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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-01-14


mining districts inspect prospect holes,
buy claims Of prospectors, hire men to
work the claims, issue stock and sell it
on mines that promise to yield profitable
returns and conduct such a business as
mining companies generally do. This
means that they cannot do all their
work while sitting in comfortable offices,
but that they must sourry around over
wild mining districts, hunt up prospect
ors, go down into prospect holes, look
after engineers, foremen, assayers,
freight agents and attend to thousand
and one details which cannot be in.
trusted to outsiders.
OF course the life in mining camps
today is not what it was 30 years ago.
Tho modern miner does not drink so
deeply, shoot so frequently or swear so
picturesquely as Bret Harte's Kentuck,
and there are fewer Dandy Jims or Jack
Oakhursts floating around. The success
sors to the Roaring Camps Of yesterday
are boom towns which have electric
lights before they are six months old,
which are born with the railroads al
most at their limits and are in close
touch with the mining exchanges,
thanks to the telegraph wires Still, a
mine manager cannot wear patent leath-
ers and kid gloves while at work, and
it will seem rather strange to see women
in the business.
These Spokane women, however,
know exactly what they are undertake
ing, The president of the company, Mrs.
Orilla Bertrand, has thorough business
training, for she kept the books Of the
city while her husband was city treas.
urer. The vice president, Mrs Mary A.
Davis, for many years conducted busi-
ness of her own in Chicago and is now
the wife of one of Spokane's leading
merchants. Mrs Ella b. Reed, the
treasurer, was for two years contest
clerk in the United States land office at
Spokane and for the last five years has
been conducting successful typewrit'
ing business.
Mrs. Anna May Keiser, the treasurer
and manager, is the leading spirit of the
enterprise. She formerly resided in Chi
cago and is newspaper writer who has
made quite reputation. The Other
members of the company are all women
who have had more or less business ex
perience, and one Of them, Mrs. E,
Scoons of Seattle, is practical mine
manager, her husband being large
owner of mining property.
But women are not only managing
mining property. They are going out al
prospeotors, and some of them are hav,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-01-14

Persons who are troubled with indiges-
tlon will he interested in the experience Of
william II. Penn, chief clerk in the RI H.
way mail service at Dss Moines, Iowa,
who writes: "It gives me pleasure tn
testify to the merits of Cham berlain's 4
Collie, Cholera aud Diarrhoea Rem edy.
For two years / have suffered from indi
geslion, and am subject to frequent at
taoks Of pain In the stomach and bowels.
One or two doses OF this remedy never
fails to give perfect relief. Price 25 and
30 cents. Sold by G. N. Nye, corner
Barnett House; Sobla baoh's drug store,
ssb. N. Market; E. l.. Janson, 300 Tus.
carawas street.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-01-14

THE OLD FASHIONED NURSE. .
her work would possess, we would never
think of quoting poetry about trained
nurse. She has no romance about her.
She is too scientific and, it might be
added, too expensive.
OF course there are the charity nurses
who dispense their benefaotions in the
city sluns. These the fiction writer
sometimes surrounds with a romantic
glamor, but the professional trained
nurse has too much of the business
woman about her for his uses.
The coming of the trained nurse has
displaced also somewhat picturesque
character. With her arrival the "old
woman nurse" has been showed aside.
The change is most grateful one.
Sarah Camp will always live in fiction,
but we can well spare her from the
modern sickroom.
We all know the old nurse, her pecu-
liarities and her limitations. She may
not have been quite so frowsy as Mrs.
Camp, her weakness for "just putting
the bottle to her lips when she was SO
dispoged" might not have been so mark
ed, and perhaps she did not approve of
Mrs. Prig's somewhat abrupt manner Of
soothing fractions patients, as did Mrs.
| Camp, hut she was not an attractive
| figure at best and did little to rob the
sickroom of the least of its terrors.
She was generally some whimsical,
fat and untidy widow who had seen 80
or more hard winters and who had q
wealth of uncheering reminisoence to
tell about them. Invariably she had
taken tonursing because "she had had
so much sickness in her own family that
she got used to it" and because she had
no otherway of earning living. That
good nursing might require special apti-
tude or knowledge no one formerly
thought eof declaring. Was she not a
"motherly old SOUL" who was willing
to work cheaply and put up with all
sorts Of Inconvenience?
But what an altogether different per-
son is then new nurse-the trained nurse
She arrives in a cab and asks to have
her luggage, which consists of a dress
suit case, sent to her room. There she
goes herself, and when she reappears she
has changed her tailor made dress for
her neat nErse's uniform, of which the
prominent features are the spotless
white apron with its crossed straps, the
white muslin cap with its prim frills,
and the immaculate collar and cuffs.
Her trim figure, rosy cheeks and bright
| eyes make a picture that cannot help
| but brighten the dullest sick chamber.
Thus arrayed she is ready to assume
her position as the autocrat Of the sick
! room. She goes about her work in a
prompt, decided. businesslike manner.
| Nursing as ahe understands and prao-
tioes it means work. Instead of making
herself comfortable she tries to do as
Emuch for the patient. And how many
tsways she finds Oof doing this She ar
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-01-14

an unpaIstabIe, pssty beverage that even
q hungry well man would grumble at,
and the beet tea was usually little bet
ter. The new nurse, though, will take
chatting dish and prepare dozens of ap-
petizing little dainties that are digesti-
BILE and palatable. With milk and eggs
she can make such combinations as
would delight the soul of gourmet.
She knows how to sterilize milk so that
every last germ in it is killed as dead
as door nail, or she can pasteurize it
II the physician prefers limited execu-
tion Of microbes at 175 degrees +.
And then, when convalescenoe comes,
how she can sharpen up the dull appe-
tite with milk punches and eggnogs
such as none hut the most expert bar
tender could concoctl She can even give
points to the doctor himself about the
use of pepsin and lime water in milk,
ventilation, the use of antiseptics and a
dozen other little points in improved
hygiene which he has not hal the time
to acquire.
She can be trusted, too, to administer
the medicines with regularity and ao-
curaoy There is no likelihood that she
will give the wrong liquid or an over
dose, for she understands the nature OF
the medicines herself and their effects.
Should an emergency arise, she can be
relied upon to know what to do, ant
with her in the house the doctor can re,
duce the number of his visits sometimes
one-half.
The social position Of the trained
nurse in the household is not fully un
derstood by the public She understand
it thoroughly, however, and so do tn,
people who have once employed her. II
the sick chamber, of course, she is ai
autocrat, and in other parts Of the houst
she is on the same social plane with he
employers. She has had long and hare
fought battle to maintain her prope
sphere; but, with the help Of the physi
clans, she has won it.
When the trained nursc first appeared
on the scene, there was disposition T.
relegate her to the servants table, bu
she promptly rebelled. She took the pc
sition that if her authority in the sick
room was to be maintained she must no
be treated as a menial when she wa
out of it. The physician was not $
treated. Why should she be? She mad
it plain that she was as far removes
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-01-14

ing great luck too. Some of the most
promising claims in the Holy Cross dis
trict are those which were staked out
rot many months ago by Mrs. J. Il.
Dunn of Erie, Pa, who went west on
her own hook, bought an outfit and pros.
pected until she found a locality that
suited her, The General Thomas mine
at Cripple Creek, which is attracting a
lot of attention to the rich ore which is
being taken out of it, is owned by Mrs.
Levina Haynes, who until she got the
gold fever was Chicago milliner Yes,
the woman miner has arrived
ANNETTE CRAWFORD.
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w. T.. r. U. IN CANADA.
Preparstisn. For the worlds Convention

Preparations For the Worlds Convention
Give an Impetus TO the Movement.
The fact that the next convention Of
the worlds Woman's Christian Tenn.
perance union is to be held in Toronto
has given additional interest to the
white ribbon movement throughout
Canada. The Dominion union is wag.
ing an active crusade in the cause Of
prohibition and hopes to be able to make
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-01-14
MlNISTERING ANGEL.
Good Genius of the Sick Cham
Der Is the Trained Nurse.
8 PRACTICAL AND SCIENTIFIC.

Nursing Has Developed Into y Fine Art
Since tho Days of sairey Gsmp-Train-
Ing, Manners and Methods of the Mod
ern Nurse.
The trained nurse is one Of the factors
n the life Of today which prove that
modern civilization is not failure. A
generation ago we didn't know her.
When we were first introduced, score
II years back, we regarded her with sus-
DicioB, and many of us actually turned
,ur backs on her. Now we couldn't get
along without her.
Not that we surround her in q haze
If poetic fancy and always think of her
n connection With Scott's noble couplet,
,or we don't. True, il we should have
PERSONAL need Of her services we might
enthusiastically repeat:
When pain and anguish wiring tho brow,
1ninistering angel thou.
fIut in sober and normal state Of
mIId, such as o disinterested spectator Of
a-zSS,.S2
%tE\sE, UHo
0N'&22zzl4aAs e.
I ~Ssc~Iss>S ::
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-01-14

Excuse me-" observed the man in
spectacles, "but am a surgeon, and that
is not where the liver is." "Never you
mind where his liver is" retorted the
other. "If it was in his big toe or his
left ear DeWitt's Little Early Rlsers
would reach ii and shake it for him. On
that you can bet your gig.lamps." Sold
by +. p. Shanafelt 4 Co., O. N. Nye,
Fishers Drug Store.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-01-14
NOW SHE MINES GOLD
A NEW FIELD FoR THE NEW WoMAN'S
ENTERPRISE.

Spokane Women Organize and Operate q
Mining Company Afraid Of Hard
Work and Hard KNOCKS Women Pros
pectors In Colorado.
Enterprising women in the west have
engaged in many kinds Of business
which traditioEally belonged to men
alone, but it remained for Spokane TO
furnish the first mining corporation to
be organized by women. 1t is not
mere paper organization with men to do
the work, nor yet make believe, office
renting concern, but it is corporation
composed of practical, hustling business
women who are in the field not as a
pastime but to make money.
The Woman's Northwestern Mining
and Investment company is the title un-
der which the articles of corporation
were fled, and the capital stock is an
nounced as $2,000,0 900. The women
propose, as officially set forth in the
records, to acquire, own and maintain
mining properties and real estate and to
develop and operate such properties, as
we'll as to acquire and maintain water
rights, lines of transportation and such
other appurtenances as may be necessary
for carrying ON general mining bust
ness.
For the benefit Of those not familiar
with mining it may be as well to state
that these women intend to scour the
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-01-14
G 3.
emptying
the Shelves.

When this store wants
to accomplish something, it adopts
means that is to peoples advan-
tage, and then uses it vigorously,
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS how we're doing
this shelf emptying-
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-01-14

to Lydia i. PiLkham's Vegetable Com
pound. IT acts at once upon the organ
affected, and the nerve centers; re-
moves the cause, and dispels effectually
the symptoms.
Mrs. Barrls relates her experience
for the benefit of others.
81 had been sick with liberation
Of the womb, causing all kinds of dis
agreeable experiences, such as irrita-
bility, sleeplessness, faintness, and at
times Mysteries. My physician said it
was the worst case he ever had. My
back ached, leucorrhna very profuse,
and had severe bearing-dowiI pain.
The physicians thought / should never
recover, and as the last remedy, they
| procured your Vegetable Compound.
/ had not taken more than one-fourth
of a bottle, before 1 was more COM
Portable. continued its use, also the
Sanative Wash, and Liver Pills. After
using four bottles, was able to be
out, and do almost all my work. /
think the Vegetable Compound is the
Unly medicine that will cure female
complaints, and it will reach the worst
cases in very short time. know il
saved my life. e."-MRs. NJ, BARRIs,
Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania all drug.
| CiSts.
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ranges the bed so that the light can be
let in without hurting his eyes. She
hangs up her thermometer and does not
rest until she has the temperature of the
room inst right. She calls for deodoriz-
ers and uses them scientifically. She
moves about quietly and docs her work
without noise or confusion.
When the doctor comes, she has some.
thing more definite to tell him about
her charge than that he has been fairly
comfortable. " She hands him her phart
on which she has neatly recorded the
patients Temperature, taken hourly or
oftener, and lot more Of tabulated in
formation--aocurate, concise. From her
written report and from such other facts
as she is able to give him the physician
knows as exactly what hns been the con-
dition of the patient during his absence
as if he had been by the bedside the en-
tire time.
But it ia in preparing the sick person s
meals that her cultivated genius shines
forth at its best. The old fashioned
purse could offer the invalid but two
dishes One was Cruel, and the other
was beef tea Tbs Cruel was ranarnllv
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-01-14
HOME OF LITTLE NELL.

Dickens Old Curiosity Shop In London to
BE Torn Down.
One Of the many buildings which
Dickens made famous is to be torn down
by order Of the London board of works.
1t is the little old house in Portsmouth
street which for years has been known
as the "Old Curiosity Shop" 1t is said
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-01-14
ABigsClothing Factory Closed Up,
LEOPOLD, HESS & co. OUT OF BUSINESS
We Bought the Entire Stock from Fred Hart Trustee at
Less than Half the Cost of Production.
This Great Sale rs Still Going On, Continue
Until the Goods All Closed Out


w
at
of
cheaper than before this list
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THE DAILY CAMERA.

old muzzle-loaders. They've mostly
nothing but bows and lances.'
The horses were painting furious'y
now. and some of the squad were string
ing out far in the rear. Dolan, glancing
back, saw two or three men vainly lash
ing their exhausted mounts long mus
ket-shot behind.
st won't do. lieutenant; We'll have to
keep together, or, first thing you know,
Il iull rack y them yelpin' ours II burst
out of some ravine, cut those fellows
otf-kill and scalp 'em and scurry away
on their fresh ponies before we could
get back to hep. Let 'eIn catch up, sir,
Wen get there time enough"
And SO, more slowly now, as advised
by the veteran plainsman, Lambert led
his party, the young Texan ranging
alongside and riding on his right. He,
too, wanted to charge, and again old Do
Ian pointed out the absurdity of it.
Their ponies are fresh and nimble.
We'd never catch them, while they
could ride around and split us with their
damned arrows. What we want is a
chancewith ourSpencers and rifles, sir;
that's the way to empty their saddles
and stand 'em off. Look yonder, sir"
And then, just as Dolan pointed, three
mounted warriors, their war-bonnets
trailing over their bounding ponies
hacks-the first hostile Indians Lam
bert had ever seen-burst from their
covert behind the low divide to the
right tand went scurry ing away towards
the northward hills in wide detour to
ioin their comrades. The road disap-
peared round a gentle rise in the prai-
rie half a mile ahead.
"Out with you, Lang and Naughton!' V
said the sergeant, brisllly. Go ahead
to that point" And the two troopers,
well knowing what was required OF
them, dartad on without a word, Lam
bert and the main body following now
ut steady trot. Before the two thus
thrown in advance had coGle within
three hundred yards of the bend, a little
let of smoi-a and fire flashed out from
oyer the riGitse. followed instantly by
two others; both riders swerved; one
horse stumbled and went down, his rider
cleverly rolling out from among the
striking, struggling hoofs. That's the
way they'd have picked you off. sir"
shouted Dolan, as the whole party burst
into gallop and drove straight for the
ridge. We'll sweep them aside in a
second"
ITO be Continued.)
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pushed on cautiously to the point, so
as to scout the trail beyond. With
dropping heads and heaving TANKS the
motley herd were huddled in a little
swale to the right of the road, their
holders eagerly watching the young
leader and savinp few words. Warily
Dolan reached ans. :'e''ren over the crest.
They could see, rrnl point1ng-could
see both he and Lambert shading their
eyes with their hands and staring away
into space-could see Dolan suddenly
clutch the officers sleeve, and crouch
ing lower, point as though to some OBJ
jects far out over the slopes beyond.
Then down thev came. eager. elastic,
with cleaning eyes and glowing faces.
Mount, men, mount! There's fight
not five miles aheadl" sang out Dolan,
and, swinging into saddle, with Lam
bert only a length In lead, struck spurs
| to his horse. the whole squad gathering
at their heels. Young Texas, peering
around the point, heard them coming,
and threw "a long, lean leg over his
scraggy ponv. "see anythiag?" he
i hailed.
Eyes; Indians attacking something
or other bout a mile to the north of the
road; looks like dug-out o some
kind"
"'Tis a dug-out, by Gawd! l know
the place. Witherell's herd used to
Craze around their last year, and he
and his boys built that dng-out in case
they were attacked; and maybe the
stage managed to get back there. Some
ones alive, else the Indians wouldn't be
fighting"
A cheer went up from the foremost
men. After all, then, there was YES
tige of hope. Lambert, eager and i'm
petuous, was spurrirg off to the open
prairie that lay beyond sweeping
bend of the stream. but Dolan hailed
him:
"Not yet, lieutenant, not yet. There's
some wild arroyos out yonder. Stick to
the road, sir, till we can see the hut.
It's up long, shallow valley beyond
that second divide. | know the place
now"
But they'll see us, sergeant" shout
ed Lambert, as he bent over the POM
mel, and drove his rowels wickedly at
the torn fanks of his poor brute. 81
hoped to surprise them and charge
lord love you, sir, there's no sur
prising these Dcggars in broad daylight.
They've been watching for some of us
ever since sun-up, and they've seen US
now. Lucky they haven't guns, 'cept
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There Is no name In this section Of the
country, connected with the medical worlo,
that is better known to the public than that
of Mr.. Monroe Peterson. He is situated in
a nice, comfortable home, with good farm,
about four miles west of johnson City, ILL.,,
He is now fifty y-eight years old, in healthy
condition, and weighs one hundred and ninety
pounds. Not more upright and honorable
citizen does our nation afford, and he ID
looked upon with wonder, because OF his
healthy condition after so long period Of
misery and suffering.
The cause of Mr.. Peterson's long suffering
was hurt which he received in fall, while
running drill in 1861, being soldier at
the time. He has been crippled in his right
leg ever since that date. Sciatic rheumatism
then set in, and his leg began to slowly
wither away and draw up in tho joint, and
now it is about two inches shorter than the
other. It began to grow worse and. finally,
his whole body began to shake like person
with tho st. Vitus' dance. His first sewers
attack was about six years ago.
There is no disease in the power Of human
endurance more awful in its pains and
Affections than sciatic rheumatism. Some
times its pain may be slow, steady one,
while, at other times, it comes with jerks
and wrenches that seem to twist the body
out Of all shape of recognition. It seems to
contract the muscles, drawing the body al-
most in knot. While, this is probably the
worst stage of sciatic rheumatism, it is some
,,, p,i11op Ia
with Mr.. Peterson, but with it was associ-
ated feeling and condition almost as un-
comfortable and unbearable. The body was
in . continual shake, rendering it impossible
for him to do anything. He had lost all
control of his muscles. On application to q
physician for relief, he was told that the
affection might last him all his life, or, on
the other hand, it might leave him entirely
at an unexpected moment.
. For over three years he was not able to
write q word, 30 severe was his shaking. He
could not even sign his vouchers, thereby
having to make his mark and witness it. At
this time he could not walk step without
aid, nor even sit down in a chair without
assistance. So severe was the shaking of
blind. He could not distinguish person .
rods distance in front of him. He came
very nearly losing his, mind, and his friends
thought, a. . last resort, that he would have
to be taken to hospital. When he was
taken to town for examination by . physi-
clan, he had to be examined in the buggy,
30 difficult was it for him to get out. Often.
times it would seem that life was nearly ex-
tinct, and his feet and hands would have to
be bathed in warm water and rubbed in
order to restore the circulation. For two
years he was not able to feed himself 4. the
table. His ever faithful and dutiful wife put
the food to his mouth. Atnight he would take
,mothering spells and would have to be
ifted/up In bed that he might regain his
breath and strength. At this critical period
,bls to do anything but sit and suffer his
aiserable life away.
One physician gave as his decision of the
,ase, that his leg wonld have to be placed in
) vics and stretched to it, original length,
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Copyright ,ss4. by J. B. Lippineott conp.y.l

out of his wits. He can't prove what he
says" was the brief report to Lambert
and the sergeant, now riding side by
side at the head of the little column.
Another hour. and, closer to the river,
they were following the meanderings
of the stage road, and the ridge loomed
higher ahead. Two more settlers had
been passed; and they were exaggera-
tive beyond any senblance of proba-
bility The Indians numbered thou
sands. the dead hundreds. The stage
had Eeen warned not to push on beyond
Paloma bluffs last night, but persisted
III an attempt to reach the Caliente Col
Sweet and party had been butchered 10
a man-victims of his own rash effort
to aid the poor fellows at the station,
and of his criminal disregard of Texan
warnings.
''Well know the truth in an hour,
lieutenant, so there's no use wasting
time with those beggars. You can sec
the Paloma from yonder bluffs" was
Dolan's only comment
Just at one o'clock the foaming, pant
ing horses were reined in, and the girths
loosened, while Lam bert. guided by the
veteran Indian-fighter, crawled eau
tiously up the height in front of them.
Half the men dismounted, were sta
Toned with ready rife or carbine where
they could command every approach.
Who could say whether Indians were
not even then lurking in every ravine' .
a young Texan, following the road,