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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1895-04-03
Patriotic Pigeon

Many instances are on record Of
tenacity of memory on the part of car
rier pigeons, who are said never to for
get their first cots. None of these in
stances are more remarkable, probably,
than that recorded of one of the birds
employed to carry messages into Paris
during the siege. These birds domiciled
in Paris were taken by balloons, and,
after being laden with tidingS from
without, were liberated and made their
way back to their homes.
One day pigeon from one of these
balloons was captured by a German
soldier of the besieging army. He
gave it to his officer who presented it
in turn to his commander, Prince
Frederick Charles. The prince sent it
as a gift to his mother in Germany, who
happened to be somewhat of a pigeon
fancier.
The princess, delighted with the gift,
placed the captive in great dovecote,
where it was surrounded with every
luxury that the most exacting bird
could ask for but whence it could not
escape.
Here the French pigeon lived, ap-
parently happy enough, for four long
years. But it did not forget its father
land.
One day door of the great dovecote
was left carelessly open. The French
pigeon flew out. 1t was never seen
again by its German hosts, but ten
days later it was beating its wings
against the doors of its old court in the
Boulevard de CIichy, Paris. 1t was
recognized by its old keeper and re-
ceived the welcome due to patriot re-
turned from long captivity. - Youths
| Companion.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1895-04-03
Rang The Bell.

"A theatrical man has varied expert.
ences and some funny incidents are con-
tinually coming before him." said John
c. Collins, at the Arlington. "The one
night stands are prolific of episodes and
profanity, especially the latter, but they
also afford good bit of amusement
after the ANNOYANCE is over. They are
not quite so awful now as they used to
be.
"a few years ago a company l was
plotting through the west came upon a
rather unpromising town, but fate willed
that We should give an appearance.
The hall we hired was a crude affair,
and so were the accessories. There was
no box office, no reserved seats, and
had to stand at the door and collect the
admission money. AT 1880 not a sou
had appeared. At 7:45 a great, big
chap came stalking in and asked me if
wanted ringer. What's "a ringer?'
l asked. "A man to ring the bell
You'll never get folks up here to SET
this show till you hire somebody to e
downtown and pull the town hall bell
They are used to it, and won't come
without
Il took the ringer at his word, gavt
him half dollar and he departed smil
ing. Soon the deep changing of bel
smote upon the air, and in less than NJ
time the townspeople came pouring in
enough of them to make fair audi
ence. In spite of the fact that our at
traction had been set forth ON the bill
boards and in the local papers. if tina
bell hadn't been pulled we would hav
played to empty benches. - Washington
Past
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1895-04-03
Night-BeIl Jokers.

Il sometimes think that 1 shall give
up having a night-belI and speaking
tube" said a Harlem medical practi-
toner who has a large practice. You
would think that medical man would
be exempt from annoyance by practical
iokers and roysterers, but it is not SO.
l have my night-bell rung long after
midnight on all sorts of frivolous pre-
texts, and the disturbers of my peace
shout facetious messages up the pipe.
A friend of mine used to be disturbed in
this way by people from small club
near, who used, after waking him up, to
ask for a soda water, the request being
made up the speaking-tube. One nighl
he waited for them with bucket oi
water which he had handy near a win,
dow over the tube. As usual. his in
quiry of What do you want? addressed
to the ringers of the night-bell was
answered by A soda water. He lei
them have the bucket of water, and, put
ting his head out of the window, said
There's the water-you can call for the
soda in the morning"
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1895-04-03
Mind These Well.

Never lean with the back against any,
thing that is cold.
Never begin a journey until the break
fast has been eaten.
Never take warm drinks and then i'm
mediately go out in the cold.
Keep the back, especially between the
shoulder blades, well covered; also the
chest we'll protected.
In sleeping in cold room establish
a habit of breathing through the nose,
and never with the open mouth.
After exercise of any kind never ride
in an open carriage or near the window
of a car for moment 1t is dangerous
to heath or even life.
When hoarse speak as little as posi-
BILE until the hoarseness is recovered
from, else the voice may be permanent
ly lost, or difficulties of the throat be
produced.
Merely warm the back by the fire,
and never continue keeping the back
exposed to the heat after it has been
comfortably warm, to do otherwise is
debilitating.
When going from warm atmosphere
into cooler one keep the mouth closed
so that the air may be warmed in its
passage through the nose before il
reaches the lungs.
Never go to bed with cold or damp
| feet
Never omit regular bathing. for un
less the skin is in active condition the
cold viii close the pores and favor con
gestion and other diseases.
Never stand still in cold weather, es
pecially after having taken a slight de
gree of exercise, and always avoiC
standing on ice or snow, or where thu
person is exposed to cold wind.-PbA
| 0dciphi0 Times.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1895-04-03
-Four Feet of Snow in One Day

Il have seen four feet of snow fall in
eSht hours" said Conduction Cobb of
the Maine Central Thursday. "and yet
it was so light that you could wade
through it just as you can through wa
ter.
1T was in the Sierra Nevada noun
tains-a sort of frost-like snow that falls
in the night burying everything
Twelve feet away from another man
you can just see him, with a sort of halo
around him as though somewhere the
sun was shining through the storm. In
these storms it is impossible to tell di-
rection or distance. One is simply lost
when only short distance from camp
'In the morning we walked down in
to town. One man went ahead break
ing the snow, which came nearly to his
armpits, as he moved through it. He
would tread until tired and then some
one else would lead the procession. As
we walked into the valley it grew less,
and down below in the town there had
been no snow and all the time the sun
or the stars had shone. Such snow
goes like the dew-disappears, evap-
CRATES. ."-LelCiStO7l Journal
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1895-04-03
DEER ARE FOND OF TOBACCO.
The Only Bit of Information Prof. Gill
more Got from Hawthorne.

Prof. j. II. Gilmore says: 1T was
my privilege to meet Hawthorne at the
White mountains. He was there with
Pierce and Loring and Spofford, and !
saw considerable of him. l shall never
forget the whimsical appearance of the
man as Pierce was trying to get him to
90 into the parlor of the hotel. He was
quite averse to it.
There were clever people there from
all over the United StNtes who had
heard of him. and were proud of him,
but he did not want to mingle with
them at all. Pierce insisted upon it,
and he complied, and after five minutes
he made his escape, and 1 found him
out on the veranda smoking cigar.
He did not want to make friends, ap-
parently, but he made an exception in
| my favor. I had been spending sew
eral summers there, and l knew the
woodcraft very thoroughly, and he
| found out that he could get from me
| the information he wanted.
"He would ask me question and my
reply would be followed by another
question, 'WhyP' For instance, he
asked me, Which way would you fish
a trout streamp' said, Down stream.
| Then he asked me why. I was com.
| PEELED to answer that a trout when
wounded runs up the stream, and that
if l were fishing down the stream he
would disturb the trout below. On one
occasion l referred to the fact that the
grain of the wood of a certain tree was
twisted. AT first he questioned the fact
and asked, What makes you think sol?
I said to him, If you will go with me
to the woodpile l will show that it i:
so.' thus satisfied him of the fact
but, as to the reason for it, could only
give theory that it was caused by the
winds. l think that while he was there
he found out all knew, and l found
out very little from him. There wa.
one thing that he knew that l did fine
out.
"One day we were looking at a pc
fawn. He said: DO you know tha
every animal of the deer kind is natu
rally fond of tobacco?' I was taker
all aback, because 1 had been taught
that only man and a certain loathsomt
green worm. the vilest thing the Crea
tor ever made. would touch tobacco
To illustrate the matter to me he pu
his hand into his pocket, for he not onl,
smoked. but chewed, took out piec
Of tobacco, and handed it to the fawn
and she ate it down as though she liket
it, and while was waiting to see he
fall down dead she was nosing arount
} Hawthorne's pocket for some more to
bacco."
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1895-04-03
Two Good Irish Stories.

A Protestant magistrate once had a
little waif of an Irish boy brought be-
fore him for some trifing misdemeanor.
Wishing to ascertain how much the
child comprehended of his duty to God
and his neighbor, he asked him if he
could say his prayers. The boy
promptly repeated the Lords prayer,
and further volunteered that he could
say the Hail Mary" The magistrate
testify replied that he did not want to
hear that but requested him to repeat
the Creed. The child, much frightened,
began to do so, but when Ne came to
the clause, Born of the Virgin Mary"
he stopped short, and anxiously said,
please, yer worship, she's turned up
again, and what am ] to do?"
A tourist was being driven over a
part of the country in Ireland where
his Internal majesty appeared to have
given his name to all the objects of in
terest in the locality, for there was the
Devils bridge, the DEVILS cauldron, the
Devils glen, etc. Said the traveller:
"The devil seems to be the greatest
landowner in these parts!" "Ah, sure.
your honor" replied the jarvey, that
is so, but he lives in England. l think
he's what they call an absentee landlord
in Ireland. ."-LOnd0R Ge11tLeaUon10n.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1895-04-03
Dead Sea of the Northwest.

Medical Lake, so called on occount of
the remedial virtues of its waters, stu
ated on the great Columbian plateau, in
southern Washington, at an altitude of
$500 feet above the level of the Pacific,
is the Dead Sea of America. 1t is
about mile long and from a half to
three-fourths of a mile in width, and
with a maximum depth of about sixty
feet. The composition of the waters of
this Alpine lake is almost identical with
that of the Dead Sea of Palestine, and,
like its oriental counterpart, no plant
has vet been found growing in or near
its edges. 1t Is all but devoid of ami
NAL life, a species of large "boat bug, "
a queer little terrapin, aud the famous
walking fish" being its only inhabit-
ants. This walking fish, is an oddity
really deserving Of Il special mote" It
is from eight to nine inches long and
has tinny membrane extending from
end TO end even around both the up
per and lower surface of the tail. 1t is
provided with four legs, these before
having four toes, the hinder five.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1895-04-03
A Bright Duke.

There is story told of the duke OF
northumberland, who. in spite of his
vast wealth, is very unaffected and SIM
pie in his life. Whenever he travels on
a railroad he usually takes third-class
ticket to the Indignation of the railway
officials, Upon day they determined
to break him of this fru gal habit and
they filled his compartment with Chin
ney sweeps carrying bags of SCOT.
When the duke arrived at his destina-
ton he took the sweeps to the booking
Office and bought them each tirst-ciass
ticket back again and put one in each
frst-class carriage, sacks and ALL
Memphis Commercial Appeal
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1895-04-03
Her Daughters Husband.

a traveller saw a woman take a man
by the collar, yank him up the steps
into railroad car, jamb him down into
hot seat near the stove, pile up 6
valise and two big brown baskets with
oose covers and long handles at his
feet, and say:
"Now, sit there until l help Mary
Jane on the car, and don't move till
come back"
When the woman reached the door
the traveller said to her:
is that man your husband?"
"N-a-w!" roared the woman. He's
my daughters husband, and she hasn't
spirit enough to say her soul is her
own"
New South Wales has 2, 155 800 cattle
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1895-04-03
Those Two Miles.

Last week 1 asked a Cavan laboring
man how far it was to place for which
l was bound. Two miles, your rever-
ence" Two mics and little more?"
said 1, knowing by long experience
that my country men don't like TO dis
courage a traveller by letting him know
that he has still long walk before him.
"Well, your reverence, it's two miles
strong and rich, SO to spake. ."-SpectatOr.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1895-04-03


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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1895-04-03

Robespierre was fond Of reading
poetry aloud to his friends.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1895-04-03
REsToRrs to PERFECT HEALTH

consulting
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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1895-04-03
Matter Of Interest FROM
Mrs. DR.. Harkey Adams ) Dr.W. 7. Adams
will Visit Rayenna Saturday, April 20.
OFFICE, ETNA HOUSE.

MRS. DR.. HARKEY ADAMS wonderful dis
coveries and great success in the treatment OF
diseases peculiar to her own sex has Greater
W. nder and admiration throughout the country
and stamped her the great benefactor to he'd
sex of the present day. The best physicians and
surgeons are daily sending her cases from all
parts of the country. Gases which they cannot
cure she
RESTORFS to PERFECT HEALTH
in few weeks or months at most, and her office
parlorS are always crowded with patients from
the best families, wherever she stops, and her
visit to this place will afford the ladies of Por
tage county a rare opportunity to consult this
most eminent lady.
MRS DIR. HARKEY ADAMS was educated
especially for the medical profession. Herfath-
er being we'll known clergyman, she had many
advantages early in life, and inherited those
high moral sentiments which have marked her
great success throughout her professional life.
While Mrs. DR.. HARKEY ADAMS makes a
speciality of female diseases and diseases of chill
dren yet she treats all diseases of the Stomach,
Liver and Kidneys. If afflicted, call and see her.
1t is strange that ladies of America have
not long since demanded lady physicians in this
country, as well as the ladies of Germany, France
and England, to treat the ailments peculiar to
their sex and their children. as every lady must
know the skill and sympathy of an expert lady
physician and mother, in these cases, must &C
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1895-04-03
OoYouWear Glasses? Glasses SutY YourEye
condition of you
DR.. w. T. ADAMS,

who is an expert in the profession. Eyesight is
precious, more so than any other special sense.
The Doctor has treated within twelve months
more than 500 cases CT all forms of eye trouble
and errors of refraction, such as Glacloma, Ul-
ceration of the corpea, Granulation, and all dis
Eases arising from impure blood. Have you ever
stopped to think how many people are blind
through their own neglect and carelessness in
not giving their eyes proper attention in time?
You now have the opportunity of consulting one
who gives all his time to the tretment of chronic
eye trouble. Thousands are wearing glasses they
think suited to their eyes, but which do not cor
rect their trouble Spots before the eyes, inflam-
nation, Granulation, w inking trembling spells,
various nerve and brain affections, Cataracts,
burning and smarting of the eyes, etc, entaillng
not Cnly positive injury to the sight, but untold
misery and blindness.
DR. ADAMS makes examinations that few
in this country can make. He has instruments
with which he can examine every muscle and
hber in the inside of the eye. He can tel! in an
instant after examining your eyes whether he
AN benefit you or not and will truthfUlly say so.
He also straightens Cross-eyes without cutting,
by a new and novel method of his own. Call
-arly, and be examined free.
All lenses ground by actual measurement
to cOrract the defect in each eve,
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1895-04-03

New South Wales has2, 155. 800 cattle,
So. $50, 663 sheep and 4Sl. 399 hogs.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-08-07
CURRENCY AND PRICES.

The following is from speech de-
livered at Argyle, Mimi. by the Hon.
knute Nelson:
The truth is that reliable statistics
as we'll as our own experience aud OBJ
servation demonstrates to us that
there is no lack of fcirculatiug medium,
that We never had greater per cspita
amount Of money in circulation THAI
now; and that the volume Of circala-
ton does not necessarily regulate or
fix the measure of prices, but that
this is now, as ever, mainly governed
by the law of supply and demand.
Tie same currency buys bushel OF
wheat at so cents and bushet Of po-
tetoes at the same price. At this
figure wheat is very cheap anil pota-
toes very high. The one PRO iuct is
overplenty, the other overscarce. Aud
this makes the difference, not the
volume or the quality OF the curren-
cy. There is an undoubted lack Of
currency among our farmers in many
localities, especially in the upper
country, but this lack comes, not from
a scarcity of money in the State or
Nation, but for the lack of product to
exchange for money. Compare the
counties Of Freeborn and Polk, If you
please. In the former, with twenty
townships of land, 1900 people,
twenty-four creameries and O great
amount Of dairy products, large
number of clttle, horses, sheep
and hogs aud an advanced
system OF diversified farming, money
is not scarce, aud the times are far
from hard and depressed. In the lat
ter with IS townships OF lard, 33, Ooc
neople, only two creameries, not
numerous amount OF cattle, still fewer
sheep and hogs, a scautiness OF dairy
products and system OF farming main
ly devoted to wheat culture, money i:
quite scarce and times are very harI
and trying.
What makes the difference? They
both exist under the same currency
and the same flag. The difference is
this: In the county of Freeborn the
farmers have large aud valuable var
iety of farm products, bringing fair
price, to exchange for money. This
makes money plenty aud times easy.
On the other hand. in the county o
Polk the farmers have little to e1
change for money except wheat, am
that was very light crop, and th:
prices, owing to glut in the foreign
market, were very low. This make:
mouey scarce and times very harl.
Farmers Of the Red River valley, i
you look at the situation in its tru,
light, is it not plain to you that relic
cannot come from the referendum
from saloons kept by the State, from
Government ownership OF railroads
from female suffrage or from the lin
conditional free coinage Of silver a
the ratio of Is to |?
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-08-07
Two Sides to The Question.
countries

The present advocates Of free coiu-
age forget that at this game of p>vlng
debts by legislation there is room in
the game for two sides. The Harrols-
burg (hy.l Democrat offers this
warning:
"Tbree-fourths of the people who
favor free coinage without personal
investigation have q sneaAing idea
that they can pay their debt easier
with t,ebased currency than under
the prese ut toilsone, slow-going pro-
cess. But this is all dream born
Of the lurie Imagination OF your typi-
cal free silver advocate. The credi-
tor who holds mortgage on the
farmers land is not exactly an idiot
himself, and the moment 1t becomes
clear that free coinage at tue 1G to |
ratio will be legaiized in this country
thousands of mortgages will be fore.
closel by men who propose to have
their loans paid 10 good money. The
free silver duHe may argue, with tears
in his eyes, that the price Of silver
will be imrnediately ierkel up to the
desired poiut in the markets OF the
world as soon as our miuts are opened
to the metal. But the hard-hearted
creditor doesn't belong to thai class
of reasoners, and he will turn the
former out, bag anl baggage, unless he
meets his overdue mortgage then and
there with the money IL which the
creditor has confidence. Just before
the dawn Of that happy silver day
when the silver lining of the clouds
will be coined into good Government
;lo]lars-Sherif[, will be perchel
around on the worm fences in the
country waiting 70: mortgages to ma
ture, like blackbirds watching corn
crop. :"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-08-07
Free Coinage Oissected.

The Sound Currency Committee Of
the Reform Club has just issued q
short pamphlet entitled Free Coin
age Dissected." 1t Puts the ease
against free coinage IN the clearest
possible light, aul the language IS so
simple and the sentences so short that
no ordinary mechanic or farmer need
have any difficulty i'll understanding
the discussion. Ex-Congressman John
Dewitt Warner, the author OF the
pamphlet, dissects, IN turn, each Of
the principal claims OF the free coin
age advocates.
Many excellent answers 70 "Coin S
Financisl SCHOOL, have been written,
but, heretofore, there has been nc
tirst-ciass pamphlet to put into the
hands OF the millions who have not
read "Coin's Financial School," but
who are interested in the currency
discussion. They will be glad to get
in this condensed form, not only the
principal objections to 'sCoin's" book,
but to the whole scheme Of free coin
age at Is to l. The pamphlet is, II
fact. primer Of sound currency.
The pamphlet is we'll adapted for
general distribution, and merits wide
circulation by the friends OF homes!
money in all sections o. the country.
It's No. 16 Of Sound Currency, anG
can be obtained by sending five cent:
TO the Reform Club, 50 William street
New York City.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-08-07
Doubling the Wheat Crop.

A proposition to double the wheat
crop by measuring it in 'sbushels' one
half OF the present size would be
laughed at by every intelligent far
mer. No one would be deceived into
thinking that the quantity of wheat
grown would be any larger though it
was called twice as many bushels.
But when il comes to measuring val
ues, instead of quantities, a great
many people are victims of the curious
deluslon that by adopting standard
OF value worth only half of that. now
used, this country would at once
double the value of all the products OF
labor. They are entirely mistaken.
Changing the measure would not IN
the slightest degree increase the real
value IN use or exchange OF the goods
measured, and the pretense of the sill
verites that free coinage would double
the value of all property is merely a
fraud by which they hope to fool the
pzcvis intc voting for afty seat dol
lere: