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The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-06-04
LIZARDS I'M SINGAPORE.
They Sleep with People, but They Kill
Mosquitoes and spiders.

Mosquitoes and spiders.
There are lizards in Singapore; large,
scampering, suddenly dropping things,
the walls of your hotel, in the sunshine,
and admire them. At evening, sitting
with fans and iced drinks, one sudden
ly falls on you, and it is colder than
your toddy. How can any organism,
bred in this seething spot, be so cold?
You go to bed, you and your wife.
Each has canopied couch, rods remote
from the other, for sleeping apartments
are ample. You stretch out on a light
mattress over which is one sheet. For
upper covering pull up the darkness
and draw the mosquito nets. There is
no need of sheet over you any more
than there is for warming pan.
The night orchestra, strange sounds
of tropic insects and trees and airs out
side, finally lulls you to sleep. Present
ly-plunk! and then a scampering of
some nimble-clawed thing on the floor
near your bed My lady, over at the
other side of the vast waste of chamber,
squeals: "A mouser'
unspoken, but you assure her that it
couldn't be mice. Mice don't fall from
the ceiling like lump of mud It's
only the lizards"
This cheerful information elicits no
squeal. With mice out of the question
what woman would not be brave?
There is h ush in the distant couch, a
silence too still for sleep. You know
your partner lies over yonder listening
hard for more lizards. Presently there
are more little dull thuds. The lizards
seem to be falling in several places.
They seem to be chasing each other OF
some venomous prey, or possibly max
ing away with your shoes. When one
is tagged out with sightseeing, to lie
awake in inl1y darkness, in the midst o
lizard carnival, is a little hard on tn,
nerves Ah something is pulling at the
canopy of your bed. as if young lSitter
when trying to climb it!
There comes very subdued voice
full. Won't you get up and strike {
light?"
"And step on the bloomin' cold beast
with my bare feet! You try it; you're
nearer the matches than T."
But we can't lie here like this. Call
somebody"
And one of the omnipresent "boys,
who seems to have been on guard at the
threshold, comes softly in. The lizards
will not hurt you, lady. They catch the
mosquitoes and spiders, Sometimes they
get under the nets of the bed; but don't
you mind" Reassuring, very; but
madame was ready for one tropic dawn
hours before it came Buffalo Ex-
press,
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-06-04
DOWN GRADE.

Through an Open Switch, Dashed the
Heavily Loaded Train, Scattering Death
and Destruction.
NILES o., May 2s.-A freight train on
the Pittsburgh and Western ran into an
open switch which leads down grade
to the Thomas furnace. The train at a
high rate of speed crashed into cinder
cars. The engine was thrown from the
track and badly damaged. The train
consisted of twenty-six cars, loaded with
merchandise, and only two of the
twenty-six remained on the track.
Thirteen were mashed into kindling-
wood, five were thrown over an en-
banlment into Mosquito creek and now
lie submerged in water. James McFar-
land, was caught between box car,
tclescoping the fiat, and killed. John
Jones, of Girard, was caught between
the bumpers. He was held there for
some time, but was rescued by train
men. He is badly injured internally
and can not live.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-06-04

PORTLAND, Ore, May GA whole
day has been consumed by the Briggs
case, and the end is not yet in sight.
DIR. Briggs took the floor Thursday, and
objected to the appeal. The appeal of
the prosecution committee had been
entertained, and the assembly has set
for itself the task for Friday of hearing
the appeal as it shall be presented by
appellants" The committee of prose-
cution in the case, "the appellee" DIR
Briggs, the members of the judiciary"
appealed from the Presbytery of New
York and the members assembly. A
vista of possibilities in the case is too
long to be followed out in detail here.
Only one thing will act as bar to an
indefinite continuation of the reading,
and that is a growing desire for the
close of the case, desire which became
evident in a vote to cancel the accept
ance of the invitation to go on an ex-
cursion to Astoria on Saturday next
The spirit of the assembly was made
evident Thursday afternoon when the
question in debate was whether the
stenographic record of the proceed
ings were to be regarded as part of
the records of the court. 1t was hotly
contested, but after a long debate the
assembly decided affirmatively in the
face of the well-known fact that the re-
cords in question had never been read
or approved by the Presbytery, and in
opposition to the opinion of three
superior court judges. A protest was
entered against this decision by one of
the judges mentioned, on the ground
that thereby the constitutional rights
of the defendant were invaded.
After considerable desultory debate,
Thursday afternoon vote was taken
upon the appeal and the motion was
carried in the affirmative. The question
then was upon report of the minority,
recommending that the case be sent
back to the synod of New York. Upon
motion. the report was laid upon the
table by vote of 3S5 to 1872. The ma.
jority report was then adopted without
division.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-06-04
THAT AWFUL WOMAN.
A AFelfow-Passenger Tells of Her suprsn
Selflshness.

A Fellow Passenger Tells of Her Supreme
Selishness.
She is 20 be found between the hours
of seven and eight in the morning in lAe
dressing-room of every sleeping car in
America.
l, who take it upon me to denounce
her, have plainly verified the facts of
her existence and habitat.
Given sleeping car on long route,
ten women in the various compartments
are notified by the porter promptly at
seven that the train will stop at Charles
ton or Chicago or Denver at eight for
breakfast. Each Immediately rouses
herself, rescues her different belong
ings from the CULTS and creases into
which they have fallen. fastens them
with difficulty at levels which are
strange to them, seizes her dressing bag
and goes to the dressing-room to find
eight other women gathered outside
and the door locked, barred and bolted
between them and the tenth one-the
woman who forgot others. Five min
utes is the limit which is allowed by
just division and law of equity to each
of these women in which to wash, brush
patiently for five minutes, grumbling
for ten, impatiently for fifteen, indig-
nantly for twenty, furiously for twenty
five. Then there is an eye-conference,
then a series of knocks which take on
the character of violent remonStrance.
Thirty minutes-forty y-forty-fvel-
the bolt is heard to slide back and some
one emerges-combed curled, brushed,
| powdered and buttoned-a self-satistied
creature who smiles innocently in the
pent-up, cindery faces which confront
| her.
Then is heard a long-drawn sigh of
wondering contempt from the group;
| the one nearest the door bows depre-
catingly to the others, slips into the
dressing-room, spends her shrunken
minutes as best she may and energies
with wetted sponge and open bag to
stand in a corner of the passage and
finish the process of making herself
unnoticeable.
l am persuaded that any fragrant in.
fraction of the rights of individuals on
the part of woman is generally to be
referred to ineXperience or ignorance.
She finds herself in a totally new posi-
tion-that is, in possession of dressing
room which belongs to her only by
courtesy and for a very limited time.
If she is young or dull or totally with
out the discipline of constantly chang
ing circumstances, her mind fails to
recognize the temporary tenure, and in
consequence she sins in an unforgivable
manner against the laws of courtesy.
Unless she is very, very dull she
scarcely commits this sin second time;
but if she does, some punishment should
be invented-for surely none exists
equal to the awful eNasperation of her
crime.
leave the suggestion to the many
who have suffered at the hands of this
sort of woman, and commend her to the
class whose tender mercies' are char
acterized in the Bible as cruel.-Can
dace Wheeler in Chicago News.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-06-04
MoRMoNS IN MEXICO.
with Them Polygamy Is Principle
of the Past.

with Them Polygamy Is Principle
of the Past.
Ell PAso, Tex, May 27.-Elder An
drew j. Stewart, of the Mormon church
is in the city from Mexico, where he
has just secured from the Mexican gov
ernment the concession of 100000 acres
of land, upon which Elder Stewart
agrees to locate 500 Mormon families.
To reporter Mr.. Stewart said:
1--WE are going to Mexico to make
permanent homes for ourselves. The
land 1 have secured will be divided into
little farms and every family will have
a home and well set-out orchards, vine
yards, ETC., and we will have factories
too. 1t will be self-sustaining COM
munity, as fine stock can be raised in
Mexico, as anywhere, and we will make
a speciality of improved stock" On the
subject of polygamy the elder said:
''It is principle of the past. 1t is snot
in existence now, as the laws of the
Mormon church require all its members
to live in obedience to the laws of the
country they may. live in. There
fore President Wilford Woodruff,
of the Mormon churches, is
Sueu hdhllSSOO PIOilolClIS Po-
lygamy, and it was sustained
by the vote of the whole people
in conference assembled. 1t is
not allowed to be taught in the church.
The doctrine of the Mormons is to not
interfere with anybody's religion, that
everybody could worship God according
to the dictates of his own conscience,
and as a citizen there was no question
about his religion, only every man
would have to be amenable to the laws
of his country"
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-06-04
A nrnmmer,s nIlemmn.

Coming from Rochester to Buffalo, on
the empire state express commercial
traveller recently had singular ride.
He arrived at Rochester just in time to
purchase his ticket and rush to the
train-room door to see the train pulling
out. He ran across the tracks and sue
ceeded in catching the rear platform of
the last coach. He expected, of course,
to secure an entrance to the car, but he
was disappointed The vestibuled plat
form was secure against his efforts to
get in, and as il was on the rear end of
the last car there was no occasion for
the conductor or any one else to enter
the vestibule. So he was not discov-
cred. The noise of the train prevented
him from making himself heard, and
the speed was too great to permit him
to get off, He was in dangerous pre-
dicament; and as the train makes no
stops, the unlucky passenger had to
hold on for dear life for an hour and a
quarter on one of the fastest trains in
the world, in dangerous proximity to
switch bars, stationary freight cars and
passing trains. When he alighted al
Buffalo, his only regret was that he had
purchased ticket,-Goldoa Days.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-06-04
Canes for summer Wear.

The pretty capes to be worn Mt the
seaside and in the mountains this sum,
mer are as a rule, made of French cam
els hair, very light and soft to the
touch, but slightly rough in appear
ance. The handsomest of these capes
are lined with shot silk and trimmed
with silk cord passementerics. Some
of the capes are gathered at the throat,
others fall from Il deep yoke The
shoulders are only raised little, and
the Vatican style is plated in the back.
The archcd collar is covered with pas
sementerie and lined with shot silk
white camels hair capes are similarly
made and trimmed with white ziblinette,
moss trimming, golden galloon or sim
ply with white silk cord or gimp at
ali the edges.-N, Y. Post.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-06-04
OHIO PRoHIBITIoNIsTs
Hold State Convention at Columbus
Gist of the Platform.

Hold a State Convention at Columbus.
Gist of the Platform.
COLUMBUS, o., May 27.--It was nearly
10 o'clock when the state prohibition
convention was called to order Thurc-
day morning, S. B. Logan, of Alliance,
was made permanent chairman; Henri
eta G. Moore, of Springfield, secretary;
M. j. Harrison, of Compton, aud Mrs
McClelland Brown, of Cincinnati, first
and second assistants
The preamble of the platform adopted
arraigns the liquor traffic in most vigor-
3us language, denouncing the compile
ity of the government with this trea-
sonablc business as threatening to our
free institutions and condemns both
the republican and democratic parties
for their connivance with the liquor
interests and for permitting the
sale and manufacture of intoXi-
eating liquors to go on. Declares that
the protection of life, liberty and prop
ty demands SUPPRESSION of Intoxicating
liquors for beverage purposes; no citizen
should be denied the right to vote on
account of sex; pronounccs against the
wnership of land by nonresident aliens;
in favor of government control of rail-
roads, telegraphs and all other monop-
0lies; against speculation in margins,
cornering of grain, etc.; the money of the
country ought to consist of gold, silver
and paper, and should be legal tender;
asks for laws excluding crippled, igno-
rant and criminal immigrants from this
country; declares that the president,
vice-president, and United States SEN
ators should be elected by direct vote of
the DeOnla
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-06-04
MINT unlstend ThinI,s.

WARRINGTON, May ~ Editor Murat
Halsteao called upon the president,
Thursday morning. lie said that Mr..
Blaine had assured him that he could
not accept the presidential nomination,
and it is Mr.. Halstead's confident
opinion now that President Harrison
will be renominated on the first ballot
Mr. Blaine, he added, has been the only
man who was liable to get the nomi-
nation aside from the president, and
having made up his mind not to accept
the nomination there is no good reason
to claim the nomination Of anybody but
the president
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-06-04
An Immense Verdict.

SAN Francisco, May 27.-The suit of
M. w. Fox, stockholder, against the
Hale & Norcross Silver Mining company
and Nevada Mill and Mining company
for accounting, and for judgment
against each of the defendants in the
sum of s2,OoO,OOO, alleged to be due by
reason of certain frauds and breaches of
trust resulting from unlawful combina-
tions on the part of defendants, ended
Thursday in decision from Superior
Judge Hcbbard, awarding Fox 81, 100, 600
damages, and appointing j. j. Groom,
clerk of the court, as receiver for the
properties until the amount of the judg.
ment has been recovered.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-06-04
Testlng Armor Plate.

WASHINGTON, May 2s.-The naval ord
nance bureau has the report of the test
of the first trial plate of the cruiser New
York, which test has just taken place at
the proving ground on the Potomac. A
four-inch nicllcl-steel unharveyed ma
dunn carbon plate was used represent
ing the 500 tons OF side armor which is
to come from the Carnegie works for
the vessel. A four-inch gun was fired
with Carpenter projectiles, the velocity
being 1920 feet. Three shots were
fred All of the projectiles rebounded,
leaving no signs of weakness in the
plate. The results were considered
eminently satisfactory.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-06-04
NEW KIND OF A SKIRT.
1t Is Exceedingly Brilliant and Very Pretty
How to Make 1t.

1t Is Exceedingly Brilliant and Very Pretty
How to Make 1T.
A welcome relief from the overworked
bell skirt idea is the daring innovation
of famous French milliner, and eX-
pressed in one of the daintiest of sum
mer materials, striped moire, cream
white, with lines of the pompadour
colors, blue, green, and pink. The
striped material is draped in fitted
tablier over plain petticoat, orna-
mented with three ribbon ruches, each
made of the three colors in the stripe,
as follows: Ribbon, two inches in width,
green in color, is plated in box plaits,
and through the center of this the pink
ribbon, half an inch wide, is plated and
overlaid in turn by the blue, still mar
rover. The single row of stitching
through the middle leaves the loose full
edges to fiutter out in soft fror-frou
of color. Through the center of this
tablier the stripes meet in IL succession
of mitrcd points, which continue up in
to the bodice. A tight-fitting jacket of
rich lace covers the bodice in the back
and slopes back in front, exposing a
girdle of the plated ribbon. Full sleeves
finish at the elbow with broad lace ruff
fles over nndersleeves of ACE The
train, cut in the conventional lines is
finished on the underside with ruch
| of ribbons, which makes a pretty effect
when the gown is lifted up in walking.
] IN, Y. Sun.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-06-04
PHILOSOPHICAL CALENDAR.
to 1t, We Now Live in the Iro
Are.

According to 1t, We Now Live In the Iron
Age.
From a theosophlcal point of view the
four ages are as follows: Sata Yuga
golden age), 1,72S,OOO years; Tresta
Yuga (silver age), 1,2O6,00 yearsS DIVA
para Yuga "copper" or bronze age), 1884,
900 years; Kali Yuga (iron age), 489, 900
years The total of these four ages
make one Maha Yuga, or great age, of
1920, 900 years. One Thousand Maha
Yugas make one Kalpa, or day of
Brahma, equal to 1890, 900, 900 years,
after which the night of Brahma, a pc
riod of equal duration, comes on, and
the earth vanishes from the objective
plane of existence. Three hundred and
sixty days and nights of Brahma make
one year of Brahma, and 100 years of
Brahma make the Great Kalpa, period
of 81 $4,000 ,000,0O0 years, after which
the entire solar system passes into its
night, and everything in l. is destroyed
on the objective plane. The great
night" then lasts for an equal period,
and then new sun arises on new
solar system, and evolution begins once
more, the Karma of the previous sys-
tenn being carried over to the new one,
According to the "Secret Doctrine" we
are nov living in the Kali Yuga the
last of the four ages, and it began near
ly 5000 years ago, with the death of
Krishna, b. C. 3l02 The first minor
cycle of the Kali Yuga will end in the
years 1s07-s. We have still some Az 900
years left, however, before we arrive ut
the end of our present age, The Kali
Yuga is known as the black age, the age
of spiritual darkness, and during its eX-
istence the human race pays up for its
misdeeds in the previous nes.--Balti-
more American.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-06-04
TheIr Duty.

Gallant Rooster Ito his hareml-Come
to luncheon, ladies.
The Hens lin chorus)-ThanlS you,
Colonel, but we are busy now laying
eggs.
Pooster-Pshaw You have each laid
vour allotted egg this morning.
Hens-But we have just learned that
the Go-easy Burlesque Company appears
in the town hall tonight We know
the duty we owe to society, Colonel -
! National Tribune.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-06-04

Mae Tonsey-Look at that man! You
might know he is English. No Ameri'
can would keep his seat in a car whila
woman was standing
Ethel Van Nobs-Hush, dear; that's
Darcy Plantagenet De We're! His an
cestors wore armor for so many cen,
turtles that he finds the greatest diff
Guilty in rising.-Puck.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-06-04
Our LObstors Going Into Foreign stomaohs.

New York, May 9s, American travel
ers abroad will hereafter be able to
find live American Holsters in the lead
ing restaurants of London and the con-
tinent, as result of the success of the
experimental shipment made from
Halifax to London, few weeks since,
OF the shipment of $500 crustaceans
nearly two-thirds were landed alive, al.
though the voyage was long ard
tempestuous one, the Holsters being
preserved by means of constant stream
of sea water from the ocean. Many
orders have been received from leading
restaurants of London and Paris.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-06-04
DIR. BRIGGS
Argues Before the General Presby-
terian Assembly.

The Assembly Sustains the Appeal-Qucs-
tion Whether the stenographic Record
of the Proceedings Are n Part of
the Records of the Court.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-06-21
NOT A DEFEAT.

The direct and deliberate statement
of Chauncey NJ. Depew that if Blaine
had become candidate for the Repub-
lican nomination a reasonable time
before the Minneapolis convention
the President would never have en-
tered the race for the honor which
has been given him, ought to satisfy
those who take Mr.. Blaine's final de-
feat most to heart that their idolized
leader had no one but himself to blame
for his ultimate failure to secure prize
deliberately rejected in advance. 1t
was not the Republican party that
denied James G. Blaine the privilege
Of again trying his fortune against
Cleveland, nor was he defeated by the
administration of President Harrison.
If he had let 1t be known last winter
that he was ready to accept
a nomination, if freely rendered
to him, his pathway would
have been wide and easy, and
the enthusiastic and united support of
the party would have been his almost
from the beginning. 1t follows that
Mr.. Blaine cannot, therefore, be fairly
regarded as defeated aspirant for the
Presidential nomination. He is self
retired from the field of political
ambition, and by himself alone has he
been prevented from receiving the
highest honor which his party could
bestow. Under such circumstances
there is no reason why any Republi-
can should feel resentful because James
g. Blaine is not the leader of his
party. Men who used the name OF
that great statesman for their own
purposes have been defeated, but
Blaine has not. He was simply
passed by at his own request until il
was too late to withdraw the nomina-
ton which had been virtually prom.
ised to the President before his
great Secretary became in any sense a
candidate.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-06-21

The paradise for travelling agents is
said to have been discovered at Bre-
men, Me-, where one of the craft says
the people invited him to stay to din.
ner or supper, helped him along on
his way, showed him their flower
gardens, and bought his goods almost
faster than he could supply them,
even stopping him in the road to
make purchases and inviting him to
call again.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-06-21
PIANO STOOL EuN.

IT Is rapid musician who can beat
time by several seconds
YOUNG LADY-"Have you "A Heart
That / Can Call My Own"" Music
"Well-er-aw-not just now,
miss; another has claim on it."
CHAT young lady is very musically
inclined" Eyes, from the way she
leans backward while she plays would
say she is too musically inclined"
"How is your daughter getting on
with her music, Mrs. PodginsP" "Oh,
her teacher writes that she pursues her
studies with the most artistic apathy.
She always did have a good deal of
nap."-Detroit Free Press.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-06-21

THERE are two classes of people
whom the reporter on the daily news
paper meets that need to be educated.
One class consists of those who, when
ques toned about matters of urgent
and immediate interest, invariably
say: "Oh, come around tomorrow
and I'll tell you all about it," as If a
daily newspaper were magazine OF
ancient history. The other class con-
sists OF persons who seem to think a
reporter has nothing In the world to
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-06-21
A BUSY PEOPLE.

THE theaters in London regularly
employ over $4,000 people.
IN New York last year 2,74s buildings
were commenced and 1929 were I'm
ished.
THERE are between 1000 and 1,7O0
lawyers in Boston, with scarcely busi-
ness for 200.
THE shoe factories Of America use
100000 kangaroo skins yearly. Aus
tralians have begun to raise and herd
kangaroos as they would sheep.