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The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-07-08
FRUIT FARM SHED.
Ono That Can 10 Moved About without
Much Labor.


A shanty or temporary shed Is ne
cessity on any fruit farm where the
berries are any distance from the house,
and / shall build one this spring that
can be moved from place to place with
a minimum of labor The illustration
shows cross-scction of the pro.
posed shed. 1t is feet wide, feet at
the caves, and at the other side. 1t is
to be 12 feet long, and there will be
four studs on each of the two sides,
and b. The studs are 2x4 inches, and
three girts will be put into the studs Of
either side The girts will also be AKA,
but placed broadside to the weather.
boarding. The side girts will project
at either end two inches, to come flush
with the end rafters and s;lls, which
are outside of the corner studs. The
two middle studs will have rafter and
sill on each side, to give additional
strength. The rafters and sills will be
bolted to the studs, so that they may
be taken apart, and leave the roof,
sides and floor each by itself, and these
will be light enough so that they can
easily be loaded onto the top of lum-
ber wagon and moved where wanted
and set up again. The ends will be in
two sections of feet wide, and the one
on the side next the caves will hang on
hook hinges so as to open for door.
This shed can also be furnished with
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-07-08
A Few Hints About churnlne.

A gild edge butter-maker says it is
not necessary to the good quality of
butter that the cream be churned every
day. Three times week in summer
and twice in winter will do, provided
the following points are observed: Not
10 let the milk stand longer than TWEEN
ty-four hours in summer, or thirty-six
In winter, without slsimming All the
best cream for butter will rise in that
time; and keep better removed from
milk than on it. Put the cream in Il
bright tin bucket, kept for the purpose.
Tin may be cleaned more perfectly
than either wood or earthepware The
cream should be well stirred each time
an addition is made to it, and should
stand after the last cream is added, at
least two hours in summer and four in
winter, before churning, to allow uni.
form ripening and souring to take
place.--N. Y. Tribune.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-07-08
NATIONAL FLOWER EMRLEMs.
Origin of the Floral "Crests" of Some
Foreign Countries,

Foreign Countries.
The adoption of particular flower
as national crest or tribal coat-of-
arms had its origin in the legendary
past, and after time has surrounded
the early incident with halo of poetry
and miracle. The violet of Athens, the
pomegranate of Spain, the mignonette
of SaXony and the leek of Wales be-
came representative through romantic
or ''supernaturaP' suggestion, and even
some of the better known floral en-
blems of nations are credited to
similarly poetic source.
The rose of England, we are told,
was accepted as her popular and politi-
cal symbol because a rose once APP
peared miraculously on King Arthur's
round table where he sat feasting with
his knights.
An angel appeared, it is said, to an
aged hermit in Gaul, bearing an azure
shield with three emblazoned golden
lilies upon it. The hermit presented
the shield to Queen Clothilde; her hus-
band, King Clovis, bore it to battle and
victory, and made the fleur de lis the
Scotland's thistle is accounted for by
tradition more probably historic.
The story is that at one time during
the old northern wars the invading
Danes "stole march" upon the Scots,
and would have surprised and massa-
cred them, but Danish soldier set his
bare foot on thistle, and his shrek OF
pain alarmed the threatened camp, and
after short but fierce battle the ene-
my We're driven away.
Our American nation has no roman
tic floral legend, and SO her botany has
furnished her no ''crest." The debt of
her early settlers to Indian corn has
made that plant interestingly historic,
and it's usefulness has endeared it tc
the people. The goldenrod has been
widely voted for as our national flower
because it is democratic, and almost
universal in the land.
Barbara Stanwix Miss l.. +. Kim
ball in "Notes and Queries" makes "a
strong appeal for the apple tree as the
typical American plant. 1t is as charac-
teristic of our country as the fig tree
was of ancient Palestine. The word
''apple," in literature almost as generic
as fruit" names product that no.
where reaches such perfection as in
the United States. The apple blossom
is modification of the English rose
is, in fact, itself u wild rose.
When America is older, and the
merits of all her floral candidates have
been fully discussed. or some event has
connected one of them more closely
with her sentimental and patriotic life,
no doubt national flower will be
adopted, and divide with the stars and
stripes the honors of popular enthusi.
asm and song.-Youths Companion.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-07-08
Drain the Roads First.

Unless all surplus water is removed
roads will be unsatisfactory, whether
earth, gravel, macadam, asphalt or
some of the different kinds of pave
ment. Throughout the entire country
much money has been wasted in trying
to get hard surface but neglecting to
drain off the water. On most prairies
natural drainage is poor and often after
much expense gravel or other costly
roads have suddenly become muddy
after q heav!, rain or In spring, simply
from lack OF drainage. Look sfter thus
first
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-07-08
A Pleasant Fcclinr.

There are few pleasanter sensations
than to have well lined pocketbooii,
and to look over collection of lovely
French models at very smart estab.
ishment, with the realization that you
have the possibility of buying any one
of these charming creations-which
makes them, one and all, as good as
yours for the time being. with IL
few hundred dollars in my pocket
feel as ii owned New York." said Il
society girl the other day. II always
try to keep my quarterly allowance at
least a fortnight before spending it,
just for the sake of feeling rich for
once, and realizing that each gown or
Jacket or bonnet that look at may be
mine If choose to buy it. i find It Is
an excellent way OF satisfying that
longing for the unattainable that we
experience when we look at beautiful
clothes that wa cannot have Y.
'Iriblna
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-07-08
FARM AND GARDEN.
FAIR ROAD TAKES.
49, It... Nj 49,.
President hates Oners Some Sound Argu
mcnts on the Subjcct.

President I3ntcs Orcrs Some Sound Argu-
ments on the Subject.
I have observed in various papers
complaints by farmers that bicycle men
all advocate better roads, but bicycle
men propose 70 make the farmers pay
for the roads Hence some farmers pro-
pose to tax bicycles and apply the pro-
ceeds to making better roads.
If roads are to be made by taxing
those who ride over them no bicycle
man will object. But such tax must
necessarily be special tax, like the
toll taken on toll roads And the only
fair tax of that sort is by taking toll,
so that the user of the road pays exact
ly for SO much as he uses. 1t must be q
toll tax on all vehicles, and all beasts,
and all pedestrians If one is taxed
for using the road all road users must
be taxed alike. Beside, the tax ought
to fall heaviest on those who most
damage the road by using it. A BIZ
cycle does not damage the road ut all:
q laden wagon does. So loes horses
hoof, or that of any hoofed beast.
Further, the law should make a fair
distinction in the object and result of
il iOuu use. 4 hc iuTiler USES Uiic iotitt
and damages it to make money for him
self. So does every business teamstcr.
They get benefit in actual money
gain from every good. rotd. The
cyclist uses the road solely for enjoy
ment He makes no gain from it, and
it would manifestly be unjust to levy u
special tax on him. Now, cyclers do
not desire good roads at the expense of
the farmer. Bicycle advocates of good
-oads are generally in favor of the
adoption of the county system of road
taxation and management. Under the
county system the whole county is
made one single road district and the
entire property of the county is taxed
equally for the highway fund. This
makes the heaviest cost fall upon cities
and villages and not upon the farmer
The justification of such law is that
good roads benefit everybody who owns
property, whether they all use the road
or not. The merchant of the village,
the man who owns a house or lot in
the city, equally with the farmer-all
have the value of their property and
business increased by good roads In
the orange district, where several mil
lions of dollars have been spent in the
last ten years making good roads, the
official records of the county show that
the value of the property of the whole
county has more than quadrupled with
in the last eight years owing to these
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-07-08
august.
Flower

Miss c. G. McCLAvE, School
teacher, 753 Park Place, Elmira, N.
Y. "This Spring while away from
home teaching my first term in a
country school 1 was perfectly
wretched with that human agony
called dyspepsia. After dieting for
two weeks and getting no better, n
friend wrote me, suggesting that I
take August Flower. The very next
day 1 purchased bottle. I am de-
lighted to say that August Flower
helped me so that have quite re-
covered from my indisposition." .
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-07-08
WHENCE THE sTRusoANs7
The Old Argument Concerning Their Or
iginal Homo Revived.

The Old Argument Concerning Their Or
iginal Homo Revived.
The classical world was divided on
the subject of the original home of the
Etruscans and the old dispute is con-
tinued by modern scholars. On the
one side it is maintained that they were
northern people who descended into
Italy from the mountains of the Tyrol,
and in whom we may see the bronze
age inhabitants of the Swiss and Aus.
trian lakes. Etruscan monuments have
been found in the Tyrol, and Mommsen
appeals to the fact that the great cities
of ancient Etruria were built inland as
proof that the Etruscans could not
have reached Italy by sea. On the
other hand, the prevalent view among
the antiquaries of the classical world
was that they came from Asia Minor,
Lydra more especially having been
their primitive seat. This is also the
view which seems to have gained most
acceptance from the ethmologists of to-
! day, chiefly in consequence of discov-
cry made seven years ago by two French
scholars in the island of Lemnos. Here
| sepulchral monument was found, on
which the head and spear of warrior
were engraved, together with two in
scriptions The inscriptions proved to be
Etruscan, though some of the words
presented slightly different forms from
those we have been accustomed to
meet with in the Inscriptions of Etruria
proper. 1t has, accordingly, been as
| sumed that the monument testifies to
an Etruscnn speaking population in
Lemnos in early days, and thus to the
presence of an Etruscan people in
Egean lands. The conclusion, how
ever, does not necessarily follow, since
the tombstone might have been erected
to the memory of some Etruscan pirate
who had made his way to the Egean
Sea. But it must be allowed that the
dialectic character of the words of the
inscription is in favor of the theory
which regards it as really the memorial
of the Etruscan colony. Whether we
shall ever know with certainty the
original home of the Etruscan race is
for the future to decide. Discoveries
follow one upon the other so rapidly
nowadays that the question may al
ready be upon the point of being an.
swered. Who could have dreamed q
few years ago that an Etruscan in.
scription would be brought to light in
an island of the Egean, or that one OF
she sacred books of Etruria would now
be in our hands, written on linen by a
scribe to whom Etruscan was living
tongue. Review.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-07-08

spring OF 1891. Drawn from photograph.
road improvements, while the value of
the property directly along the lines of
the good roads has increased over six
times.
The official records always show the
same extraordinary increase in the val
ues of property, wherever good roads
have been constructed. And this is also
noticed: Farmers always resist and
complain before the good roads are con-
structed; but, after the roads are made,
they are the strongest supporters of
the new system. Nothing could induce
them to go back to the old condition;
and the complainers and resisters are
thereafter confined to city and village
hang-backs. In Michigan we have one
county that, in spite of resistance by
farmers, got the privilege, by special
act of the legislature, of spending $780,
900 for stone roads. They spent the
money and the supreme court of
the state pronounced the act unconsti-
tutional, and then up rose the farmers,
having been convinced by once trying
the effect of SO much good road, and
joined in strong petition to have the
state constitution amended SO that their
county might be permitted to bond it.
self for more hundred thousand dollar
good road expenditures! Meanwhile
those farmers who got the benefit of
the first hundred thousand dollars
worth of good roads '.cut swells" and
chuckled: Don't you wish you could
get it?" over the farmers not on those
roads.
Well they may, since the official valua-
tions prove that lands along these roads
have enhanced in value more than
double any other farm lands in the
county.-President Bates, in Chicago
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-07-08
SHE FOUND HIM OUT.
\ Tragedy Which Was Enacted at the Adj
mnistration Building.

mlnistratfon Building.
"Don't muss my hair"
Standing half within the shadow of
the administration building, with the
softened beams of the moonlight play
Ing cinch with her West Monroe street
features, Myrtle Cummings gazed up
with fond and trusting gaze into the
mobile countenance of Archibald Fitz.
these happy souls known the sweet
communion of each others company,
but already Archibald knew that Myr.
tie was fond of pickles.
For years he had drifted through life
alone, with no kindred spirit, to mend
his suspenders, no sympathetic heart
to ache when he lost his little all at
the races But now new light had
dawned upon him, his soul expanded
beneath its cheering ray and he pressed
Myrtle close against his four dollar
vest with never a thought of the shirt
bosom, which was, alas, SO fast becom.
Ing ruin.
AS they stood there before the foun.
tain. with the faint song of night birds,
nellowcd by distance, floating to their
ears from the fairylike wooded island,
the great white palaces rearing their
massive domes above them, the silvery
moonlight shimmering over all and
Archibald's new shoes seeming to be.
:ome tighter and tighter, the beauty
and poetry of the scene inundated his
.oul till it overfowed with rapture
and he took fresh chew of plug.
y L. fA
Jones, which echoed in the senses of
The fair young girl like the low. sweet
grooming of an old lullaby, Myrtle,
does not the love which l have de-
.lared for you awaken sympathetic
chord within your breast? Are you hap
perfectly happy-here in my arms?'
Lightly touching her bang with one
tiny hand and showing his neclStie up
into his raven locks with the other,
the girl half coyly, with maidenly mod.
esty, which caused her cheeks to flame,
took Il half-Nelson hold on Archibald
and bestowed upon him one rapturous
embrace which set his heart strings to
iuttering madly and burst asunder hia
two-for-a-quarter collar.
Here could | rest contented for
ever," she sighed as she tangled an
sight-cent bone hairpin in his neclstie.
Suddenly the girl started, wild,
hunted look flashed into her fawn-lilSe
eyes and she madly threw back Archi.
bald's coat, while she gazed in terror
at his vest. There upon his manly
breast glitGeved a golden star with an
eagle rampant in it's center. The
peachy bloom fled from her cheek as
she asked in strained, almost filtered
tones, "What does this mean, Archi.
bald; why do yon wear this emblem;
can 1t be-?" and her voice trembled
'twixt hope and awful fear, which
clutched her heart with an icy grasp,
''can it be that you are a Columbian
guard?"
Archibald started, straight flush
suffused his face as he answered In a
low voice: "Alas! yes, Myrtle, 1 am
That star told you the worst"
"Then all is ove- betweens u.s." she
replied coldly as she shrunk with a
shuddsr from his arms. "Do not dare to
speak to me again. / could have for
given you the cigarettes and saying
eyether and neyther' but this IL too
much much Chicago NewA
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-07-08
Away from the Heat and Smoke

of crowded city, and to the cool mountain
resorts of Colorado and Utah, is the cry of
suffering humanity. From the Eastern,
Middle and Central States, no better route
to Colorado and Utah exists than the Mis-
souri, Pacific Railway Colorado Short Line.
Round trip tourist tickets are now on sale
to Pueblo. Colorado Springs, Manitou, Den
yer, Trinidad, Salt Lake City and Ogden,
with an ample limit on return portion of
same. Send to II. G. Townsend, G. P. q Il.
Agt., st. Louis, for copy of the handsom.
est tourist guide ever issued, entitled
"Summer and Winter Health and Pleasure
Resorts, !" which will be mailed FREE OF COST.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-07-08
Almost Inside Out.

The stomach tina. is not turned thus by q
shaking up on the ''briny wave" must be u
we'll fortified one. The gastric apparatus
can be rendered proof against sea sickness
with that slomuchic so popular auiong tray
elers by sea and land-Hostctters Stomach
Bitters. 1t defends the system against
malaria and rheumatism, and subdues liver
complaint, constipation and dyspepsia
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-07-08
She wouldn't See the Point.

Mr.. Wickwire-This paper says that
the women of this country spend twenty
million dollars year for cosmetics.
Nhat horrible extravaganza!
Mrs. Wickwire-Twenty million lol.
lars! My! Why, the little ten or ffteen
dollars / spend does not amount to
anything at all, compared with that,
does it dear?-Indianapolis journal.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-07-08

The feeling Of superiority in the
sterner sex is inborn. Mamma, doyou
think you'll go to Heaven?" said Jack,
thoughtfully, looking into his mothers
face" ''Yes, dear, if I'm good" said
the little mother, cautiously, wonder
ing what would come next. "rhen
please be good, for papa and would be
so lonesome without you."-Kate
Fields Washington.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-07-08
Sage for the Market.

Sage is profitable crop. For market
purposes it is grown from seed, the
plants being set out on the ground that
has been occupied by peas orsome early
crop, SO as to secure q late crop from
the land. The rows are twenty inches
npart, the plants being twelve inches
apart In the row. Late in the fall the
crop Is harvested, tied up in punches
and sold.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-07-08
THE BULL TAKES A WALK,

tened from two convenient points
from the barn to tree as in the
picture or from one corner of the barn
yard to another. A pulley runs on this
with small chain fastened to the bulls
nose-ring. He can thus walk back and
forth and is still held securely.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-07-08

The pleasant effect and perfect safc'y
with which ladies may use the California
liquid laxative Syrup of Figs, under all con-
ditions, makes it their favorte remedy. 70
get the true and genuine article. look for
the name of the California Fig Syrup Co,
printed near the bottom of the package.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-07-08
SELDOM SEEN IN DAYLIGHT.
Raro African and Asiatic Animals That In
habit D1nRc Forests.


habit Dense Forests.
To the naturalist the most marked
feature of the great tropical forests
south of the equator is the inequality
in the balance of nature between vege-
table and animal life. From the for
ests Of Brazil to the forests of the Con-
go, through the wooded heights of
northern Madagascar to tho tangled
iungles of the Asiatic archipelago and
the impenetrable woods of New Guinea,
the boundlcss profusion of vegetable
growth is unmatched by any similar
abundance in animal form. A few
brilliant birds of strange shape and
matchless plumage. such us the toucans
of Guinea amid the Amazon, or the
birds of paradise in the Moluccas or the
Papuan archipelago, haunt the loftiest
trees. and from time to time fall vic
Tins to the blow pipe or arrow of the
natives, who scarcely dare to penetrate
that foodless region, even for such
spoils until incantation and sacrifice
have propitiated the offended spirits of
the woods, but, except the sloth and
the giant ant eater, there is hardly to
be found in the tropical regions of the
| new world quadruped which can eX-
cite the curiosity of the naturalist or
form food even for the widest of man
/ kind.
In the corresponding tracts of Africa
and the Asiatic archipelago the rare
| four-footed animals that live in the sol
| itary forests are for the most part crea-
lures of the night Unlike the lively
squirrels and martin cats of temperate
regions they do not leave their hiding
places till the tropical darkness has
| fallen on the forests, when they seek
/ their food, not on the surface OF the
ground, but, initiating the birds, as
cend to the upper surface of the ocean
of trees, and at the first approach of
dawn seek refuge from the hateful day
| in the dark rccesses of some aged and
hollow trunk. There is nothing like
the loris or the lemur in the fauna of
temperate Europe. We may rather
compare them to race of arboreal
moles the condition of whose life is
darkness and invisibility. But, unlike
the moles, the smaller members of
these rarely seen tribes are among the
most beautiful and interesting crea-
lures of the tropics, though the extreme
difficulty of capturing creatures whose
whole life is spent on the loftiest forest
trees is further increased by the reluc-
tance of the natives to enter the desert
ed and painless forests. The beautiful
lerlurs, most of which are found in
Madagascar, are further believed by
the Malagassi to embody the spirits of
their ancestors, and the wierd and
plaintive cries with which they fill the
groves at night. uttered by creatures
whose bodies, as they cling to the
branches, are invisible. and whose deli
cate movements are noiseless may well
have left doubt on the minds of the
discoverers of the island as to whether
these were not in truth the cries and
wailings of true lemures, the unquiet
ghosts of the departed.-London Spec
tator.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-07-08
CONTROLLING A BULL.
A Device That Should Find u Place on
Every Farm.

Mr.. M. H. G. Gardner, of Orange
county, N. ", sends to the Rural, New
Yorker sketch of the device shown in
cut for exercising bull so that he may
take his "walks abrond" with perfect
safety to the other members Of the
family. A stout wire is securely fas-
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-07-08

-"Some people haven't any more re-
ligion than n heathen." ''What do you
mean?" "Well, there was old Mrs.
Hightone never once noticed the
preacher. for ] watched her the whole
time of the ce."-Intcr Ocean.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-07-08

DIDN'T CARE FOR IT.-Music Dealer
"Can't sell you copy of our latest Songs
Without Wordsn" Stranger-"No; don't
think much of the missing-word craze."-
judge,
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-07-08

Mrs Dedbroke-Whut Is meant by
preferred creditors, dear?
Mr.. Dedbrole-The ones that don't
.'other you, usually. -Brooltlyn Life.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-07-08

Papa, how is this world divided?"
"Well, my son, I've forgotten how it
used to be, but at present it's three
iourths ocean and the balance summer
hotelr'-Atluntn Constitution.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-07-08

Nor sT-Visitor-"Ah, johnny, see
you have lost one of your first teeth"
Johnny-"No, sir; haven't lost it. 1t 's up
stairs on the window sill."-Puck.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-07-08

THE condemned murderer is usually able
to tell when his time has come by the death
watch the warden provides for him.-Buf-
falo Courier.