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Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-11-24
The Governor Has No Power To
Remove Them From Office,
Under the Law.
Ending Of q Case Which Has At.
tracted Much Attention Thro'
the State.
Begun In Fargo Way Last Spring
and Hung Fire All During
the Summer.
Brief Resume of the Vexed Question
From the Period of Its
Inception.
This Old Board will Stay.

~ oONAu I stay
The supreme court has rendered it's
decision in the now famed case against
the Agricultural college board at Fargo.
The syllabus is brief and very much
to the point, and by it the old board will
remain in charge of the Agricultural COL
lege affairs. The syllabus says:
The governor has no W under
Chapter IS Of the laws of 1898, to remove
the trustees of the Agricultural College
and Experimental station from office.
The facts in the case are pretty we'll
known to every reader of North Dakota
newspapers. 1t arose, originally, from
the failure Of the senate to confirm the
appointees of the governor to the board.
Notwithstanding this, they were re-
appointed by the governor, and when
they met at Fargo for the first time, they
were refused recognition by the old
board, in precisely the same manner as
were the penitentiary appointees of the
governor here. The latter case was car
ried to the supreme court, and a ruling
was made against the appointees of the
governor. This, of course, settled mat
tiers in the Agricultural college board,
also.
The governor then gave notice of his
intention to remove the members of the
Agricultural college board for cause.
There followed a long and tedious ex.
animation of the books by the public
examiner. There was a hearing. in
which the governor and trustees took
part. Charges of ~malfeasance were filed
against the old board. They filed de.
malls i'll toto. Hearings were had at in
tervals at Bismarck and Fargo. Finally
came an order from the governor, re-
moving all members of the old board.
The latter paid no attention to the order.
Then came a writ of mandamus, and the
case was carried to the supreme court,
where 1t wa argued at the recent Grand
Forks term, and submitted, with the re-.
suit given in the above syllabus.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-11-24
Strength and Health.

3 upon her case.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-01-25
Knows Something About Cats

A small boy in one of the Detroit
schools, according to the Free Press of
that city, recently handed in this COM
and nine lives. Why they are five legs
short I do not kno at this time. l CESS
can find out tho when die. think
cats wood be a gould deel funnyer if
they had nine legs and five lives, don't
youp Cats have tales which they rap
round thare feat when they set down
so as to hold them together. kno
bobtailed cat that is ashamed to set
down in public tall. l CESS it is
afrade its feat will skater. Thare are
Tom cats and Puss cats, which the
Tom cat is more massive and has a
more sounding voice, in the midnight
darkly when all elts is still. Cats cries
like babies sometime, but you can not
Civ them parrygorick to quiet thare
nervus sistems like you can babies.
We have baby at our house that
CESS has drinked about foar quarts Of
parrygorick and every mite it cries
just the saim for more. l CESS that
baby must hav the parrygorick hab-
bit. Young cats are very frisky, and
they will play all day, because they
don't have NO skool to go to. l CESS
would like to be young cat till l was
growed up to be a man. Cats eats
milk and mice regular, and the canary
for dezert. Cats are very clean ami
mails, but never thought it was very
clean to spit on their hands and wash
thare faces in the manner which they
do. CESS I have wrote all kno about
cats.
P. S.-Cats has lectricity in thare
backs, and they can blow up thare
tales as big as fiji brush when they
are froshus.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-01-25
A chinese maxim for ch,ldren

A Chinese Maxim for Children.
1t is good thing for boy or girl to
be busy. If a boy has to work little
out of school, let him be glad that he
is getting in training to be useful
man. And if a girl finds that she must
help her mother about the house or
run on errands, she may do SO cheer
fully, because she can be cure that she
will be happier and more contented
woman by and by than though she
had grown up idle and with no knowl,
edge of home arts. Busy yourselves,
boy and girls, and you will always be
glad that you have done so.
The Chinese have a queer maxim
which they teach to their children. It
is on this very subject-that of never
being idle. The maxium says: "For
everybody who does not work and fol
every woman who is idle sombody
must suffer cold and hunger."-N.Y.
Ledger.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-01-25
IN THE DAYS OF THE POST BOY.
How Our Grandfathers Got their Letters

Perhaps little chat about the meth
DDS and difficulties of conveying let
tiers in bygone days may help you to
realize and appreciate the advantages
of the present.
We will not go farther than the lat
ter part of the seventeenth century
about two hundred years ago. And
we will imagine ourselves in England.
There were no steamboats, and
steam-cars to carry travellers to near
or distant parts of the country at that
time. And as people stayed at home
so generally, there was not nearly SO
much letter-writing as now. We go
on frequent journeys, and want to let
our dear ones know where we are,
what we are doing, and how we are
faring. Besides, there were not many
post-offices outside of the cities and
large towns, and it was only to i'm
portant places in the vicinity of Lon
don that the mail was sent as often as
once day, and towns at some dis
tance had their letters and newspapers
but once a week. To remote country
places, villages, gentlemen's country
residences and farms, especially dur
ing the winter, when the public and
private roads were very bad, the mails
were very uncertain, being often a
fortnight and sometimes an entire
month apart.
At that time the bags containing the
letters were all carried by horsemen,
mail-carriers jogging along by night
and day at the rate of about five miles
an hour-in good weather, in summer
time; for the highways were usually
in very bad condition, so that fast
riding was not possible. The postman
often ran the risk of being stopped and
plundered by mounted highwaymen,
at that time terror to travellers by
horseback or coach. They seemed to
be on a sharp lookout for any valu-
ables in money, paper or otherwise
that might be sent in the post-bags.
They rode the fastest and finest horses,
were bold and daring; and when the
postman found himself in lonely
road or crossing dark moor late at
weary horse forward and ioyfully we'll
coined the first ray of light that shone
from the lantern swinging to the sign
of the roadside inn.
Hounslow Heath, Finchley Common
anu 0duohtlA, LA IhC NlOlulDy VI LOA-
don, were celebrated haunts of the
highwayman, and the secluded roads
of Epping Forest, on the route to
Cambria ge, were often the scenes of
plunder in broad daylight. These
desperate robbers at last became SO
dangerous and the peril of their at
tacLs so serious to travellers of all kinds,
as well as to the postmen, that the gov
ernment passed law making highway
robbery an offense punishable by death
of the criminal and the coniscation of
all HIS property. But robberies still
occurred.
In 1888, mail-coaches protected by
armed guards took the place of post
boys. The coaches carried passengers
also, and, as these generally carried
arms, the mails were better protected; !;
but still daring and oftentimes sue
cessful attacks were made upon them.
ST Nicholas
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-01-25
CARPEE EE|S
1t
ABSOLUTE
C0ST.

We find we have much too large a
stock of Carpets to carry over. In or
der to reduce it, we have decided to
make horizontal reduction that
will move them at once.
We are not prone to indulgence in
sensational head lines or extravagant
boasting, but - at this time and place"
positively assert that we shall place
lower prices on Carpets than they were
ever before sold for in Portage County
"a bona fide cost basis
''There is reason in all things" and
our reason for this sacrifice in price is
that we want the room for our Fall
stock.
Now is your opportunity. You will
scarcely have another such an one in
life time to buy elegant Floor Cover
ings untainted with profit to the seller,
It will pay you to anticipate your
purchases in the line of Carpets.
We mention in particular our large
aud superb stock of Body and Tapes
try Brussels. The prices we have
marked on them will meet your ap-
proval and cause you to willingly part
with your bottom dollar, if needs be-
in a Carpet investment. Just think
of it: An elegant Brussels Carpet al
but q trifie more cost than an Ingram.
Our Moquettes, Art Squares, Rugs
Mattings, Oil Cloths and Linoleums
are all dumped in the cost hopper.
These prices necessitate strictly cash
sales. respectfully,
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-01-25
Not Been Married That Long.

Recently gentleman of Oakland,
mindful of his wife's birthday, deter
mined to make her a few presents
which might help to make her forget
the encroachments of age. Helpless as
all men are under such circumstances,
he applied to his sister-in-law for hint
and was told that few dainty robes
de mutt would be most accepta BILE.
Entering store where laces and
fripperies and lingerie are dealt in he
blushingly informed the young lady at
the counter of his quest.
"How long have you been married."
was the immediate inquiry.
"Twenty-three years.
Thereupon the MI ght robes were
produced, and he looked them over,
not having the remotest idea of
whether they were the proper thing or
not"
"How much are theseP" he ventur-
ed.
Fifty cents EACH"
30, no; I've not been married that
long yet" he retorted quickly.-jSG'a
Francisco Examiner
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-01-25

The idea of popping corn arose from
practice which has prvailed for gene
rations among florists andEothers. This
is test of the vitality of seed by put
ting it on hot pan or stove. Dead
seed will blacken and shrink under
these discouragiDg conditions. but
seed which has sufficient vitalality in
it to justify hopes of crop will swell
and either hiss or pep. This is because
the sap OF moisture is turned into
steam faster than it can find an outlet,
and hence an explosion. 1t is quite
common to select samples of seed at
random and test them in this wsy
prior to using the balance of the as
sortment.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-01-25
IN THE AUSTRALIAN BUSH.
Kangaroo Hunting with the Boomerang.

The black man watched the kanga-
roos intently for moment, and he
seemed to be taking kind of measure
ment of their distance from the foot of
the palm. Then he drew back, and
ing, with the bush branches for a
screen, and he also drew back. He
put down the twigs, and the two
seemed to be studying. Two men who
could neither count nor measure as
civilized men count and measure, were
in reality counting and measuring as
accurately as if they had been a pair
of surveyors with perfect instruments.
They had dropped their spears and
sticks before peeping out at the kan
garoos, and now each of them stopped
and picked up queer crooked club.
All the other black men lay flat in the
grass while these two went on with their
puzzling operations. Neither of them
could see any part of kangaroo
| through the trunk of the tree. Each
stood and balanced himself, leaning
| forward, with his bit of curved wood
held in his right hand by one end.
These crooked sticks were not much
over two feet long, perhaps not more
than two or three inches wide at the
center, the widest part, and were made
to taper at each end. They were
curved on one face and flat on the
other and sharp at the edges. You
would have said great pains had been
taken to shape those sticks so that ii
would be impossible to throw them
straight or make them hit any object
they were thrown at.
| Each black man held his dark,
heavy-looking wooden weapon with
the fat side down, until he had fin
ished his balancing and calculating,
and then he suddenly drew back and
hurled it from him, with peculiar,
Jerking twist of his wrist. Almost at
the same moment, each of them
stopped and picked another and threw
it, and then a third. AS the thiro
cast was made, each uttered loud
screeching yell, the two harsh erie!
bursting forth almost at the same Sec
ond, followed by yells from all the res
of the party as they sprang from thu
grass, seized their spears and sticks
and bounded forward.
Ned and Hugh had noted every
movement of the green mask by the
palm, and the kangaroos also mus
have begun to suspect danger, for al
of them had ceased feeding, sat up
right, and pricked their ears ano
turned their pretty heads inquiringly
The largest of them was in the very
act of rising for forward bount
when something struck him upon the
neck, just above the shoulder.
There had been faint whizzing ant
whirring in the air. 1t began behint
the cab6age-palm and went out side
wise and upward, through the air
while something dimly visible flashed
away, in wide, sweeping curve. Up
tup, up went the whiz and whirl, ant
then down, down, after strange
mysterious fashion, closely accompan
| led by another just like it. Then ther'
was a thud, thud-and the great kan
CARGO did not make his leap. II
rolled over and over in the grass, TO
one of those wonderful missiles ha'
actually broken his neck. And an
other kangaroo had fallen also.-W.
StoddGrd IN ST. Nicholas.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-01-25

Milk should never be cooled IN a
stable, for While the milk is warm the
heat arising from it tends to carry
away any stable odors. But the mo-
ment it becomes cooler than the sur
rounding air, this air, with all its im-
purities, tends to condense upon the
milk, and thus give it any foreign taste
that may be present. Milk then should
be cooled as quickly as possible after
being drawn, and this if properly done
will remove the animal heat and odors
and improve the keeping qualities
Various contrivances are made for aer-
ating and cooling milk. I have never
tried any that force air through it,
but the one in which the milk runs
over pipes containing cold water is very
successful, and will make the milk as
cool as necessary.-T. A. Stanly, in
Farm and Home.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-01-25

The giant of giants and Titan OF
Titans, as far as sewing machines are
concerned, has recently been finished
at Leeds, England. 1t weighs exactly
5 IA tons, and is specially adapted for
general manufacturing purposes of the
heavier sort. This particular machine
will be used for attaching cotton belt
ing.
Koumiss, mares milk fermented, is
mentioned in the thirteenth's century
by Gulielmus de Rubruquis, a travel
ing monk: AFTER a man has taken a
draught thereof it leaveth behind q
taste like that of almond milk and
maketh ones insides feel very com
Portable and it also intoxicateth week
heads"
The largest specimen of extinct ami.
NAL ever found in the world was the
skeleton of a Dinosaurian reptile dis
covered in the Bad Lands in 1882. The
weight of the skull alone was 694
pounds and of the whole skeleton l, ,9U(
pounds. 1t is now in the room of the
Academy of Natural Science, Phila
delphia.
Stranger your paper a great
advertising medium, do you? 1t isn't
worth chucks. put in an advertise
ment last week and didn't get an an
swer, not one." Editor-"My! my
How was your advertisement worded?' p
Stranger-"'A poor young man wants
pretty wife who can do her owl
housework. ."-NeW York Weekly.
Chairman Campaign committee)-
"Yes, we need some good writer's fol
our literary bureau. Have you had
any experience at campaign litera
ture?" Applicant-"No, sir. am
| writer of summer hotel advertise
ments." Chairman-"Glorious! Take
that desk there alongside of the gen
| tleman who used to figure up newsPa
per circulations. ."-NeO York Weekly
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-01-25
Bad Place for Cock-Fiebtine

1 know an old sport, formerly sex
ton of prominent high-steepled New
York church, who was won't, in his
ally to regale parties of his sporting 9
friends with cock-fights in its belfry.
He has laughingly told me of many a
main he brought off there without the
slightest fear of police interruption.
This certainly was a case of "the
nearer the church the farther from
God" / am glad to say that nova
days no self-respecting sporting re-
porter would countenance by his pre-
senee or his silence any such desecra-
tion of holy edifice.-J. B. Nc Cor
mick in Jtppiaacott'S.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-01-25
A sure cure.

A famous French doctor and profes.
sor of medicine contended that every
disease was due to process ofindam
maeion. On dissecting one of his pa
tients, not a trace of Inflammation
could be found, He explained the cir,
cumstances to his pupils as follows:
"GenteImen, you see that our mode OF
treatment was thoroughly effective.
The patient is dead, but he died cured"
-Demorest's Magazine.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-01-25
Girls, Learn something,

In these days when reverses in for
tune are happening of SO frequent oc.
currence the daughters of even very
well to do parents. should be taught the
necessity of at least knowing one
thing thoroughly and well. The girl
who graduates from the fashionable
school and regards her education fin
ished knows-what? A smattering of
music, little French, not enough,
however, to sustain a very lengthy
conversation with a real Frenchman;
she may he able to paint bunch of
pansies or a cross eyed kitten; she
may know how to warble forth two
or three song that she has been coached
in for years, or she could peehaps solve
problem in geometry or algebra if it
not too difficult.
OF course all this is quite sufficient II
she never is called upon to be more
than social butterfly. but suppose the
time comes when she must do some
thing to help support the family.
Which branch of all the studies she
has finished" does she know com.
pletely enough to now turn to good
service The bitter answer would be,
not one, and she would be obliged to
accept some position that paid but 8
pittance simply because when she
had the opportunity she had not learn.
ed one thing thoroughly.
Girls let it be your aim to master al
least one subject, Ifyou have taste
for music, study it SO that your work
can be turned to profit; if it be cooking,
painting, sewing, any Language OF
science. do not dip into it today and
out of it tomorrow. Perfect yourself in
something, and then when necessity
calls upon you to turn your talent tc
account you will have something on
which you can rely.-[Philadelphis
| Times,
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-01-25

*Daily. Except Sunday. Alag stop. meals
Dark Faced Type denotes time from IL 90 II %
midnight Light Faced from II 90 midnight to II 90 noon
JOSEPH WOOD, E. "A. FORD,
General Manager, General Passenger Agent
I2-2O-R-T PITTSBURGH, PENN A.
For time cards, rates of fare, through tickets.
baggage checks and further information
garding the running of trains apply to any
q gent of the Pennsylvania Lines.
W. D. ARMSTRONG. Agent.
Ravenna, o.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-01-25
Only 10 per cent of German school
boys 90 in for athletics.
No Book is Perfect

1t is said that Spanish firm of pub
fishers once produced a work in which
one letter only got misplaced through
accident, and this is believed to have
been the nearest approach to perfec-
ton that has ever been attained in a
book. 1t is further stated that an
English house had made great effort
to the same end, and issued proof
sheets to the universities with an offer
of ESQ if any error was discovered in
them, but in spite of this precaution
several blunders remained undetected
till the work issued from the press
Notes and Queries.
bo,- "a roor. Id hos hoor orroct or
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-01-25

AS soon as the present supply of
postage stamps at the Ravenna post
office is exhausted the first invoice of
the new Columbian series of stamps
will be ordered and placed Oh sale.
This series will be issued only during
the year of 1893. They are issued in
denominations ranging from one to
fifty cents.
They are all made from line engrav-
ings on steel and each denomination
bears distinct design commemorative
of the discovery of America by Column
pus. The scenes represented on the
different stamps are as follows:-
One cent" Columbus in sight of
land" after the painting by William
81. Powell. Color. Antwert blue.
Two cent" Landing of Columbus" >"
after the painting by Vanderlyn in the
rontunda of the capitol at Washington.
Color, purple maroon
Three cent Flag ship of Column
bus," the Santa Maria in mid ocean,
from Spanish engraving. Color
medium shade of green.
Four cent -"Fleet of Columbus"
the three ships, Ssta Maria, Nina and
Pinta, in mid ocean, from an engrav-
ing. Color ultra marine blue.
| Five ecent-'Columbus soliciting aid
of Isabella" after painting by Bro
xix in the Metropolitan Museum of art
in New York City. Color chocolate
brown.
Six cent-"Columbus welcomed al
Barcelona" scene from one of the par.
els of the bronze doors by Randolph
Rogers, in he.Capital at Washington
Color, royal purple.
i Ten cent Columbus presenting
natives" after painting by Ling
Gregori at the University OF Notr,
Dame south Bend Indiana. Colo
Vandyke brown.
Fifteen cent -"Colum bus announc
ing his Discovery" after the paintin,
by r. BalOca now in Madrid. Color
dark green.
Thirty cent nt-"Columbus at La Rat
da, "after the painting by R. Maso. Co
or, Sienna brown.
Fifty cent-"Recall of Columbus,
after painting by A.G. Heaten, no
in the capitol at Washington. Colo
carbon.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-01-25

Mount Etna had its first recorded
eruption in 425 B. G.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-01-25
Teachers, Examinations.

EXAMINATIONS will be hello. commencing
IL at 8 O'Clock a. m. and closing at p. m
on the FIRST SATURDAY of each month; also
the THIRD SATURDAY in October. November
February and April.
The examination on the THIRD SATURDAY in
February will be held at tGarrettsville; that or
the THIRD SATURDAY in April, at Kent AL
others will be held at the High School Build
ing, Ravenna.
No certificate viii be ante-dated.
Any applicant, known to cheat. will be re.
5cted for six months.
By order of the Board.
q r. HAYMAKER. CLERK.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-01-25

A boy IA years old has been arrested
In Portland, Me-, for selling liquor.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-01-25

He did not progress further in his
speech than that unfinished word, for
start at his side caused him to
look around toward "aunty," and he
was met with such a glare of naughty
horror that he closed his eyes to shut
out the sight. His eyes being closed
he found it easier to go to sleep than
to open them again, and was carried
miles beyond his station, smiling, how
ovar hliSSfullv
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-01-25
n; REywEEN eAyaRo AND NEW PHILADELPHIA.

Nos 336 and 33S connect at Wellsville for
SteubenviIle and Bellaire. Nos. S3S and 342
connect in Union Station, Pittsburgh, for the
Lyoc