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Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-03-23
EVOLUTION OF THE FlREslDE
Great Races That Have Sprung Fra the
Family Hearth.

Somebody found out that the friction OF
two sticks would produce fame. And 10,
all the arts and sciences were borni This
discovery must have been made very, very
long ago, for the earliest people Of whom
we have any knowledge had forgotten about
it and were turning it into myth and mira
Gle. Agni, the fire, was worshiped by the
Hindoos as one Of the great gods, while
amcug the Greeks the Titan Prometheu'
was said to have stolen the fire from heaven
and brought it down to men hidden In q
reed. This he did in pity for the suffering
race of man, while for the pity and help he,
like so many other of mans helpers and re
formers, was doomed to persecution anc
torture. 1t is only within the present cen
tury and since the discovery of the old San.
skirt Scriptures that we have found out
that Prometheus is Pramantha, the fire
drill. and that out Of the wonder of the
fire the worshiping imaginations of the
people have created the wonder story OF
the man loving victim of Zeus.
The fire early became symbol of the
sin and through thousand changes this
primeval marvel of the fire has become
part of the poetry, the folklore, the religion
OF all the world. The Parsis were fire wor.
shippers. Baal, the fire god, ruled many .
Semitic tribe. The beautiful Persephoneis
seized by the god of the underworld and
borne away to his sunless kingdom. Her
mother, Ceres, mourns her and searches
everywhere over the desolate earth for her
daughter By and by she is permitted to re
turn and spend six months In the upper
world. The flowers bloom, the corn grows
and the birds sing at her approach. So grows
the fairy story of winter and summer. But
not only in pagan lands do these traces OF
sun and fire worship appear. Our Lents and
Casters, our altar candles, our Halloweens,
our eastward positions in prayer-all these
are poetic relics of the age long wonder OF
the fire.
In the first place, the sunshine is tne con-
dition of all life on earth, and the hre on
the hearth is only transformed sunshine
This sunshine was stored up ages ago ID
the beds of coal or IN the growing trees
year by year. so, as we slt ABOUT the nre'
it is the sunshine OIL other years OF oIhei
ages that dances IN the hame or glows IL
the red anthracite And as IL Is tne sur
that gives life, SO 1t is TINS sunsnlne IN the
fire that makes man the free lnhabitant o.
all the earth, whatever the natural cnmaIt
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-03-23

Montana's unique silver exhibit at the
Worlds fair has been a prolific source of
misstatements and inaccurate historical
comment. One writer declares that it is
the only life sized statue that has ever been
made of precious metal, and another that
it is the most valuable piece of statuary
known in the world, both statements be-
ing about us far from the truth as it is pos
sible to get them. The statue of the god
dess Athene, made by Phidias, the Greek
sculptor, in 43S B. c.; was made of solid
gold and ivory, the robe Of the statue
alone being worth "A talents of gold, the
talent being S13,S09. Here we have it in a
nutshell. The dress, the lightest part of
the ivory and gold statueof Athene, was
worth 20 times as much as that silver
statue Of Ada Rehan. And this was one of
Phidias' minor works. His ivory and gold
statue of Jupiter Olympus was nearly
twice as large as Athene, the latter being
SO feet and the former 60 feet in height.
Coming down to modern times we might
mention that Editor Childs of Philadelphia
owns a solid silver statue, life sized and
the exact model of perfect woman. She
stands on Mexican onyx clock feet in
height and holds the pendulum cf the clock
suspended from her right hand. This statue
is feet 81 inches in height.-St. Louis Re
puhlic
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-03-23
A Century From CabEff TO Lodge.

Henry Cabot Lodge is the seth man
who has been honored by the state OF
Massachusetts, with seat in the United
States senate since congress was organ.
ized in $780, It is an interesting coin
cidence, by the way, that the great
grandfather of Mr.. Lodge, George Cabot,
was United States senator from Mas.
sachusetts just a century ago, he having
been elected in 1891 to serve until 1896
His grandson's term will expire in 1899
so that there will be three years in the
two centuries when the great-grand.
father and the great-grandson will have
been wearing the same toga, with cen.
tury between them. Boston Herald.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-03-23
AMfghty Man.

Topham, the prince of English strong
men, had knots of muscles where the
armpits are in the ordinary man. He
could take a bar of iron II inches in di-
ameter and feet long, place the middle
Of it over the back of his neck and then
force the ends forward until they met
before his face On one occasion he
called upon a village blacksmith and
made of him an everlasting enemy by
picking up a number of horseshoes and
snapping them in two as easily as if they
mad been pine sticks.-St. Louis Repub-
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-03-23
ADVICE FROM A PHYSICIAN.
The Risk OF Taking Infectious Diseases In
creased by the Use Of Alcohol.

The Risk of Taking Infectious Diseases In
creased by the Use Of Alcohol.
'SAs a physician and as a citizen j
leplore the evils which are wrought
among our people by the alcoholic poi
son. Ideplore these evils in common,
l believe, with all physicians, and in
common. hope, with all thoughtful cit.
izens. We know that our jails, ouI
warehouses;, our hospitals, our lunatic
asylums and our asylums for idiots re
.ceive large proportion of their inmates
in consequence of the destruction which
alcohol works on mems minds and on
their morals, their bodies and their for
tunes.
"Win you allow me to impress upon
you a great and particular danger which
the drinking of alcohol brings with iii
Medical science, by the aid of micro
scopic research, has made great progress
during the last 10 years in the knowledge
of the causes and cure Of many common
diseases. We have learned that many
diseases owe their origin and character
istics to minute micro-organisms, which
come to us in the food we eat, the fluids
we drink, the air we breathe, the clothes
we wear, or the things we touch.
"These micro organisms find their way
into the blood and tissues of the living
human body and multiply there, and
each kind of them produces In that body
its own characteristic and special dis
ease. There is one kind of micro-organ
ism for typhoid fever, another for erysip
elias, another for consumption, and 81
on. Each produces its like and its owl
and no other, just as cabbage come
from cabbage and cocoanut from
cocoanut.
Now, how is it, seeing that these nox
ious micro-organisms are so numerou
and so prevalent, that we do not oftene
fall victims to them? We have foun'
out the reason. There are within ou
bodies, in our blood and in our tissue
numberless little cells which protect us
These cells are known as leucocytes
When healthy lcucocyte meets u dis
ease producing micro-organism, whel
this little guardian of our health and @
our lives meets his enemy in the gate,
becomes very active to destroy it;
spreads itself out, encompasses the IN
cro-organisms. takes it within itself an
consumes it.
I'VE have found out, too. that man
agents have a paralyzing action upo
leucocytes and destroy their power
dealing with the micro organisms c
disease in the way have described
One of these agents is alcohol. So yo
may be sure that if you are in the wa
of infective disease your risk of takin
that disease is increased if your body
in the least degree under the inauenc
of alcohol"
It may be appropriately added thu
the above cause is cited by other fl
nous scientists for the frequent fat
result of disease in an habitual drinke
From an Address by Sir James Say
yer.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-03-23
Heturn of an Eminent Botanist.

Professor c. S. Sargent, the eminent
botanist and promoter of arboriculture
has returned from trip to Japan. Itis
pleasant to know that he regards his ex.
ploration as a remarkably successful
one. He travelled nearly all over the
empire, made a very large herbariun
and brought home number of species
of trees and shrubs, of which a consid
cradle portion has never yet been brought
into cultivation. Every lover of trees
plants and general gardening will extend
cordial welcome to the professor on hi:
safe return. -Meehan's Monthly.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-03-23
Bic Iniuns Blew Ont the Gas.

Munedo-mahqua, Sah-gah-chew and
Oh-ee-mah-sish are Indians who have
been attending federal court and came
near not living to return to White Earth
and their tepees. They were putting up
at the Globe hotel and blew the gas out
when they lay down to sleep. They
were almost asphyxiated when discov-
cred and were revived after strenuous
efforts by physician. Paul Globe.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-03-23
peou,e who work While AsIeep.

Not content with doing their duty
throughout the day and when they are
awake, there seem to be some people
who are not content unless they keep
themselves employed while they are
asleep. Not infrequently individuals
nave projected and carried to success
tul issue projects which they were quite
incapable of tackling when awake-no
ioubt because they couldn't, even if they
wished to, dream of doing them unless
,sleep. Boston Globe.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-03-23
London,s Parks.

The open spaces in London, without
reckoning the disused burial grounds.
extend to 5,449 acres. Besides there are
open spaces on its borders which bring
1p the total of parks accessible to Lon
loners to $4,000 acres. Pail Mall Ga
.ette. "t
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-03-23
A superlative.

Professor in Female Seminary Define
quintessence.
Sweet Miss Prunes--T-I-I believe it
is superlative kind ofiquince. Buffalo
Express.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1893-03-16
ooINGs IN FAR OFF LANDS.
SNAKE bites caused the death of near
" twenty-five thousand Hindoos last

SNAKE bites caused the death Of near
~ twenty-five thousand Hindoos last
year.
A aUssULMAN candidate is to contest
for a seat in the legislature at the next
election in Cape Town. He is the first
nom European candidate there since the
cape constitution was granted.
TIE whole Moslem race despise the
sound of bells, which, they say, causea
the evil spirits to assemble They do
not use them on their mosques, but
have men stationed in the minarets
who call out five times each day for thu
people to assemble for prayer.
In many countries the rainbow Il
spoken Of as great bent pump or sy.
phon tube, drawing water from thu
earth by mechanical means. In part,
OF Russia, in the Don country, and also
in Moscow and vicinity, it is known by
name which is equivalent to 'the bent
water pipe"
SHOULD the Sandwich islands really
become part of the United States they
will be the most picturesque feature OF
tho great republic. They deserve the
title 'Flowery Kingdom" perhaps even
better than Japan, since flowers bloom
on the islands ell the year round, and
are peculiarly beloved by all the inhab
itants
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1893-03-16
TREES AND FLOWERS.

VANILLA is an orchid, which, in tho
West Indies, creeps over trees and walls
like ivy. A substance called 'salep,"
somewhat resembling arrowroot or
sage, is obtained from the tubers of
variety that grows in Turkey and Per-
STA, where it is highly esteemed.
AT Cologne there is rose tree which
IS believed to be 800 years old. and has q
trunk of four feet in circumference.
California has one at Ventura which ia
now three feet in circumference at the
ground. It was only planted in 1876,
and now covers 2,000 square feet.
The orange growers of southern Cali
fornia are reaping rich harvest, and
the total yield will probably amount to
1000 car loads. Buyers are paying 1925
6box for the best fruit delivered 1t the
railroad station, which means return Of
from $500 to $500 an acre for groves that
are over eight years old.
A NEW luminous fungus has been for
warded from Tahiti to Europe. It is
said to emit at night light resembling
that Of the glowworm, which 1t retains
for period of twenty-tour hours after
having been gathered. 1t is used by ma
tive women in bouquets of flowers for
personal adornment in their hair and
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1893-03-16
The News Of the Week.
BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL.

U. S. SENATE IN EXTRA SESSION.. Z
MONDAY, March 6.-The senate met
in extra session and confirmed the
cabinet appointments made by Presi-
dent Cleveland. Senator Sherman
introduced q joint resolution, which
was laid on the table, which proposes
that the terms of Office of president and
vice president and of the Fifty fourth
congress shall continue until noon of
the 3Oth of April, 1897; that the SEN
ators whose terms would expire en- the
4th of March, 1897, shall continue in
Office until noon of the SOth of April;
and that that time shall hereafter be
substituted for the 4th of March as the
commencement and termination of the
official terms of the president, vice
president, senators and representatives
in congress. The present roll call of
the senate shows A democrats, SO re-
publicans, 1 populist, independent
and farmers alliance and three vacan-
cies.
THURSDAY, March 9.-The president
sent the following nominations to
the senate: Josiah Quincy, of
Massachusetts, to be assistant secre-
tary of state; Robert A. Maxwell, of
New York, to be fourth assistant post
master general; Isaac P. Gray, of In
diana, to be minister to Mexico. and
Patrick A. Collins, of Massachusetts, to
be consul general at London. A mes
sage was received from the president
withdrawing the Hawaiian treaty,
which has been pending. Adjourned
until the 18th. -.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1893-03-16
Unfermented Bread.

The question has often been brought
forward as to the wholesomeness of
bread made by the old-fashioned method
OF raising with yeast, which, as is well
known, causes a fermentation, and
which is actually a rotting of parts of
the flour, and is thought by physicians
to be directly responsible for much OF
the dyspepsia of the present day.
It is claimed by those who have tried
it that the Royal Baking Powder will
make bread of superior lightness, firm
ness, and general excellence without
the use of yeast. This process entirely
does away with the Preventative action,
and it is averred that no bread can DOS
sibly be so healthful or palatable as
that made in this way. It is stated in
the receipt that the bread made by this
process may be eaten warm and fresh
without discomfort.
This is unquestionably progressive
age, and if our scientists can give us
hot bread palatable and wholesome,
verify we have much to be thankful for.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1893-03-16
How Was He Hurte

A man named Martin Hanson, who is
employed at q milk farm in Winona,
was found unconscious in the barn, with
an ugly wound across the lower part OF
his forehead and face. He remained
delirious for about 10 hours. Some be.
ieve the wound was caused by the kick
of a COW or horse, but many believe il
is the work OF an enemy, about whom
the injured man muttered something
while in his delirium. Hanson has nc
recollection of any of the circumstances
save that he was not in the barn when
it happened. The case will be investj,
gated. t4tsps ri
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1893-03-16

A wELL-KNowN man writer who de-
scribes woman as study in tears and
talons" and a most "cleverly cruel ami
NAL" chivalrously lays the blame upon
mans shoulders Among women he
says, centuries OF seeing mans selec-
ton pass them by FOR some more fa-
vored maiden has implanted a peculiar
spite. From unremembered times the
fortunate have not forborne from cast
ing back on their unsuccessful sisters
the eyes of triumph and the chuckle Of
contempt. Ages of this founded a fresh
cruelty, and there was. gradually ar
rayed, both against man and woman,
the hatred Of the unasked."
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1893-03-16
LATER NEWS.

Mr. GLADSTONE was taken Ill with
cold the 18th and was confinc to his
bed.
A. NJ. SANFORD was found dad in his
room at the Athearn hotel, Oshkosh,
Wis, the 18th. He was dressed and had
paper in his hand. Heart failure was
the cause. He was 65 years old and a
retired manufacturer. He lived in Osh-
kosh 40 years.
THERE was great excitement in the
Chariestown, Mass, prison the 18th. In
ferreting among the workshops the
guards found all the materials neces-
sary for an escape. Hand-saws, coils
of rope and scaling hoops were discov-
cred sufficient to ]i6erate every man in
the prison if once tho guards were dis
posed of. The equipment was most
complete.
THE approaches to the Palais de JUS
tice, Paris, were thronged by excited
crowds the 18th. There has not been
such excitement in Paris since the be-
ginning of the Panama scandal. The
crowds were composed OF all classes
| from the militant socialist to the
wealthy merchant and fnancier, and
there was an ominous mur1nur Of angry
talk, and menacing frown on tho
faces of the lower classes in the throng
that reminded one of the days that pre-
ceded the commune.
ALICE PoTTs, a colorcd woman ar
rested at st. Louis, Mo-, for child de-
sertion, confessed in court, the 18th,
IL L ~, Il 4,
threw the body on the ice.
! The father of Mckee Rankin, the
well known actor, died at Windsor,
Ont, the 18th.
A PORTION of the wall of an old built
ing in course of reconstruction at II
and IS Twenty-second street, Chicago,
fell down the 18th, crushing A. G. Briggs,
a carpenter, to death. Contractor A.
L. Burchard and his stepsOn, who had
not secured q building permit, we're ar
rested.
| In the criminal court room at Nash
willie, Tenn, the 18th, Tom Jones shot
and mortally wounded Joe Winters,
who was on trial for the murder of
Jones' father.
The United States supreme court, the
18th, decided that eight hours consti-
tutes day'siworl for letter carriers.
KAIuLANI, the Hawaiian princess,
was accorded a special reception the
Hath by President and Mrs. Cleveland.
THE ice in Roundout creek ut Eddy
vile, N. y, gave way the 18th. The
steamboats, Of the Cornell boat company
i and aho,1f Ak canal boats were cvuerk
into the river and driven down stream.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1893-03-16
Nexs In Brief.

The Paulle show case factory in Min.
neapolis was destroyed by fire. The.de-
strpction was complete, the stock hav.
ing gone up in smoke and the building
being rendered almost worthless. The
loss to Mr., Paulle will be about SAC, 900,
while Tunstead & Moore, whose heat
ing plant was next door. will be out
nearly s., 600. s.
The state department Of public in
struction is preparing 9 new series o.
certificates for such teachers as have
passed examinations under the new
regulations for uniform teachers ex.
aminationP
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1893-03-16

Mrs. FRENCH SHELDON, the African
traveller, advises any of her sex who
contemplate a similar excursion to the
Dark ointment to overcome her natur-
al fear of cows, 81 was in land" she
says, "where women sold for five beads,
cows for ten; Notwithstanding this,
presents of cows were made to me all
along my ,route--to me. who can hard
ly restrain shrek when l see one of
the animals had to conceal my fear,
for not only would my hosts have been
angry, but my own men would have
been willing to tear me to pieces. A
woman will know what / suffered to
preserve calm demeanor."
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1893-03-16

THE cities of New York, Philadelphia
aid Boston have been connected by
telephone for several years. Chicago
ami New York have been connected
sin &c October. And now the long dis
tar ce system takes in New York
anG New England in the east, Mil
waukee, Chicago and Detroit in the
west, and all prominent intervening
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1893-03-16

THE first train over the Columbian
exposition grounds on opening day will
be drawn by an engine run by Miss Ida
Hewitt, locomotive engineer on a
branch of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad
in West Virginia, and the only woman
railway engineer in the world She
will wear for that trip the costume of a
Spanish girl of the fourteenth century,
and will manage the train with grace
no clumsy man can ever hope to rival.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1893-03-16

AS THE mountain wouldn't go to Ma
hommed, Mahommed went to the
mountain. So the prophets follower,
Mahommed Webb, an American con-
vert to Islamism, finding he couldn't
convert this country at long range, has
come from India to do mission work in
New York city. But the religion will
never be popular in the United States.
A good Moslem must have four wives.
At the present rates charged by dress
makers and milliners one is all the
average American cares to pay bills
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1893-03-16

SIR WILLIAM DOLBY, aural surgeon to
ST. Georges hospital, London, says
that mental shocks induce deafness.
He has known instant deafness to re-
suit not only from sudden grief but
from shocks of joy, and many people
who have suddenly been deprived OF
one or another Of their faculties in
ways that he cannot account for. The
facts cited are instructive. They add
to the knowledge of the many we'll
tested evils of sudden fright or other
mental shock. Parents and nurses es-
pecially should find in them an ad.
monition against the frightening OF
children.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1893-03-16
Sunday Prize Fight.

A prize fight was Sunday morning
event at the Halfway House near Saul
River Junction, outside the city limits
of st. Cloud, between Joe Kowalakoski
cigar maker, and John Langes, sa
loon keeper. The affair was kept very
secret. AS near as can be learned
Kowalakoski was knocked out in seven
rounds, and it took the services of q
physician to restore him to conscious
ness.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1893-03-16
FROM WASHINGTON.

The members of President Clcve-
lands cabinet took the oath of office
and assumed control of their various
departments.
OFFICIALS and employees of the agri.
cultural department met at the resi-.
dence of their late chief, ex-Secretary
Rusk, and presented him with solid
silver service of five pieces.
The president has definitely decided
and has authorized his ca binet minis.
ters to announce to applicants for ap
pointments that all officials now in
office against whom no charges are
made will be permitted to hold till
their commissions expire.
The navy gets three gunboats as the
result of the conference on the naval
appropriation bill. The boats are &c
be about 1900 tons displacement each
and to cost, exclusive of armament,
within $500, 900 each.
AT the leading clearing houses in
the United States the exchanges dur.
;ng the week ended on the 10th aggre-
gated 81, 301. $50, TIC, against 81. $40. $685.
OOS the previous week. The increase
dS CS)lUpdICu "AVA WIG SoA lCSHJAOAuS
week of 1892 was 20.
A SPECIAL. cabinet meeting was held
to consider the Hawaiian annexation
treaty, which was withdrawn from the
senate, and it was said a decision was
reached to send to Hawaii as soon as
possible a senatorial committee or a
commission to be appointed by the
president to investigate the alleged
revolution and to make a report later
in the summer.
The Fifty-second congress total ap-
preparations, including permanent APP
preparations, are given at 81, 026, 1872, 049,
exceeding the Fifty-6rst congress by
$ss, 4O4, 1886.
IN the United States business fail
ures to the number of 255 occurred in
the seven days ended on the 10th,
against 2so the preceding week and
251 for the corresponding time last
gear.