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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1898-04-28

Both the method and results when
Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing TO the taste. and acts
gently yet promptly on the Kidneys,
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys-
tenn effectually, dispels colds, head.
aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the
only remedy of its kind ever pro-
duced, pleasing to the taste and ac-
ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial in its
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances, its
many excellent qualities commend it
to all and have made it the most
popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in so
cent bottles by all leading drug.
gists. Any reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro-
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it. Do not accept any
substitute.
CALIFORNIA FHG syrup co.
SAN FRANCISCO. CAL.
LOUISVILLE. ~. NEW YORK, M
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1898-04-28

40 ali oAuepU'UnaI result OF such n blow.
1t all depends on the point of view.
But certainly the Aquidaban was
struck as fairly as any one could expect
a ship to be struck. With her big guns
she had been bombarding the forts at
Desterro, doing no little mischief. At
night torpedo feet crept out under
cover Of darkness to revenge the injury.
The Gustavo Sampaio, which had been
purchased in Germany by the Brazil
ians, got within 200 yards of the war.
ship before she was discovered Then
under heavy but lily directed fire from
the machine guns of the man -of-war
she discharged three whitehead torpe-
does.
There is not a naval officer in the
world but would have given six months
pay to have been near enough to have
watched the affair. 1t was a most ex-
citing encounter. On the deck of the
torpedo boat not soul was in sight.
Every man jack had gone below to seek
what safety was offered by the thin iron
hull. The lanyards from the torpedo
tubes had been carried below SO that
they might be pulled without sending a
man on deck.
On the deck of the warship all was
confusion and excitement. Leaders were
hustling ammunition to the machine
guns ON deck, officers were bawling or
ders, and every one was keeping an eye
on the rapidly approaching torpedo
craft. Up to that time only one warship
had been torpedoed, and she had gone to
the bottom with nearly 400 sailors
Naturally the men ON the Aquidaban
were frightened.
The first torpedo was launched by the
Sampaio at distance OF about 250 feet.
IL went wide of the mark. A second
was Immediately sent after it, This,
too, missed. Before another torpedo
could be got into position the Sampaio
was within 100 feet of the Aquidaban.
From that short distance it was almost
impossible to miss. The Whitehead pro-
jectile struck the warship about ten feet
below the water line just abaft the prov
and under the starboard turret.
Now see what happened. Remember
there was about 200 pounds of gun cot
tOu III tuht tuUo, anu IL was ihir nlU.
Was the ship Immediately and totally
destroyed? Not at all. The thing which
did happen was that a hole big enough
to drive horse and carriage through
was blown in the side Of the ship below
the water line. The force Of the explo-
sion was great enough to lift her bow
into the air peroeptibly, but not suffi-
cient to explode her magazines, break
ner In two on the keel or do any of the
other things which might have been ex.
peoted.
Why was thisH Well gun cotton is
an explosive about whicA even the ex-
perts confess to know only little, They
know all about how it is manufactured
and handled and so on, but they cannot
tell you In just what manner the tire.
mendous force which it possesses will
be exerted when the time comes for it
to explode. Some experts claim that at
distance Of about four feet the force
is dissipated that while its power Of
destruction is immense and terrible on
objects near at hand II cannot strike
faz.-in other words. its blows are "half
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1898-04-28
lost a woman's story.


Not strange because II happens every day,
not romantic or thrilling, but Just story Of
misery and suffering such as only women
know.
For eighteen years, Sara E. Bowen, Of
Peru, Indiana, carried a burden Of pain.
Night and day, without respite, she suf-
tered the most dreadful experience that ever
tell to the lot Of woman.
That she did not die Is almost Beyond
belief.
That she is well to-day Is a miracle.
Mrs. Bowen's trouble requires no deserip-
ton beyond the symptom, which every
woman will instantly recognize.
In describing them Mrs. Bowen says;
For eighteen years | suffered with
weakness peculiar to my sex.
II was broken down piece Of human
itYj a shadow Of a woman.
"My brain was tortured until could re-
member bot little. could not sleep or eat
and was reducsd in weight to a mere sscle-
ton. What little did eat could not be di-
gested in my weakened state, and caused
me untold misery.
MY skin was muddy, my eyes were
heavy. Twas dizzy al the time and to-
tally unfit for even ordinary housework.
Doctors prescribed for me without avail.
Medicine was recommended and taken in
quantity but It did no good.
Time and time again | was at the brink
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1898-04-28
WHEN A TORPEDO HITS.
What Happens to a Warship
That Meets a Whitehead.
JUST THREE MODERN PREoEDENTs.

Destruction, Total and Immediate, Does
Not Always Follow the Explosion Of q
Gun Cotton Charge, but the Results Are
Sufficiently Unpleasant to BE Avoided.
The largest torpedoes carry q charge
Of about 200 pounds of gun cotton.
What happens when one of them hits a
warship?
AS very few modern warships have
been hit by modern torpedoes no one is
able to say absolutely just what does
happen. We know what has happened.
What will happen is another question.
There are thousand ways in which
the disaster might be complicated. 1t
might prove appalling, or it might be
simply an unfortunate accident.
OF the three modern warships which
have received blow from the business
end of a torpedo not one was wholly de-.
stroyed, and on only one was there any
great loss of life In two cases indeed
not man was killed.
So If we are to judge by precedents
the torpedo is not such a fearful agent
Of destruction as we have been led to
believe. In comparison with the deadly
trolley car it is almost harmless. But
precedents, where they are few, are
hardly to be counted as safe gauges to
measure the future. The next torpedo
which strikes ship of war-and I am
speaking now of movable torpedoes-
may cause as great a holocaust as did
tho Y,nira ,1nHor tho Moina
The sinking of the Brazilian armored
cruiser Aquidaban off the harbor of Des-
terro, on the east coast of Brazil, may
be taken either as typical example of
what torpedo can do to q warghip or
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1898-04-28
MY LITTLE LOVE OF LONG AGO.

Ny little love Of long dgo
tHow swiftly fly the tired yenrsD,
She told me solemnly and low
OF all her hopes aud all her fears.
She feared the dangers Of the way,
The striving and the workaday
That waited far across the sea,
The loneliness of missing me-
She never doubted me-ah, no,
lty i!ttla love Of long agol
For she Ind faith in everything
(How swiftly fly tho tired hoursO,
A heart that could not help but sing
And blossOmed out amid the flowers.
My loving was its best refrain,
Ny leaving was its saddest pain
She sobbcd IT all upon my knee,
The loneliness Of missing me.
kissed arl coinforted her so,
My little love of long ago.
My little love Of long ago
How swiftly fly the tired daysD,
Such little feet to stumble slow
Along the darkest Of life's ways,
While timo and distance and the sea,
Or my poor, careless heart maybe
Could not have told from spring TO sprint
Why we long went wanderingl
Saddest Of all is not TO know
My little love OF long ago.
Post Wheeler in New York Press.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1898-04-28

In less Than three minutes from the Time
the Condell opened fire the Blanco was
at the bottom Of the bay. Forty Of her
sailors escaped in boats. The rest, num-
bering about 1870, were lost.
The next day the torpedo boat catch
ers met and engaged the cruiser Magel
lanes, but, although they maneuvered
so as to use their machine guns with
deadly effect and at the same time keep
out of range of the cruisers big rifles,
they could not discharge their torpedoes
effectively. Only one was sent out, and
this destroyed "A merchant vessel. From
this it would seem to be good policy for
noncombatants to give the modern ma
val conflict wide berth.
There are two causes which, in firing
torpedoes from the side of torpedo
boat against ship in motion, may pro-
duce miss. One is that the torpedo is
DETECTED on entering the water to an
angle dependent ON the speed of the
boat. The other is that the object, il
moving rapidly, may have passed before
the torpedo reaches it. An allowance
for each has to be made.
The speed of the boat being known,
experiment easily demonstrates the
necessary allowance in this case, but the
speed may be altered at the last mo-
ment, when a readjustment of the tor
pedo is impossible. Similarly the rate
of the object has to be assumed and
may alter or be estimated incorrectly.
So you see that several elements of
chance enter into torpedo warfare. In
the first place, the torpedo does not al
ways go straight to the mark. In the
second place, while it is quite likely to
sink whatever craft it hits it does not
always cause total and instant destruo-
tion, as we have so often been told. It
is terrible weapon nevertheless and
one which we may well hope may never
be used successfully against any of Un-
Gle Sam s ships. SEwELL FORD.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1898-04-28
Refore You Rlds,Your wheel

Be sure to shake into your shoes
Aliens Foot ease a powder FOR the feet.
IL keeps your feet cool and comfortable,
prevents sweating feet, and makes your
endurance ten-fold greater. Over l00,.
600 wheel people are using Aliens Foot.
Ease, They all praise it, Ladies insist
on having II. 1t gives rest and comfort
and prevents smarting, hot, swollen ach'
ing feet. At all druggists and shoe
stores, Zoe. Sample FREE by mail.
Address, Allen =. 0lmsted. Le Roy,
N.Y. 8
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1898-04-28

M. l.. Yocum, Cameron, Pa, says: 81
was a sufferer for ten years, trying most
all kinds of pile remedies, but without
success, DeWitt's Witch Hazel salve was
recommended to me- l used one box.
1t has effected a permanent cure" As
a permanent cure for piles DeWitt's
Witch Hazel Salve has no equal. Il. O.
Miller, East End Phar., +. p. Shanafelt
4 Co., and Fishers drug store.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1898-04-28
Wonan's Woe.

II was terrible. The tempest beat the
sea into horri,l fury, the waves were
mountain high and they swept over the
frail craft caaselessly.
"My flesh crsepsp' he cried.
"My complexion runsl" shrieked she.
For it is the lot of women to suffer
most. Detroit Journal.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1898-04-28
IL Killed Him.

"I should fancy the laundry business
was about as easy as any to start. p"
"What makes you think so?"
"All you have to do is to lay in a
supply of starch.
"Yes.
"Well, that'll starch you ali right.
Three days after there was burial.
London Tit-Bits.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1898-04-28

Incontlnence OF water during sleep
stopped Immediately by DR.. Il. Det-
ehon's Anti Diuretic. Cures children
and adults alike. Prizes Sl.00. Sold by
DOrbin, Wright 4 Oo.. druggists, Can
ton, y.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1898-04-28
The Weakness
OF q Woman.

II S0oman Vho has suffered eighteen years. 7Dho has
been cnycd after life Of misery and lies again in tie
sunshine Of habbaeSS SPEAKS 10 okEer scomcn in 5oords
Of no uncertain meaning.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-08-21

Suu there is q sharp rock on one side.
and a sharp rock on the other side"
Again, that man Is in the crisis OF
the text who has wasted life on the
one side and an unilluminated eternity
on the other. Though q man may ail
his life have cultured deliberation ana
self-pcise, IL he gets into that position
all his self-possession is gone. There
are all the wrong thoughts OF his
existence, all the wrong deeds, all the
wrong words-strata above strata,
granitic. ponderous. overshadowing.
That rock / call Bozez. On the other
side are all the retributions OF the fu-
ture, the thrones of Judgment, the eter-
nal ages. angry with his long defiance
That rock call Seneh. Between these
two rocks ten thousand times ten
thousand have perished.
man immortal, man redeemed,
man hood-bought. climb up out OF
those shadows! Climb up by the way
forgiven; have your eternal life se-
cured. This hour just take one looR
to the past, and see what it has beeni
and take one look to the future, and
see what it threatens to be. You can
afford to lose your health, you can af-
ford to lose your property, you can az
ford to lose your reputation, but you
cannot afford to lose your SOUL That
bright, cleaning, glorious, precious,
eternal possession you must carry alort
in the day when the earth burns up
and the heavens burst.
You see from my subject that when
a man gets into the safety and peace
of the gospel he does not demean him
self There is nothing in religion that
leads to meanness or unmanliness.
The gospel of Jesus Christ only asks
toward God, climb toward heaven,
climb into the sunshine of Gods favor.
To become a Christian is not to go
meanly down; it is to come gloriously
up-up into the communion of saints;
up into the peace that passeth all un-
derstanding; up into the companion
ship Of angels. He lives upward; he
dies upward.
oh. then, accept the wholesale invi-
tation which l make this day to all
the people! Come up from between
your invalidism and financial embar-
easements. Come up from between
your bereavements and your destitu-
ton. Come up from between a wasted
life and an unillumined eternity. Like
Jonathan, climb up with all your might
instead Of sitting down to wiring your
hands in the shadow and in the dark
ness-"a sharp rock on the one side
and a sharp rock on the other side"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-08-21
Dinner at the Znn.

Dinner at the Zoo calls for a most
extensive and varied menu. In fact,
the difficulty of keeping animals from
all quarters of the globe supplied with
food that resembles that to which
they were used in their native fields.
forests or jungles is one of the most
difficult problems that the managers Of
geological collections must face. Only
one animal-the hog-seems wholly in
different as to the nature and quality
of its food, and some species are ex-
tremely fastidious. Even the ostrich
ma1ifests a choice and shows no rel
ish for the nails and old iron with
which it is credited with regaling it.
self op the African farms; and one
species, the Somalt ostrich, accepts
only green food, refusing to touch the
meat and biscuits of which the South
African ostrich is very fond. The gi-
raffe is one of the daintiest of beasts,
living in nature on the leaves which
it strips from trees, and in the gar
dens on the best clover hay, crushed
oats, bran and cha1f, with fresh green
tares and an occasional onion as rel
ishes; and while 1t is very fond of
fresh, whole apples. rejects one that
has been bitten. Some animals are
able to change their native tastes and
acquire others, vegetarians becoming
flesh eaters, and insect eaters turn>
ing to fruit and grain-as the kea of
New Zealand. which, once a strict
vegetarian, has become very fond of
mutton. Animals in the Zoo have to
submit to more or less of this, for their
native food is often una.tainable.
Nothing has been found on which the
Australian kOala will thrive. but the
kangaroos and wallabies take kindly
to grass and maize. and breed fire.
quently Unfortunately, the kan
garoos are very subject to gout and
corns. The polar bear is happy with
horse blubber and plaice. and the croc-
odiles and alligators are satisfied with
raw meat. The apteryx. which at
home lives on worms and larvae. feeds
and prospers on limitations carved out
of filet steak-New York Journal
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-08-21

Arrivals of foreign-born people at
the ports of this country during the fis-
cal year 1898 are shown by official
statistics to be unusually light. AS
to the reasons for the decrease the
immigration officials explain that the
poorer classes in Europe are becom-
ing better acquainted with the true
condition of affairs in this country.
Until recently, they say, the impress
sion prevailed all over Europe among
the laboring classes that work of all
kinds was easy to obtain in America,
and that one only needed to emigrate
to this country to shortly acquire a
competence. During the recent busi-
ness depression thousands of foreign
born people OF the working classes.
who had come to this country with the
hope of becoming rich, returned disap
pointed to their native lands and car
ried with them the news that the mar
ket for unskilled laborers in this coun-
try is fully as crowded as that of
Europe.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-08-21
women I'm Science.

To assert that women have had an
important influence on the progress of
science would certainly be exaggerz-
tion; but to say that they have always
been wholly foreign to it would be
still more inexact. The female sex
have, in fact, been for many centuries
contributing to the extension OF the
field Of scientific knowledge; and nuw
that they are beginning to take a more
prominent part. in affairs of this cate
CORY, it seems a favorable time to re-
view some of their achievements and
to notice some of the women whose
scientific accomplishments have been
most remarkable. We begin with a
Milanese mathematician of the eixht-
eenth century-Maria Agnesi, a woman
who was unique among the few who
have occupied themselves with the ex-
act sciences. Her precocious intelli-
gence and a prodigious memory, which
permitted her to express herself cor
rectly in seven languages. and her
rare aptitude for one of the most ardu-
GUS branches of mathematics-the in
finitesimal analysis of which Leibnftz
and Newton had only just indicated the
formulas-the saintliness of her life.
divided between study, prayer, and
charitable works-all contribute to
make her one of the most agreeable
characters which the scientific history
Of the last century offers us.-Apple-
tons Popular Science Monthly foz
July
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-08-21

A Chicago preacher used the La
Bourgogne horror as text for a SER
mon, on the difference between NO
bility Of Character in Saxon and Celt."
to the detriment of the latter race
What the devil the subject has to do
with the right road to heaven we dun
no, but since it has been brought up
We are reminded of the sinking of the
America off Brazil in 184S She was
commanded by Capt. O'Hearn and q
Celtic crew. The passengers number
ed 800. men. women and children. AS
soon as the America began to sink
Capt. O'Hearn ordered the crew to
arms. With drawn guns they guard
ed the life boats until every woman
and child had been saved. Then the
America went down carrying with her
O crew representative of much ma
ligned race and all the male passen.
gers. Ignorance is the mother of
prejudice and we presume the preach
er never heard OF the America. Stir
ring up race prejudice is poor b1,si-
ness at any rate, especially when done
from a pulpit.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-08-21
the s.p,s e.orr. w..hlnEton.

A North Georgia weekly recently re-
ceived the following letter: Mule
Skin, go-Mr. Editor: You so in yore
popir thet george Washington never
told a lie. Now, he hez told a whole
Lot, ann so hev you. 1 rented land
from him two yeer over on Ground
Hog Kreek ann he lied me plum auterr
my fodder ann yam potaters. He
hain't got no cherry trees on his place
nuther. so you see both Of you'ns heZ
Iued putty konsidurbl. After thet rent
biznes kain't sa thet wood believe
george Washington on oath. Yours.
etc. Sid Cook"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-08-21

II Camara hadn't left Cadiz he would
have had to blow his fleet up to save
it from the infuriated populace Those
agitated persons had the idea that the
purpose of war-vessels was to fight,
and not to rot at their wharves after
the manner of the late fleet of Ger
vera; whereas all the Spanish admir-
ais know that the main duty of fleet
is to put itself on parade and then go
with all possible rapidity to the bot
tom of the sea.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-08-21

The mugwump idea in politics is ~
win victories and hand the flags and
honors back to the enemy. There is
a mugwump idea in war to the same
effect; but we guess that having con-
Quered the Philippines and the desired
Cuban territory, the United States
will hold on to them long enough to
see what they are made Of. Anyhow,
strange as it may seem, that is part
of the purpose of this blood-shedding
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-08-21
Wanted n Change.

This is the fourth time you have
asked me to marry you" said Miss Cay
enne. rather impatientIy. How often
do you wish me to refuse your"
WELL" replied Willie Washington, Il
think three times quite SUFFICIENT
Washington Star.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-08-21

The financial supplement to the
Street Railway Journal, just issued, de-
votes some space to comparison Of
gross receipts by leading street rail-
way lines in the United States in the
years 1897 and 1896. It shows that in
1887 the twenty-six properties earning
more than $1,000. 900 gross per annun,
iAcTeRsed their income 2.20 per cent.
those earning from 100000 70 81 900,
600 lost II per cent, and those earn.
ing from 100000 to $500. 900 game;
l.s1 per cent. The aggregate gai,,
showed by all Of the ITS roa6s inclro
e IN The summary was 1.s per eeat
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-08-21
A Common Weed.

Idleness is very common weed, but
rs easily kept under II industrious hab-
it's be only formed in time. He whose
day begins only ten minutes sooner in
the morning than that Of those around
him will nnd the benefit Of Tallyrand's
maxim, which was to keep his watch
ten minutes faster than those around
him
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-08-21

He-when did she begin to fear that
he had married her for her money?
She-well. l believe her suspicious
were first aroused when she had to fee
the nniniBter.-Iife
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-08-21

We recall nothing of the history Of
Gen. Shafter with the exception of that
which he has recently achieved, Out
side of the fact that some pretty good
slang frequently mentions him as bully
Billy.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-08-21

The governor of Havana recently ex-
pressed the hope that the heavenly
vault would sink and bury the United
States in an abyss; but we still have
hope that it won't occur.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-08-21

Some fond mothers believe thay
could love their babies to death, and
some mean old bachelors wish they
would.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-08-21

There are objections to Hawaii, but
we must remember that she wasn't
manufactured to our order
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-08-21

His first love and his first shave are
two of the things that occur in the life
of every man which he never forgets.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-08-21

The Chicago man who stole twelve
marble tombstones was mighty careful
not to invite the bad luck involved in
the other.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-08-21

Some musicians go upon the stage,
while others never get further than the
orchestra.