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s.ouiagile Ky. December Commit
teefnen representing die aisferenf ofgani-
xattons u einplJ@es pi-fhe Lonisy;iia ani
Neihsftls rpad will hold Il Conference
with tio officials or the road tomorrow
fer The purpose o. diaeusvlaR The ,astoi,f-
ton OF she scale 0s wares nj operation
before ilts en- three ninifhe nrs, -
tie rArnlaR8 haYa siea1liy deprndaed. TIE
alinokt neitAsI result Of slia enfliefs&siE4
VIII br 90 agreement 10 q sixtst dilyfEf
extension Of Tins for rnatoritipn nf
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Berlin. peee,nhef 1.-THE snta ~ when
ne plil admitting JssHsts q s;esitsais>'
Nas passafi. viii hgye no pssa'.eai ~
Fult. II ms bern fully igfldpfssn91 from
tlie nrgt that The fpYffnueDs would nlf
accept Me hi aifa IN. ON slJeta ia utinar
ins the nfQfiep 81 4 WITS only H|iNi,ssf
~ pypya Eitetf ability - neitinBhiisi flshueh
nlenbtre 70 fmbasrpaH the goeefinsaflts
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EiMa, N X. December ,-Thc forr-
rtorS psiek atrupt,re known as The Newsll
blork WAS buried ltia afternoon The
hulllhtg WAS oyeiipicd b \. N. Rathbus,,.
nNhitH, oils. wail paper flcs L0as 10 IN III.
burn pn stock. SliAltnis on busldliis. Ssts
oopi on adjoining biltllag x2l no0l Insured.
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pittshnrR. Pa. December Everything
wan reported QUIET np ID . O'clock tins
niorpifs II the Hnowden aiid tSaefnnYliIe
nilnes The iulfee tlla noe Atntt IN r.
fSpeoted. bur preparations are bong
wnda 10 resume Five fnlnfra whe staTtea
Tor ne pits wern Intercepted tst tile f'tfiits
era and hey fatnrneh 70 fifrtr homes,
The tnineb are ~ ahafke Of the depdlles.
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LocnI Forecnst.

Local forecast for The twcnty.fonr
'.eurg ending Al Il o'clock midnight, De-
cember ?;
North Central. fgust and Southwest
Texaa-tse Generally fl,ir: war.nnr
Coast l)iatfiel--Fair, except probably
Dgiif showers stationary temperature.
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81. Louis. Mo. December slhe .b,ii&s
WIZ Ind Naatsyiils smltcllnen u the Iipsi
81, FOULS yassly sffups tphlBfi bFnailse
HE company failed Today 70 restore witix9s
y, the uspsek iilg bnfpre tho utAiis
fiaI grpniiie IT IA thaNsiit fhH Htfiite will
tts rgnimiileen1ri are .inw IN ccnfefahsa
With the uitieiss nj lsruasVliic,
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Rome Dcccraher 1.-The rrihnnsie Ill
cuu,mrrclo has prnnted the cfealto sloh,.
licr ak months delay without re1uirin,t Il
TO eiill q mectislg pf SIS creditors.
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seriously ~. Y =
London, peccmber ,ss .r,,,,nrctr az.
genie lst, thiF city for Paris TODAY.
Berlin, December The rejehst,r 10
\ vote OF l1S 70 isG. adnnted Tho renfrists
motion 10 reatniit the Jesuits in,s Gcf-
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fhlNdelpha phs ilc sAnibef rho large
wooden mills o. lanics Cochran q nrD,
were burned tonight; ioxF 1890 inmir-
Ataa. N5lcQos The atiEin OF the frr Il
,nflhnevn
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1893-12-02

AstsdillSs 1,s7assjsi lTAe s1snakss
oar STAT Aitoalld.& i3ffAAsed activity
alf..aH he tfikAHlls 9ho are pliiasll.k fh*3
- tHf 10 aettits41 ~ kitf1ftf'<li f1o3,4'
tffFs ef.ss ~ profile Az priH4nef< 81 the
haiistH 81 t'th tf4ss f3f.
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PhiIadeipfia. PA rsde4sber aEnea
eoynFeisn was iqdey Installed saaslnf
Wn1kmaH OF The knlahta u Izahaf lie ifis
lpeaitffi3 efsltniF1 tiiF 4llfise gy4sIflF,
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1893-12-02

Naghlnaf0ri lierenbef 1.s~fsor Eastnfn
Texas FAIR rolaar IN southern portion;
windF
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1893-12-02

8 TIA 3qfs iija is<'z.H9 i 7ilI<I <ia5idi
Y f1uxss,s,is, roloczd y 4 fssiSI Il =
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Growfne warmer.

81 Paul. asIpn., DeeenllieFJ II Il grow
nR. warmer fhc mercDry kAYiuR come 10
q below yera here. Al other points il II
Is q aleNafner
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f7iif.n pa4fa3;et 1'a6 1zaz 81
rrepffrf at Inc pf4niaref ~ 1i5Sdf i5eH
tsfpr. HaH today placed Oh judge - zaf'
Cali for nfxs Monday
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Hrlnndlcr ecneral osis neslsaea.

WASHINGTON. December i Brlsadler CEN
e ,,,al OTIS has hSen assigned 10 the deeart.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-03-23
vnnderbilt,s New Ballroom.

Next season there will be Miss Van.
derbilt to be introduced, and there is now
in process of construction for this pleas
ant event suitable ballroom. That Mr.
Cornelius Vanderbilt's new ballroom will
combine all that is possible in artistic
and decorative effect is foregone con
clusion. 1t is also safe to say that wher
completed it will have cost as much Oh
more money than any room of the size
anywhere else. For example, the ground
on which it is being built cost 100000
1t occupies the space of three of the old
Fifth avenue houses. The first of these
whose owners had occupied it for long
period and were not anxious to move
could only be bought at cost of $780,,
600. The other two cost $350,000
This makes quite an expensive bit oi
ground, but when completed the ball
room will have frontage of rs feet or
Fifth avenue. In this as large func,
tions can be given as in the Delmonicc
ballroom, which is little if any bigger
and the Vanderbilts can entertain stran.
gers of distinction visiting the town.
Probably the coming out ball next sea-
son of the eldest daughter of the house
of Vanderbilt will be the finest affai1
ever given here. The approach to the
ballroom, which is such factor in add
ing to the final effect, is to be worthy oi
, the ballroom itself. New York World.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-03-23

Iasked Marion Crawford the other day
if it is a fact that he averages 5000
words day when at work upon novel,
as the newspapers have reported him as
saying. eyes," he replied, II often
write that number in day. never sit
down to write a story until it is perfectly
and clearly outlined in my mind. know
precisely what / am going to say and
what I am going to have my characters
do; hence it is only the transfer of what
is in my mind to paper, and that is very
easy to me-"
"Does it not tire your" asked.
"Of course" said the novelist, "just
as any work tires man."
"But literature is pleasure to you, is
it not?"
"Not at all" came the perfectly frank
reply, "only SO far as it gives me good
living. write novels because it pays
me to do so, and that is why essayed
literature in the first place. It was not
from choice, I assure you. That is the
reason, I presume, why / read SO few
novels. have to write them, and that
is enough. New York Cor. Atlanta
Constitution.
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n Never falls TO Cure MANNERS
DOUBLE EXTRACT sARsAPARlLLA.
ELECTION CHANGE.
An Amendment to tha Australian
Ballot Law.

Section s of the act to create State
supervisor of elections with deputy
state supervisors for the conduct OF
elections In the State Of Ohio, passed
April IS, 1892, has been amended. The
most important amendment applying
to the spring elections was passed
March 2, 1893, and Is as follows:
In April or other elections Of town
ship or municipal officers, or boards OF
education, or a justice of the peace, the
Judges and clerks Of elections shall
certify the returns to the clerk
of the township or the clerk
of the municipality in which the
election is held, or clerk Of the board
Of education, instead of to the deputy
State supervisors, and the said town.
ship clerk, or the clerk of the munich
pality, or clerk of the board of educa-
ton, shall canvass the vote and de-
clare the result in the manner and as
provided In sections l ,453, 1928 and
300 of the Revised Statutes, and in
the case of an election of justice OF
the peace, shall certify the result to
the board Of deputy State supervisors;
except in municipalities where the vo'
ters are registered the returns shall be
made and canvassed as provided In
section 1926 of the Revised Statutes.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-03-23
Artificial Maple Sugar.

Decoctions or extracts of the wood
or bark of trees are frequently used for
fiavoring sirups orsugars. Different ex-
tracts differ in taste. The hickory tree
1t is said yields an extract that will i'm
part the flavor of the maple, and
Daily's method of producing artificial
maple sirup or sugar is a, follows:
Make an extract of hickory bark or
wood by allowing water to percolate
through the same. The bark or wood
may be ground, or sawdust therefrom
used. Hot water may be used, or the
material boiled in water. The strength
of the extract may be increased by in
crease of the quantity Of the wood or
bark.
TO one gallon Of hot or boiling sugar
sirup add say three tablespoonfuls Of
the hickory extract. 1t Is said the ef-
feet of the extract is produce flavor
that renders the sirup indistinguisha-
BILE from genuine maple sugar. If the
sirup is boiled down, sugar resemb-
ling maple sugar in taste is produced.
- Scientific american.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-03-23

The strange, eyentful history of the
overdue Cunarder proves two things for,
say, the 500th time. One is that the en-
gineers know their business. The other
is the still more patent fact that there
are not few persons in and out of news
paper offices who dearly love an excuse
for making acommotion. 1t is disagree
able to be delayed for four days on the
north Atlantic, just south of Newfound-
land and in stormy December. 1t is
like being kept for an hour outside Can
non Street station in freezing fog. But.
after all, when you are in Cunarder
which drifts as steady as church with
three sea anchors out, when there are
three weeks provisions ON board with
out having recourse to short rations,
when you are in the track Of the trade
and steamers are passing as quick after
one another as they do in the channel,
when you have from 100 to 500 fathoms
of water under you and there is no lee
shore nearer than the Azores, it is quite
unnecessary to play at shipwrecks and
disasters. rs.--London Saturday Review.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-03-23
The sallo Law Of success,on.

M. Violet has written an essay upon
the causes which led to females being
excluded from succession to the throne
Of France. According to him, the prin-
ciple was elaborated in the period of
about 1870 years comprised between the
death Of Louis K and the final triumph
Of Charles VII and became a funda-
mental law Of the monarchy when the
daughter of Louis x, the daughter of
Philippe lie Long and the daughters Of
Charles le Bel were deprived Of their fa-
theirs succession. These precedents es-
tablished the law on the subject, but it
is not generally known that the history
Of the disputed SUGGESTIONS to the French
throne commenced by the indirect recog-
milton Of female rights.--London Times.
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Making a Poor Impression.

Sometimes we meet one whom we
would gladly please and proceed at once
to put our worst foot forward-even
that upon which we most hopelessly do
limp. We contrive, by saturnalian aid,
to say precisely that which we would
wish unsaid, and to expose our weakest
side, even to weaken a side that is nor
ma1iy all right, during a 8 or 10 minutes
interview on some occasion when our
good genius has "gone out to see man.
Afterward we think over what we said,
and our sarcastic "hind thought" brings
up brilliant or at least sensible things
that we might have said better than not
If they had come to us.-Boston Com
monMealth.
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"TEMPoRlS ESTUS.n

With peaceful play upon the golden shore
The wavelets break. Der sand and shingle
dank,
With glittering spray and wreaths of shining
foam,
The sapphire waters. with their silver crests
Cleaning beneath the moonlights misty
beams,
Murnur full mournfully their lullaby.
'Tis eventide stand upon the brink
Alone and listen TO the moving wave
"The music of the spheres"-that soft refrain
That ever and forever, wondrous sweet,
Flows inward on the pinions Of the breeze
That strange, mysterious, solemn undertone
OF ocean-music fraught with mystic dreams
OF things undreamed Of and untold desires
That like to hidden fires do burn and throb
Within each mortal breast, unquenchable,
Linking our soul side with the great unknownl
So break upon Life's shore the waves Of Time
With ceaseless, ever changing roundelay-
The joys and sorrows of the day and hour
The good and evil In their common course,
And ever and for ever secretwise
The solemn undertone of human Fate,
Life's crowning mystery doth mark the beat
OF years, and touch the trembling chords
OF hidden thought and action that entwine
Our past and present with the gr$at unknown
Toronto Mail,
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I'm res1 glad 10 hear you cay tnat.
Mrs. Martin" exclaimed the deacon.
His face fairly beamed with delight,
while If the truth must bo told he abso-
lutely chuckled and rubbed his hands on
his knees as II something had happened
with which he was immensely delighted.
'Do you recall what the parson preached
EboutT
II mnst have been the heat from the
burning logs that caused the widows
cheeks to blush so. She couldn't even
look up from her sewing as she replied:
"Well, come to think Of it, deacon, ]
think it was about weddings and such
things, but l amt quite sure, for / didn't
pay much attention, I'm afraid, to that
part of the discourse"
The chairs were getting very close.
THAT'S it, that's it." cried the deacon,
bringing his hands down upon his knees
witha slap that startled the canary from
his perch and set the widows heart beat
ing furiously. "That's it. And don't you
remember where he said that it wasn't
good for man to live alone? think he
told the truth, don't youi"
The chairs touched now. The deacon
was absent from the town meeting that
evening.
When the villagers assembled al
church next day, they saw little womat
sitting beside Deacon Harding. It wa
the Widow Martin. She was welded t
the deacon, for the parson had said i
wasn't good for man to be alone.-B. A
MacD Donald in Buffalo Express
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MEMORY OF MAIL CLERKS.
The Peculiar Methods They Have or
Learning the Routes-The Mail
Clerk At Home.

The Peculiar Methods They Have of
Learning the Itoutes-The Mail
Clerk At Home.
The railway postal clerks have
unique method of learning the routes
on which postoffices are located, says
the Philadelphia Record. Take, for
example, the state of Pennsylvania,
in which there are over 5000 offices.
The prospective mail distributor buys
a quantity of blank cards--about the
size of the ordinary visiting card-and
on each of these he writes the name OF
an office. On the back of the card he
writes the name of the route by which
the office is served with its mail. TAX
ing in hand pack of these cards-say
from so to 100-he goes over them one
after another studiously, looking at
the back each time and getting the
name and route clearly associated in
his mind. The second time he goes
through the pack he findsN that he
knows the half the route by reading
the name of the office. 1t is dull
student who, upon going over a pack
of cards a dozen times, does not know
them thoroughly. The method is so
simple and such an aid to memorizing
that it is adopted by all rail-
way clerks. BY 1t clerks have been
known to memorize state like Penn
sylvania inside of two months.
On all the large routes clerks work
but half time, the other half being de-
voted to rest and study. The mail
clerk at home, continually reminded
of coming examinations, carries bis
cards wherever he goes, coming them
over at every opportunity. One de-
monstrative clerk on the New York
and Pittsburg r. P. o. is famed for
having learned the state of Ohio in
four days. AS he shuffled over his
cards he walked from garret to cellar
and vice versa, from dawn until the
4
shades of twilight fell. On the fourth
day he went to the examiners office
and separated Ohio without an error.
1t is related that the wife of a postal
clerk adopted the card method for in
creasing her vocabulary in French. On
one side of the cards she wrote the
French word and on the other the
English equivalent to be learned. An
other lady, hearing of this, used the
same system successfully for learning
mythology placing the word "mars."
for instance, on one side of the card
and "war" on the other! The method
has so many advantages over the old
and tedious way of learning from the
pages of a book, that 1t might be util-
ized with advantage by teachers in
search of new methods of imparting
instruction.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-03-23
AS to "Cards OF Thanks
Bowling Green sentinel.l

Now, having, caught an issue of the
Sentinel without "card of thanks" in
it, we hasten to take advantage of the
opportunity to say, what we have often
said before: "Never ask newspaper
TO publish card Of thanks" Nothing
uDder the light of the sun which you
can do is in such bad taste. To go and
dance on the grave of your dead Is
nothing in comparison; for In that
case, but few see your weakness. II
you loved your dead as we have loyed
ours your great grief is your own, and
whisperings Of it from your surcharged
heart should only pass to Him who
hath the beloved soul In His care; and
should not be published to the world
through the miscellaneous columns Of
news paper, along with market quota
tions, politics, records of crimes, socie-
ty notes, etc. If you suspect any Of
your friends of having been kind to
you in your affection, with view to
getting pay, thanks or any other re-
ward, 60 and thank or offer to pay
them. But.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-03-23
nnEINa prAp. YEr spEAkl1H.s "a,

he was soul and body ftly blended
A crswdlng spirit IN its giant frame,
And now they say his words and deeds nrs
ended.
And Phillips Brooks is nothing but name.
But words 50 spoken do not cease in saying.
The deeds 50 done act on foreyermore.
Life and the rippled pool. one law obeying,
Are stirred from center 10 the farthest shore
Walter Storrs Bigelow.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-03-23

When an old lady like the English
queen takes up the study Of Hindoostanee
and masters it sufficiently to converse
with the reserved high caste princesses
Of the east, who object to the presence
of the male interpreter during audience
with their sovereign, and a heartbroken,
middle aged woman like the empress Of
Austria requires ancient and modern
Greek to the extent of talking and writ
ing 1T fiuently, it makes a New York
woman little weary to think she can't
keep up her school French or find time
to read the magazines. New York Sun.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-03-23


Bulletin A of the Kentucky Expert
ment station contains the following
statement: "Probably no enemy of the
orchardist destroys more fruit and is
the occasion of more loss in Kentucky
than the rot fungus, known to botan-
lists as Gloeosporium versicolor."
The trees selected for treatment were
sprayed four times with Bordeaux mix
ture, during the season, and an equal
number were left untreated. In sum-
ming up the results of the experiments
the following statement is made:
Throughout the summer the trees to
which the mixture was applied were
more thrifty in appearance, owing to
the more health green and better gen.
eral state of the foliage. In every case
the leaves began to fall sooner from un-
treated than from the sprayed trees.
The proportion of rottening to not rot
ting apples was in every case lessoned
by spraying, and we are in position
to say, as result of these experiments,
that spraying with Bordeaux mixture
will save from rotting per cent. to
81 per cent. of the whole number of
apples."
The conclusion arrived at Is that the
average increase In crop due to spray
ing is 97 pounds of fruit per tree. This
increase is due to several causes, among
which may be mentioned the saving
from rot and the prevention of scab on
both foliage and fruit, TINS increasing
the size ofthe fruit.
These results are quite in accord with
those obtained at the Ohio station, and
one interesting additional fact may be
noted To test the relative keeping
qualities of sprayed aud unsprayed
fruit, one hundred apple trees free from
scab were selected from those that had
been sprayed, and an equal number OF
scabby apples from those that were
notsprayed. The apples were stored
October 80, and examined at frequent
intervals, all the rotten fruit being
counted and removed each time. This
experiment was tried with Baldwin.
Smiths Cider, Bellflower, Newtown
Pippin and Northern Spy. 1t was
found at the end of two weeks that
there were nearly three times as many
rotten apples among the unsprayed as
among the sprayed. There was som :
what less difference between the two
lots later in the season, but the sprayed
kept better than the unsprayed, and
kept longer. In every case some of
the sprayed were sound when all ofthe
unsprayed had rotted.
These experiments, conducted In diff
ferent states,and without cooperation,
give essentially the same results, and
serve greatly to strengthen the conclu-
sion arrived at Independently. They
show the spraying with the Bordeau x
pays in the prevention of rot, If in
nothing else. Asa matter of fact, how
ever, it pays In many other ways.
A bulletin soon to be issued by the
Ohio station gives some plain and
practical directions on the subject
which it will pay any one having a
dozen fruit trees to follow carefully.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-03-23

have heard it said by friend of the
late Albert Way, the well known arch@-
ologist, that he came by fortune in this
wise: Crossing Pail Mall, he jostled an
old gentleman and discounted him.
After mutual apologies and the inter
change of civilihes cards were ex-
changed, and on each card was printed
"Mr. Albert Way" The older gentle
man dying had no natural heir and left
his fortune to the other Albert Way
London Spectator.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-03-23

AN exchange which has investigated
the matter says, Of the 75l 1866 visits to
the Metropolitan museum or art In
New York last year, 248,9ss, or about
one-third were made on Sunday after
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-03-23
oficiais OF One County.

Anson county, N. c., has queer lot of
officials. The treasurer is badly crippled,
the coroner has but one arm, the register
Of deedsis one legged, as are two commits
sioners; the keeper of the county home is
minus one arm, and the constable bears
the distinction of being the fattest man
in that position in the state. Chicago
Herald
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-03-23
A Point on Table Manners.

Spread bread on the plate, instead Of
holding it ON the hand. The bread
should lie on the rim of the plate while
being spread. 1t should lie on the plate
or rest against the edge Of the plate when
unspread, the former preferred. House
keeper.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-03-23
aMy dad, and my grief
Are mine and God's alone;

The above is not said In unkindness
to snyone. We know q mistaken Gus
tom has led many to commit the error
of publishing cards, lest people deem
them ungrateful. That is all uncalled
for. As the above quotation indicates,
our dead and our sorrow for their loss
is between ourselves and our God, and
the world will not think bard Of us II
we fail TO make any great outward pa
rade of 1t.