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The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-12-28
The New County Jail.

1t has come to pass that Highland
county must build new jail. The
County Commissioners are now exam
ming other jails throughout the State
with view to deciding important
points III the new structure. 1t is to be
hoped that liberal ideas will prevail in
this new work. Highland county has
the prettiest site for Court House
and jail, in the State. Now, that a
change is to be made, it should be one
which will mark the enterprise of our
people. With tax duplicate of eleven
millions, and our own time to pay for
this work, there is no reason why it
should not be a credtable affair in every
particular. 1t is poor economy to build
only for the present, This work should
be done for time to come, 80 that fifty
years from now, it will answer its pur-
pose as well as at present. This is a
matter in which every citizen of High
land county is concerned. Upon it may
depend more than is generally sup.
posed the future prosperity of our
county. 1t does not pay to be continu.
ally behind others in the matter of en-.
terprise. An object lesson is worth
more than volumes of argument A
stranger coming from regions abreast of
the age in public matters and finding
himself confronted by public ediffces of
inferior merit naturally says to him.
self, "It's very poor country that can
afford nothing better than this" On
the other hand, spirit of enterprise at.
tracts enterprise. And the stranger en-
tering community where everything
bears the impress of energy and pro-
gress, feels at once that he is in land
of thrift and enterprise. If there's any.
thing in him, he'll take liking to that
people and want to cast in his lot with
them. 1t pays to put your best foot
foremost. 1t pays to show the world
what you can do. 1t doesn't pay to be
poor or appear poor. An economy that
bears with it an air OF stinginess will do
more harm than good. Every dollar it
saves for the time being will cost a
thousand in years to come. No Scrip
ture is more true than that which tells
US, There is that giveth, yet increas
eth, and there is that witholdeth more
than Is meet and it tendeth to poverty"
Whatever is worth doing, is worth
doing we'll. We can't afford to say to
the world that Highland county is too
poor to build decent jail-one as good
as counties Of similar population. Let us
have structure, gentlemen, which. in
years to come, when our children have
risen 70 the necessity OF modern
Court House, will not have to be torn
down and sacrificed on account OF its
deficiencies. Build for the future, and
some time the day may come when tho
men Of the future, Who viii pay for
your work, will not be continually
blushing snd apolosisins tor ths archi.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-12-28
AN ANCIENT PEOPLE.
Relics OF . Prehistoric Race Found
Russian Excavations.

Relics OF . Prehistoric Race Found In
Russian Excavations.
The Hermitage is famous building
in st. Petersburg, in which the relics
of Peter the Great are preserved. In
1t there is also kept what is called the
Kertch collection.
Six centuries before Christ, the
Greeds founded colonies on the shores
of the Black sea. They united with
the native Scythians, and Scythian
rulers were generally placed over the
colonies.
Outside the gates of the modern
town of Kerteh there are rows of
tombs and mounds. In the year 1880,
the Russian government began to care-
fully examine these tombs, the objects
found there-remains of the ancient
colonies-being taken to st. Peters
burg and placed In the hermitage.
In 1881, . mound was opened called
by the Tartsrp 'sThe Hillock OF the
Braye." and n room Of heWn stone
ths repaips q eey@hisn bns wers
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-12-28
A Queer Chipese superstitIop.

The Chinese have remarkable SUI
perstition about the Chm river, which
is the local name on the border for the
Chatting. A considerable trade in
drugs is borne along this river, for
which special class OF boats, COM
posed Of very light boards fastened
with wooden nails. is built. The ma
tives say that she magnetic attraction
OF the bed of the river Is 30 strong that
were ordinary boats used the iron nails
would be pulled ont. Along the river
banks iron Is mined in primitive fash
Ion, Snd from Me geological evidence.
= = bsiisved that tho ore isvery rich.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-12-28
The Trea> ury and the Tariff.

The report OF the Secretary of the
Treasury made its appearance yesterday.
1t is a startling public document, and
must instill in every conscientious Con.
gresham a deep sense of his response
bility.
In the first five months of the present
fiscal year the government spent nearly
thirty millions OF dollars more than it
took into be exact, $29. 9.9lS,O95 66. The
revenues from customs have fallen off
twenty three millions, and from inter.
nal taxes nearly eight millions. The
net balance in the Treasury On the first
day of this month was, in round num-
bers, eleven millions of dollars-all in
subsidiary silver and minor coins. This
'schicken feed" was not counted in the
statement OF balances till the Treasury
got "hard up" Under the old system
the Treasury would now be in debt on
current expenses.
Secretary Carlisle holds out the hope
that the worst of the distress is over.
Naturally public official hesitates TO say
anything that could be construed into a
calamity howl" The Secretary un-
doubtedly puts the best face on the
future his mind will possibly admit; but
even at that he says that the deficiency
at the close OF the year will be twenty
eight millions of dollars. This means
that in all probability it will be a great
deal more. The general opinion among
men OF affairs is that the worst has not
come yet.
Mr.. Carlisle does not simply ask Con-
gress to give him twenty eight millions
to piece out the years expenses. Oh, no.
Our distinguished neighbor, who lives
Just over the river when he is at home,
is not going to set a trap and then blind
fold himself and step into it. He wants a
practically open limit. He asks for
amendment of the resumption act 80
that he may issue bonds at lower rate
of interest than is now permissible to
the amount of two hundred millions ol
dollars.
What does he want the bonds for?
He recommends shat he be permitted
to use, from time to time. such part ol
the proceeds as may be necessary to
supply deficiencies in the public reve
venues that may occur during the fiscal
years 1894 and 1885,"
Here we are, gentleman, getting ready
to borrowmoney to pay current expenses,
not only this year, but next year.
What may be left of the borrowed
money, after paying current expenses
and pensions, is to be applied, unde,
the secretary's plan, to the purchase ol
gold to maintain our paper circulation
The stoppage of silver purchases does
not seem to have satisfied the appetite
for the yellow metal.
While the Secretary Of the Treasury Il
seXegning Congress that We must borrvs
money TO meet expenses, there u Z ~
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-12-28
TWAS A GOOD STORY.
That Is. When 1t Was Applied to Some
Other Fellow.

That Is, When 1t Was Applied to Some
Other Fellow.
The Texas congressman usually has
a shrewd perception of humor, re-
marks the Washington Post. The del
egation has corner on half the good
stories going, and can lay claim to sew
eral which have got away. a corre-
spondent backed the dean of the dele
cation up in corner the other day
and told the following tale:
"a friend of mine," said the corre-
spondent, ''came up from Texas when
the session opened, and as he expected
to be here some time he looked around
for a moderate-priced room, which he
located in nice neighborhood. A
motherly old lady showed him the
room, which pleased him very much.
AS he was about to leave the room she
asked him where he was from
From Texas, madam
"'Well, let me show you how this
gas works. You turn it on so, and put
amatch to it, SO; when you get through
turn it off, so.
But understand all about gas.
We have it at home
Yes, but have had a good deal Of
trouble with Texans about gas, and it
doesn't do any harm to show you. Turn
it on SO, and turn it off this way.
Don't try to blow it out
But, madam protested my friend,
you needn't go to all that trouble. If it
will relieve your mind any, lived in
Chicago for six months before coming
here
you did, eh? Well, went you to
understand that this is respectable
house, and ] won't have any poker
playing or drinking and carousing up
here"
''Haw, haw!" laughed the congress-
man, ''that is one of the best stories
ever heard" and his sides shook with
laughter.
''But." said the CORES pondent, "the
boys are sending that story out tonight
and saying that you are the Texan"
"The deuce you say. Well, that is a
pretty low-down sort of yarn to spin
on anybody" grumbled the congress
man.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-12-28

! wish to thank the public for their
liberal patronage heretofore received
and respectfully wish continuance Of
of same.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-12-28

9. M. Harsha wishes TO say, thet al
though his name appears on the old
bui ding where he did business 90 long,
he has no connection Whatever With the
firm doing bueiuer there nov.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-12-28

We have just received lot Of the Gel
ebrated Tillson oranges. They are the
finest oranges grown in Florida.
RICHARDS link & Co.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-02
Other PennIe,s Ere..

While due regard for the opinions
and convictions of other people Is
saving grace of life, there Is no
greater mistake than to habitually
contemplate ones friends or ac-
quaintances through the eyes of
other people. With regard to events
the case is quite different. A fact is
a fact. An occurrence is largely a
fixed and definite thing, and capable
only of giving rather definite i'm
preston. But the individual is rela-.
tive. AS musical instrument gives
out one degree OF harmony or another,
or even discord, according to the
touch and skill of the player without
changing its essential character at
all, so in far greater way does the
individual reveal one set OF qualities
or another, or different aspects of the
same quality, according to the person
with whom he converses or with
whom he acts. Character in its fund
amental basis is not fluctuating.
The honest man does not become dis
honest, nor the truthful man false,
according to the company he is with;
but In all the range OF matters per-
tanning to harmony of temperament
and that includes many salient
qualities--one is to some extent what
he is made by his associates, and so,
to keep the true focal vision, one
must keep his own.
You have found So-and-so to be es-
pecially invigorating and helpful I'm
influence, and remarking this to your
you are told that he is, in
stead, dictatorial and trying. Which
is the truer, or even the true view?
The probabilities are that each Is
true to the individual VIII, sees it,
for manifestations Of character are
relative, and depend on the action
and reaction of temperament.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-02

CUPID flies everywhere. He hovers
in and out among the kitchen pots
and kettles as merrily and as often
as ever, and around the etageres and
grand pianos in drawlng-room. In
Pennsylvania he has just distin-
guished himself by tossing love ro-
nance of most sensational character
into the lap of humble cook. She
is poor girl who works hard in a
hotel restaurant-cooking ham and
eggs and chasing up cockroaches with
alternate swiftness. A few days ago
she takes an outing on a train, meets
a wo-millionaire who says she looks
like his first wife, and insists on
marrying her forthwith. Tableau.
She will spend the two millions, and
Cupid will go smiling on his prankish
way.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-02

South Africais depleted OF It's large
game, much, OF which is moving
northward tc get, away from the
hunters, and the tsetse fly goes with
IL. The insect Is only little larger
than the ordinary house fly and IL re-
sembles the honey bee. Its sting is
hardly so annoying as that OF the
mosquito, but near the base OF its
proboscis is little bag which con-
tains its poison. 1t lives on the
blood OF animals and only few spe-
cies are fatally affected by its bite.
Cattle, horses and dogs, however,
cannot live when bitten by the tsetse
fy. Natives who herd cattle and
travellers who depend on horses or
oxen must avoid the fly regions or
lose their stock. For human beings
its bite has no serious consequences.
Mr. Swan. missionary to Katanga,
near the western head waters OF the
Congo, says that recently the buffa-
loes of South Africa, which differ
from those of the Congo, have been
moving northward into the Katanga
country. 1t Is to the buffalo that
the English missionary attributes the
prevalence of the tsetse in Katanga.
When Lieut.. LIE Marinel went to Ka-
tanga he took dozen head Of cattle,
intending to leave them at the sta
tion there and raise large herd.
The tsetse was too much for them,
however, and in a short time only
two of the cattle remained. Some
times the poison kills the, victim In a
week or ten days. At other times
the animal fingers along for seyera
months. The symptoms are those Of
blood poisoning. White men in AT
RIGA express the opinion that with
the gradual disappearance Of larg,
game the tsetse will vanish. II il
does not it will be impossible to carr!
on many enterprises that will Ger
tainly thrive in some regions now in
tested by the fly.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-02


In the olden times what is now
known as "typhus fever" was known
by the names of "jail fever" "putrld
fever" and spotted fever" Its
present name is from the Greek word
"typhus, which means "a mist" and
refers to the great stupor which is
one Of the symptoms OF the disease.
1t is an eruptive disease, highly con-
taglous, and formerly much more
fatal than now. Persons infected
can be removed into clean, healthy
quarters, where the air is pure, and
be nursed to health with compare
lively little danger to the attend
ants. 1t only breeds where there are
impurities.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-02

she leans her elbow on the table, uses
her fan languidly, and really, when you
get a rear view of her you hardly sus-
poet her OF being desolate and all alone.
OF course, no girl who has not a
good back should do this, but it is just
the thing for the girl whose back Is the
best part of her. There are women,
you know, who have such a pretty line
at the neck and whose hair grows pref
tily. These and the girls with hand
some arms are secure from being desc
late all tho time IL they can get good
seat and keep up an air OF expecting
someone back every moment. 1t is
enough to make ones heart ache to see
the girls suffer because they feel the
lack of attention; yet at every ball only
a comparatively few OF the women can
get any attention. There are so many
of them, and the men come so late.
Do you realize that the really available
men do not pretend to get In till about
midnight, quite in the English way,
where a ballroom Is a waste OF women
until that time. when the men come in
shoals? With them come the wise women
and the young matrons. AS for the
poor young girls and the uninitiated,
who come at ten, some of them have
already gone to the dressing room and
pretended they were i'll, just to get
away from the "no-partner purgatory"
that every one is in. Others have given
up and gone shamelessly to sleep.
Some whose carriages were within call
have gone home. their gowns fresh and
unhurt. After twelve, things brighten
up, and by supper time there Is the
proper confusion of black coats, but,
ali me, very few of the women can
really feel themselves successes. 1t is
only in the fairy novels that the gentle
young heroine sweeps all before her at
the ball. At the real ball many and
many a heart must ache. Get all the
comfort you can out of the fact that
your gown Is pretty, and that, at least,
lot of the women have envied you,
even II the men have not seemed to
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-02
Knocked out by a sunbeam.

It was Archie Coles wedding day.
From boyhood he had been late at
school, late at church, late at meals,
late everywhere.
"I'll wager" said his brother John,
laughing, shat you can't be first even
to kiss your bride at the wedding
"Oh,s I'll not be late them" said
Archie. y thf Is ~ s9t4
Two, hours later Archie stood with
the pretty maiden by the flowers in
the parlor Of her home. The guests
were seated; the minister rose. Ar.
chie's falling and Johns prediction
was known to them all. Neverthe-
less, Archie knew he had made all the
guests promise not to precede him in
kissing the BRIDE.
The solemn vows were said softly
and the fervent prayer was spoken
slowly, while a robin could be heard
singing on the lawn.
~Ameni", said the minister.
Archie bowed to kiss the bride, but
he Paused for instint; he smiled.
A sunbeam stealing though rift in
the heavy curtains was trembling
gently on the brides lips.
"I've won the bet!" cried John. 2
The guests laughed and the preach-
er. too.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-02
An Extensive Wardrobe.

The German Emperor has occasion
to change his costume oftener than
any mortal, including the modern
belle. He might arrive, for instance,
in Kiel, the chief German port Of
war, in travelling costume, reviewing
the marine in the uniform of a Ger
man admiral, then visit the various
schools in civilians dress, dine on a
foreign man-of-war in the uniform Of
an admiral Of its nationality, and in
the evening give reception in some
gala dress. For each Of these occa-
sions different dress is absolutely
necessary, according to etiquette. He
has made as many as ten or twelve
changes in eighteen hours. His ward
robe has reached gigantic dimensions.
1t contains at present more than one
thousand costumes, divided into six
classes. The military costumes in
clude all the DETERMINATIONS of the
highest ranks Of the German army.
The court-dresses for great ceremonies
are classified, except the coronation
robes, with sceptre and crown, which
are taken care OF specially, including
the uniforms Of the different orders,
and the costume for the torch-light
polonaise at great festivals, which
is entirely OF silk, with knee-breeches
and gartered hose. The civilian gar
ments, among which the dress-suits
and walking-costumes Of English cut
play a leading part, contain every
piece OF dress that is worn by fash
ionable men at present. To that
category belong also the incognito
dresses and the Freemasons' cos
tunes. He has, besides, bathing,
riding, driving, sleighing and skat-
ing costumes, from the Tryolese to
the Russian fur-gear for bear-hunt-
ing. The so-called dresses OF courtesy
include the uniforms of foreign regi-
ments whose honorary chief he is
besides the costumes he is obliged to
don in visiting foreign courts. Even
Chinese and Japanese court-dresses
are not forgotten, and there is dis
play OF Persian Rarbs which the EN-
peror wore during visit to the Shah.
All OF these costumes are duplicated,
in case of accident.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-02

AS REsCUEs from peril are being
credited to Providence, a recent case
at Victoria becomes of particular in
terest. A man fell into the water
there, and rope was thrown to him,
by which he was pulled ashore and
saved from drowning. Nevertheless,
the man was lifeless, as the rope that
kept him from drowning had choked
him to death. The exact relation of
Providence to this melancholy cpl
sode ferns. nice study, and why
Providence should have striven to
have kept man from perishing one
way, and at the same tlne slaugh-
tered him by other means, only adds
to the complications.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-02

make handsome room as to make a
room in which yourself and your guests
will look well. Dark or neutral walls,
or, better still, panelings OF dark wood.
side lights and never chandeliers, pro-
duce the best effect. Nothing is so hard
on women and on a room, too, as chan
deliers or light from the ceiling. 1t
makes shadows, under their eyes, and
that Is only becoming in novels where
the suffering ladies'of high, or low de-
gree arise in the morning, or appear at
the ball at night, with great purple
shadows" under their eyes. On the
ordinary woman out of book this effect
adds ten years to her age. The stif,
high backed chairs of long ago may not
have been so very comfortable, but they
were much more becoming than are the
modern spindly gold ones that make a
little woman look like mosquito and a
big woman seem mountain. Maybe
the folks in the old time did not specu-
late and philosophise as much as we do
nowadays, but they seemed to get at
things good deal more surely than
we do. That is, things about women.
They let her sit down in great solemn
chairs, and walk around in somber halls,
and the result was that women had
ballads and sonnets written about them,
while now they get things like Sweet
Bells Out OF Tune" where all their
little defects come out in the electric
light that is always on them, and it is
hard.
A lovely ball gown is made OF deli
cate crepe over silk. Apparently 1t ia
all one piece falling from square neck.
1t is very full indeed on this square
neck band, and the girdle that passes
about the body under the arms, and up
to point in the center, makes sort of
all-around puff of the full stuff. An
other girdle pointed little both ways,
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-02

will before long rival not merely New
York City but the entire East in the
extent Of its products and, If we are
not false prophets, in their superior
character as well. New York is the
cosmopolitan city of this country.
Although its manufacturing interests
are confessedly enormous, still we
must admit that it has been built up
by the foreigner, and its prosperity
has been largely the result of the
fact that it was, as it still is, the
great port OF communication between
the old and the new world. And
yet, with all its enormous advan-
tages of location, with its long start
in years, and its great power of &C
cummulated capital in its favor, New
York is being outstripped in the race
by its younger but far more am
bilious and enterprising rival. And
we must not forget either, in esti-
mating what Chicago has done, that
it has been accomplished in the face
of obstacles, indeed, of disasters like
the great fire, such as never visited
New York.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-02
BELGIAN DRAFT HORSES.
Excepting the Shire OF England They Arc
the Largest In the World.

Excepting the Shire of England They Arc
the Largest In the World.
Great care has been given in Bel
GUM to the breeding of draft horses
which, excepting the Shire horse of
England, are the largest drafting
horses in the world. They are finely
proportioned, having excellent legs
and feet. They are divided into two
classes, namely, the heavy and the
light draft horse, but differ from
each other only in size. The special
characteristics of the Belgian draft
horse arc stature, form, strength and
breed. The line on the back is
straight, the rump long and the legs
large and clean. He has less bulk
and strength than the Clydesdale or
Shire but is better bred and has more
energy. He has more bulk and
strength than either Percheron or
Boulonnais and possesses equally as
much energy. In 1850 the Belgian
Government established depot for
stations, but this was afterward
given up and the Government sought
to improve the horses of the country
by encouraging local competition for
colts and prizes for stations. The
Belgian horses are generally bay or
brown-black in color, but sorrel, roam
and other colOrs are occasionally
found. They resemble the Percher-
ons very closely and require second
look even from an expert to diStin-