davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-01-28
Big Teiephone Cable Contract.

The largest telephone cable contract
ever giyel is reported from st. Louis as
result of the telephone wires being
placed under ground in that city. The
statement that the contract covers ESQ.,
900 feet of cable containing fully 1OO,-
100000 feet of No. Is B. & S. copper
wire, 100000 pounds of lead casing
and thousands of pounds of paper in
sulation can only be appreciated by
comparisons. Six hundred and fifty
thousand feet equals about 124 miles,
or about the distance from New York
along the coast to Cape May, or the
very end of New Jersey. The small
wires, if spliced together, would reach
nearly half round the earth, the total
length being $4,000 miles. One thous-
and tons of lead would equal in weight
a solid prism of castiron ten feet
square and forty-five feet high.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-01-28

days were numbered. My mother broueht
ME DR.. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People
and the first box made me feel better.
continued the treatment and to-day am
well.
"When commenced to take the pills
weighed t20 pounds, now weigh JAG
and f,sI that my recovery Is permanent.
III oSs my happiness and my health to
DR.. Williams Pink Pills. My husband
was benefited by them. l have recon-
mended them to many Of my friends and
will be glad Il any word Of mine will direct
others to the road Of good health"
DR.. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People
have cuied many cases Of almost sirraaf
nature.
The vital elements in Mrs. Lords blood
were deficient. The haemoglobin was ex-
hausted. She was unfit for the strain she
was compelled TO undergo. Her nervous
system was shattered and her vitalti
dropped below the danger point.
A collapse was inevitable.
DR.. Williams Pink Pills cured her BY
suprlsing the lacking constituents Of health
by filing the veins with blood rich in the
requisite element Of life. The heart re-
sun.ed its normal action; the nervous sys-
tenn was restored to state OF harmony,
and the neura1gic affection disappeared.
Dr. Williams Pink Pills are sold by
druggists everywhere, who believe them
to be one OF the most efficacious medicines
the century has produced.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-01-28
A Good Word.

"Interurban" had to come. It is q
newspaper word" now, but it will be
in the books and magazines soon, and
Mrs. Grundy, who shifts at the news
papers, where most of the useful new
words are manufactured or first re-
corded, will have to accept it. "Ur-
BAN suburban" ''interurban," why
not? The trolley lines" have forced
it upon us. A steam railroad in "in-
terurban" so much as a matter of
course that it was not necessary to
coin the word. But the electric road
was originally urban, then subur-
ban, and when in occasional in
stances cities like Holyoke and
Springfield were connected "inter-
urban" was the logical and inevitable
sequence. Let it be inscribed speedily
in the supplements of the big diction-
aries; there is no reason why it should
be kept on the waiting list, to be ap-
proved or black-balled by the lexico-
graphical purists, for it stands ON its
own merits.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-01-28
The Dangers of starched Linen.

Professor Max Rubner, who lectures
on hygiene at the Berlin University
has published very interesting ar
ticle on the use of starched laundry in
summer, After extensive and careful
investigation, he has come to the con-
clusion that starched linen forms a
very strong obstacle to the discharge
OF heat an influence that becomes
stronger in proportion as the outside
temperature rises. In winter, when we
try hard to retain our bodily heat, the
protection given by starched linen Ia
very small, on account of the low tenn
rerature on the outside, and in summer
when he try as hard to cool off as much
as possible, starched linen energetical-
ly keeps the heat in. 1t is true enough
that with the rising temperature per-
spiration will dissolve the starch, but
even then 1t is very disagreeably felt.
In this condition it closes up the pores
OF the linen and renders difficult the
entrance of dry air to the skin, and II
is just the fresh and dry air that gives
us GOODNESS in summer.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-01-28
Editor With Imagination.

This is how an editor described a re.
cent fire: "The water seemed to spur
the fire to wilder deeds. The flames
and the smoke rolled higher and high
er, and the scene became luridly, aw-
fully magnificent beyond tottering
words power to paint. 1t was a canto
of Dante's Inferno acted in all it's
fiery pomp and splendor. Banners OF
flame would now be waved but by dark
smoke-hands, then ten million little
curling pennons Of the fire would hiss
and fiutter, then vanish, and a great
reeling tower of smoke, whose dark
ness was stabbed and spangled with
flames and sparks, would fill the scene,
while all around the surrounding
buildings grimly shot back from re-
fiecting surfaces a crimson greeting,
and up in the far-oft sky the outglis-
tened stars turned pale for Ehame and
the moon through the drifted smoke
glowed like bowl of blood"
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-01-28
Soaking Veteran. as Husbands.

The large colony of women who have
come to Hallowell and Gardner to prey
upon the inmates of the Soldiers
Homeat Togus, Me-, are in a state of
panic over the recent suggestion of
Pension Commissioner Evans, who has
recommended to Congress that no PEN
sions be granted the widows of SOL
diers who are married hereafter.
Many veterans who live at the Home
arc trapped into marriage every year
ty women who seek the $12 a month
pension which will come to them on
the death OF their husbands. Most of
these women have had regulations and
no character. Having led gay lives in
the cities until their beauty is gone,
they seek marriage with the old SOL
diers for the sole purpose of inheriting
pensions. After capturing husbands
most OF the women go back to the cit
les and cause no more trouble until
death carries off the veterans and the
widows pensions may be obtained.
There are a dozen places near the
Home, all of which do thriving busi-
ACSa ny thS 'NNNi bho iAolNC ulIu
filling them up with liquor until they
fall an easy prey to the women who
are waiting for husbands. In case a
man refuses to drink and shows re-
sistance he is quieted with club or
anything else that comes handy. Last
spring an inmate of the Home was
killed in free fight in one of these
dens.
Commissioner Evans declaration
strikes at the root of the evil, and is
causing the women to redouble their
efforts. Unless they get husbands be-
fore Congress meets, they fear their
prospects Of pensions will fade. New
women are coming here from Boston
and New York, and the dives are wide
open. A man who wears a Grand
Army badge can stay drunk for a
month and never spend cent. The
local police are making efforts to close
the places, but as fast as one is shut
up others are started, and the business
goes on as briskly as ever.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-01-28
ENERGY AND POWER.


A Vast Difference Between the Two, Says
The Engineer.
A trolley wire conveys energy, not
power, from the power house to the
motor of the electric car. The energy
thus conveyed performs no work ex-
cept in overcoming the resistance Of
the wire, till it reaches the motor,
wherein it is converted into power,
which is expended in the performance
OF work. The boiler of locomotive
does not transmit power from the fur
mace to the water in the ooiler; it
transmits that form of energy known
as heat; strictly speaking, the boiler
does no work. BY figure of speech
we say boiler,"wnrks well or ILL., as
the case may be-. but, when we consult
our mechanical and thermodynomical
definitions, we find no warrant for say
Ing that a boiler works, nr that it
transmits power; what it transmits Is
energy-a very different thing from
either power or work. The steam pipe
leading from the boiler to the steam
chest of an engine cylinder does not
'i"hShit poWeri IL SIMPLY trdHSHltS
the heat energy generated in the boil
er; only when the steam reaches the
cylinder and the piston moves, energy
is converted into work, which, when
quantitatively expressed in units of
work performed in a specified time, is
power, On the other hand, rope trans
mission, belt transmission, shaft trans
mission, etc, are examples of power
transmission The Engineer.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-01-28

and work early and late to earn a live
lihood. Two of them work in the
field the third does the cooking and
other housework
There is but one period of the year
when any member of the trio has any
thing to say to any other member. All
during the winter, spring and summer
they go about their business with the
seal of silence on their lips. When fall
comes and the crop is harvested, they
break the silence, and then only to
quarrel over the division of the pro-
ceeds. When each has succeeded In
getting all that she thinks possible, 81
lence reigns again until the next har-
vest time. The sisters, as you may
judge, have made name for them
selves. They are known far and near
as the deaf and dumb triplets,' al
though such title is scarcely appro-
priate'
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-01-28
something else. That
emand for mechanical
put so many duplicates

ne market. Papa and mamma
are the only words uttered by dolls to-
day, but the makers will improve on
that you may depend on it. The next
thing We'll be having dolls spoutng
proverbs like "A stitch in time
saves nine and Never too late to
mend to their little mothers.
There is one feature in which the
German makers have not improved
and that is in the quality of the hair
with which they top off their high class
dolls No matter how prettily formed
and captivating the candidate for sale
may be, her flowing locks are nine
times out Of ten either nothing but jute
or hemp, or mixture of hair that
mats on short notice, and, moreover,
resists the comb.
THE doll is $3.50, did you say? Well,
of course must get wig for her, and
that will cost me $3.50 MORE" said the
woman who was pricing and compar-
ing dolls.
"Oh, her hair looks very nice; those
lOVely cuTlS! Salu the SaleSWOman,
twining one gold ringlet round her
finger.
ut looks lovely now, when it's Just
taken out of the box,". was the answer,
but after my little girl has had hold of
her an hour or so, 1t will be a sight.
Besides, I've promised to give her a
doll whose hair she can comb and
brush as much as she wants to. I'll
take that doll. Shes a beauty. I'd
like to have her jdet to look at. But
I'll get rid of that jute top-piece of
hers straightaway.
do we keep dolls wigs?" said a
well-known hair dealer. well, |
should say so. Some children want
dark hair on their dolls, because all
the dolls are brought out with light
hair. We sell many brown and black
wigs for that reason. Then, | don't
suppose there's child of well-to-do
parents who does not stipulate that her
doll shall have real hair that she can
brush and tuck up, or curl or braid,
just as she sees grown-up people doing
up their hair. Our wigs cost from 81
to Sc apiece. We always count on the
dolls wig season and never mind how
many we get in, there are seldom any
left over"
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-01-28
A Skunk Killed by Sparrows.

Mr.. F. Abel, of Freeport, l.. L., sent
the following communication, interest
ing to all lovers of natural history to
the Brooklyn Eagle:
while hunting in the northern part
Of Merrick, l.. l., ! saw one of the
most peculiar fights that l ever had the
luck to witness. l was after rabbits.
and was walking along near a rail
fence, when my attention was sudden
ly attracted by an immense swarm of
sparrows which were flying from one
side of the fence to the other, twitter-
ing with all their might. They were
somewhat above me, so, running up
nearer, tried to find out the cause of
the trouble. 1t showed itself in the
shape of large skunk, which was
darting from one side of the fence tc
the other, the sparrows following
picking at him savagely when they
got the chance.
"They did not seem to mind my pres
ence at all, and this lodging and at
tacking was kept up for about five min
utes, when suddenly the skunk crossed
to my side of the fence and started
across a big lot with the evident in.
tention of getting to a thick wood
which lay on the other side. He had
made perhaps half way when the en-
tire flock of sparrows, numbering al
least 800, pounced on him. The skunk
fought well, but to no purpose, for in
less than a minute he YVES torn to
shreds"
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-01-28

Not many American eggs are export
ed, and not many eggs are imported;
none except ia seasons when eggs here
run very high. The imported eggs come
from Sweden, Germany and Austria.
They come in boxes containing hun
dreds of dozens each, packed in chop
ped straw. A few eggs in this country
are still packed in straw in barrels, but
the now well-nigh commonly used
American egg package is box con-
tanning thirty or thirty-six dozen. The
eggs are packed in the now familiar
strawboard racks, which are called
filters. The eggs are stood on end,
each in a pigeon hole by itself, six
dozen eggs in a layer. There are
sheets of straw-board between the lay
ers, and eggs are packed some FIVE
and some six layers to the box. Eggs
are most costly in winter, but cold
storage has done much to equalize the
price OF eggs the year round.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-01-28
SHAVED JESSE JAMES.
The Outlaw Kept Guard with Two Cooked
Revolvers.

The Outlaw Kept Guard with Two Cooked
Revolvers.
IL shaved Jesse James, the once
noted outlaw, down in southern Ken
tucky long time ago." said an old,
gray-haired fellow on the train the
other day, when the mans life wasn't
worth penny. Jesse rushed into my
little country place, down in the Red
River country, one day In the latter
wouldn't shave him while he looked
after his Colts revolvers and watched
the door. l was not barber by trade,
but those persuaders had induced me
to try my hand with new Wade &
Butcher razor l took out Of my show
case. AS l shaved, the man of iron
nerve sat with a cooked pistol in each
hand and told me in a few hurried
words that a posse was pursuing him,
bent on capturing him dead or alive,
on the charge of robbing a bank at
Russellville, crime, he averred, of
which he was not guilty. He wanted
his beard shaved off that he might fool
his pursuers If they should happen to
catch up with him. finished the job
Of scraping. The much-wanted indi-
vidual thanked me, and, mounting a
horse, which had been hitched in the
rear of my store, bade me good evening
and rode away. didn't know for cer-
tain who my visitor was, although l
suspected it, until the next day, when
heard that a man in the neighborhood
was telling that he had seen the elder
James the afternoon before. / sup
pose that was the last shave Jesse
James got in Kentucky, and have
never seen him SINCE"
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-01-28

The South appears to be booming
freaks just now. At Oxford, North
Carolina, cyclone transported
through the air a two-story frame
house, and set 1t down on a more
slightly site, 200 yards distant from
tie point of embarkation, the family
being at dinner and undisturbed by
their little whirl. We may look out
for this item again, when it has gath
cred its second wind. When it comes
around the next time the house will
probably be of bricks. Alabama mod
estly enters leading by her apron
strings a woman who was struck by
her cheek. The encounter occurred
seven years ago and the woman has
never mentioned tin fact, she has
not spoken since-but her eyes al
ways blaze like blazes and shine with
the intensity of an arc lamp just be-
fore thunder storm. Georgia peeps
in and exhibits a Macon woman who,
in breaking an egg to make pudding,
ended at an early stage the career of
chick with four legs. Texas weakly
attempts to rival Georgia by cackling
and clucking about Galveston woman
who exhibits as production of her
own hennery chicken in good health
having two beaks in good working or
der for bugs and currants, and three
eyes always on the lookout for pro-
vender. There are others.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-01-28

Minute diamond ornaments take the
form of donkeys, birds lowering over
nests of eggs, horses racing, dogs
leashed together and other odd de-
vices. Huge diamond birds form
aigrettes and the smallest watches ever
made are worn as gtuds
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-01-28

"Yerbury endeavored TO explain
something to the court but was per-
emptorily ordered to set down and
let his counsel speak for him.
The extract is from report Of a
civil trial in a court in Newark, N. j.
1t is not often that litigant desires
to address the court when he has an
attorney who is engaged for that pur-
pose; but it is not without course OF
mental debate that the average man
off the bench and not cloaked with n
law diploma satisfies himself that he
is of such mean clay or so ignorant
or so offensive that he is not fit to and
may not, if he wish, assert his man
hood and intelligence and speak for
himself when his property rights are
imperiled OF course it would some
times be a nuisance, but is 1t not the
duty of a judge to endure that sort
of nuisance in the interests Of justice?
After all, is there not more hope Of at
tanning to the truth in any trial when
the litigants are loquacious, verbose,
prolix and minute in detail than when
they sit mute and never answer ques-
ton until their attorney has express
ly said: Answer" 1t does some
times seem as though the courts are a
little too careful in small things. Why,
we once saw a judge fine defendant
in a civil case for getting out of the
witness chair and knocking the plain
tiff's lawyer into a cuspidor for insu'
ing him in cross-eXamination! An
then he was fined some more for ask
ing the Judge why in the name of the
place of burning sulphur he didn't fine
the lawyer for falling on the cuspidor
when there was so much room for him
to fall beside it.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-01-28
Logan school Exalnlners meetings..

The Board of Sch ooI Examiners of I.op.n
Niliage Will hold regular meetings for the
examination ofnpplicants Te achers Certif-
Gates on the Third Wednesday of February,
April June, August, October and December
at the Office ofthe SUPERINTENDENT, in the
School Building of said Village. Examina.
ITO is begin at $3.50 A. NJ, standard of each
day.
By Order rBonrd ofEx.
o. w. II Wright Pres
H. IL. Ravnan, Clerk.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-01-28

A physician who has given much
thought to the subject says that SC
long as the cyclist can breathe with
the mouth shut he is certainly safe SC
far as heartstrain Is concerned.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-01-28
Three Qreor Tennesee Farmers.

There Is in Tennessee a family Of
three sisters, which presents some of
the most startling peculiarities imagin-
able" said J.J. Kennedy, of that State.
"The three sisters live together on a
farm. their sole means Of subsistence,
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-01-28
CLEVER NEW DOLLS.
vttE LATEST GENERATION HAS WON
pERFuL TALKING, POWERS.

Can Say . Deal More Than "Nia-Ma" Now,
and They Were Never So LifoiiIse Before
-Germsn Makers Led to DO Better by
American Demands.
The newest dolls are all doing Del
sarte--beckoning, posing, looking this
way and that, arch, coquettish win
ming, looking any way, in fact, except
in that blank, staring, straight-ahead
fashion that has been called doll-fash-
ion ever since dolls we're. AS for their
joints and muscles, they are as supple
and flexible as once they were stiff and
creaky. The new doll can comb and
brush her hair, lifting her arms high
above her head and twisting her long
locks deftly, as she looks into the mir
ror. She can walk with less effort
than she could two years ago, she can
open and close her eyes with less
of jerk; she can hold out her
hands and look hospitable, or de-
predatory, or pleading; she can
clasp them negatively in her muff
or raise finger in expostulation for
oil Iut WOllu do IL oht Nclt lldut Oub
of flesh and blood, and not out of mere
paper, or at best, papier mache.
The newest doll has a body, too,
modelled on new and improved plan.
1t is no longer merely box trunk with
legs and arms stuck into it, but it is
shaped like the real human body.
There is expression in the limbs. Ev
en- the little 81 dolls-those that Santa
Claus has to dress before he can dis
tribute them-are made in the like
ness of living children, with dimples
and curves and rounded outlines.
Look at that troop of little dolls in
the bath tub, each one a little bigger
than the other! / declare, they are as
pretty as stauary," said woman shop
per as she looked at store display,
The pink -feshed, bald-headed urchin
playthings were lfelike enough to
merit praise.
1T is the American demand for a
better modelled doll that has spurred
the German makers up to a higher
standard" said a downtown doll i'm
porter. I'VE get up our own models
and show them to the manufacturers,
and urge the various improvements
needed. In most cases they take our
advice. The cream of all, the fine
grade work, comes to this country.
What have they done to the dolls
to make them look so very lifelike?"
he was asked.
The makers have gradually improy-
ed every smallest detail of their work
within the last two or three years.
was the reply. THE hands, arms, legs
and feet are all made better, and the
head and zee are made after an ar
t!5t rot
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-01-28
LOGAN DIRECTORY.

Water Works Trustees:-
John Uclyer ,Thos Rochester, ,Chas. WI tight.
Cemetery Trustees:-
DR.. N. II. Bosser,z. V .Raney John E.Rauch.
Library Trusteas:-
l.. ID. Vickers, z res, ]. b Dollison, Sec'y,
LIZ wis Green. s. IL. Bright, ]. a. smith.
Board of Education:-
o. W. Fl. Wright, Pres, DR.. Blosser, Sec'y,
q. w. Schwenke, Treas, l.. Warner
q. NJ. Bowlby, DR.. j. ii bye.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-01-28
Cincinnati & MuSkingum Valley
Railway Company.
Passenger Train Schedule.
Going East.
Going West.

All trains run daily except Sun
day.
Train No. 3 from the east ar.
rives at 1925 p. m.
For rates, time of trains and
other Information call on J.C.Hart,
Agent.
q. NJ. Bennet, Supt.
F. M. Wilkinson, G.T.A
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-01-28
IEACHERS 8

The School Examiners of Hooking County
Ohio. will meet at the Union School Building
Logan, Ohio on the first Saturday of Sept
teInber, October, November, and December
1877, first Saturday of March, first and third
day of June 1888. examinations beginning ~
O'Clock A. NJ. Testimonials required oi
those unknown to the Bo lrd. Boxwell nx-
aminations will he held first Saturday
April and May 1903.
e. D. RICKETTS,, Pres.
A. l.. O'NEIL,
A. NJ. BRowS, Sec.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-01-28

Next to our grape wine 1t is believed
that Japanese sake, or rice wine, is the
oldest alcoholic beverage known to
man, its use in Japan dating back over
two thousand years.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-01-28
A Mothers
Misery.

The story ef this sOontan is Tie e0eyy day history Of
thousands scAo are Sn6eratg as she did; SoAo can be
eweR as sic oasj soho soiHAank her for steering Them
Me acay to good heaLh.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-01-28

II the populace ever does arise in
wrath. indignation or disgust and re-
form the judiciary by eliminating law
yers from society and the face Of the