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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1894-09-26
An accident Saved His Gold.

miners in Montana during the first
rushes for gold had hard time getting
the yellow metal back to regions Of
civilization" said Albert Roe ofDenver.
There was practically choice of two
routes and whichever man took he
was almost sure to wish he had taken
the other. When I came by stage the
passengers congratulated themselves at
each stopping place that we had got
through unmolested, and the usual fate
which befalls those who commence
shouting before they are out of the woods
finally befell us. / had fully 500,
worth of gold dust. which I had ac-
quired chiefly in trading and it was SO
awkward to carry that concealment was
impossible.
@Finally an accident saved my treas
ure in very peculiar manner. Dis
mounting from the coach slipped and
fell backward. getting completely
knocked out in the process. The stage
was seven or eight hours late, and as
the driver had to make another town
before dark he refused to wait while
was revived, and in the crowded condi-
ton of the coach it would have been al
most impossible to have carried me as
was.
"The people at the log house at which
we changed horses would have made the
heart of Diogenes glad could he have
found them. They could have stoler
every dollar had easily, but did no
lose cent, and when, finally, I was
able to get away by another stage I haG
difficulty in persuading them to accep
a handsome reward for their services
The coach that was in so much of hur
ry was held up and at least 800, 600 il
gold taken from its passengers. st
| TnaLie RealaLhZic
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1894-09-26
Wilson and the Mouse,

Wilson, the ornithologist, once told
an incident in letter to friend which
showed that to man of his fine sensi-
bilities even the cause of science was
obliged to stand aside occasionally for
the higher claims of humanity. zone
of my boys" he wrote, caught mouse
in school a few days ago and directly
marched up to me with the prize. Iset
about drawing it the same evening, and
all the while the paintings of its little
heart showed it to be in the extreme
agony of fear. 1 had intended to kill
it, in order to fix it in the claws of a
stuffed owl, but happening to spill a
few drops of water near where it was
tied, it Tapped it with such eagerness
and looked in my face with such an eye
of supplicating terror as perfectly over
came me. l Immediately united it and
restored it to life and liberty. The
agonies of a prisoner at the stake, while
the fire and instruments of torture are
preparing, could not be more severe
than the sufferings of that poor mouse;
and insignificant as the object was, l
felt at the moment the sweet sensation
which mercy leaves on the mind when
she triumphs over cruelty"
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1894-09-26
THE oLD.FAsHIoNED FLOWERS.
Sad and Yet Sweet Memories Associated
with Them.

They are like the songs of childhood
that came while the mind was yet un-
impressed, they are associated with all
the early recollections and nothing in
the after years can efface the effect of
that beauty which was Joy that came
to stay. They were in the gardens and
dooryards of the long ago; we remem-
Der the sparkling eyes and eager clutch
of the little toddIers as they reached for
them, whose tiny step has long ago
whose little feet have long been silent
in the dust.
We remember the forms that bent
over these old-time flowers, that cared
for them, that watched them unfold;
and, while these forms have vanished,
the hollyhocks and the roses by the
window always bring them back. Years
and years have passed, but the meadow
flowers. the blossoms in the wildwood.
and the forget-me-nots in the pasture
field are still as they were in the early
days when the step Of father and mother
was light and springy, but which Is now
no more.
Inexpressibly tender are those emo
tions that are reawakened when we see
these smiling and UNCHANGED petals as
they were two score years ago. They
may lack in the style and high-sounding
names that distinguish their modern
congeners, but like the old friends they
are tried and true. They were with us
when life was new, and through all the
years their quiet, unobtrusive greeting
has been the same. These flowers are 8
memory that will not vanish.
Like voices that we hear no more
but which have a kind of faraway, in
audible echo they bring to the recol.
lection the old-time paths, the memory
of long-ago glances, the remembrance
of quiet Sunday afternoons-all these
come back again and for a time the
distant ones and the sleepers under the
hillocks are again in their old-time
places.
1t must be scared and calloused SOU
that is no longer thrilled by the smile
of these early friends. Hardened mus
be the heart that cannot for time turn
aside and listen to the echoing sym.
phony that comes with its rhythm tc
bridge over the mounds and vicissitudes
of.the years that are fading in the twi-
light. The plain blue flowers with
points that were stuck in a ring and
pressed in book, the peony in the
| garden corner, the clambering honey.
suckle and the rosebush planted by 9
mothers hand-what memories do al
these awaken! Voices, glances, affec
ton, hope, love, smiles, stray tresses
wedding chimes-aye, and tears and
| solemn knells and funeral wreaths ant
anguish-all these are interviewer witt
the old-fashioned flowers. = Rttsbs1rs
Dispatch.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1894-09-26
Fortune-Tellins by the Fineer-Nails

Fortune-telling by the finger nails,
onychomancy, as it was called, was not
uncommon in ancient times. The prac-
tice was to rub the nails with oil and
SCOT or wax, and to hold up the nails
thus prepared against the sun. and up
on the transparent, horny substance
were supposed to appear figures or
characters which gave the answer re-
quired. In more recent times people
have been found predicting by means
of the nails of the hands and telling the
disposition of persons with certain de-
scriptions of the nails. However ab-
surd it may appear / will give examples
of this superstition:
A person of broad nails is Of gentle
nature, timid and bashful. Those
whose nails grow into the flesh at the
points or sides are given to luxury. A
white mark on the nail bespeaks mis-
fortune. Persons with very pale nails
are subject to much infrmity of the
flesh and persecution by neighbors and
friends. People with narrow nails are
ambitious and quarrelsome. Lovers of
knowledge and liberal sentiments have
round nails. Indolent people have
generally fieshy nails. Small nails in
dicate littleness Of mind, obstinacy and
conceit. Melancholy persons are dis
tinguished by their pale or lead-colored
nails; and choleric martial men, de-
lighting in war, have red and spotted
nails.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1894-09-26
ODD eARoMETERs.
The Leech In a Bottle, and the Frog ON q
Ladder.

Two of the Oldest and oldest forms of
popular barometers are the leech in a
bottle and frog on ladder. Richard
Inwards has seen an old Spanish draw
ing of nine positions of the leech, with
verses describing its attitude and be-
havior before different kinds of weather.
DR.. Merryweather of Whitby contrived
an apparatus by which one of twelve
leeches confined in bottles rang a bell
when a tempest" was expected. When
leeches were kept in every chemists
shop, and often in private houses, their
behavior was the subject of constant
observation; and it was generally noticed
that in still weather, dry or wet, they
remained at the bottom, but rose, often
as much as twenty-four hours in adj
vance, before change; and, in case of
a thunderstorm. rose very quickly to
the surface, descending when it was
past.
The frog barometer, used in Germany
and Switzerland, is very simple ap-
parat1s, consisting of a jar of water, a
frog, and little wooden step-ladder.
If the frog comes out and sits on the
steps, rain is expected. The weather
glass dearest to the old-fashioned cot
tage in the last generation was the "old
man and the old woman" who came
out of their rough-cast cottage in foul
or fair weather respectively. This was
almost the earliest of semi-scientifc
toys, and depended on the contracting
of piece Of catgut fastened to lever.
The belief that bees will not fly before
shower is probably true, and is the
rational origin of the banging of trays
and iron pots with a door-key when
bees are going to swarm. The insects
are supposed to take this for thunder
and SO settle close at hand, instead o.
swarming at a distance. Squirting
water on them with garden syringe
often makes them settle at once. But
no such ingenious process of rationale
ing can be found for the belief that i
the insect inside cuckoo-spit lies heac
upward, the Summer will be dry
though the increased worrying O
horses by flies before rain, and the rist
of the gossamer before fine weather, are
abundantly confirmed by observation.
London Spectator.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1894-09-26
HOW SLATE is MINED.
WONDERFUL Skill of Those Who Cut It
Up.

The manner in which slate is mined
and cut up for purposes to which it is
applied is process that is known to
only few people, because slate is not
found in many places in this country,
its principal sources being in upper
New England and eastern PeAnsyl-
vania. It is not taken out of shafts, but
it is quarried out of big holes in the
earth. Some time ago, when the writer
was at Bangor, Pa, he was invited to
go down into one of these quarries,
about 200 feet deep, hand over hand on
rope, but he declined the invitation,
as think most inexperienced persons
would do.
The slate is blasted out in huge blocks
and is hoisted out by steam and turned
over to the men who know how to re-
duce it to the proper size. Huge
blocks of 1t are taken in hand by these
workmen, who cut a notch into one
end of each piece. Then they take a
chisel and mallet, and they are so
skillful in directing their blows that
they can split the blocks of slate in al
most any way they please. If you
watch the slab on which one of them is
working you will see little hair line
running through it, and presently the
block will fall apart on either side of
this mark. The workman will make
this line go straight through the middle
or to either corner, just as he likes.
do not know just how he does it, but he
invariably accomplishes what he sets
out to do.
The smaller pieces thus produced are
taken in hand by another set of men,
who split them up into sheets of the
proper thickness for roofing slate. This
they do with long-bladed instrument
about the shape of putty-knife, but
many times larger, and if you saw them
do it you would marvel how they got
the sheets off without breaking them
| and Also how they could split them so
thin. Some of these men can take a
sheet of slate only one inch thick and
split it thirty-two times. The usual
number of divisions is sixteen. These
sheets are taken and cut into squares
by machinery.
Wherever there are slate quarries
you will find a great many Welshmen,
| for the best slaters come from Wales.
Boys follow the trade of their fathers,
and there are whole families and settle
ments who know no other means of
earning living.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1894-09-26
SAT ON THE HOT RAILS.
Band Of Apaches Given Surprise on
Santa Fe Train.

For real hot-weather stories you
want to go to hot-weather country"
says w. F. White, passenger traffic
manager of the Santa Fe railroad.
"Now you can find hot weather that is
hot weather in New Mexico and Ari-
zona. It's one thing to go through
that country now on a train which car
ries the conveniences for keeping cool,
but it was quite another thing when
the railroad was being built and there
was nothing between you and the sun
but fiery alkah dust.
"The Atchison road reached Deming,
N. NJ, in 1881, and it was a hot sum-
mer. 1t had been hot right along for
days in that steady, energetic fashion
that would make man wish for an
hour In Bessemer steel mill TO cool
off. The first construction train pulled
into Deming on a day that was so
scorching as to stand out even among
those other blistering days. The train
was made up Of long line of fat cars,
and along the center of the cars ran
pile of steel rails foot high. The rails
had been in the full glare Of an un-
blinking sun until they were about as
hot as when they first came through the
rolls at the mill.
"When the train came into Deming it
was, of course, an object of great inter-
est, and no one was more interested
than lot of Apache Indians. They
were peaceful enough, and filed with
curiosity and were quick 10 assert the
birthright of the American Indian to
ride free on railroad train. The con-
ductor in charge was something OF a
joker and saw an opportunity for some
fun. He urged the Indians all to climb
up on the fiat cars and have ride. The
engineer was in the scheme. and, as
soon as the Indians were up on the cars,
he backed his engine with jerk. They
could ride bucking pony under any
condition of unsteadiness, but this mo-
ton was new to them and the entire
party sat down on the rails.
"Now, you must remember the sum-
mer costume Of an Apache can be cut
out of pocket handkerchief with cloth
to spare. Well, my idea of Indian stoi-
cism was shattered. There were shrieks
that added new notes to the regulation
war whoop, and the Apaches left that
train and started off across the hot
sands in way that would have turned
us all gray If they had been coming
toward us instead of running away.
They undoubtedly to this minute re-
member that as the hottest day they
ever Chicago Tribune.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1894-09-26
WOOD FOR klNDLINc PURPOSES.
How 1t Is Prepared by Steam and Ma
chinery for Use.

Pine kindling wood comes principal
ly from the forests of Virginia. The
trees, says the Scientific AmaerIcass, are
first cut down and the trunks quartered
and sawed into proper lengths. The
wood is then carted to the coast, packed
into sailing vessels and brought to this
section, where it is bought up at the
docks by the dealers and manufactured
into kindling wood, being first sawed
into short lengths, then passed through
a steam splitter which carries the pieces
to an elevator. which in turn passes
them along and drops them down into
the delivery wagon.
The pieces of timber, which are four
feet six inches in length, are first sawed
into eight and one-half inch lengths,
the saws used for the purpose being
thirty inches in diameter, one-eighth Of
an inch in thickness, having fifty inch
and quarter teeth. These saws make
about 1000 revolutions per minute, the
attendant being able to saw up about
from twelve to fifteen cords per day.
The pieces, as fast as they are sawed,
are passed to steam splitter. They
are first placed end up on q movable
endless chain, which, by the aid of two
hexagon wheels and a ratchet wheel
which is worked by an eccentric, causes
the chain with the wood to move along
under the knives, which pass through
the pieces of wood, splitting each Of
them into dozen or more pieces.
The knives are four in number and
bolted into the crosshead. They are
twelve inches in length, six inches in
width and three-quarters of an inch in
thickness. The knives pass up and
down a perpendicular slide with q
twelve-inch stroke, making about eighty
cuts per minute. The endless chain is
twelve inches in width, and passes over
wooden bed, the top of which is COW
cred with iron plate which protects the
chain from the blow of the knives when
striking the wood. At every down.
ward stroke of the knives a movable
bearing which the knives pass through
holds the pieces of wood firmly against
the chain. With the upward stroke it
releases the split wood, which is moved
forward about two inches at a stroke by
the chain, which is worked by the
ratchet wheel eccentric.
The pieces of wood then drop down
into an elevator at the end of the ma
dAu oAO OcbA 1ACN OA W tAO oO1At OA y
wagons by number of buckets bolted
on a twelve-inch cotton belt. These
buckets are eighteen inches apart, and
made of wooden strips three inches in
height and about one and one-half
inches in thickness. They are held in
place by being bolted to narrow iron
strips on the under side of the belt.
The belt is almost forty-five feet in
length, and travels about 1000 feet per
minute. The splitting machine can cut
about twenty cords per day. A deliv-
cry wagon holding about one cord can
| be filed in about fifteen minutes. The
wholesale price of Virginia pine at the
dock is from 81 to So per cord the man.
ufactured kindling wood brings from
$11 to $13 per cord.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1894-09-26

Only fool always succeeds in pleas
mg himself.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1894-09-26
A Possibility of Evening Attire.

Hiram Maxim, inventor of the ma
chine gun that bears his name, says he
will invent a bullet-proof coat lighter
and stronger than Doves, and which
will stand the same tests. and then sell
the secret for 81. If he succeeds in this
it is only question of time when these
coats will be worn for evening dress in
parts of the south and west. PhilGdeL
DhiG LedQer
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1894-09-26
His Life Work.

"Oh," said the lady lecturer, 81 have
had such delightful conversation with
the gentleman you saw bow to me as we
left the train. He told me that the
emancipation of woman had been his
life work for ever so many years."
"Yes," said the woman who had come
to meet her, shat is so. He has been a
divorce lawyer ever since l can remem-
ber. Indianapolis Journal.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1894-09-26
LEGAL NOTICE.

GEORGE J. REHM, who resides at No. 1857 Bou-
vier Street, in the City of Philadelphia, in the
the 31st day of August, A. D. 1894, Anna s. Rehm
fled her petition in the Court of Common Pleas
of Portage County, Ohio, against him, charging
him with extreme cruelty and gross neglect of
duty, and praying for decree of divorce and
the custody of their minor child, Vernon F.
Rehm.
Said defendant is required to answer said Pc
tition or before the 18th day of October, A. D.
1894.
Said defendant George j. Rehm will further
take notice that Thursday, the 9th day of
September, A. D. 1894, between the hours of s
o'clock a. m. and o'clock p. M, the above nam
ed Anna S. Rehm, plaintiff, will take the depo-
sitions of sundry witnesses at the Office of ames
C. McShane at No. 404, New York Life Building,
at III LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois, to be
used in evidence at the trial of the above case,
and that the taking thereof Will be adjourned
from day to day, between the same hours, until
the taking of the same is completed.
ANNA s. REHM.
By COLE & DOUTHITT, her Attorneys.
Dated at Ravenna, o., August 81, 1894. 1355-6t
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1894-09-26
He Was Mistaken.

"Will you kindly pass me the butterP"
said guest at the hotel to a pompous
looking man on the other side.
I'm gentleman" he retorted, as
he beckoned to the waiter.
"That's what thought when asked
you," said the first man, quietly.
The record-union., 1894-09-06
An Ideal Newspaper.

From the Placerville Mountain Democrat.
On the 22d ult the RECoRD-UNIoN be-
gun new volume-the fortieth since the
consolidation implied in its name and
the eighty-eighth from its first appear
ance in the early days of journalism in
California. True to a mission eventful
as the forty-four years of its existence, in
the gray of each succeeding morning it
has gone to city and country with daily
tidings of what the ages have brought
forth. Regular as the rising sun, it has
fiattered the hilltops where 'jocund
morn stands on tip-toe," flushed the low
lands where sorrows grow, and lighted
up the habitations of the Golden West"
To make it what it is and is to be has
been to rare succession of business
managers, scholarly editors, reliable re-
porters and ubiquitous news gatherers,
a conscientious labor of professional and
personal love. To merit and hold the
leadership they have achieved they have
made their great journal an eclectic mag
azine OF science. literature and art,
chronicle of advancing civilization and a
swift courier OF current events. In the CO.
terminous realms of religion, morals and
politics, as represented in the holy all-
ance of church, school and State, it has
seldom given to party what belongs to
mankind" and has stood bravely up for
established authority, corporate fran
cnises and individual rights. A steadfast
advocate of the conservatism that results
from and restrains a dangerous freedom,
it acknowledges no power above the
Constitution and laws, save a God in Is
rael. By its hail and farewell to one gen.
Grafton 1t has the growing goodwill of
another. 1t has thus a mission and a
lease of life renewable forever.
The record-union., 1894-09-06
PEOPLES SAVINGS BANK.

Sacramento, Cal.
Guaranteed ST. 10, 900
Paid up capital aud surplus............ 3Ol 200
INTEREST PAID SENII-ANNUALLY ON
Il term and ordinary deposits. Money loaned
on real estate only. Address all communica-
tions: Peoples Savings Bank, sacramento.
WIN. BECkMAN, President.
GEORGE Y. LoRENz. Secretary.
The record-union., 1894-09-06
HAFFNER DISCHARGED.
Yet the BarcellI Girl Swears He Grim
tnally Assaulted Her.

Yet the BarcellI Girl Swears He Grim
tnally Assaulted Her.
The examination of a youth named
Joseph Jacob Haffner, charged with hav-
ing assaulted an S-year-old girl named
Catherine Barcelli, in car at Thirty first
and r streets, on the 1lth of last month,
took place in Justice Henry's court yes
terday.
The little girl testified that Haffner
bound her with rope and assaulted her.
Other witnesses Tor the prosecution were
examined, but they knew nothing about
the case except what they were told by
the little girl.
After the witnesses for the prosecution
had testified, Ed. L. Naghel, Haffner's
attoi ney, asked that his client be dis
charged, aud Justice Henry granted the
motion.
Hatfner was atterward rearrested on a
charge of having stolen pistol from
man named Bennett.
If Haffner was not guilty of the charge,
why did he fly from Sacramento imme-
diately after the assault is alleged to have
occurred and evade the officers for weeks Z?
Must the presence of a third party be
necessary in cases of this character, TO
establish guilt p
The record-union., 1894-09-06
MINOR OFFENDERS.
Most of Them Allowed to Go Yestel
day Morning.

Most of Them Allowed to Go Yester-
day Morning.
Jack Sullivan stood up in the Police
Court yesterday to answer to charge of
being drunk.
How is this, Jack ?n said Justice De-
vine; you We're here yesterday, were
you not?"
Sullivan mumbled some excuse about
being sick.
That won't CO." said the court.
Three days in jail.'
John !. Gay, vagrant, had sentence
suspended, with an hour to leave town.
William Roach. charged with disturb
ing the peace, was ordered to appear at
I:30 P. NJ. for sentence, but forgot to ap-
pear.
esWilliam Slater, charged with varrancy,
was allowed to go, as he had recon-
mendations showing that he was looking
for work.
Mary Miller, charged with disturbing
the peace, was allowed to go, on promise
to do better.
The record-union., 1894-09-06
THE NEW REGISTER
Deputies Appointed to Enroll V
in the EnIIntr.r

Deputies Appointed to Enroll Voters
in the Country.
Up to closing time of the registration
Office yesterday 5,075 names had been en-
rolled on the new Great Register.
County Clerk Hamilton has appointed
the following persons as Registration
Clerks for the county at large:
@. K. Miller, Freeport: O. p. Dutton.
Courtland; John s. Brown, Walnut
Grove; w. A. Mott, Isleton; Frank Kun
sting, Franklin; w. e. Everson, Elk
Grove; L. f. Fitch. Florin; c. l.. Dom
aldson, Hicksville; John w. Heath, Mich
lgan Bar; Charles f. Walther, Johnson
vile; w. ii. Edwards, Orange Vale: w.
II. Dixon, Costumes; NJ. H. Burke. Fol-
som; John L. Butler, Hallway House:
w. w. Rich, Oak Park; L. j. Steele, Clay
Station.