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The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-03-16
ONE KIND OF CRANK.
How He Makes Lots Of Trouble
for Hotel Men.
A New York Clerk Tolls Of . Curious
Sort OF Vanity Some People Are
Afflicted. notwithstanding an
Unwary Countryman.

as Mr.. Henry Wilson IMP"
The man who put this question to the
clerk at the Fifth Avenue hotel the
other night was attired in evening
dress and had thrown open his over
coat so as to reveal his expansive shirt
bosom with It's twinkling diamond
studs. He affected the elegant in his
attitude, also, and swung his silver
handled cane with An air of impor-
tance. His physique, voice and face
were designed to aid him in his attempt
to create an impression. He was tall
and broad-shouldered. had big features
and an aggressive black mustache,
and his voice was deep and sonorous.
He looked like man who might try to
bulldoze another of lesser frame.
The clerk looked up at him with q
bland smile, but made no pretense of
looking at the key rack, as is his Gus
tom when he wants to learn whether a
guest is in his room or not Neither
did he look at the register nor at his
list of the days guests. He simply
said:
"Mr. Henry Wilson, did you sayp
There is no such person stopping
here"
The inquirer looked little taken
aback, and frown passed quickly
over his face. When he spoke, the
tone of his voice suggested that he felt
the clerk had estimated him properly,
but he was impelled to make an at
tempt to change the clerks theory.
SIS that so?" he asked in surprise
that was evidently assumed; "when did
he leave2"
II don't RENE IN Der his having been
here" said the clerk, in tone full of
meaning.
"Oh, pshaw; you must be mistaken" I"
said the man, fretfully. "Why, am
certain he was here week ago.
have telegram from him asking me
to meet him on last Wednesday I'm
fortunately, was out of town when
the telegram arrived, and it was not
forwarded Wilson is the big million
aire contractor from Chicago, you
know"
The last sentence was spoken so
loudly that the men standing around
and even those on the settees, heard it
and looked at the speaker.
"He did not stop here" said the
clerk, in monotonous, oh-you,maise
mc-tired tone.
"You are quite sure?" said the man,
switching from the confident to the
concilatory.
Positive" said the clerk turning
away
The man concealed the fact that he
was disconnected very clevcrly He
picked toothpick out of the box on
the counter, and put it between his
lips, with an appearance of one lost in
thought Then he turned around and
learned with his back against the
clerks desk. His attitude was studied
ly elegant He seemed unm indful OF
his surroundings, and to be looking
over the heads of the men on the settee
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-03-16
Administrators Sale of Real
Estate.

In pursuance Of an order Of the Probate
Court Of Highland county, Ohio, will offer
for eale at public auction, on Thursday, the
sixth day Of April. 1888, at 2 o'clock p m. on
the premises, the following described real es-
tate situated in Paint township Highland
county Ohio. being part Of Reynolds Survey
No. 4101 and bounded as follows:
HOMESTEAD TRACT :-Beginnipg at q stone
g. W. corner to the survey OF which this is q
part and in the line Of Herron's survey thence
to stake corner to the Dover tract thence
N. 6811 degs E. Ill ITO poles to the center of
the Greenfield and Cynthiana Road Improve
ment and the limo Of 8. Coleman thence
with said road and Ooleman's line g. At degs,,
E. 81 49, 100 poles corner to said Coleman, ri,
Rhoades and Isaac Upp and in the south line
of the survey of which this is q part thence
with said survey line and the line of said Upp
8. 681 degs W LA 12-100 poles to the begin
ming, containing thirty (39) acres more
or less.
DOVER Tract beginning at q stake N. W.
corner to the homestead tract and in the west
line of the survey Of which this is part
thence with said survey line N. 2lM degs., W.
81 poles to stake thence N. 6814 degs., .E.
105 poles to the center of the Greenfield and
said road g. 3715 degs., e. Is 23-100 poles
thence y. Al degs., e 18 q 100 poles to a stake
N. e. corner OF the Homestead tract thence
with the north line of the homestead tract S.
6S4 degs,, w. Ill ITO poles to the beginning,
containing twenty-one and three fourth (2lsO
acres more or less
THIRD TRACT beginning at a stake N. W.
corner of the Dover tract and in the line Of V.
II. Garrett thence with the line of said Gar
rett N. 2lN degs., W. 68 poles to the corner of
Garrett, Spargur and Redkey aod the N. W.
corner Of the survey Of which this is a part
thence with Redkeys line and the north line
of sai, survey N. 691S degs.. f. 93 so 100 poles
to stone in the Greenfield and Cynthiana
Road improvement and corner to Dewitt and
Coleman thence with said road and Co,eman's
line s. 371S degs, e. 68 77-100 poles N. E.
corner to the Dover tract; thence 8. 68H
degs., W. los poles to the beginning, contain
ing forty-three and one half (4311) acres more
or less.
Said lands are appraised as follows
Homestead Tract. $3.50.
Dover Tract, 17.60.
Third Tract, $S70
Said Homestead and Dover tracts are to be
sold subject TO and encumbered by the home
stead and dover rights OF Emily J Davis,
widow, therein and the third tract to be sold
unencumbered by any homestead and dover
rights
Terms Of Sale-One half cash in hand and
the balance in one year from day OF sale. the
deferred payment to be secured by mortgage
on the premises sold aud to bear interest.
]. H. DAVIS JR.,
Administrator Of the estate OF ]. H. Davis, Sr.,
deceased.
Gardner, Worley q Sans, Attorneys.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-03-16

feelings when he heard light voice
behind him:
''You had better 80 to bed, love, ana
allow me to make the fire."
1t was his wife, and there was u sus-
picion of laughter in her bright, blue
eyes.
So saying she knclt in turn before the
stove and soon cheerful hre was burn
ing. Then the kettle began to sputter
again. "It's all right now-she knows
how to do it-whew, whew-you'd bet
ter go to bed--puff, puff"
Then followed day of tribulation,
the guests being given an explanation
which they received good-naturedly.
In the afternoon the wife went to an
intelligence office and left word to have
girl sent at once. That evening there
was timid knock at the side door.
The wife went to see whv was there.
A familiar and welcome voice was
heard:
'lt's me-Katie. If you please.
ma'am, wants to came back I've
changed my mind about LAWN"
The wife indulged in a series of rap
turous exclamations and Katie was
once more installed in the bosom of the
family, where she continues to reign. =
Detroit Free Press.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-03-16
BEHIND THE HILL.

Ny boy was young; he could not know
The way earth's wayward currents fiow,
And so, in early shadows bound,
His mis-manned shallop ran aground.
He grew ashamed OF his disgrace,
He could not look me in the face,
: For, mother, every man." said he,
u Has scorn, and only scorn, for me;
I must 60 forth with alien men
And grapple with the world again
cannot stay and face the truth
Among the people Of my youth.
Where men are strange and scenes are new
There may be work for me TO do.
And, when ! have redeemed the past,
I will come back TO you ot last"
And so I watched while my boy, Will,
Went down behind the hill
He climbed the hill at early morn
Beneath whose shadow he.was born,
He stood upon its highest place,
The sunrise shining on his face;
He stood there, but too far away
For me to see his tears that day;
My thoughts, my fears, cannot tell
When he waved back his sad farewell.
And then passed on, and my boy, viii,
Went down behind the hill.
Went down the hill; henceforth for me
Ono picture in my memory
Crowds every other from its place
A boy with sunrise on his face;
His sunrisc-lighted face see
The sunset Of all Joy to me,
For when he turned him from my sight
The morning mixed itself with night,
And darkness came, when my boy, Will,
Went down behind the hill
The world is wide, and he has gone
Into Its vastneSs, on and on,
l know not what bcsets his path,
What hours Of gloom, what days Of wrath,
What terrors menace him affair."
What nights OF storm without star,
What mountains loom above his way,
What oceans toss him night and day,
What fever blasts from desert sands,
What dcath-cold winds from frozen lands,
What shafts CT slcet or sun may blight
My homeless wanderer in his fight;
I only know the worl is wide
And he can roam by land and tide.
'Tis wide, ah mel in every part
But narrower than his mothers heart
A joylesS heart since my boy, Win,
Went down behind the hill.
know he lr..vely fights with fate,
But, ah, tle hour IS grCwia; Lite;
l watch III" kill b. day and night.
1t dimly looms before my sight,
And fast tts twilight shadows fall;
The night is glooning over all:
But in my hoy faith is given
AS saiutg {! old had faith in heaven:
know that he will conc again,
His praise on oil the lips OF u.en;
He will come back to me at last
With deeds that shall redeem the past
Nor desert plain, nor mountain steep,
Nor storm, nor thunder cn tie deep,
Nor tempest in the cast or west,
Shall held him from his mothers breast
And though the world grows blind and dumb
feel, / know, that he will come;
And an waiting for him still,
And watch the summit Of the hill:
Sometimes tliinl. ] see him stand
Ard wave "a welcome with his hand,
But It's i clo-d up>n the rim
or sunset aud my eyes are dim
'Tis but Elis; n & Ay t.!c tears
That thickcn with the growing years.
watch wilile there is light to see
And dream that hc will ccmc 70 me;
And though it's dark within, without,
I will not shame him by doub,
The all-enfolding night draws near,
But he will come-I will not fear
But ah, lis long since my boy, WILL
Wont down behind the hill.
S. W. Foss, in Yankee Blade
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-03-16

-"Helen, it don't look well. you wear
Ing such expensive bonnets and you,
husband in debt" Helcn--"There,
dear, ] thought of that myself, and
only to-day ordered four new ones tha.
ere real plain. Inter Ocean.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-03-16

-Inkwell--"If your story was fla,
failure, why Is 1t selling ike hos
cakcs?" Blotter-'T had II bound with
the title on the last later
Ocean,.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-03-16

:. Nobody need suffer from languor and
melancholy If they take Simmons Liver
Regulator.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-08-10

skin is well rubbed with melted fat.
At the end of a voyage the skins are
stripped off and utilized for sundry
purposes, while the frame is thrown
| away. Canoes are made of spruce
bark in the absence of suitable birch.
A measured section Of bark is first
peeled from the tree, after it has been
ringed at both ends and scored longi-
Individually. The ends are then dou-
bled and sewed with roots and a suit
able gun-whale and frame of willow are
fitted and seWed to the banks. When
the seams and knot-holes have been
filed and gummed, the craft is COM
plete. Two Indians can build one in
half a day. Canoes accommodate one
TO four persons with their outfit, ac-
cording to size. and are only used for
the downstream trip. Hunting parties
60 into the woods invariably pack all
their outfit on their backs, and after
the hunt is over and the meat and
peltS collected at the rendezvous. thew
build the required number of canoes
paddle them down to the trading posts.
and there break them up, burning
the frames for fuel and utilizing the
bark as covering for their houses.
These crafts are very frail. A slight
rub on the bottom will break a hole
in them, and unless kept continuously
in water they soon become dry and
very brittle. Very few of them exceed
eight inches in depth. so that they
can not live in a seaWay or rough
water
Altogether, this primitive country
is very interesting, and so are its peo-
pie, ethnologically, though they are
by no means personally attractive or
pleasant to deal with. By a voyage
down the Mackenzie river in one Of
the Hudson Bay company's freight
ing steamers a tourist can reach Fort
Mcpherson at the Mackenzie delta in
twenty days from Winnipeg, and from
there it would be quite possible to fol-
low the surveyed route to the Yukon,
and there take one of the Alaska Com
mercial company's steamboats, on its
return trip to Fort st. Michael on Behr-
ing sea, all in the course of a single
season: or the tourist might go over
land by the regular miners and pack
ers' trail from the confluence of Forty
Mile river to Chilcat in southeastern
Alaska, and thence take steamer to
Sitza, though the chance Of being hung
up in the interior for the winter would
tend to discourage such a venture
some excursion for the present.
N1essrs. Harper, McQuestion and May
hew have an extensive trading post
at the mouth Of Forty Mile river,
which they established in 1887, and
there is a large mining camp in the
vicinity, where some 200 diggers winter
every year. 1t is about 800 miles from
Fort Mcpherson to this camp, and
647 miles from the camp to Haines
Mission on the Taiya inlet in the Alex
andrian archipelago of southeastern
Alaska.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-08-10
EUROPEAN ECONOMISTS,
BugaboOs About Wheat Which Are
Inflated by Them.

Buffalo Milling World: Away back
in the dark ages of 1881 the United
States exported 1S6,OOO,OOO bushels of
wheat European economists then
pointed out that this country must
soon cease to export wheat, because,
they said, the total wheat area of the
country was under culture, and the
growing population would in a decade
run the home consumption up to the
supply. In 1882 the exports fell to
122, 100000 bushels, in 1888 rose to 49,
100000, in 1884 fell to 10000 900,
in 1885 rose to $4,000, 900, and in 1856
fell to 100000 bushels. Then the
European economists took it for grant
ed that their prediction of 1882 was
verified, and they babe farewell to the
United States as a wheat exporter,
and turned themselves to the imitation
of the Indian, Russian, Egyptian, AL
gerian, Turkish, Canadian, CHILEAN, Ar
gentine, Australasian and other buga-
boos. They inflated those bugaboos
most mOnstrously, it must be con-
fessed. Each particular one was stood
up, propped up, pulled up and written
up until it seemed that each one of
them was able to supply the trife of
wheat needed yearly by the importers
of Europe. Then in 1887 the United
States took a long breath, stuck it's
toe nails deep into the ground, bumped
itself, and exported about $4,000 900
bushels. That made the European
economists tired and their bugaboos
sick. In 1888 the United States export
ted only 12O,OOO,OOO bushels and the
economists and bugaboos rallied. In
1889 this country sent out only $4,000,
coo bushels and the economists and
bugabOos Joined hands and danced in
delight. In 1890 we raised our exports
to 100000 bushels and the econo-
mists and bugaboos began to ask:
Where are we at?" In 1889 we sent
out 100000 bushels, and they whis-
pered: well! If Uncle Sam isn't in
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-08-10
IT Is CROQUET NOW.
Tennis Has Died Il Lingering and Pain
full Death.

| With the revival of gored skirts
to the waist, poke bonnets, beUitching
/ tichus and white stockings. is it any
wonder that tennis, with its severe
| dress requirements, has died a natural
death and croquet has come to the fore
as Il means of displaying the various
new styles in the most advantageous
manner
Though tennis was great fun and
many there arc who are still enthusias-
tic admirers of it, women old and
young were forced to admit that it was
not a pastime conducive to beauty or
permitting any of the graceful poses
that are part and parcel of the old
game that has with the change of
time and fashion come to the fore
again.
A coarse gown of flannel was the
most that one could attempt in the line
necessary to run about the courts were
not apt to make one resemble Cinder-
ella, therefore it was no wonder that
feminine fancy turns to a sport that
permits the wearing of the fiuffiest of
gowns and the daintiest of shoes and
even allows Il chiffon parasOl in one
hand while the other deXterouSly
handles a mallet.
A girl who cannot look well at crOQuet
will never look well anywhere. for
there are more opportunities to dis
play ones best points in the leisurely
elegant movements of that game than
in any other style of entertainment
generally chosen by women. To begin
with, one does not resemble a boiled
lobster aften even the most exciting
contest, md this, as a rule, is the con-
ditiOn Of the tennis players at the con-
cluSiOn Of a game. LaceS and frills,
picturesque hats and all dainty woman
ly accessories are quite in keeping
with the game, while the opportunities
to show pretty foot and ankle are
unequalled and yet quite pardonable
when the necessity for posing a No
, shoe on a refractory ball calls for
such an exhibition.
Though tennis may be ten times as
healthful it has never possessed the
cOquettish qualities that will always
endear croquet to the heart of the
genuine summer girl who knows her
good points and finds in this gentle
pastime the best chance to display
them
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-08-10
WHISKY FOR THE BABIES.
Storm of Wrath in New York Over q
Health Recommendation

! One paragraph in the directions TO
parents for the treatment of children
during the summer months published
1 by the board of health of the city of
New York in several languages and dis
tributed in the different pOpulous dis
tricts of the metropolis has greatly ex-
cited the prOhibitionistS The board
recommends that on the hottest DAYS
a few drops of whisky may be added
eiter to the water or the food, the whis-
ky not to succeed a teaspoonful in
twenty-fOur hours.
The prohibition journals of this city
and vicinity in condemning it have
quoted several statements by persons
who claim to be in a position to Judge
of its i'll effects, says the New York
World. DR.. MOreau Morris, a men,
Der Of the board, is quoted as saying:
Il opposed the recommendation and
tried TO have it annulled. If your were
to go on board the floating hospital
Of the st. Johns Guild, you would
find mothers carrying drunken children
in their arms. When the mothers are
reprimanded they claim that they give
the liquor according to the instructions
Of the board Of health"
DR.. Walker, the superintendent of the
floating hospital, is reported as remark
ing that hundreds Of cases of summer
complaints are intesified by the in
ordinate doses of alcoholic liquors a6-
ministered by ignorant mothers to
their little ones.
+ Dr. Carter of the Seaside hospital
also makes some condemnatory re-
marks.
At the meeting Of the prohibitionists
at Prohibition park, on Staten island,
yesterday, resolutions were adopted
declaring that the action of the board
of health tended to make the taste for
liquor in children antedate the birth
of memory, resulting practically in the
wholesale manufacture Of drunkards
in the cradle
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-08-10

Methods ofPerserving Good Looks Dur
Jug the. Heated Term.

The necessity of having complications
is lad on dL women. 10 men nature
only gave the care of skins. The bur
den of woman is heavier in hot
weather since they have taken to ex-
posing themselves SO hardly to SIM
and wind But the occasions Tor be-
ing beautiful are more frequent and
more imperative. This is why max
ing up has commended itself as a short
cut TO the necessary end. There is a
lively exchange of comments and COS
metics now going on among women
as to the best methods of preserving
their good looks in summer Face
baths of berry juice are recommended.
Sour milk and sweet milk are advised.
Elder flower water is urged. Lemon
juice added to the daily face bath
whitens the face and hands The pre-
JUDGE against ordinary soap and water
seems fixed. So sensible a woman as
Mrs. George Augustus Sala unfortunate
" regards these as ruinous to the COM
pleNion, says the New York Sun. The
most novel preSeryative is that offered
by Il French woman. This is a lump
OF bread dipped in one of these face
toncS and squeezed out. With this
the face is to be curried, as it were.
two or three times daily. When a
French woman comes in fatigued and
dusty she throws herself down on a
lounge and in this simple manner
gives her face a rub down with
moist crust that acts both as a bath
and face massage.
The same treatment is for wrinkles.
which, though they may be the beds
that the gods have dug for our tears,
as Emile Angler has prettily said. as
other beds women feel they should be
we'll made up. Wrinkles, says an au-
thority, come from three sources-deep
thought irritabilty, or from laughing
too much. The cause however. is un,
important compared with the result.
To dispose of wrinkles there are
women who, when alone, keep then
foreheads bound with tight muslin
bands. These, they urge, keep them
from raising the eyebrows, calm their
nerves, and consequently keep the
face placid. If the wrinkles have
taken root before they learned this
simple prevention they wet linen rags
in water, which has quinine, ammonia,
or some Stimulant, and over these oil
silk to keep them damp. If this is done
ut least twice a day and through the
night the most obstinate wrinkles will
pass away, and the face will retain a
Nirvanalil1e expression which may be
warranted to last for years,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-08-10
HUNGARIAN BEAUTIES.
They Are are Embodiment Of Glorious
Vitality.

The Hungarian women are among
the most beautiful in the world. They
are not languishing, diaphanous Great
ures, composed of cObWebs and the
odor of musk, with a sickly pallor or d
hectic flush in their cheeks. No!
Erect and straight as a candle, hearty
and vigorous to the core, they are
pictures of good health and Astounding
vitality. They are gifted with small
feet, full arms, plump hands with
tapering fingers and wear long braids.
The sun has spread Il redish-gOlden
tint or darker tone over the complex
ion The Hungarian woman is mot d
beauty of classical contour, nor does
she. perhaps, frequently present a
riddle to the psychologist, and ethereal
poets will scracely find theme in her
for hypersentimental reyerieS. She is
rather the vigorous embodiment of
so her whole character is enchantingly
fresh and positive. She likes to eat
well, is fond of a little wine, takes
naturally to swimming, dancing, gym
nastics and has not the least objection
to being admired. Grace and beauty
know no difference between high and
low, and often bestOw upon poor
bare footed, short-skirted peasant girl
with her face framed in kerchief tied
under the chin the same enchanting
form, the same graceful walk, the
same magically attractive glance as
upon her more favored sister.