it should de
so."
"Why wouldn't it be right that i
should take plural verb?"
Because it would be wrong"
but L InouSnG plural supolah"A'0 o
always took plural verbs?"
"They do"
"Yet this one does notP"
'No, this one does not"
"What rule governs it, theng"
"There is no rule. 1t does so be
cause it is right that it should do So.
e There are some remarkable mono
!, liths in China. They were used in tn
o construction of a very remarkabl
g bridge connecting two small town
called Yum Ian and Loey Ian, stand
:. ing on opposite shores of large Ia
I coon or arm of the sea near Chi
L Chen, in the province of Fro Kier
Some of the blocks, composed of gra
t granite, measure forty feet in lengt
o and five feet in thickness and width.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-09-07
PAID FOR BEING DISCHARGED.
Dry Goods Clerk Who Is Used for
Smoothing Down Irate Purchasers.


A new industry has just been intro
duced into Denver. In every large re-
tail blishment there is an innumer-
able number of "kicks" to be registered,
and it keeps one man busy smoothing
down the ruffied customers, who often
kick without reason. One OF these
managers of kickers has hit upon
novel device by which he mollifes the
angry. A reporter for the Colorado
San was sitting in his little Office tho
other day, watching him pour oil on
the troubled waters.
A lady came in with blood in her
eve. The goods which she had pur-
chased were not as represented, she
claimed.
"Be seated, madam" said the man
ager, "and I will try to locate the
blame"
He touched a little button on his
desk and cash boy appeared.
"Tell jackson to come here at once"
Jackson soon arrived looking very
guilty. He was rather a handsome
young man, but was evidently agl-
tated.
This lady says that you told her
these goods were all silk. How came
you to make such a misstatement.
sirP"
@I thought"
"You knew better. This is the sec
ond time you have made this misstate-
ment, and l shall have to dispense with
your services. Take these goods back
and draw your money and leave at
once"
Jackson bowed and stammered and
made his escape.
81 don't think that was the sales
man." began the lady, "the one /
bought these of had beard"
"No matter; jackson is responsible
for all the mistakes in that depart-
ment, and I'm glad that I dismissed
him."
The lady went out, feeling very
sorry that she had caused the young
man to lose his situation.
She had no more than gone when
another woman came bristling in and
said:
81 paid for three yards Of this
gingham and got only little over two.
I won't be cheated. 1t is little mat
ter, but want my rights"
"Be seated, madam, and I'll see
what can be DONE"
he toucheo the Dell ana ne salo %
the boy:
"TelI jackson to come here at once.
Jackson appeared, trembling as be
fore.
"You have been selling short meas
ure in ginghams again. I've hac
enough of that sort of thing. You arr
discharged"
"But Il"
"Not a word, sir. You are dis
charged"
The woman pleaded for him, bu
the manager was adamant.
When she had gone he turned roun'
with grim smile.
at works well, doesn't It'll"
"Do you really keep him here to b
firedP"
"He has nothing else to do except t
! keep out of sight. People are alway
, satisfied when they succeed in gettinI
!, clerk discharged. and he is alread.,
becoming used to it."
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-09-07

amans+ a@oats, I will only charge Won tho
mn nnGunG you SO skillfnlly made ~ ont 'ne ns
cnn cn9 IA tne other matter. Yon are uo 80, ..
6,,4 6u44ulng' you merchants of Amstards fer ley =.
Won %e seo oI d Brock have positive genins ii'
plieJ Iu' you you got the idea from merp ro
Tro, % master Woerden prondlv
AT"''SSated from the French PAouoly.-
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-09-07

In accordance with Chinese etiquet,
an business of state requiring the en-
peror's attention is transacted between
the hours of o'clock and O'Clock IN
the morning,
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-09-07
When your Cash Purchases aggregate $40
you will be presented with your
choice of our beautiful
Pastel Pictures Free
WHY WE DO TT.

giving beautiful Pastel Pictures for two
old customers apprec1a
tion of their patronage.
SEcoNDWe hope induce large number OF new customers
to trade enough test tile Qnalf Of S0oaS
our prices our yflSa6ily Qy of doing business
enterprise and advertising, and that in
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Please bear
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on closer margin offer bargains than before
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presenting with the which purchases will entte
you.
Risdon & Taylor.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1892-10-29
The Sailors Memory.

A grizzled old seadog sat on the
stringpiece of a Delaware avenue
wharf one evening recently and dis
coursed wisely upon maritime top
les. PILOTS have kind O one sided
kind o memories" he said. You
know they get paid so much per foot
draft, and so when they pick up a
nice big deep water vessel with a
full cargo why she pays 'em hand
some. And yet they hardly ever re
member the names of the vessels
they take up and down the river and
bay. and you'll hear 'em yarnin to.
gether and talkin about that 11-foOt
brig or that 15-fOOt 6-inch ship
OF that four masted schooner the
the the, oh, hang it, the one that
drew about twenty-One foot and
steered SO all fired hard
Why, | know one old pilot who'll
spin good yarns all day long and all
night right on top of that, and tell of
what happened to him on fifty yes
sells, from sloop yachts to whalin big
clipper ships, and he'll never men
ton EN- by any mark except what
water they drew when he had 'em III
charge. Pilots is mighty important
men. but their memories is awful
warped for names."-Philadelphia
Record.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1892-10-29

Years ago a family lived on a farm
in a little county town, where there.
was no railroad, and the nearest city
was a number of miles distant. The
father was very fond of oysters, and
how do you suppose he managed to
have some always lat hand!" He
would drive to the nearest city. buy
a bushel of real live" ones and bring
them back home with him. But that
was not all. They were then care
fully placed in rows along the cellar
floor, where it was rather dark and
cool and a little damp.
The most interesting part, how
ever, was to keep them alive. Every
little while some n would go down
cellar" and feed them by sprinkling
them with meal and with water.
One of the little girls in the family,
who is now grown up, says she can
remember how the oysters closed
their shells with a snap after they
were fed, but perhaps that was only
in her imagination. Anyway, if they
happened to be forgotten for a time
they would be found patiently wait
ing with their shells open ready to
receive their next meal. -Harper's
Young People.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1892-10-29
AneCtatiOE.

We all hate affectation. The truth
is that people use the word in a a
row sense; they are thinking CT a
silly or an offensive habit. But this
is the outward sign assumed by per
sons of i'll balanced Judgment of
some fancy which perhaps is harm
less or even honorable. The term
means something put ont issim
ply the Latin translation of that Eng
fish phrase, and we keep the original
in our ''putting ON" side. Thus it
implies an ideal-the assumption of
qualities or conditions an individual
would like to possess. Obviously
this may OF may not be discreditable
to him.
On the former case it is not worth
while to dwell; the boy who would
pass for a rake is both offensive and
silly, but he that would be mistaken
for a sportsmen, a child Of poetry,
with insufficient qualifications, a con
nOisseur in this or that, a woman
hater. an aesthetic, makes himself
only ridiculous. So does the girl
who feigns to despise her own sex or
the other, to be devoted to mans
sports and occupations, or, contrari-
wise, to be too ethereal for this un
romantic age.
The poirt is that in each instanse
the affected one is aiming at some
ideal which he or she would like to
achieve. And, as has been said, what
mortal, granted his share of the di-
viner part, is unconscious of such a
longing! If he have also his proper
share of common sense he will sup
press the show. But the fancy and
the impulse are there. National Oh
server.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1892-10-29

some day awake and smite his enc
mics.
Bobadil ell Chico, the last of the
Moorish kings of Granada, sleeps
spellbound near the Alhambra. The
MoOrs believe that he will some day
awake and r%e-establish his govern
ment.
Charlemagne sleeps in the Oden-
berg in Hess, seated on his throne,
with his crown upon his head and his
sword by his side. When the time
Of antichrist is fulfilled he will arise
and revenge the blood of the saints.
In Germany it is the popular belief
that Charles V will some day awake
from his enchanted sleep to reign
over Germany, Spain, Portugal, Den
mark, Belgium and the Netherlands.
The Mohammedans believe that
when antichrist comes MOhammed
Mohadi will awake and conquer him.
Swiss folk tales tell us hat three
members of the Tell family are
sleeping the sleep of the enchanted
at Ruth, near the Vierwaldstatter
sea. Should the country again be
overrun by a tyrant the sleepers will
awake and help to free the people
from the despot.
Thousands of the French peasantry
believe that Napoleon is only sleep
ing, and that at some future time he
will reappear and rule.
The above T only a few of the
celebrated slumber myths known to
investigators. st. Louis Republic.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1892-10-29
Immense Cost Of Roman Tensts.

Va c''o ,
The amount Of money often ex
pended by the wealthy Romans Oh
their sumptlous meals appears fabu
lOus. Vitellius is said to have spent
as much as 400 s~estertia about Ga, 22S
of our money! on his daily supper,
and the celebrated feast to which he
invited his brother cost no less than
GAO, $50! It consisted of 1900 differ
ent dishes of fish and 1000 of fowls.
with other equally numerous meats.
His daily food was of the most rare
and exquisite nature-the deserts OF
Lydia, the shores of Spain, the wa,
tiers of the Carpathian sea, and even
the coasts and forests of Britain,
were diligently searched for dainties
to supply his table, and had he
reigned long he would, observes 10
sephus, have exhausted the great OPP
ulence of the Roman empire.
By the way, we wonder if these
happy go lucky Romans ever suf
fered much from indigestion. OF
one thing we Ire certain-that in
order to render the bridge from one
feast to another less tedious an occa-
sional resort was had to the persua
sive powers of an emetic. The ex
travagance Of these times was indeed
so bOundless that to entertain an
emperor at a feast, unless you were
a Crosus, was to encounter almost
certain financial ruin-literally to be
eaten up. One dish alone at the
table of Heliogabalus has been known
to cost a sum equal to "a, 900 of our
money.-Chambers' Journal.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1892-10-29
The Inhabitants of Mars.

1t seems to us that unless the whole
conception of communicating with
Mars be in the highest degree ex-
travagant, we have some reason to
assume that the possible Martials are
behind, not before, us in their stage
OF development and civilization. We
Know that the tribes upon our earth
which 1--we under the most unfavor-
able conditions as regards heat-the
Eskimo, for instance, and the Pata-
gonians-are far behind the inhab-
itants of the temperate regions in
civilization, and therefore if we NAV
draw any differences at all as to the
Martials from our own condition. the
more probable inference is that if
they exist under circumstances at all
like our own they are, considering
their great distance from the sun,
centuries behind us rather than at
the same stage of evolution, or still
less centuries before U.S..
And if we had no right to draw an
then we have still less to
reason with the smallest confidence
from our own circumstances to theirs.
They may Of course have senses such
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1892-10-29
Curing the Young. Man.

The boy wrote from the college,
using such large words that the ia
ther replied with the following: I'm
promulgating your ~esoteric cogita-
tons or articulating superficial senti-
mentalities and philosophical or psy-
Geological observations, beware of
platitudinous ponderosity. Let your
conversation possess a clarified con-
ciseness, compacted comprehensive
ness, %coalescent consistency and a
concentrated cogency. Eschew all
conglomerations of iatulent garrul-
ity, jejune babblement and asinine
Alterations. Let your extempora-
neous descantings and unpremedi-
tated eXpatiations have intelligibity,
without rhodomontade or thraroni-
cal bombast. Sedulously avoid all
polysyllabical profundity, pompous
prolixity and ventriloquial verpidity.
Shun double entendre and prurient
jocosity, whether obscure or appar'
ent. In other words, speak truth
fully, naturally, clearly, purely, but
do not Use large words"
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1892-10-29

as we have not even a dream or
they may be perfectly well ae
quainted with all that happens not
only on our globe, but on all the
other planets, and yet quite unable to
let us know that they are familiar
with our conditions of life and how
they have acquired that knowledge.
But if that were SO it would be only
too obvious that Il conditions of
life furnish us with no basis for
forming any conjecture at all IS to
theirs, and in that case it would not
only be sanguine but quite irrational
to attempt to open communications
at all.-London Spectator.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1892-10-29
Restoring Faded Ink.

Faded ink on old documents, pa
pers, parchments, etc, may be re
stored so as to render the writing
perfectly legible. The process con
sists in mOistening the paper with
water and then passing over the
lines a brush which has been wetted
with a solution Of sulphide Of am
monia; the writing will Immediately
appear quite dark i'll color, and this
color in the case of parchment will
be preserved. On paper, however.
the color will gradually fade again,
but on a fresh application of the sui
phide Of ammonia it will reappear.
Writing executed in ordinary ink
which has been rendered illegible by
age may be restored by carefully
moistening it with an infusion of
gals, or a solution Of ferrocyamide
Of potassium slightly acidulated with
hydrochloric acid. Care must be
taken to apply the liquid so as to pre-
vent the ink from spreading.-Brook
lVn Eagle.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1892-10-29
Trout rs Mice Eaters.

Trout have been caught in the up
per Annandale streams which have
been feeding on the Snice, or field
voles, with which u pastures are
plagued. A Motfat lady who had
got a present of trout from a friGld
living lea Evan water was the other
day surprised to hear her domestic
scream, and on inquiring the cause
found it was due to the presence of a
vole in the stomach of a half pound
trout. A gentleman angling in Moi
fat water caught a pound trout near
Bodesback, and on cutting up the
fish found a whole vole in it's stom-
ach. The voles run to the streams
in dry weather, and many of them
are drowned. 1t will be strange if
the trout has to be classed with the
hawk, the owl and the weasel as a
natural enemy."-Dumf Courier
Correspondence.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1892-10-29
ENCHANTED SLEEPERS.
Historical xid Mythical P~ersonages
Iiayed to Re SIeeping.

Historical Sid Mythical PersOnages Be-
Iieved to T:c Sleeping.
Altogether not less than a half hun
dred people, once prominent in the
affairs of the world, are believed to
be sleeping enchanted, drea1nless
sleeps in caves, grottoes and other
out of the way places. Some of these
slumber myths begin with the earliest
dawn Of mythology; others are com
paratively modern.
Endymion, the shepherd Of Mount
Latmos, beloved by Diana, was
thrown into a perpetual sleep by
Jupiter, SO that his youth and beauty
might be e~ternally preserved.
Saleh, the Arabian, asked God TO
destroy his enemies, the Thamudites,
but instead Of granting the requcat
he sent an angel who led Saleh to Il
ave and put him to sleep. He slept
for twenty years, awakening to find
his friends and relatives all dead.
Gabriel, the angel, alone recognized
him. He called Saleh to him and
said, Thou vast hasty in asking fer
the destruction of the Thamudites;
therefore God hath withdrawn from
thy life twenty years, taken from
thee in sleep" Gabriel then gave
Saleh the shirt worn by Adam in the
time of his penitence and a sword
that had formerly belonged to Noah.
With these famous relics he vert
among the Thamudites and worked
many miracles. One of his wonder
workings produced a camel from a
rock. This beast was n of the ten
sacred animals admitted to the para.
disc of Mohammed.
The Turks believe, along with the
Hindoos, that Nourjahad, wife of the
Mogul emperor, Geanjir, has slept
for many centuries.
King Arthur, grievously wounded
at the battle of Camlan, did not die,
according to popular belief, but was
carried away by three queens, who
watch over him during his long sleep
at Avillion. When he awakes he
will reclaim his throne and bring
back the golden age to the British
isles.
The Servians say that Knee Lazar,
who was supposed to have been slain
by the Turks in 1889, is in an en-
chanted sleep. from which he will
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1892-10-29
1t Was No Go.

In a hall in Glasgow a few weeks
ago there was a lecture on Marriage
and After" The lecturer said that
men should kiss their wives as they
did when they were a year or two
married.
When .he lecture was over an old
man went home, put his arm around
his wife's neck and kissed her. Meet
ing the lecturer next day he said:
Its no go"
What isn't?" said the lecturer.
''Weel,' said the man, when l
kissed my wife she said, What's
game wrang wi We. ye auld fool, yeY"
Boston Globe.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1892-10-29
PeOpIe Don't Like Ocean Racers,

The fast trips Of the ocean steam
ers across the Atlantic are working a
curious reaction. People used to take
the voyage long ago for the tonic eff
fects of the seq air, the long rest it
gave them and the general benefit
of the complete change Of life. All
this is done away with on the 'six
day boats" The trip is so short that
the passengers barely get used to the
wave motion or cured of it's first up
heavings when the dock is sighted
on the other side. Then the great
crowd on board, the rush for meals
and continued excitement use up
many of the other beneficial advan-
tages. Long trip voyages have there
fore become fashionable. Baltimore
Sun.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1892-10-29
The Politics Of Immigrants.

A study of the nationalities repre-
sented in the immigration to this
country shows that a little more
than so per cent. of the whole num-
Der have come from Protestant
countries, and if we should look
closely into the matter we should
find that the two great political
parties in the United States absorb
equal proportions of the total volume
of immigration. In a theological
and political SENSE therefore immi
grafton has been quite equally di-
vided. -Carroll D.. Wright in Popu-
lar Science Monthly.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1892-10-29
One Way to Find 4 Body.

We are told that in the search fO1
the body of the boy drowned at
Springfield Saturday the searchers
adopted a plan proposed by one of
the party, which vas to tie up a loaf
of rye bread in the lost cne's shirt
and set it adrift in the water above
the place where the lad was drowned,
the theory being that the loaf would
float until in the vicinity Of the body
The plan was tried and a hundred OF
more people, says our informant,
watched the package float down the
stream until at a certain point it be
gan circling around, and their eyes
watched it intently for five minutes
or more, when suddenly it sank out
of sight. And now comes the inter
esting part of the experiment-the
body was afterward found within a
few feet of the spot.-Sleepy Eye
DISPATCH.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1892-10-29
Dies Irn.

Early in the present century il
was introduced into English collec-
tons of hymns through the com
pressed translation or paraphrase OF
it given by Scott in his Lay Of the
Last Minstrel" and few hymn books
now are without the solemn apolca-
lyptic strain, That day of wrath,
that dreadful day" But our special
point is the extraordinary number OF
versions which have been made OF
the hymn, about 1850 in English and
ninety in German, being on record.
Next to this among Latin hymns may
be ranked, although at a long inter
val, the ''Adeste Fideles," Of which
there are thirty-eight English YER
sions, a number far surpassed by
the sixty-three of Luther's great
hymn, "Ein feste Burg. Quarterly
Review.