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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-08-24
A cRiMEAN GHOST STORY.
Sad News of the Battle Field Brought by
an Apparition.

During the Crimean War a captain in
the army had a younger brother in the
Seventh Royal Fusiliers before Sebas=
topol to whom he was much attached.
One night he suddenly awoke in the
bed and saw the figure of his brother
kneeling in the room, looking anxious
ly and lovingly at him, through light
sort of phosporescent mist. He noticed
with horror IL wound on the right
temple of the head of the recumbent
figure from which red stream flowed.
"The face was of waxy hue, but
transparent looking, and so was the
reddish mark" The narrator got up,
went into the next room, called the
members of his family told them what
he had seen. On the next Monday
following news was received of the
storming of the Redan, and fortnight
later friend brought the intelligence
of the brother death, he having been
killed in the attack. The narrator
adds that "both the colonel of the regi.
ment and one or two officers, who saw
the body, confirmed the fact that the
appearance was much according to my
description, and the death wound was
exactly where l had seea it.
The precise time of the poor officers
death is uncertain, for the body was
not found for thirty-six hours after
wards. The brothers presentiment of
what had happened was, however, on
the night of the day on which the
Redan was stormed.
Another case, this time illustrating
transference of pain, is that of the
wife of a well-known landscape painter,
who awoke in bed with a start one
morning, feeling that she had had a
severe blow on the mouth, with dis
tinct sense that her upper lip was
bleeding. She applied her handker-
chief to what seemed the injured part,
but there was no blood, nor, on look
ing in the glass. was there any SWELL
ing. She took note of the hour q
o'clock, went to bed again, and treated
the matter as only a dream. Some
little time afterwards her husband,
who had been out in a sailboat all the
morning, returned, and the wife
noticed that he rather purposely sat
further away from her than usual, and
every now and then put his handker-
chief furtively up to his lip, in the way
she had herself done earlier in the
morning. Asking for an explanation
she was told that "when l was sailing,
sudden squall came up, throwing
the tiller suddenly around, and it
struck me bad blow in the mouth
under the upper lip, and it has been
bleeding good deal and wont stop"
The hour, the husband said, must have
! been about 7. His wife adds that 81
then told him what had happened to
me, much to his surprise and to all
who were with US at breakfast, p
american Bookseller.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-08-24
ABOUT MINES.
How Some of Our Many Wealthy Owners
Live.

Jim Whitlatch, the discoverer of the
Whitlatch-U Union mine, near Helena,
led a typical western miners life. The
mine in question is now owned in Eng
land, and has produced $40, 900, 900 in
gold. After Jim Whitlatch had sold
the property for 81, 500. 900, he went to
New York to make as much money as
Vanderbilt" He was rare treat to
Wall street, which fattened on him,
and in one year let him 90 with only
the clothes on his back. He returned
to Montana, began "prospecting"a again,
and discovered a mine for which he
got $250,000.
He went to Chicago to rival Mr.. Pot
ter Palmer in wealth, and returned
Just as he did from New York-"f1at
strapped" as he would have expressed
it. He made still another fortune and
went to San Francisco, where he died
poor man. Another Lewis and
Clarke County mine-the Drum Lum-
mon-provides another such story. 1t
was discovered by an Irish immigrant
owned it, he sold it to an English syn
one of the wealthy men of Helena.
l.
Beaver Head County who owns very
rich mine, the ore yielding 500 to the
ton net. He is a California "forty-
| Miner" who came as a prospector to
| Montana, and since discovering his
mine has lived upon it in peculiar
way. He has no faith in banks. He
| says his money is safest in the ground
When he has spent what money he has
| L - Oh,
| it to Omaha, sells it and lives on the
return until he needs another wagon
load.
There is a queer story concerning
the Spotted Horse Mine, in Fergus
County. 1t was found by P. A. Nc
Adow, who sold it to Governor Hausel
and a. M. Holder for 100000 thre,
years ago. They paid large sun
down in cash, and the other payment
were to come out of the ground. Th'
ore was in pockets, each of which wa
easily exhausted. Whatever was taker
out went to Meadow, who got abou
100000. Then the purchasers aban
doned it, on the advice of experts, ant
Mr.. Meadow took hold of it. He foun'
the vein, over which rails had beel
laid for a mining car. He has takel
out 100000, and it is still a goo,
mine. One of these children of lucl
came to Helena with money, picke'
out wife, who was then a poor seam
stress, hired hotel, and invited tn
town to the wedding. The amount @
champagne that flowed at that wed
ding was fabulous, and it is said tina
the whole town reeled to bed tina
night. Harper's Magazine.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-08-24
Night in a "Dugout. :"

Speaking of that night in the "dug-
out" reminds me of some of my suf-
ferings the first night l ever slept in
one of them. Afterward l became
used to the peculiar inhabitants of
those houses. don't mean the human
inhabitants, for in Kansas they are as
good and honest sons of toll as can be
found in America the centipedes!
They are legion. The dugout in which
l spent the first night was boarded up
with raw lumber and it had shrunk in
that dry region near the Colorado line.
This left cracks from half an inch to
an inch wide between the boards. In
order to keep the dirt from sitting
through newspapers had been pasted
all over the walls and ceiling. This
made excellent highways for the cent?
pedes which in that region grow to a
length of six inches. Crawling along
the tightly stretched paper at the dead
of night, their hundred feet made a
grewsome noise, and combined with
the howl of the coyotes kept me awake
nearly all the night. l simply tucked
the bedclothes tight around my head
and waited in a cold perspiration for
morning. Kansas city Times.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-08-24
A Marine Paradox.

Many of you have stood on the
beach at the seaside and watched the
sea rolling in heavy breakers after
storm, curling and crashing into vol
umes of foam and broken water with
such force as to send them sweeping
up almost to your feet. 1t is through
such waves that men who follow the
sea must at times pass in reaching the
shore; but not through one or two on
smooth, quick shelving beach, but
through thirty or forty, perhaps, COW
ering mile of treacherous shoals and
at places surging between jagged reefs
and huge powders.
With intense interest we read of
dreadful shipwrecks almost every
week. The survivors tell how the big
ship labored and struggled through
monster pillows and shrieking wind,
under black flying clouds and amid
Jagged streaks of lightning, until,
mastless and helpless, she lay ex-
hausted in the trough of the sea and
passively received the crashing deluga
of merciless waves until she sank.
They tell how they, poor, puny human
beings, clung to helm and pumps till
the great ships struggles were over
anu IL UCCdIIl0 ONlu0uG tHdG Su0 COu1S
carry them no longer; then how they
hastily threw a cask of water and
| few provisions into some remaining
boat and at favorable moment
launched upon the angry waters in a
craft so frail that it seemed as if all on
board were doomed to instant destruc-
ton.
Here always comes the strangest
part of their narrative. Read all such
accounts carefully and you will find
that in nearly every case where such
a little boat is safely launched from
an abandoned ship it floats and drifts
for days and even weeks on the open
ocean, living through the dreadful
tempest which wrecked the big ship,
sailing buoyantly through calmer seas
and finally bringing the survivors
within sight of other ships or lands
John NJ EEZicott, in st. Nicholas.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-08-24
SOME REMARKABLE ATHLETES.
Tradition Tells of Wonderful Men who
Lived In tho Grand Canary.

After the Spanish occupation OF
the Grand Canary a certain enormous
stone was for long pointed out as one
of the instruments of the Gaunche
athletic courses. The natives had
been able to lift it, set it on their
shoulders, and even throw it over
their heads. Their degenerate poster
ity, and the Spaniards, could not raise
it from the ground.
Tradition has immortalized one
Adargoma of the Grand Canary, who
could wrestle for two successive hours,
and, having been thrown undermost
in a certain contest, got his antagonist
between his legs and arms and squeezed
him so that his bones began to crack.
The native was subsequently sent as
a prisoner to Spain, where he astound-
ed the people by his performances.
One day, in Seville, he was visited by
a brawny youth of LaMancha, who
was anxious to try bout with him.
my good FRIEND" said Adargoma, ~as
we are going to wrestle together it is
only reasonable that we should begin
drinking something" A large bowl
of wine having been brought, he took
this in one hand and continued to ad-
dress his challenger: "If with both
your arms you can overpower one OF
mine, so as to hinder me from drink
ing every drop of this wine, we will
try our strength together. If not,
you may return to your own home" "
The struggle took place and Adargoma
by degrees drained the bowl in the
coolest manner without spilling a drop
of the wine: His one hand was more
than a match for the others two.
1t was reckoned nothing out of the
common for a man to take an un-
tethered OK by the horn with one hand
and slay it with the other. A certain
native-born priest of Grand Canary in
the seventeeth century showed that he
inherited some of his ancestors vigor.
He could not only kill an OK in this
way, but one day, hearing that an en-
ragged bull had broken loose and was
in the street, he an out and, grasping
it by the leg, threw it down and sc
held it until it's owner was able to
secure it. This doughty son of the
church before his death CHANGED te
have one of his legs amputated for 6
cancer. 1t was found that his thigh
bone was solid, with no trace of mar
row. 1t must be confessed, however
that the relics of the Canarians now
found in their burying-places do moi
bear out the inference that this was 6
national characteristic, though theil
dimensions are certainly testimony
of the strength and size of their late
proprietors.-N ReUieaO.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-08-24
How a sopthorner Sings Language

The Atlanta CONSTITUTIONS story of
Carmencita's dancing is as follows;
saw gloomy ambient dusk. Over
head, bank against bank of sombre,
dim, diaphanous clouds. A strug-
Cling moon contested with the night.
l saw desert and a sea. Stabbing
the dusk, a great beam of light made
mimic stars of minute corpuscles upon
the strand. l glanced along the light
and saw beneath a canopy king in
sensuous reclination.
I saw banquet spread and golden
goblets filled with wine. Half hun
dred warriors, marked with scars of
battle, reveled with their sovereign
at the board.
l heard the clash of cymbals and l
saw smile suffuse the heavy features
of the king; and backward sprang the
chieftain warriors with bound.
The skins of jungle beasts, that
made the background of the scene,
were drawn aside, and there, revealed
against a golden-colored tapestry, a
elation of incarnate passion. She rails
ed her jeweled hand; wondered that
it did not hold dagger. From be-
tween distended eyelids her eyes, like
fires smouldering in pits of blackness,
glanced languidly upon the banquet
scene. She moved; no tawny lioness,
deep in the tangled security of her ma
tive wild, glutted with the warm blood
of mangled prey, ever trod more
daintily, more firmly or with more
conscious power. High above her
head she threw her arms and some of
those who saw her clutched their
| throats to stife cries. She seemed to
see it, for the smoldering fires burst
from her eyes; they dazzled me, al
though the scene was lighted with a
hundred torches. Her breasts swelled
till the blue veins there made them
| like blue-stained marbles, and her
linn bs firm as any watching warriors
arm, were slowly moving sinuously.
Her sandaled feet were pressed upon
the velvet floor as softly as a mother
presses lips upon the forehead of her
babe, and yet l seemed to see them
tread with force of warhorse on the
hearts of men. Her lips were like the
nectar of flower, but when | heard
her laugh l shuddered, though the
laugh was music.
Thrice she passed across the scene il
slow, sequential pose, and then, in al
abandon of voluptuous grace, she sent
an exhalation of magnetic passion deeE
into the hearts and brains of those who
saw.
heard the king cry with an oatf
that shook the canopy:
"Ask of me whatsoever thou wilt
and will give it thee"
And then she passed away-and
awoke.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-08-24
Don't Drink Milk Fast.

Few people know that there is a
good and a bad way of drinking milk.
The bad way is that which they gen.
orally follow, viz, to swallow large
quantity at once. When milk goes
into the stomach it is instantly cur
died, and if it is curdled into one big
mass the juices of the stomach can
work on only the outside of it. This
is the reason that many people who
like milk, and to whom it should be of
the utmost benefit, cannot drink it.
They say that it gives them indiges-
ton, and they are right. Let them
give it another chance. But this time
they must sip it slowly, not taking
more than a good teaspoonful at one
sip. and taking at least four minutes
to finish the glassful. Each little sip
thus becomes curled up by itself when
passed into the stomach, and the di-
gestive juices percolate freely around
it and it speedily becomes assimilated.
One of the best restoratives known
after excessive fatigue, and one in
finitely preferable to any form of al
cohol, is glass of hot milk. The heat
seems to Tighten it and to deprive it of
much of the sweetness which is SO
cloying to some tastes.-N. Y. Com
merctat AdUertiSer.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-08-24
The Size of solomon,s Temple.

Solomon's temple, as described in
the scriptures, would not be regarded
as very imposing structure in this
day and age of the world. Its length
was 1O7 feet, breadth Sc feet, and it
was "a feet in height, with portico or
veranda 36 feet long and 18 feet wide.
We have private houses here in st.
Louis that overshadow such an un-
pretending structure.-St. Lo4ts Re-
public.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-08-24

"Do you know that there are bacteria
in that beerP" asked the temperance
worker, as Taddles raised the amber
liquid to his lips. "Well, what of itP"
asked Taddles, as he set the empty glass
down. "Do you expect me to fish
'em outp I'm no member of the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals. ."-Brookly's Life.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-08-24
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT.

Estate of Harmon patterson. deceased
The undersigned has been appointed and
onalified as Executrix of the estate of Harmon
patterson. late OF Ravenna, Portage County.
Ohio deceased.
Dated this 9th d;-y of August, A. ID. 1892
MARY PATTERSON.
Attest: c. D. INGELL Probate Judge. 1247%
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-08-24

Victor Hugo, the famous French
poet, had pet cat of unusually vicious
temper.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-08-24

tDaily. Except Sunday. Alag gstop. MEAS.
Dark Faced Type denotes time from i2 90 noon to u 90
midnight Light Faced from II 90 midnight 12 90 neon
JOSEPH WOOD, E.A, FORD.
General Manager, General Passenger Agent,
5-15-s2-I PITTSBURGH, PENN,A.
For time cards, rates of fare, through tickets,
baggage checks, and further information re-
garding the running of trains apply to any
Agent of the Pennsylvania Lines.
W. D. ARMSTRONG. Agent,
Ravenna, o.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-08-24

Three and one-half millions of peo-
pie are always on the sea.
United States farm mortgages
amount to $12, $50, ,575, 600.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-08-24
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT

Estate of William E. Jones.
The undersigned has been appointed and
qualified as Execu rriX of the Estate of William
E. Jones, late of Hiram, Portage Comfy, Ohio.
deceased
Dated this 18th day of July, A D. 1892
AUGUSTA E, JONES EXeeutrix
Attest: c. D. INGELL. Probate Judge. 1247.
The Indianapolis journal., 1892-04-08
CORN BEEF AND CABBAGE.
Chicago Hotel Steward Tells an Amusing
Story on Gen. q. 3. Grant.

CHICAGO, April 7.-An unpublished story
of General Grant was told to-day at the
Grand Pacific Hotel by Paul Cores.
Il was steward at the Palmer House." he
said when the ex-President stopped there
on his return from the tour of the world.
One noon was all but stupeied at seeing
General Grant creep in at the kitchen door
as though escaping from some one
81 am sorry to trouble you he said, as il
asking q great favor. but may have q lit
tie corn beef and cabbager
"'Whv certainly l replied. shall l not
send il TO you out in the dinIng-roOmp
No. he answered, .Pll eat It right here
II you will let Inc sit down at this tablef
so l cleared away place on the rough
board table where the cooks had been fix
ing the meat. drew him up a stool. and the
way he got away with that corn beef and
cabbage made my eyes bulge. When he
had finished he land down his knife and
fork, and with a funny sigh of satisfaction
put one hand on my shoulder and said:
Young man. / suppose you don't care for
that at all, but if Won had had to eat what
i have for the past few months it would
taste like DINNER for the gods.
'Tbe poor over-stuffed General had dined
with every one from the Queen down. and
that cabbage in my kitchen did him more
good than all the rest together"
The Indianapolis journal., 1892-04-08
PRESIDENT HARRISON'S WAY.

A Democratic exchange says sneer-
ingly that "Mr. Harrison is running all
the departments of the government ex-
cept the navy" The charge is intended
to be derOgatOry to the President by i'm
plying that he arrogates too much au-
thority to himself and NEEDLES too
much with the details of government
affairs. Of course, it is exaggerated.
but let us admit that there is slight
foundation for it in the fact that Presi-
dent Harrison has familiarized himself
with the working of every department
of the government and does exercise
close supervision over their conduct.
Let us admit that he probably goes fur
ther in this direction than any person
who has ever occupied the presidential
office. What then7 Is there anything
derogatory or discreditable in thati De-
cidedly not.
The Constitution makes the Presi-
dent the chief executive and RESPONSE
BILE head of the government. He is
elected on account of his supposed fit
ness for the position and his ability to
carry its responsibilities. He alone is re-
sponsible to the people for the admins
tration of the government. The thou
sands of subordinate officials appointed
by him are responsible not to the people
but to him. If things go wrong the
President is held responsible. and
rightly so. 1t is his duty to see
that affairs do not go wrong, and
to see that the offices are filled by men
who will mako them go right. His Cab
met officers are his appointees the same
as a postmaster. They are appointed
not to overrule or override the Pres
ident, but TO assist him in administering
the government. Some meu need more
assistance than others. Some can stand
more work and carry more responsible
ty than others. If President of ex-
ceptional aptitude for public affairs and
exceptional fondness for work chooses
to familiarize himself with all the depart
ments of government and exercise a
close supervision over their conduct,
certainly that should be no ground of
complaint against him. 1t is simply
equivalent TO saying that he does not re-
gard public Office as private snap" or
"a soft thing" but that he recognizes
The Indianapolis journal., 1892-04-08
Illinois G. A. II. Encampmcnt.
LETTER FROM THE POPE.
Cardinal Gibbons the Recipient Of Special
Benediction from His Holiness

BALTIMORE, April 7.-Cardinal Gibbons,
who wrote TO the Pope regarding the now
famous ency clical. has received the follow
ing in reply from his Holiness:
TO our beloved son James Gibbons,
Cardinal priest of the Holy Roman Church
of the title of ST. Maria Trsnstiberin,
Archbishop of Baltimore. Although your
letters always give rs pleasure. yet we con-
fess that We were particular gratitied by
that which VIC received from you under
date of 18th of January, since it bore the
special cOmmendation of having been writ
ten in the name of all of the venera BILE
bishops In the church in the United
State. We rejoice, indeed, that
you esteem the care which we have
bestowed upon your dioceses. The scntl-
ments of gratitude which your letter ex-
presses have given US no small comfort
All these things avail, as your devotion
toward us increases, TO incline our good
will daily more and more toward you and
your flocks and thus to draw closer those
bonds of charity and faith which give such
great strength and glory to the church. 1t
Is most agreeable to us to know that yOur
prayers are offered to God for us. for MOTH
ing is better suited to the difficulty of the
times in which we live. With q like feel
ing of charity, therefore, We. on our part,
implore an abundance of heavenly graCes
for you, and as an earnest of them, We i'm
part permanently in the Lord to you, be-
loved son. and to your brethren and to the
epIscOpate of the United States as we'll as
to the clergy and faithful committed to
your watchfuiness. the apostolic benedIc-
tiOn."
The Indianapolis journal., 1892-04-08
PASSAGE OF THE FRER-WoOL BILL.

No one is surprised that the Demo-
cratic House has passed free-w DOL bill.
1t did so in 1888, and the Democratic
party does not change. There is, how
ever, one fact that it is well to remem-
Der, and that IS that the first assault of
the Democratic free traders is upon an
industry which has q financial interest
to two million farmers in the United
States. The past week Democratic
orators In Rhode Island have been tell
ing the manufacturers of that State that
their wool will cost them third less if
the free wool bill should become law.
In the West they will tell different
story. But the fact remains in the cir
culars of the wool merchants that the
same grades of raw woods are quoted
from 10 to 10 cents pound high
er in New York than in Liverpool.
Free wool, therefore, means a loss of
from ten to fifteen cents pound to the
American wool grower. These two mill
ion wool growers in the United States
own 45,000,0O0 sheep, valued at S117,-
100000. and the clip the present year is
300, 0,000 900 pounds and is worth S75, 000,-
600 to the producers, that is, an average
of 25 cents a pound. Putting wool on
the free list, the average price Will fall
at least s cents pound, which would
mean S24, 4,OOO.0 900. or nearly one third of
the value of the clip. Thus the Demo-
cratic Congress singles out two million
woOl-growers, largely Northern farm
ers of limited means, for it's sacrifice to
the cheap WOOL growers of South Ameri-
ca and Australia, just as it did in 1888
when it refused the people the boon Of
cheaper sugar. because the Sugar Trust
was controlled by Democrats, some Of
whom made large contributions to the
Cleveland campaign fund, and because
the sugar-growers are Southern Demo-
Gratis