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The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1895-12-26
Through Cars to California via ssThe
True Southern ROute.''

The Iron Mountain Route, in con.
neotion with the Texas and Pacific and
Southern Pacific Railways offers to tour.
ist and home seekers contemplating Q
trip to California the following features: !:
From st Louis, daily Pullman Palace
Buffet Sleeping Cars to Los Angeles and
other California points without change,
and every Wednesday and Thursday
evening, Pullman Tourist Sleeping Cars
to Los Angeles and other California
points. The Tourist Oars used On these
weekly excursions are modern, and
built especially for California travel.
The excursions are personally conducted
and the object is to enable those who
do not wish to purchase first class
tickets, the privilege Of sleeping car &C.
commodations and no change of cars.
No high attitudes and free from ice and
snow, forming an ideal winter way to
the land of sunshine, fruit and flowers.
Via this route the dangers of snow
blocksdes and delays are obvia,sd. F.r
maps, time tables and full particulars
address n R Warwick, Agent, al7 Vine
street, Cincinnati, Ohio.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1895-12-26
How Air Can Re Weighed.

The weight of air has often been test
ed by compressing it in receptacles
by the air pump. That it really has
weight when SO compressed is shown by
the fact that the weight of the vessels
is increased slightly by filling them
with compressed air, and that such ves-
sells become specifically Fighter" as
soon as the air contained in them is
exhausted. Many elaborate expert
ments on the weight of air have proved
that one cubic foot weighs $50 grains.
or something less than one and one
quarter ounces. The above experiment
on the weight Of air is supposed to be
made at the surface OF the earth with
the temperature at so degrees Fahren-
heit. Heated air, or air at high eleva-
ton. is much lighter.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1895-12-26
Cannon Balls Wonderful Flight.

The most careful experiments ever
made on the fight of q cannon ball were
those conducted by the English author
tiles in the jubilee year. The expert
ment was made with 22-ton gun, and
1t was found that ball fired from the
monster made fight of 1857 feet over
IL miles before it struck the ground.
Careful timing with an improved
chronometer proved that the ball YVES
69A seconds making the 12-mile
journey and that the highest point it
attained was 1900 feet above the
earth's surface.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1895-12-26
Old People.

Old people who require medicine to
regulate the bowels and kidneys will
find the true remedy in Electric Bitters.
This medicine does not stimulate and
contains no whisky nor other intoxicant,
but acts as tonic and Alternative. It acts
mildly on the stomach and bowels, add.
ing strength and giving tone to the
organs, thereby aiding nature in the
performance of the functions. Electric
Bitters is an excellent appetizer and aids
digestion. Old people find it just exactly
what they need Price fifty cents per
bottle at Fullerton & Co.'s Drug Store.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1895-12-26
PuNoENT PARAGRAPHS.

-She-"Have you loved anybody
else, Harold?" He (apologetically)-
"Well-you know how it is yourself
Somerville journal.
-Muggins-"They tell me Bjones is
q very devoted husband" Buggins-
Eyes, indeed. Why, he actually goes to
his own wife's afternoon teas."-Phila-
delphia Record.
His Way of Putting tits there
one fountain pen better than another?''
swell, no; I should say, however, that
there are good many fountain pens
worse than Others" Record.
what on earth have you been do
ing, my child?" exclaimed Fannie's
mother as the little girl came into the
room with her hair all awry and her
dress torn in dozen places. "Playin'
shoppin', ma'am!" was the reply
Yonkers Statesman.
-Ragson Tatters-''Wat's become o.
Bonosy?" Rollingstone Nomoss =
"Did'n' yer hear? Why, dey had ter
put i'm in de loonertic asylum" "What
fur?" "Why, he swiped box frum de
grocery store and carried it ten blocks,
an wen he opened it it wuz full o. SOAP"
Philadelphia Record.
Mr.. Ferry-"I see that at wedding
at Quincy, ILL.,, the man promised to
obey instead of the woman. 1 wonder
how the match will turn out?" Mrs.
Ferry-"Oh, about like any other mar
riage. don't suppose he meant it, any
more than the woman does when she
says it."-Cincinnati Enquirer.
Strange that it should be said that
this is hard, unfeeling world It is a
bright, beautiful world; at least just
before election, when one is all the time
meeting the most amiable of men with
faces all smiles and with hand held
forth in eager pursuit of another hand
to fondle and caress.-Boston Tran
script.
Mr.. Slaveserf Ito his wife)-"Clara,
I wish you would tell Bridget not to
cook the biscuits quite SO brown in
future" Mrs. Slaveserf-"Why, John,
what are you thinking Of? Bridget
and I haven't been on speaking terms
since that morning forgot myself and
spoke hastily to her when she broke
that old china saucer had had so many
years."-Boston Transcript
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1895-12-26
Relief In Six Hours.

Distressing kidney and bladder dis
eases relieved in six hours by the "New
Great South American Kidney Cure.'
This new remedy is great surprise on
account of it's exceeding promptness in
relieving pain in the bladder, kidneys
back and every part of the urinary pas
sages in male or female. It relieves re.
tention of water and pain in passing II
almost Immediately. If you want quick
relief and cure thisis your remedy. Sold
by w. R. Smith & Co., Druggists.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1895-12-26
NORTHERN WITCHES.
In Modern Times Belief in Them Hal
Been Quite Common.

In Modern Times Belief In Them Has
Been Quite Common.
So lately as the middle of this century
girl of Louisburgh, near Wick, was ac-
cused of being in league with the
"pooers O. mischief" and remedy akin
to that recently practiced with such
tragic results in Ireland was devised.
She was placed in basket, lined with
shavings of wood, which was then hung
over fire. The issue in this case was
not fatal, but the folk averred that she
was not "half SO witch-like" after she
had been singed. A hag of the northern
isles was ut times thought to be meta
morphosed into porpoise, and in fair
weather she would dive under and over
turn fishing boat, against whose skip
per she bore grudge. On one occasion
she was made to place her hand on the
bodies of several men who had met
their death in such a way, and, in the
words of the old chronicler, one "bled
at the collir bane," another ain the
hands and fingers, gushing out bluid
thairat, to the great admiratione of the
beholders and revelation of the judg-
ment of the Almychtie."
A host of stories tell of northern
witches who have given diseases to
horses, oxen and focks of moorland
sheep. Herdsmen to this day distrust
unknown persons who touch the food
of their kye, lest it be poisoned. In
Shetland the cat or vaneja is regarded
as an animal which brings good luck;
If she Is seen to run toward the boats
must there is sure to be good catch.
In Chaithness, on the contrary, witches
frequently appear in the form of cats.
A carpenter of Scrabster in the olden
times was Systematically robbed of his
meal and cakes. He thought it "cu'na
be cannie," and one night as he watched
he saw number of cats devouring his
property. In trice he cut off the right
leg of one of them, whereupon they
made their escape with a rapidity which
confirmed his former suspicious. Short
ly afterward an old woman, who had al
ways been looked upon with disfavor.
was found dead in her lone cottage, be-
reft of her right leg.--Scottish Review.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1895-12-26
HOme.Seekers' Excursions.

On January 14th and 28th the Iron
Mountain Route will have on sale from
st. Louis round trip excursion tickets 10
all points in Arkansas and Texas at rate
of one fare plus $500, tickets good
until February 18th returning. Stop
overs will be allowed at pleasure TO,
inspection of lands. For maps, time
tables, land pamphlets and full partic'
ulars address N. R. Warwick, Agent
317 Vine st., Cincinnati, o.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1895-12-26
Old WsstphalIan Coal Nine.

At Siegen, in Westphalia. the 4OOth
anniversary of the opening of the
Eisenzecher Sug coal mine was cele-
brated recently. 1t WINS begun in 14e5
as an open working; its main shaft il
now 1900 feet deep, and IL to be sunk
soon another 800 feet.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1895-12-26

Tom-Charlie Deadbroke married a
very rich woman, didn't he?
Alice-I guess 30. heard the min.
lister interlope something in the service
about the holy bonds and mortgages of
matrimony.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1895-12-26

wife-Here's an account of man who
shot himself rather than suffer the pangs
of indigestion. Husband-The fool
Why didn't he take DeWitt's Little
Early Risers? I used to suffer as bad
as he did before I commenced taking
these little pills. w. R. Smith & Go.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1895-12-26

If suffering with piles, it will interest
you to know that DeWitt's Witch Hazel
Salve will cure them. This medicine
is specific for all complaints Of this
character, and If instructions (which are
simple) are carried out, cure will re-
suit. We have tested this in numerous
cases, and always with like results. 1t
never fails. w. R. Smith & Co.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1895-12-26

Old Lady-Why do you look at me
like that, Johnny?
Johnny-Cause mother says you
drink like fish, and want to see how
fishes drink,
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1895-12-26

Coughing irritates the delicate organs
and aggravates the disease. Instead ot
waiting, try One Minute Cough cure.
1t helps at once, making expectoration
easy, reduces the soreness and inflam.
nation. Every one likes 1t. W. R.
Smith & Go.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1895-12-26
Fire Annihilstors In London.

In London every public building
from the queens palace down is sup
piled with fire annihilator. Some Of
the large onee will produce 1900 gal
Ions of carbonic gas and steam in the
space Of four or five minutes.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1895-12-26

Mamma-Oh, Tommy, why are you
such naughty boy?
Tommy-Well, mamma, teacher says
we each have good and a bad angel,
and they each try to get the the best Of
the other, and 'spect my bad angel ia
the biggest.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1895-12-26

Maud-Doesn't your head ache
awfully after you have been to tea?
Ethel-No, not at all. My tongue and
feet do, but never my head.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1895-12-26

Lucy-The wretchl And 90 he hai
been proposing to both of us!
sJennie-It seems 90.
LUCY wish we could think of some
fearful way 10 punish him.
Jennie-I have an idea.
Lucy-What is it?
Jennie-You marry him, dear.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1895-12-26

Mildred-I wouldn't marry the best
man in the world.
Mr.. Suitor-There is no danger; the
bride never gets the best man.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1895-12-26

One Minute Cough Cure is rightly
named. 1t affords instant relief from
suffering when afflicted with a severe
cough or cold. It acts on the throat,
bronchial tubes, never fails to give
immediate relief. W. r. Smith & Co.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1895-12-26

Mrs. Johnson-Bress my soul, chile
Whoffo' yo' rubbin' that stove blackin'
on your face?
Little Dinah-Dat's fo' my complex.
ton, mommer
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1895-12-26

He-Precious, did you give me this
beautiful umbrella ..because you love
me?
She-No, darling, gave it to you
because I am tired of lending you
mine.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1895-12-26

The landIady-Can you recommend
this turkey?
Markst,nan-I can, ma'am. With
careful usage, that bird will last you =
month.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1895-12-26
Liver Trouble Relieved.

II have had liver trouble for five
years, and two years ago was 30 that I
was not able to attend to my household
duties. doctored with physicians and
they did me no good, and then I was
advised to try Hoods Pills. l have
taken two boxes and half and am now
able to do all my work, and would not
be without Hoods Pills in the heuse."
Mrs. Eliza J. Case, Barrett Mill, Ohio.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1895-12-26

Use none but . silver spoon for
your sweetmeats.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1895-12-26

Hoods Pills cure sick headache, indi,
gestion.
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-15
ouT-or-rowN PERSONALS.

Saratoga Springs, CAL, July 1.-THE late ar
rivals at Saratoga Springs are: Mr.. and Mrs.
Cruise, w. NJ. Thurman, Arthur II. Williams,
Orie Young, Artie Young, A.W. Foster, Thomas
Miller, H. C. Whiting, ]. NJ. Hall, Mrs. E. Fl.
Cable, G. Conner, Jessie and Alice Conner,
Mrs. NJ. A. Collins, Mrs. B. Gallagher,
Miss A. Egan, Miss j. Fillmore, Miss R. Alex
ander, George Baleck, w. A. Placial, J.
A. Filcher, Asa R. Wells and wife, B. M;
CASTOR, L. F. Johnson, Mrs. Potisdale, Mr.. and
mTs' MIS- :. Curry, " 3. Westlake, W. F. Woods
y Pot t,dy, Do3ey, e. D. Warren Miss NJ English, pgh
Mrs. B. w. Day, Miss Mollie Day, Miss Estelle
wilson, j.. S. Sullivan, Alice Ruddock, Gus
Keller, Ii A. F. Dibble. A, W; Mcclure, r. s; Phil
Eta Phillips, George Twiggs, Maud Sleeper,
w. Tallman and wife, A. B. Robinson, W. A.
Gordon, a. ii. Lorraine, A. 3. Barrett, f. Twiggs,
r. e. Norton, Professor A. Fl, Hart, j. D: Burke
j. Mendenhall, Alex Mendenhall, A. J. Wilson,
s. and ]. Meredith, B. Harris, O. ]. Somers,
Mrs. f. J. Davis, Miss Grace Davis, Miss Annie
Thorn, Ralph Davis, Mrs; R. Colby, Miss c. +.
M. Fox and three children, Mrs. Whitney and
daughter. T. B. Valentine and wife, " H.
Miller. wife and two children, Miss Madge
Alexander Fowler, H. C. Owne, C. A. Adams,
B. d. Bend, Elmer Townsend, Mamie Hirsch,
W. IL. Marshall and wife, W. d. Rickabaugh
and wife, Harmon Fish, D. Green, Walter NJ
John Martin, Mrs. H. Wells, Mrs. E. D. Noble
and daughter, Miss Edith Barry, Miss
E.: Greene, Joe Soldate, Mrs. Rulofson,
Miss Rookie, Mrs. DR.. Mcdonald, George Jones.
A. o. Milligan, Mrs. C. F. Mann Mrs. c. A.
Weike, Miss F. A. Weike, H. A. Weike, Mrs. F:
c. Robbins. Miss Daisy Robbins, Josephine and
Lulu Stevens, Grace and Mary Gibson, w. N.
Benson, Miss Levin, Kate Farnham, Mrs. p.
C.. Farnham, Miss Winder, w. NJ. Drindle
and wife, Miss Carrie Hooper, Mrs. J..
A. Brink, Mrs. Massey and daughter, H. c.
Henderson and wife, A. E. Skaif. Mr.. and Mrs.
}. J. Tobin, Mrs. and Miss Shaw, Mrs. and Miss
G. j. Auge, Martin Monson, C. B. Shaw, Miss
Mary Hunt, Ed Machwith, J. Haas, A. NJ. Faris,
I. A. Davis, Dan Cook, G. Harris, Miss S. G.
Adams, C. Mccall, Miss Sherwood, A. B. Wat
son, w. f. Broderson, Mrs. George A. Brown,
Mrs. g. ]. Rulofson, Mr.. Easterly.
Laurel Dell, July 14.-Mrs. A. C. Rulofson,
Miss Clara Rulofson, Miss Violet Rulofson,
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-15
ONE PHASE OF FICTION.

w. D. Howells, who may be called the
pa tron saint of realistic" fiction in Amer
lea, publishes in Harper's Weekly an i'm piled
defense of dialect IN fiction, but acknowl-
edges the fact that this practice on the
part of authors rouses the impatience of
the general reader. From this he pro-
ceeds to assail the custom of writing
dialogue, even of educated persons,
in an unrealistic fashion by making
them speak grammatically. He mentions
the familiar fact that hardly an educated
person speaks with absolute correctness or
refrains from employing abbreviations in
speech, and laments because Henry James,
although he now and then ''imparts a
thrill of hope by writing a contraction, !"
dashes it by returning quickly to the old
tradition.
Ii the use of fiction is to perpetuate and
encourage error rather than correct it we
misiudge one OF its most important func-
tions. Dialect is one OF the grossest of
offenses against language, but its very
grossness renders it practically harmless
as an evil example to persons even of mod
crate education. Hence on ethical grounds
it is permissible. When it comes to taste,
that is another matter, for it must be in
trinsically quaint and amusing and rich
either in archaism, idiom or metaphor to
be tolerated at all. and even then it can be
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-15
THE LOTTERY CRUSADE.

It is estimated the lottery traffic in this
City has decreased fifty per cent since
THE CALL began the crusade against it.
This assures the usefulness of the agita-
tion and affords sufficient reasons for con-
tinuing it. To have warned people of the
swindle involved in the traffic and saved
money for them is no slight service to the
community, and, from the success already
accomplished, we draw auguries OF further
success in the effort to stamp out the
nefarious trade ana convict the swindlers
engaged in it.
Two important issues at this time con-
front the people of California. These are
the maintenance of the dignity of law and
the promotion of home industry. Both
are involved in the fight against lotteries.
By contending against the iniquity we up
hold the law of the Nation, the State and
the City. By saving money for the people
we preserve that much for home industry
and induce men to rely upon labor and
not upon gambling for success in life. 1t
cannot be denied that the objects aimed at
are worthy the energies of a great paper
and the attention OF great people, and,
therefore, we propose to keep up the fight
until complete victory has been won.
It is with pleasure we recognize the as
sistance given us in the contest by the bet
ter element of the people. The great So
ceties organized for the advancement OF
civic welfare have been powerful allies in
forming public sentiment and supporting
the police IN every effort to suppress the
traffic. We do not despair of eventually
having the cooperation of our contem-
poraries in fight that is so manifestly in
the interest of the community from which
they as well as ourselves draw support.
The lotteries pay enormous rates for ad-
vertising, it is true, but they do not pay
enough to make up for the loss to the COM
munity by their swindles, nor for the
wrong done to the prestige of journalism
by the violation of the law which they de-
mand.
THE CALL has furnished abundant evil
dence of the downright swindling carried
on in the lottery traffic. We have shown
that most of the companies are fraudu-
lent, the tickets are generally forgeries, the
alleged prizes are advertising fakes, and
that there is no approach even to gambling
honesty in the business. We intend to
keep these facts clearly in the public mind.
1t is pie asing to know that the crusade has
reduced the traffic by fifty per cent, but we
will not be satisfied until we have driven
it to the slums or suppressed it altogether.
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-15

used only very sparingly in order not TO be
offensive. This is apart from the fact that
1t Is generally difficult to read, harder to
understand, hindering to the progress OF
tale and lacking in every one OF tho finer
qualities OF literature. 1t is not even valu-
able on the score of an historical record, for
1t is the most trivial circumstance OF man.
ner, Is not custom worthy to be known.
recorded or remembered, and bears no vital
relation to the character and achievements
of its users.
Fiction should educate by its form, even
though it may only amuse by its SUBJ
stance, for form is of the essence of taste.
Ii we give Mr.. Howells' contention its log
ical application the author should write
his entire story in the form of his ordinary
careless speech, and to carry the argument
to its ultimate reach there should be no
written language which is not reproduc-
ton of spoken language. The conditions
under which books are read are strictly
analogous to those under which they are
written, and both are radically different
from those under which language is
spoken. To insist on the exact reproduc-
ton of speech in writing is to make the
spoken language the standard of form; and
that is offensive to every conception of pro-
priety and of the higher and nobler eth
ical uses which written language may be
made to serve
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-15
A CHILDREE's SANITARIUM.

DR.. William Simpson, recently president
of the State Homeopathic Medical Society,
contributes to the July number of the
Santa Clara, published at San Jose, an ex-
ceedingly interesting and suggestive paper
on California as Sanitarium for Chill
dren." He begins by asking if the society
of which he is a member has made sufti-
cient study of our mineral springs and of
"the tonic and healing properties of our
winds and the balm of our sunshine" and
declares that mo more exalted duty or
power ever belonged to a physician or to
medical society than the imparting of in
struction looking to the preservation OF
human health and life, and especially of
child life
In comparing the infant mortality of
New York and California for February of
this year he finds that in eight districts of
New York State there were 800 deaths
from diphtheria, which was $50 less than
the death rate for January and less than
in any February in ten years. The deaths
from the same disease in California for
January were 13. From January % to
February II, in Philadelphia, 2S0 cases of
diphtheria were reported, with LA deaths,
death rate of over 40 per cent. But as
diphtheria is more prevalent in winter than
in summer, he takes the New York rate
for June, 1894, and fin0s that these eight
districts in New York State in that month
had 575 deaths from diphtheria. In the
same month, in California, there were
only ten deaths from diphtheria
and Group. The whole number OF
deaths from diphtheria and Group in
California from July, 1893, to July, 1894,
was 217, or less than the death rate of any
of the New York districts referred to for
any month of the year.
DR.. Simpson adds: "In the fourteen
years l have been in San Jose there has
been no sufficient number of cases at any
one time to constitute even mild cpl
demic, and less number of deaths from
diphtheria in the whole fourteen years
than have personally known to occur in
one month in a town of less than 10000 in-
habitants in New York State" So free
are our children from this dreadful disease
that no use has been found for the anti
toxine supplied to the San Jose Board of
Health during the three months since its
receipt.
The record in cholera infantum is equally
instructive. During the first six months
of 1894 there were only 103 deaths from
cholera infantum in California. There is
reason for all these things and many
more of kindred nature, and DR.. Simp-
son ably sets it forth in the following ap-
peal:
"The maternal instinct is the strongest