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Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1895-04-18
NOTICE.

NOTICE.
Do you want to borrow MONEY!
Do you want TO buy or ssll REAL EsTATEi
Do you-want to loan MONEY!
We have $4,000 TO loan in SUMS TO SUIT.
IGLRHART 8 PARLRTT.
Room zol Fidelity Building.
lis Baltimore, Nd.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1895-04-18

nY VIRTUE of a power of sale contained in
lOa morfQaee from Charles :. WEIGH and
Anna r. Weigh. his wife, dated the 2sth day
of December 1874 and recorded among the
Land Records of Anne Arundel County in
Liber :. II. No. 25. Folio l. the undersigned as
Attorney named in the mortgage will offer to
public sale at the Court House door in the
City of Annapolis, on
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1895-04-18
|os1MAiN STREET,

IOES Beg TO call your attention 70 our
iORS new department OF Ladies', Child
iOES ren's and Gents Shoes just opened;
LOES any footwear you may wish We will
tOEs sell them TO you. at prices can't be
HOES bought elsewhere. in other words
EOES We guarantee the quality a. well 1as
HOES the price.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1895-03-20
They Were Wooden.

It would be keeping strictly within
the letter of the case to say that he was
ricketty on his pins, for he was drunk
and had two wooden legs They were
of the heavy, truncated-cone order and
what with the load above and the load
below he had as much as he could carry.
even with the unsteady assistance Of a
crutch and cane.
After two or three experiences of tenn
porary and unsympathetic assistance
from I'd avenue lamp-post he con-
cluded to take car. With good deal
of effort he managed to set himself up
like an uneven tripod near the track
and waved his stick to the driver. But
he was a very unpromising-looking Gus
toner and somehow the driver didn't
see him. Nor did the conductor; nor
the driver nor the conductor of the sec
ond car. Then the drunken man said
something very unpleasant and kicked
his legs out from under himself and sat
down viciously in the street, and when
the people who had gathered on the
sidewalk saw the drunken man lay his
lignum vite legs on the car-track they
took good deal of interest in the ap-
proach of the next car.
When it got within hail the man
roared:
"Belay there, dom, ye, and take me
aboard or I'll throw yer many blanked
car off the track"
The driver looked at the blockade and
wound up his brake with a jerk.
"Now carry me aboard or I'll not stir
nv stoomps," said the drunken man.
And amid the cheers of the crowd on
the sidewalk the driver kicked in the
ratchet catch and tied the lines to the
brake handle, while the conductor ran
around and between them they helped
the man up, with his four wooden props
sticking straight into the air, and
dumped him into a seat.-N Y. San.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1895-03-20
WiIes of the Caretaker.

Caretakers of houses, which are in
the market, either to be sold or to be
let, regard, as q rule, every possible
purchaser or lessee as an enemy, says
the N. Y. San. Ordinarily the only
compensation they get is the privilege
of living in the premises rent free. Con-
seuuently, the sale or lease of the
house would result in their being turn
ed out of doors. The result is that the
intending purchaser will have the bad
points of the premises pointed out in
place of being concealed. and every
thing calculated to make him think i'll
of the house will be rendered conspicu-
GUS. This is done adroitly when the
caretaker is a diplomatist and the an
nouncement of the buildings defects
take the form of admissions apparently
made with reluctance.
"Oh, yes, the furnance heats the en-
tire house nicely; that is, for people
who don't like to have their rooms too
warm" is the reply of caretaker, who
won't lose her only home If she can help
it, to a reasonable question.
"The water comes up to the top of the
house on every day but Monday" said
another caretaker.
"Why doesn't it then?"
"Oh, it never does when it is being
used in the kitchen. You wash on Mon
days. SUPPOSED"
The now not intending purchaser
with difficulty now represses an incli-
nation to announce that he washes on
other days besides Mondays, as he quits
the house. When he is gone the care.
taker and her family return thanks tha'
they have q roof over their heads FOL
anuthvr twsnty hours at tNagE
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1895-03-20
How He Proposed.

The New Orleans PiedytG1ae has this
interesting story of two literary cele-
brities in a recent issue:
The late Prof. Aytoun was uncom-
monty diffident when making proposals
of marriage to Miss Jane Emily Wilson,
who afterward became his wife. The
lady reminded him that before she should
give her absolute consent it would be
necessary that he obtain her fathers ap-
proval.
"You must speak for me" said the
suitor, "for l could not summon courage
to speak to the professor on the sub
jeot."
"Papa is in the library" said the
lady:
said the suitor "and I'll wait till you
return"
The lady proceeded to the library
and taking her father affectionately by
the hand mentioned that the professor
had asked her hand in marriage. She
added: Shall l accept his offer, papaP
He is so diffident that he won't speak to
you about it himself"
Then we must deal tenderly with his
feelings" said the hearty old Chris
topher. "Tll write my reply on slip
of paper and pin it to your back"
"Papa's answer is on the back of my
dress" said Miss Jane as she entered
the drawing room.
Turning round the delighted suitor
read these words: with the authors
compliments.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1895-03-20
Deaths of Editors.

This is an extract from Joe Howard's
lecture on journalism:
when l began to work in 1860-and
it seems as though it were Yesterday
only, partly because I have good
health and have always maintained a
high moral tone-the editor of the New
York Tribune was Horace Greeley. He
died in mad-house. The editor of the
New York Times was Henry j. Ray
mond the best friend but one I ever
had. He was found dead, cold and
stiff, in the hallway of his house. The
Charles G. Halpine-Miles O'Reilly-
editor of the New York Citizen He
suffered from a neuralgia tooth and
went into the Astor house one day,
chloroformed towel, put it over his
head and joined the majority.
"The best-known correspondent Of
that era signed "A. D. r. A. d. Rich
ardson was walking along the street
from the Tribune office when a man
slipped up behind him, fred bullet in
his back and he died. The managing
editor of the New York Herald, Mr..
Frederick Hudson, whose name is liv-
ing tradition in newspaper circles, hav-
ing retired on a pension Of 800, 900,
which of itself is enough to stagger any
newspaper man, went to live with his
family in Concord, N. H. He drove
across the railroad track in front of the
cars one day; all killed. The editor of
the only rival the Stats Zeituaag ever
had, the New York Journal, DR.. Feodor
Meirson of German birth but American
in feeling, a great, good, loyal fellow,
was helping an invalid wife from a
train. Didn't see the other, lost his
head and has done no work since
"The dearest newspaper working
friend ever had, Stillman S. Conant,
managing editor of the New York Times,
walked out on the sands of Coney Island
one dark night and never returned. The
publisher of the DAILY Nea0S, whose name
escapes me just now, but man whom
everybody in the profession knew. had
melancholia, superinduced by neuralgia
walked to his Office one morning and
blew his brains out. So you see it is
not all funny business in the profess
sion
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1895-03-20
How They Grew a Bell.

At the beginning of the last century
the only church bell at GrosslaswitZ.
Germany, was so small that its tones
were not sufficient to penetrate to the
ends of the village. A second bell was
badly wanted but the village was poor
aud where was the money to come
from?
One Sunday, when the schoolmaster.
Gottfried Hayn, was going to church.
he noticed growing out of the church
yard wall fourishing green stalk of
corn, the seed of which must have been
dropped by a passing bird. The idea
suddenly struck him that perhaps this
one stalk of corn could be made the
means of procuring the second bell they
wanted so much. He waited until the
corn was ripe and then he plucked the
six ears on it and sowed them in his
own garden. Next year he gathered
the little crop thus produced and sowed
it again, till at last he had not enough
room in his garden for the crop, and so
he divided it among a certain number
of farmers, who went on sowing the
ears until, in the eighth year, the crop
was so large that when it was put to-
gether and sold they found that they
had money enough to buy a beautiful
bell.-Harper'S Young People.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1895-03-20
CLIFF DWELLERS' VILLAGE.
Its Discovery by Prospectors in the Noun
tains OF Arizona.

Recent arrivals from the Bradshaw
mountains report the discovery of a
cliff dwellers' village in one of the most
inaccessible canyons of that range,
which has never before been seen by
white men, says the San Francisco
Chronicle.
The discovery was made by two
prospectors, White and Williams, who
did not attempt thorough explora-
ton, but from their description this is
the largest village of the ancient people
that has ever been discovered.
The village is located along the high
banks on either side of Willow canyon,
and the houses are estimated to be 26O
in number.
1t is difficult to reach this canyon,
even with pack animals, which accounts
for its having so long remained undis
covered.
There are three natural terraces along
the canyon wall and the dwellings open
back from these. Narrow steps in the
rock. now almost worn away. seem to
indicate that this was the method en-
ployed for ascent and descent.
Several of the houses were explored
and large quantities of pottery and
some implements, evidently used for
cultivating the soil, were found. In
one the skeleton of man not over four
feet eight inches in height was discov-
cred.
The canyon at this place is half mile
wide and shows evidence of having been
cultivated. If this theory prove to be
true it will throw new light on the hab-
its of this little-known people. So far
as known, no other evidence has ever
been discovered of the cliff dwellers
having cultivated the soil. A party is
now being organized to thoroughly ex-
plore the new-found village, and the
result of the research will be awaited
with interest.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1895-03-20
Picturesque Economy.

A peculiar appearance in the front
windows of an aristocratic boarding
house on one of the leading avenues
caused discussion among passers-by.
In each pane was a square of white
muslin with embroidered edges. which
was apparently glued to the pane.
That's queer way of keeping out
the light" observed one citizen to an
other.
"Must be some new method of decora-
tion," remarked another.
Don't you know what that is?" said
young woman to her husband. That's
a window laundry"
"And what may that be?"
'1t's the way ladies who board wash
their fine handkerchiefs. You see. it
dries and irons them at the same time. I"
Il see," answered the young man,
shat they adhere like postage stamps.
How do they do itp"
"Oh, you first catch your window.
then you wash the panes and place the
handkerchief against them, wringing
wet. They stick like plaster, and
when they come off are as smooth as
satin. In that way every woman can be
her own laundress."
81 see" said her husband, thoughtful
ly, why so many families board."-
Detroit Free Press.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1895-03-20
NEW WORK FOR THE HORSE.
The Doctors Have Taken Him in Hand
for Medical Uses.

Between the steam engine, the bicy-
Gle, the trolley car, and the storage
battery it began to look as if the horse
would lose his job. Just in the nick of
time, however, when scientists were
wondering whether the friend of man
would be allowed to relapse into wild
ness, or whether he would be turned
over to the western packers and made
into extract of beef, new occupation
rises up before him, says the Buffalo
Express. This is the manufacture of
serum for the treatment of diphtheria.
There ought to be quite field of USE
fulness for the horse in this capacity.
The manufacture of serum is a slow
process, and it is likely good many
horses will be needed for it. Consul
General de Kay writes from Berlin that
the establishment at Schering has forty
horses under treatment, vet the demand
for the serum has been so great that the
hospitals ran out OF it in September.
The remedy takes a long time to pre-
pare and must be comparatively fresh.
At least nine months, and sometimes
year, are required to get the animals
into condition. One animal does not
furnish much blood at time-only
Two QUARTS. IU6 UOFS6 muSb D6 care
fully fed between the dates of tapping,
and as in time the strength of the blood
as means of cure gives out, it is nee
essary to repeat the process of cultivat-
ing the bacillus.
Altogether the indications are that
this new field of usefulness for the
horse will be wide one. Whether he
will like his new occupation is doubt
ful. Even hauling heavy stage is
preferable in some respects to being fed
high for time, only to have your blood
then drawn off for medicine. There is
something ogreish about it, and the
horse may well object. But it is hardly
likely that humanity will spare him.
The benefits of the serum treatment ap-
pear to be too evident to allow of any
compunctions. Thus another change is
impending in the status of the horse,
and the image of the proud animal
which was once idealized as Pegasus
and bore poets flying through the air.
may yet be seen adorned with specta-
cles and holding out a bottle in his hoof,
upon the label of a medicine bottle.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1895-03-20
BABY BYE, HERE'S A FLY"
A Famous SchooI-Reader Song and the
Celebrated Man Who Wrote It.

Theodore Tilton was one OF the most
promising and is one of the most gifted
of American writers, says the Washing
ton Star. He has not lived in the
United States for twenty years and has
not been here since his lecture tour of
ten years ago, I believe. He has his
permanent residence in Paris, where
found him little while ago in his pleas
ant and comfortable home on st. Louis
island in the Seine.
Tilton and l studied phonograph in
the same class when we were boys and
have kept the old friendship alive. The
great stone house on whose first floor
is his rambling suite of rooms is on the
very banks of bohemia, but he lives
neither like bohemian nor an anchor
lite, but like quiet gentleman sur
rounded by comfort, content to get
through life pleasantly and do no harm.
In the midst of libraries and galleries
he has rare opportunities to study and
and his quarters probably cost him only
York OF Washington.
He has written enough good things to
establish any mans reputation, such as
l.
Meadows of Asphodel," my Creed"
etc, and when I said to him, 'Theo-
dore, your Baby Bye, Here's Ely is
in million American school-books; I'd
give my pen-finger to have written it.,
written some thirty-fye years ago for
my daughter Florence. then a child. l
was spending my summer vacation at
Al. Id sn-h
Dor was the well-known New York
was a great lover of natural history and
a daily devotee to the microscope. We
used to ride together over the Newburg
hills, examining every nook and corner
to find strange flowers and insects
"One day he burst out with great in
dignation at the fiimsy and inaccurate
use of scientific facts in the prevailing
literature for children. He had bought
an illustrated book for his little boy
and, disguised to find in it picture of
a spider with six instead of eight legs,
the offended scientist tore out the Of
Tending page and flung it away. was
much Impressed by this act. So i'm
mediately set to work and wrote The
Fly When the verses were finished
handed them to him. Let me see. he
said, if they will bear the test of the
microscope His wife was an ac-
complished woman - author of the
| Mary Brown books for children. The
two critics did me the honor to say that
my little piece did not violate the facts
| of nature and that it contained no stanza
to be angrily torn out and flung away.
How long ago that song was written!
And how long alas, those two friends,
the first to take an interest in the verses
have now been in their graves"
Tilton's Washington friends may like
to know that he spent the summer down
at the seaside on the English channel,
where he was one of charming party
at the Villa Castlemar. AS he loves
salt water like a crab, he may not yet
| have oona hack to Paris
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1895-03-20
Ingersoll's Income.

The highest amount that Col. Robert
G. Ingersoll ever received for delivering
a single lecture was $500. in Chicago.
At another time, in the same city, he
received 81, 400. His receipts for a
Sunday night lecture in New York, 70
per cent of the gross receipts, amount
to from 81, 200 to 81, 800. In small cities
the receipts on this basis sometimes fig
ure as low as $500. but his lectures in
large places bring the average up to $1,-
600. The colonels liberal fashion of en-
tertaining prevents him from becoming
as rich as most men would be with his
opportunities, and, while he is financial
ly well-to-do his worldly possessions
are not large in proportion to his in
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1895-03-20
NO MORE SOAP.
How Monkey Stole the Last Cake from
an Exploring Party.

When Count Teleki and Lieut. Won
Hohnel were on their long and danger
Gus expedition into eastern Africa they
had with them a pet monkey, Hamis,
who afforded them endless amusement.
and also, as is the way with all such
pets, proved a frequent trial to their pa
tience. One of his most annoying ex-
ploits is thus narrated by Lieut.. Won
Hohnel.
An eagle, attracted by the ape, who
was playing in tree under which the
counts tent was pitched, swooped down
sign of shyness. Hamis, little guessing
the danger he was in. was for plucking
a feather or two out of the visitors
wing. treating him as he was in the
habit of treating the fowls we some
times had in camp.
Count Teleki seized a gun, however.
and shot brought down the would-be
thief
As usual, Hamis repaid us by ingrat-
1tude. The eagle was no sooner dead
and deprived of his beautiful long wing
feathers than the ape was down from
his perch, intent upon mischief.
He had good look at his dead
enemy, as he did at everything new or
strange, and then hoped into his mas
ter's tent and seized what was perhaps
for the moment that masters greatest
treasure, his last bit of soap.
The count saw him and shouted,
leave that alone, but too late. Hamis
was at the top of the tree again. with
the precious soap in his teeth. We call
ed him by all the endearing names we
could think of, hoping to entice him
away from the branch he had chosen,
which overhung the brook, but all in
vain.
Not fancying the taste of the soap. he
dropped it into the water, and it was
hopelessly lost. The brown flood bore
it away, although half dozen negroes
dived for it for long time.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1895-03-20
The Old Place.

Only turfy hollow, a moss-grown stone and
a brier,
A wandering wantoning brier where the
doorstone used to be,
A wide and lonely field. where the hawkweed
runs like fire,
The skimIning wing of the swallow and
wind that blows from the sea.
Once round a slender steeple futtered that
airy wing;
Here stood the preacher, his lifted eye
ablaze with the heavens blue;
There were the singing seats where my dar-
ling used to sing
Your ears, o happy people that heard her,
heard angels too!
Hither came through the clover while the
bell tolled over the wood,
The wood where we two had fingered in
purple shadow and hush,
Hearing birds song tolling the sorrow and
solitude,
And she sang the sweet song over-sweeter
she sang than the thrush.
When we all turned us duly, as the old hymn
left her lips,
And proud and pallid with passion she saw
me in my place,
Worshiplng her, and her only-that petal the
wild bee nips-
Is it the rose leaf truly or the flush that
fed over her face?
Strange and sweet are your flashes, o sum-
mers lost and gone!
In what far land do you treasure the thrills
you stole from me?
See, the old beam is lightwood; the snake
slips under the stone;
There's nothing but dust and ashes and the
wind that blows from the sea.
Harriet Prescott SpofPord.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1895-03-20
Earthworms Six Feet Long.

The giant of the earthworms is a crea-
ture of Australia known to scientists as
Megascolides Australia. Although it is
a monster, from four to six feet in length
and from one inch to one and three
fourths inches in diameter, it is as
harmless as our common angleworm,
which it much resembles, both in color
and bodily structure Like our COM
mon angleworm, it can be removed
from its burrows with great difficulty.
If portion of the creatures body be
uncovered and grasped, with the inten-
ton of pulling it from its sinuous bur-
row, the experimentor is likely to be
disappointed, because the worm can
hold to the sides of his den until his
body is pulled in two.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1895-03-20
No Temptation to Fib.

And didn't George Washington ever
tell a lie?" asked little Willie.
mo, dear" said his mother, why do
you askp"
81 was jus thinkin'" said little Will
lie, "that his mother must have been a
mighty poor hand at putin up pre-
serves or else she always kept 'em
locked up where George couldn't get
at 'em. = Brooklyn Eagle.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1895-03-20
A willing Mercury.

First Boy-Wot's the rushP
Second Boy heard pa invite an old
friend to dinner and I'm hurryin' home
to tell mamma.
Did y'r father send yeh?"
NO"
Then wot you runnin' y'rself to death
forP"
"Cause. if mamma knows company is
comm we'll have better dinner. g.
Good NelUS.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1895-03-20

'Daily. Except sunday. FLAG stop. Meals.
DARK Faced Type denotes tine from 70 90 to u 90
niazigki lght Fsssd from II 90 gh to i2 90
JOSEPH WOOD, E.A. FORD,
e'nsral xNnsv'- General Passenger Agent
u-SosI-T PITT~BURGH, PENN'A.
Fo. time cards, rates of fare, through tickets,
bsgga e checks, and further information re.
gardiLg the running of trains apply to any
Agent Of the Pennsylvania Lines.
w.D ONG. AReuI Ravenn Ohio
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1895-03-20

The Spartan phalanx was commonly
deep; the Athsnian, 8. u and 70.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1895-03-20
BETWEEN saYARD AND NEW PHILADELPHIA.

Nos 336 and 33S connect at Wellsville for
Steubenville and Bellaire Nos. ass and 342
connect in Union Station, Pittsburgh, for the
East.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1895-03-20

ssos s. @, AND ARRIVE AND OEsAF1
raos 8. q O. DGPoT, PITTSsuHoH. NOS AND . DAILY
ssr.fss slltonuxV sSo FOREST JUNCTION. oTHeF
TRNNs oAiIV EXCEPT SUNDAY.
LAKE DIVISION,