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The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1896-06-05
Ohio Silver Mon Meet.

COLUMBUS, o., June A conference
Of silver men was held here and ap-
pointed committee to select delegates
to the st. Louis silver convention. Gen
eral A. j. Warner addressed tho confer
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CROP AVERAGE.
Condition Of wheat Much Worse Than
Wsa Anticipated.

COLUMBUS, o., June 4.-The state
board of agriculture has issued its state
crop report for the 1st of June. 1t
shows still worse condition Of the
growing wheat crop than was antici-
pated in the earlier bulletins of tho
year.
Wheat, condition compared. with an
average, 40 per cont barley, 81 per
cent rye, Sc per cent; oats, 9S per
rent clover 60 per cent.
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Plumbers Contribute.

CLEvgLASD, Jane 4.-The master
plumbcrs, In session here. voted TO ap.
rropriate $500 for the sufferers by tho
st. Louis tornado.
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Youngest on Record.

WEST UNION, o., June 4. - Marion
GLASGOW. II, passed creditable exam
ination and was granted teacher's s
certificate. He wears knee pants and is
real prodigy.
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May Provo Fatal,

JAMESTOWN, o., June An fight
that occurred at church festival at
Caesar Creek, Charles Hito was badly
beaten by Oliver Webb and his broth
ers, and his injuries may prove fatal.
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Verde, For siana,r.

BRILEFoSTAISE, o., June 4. - The
jury in the slandcr suit of NJ. n. Will
liams against Lydia A. Marquis brouga at
in verdict in favor Of the plaintiff for
ES0O
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COLUMBUS, o.. June 4.-The Juno
meeting Of the Columbus Driving asso
citation has been declared Oft on account
of lack of interest taken In IL.
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De nOCratlc Confessional Convention.

The Democracy of the Eleventh Congress
ional District of Ohio. composed Of the conn
ties OF Athens. Hooking, Meigs, Perry, Ross
and vinton. Will meet In delegate convention
at Athens, Ohio, on 4.
Thursday, june 18th. 1896, ~.
for the purpose ofhominating candidate for
congress for said district and for ihc puTbosc
of tranSactlng such other business as may
properly come before said convention.
The representation In said convention shall
be one delegate for every lO votes and fractr
ion over 80 votes cast for james h. Campbell
for governor dt the November election 1885
Each Of said counties will therefore he EN-
til d TO the following representation in said
convention.
Nlnens ~ ~
1lOcklnS'' ~ z,
MelgS ,...,..'.. ,,,',, ..-',.s'''..,' u
Ferry y..-..,..',......,'' ,it....'.., 80 I'D
itoSs '''. ...'' 80 "
Nlhton '''''', ~
G.. l.. MARTZoLiF
l.. A. KO0Ns
JoHN MCNAMARA Cons residual
q. II. Peoples Con mitice .
VIC. LOWRY '''
j. A. Nipgen.
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Saturday. June 6, 1896.

for the purpose OF selecting the candidate Of
Hooking County for. Judge of the Court of
Common Pleas for this District, at the Judic-
ial Convention to he held IN Logan, ON June
10, 1896 ., from II. IN. To u p, m. ~
A. l.. O'NEILL..T
Secretary,
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Judicial Primary Election.

Notice is hereby given TO the Democratic
voters oil Hooking County, Ohio, that a meet
Ohio, on Saturday May 2, S06 IL was ordered
that Democratic Primary Election be he'd
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Tuesday, June 1Gtll, 1896.

IL Is moved and carried hat the delegates
TO the Judicial Convention. from tha several
counties of this sub-div vision, not already
chosen be selected in such mHner ard at such
times us the Democratic Central Committees
of the respective counties may hereu. ter de-
termine.
THos DOLsOS, T.
l.. NJ. CULLISAN,
&. V. WRIGHT,
Juuiclnl Com
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Democratic Judicial COnVen,
tiOn.

The Democracy of the first Sub. Division of
the Seventh Judicial District consisting of
the counties of Fairfield, Hocki ing and Perry,
will meet In convention at Logan, Hooking
County, on q"
Tuesday, June 10th, 1896.
at II o'clock n. m. to nominate candidate
for Common Pleas Judge for full term, and
a candidate for Common Pleas Judge to fill
the uneXplred term of Judge Huffman de-
ceased, for said first Subdivision of the
Seventh Judicial District of Ohio.
Said conve ntion to consist Of one delegate
for each 100 votes for Hon. james II. Camp
bell for Governor OF the state in November,
1875 which ent' ties each of said counties TO
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SHE WAS SHY ONE TURK.
Protest of a. audience Against Bern
hsrdt's Loss of a Servant.

Protest of .. audience Against Bern
hsrdts Loss of a Servant.
Sarah Bernhardt was once playing al
Marseilles in q spectacular play In
which she made her entree accom-
on the programme announced that
these six Turks would accompany
Mime. Bernhardt. but when the time
came for them to go ON one of the
youngsters had disappeared. Sarah
mustered the five in order. says the
New York Evening Sun, and made her
entrance with a grand flourish. The
house was crowded, but not a handicap
greeted her as she appeared. Then a
still, small voice in the gallery muir
INJURED something in an indignant tone.
Fifty voices Immediately took up tho
strain, and in ten seconds more the
whole house was shouting the same
phrase. Bernhardt strained every
cerve to catch what they were COM
planning about. She knew the phrase
began with 'Manque," but the rest of
it was lost in the general hubbub.
For full minute the tumult conf inued.
Then Sarah. muttering things below
her breath, rushed like fury down to
the footlights. In the front row the
actress had spotted one man who was
not taking part in the huHabaloo.
Pointing at him, the actress exclaimed.
sternly: you seem TO be the only sensi-
BILE person in this house. Tell me VIVA.
on earth they are kicking up this row
for?" The man rose, bowed to the
actress. and remarked. in very bad
Amerioan-French: MADAM, you are
shy one Turk"
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A PRINCES Reon,n,rnse.

A few years ago when Lord Dufferin
was viceroy of India, the rajah of Hoi-
kar paid the viceroy visit While he was
there, he saw Lord Dufferin take up
some illustrated papers whi,Ih had just
arrived by mail and cut them with an
ivory paper knife. II was 'he first time
the Indian prince had seen such an in
Strument used. "Make me present of
that" said he to the ,iccroy. land 1 will
give you another" Lord Dufferin has
tened TO comply with this modest re-
quest. and the young raiah returned to
his country. Not long after he returned
to Calcutta. bringing with him young
elephant whose tusks had been carved
in the most artistic manner in The shape
of a paper knife. This he brought as a
present TO the viceroy. y table bearing
some illustrated papers was placed by
a servant before this intelligent beast.
who immediately seized them with his
trunk. cut them most deftly with his
tusks. and then handed them to the
viceroy.-Clicago Chronicle.
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IN WINTER QUARTERS.

heavens, while on the right side there
is G representation of Hercules strang-
ling the serpents.
Critics also point TO the marble figures
Of an Indian warrior and Christopher
Columbus on the sides of the seat, thu
IMPLYING Washington in Roman garh,
with mythical gods and demigods. with
the discoyerer of the fifteenth century
and the aboriginal American of tn,
seventeenth century. Altogether, tn
combination of artistic work is desery-
ing of the destructive criticisms which
have been passed upon il.
Dom Piatt, when publishing his free
lance paper called the Sunday Capital.
referred to the statue caustically, say
ing: Poor George Washington sits
out in front of the capitol without any
clothing in all sorts of weather. while
q full suit of his clothes is locked up in
n glass case in the patent office"
The artist had har.l time of il, and
the delays which occurred between the
conception of the design, its accept
ance by the government. the meager APP
preparations and its final unwilling, al
most drove the sculptor insane. When
completed the statue was subjected to
violent criticism by the men of that
day and at the same time received en-
comiums from artists of r nown. some
of them comparing it favorably
with the masterpieces of Athens and
Rome.
On August :, 1888. the continental
congress, in session at Philadelphia,
passed a resolution authorizing the
erection of "a bronze equestrian statue
cf Gen. Washington at the place where
the residence of the congress shall be
established. to express in durable form
the deep gratitude of the nation for his
triumphant conduct OF the revolution
that was the original inception OF the
Greenough statue. During the lifetime
of Washington nothing further was
done. But Washington died December
-. 1893, and nine days thereafter. on
December ID, 1899, the American con-
gress passed a resolution ordering that
n marble monument lie erected by the
United States in the capitol at the city
of Washington, thai the family of Gen.
Washington be requested 70 permit his
body to be deposited under il. and that
the monument be 50 designed as ID
commemorate the great events of his
military and political life"
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PITH AND POINT.

-Pianist-"What do you want here ?-
Burglar with great presence of nind)
~ just came to ash if you would
kindly play me your last composition"
pianist plays, and invites burglar to
lunch) Westliche Batter
do you believe that Adam gave a
name 10 all the animals?" II do. and
respect him for his selections. lie did
his work most creditably." "Why p
well. because there wasn't Rover or
a Fido in the whole lot."-Harpcr's
Razar.
Mrs. Wallace-"That wood is ready
for you to saw as soon as YOU see fit
TO go about it," Perry Patettic-"Par-
don me, mum, but instead of sayin'
go about it, you should have said go
around. will now go around it."-Cin-
cinnati Enquirer.
"A Safe Mule.-"R astus, you Internal
niger, you told me that mule was per-
fectly safe, and when l went into the
stable he nearly kicked the top of my
head off," "Yes. sab; / said the mcwl
wuz safe, sab. But eff you kin recollec',
l didn't say muffin about wedder it
wuz safe in his vicinity. "-Indianapo-
lis journal.
-Jarley-"Charlie Windig was mar
ried in the spring and his wife has left
MIN for the first time. For visit, you
know. His mother-in-law is keeping
house for him. Charlie says he never
tackled such a problem" Bronson
"What problem?" Jarley--"Why, he's
counting the minutes until his wife
returns, and the hours until his mother
in-law goes, and it's tangled him ali
up."-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Equally Distrustful.-"Say," whis.
pered the man in the broad-brimmed
straw hat TO the steamboat clerk, "give
me some other stateroom, please. The
man you've put me in with is a manu-.
facturer of pure ground spices" A few
minutes later the manufacturer of pure
ground spices sauntered up to the clerks
desk. Say" he whispered, cant you
let me have some other stateroom !?
You've put fellow in with me that
makes pure Vermont maple sugar.
Chicago Tribune.
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A WONDERFUL SEAwEED.
Has q Stem Sometimes Three Hundred
Feet Long.

Has q stem Sometimes Three Hundred
Feet Long.
One of the most extraordinary sea-
weeds among the Laminas iace@ is tho
Nereocystis, the stem of which occasion
ally attains a length of 400 feet, though
extremely slender, even at the top.
where it is surmounted by huge float
ing bladder six feet OF seven feet in
length. that affords favorite resting
place to the sea otter. This plant is
found on the northeast coast of
America and the opposite shores of
Asia. The filiform stem, which is
about as thick as pack thread, sudden-
" swells above, when two feet or three
feet long, into a globose bladder. from
the top of which springs a tuft of ger
inmate leaves mostly rising on five
petioles. AS the plant grows oldes the
stem increases enormously in length,
but only slightly in thickness. The
globose bladder swells into a turnip-
shaped or retort-like cyclinder. six feet
long and four feet six inches or more in
diameter in the widest part, the lower
extremity gradually passing into the
stem The leaves. which at first were
marked with few faint nerves, split In
the direction of the latter, cover q wide
space by their entangled mass, and at
tain length of so feet or more. When
the plant grows in any quantity, it
forms large floating islands, and the
surface of the sea becomes impossible
to boats. The stem, when dry, Is en-
ployed by the Aleutians for fishing
lines, some of which have a length Of
40 or more fathoms. The large b:ldders
are used by the same people as syphons
for pumping water out of their boats
Fishing Gazette.
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RIGHT TO SLEEPING CAR SEATS.

There Is an Unwritten Law Which Is
Tacitiy Recognized by Travellers.
An amicable controversy between
some nlen who, being of amiable dispo-
sition, have always managed to travel
about the country without getting into
squabbles with fellow travellers, led to
inquiries by a reporter as to the rule
of the seat in a sleeping car in the
United States. Who has the right to
the rear seat in a sleeping car section?
was the question asked 1t was as
serted, on the one hand. that by rule or
law the holder of the lower berth ticket
had the right to the seat that enabled
aim to ride facing the engine. The
claim was put forward. on the other
hand, that he had no privileges in the
matter of seat before those of the up
per berth passengers.
There is no law to govern in the mat
ter and one sleeping car company has
a rule covering the case and the other
hasn't. The Wagner company has
rule by which the holder of the lower
berth ticket is entitled to the rear seat.
The obvious reason is that commonly
the first arrivals at the ticket office ask
for lover berths. and on the principle of
first come first served the first conner is
entitled to the choice of seats, which,
by common acceptation. would mean
the seat enabling him TO ride forward.
To that seat on the Wagner cars he is
entitled.
The Pullman company has no rule
in the matter. The tickets of neither
company call for particular seats with
in the specified sections. In ordinary
practice lower berth Pullman passen-
gers get the rear seats, just as on the
Wagner cars. The companies find that
the American public adjust their own
affairs pretty generally without pater-
nal oversight of the companies. An Of
ficer of one of the companies recalls
just one instance where passenger
raised row over the matter of rear
seat; a corresponding officer of the
other could not cal to mind any in
stance.
On one railroad which operates its
own sleeping cars from New York il
is said that there is rule giving the
lower berth passenger the rear seat.
In some cases the railroad systems rem
der governing rule needless. For in
stance, a passenger from the west on
the Pennsylvania road may leave New
York facing the engine, but on leaving
Philadelphia will find himself looking
toward the rear of the train instead of
in the direction la which the train is
carrying him. On the New York Cen
trail road the same thing happens at
Buffalo. The train goes in on loop and
the engine is detached. An engine
couples to what has been the rear car
and takes the train on toward Cleve-
land. More than one person has gone
TO sleep feet foremost in western
bound train going across central New
York in the evening and awolxe to find
himself being carried head first into
Cleveland in the morning.
1t is interesting to note that an off,
Ger of one of the sleeping car COM
panies is able TO say that he never knew
of woman obliged to travel backward
in sleeping car seat.-N. Y. Sun.
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Isaac S. Long, who owns 600 acres of
farming land in the Lebanon valley,
has made an experiment in corn plant
ing which will undoubtedly prove of
interest to agriculturist t large In
planting corn he is very precise. put
ting exactly the same number of stalks
in each row, and for years he had the
finest corn fields in the Lebanon val
ley. Some months ago he came to the
conclusion that if he planted corn in
flower pots and raised the plants in
that way there would be no delay in
their growth in case any of the corn
had to be replanted in his fields. So
he purchased 5000 flower pots. placed
them in his garden this spring and
planted a seed of corn in each. Sew
eral weeks ago, when it became neces-
sary to replant the corn fields, hole
was dug wherever there was a stalk
missing and one of the tender corn
stalks was transplanted from the pots.
The ported stalks grew well and are
just as large as those planted in the
field in the spring. This experiment
was made on Mr.. Longs farm, near
Myerstown, Pa.-Philadelphia Ledger.
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President John Adams communicated
this resolution to the widow, Martha
Washington, and she replied: Taught
by that great example which have al.
ways had before me, never TO oppose
my private wishes to the public viii,
must consent to the request made by
congress, which you have had the good.
ness TO transmit TO me, and In doing this
I need not. | cannot, say what a sacri
fee of individual feeling ! make TO q
sense of public duty But it was de-
veloped subsequently that Martha Wash,
ington understood that her remains
were to be inferred beside those of her
illustrious husband. and in accordance
with that idea. she directed that leader
coffin precisely similar to that of hen
husband should inclose her body. When
ii was ascertained that the intention o,
congress was that only the remains OF
Washington should be inferred in the
national capital, her compliance wal
withdrawn. Therefore the body OF
Washington was never brought to thii
city, but was inferred at Mount Yer
non, side by side with that of his wife
The Washington heirs were represented
by George Washington Parke GUSTS
who said: ''They were lovely and pleas.
ant in their lives, and IN their deaths
they were not divided"
George Washington was In his grave
33 years and new generation came
upon the scene of life before any fur
ther action was taken concerning the
erection of suitable monument to hii
memory. Those who have wondered
that nothing has been done by congress
for the erection of a suitable monument
TO the memory of Gen. Grant at River
side park, need not marvel when they
learn that SO many years passed before
anything tangible was done in memory
of the Father of His Country. In 1892
40 years after the passage of the FIRST
resolution by the continental congress
an appropriation of $1,000 was made
for the beginning of a contract with q
Gkillful artist for the construction and
erection of a statue to be placed in the
rotunda of the capitol. Edward Ever.
eft, from the committee on the library,
made a report recommending the EN-,
ployment of Horatio Greenough, Of
Boston, and he was finally given the
contract for the work, which he esti
mated would cost $4,000. President
Andrew Jackson signed the contract
and il was specified that the head should
be modelled after the Houdin cast.
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pedestal eight feet high. The statue is
ten feet in height. and represents the
father of his country as n Jupiter
Tonans in sitting posture. The figure
is naked to the waist, and thence a
Roman toga falls gracefully, covering
the legs and knees, exposing the feet
bound in sandals of most ancient pat
tern. The right arm is elevated, the
index finger pointing to the meridian,
and the right hand holds a sheathed
sword. Art critics commend the artist
Tor the likeness of Washington, for the
head is modelled after the painting and
molding of Houdon. the great French
master of the last century. But the
conception of Washington in a Roman
toga, with sandals on his feet, is re-
garded generally as n historical an
achronism which ought never to have
been perpetrated. The work is also
subjected to severe criticism for the
further development of the Roman idea,
in that on the eft side of the dais there
is bass relief of Apollo. the sun god,
driving his chariot steeds across the
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A TIN MINE IN PERAK.
Primitive Methods That Seem sunaciens
for the Purpose.

Tor the purpose
We came to the edge of the mine. or
paddock, as it is called. which, after all
is nothing but broad open pit with
sloping sides and perhaps come 40 or 90
feet in depth; poor thing in the eyes OF
anyone expecting shafts and machinery
and the elaboration of western meth
DDS. but sufficient for it's purpose, as
Chinese methods are apt to be, says
Mscmillan's Magazine.
Three hundred men clad in loose blue
coats and drawers aud plated sun hats
three feet across are digging up the pay
dirt at the bottom of the pit with great
hoes and putting it on fat wicker bas-
kets; others catch up the baskets,
sling one at each end of q yoke and,
balancing the load across the shoulder,
they carry them up TO the level ground
vibrating in time with their steps, by
narrow tree trunks, notched with foot
holes, which are placed at short inter-
walls athwart the sloping sides of the
pit.
Having gained the higher level, they
throw down their burdens by the wash
boxes and descend by other bridges at
q steady trot in a silent, orderly and un-
broken stream. The men at the wash
boxes, which are long, sloping troughs
of wood throw in the dirt and by rak-
ing il back and back under a nicely reg
ulated flow of water they separate the
black tin sand from the spoil and shovel
IL into tubs ready for the smelling
house. while the spoil is flung down the
slope Of the hither side of the paddock.
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ARYAN COWBOYS.
Race Composed Almost Entirely of


a Race Composed Almost Entirely of
Herdsmen.
The study of domestic cattle should
I've of especial interest To us because
they have undoubtedly occupied a more
important place in our own ancestral
history than any other species of ami
NAL. The Aryan tribesmen from whom
nearly all western civilization folk are
descended were cowboys almost to 4
man. Like the Kaffirs of South Africa
to-day. all Their thoughts were about
their herds. This is shown in a curious
way by the stud, of the early develop
ment of our language. The Sanskrit
word for a king meant originally "a
chief berdsman." The word for an as
sembly, or the meeting place of con-
s-ress. was the same as that for cow
yard. \ soldier was "one who fights
about cows" Ii would seem as if they
regarded nothing else as worth ruling
over or talking about or fighting for.
Prof. Max Mueller traces the word
daughter" to the ancient term for I
millSmaid. In the good old times they
plainly did not take any account of
young ladies' who were not accom-
plished performers in the cow pen.
The cow or the OK was for long ages
the chief standard of value. Everything
from new cent to new wife was
priced at so many COWS Many of our
words which refer TO money bear traces
Of this, such as fee" and ''pecuniary,'
which are directly derived from the old
English and Latin words for cattle
when other materials began to he used
for coinage, and difficulties arose about
theadiustment of relative values. Sow
metallism" might well have been an
important plank in some of the Aryan
political platforms.-North American
Review.