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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-11-25
Making 1t Clear.

To confuse a witness is generally an
easy task, and lawyers know no easier
way than to may witness explain the
meaning of his words, knowing that
very few people can do SO without get
ting excited. Occasionally victim re-
sents this nagging and answers in a
spirited and unexpected manner. A
lawyer was cross examining young girl
of rather naughty temper. She had tes-
tilted that she had seen the defendant
"shy" book at the plaintiff, and the
lawyer had seized ON the word.
"Shy--shy a bookf What do you
mean by thatr Will you explain TO the
court what the word shy meanaH''
The girl leaned over the desk beneath
the witness box, picked up lawbook
and threw it at the lawyers head, who
lodged just in time.
~ think the court now understands
the meaning Of the word shy, ," said
the judge gravely, and the girl was al
lowed to finish her testimony without
further interruption - Strand MaSs-
zina
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-11-25

tabs 60 tie I'm the back In sash form, fun
boas made Of white, pink, blue, cream or
black silk null These are always pretty
and always becoming. There are long
scarfs, fancy vest fronts, wido collars
trimmed with lace or rulllcs of chiffon,
with feather edge, and dozens of styles
OF iabots of every thin material. Some
mousseline brilliante vest fronts are of.
fored trimmed with fine lace and full ac-
cordon plated down the front. These are
offered i'm oil the light tints and cost about
81. 30 TO SO made. There are long scarf
bows which 20 twice around the neck
and tie in front. These have broad ends,
with rows of plating. Some of them have
graduated tucks and are made of the new
satin moussclne, which is quite as thin as
the silk, but has q satin surface quite
novel, but pretty. Renaissance scarfs 1S
inches wide and % long are new and will
be much affected by the smart sct There
is so much that one can do with long
scarf of lace. The Paris bow is very
popular and has the collar plated, with
broad ends and deep hens to the bow part.
This is of the mousscline brilliante ORR
entail laccs will be worn quite often over
light silks as dancing gowns for winter.
They are unusually delicate this season.
Black tosca net, dotted laVishly with che
Mile will be worn over rcd, pink blue,
yellow and white for full evening dresses,
particularly for young married ladies' IL
is extremely handsome.
After the pretty neckwear come the rich
new waists made to wear with separate
skirts These are Of fine silks velvet and
lace. Those of lace naturally have silk
Innings. The velvets are draped in surplice
folds, made plain, with tabs in front, or
In blouse STYLE Perhaps saw hundred
different basques of velvet in one house.
Inc nanusomest was of rich dark green,
with a yoke, the yoke covered with passe.
menterie. The rest Of 1t was gathered in
blouse fashion to wide belt, also covered
with passementerie. The skirt portion be-
low the belt was simply piped with satin.
There are endless varieties of silk costume
waists, trimmed with everything under
the sun. These cost $40 to $15 each. Plaid
silk blouses are very stylish in the small
figures Of the season. The most striking
of these have clusters Of tiny gold buttons
on the shoulders and down the fronts
Buttons as trimming are very popular.
Some have rows of them in graduated
sizes in smoke pearl, generally delicately
carved
Among these waists which are all inde-
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-11-25
THE BUCKWHEAT CAKE.
1t Is Again Enthroned on Amer
ican Breakfast Tables.
WELL Drowned AND SMOKING HOT

NJ Takes Miles and Miles of Buckwheats
to Satisfy the National Appetite--In All
It's various Forms the FIapIaok Is a
Favorite.
Just about this time of year the buck.
wheat cake becomes the matutinal dish
of the nation. When the frosty Novcm-
Der mornings arrive, the American ap-
petite seems to call for the fragrant,
delicately Drowned disks, and it sell
dom calls in vain. The kitchens of a
million suburban and rural homes are
misty with the incense of smoking grid.
dies, seas Of creamy batter-pasty, bub-
bling, effervescent and indigestible as
glue-await the magic alchemy of the
pan, and the clash Of hot plates, accom-
panied by the flop and splutter of the
cooking cakes, makes pleasant music TO
the ears of those for whom breakfast
means a genuine meal and not a half
hearted dabbling with coffee and rolls.
The buckwheat cake is as truly
American as the sweet potato pie or the
baked bean. Its home is beneath the
starry flag, and it is just as popular to-
day as it was before the war Mr.. How.
ellis recently lent his pen to the compo-
sition Of prose elegy on "the decline
of the doughnut" in which he perpe.
trates not a few dignified but none the
less witty quips on the passing of the
Yankee delicacy. Now, the pancake
antedates the doughnut by at least a
generation, yet no such distinguished
hand has contributed to its literature
Even the poets have neglected it,
The people, however, know the PAN
cake thoroughly. They have it in their
well, not exactly in their hearts, but
nearly So 1t is an urban as we'll as a
bucolic luxury. The city dweller, it is
true, puts up with weak imitation of
the real article, but this he can get ev-
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-11-25

cry day in the year. His advantage is
partly due to the efforts of well known
lunchhouse promoter who has scattered
his open all night places in every big
city clear across the country making
the pancake staple in every one of
them. So industriously has he spread
the evangel of the pancake that go to
the business heart of any American city
from coast to coast, and you will hear
rise above the hoarse hum of traffic, lust
at the monday lunch hour, that .appe-
tiZing slogan:
Brown the buckwheats!"
In these establishments, variously
and irreverently called pie foundries'
and hash factories, " tons of pancakes
are cooked during the year. As an evil
dence of good faith that they are real
pancakes they are prepared in the broad
publicity of the front show window by
a white aproned, white capped cook,
who substitutes for the familiar grid
die gas heated, steel table ON which as
many as two dozen cakes can brown at
once. He is picturesque figure as he
stands there, batter pitcher in hand, un-
moved and unrutfled, while a score of
shrill voiced waiter girls shrek with
hysterical unction such commands as:
Brown the bucksr 1.-TWO to comep
"Three off the griddlel" MAKE 'em
twins" Draw two in the dark l'
Pork and !" Put ON oneW
But every country bred man knows
that the article turned out amid such
environments is not the true pancake,
not the buckwheat cake that mother
used to make. | cannot describe lust
how the genuine pancake should taste
or exactly how IT should he served for
no two pancake artists produce the same
kind of cake. Even the name is muta-
BILE. In some sections it is the hapjack,
in others the griddle cake, while pan.
cake and buckwheat cake are its most
common designations.
How do you eat your pancakes? Do
you fancy butter and sugar, or does
your taste run in the direction of a
miniature food of either sirup or mo-
lasses? Some courageous people who
defy dyspepsia take their pancakes in
plate swimming with pork gravy,
with crisp sausage or two in cheerful
contiguity. Some finicky people eat
them with jelly or preserves, as the
French do their alleged pancakes, which
are not pancakes at all
The cooking Of the buckwheat is an
art in which most American women
and some men are past masters. When
the boys of 1861 went to the war, they
yearned for flapjacks, Most of them
knew little about cooking, but it was
cook or go hungry, and so they had to
learn. Scattered through the country
today You will find many an old veteran
who can take frying pan, cover the
bottom with batter and, when it has
reached just the right point, give it
dexteroas jerk which will send the cake
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-11-25

THE COLONEL GAVE ONE YELL.
colonel could not understand the situa-
ton, but he waited to see what would
come of it.
Dearest" said the man in dulcet
tones, II don't want you to have so
much to say to Billy Jones'"
"Why, Charlie, you know I don't care
q rap for him. love you, you ought
to know that"
There was kiss and then another.
The colonel nudged his friend, the ma
jor, well knowing that his sense of hui
NOR would render the scene all the
more enjoyable. But he didn't move.
The sweet talk went on, very quietly
and decorously. Again the colonel
jabbed his bedfellow. Somehow the
major was sleeping very soundly, and
the colonel raised himself on his ell
bow and took his first good look at
him. Imagine his horror when he dis
covered little square pieces Of damp
cloth over his eyes and a bandage
around his head to keep his jaw in
position. The major was dead.
hS tOlOilSi gave OhS Sli uhu Spi ahB
from the bed. Another bound and he
was out of the door and tearing down
the stairs. Not until he reached the
taproom and swallowed large goblet
of whisky did he recover sufficiently
from his fright to ask for On eXplana-
ton from the landlord, who by this
time was thoroughly intoxicated.
He confessed that he had played a
joke on his guest, and hoped it had not
given him much of turn. The best
part Of the joke was on the young
couple, who had volunteered to sit up
with the corpse. When the colonel
jumped from the bed they thought it
was veritable resurrection. The bold
lover threw himself out Of the window
and the girl tainted dead away. A
sprained ankle was the extent of the
injuries received by her sweetheart, the
landlord settling the bill. The land
lord was quickly sobered by the COM
motion, but the colonel never went
back to that place, no matter II the
fish did bite better there In July than
| anywhere else in Wisconsin.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-11-25

slip his turner under a cake, flip it II
feet into the air and catch it on the
plate with all the dexterity of a juggler
He fairly kept the air full of cakes and
seemed TO like the fun.
If youwould know the pancake in al
its poetic perfection, however, you must
visit the mountain districts of Pennsyl.
vania 1t is there that great quantities
of buckwheat flour are made and there
that the buckwheat cake attains its
crude apotheosis The mountain farmer
raises buckwheat because it is a never
failing crop and will grow on almost
any kind of soil. No field is too stony
or sterile for this hardy cereal The
first thing he does when he clears a
piece Of land is to put in crop of buck
wheat, and when any Of his fields are
worn out he raises buckwheat ON them
for a season or two, getting good crops
and restoring the ground to fertility at
the same time.
Buckwheat is an easy crop to handle
too. 1t need not be planted until the
middle Of June, at a time when the
farmer is waiting for his other crops to
ripen, and it is not gathered until fall.
A buCkwheat field in full flower, show.
ing waves Of creamy whiteness is a
sight to arouse all the latent artistic
sense in even the most matter of fact
farmer. When the flowers are ripening
under the mellow September sun, the
air for long distance to leeward is
filled with a delicious, but somewhat
heavy, fragrance. Sometimes you can
! scent a field of buckwheat from a dis
tance of nearly a mile when the wind
is right.
AS an adjunct to his bucbwheat field
every farmer should keep few hives
of bees, for the flower of the buclwheat
furnishes favorite foraging place for
bees and buckwheat honey is one of
the rare deliCacies of life. 1t is of a
darker color than ordinary clover honey
and has distinct and pleasing flavor
all its own.
When you combine cakes made from
pure buckwheat -four with buckwheat
honey, you have dish which makes Of
breakfast an idyllic matin devotion.
4Auci puIS uluple slIup has always Deeu
held to be the appropriate accompani-
ment for buckwheat cakes, but this is
because only a few favored mortals
know of the virtues of buckwheaT honey
as a substitute.
Although buckwheat is not q grain to
the production of which great areas are
given, the crop is considerable one.
In 1895 we raised no less than 10, 300, o.
600 bushels, and all but small portion
of it was for home consumption. AS the
greater part of this was undoubtedly
made into pancakes, you can imagine
what an Immense stack they would
make if piled one on top of the other
that is, perhaps you can imagine
confess l couldn't, and, being interest.
ed in the subject, l got an amateur
statistiCian to help me figure it out. He
estimated after some careful research
that there were the possibilities of 4, 600
pancakes in each bushel of buckwheat,
which would give grand total Of co.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-11-25

A STACK OF PANCAKES 1876, 1868 MILES HIGH.
1870, 900, 900 pancakes for whose disap-
pearance in the winter of 1886 we as
a nation are responsible. He further fig.
ured that all these pancakes piled one
on the other would make pillar which
would tower 1876, 1868 miles into the air,
or more than half way to the moon. l
also wanted to know how big lump OF
butter such a stack of cakes would re-
quire and the size of the sirup pitcher
which should accompany it, but my
statistician went on strike, and l had
to stop. SEwELL FORD.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-11-25
JOKE FULL OF DANGER.
Hatched IN the Muddled Brain of
a Tipsy Landlord.
How st. Louis Man Was Almost
Scared to Death-A Grewsome Tale
with Some Decidedly HUI
morous Trimmings.

One of the best-known men about
town, who died few years ago, often
told a practical joke that was played
on him which, says the st. Louis Re-
public, forever left its mark The man
in question was a great sportsman and
nothing could keep him away from
angling and shooting when there was
the least chance to do good days work.
In earlier years he was in the habit
of going to little village in Wiscon-
sin, famous for its well7stocked streams.
A man named Beech kept a little hotel
there and the colonel--we will call him
that-often put up with him. He ar
rived there one night in July and re-
tired soon after supper, determined to
get good nights rest. The landlord
was in the bar and somewhat worse
for what he had imbibed.
"I suppose l can have my old room?"
said the colonel, as he shook hands
with him.
Certainly, certainly, my boy, but
you'll have to sleep with the major
you know the major-as the house is
full"
There may have been a merry twinkle
In his eye as he said this, but the
colonel took no notice of 1t. Yes, he
knew the major. The major was a
pleasant old chap, who had lived in the
village for years and made his head
quarters at the tavern. There was a
new moon that night and the colonel
found it light enough to retire with
out a lamp. Besides, he didn't want
to disturb his roommate, who ap-
peared to be fast asleep. Very much
fatigued with his days tramp, he tum-
bled into the bed and was just DOING
off when he heard the door open and
someone come into the room. In the
dim light the colonel distinguished the
outlines of a young man and woman.
They sat down on the soft, where the
rays of the moon fell upon them. The
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-11-25

MP into the air and land il neatly in tho
pan the other side up.
The most shillful pancake artist J
have ever seen presided over the booth
of a buckwheat flour firm at food
show. He was cooking cakes to be given
away as samples to the hungry crowd
He did not use pan, but hot steel
table In one hand he held long han
died turner and in the other plate
When the cakes were done, he would
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-11-25
Distance Measure for Cab,.

A citizen just returned from Paris
describes very ingenious device that
has been adopted there for use in cabs.
1t is a register that indicates the exact
distance automatically the cab travels
on trip, and at the end displays the
amount Of the legal fare for that dis
tance for the information of the passen-
ger,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-11-25

]. M. Thirswend, of Grosbeck, Tex.
says that when he has spell of indiges
ton, and feels bad and sluggish, he takel
two OF DeWitt's Little Early Risers a
night, and he is all right the next morn
ing. Many thousands of others do the
same thing. Do your F. p. ShaDafelt
Co., Fischer's drug store, 4. O. Miller
East End Pbar., 1920 +. Tuscarawas st,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-11-25

Warning:--Persons who suffer from
coughs and colds should heed the warn.
ings of danger and save themselves suf-
fering and fatal results by using One
Minute Cough Cure. 1t is an infallible
remedy for coughs, colds, Group and all
throat and lung troubles. #. p. Shana-
felt Il Co, Me bourne Hotel, Fischer's
drug store, 435 Il. Tuscarawas st., Il. O..
Miller, East End Phar., 1920 e. Tuscara.
WAC gt
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-11-25

You can't afford to risk your life by
allowing cold to develop into pneu.
monia or consumption. Instant relief
and a certain cure are afforded by One
Minute Cough Cure. II. p. Shanafelt 4
Co., Melbourne Hotel, Fischer's drug
store, 436 Il Tuscarawss ST., e. O. Miller,
East End Phar 1920 e. Tuscarawas st.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-11-25
OF NEW YORK.
The Proud Picture Hat and Its
More Modest Contemporaries.
PRETTY FRAMES FOR FAIR FACES
Dainty Eanoies In Fashionable Necitwear.
Rich Waists For Evening wear-Blouse
Jackets Grow In Tnvor-Attractive and
serviceable Gowns For the Home.

Rich Waists For Evening wear-Blouse
Jackets Grow In Favor-Attractive and
serviceabIe Gowns For the Home.
Copyright, 1897 by American Press Asso-
ciauoul
At the present moment hcadwCar holds
the most important position in the fcmi-
nine mind, and indeed no one can blame
the women. Doubtless the men would be
rs anxious over a suitable choice as wom-
en- are ii circumstances and their fashions
did not condemn them TO the stCrcOtypcd
headpiecCs they wear. The three favorite
styles for this season are first the large
picture hats, the velvet or cloth tOquo and
the small evening bonnet whose founda-
tion is covered with glistCning spanglcs,
like the dragon in the fairy spectacular
plays.
These little honncts vary in form so as
10 suit the different faces they are to adorn,
but the most stylish of them have queer
little pagoda pointed crowns and upturnCd
brims, which are slashed at the back to
permit of some sort of trimming or other.
The amount of trimming on these dragon
scale bonnCts Is small and marked more
by its exceeding flnencss and richness than
quantity. Jet sprays, topped with float
Ing paradise plume or an aigret, lace ro'
settes with jeweled centers, a couple of su-
perb velvet roses or some equally hand
some garniture, finish them. The bonnet
itself is one cleaning mass of spanglos
overlapping each other and made loose, so
that they quiver with the least motion Of
the woarer and throw our succeeding
scintillations until the whole looks like
living flames. Trimming would cheaper
the desired effect. Others of these are
made fiat in half handkerchief shapes, and
the point is put forward in some cases and
back in others.
The foundation shapes for tbe toques
vary, too, to fit each head and tacs. Some
are exactly like polo cape, others 'sV" q
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-11-25

Small pill, safe pill, best pill. DeWitt's
Little Early Risers cure biliousness, con-
stipation, sick headache. F., p. Shana-
felt, Hotel Melbourne, Fischer's drug
store, f. q. Miller, East End Phar. 1920
K. Tuscarawas st.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-11-25

Everyday symptoms of digestive dis
orders-acid stomach, distress after eat.
ing, burning at pit OF stomach, dull
heavy feeling-Burdock Blood Bitlers
never fails to correct troubles Of this
sort.