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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-10-05

on and six off, are working day and
night, averaging 80 tons daily. In a
month more mining will begin in the
rooms. Some 20 flats have already been
shipped to Canton. The railroad corr
pany is ballasting roads and driving pile
at Indian Rupn crossing, and all will
soon be in first class order.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-10-05
Probate Court

j. M. Ramsey has been appointed ad-
ministrator of the estate of Harriet
Swank, of Sugar Creek township.
Emery Howenstine and Joseph p.
Howenstine have been appointed ad-
ministrators of the estate of Jacob
Buchanan, of Pike township.
First account has been filed. In the
estate OF Anton Vollker.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-10-05
Home From Europe.

Charles Raspillar and wife returned
home Wednesday from a trip abroad.
They have been gone several months,
and in that time took in the exposition
and the countries Of Germany and
Switzerland.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-10-05
Bought a Good One.

Squire Joseph Calmelat has purchased
q well bred mare from DR.. G. e. House.
The animal 10 by Mambrino Whip. and
her dam IL by Browns Hiatoga. In
addition to her breeding she il good
individual. ga la. {.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-10-05
sBYERS DOESN'T COMPLAIN.
He Says He Doesn't Care What
the Stark County Commits
siOners Do AbOut 1t

From q stan Correspondent.
Columbus, Oct. l.-Regarding the
published statement that the commits
sioners OF stark county propose to act
Independently Of the state board OF
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-10-05

John collars and wife leave tonight
for Los Vegas, N. M. after a pleasant
visit with relatives In this city.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-09
, Gathered
} From All
Sources.

Boy-Im crying because my mamma has
just gone to heaven. Little Girl--Oh!
but p'haps She HASN'T
EQUAL TO ANYTHINGLPa
old Gentleman wonder whose little
boy this is? Small Boy-There's two
ways you could find out Old Gentle
man-How so, my son? Small Boy-You
might guess, or you might inquire
WHAT HE CAUGHT-School Examin-
er-some of our greatest discoveries. my
young friends, have been made by simple
means. You have all heard the story of
how Benjamin Franklin went out in the
storm and caught the lightning. Prodigy
Yes, an heard you tell pa this morn
ing that you caught thunder when Won
came home from the lodge last night
NOT MORE THAN THAT-"Can Won
tell me what time it is, my bow" said a
gentleman to an urchin he met in a coun-
try lane. Twelve o'clock, sir HIM, ;"
said the stranger, 81 should have thought
it was more than that ct never is
more than that here, sir" replied the
child 1T always begins again at l."
ROBERT ASKS ANOTHER CUES
TION-"Who is that lady dressed IN
black, mamma?" asked Bobbie. as ne
sat with his mother on a ferryboat
'That-is Sister of Charity, nv bow,
replied his mother. Bobby pondered deep
~ for moment, and then he said,
Which is she, mamma, Faith or Hope p
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-09
Games and Gmckg.

TIE ORIGIN AND MEANING OF
SOME OF OUR GAMES.
1t will interest most boys to learn the
origin and meaning of their common
games. These constant sources of pleas
ure are not the invention of the present
decade, as would seem probable from
their freshness, but, instead, nearly all
can show records of half a thousand
years. AND the WORDS chanted or actions
portrayed are not mere cIownish jargons
or pantonines, but speeches and move
ments that once possessed a definite
meaning. At first these statements are
hardly belevable, but, perhaps, by study
ing q few popular games, their truth may
be made clear.
TO begin with, our national games
teaches much about game lore. This and
similar sports are all limitations Of WAR
fare. Games of ball are as old as his
tory, especially those in which TIE ball
is kicked or driven with the hands be-
YCnd the goal. Such a game called ball
battle" was played by the old Greeks
who were the best of athletes In the
north the game was ruder and also
much more dangerous. The balls of the
NorSemen were heavy, being mace of
horn, and as the game consisted in driv-
ing the ball at ones opponent with full
SlA Gig Ill II ID ttOl sui pI1SILS 10 TSatt
that death sometimes occurred.
In the east a game of ball is still prov
alent in which the players contend with
rackets on horseback. The game is esDe-
cially popular among the Turks, and was
formerly the royal game of Japan Our
tennis is its iineal descendant The Ara
bian Nights relate now Haroun Al
Raschid was nearly assassinated while
plaViuS this hOrSe-n01n
Most of the rougher games, such as
football and those in which bats are used.
seem to have come from the north This
IS TACT that should be noted; games that
need deXterity are of oriental origin.
While those which require hardihood for
success have been Inherited from north
ern Europe. 1t will be seen from this
that the habits and characters of peoples
control their sports. In the Middle
Ages the tournaments and chivalric Gus
toms were great source of delight to all
classes young and old Naturally the
boys fought sham battles and initial ted
s1eges, jousts and other contests of har-
dlhood But, despite these pastimes,
winch throw a glamour over medieval
life, dense ignorance and foolish SUPER
stition ciouded the minds of all but the
monks, and even these possessed some
queer oe1eLS Inc popular stories and
traditions, or folklore tales, entered into
games, and account for the forms of
many sports.
London bridge is a medieval game that
retains its popularity at the present
time This we'll known play shows how
continually religious beliefs We're kept
before children in the olden times. VINO
are the bridge keepers but satan and an
angel? According to his choice, each
| child steps behind one or the other of the
keepers, whom he is forced to help in
the tug of war that follows The game
Is clearly the production of some older
mind bent on impressing the childish i'm
aglnation with the fact that the kind
of lie one chooses must be sided WITH
in the end.
But another feature of the meaning
of this remarkable game is the nic+1I,i i-,9
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-09
Puzzle Corner ~: :::::'.: 1s e:

l, dam; Q, fast here; 8, o rash hire; 4,
grins; 8, warts; s, tontoc; Z, c lest
boothf; 8, givist.
Joseph M. Heinen, Hastings, Mimi,
submits the following crossword puzzle;
(54)
My first in arm, but not in bone.
My second in five, as well as mine.
My third in king, but in car doth
fail
My fourth in pansy, but lin flower.
My fifth in globe, as well as earth.
My sixth in ash, but in cinder there's
none
My seventh in you, but not In me.
My eighth in carpet, but not in ground.
My ninth in one year, yet not in,
three.
My all, great state.
Catherine scharflillig, 1873 Rondo
street. st. Paul, submits charade:
1 am composed of letters.
My l, 8, is a domestic animal.
My Z, 8, an article for the house
My 3, s, is a troublesome animal
My 8, 6, g. a heavenly body.
My 2. 4, 7 a pronoun.
My Z, 8, 9, a religious service.
My 4, 5, 6 rain in very fine drops
My 5, 6, A. to move.
My l, 2. 8, 4, 5, 6 the Redeemer of the
world.
My whole is glorious feast celebrated
throughout the country.
Marie Souchnay, PSI harrington avenue,
st. Paul, submits a charade:
156)
I am composed of nine letters.
My 6, Z, 8, 8 is large continent.
My 8, is to repent.
Ny 2, is the tone between. mi and T4i1>
My whole is a composite name given %
the connected IaNd mass of Europe,
Asia and Africa.
Oscar Dahlby. Moorhead, Mimi, subs
mits the following:
SD
(A) Tangle sentence: ''Lal het lowrd ST
a taseg dan lal teh mem dan omewn
lemery rpleays."
OBJ Charade: am composed of eleven
letters.
My 6, /, II and is recent.
My 2, Z, II, is a situation.
My 2, 3, 8 is to prosecute.
My whole is well known, popular
drama.
CD Charade: am composed of six
teen letters.
My 6, 7, 5, 4, II and is large bird.
My l. Ii. Is and to gasp.
My u. IA and 1 is to pinch.
My whole is a famous battle Of the Civil
war.
CD Problem: There is a well twenty
five feet deep. A frog which wishes fresh
air starts at the bottom and jumps up
three feet each jump and falls back two.
How many jumps before the frog is free?
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-09
The Strange
Things People
Believe.
SQ1pepgfifi0ng.>
ART1CL E NO. IA.

in the mountain districts, are adorned
with fairylike palaces. None of them
nave been entirely completed, for in
sanity and violent death overlook the
prllhant ana accomplished King Ludwig,
who conceived their design, but I'M
fortunately persisted before their COM
pIetioT
Nor even have the builders of many
OF the splendid structures that adorn the
French metropolis been more fortunate
Ihus M. Jules Grevy had scarcely
completed the construction of his lordly
mansion in Paris when the scandalous
behavior of his son-in-law, Daniel Will
son, overwhelmed him with disgrace and
compelled him to resign the presidency
OF the republic amid perfect hurricane
of public obloquy.
The Empress Eugenie's only sister, the
late Duchess of Abba, had not occupied
the lovely palace erected for her in the
Champs Elysees more than a few months
before she was seized with a sudden ill
ness and died there in a manner so mys-
ferrous as to give rise to rumorS of foul
play. The building was subsequently
pulled down.
Another equally unlucky famous house
of Paris is that now owned by the widow
of the late Baron Hirsch.
Europeans possessed of adequate means
and in need of either a town or a country
residence prefer as a rule to purchase
homes that have been lived in to build
ing new ones. If they do any building
at all they, in general, cause it to take
the form of additions to or alterations
of edifices no longer new.
Even then the owners endeavor to
safeguard themselves from the POSSIBLE
, ity of danger by letting their residences
for time to others, for the express
purpose, as they say in France, of "wip-
ing the dust from off the plastered
walls
Cases of disaster in connection with
new houses are to be noticed in the
United States, one prominent instance
Of which being that of Wilbur F. Storey,
of the Chicago Times, whose palace was
to have been the wonder of the West
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-09

papers, periodicals, and so on Third
class matter includes printed books
pamphlets, circulars, etc. Fourth
class" matter embraces merchandise and
samples of all kinds. Of first-c1ass mat
ter there was carried, in the year end
! ing June 80, SO, over assoc pieces.
There are nearly 10000, 00G pieces of first
class matter mailed daily. This would
make q pile more than seven miles high
The total number of pieces of second
class matter in the same time was some
thing over 2173, coo, 900. The number OF
pieces of third-class matter was some
thing ever 747,OG0,0 600, and the number Of
pieces of fourth-class matter was a lit
tie over 66174,C00. The total number of
pieces mailed in the year was 6,576 &c.,
0G0, and if these pieces were placed to-
Sether they would make q band seven
feet wide around the earth. The total
weight was 664, 2S6, SOS pounds. To carry
this enormous weight would require So
IA freight cars, forming a train three
hundred miles long, hauled by five hun
dred locomotives, and the locomotives
alone would require seven miles of track
There was enough money received by
the postal department for postage to
make a pile of ten dollar gold pieces
A. coo feet high The number of regis
tered pieces carried in the year was
over 100000. The number of postof-
flee money orders issued was nearly 3d.
00O,O00. The dead letter office, which is a
department of the postoff1ce to which
unclaimed and effectively addressed
mail is sent, received nearly 1909, 600
pieces. OF these 967, 469 were misdirect-
ed, 1873 were without an address, 49O3,-
700 were unclaimed, and 1881 had
fictitious addresses. The number Of
stamps issued was 1917, 269,025. There
are not far from $4,000 postof1ces in the
United States, with about 100000 en-
ployes.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-09
flood Form.
Pointers for Young and Old.

The habit of fishing" for compliments
is notably vulgar, and it is one in which
q certain class of vain young people are
very apt to indulge, especially among
themselves in private. 1t indicates van
ity in the angler and begets contempt
on the part of the one who from interest
ed motives nibbles gently at the bait.
All slang is vulgar The fact cannot
be too forcibly impressed upon the
minds of the young people of this day,
as the alarming prevalence of slangy con-
versational phrases is enough to cause
our decorous forefathers and mothers to
rise in their graves.
The great secret of talking we'll is to
adapt your conversation to your compa-
ny as skillfu++y as may be.
People take more interest in their own
affairs than in anything else which you
can name. A wise host or hostess will
then lead mother to talk of her chill
dren, an author of his books, an artist
topic, you have to listen, and acquire
reputation for being amiable, agreeable,
intelligent and well-bred.
If you would not be unpopular, do not
always be witty, no matter what your
1idluI al dDl1IllSS may ne IN IudL line. H6O-
pie do not like to be always outshone.
Do not ofhciously supply a word or
phrase if a speaker hesitates for a mo-
ment; he will think of the one he wants
or supply another in good time.
Never correct a fault in pronunciation
or in facts in company or in private, if
you wish to retain a friend.
Avoid such colloquialsms as Says t.
'you know and other senseless repe-
titions that might be mentioned. Never
speak Of a person as "a party" nor re-
fer to absent persons as ''he'' or ''she.'
Give the name of the lady or gentleman
referred to.
In telling joke, do not laugh yourself
before the point is reached. If the joke
be original, do not laugh at all.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-09
Savings Of fbe CHILDREN,
FOURTEENTH COLLECTION

IN MODERN TIMES-'I wonder"
said little Harry, IF men will ever live
TO he five hundred or six hundred Years
old!' NO, 1 guess not" replied his
five-year-old sister, who was studying
her Sunday school lesson. 1.-THE Lord
tried the experiment once and they got
so bad that He just had to drown them
a LOGICAL CONCLUsION-"The
Binkses must buy everything on the in
stallment plan what makes you
think 500" 81 heard Jimmy Binks ask
his father whether their new baby would
be taken away if they couldn't keep up
the payments" Chicago Record
POLITICAL CAMPAIGN EDUCA-
TION-"Now, little children, what makes
the grass and the corn grow, and causes
the wheat" "Sunshine Rain! Sun
shine and rain?' Very good. And who
sends the glorious sunshine and the
fruitful rain, my children?" ''McKin-
ley!'
QUITE A DIFFERENT THING
Tommy Traddles came into the house
crying, and in a very mussed up con-
dition. Now, Tommy" said his mother.
haven't l told you time and again not
10 play with that wicked little Nc
Carthy boy?" II hain't been playin'
with him. sobbed Tommy; mes been
playin' with me-"
SHE WASN'T sURE-Little Girl
WHAT'S the matter, little boy? Little
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-09
THE LUCK OF A HOUSE.

A superstition that death or i'll luck
often follows persons who occupy fine
new homes is very common. So wide
spread and so powerful is this strange
superstition that one finds even an in
tellectual man like Lord Salisbury, the
English premier, insisting on leasing to
strangers for several months the beauti-
full home which he has had erected for
himself near London.
Lord Salisbury, however, has, only to
look round him in London to find ample
grounds for the adoption of such eX-
traordinary and at first sight urneces-
sary precautions. The completion of
Lord Revelstolxes palace in that city
conceded with the bankruptcy of the
great firm of Barring Bros, Of which he
was the principal, and it has remained
ever since an exquisite monument to the
futility of human hopes and ambition.
Mr.. Sanford had hardly finished re-
building the exterior of his magnificent
London mansion when the collapse of
Argentine securities occurred, involving
him in ruin and compelling him to dis
pose of it to Mrs. Mackay, of Bonanza
fame
The Marquis de Santurce, having rUr-
chased fine house from Lady Gran
vile, spent a fortune upon the recon
struction and adornment of the interior.
But before the work was completed he
in turn was overtaken by the disaster
which befell the Anglo-Spanish banking
house, of which he was the chief director,
and he had no alternative but to sell the
house to W. w. Astor, an American.
The downfall of Hudson, the railway
king, occurred at the same time as the
completion of the great house he was
having built for himself fronting Hyde
park London, while in the same manner
Baron Albert Grant witnessed the piece
meal sale of the gorgeous palace he had
erected at Kensington, but was never
destined 10 occupy.
Nowhere is this house superstition more
powerful than in Bavaria, where many
of the most picturesque spots, especially
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-09
H6)emopp RHYMES,
Facts and Fancies in Verse
for the Little Folks 50:
wHAT BECAME OF A LIE.

WHAT BECAME OF A LIE.
BY Mrs M. A. Kid d er.
First, somebody told it,
Then the room Wouldn hold it,
So the busy tongue rolled it
Till they got it outside;
When the crowd came across 1t,
And never once lost it,
But tossed it and tossed it
Till it grew long and wide.
From very small lie, sir,
L grew deep and high, sir,
Till it reached to the sky, sir,
And frightened the moon;
For she hid her sweet face, sir,
In a veil of cloud-lace, sir,
At the dreadful disgrace, sir,
That happened at noon.
This lie brought forth others,
Dark sisters and brothers,
And fathers and mothers
a terrible crew;
And while headlong they hurried.
The people they Hurried,
And troubled and worried,
AS lies always do.
And so, eviI-bodied,
This monstrous Lie goaded,
Till at last it exploded
In smoke and in shame:
When from mud and from mire
The pieces flew higher,
And hit the sad liar
And killed his good name!
BOYS AND GIRLS.
Girls play with dolIies;
Boys play with tops;
A girl loves to jump the rope;
a boy skips and hops.
Girls play with dishes;
Boys play with balls;
A girl loves to sew dolls clothes;
A boy shouts and calls.
Girls love story books;
So do boys, too;
Then let us play together,
That's the way to do.
A LITTLE GIRLS SOLILOQUY.
eff no one ever marries me-
And I don't see why they should,
For nurse says I'm not pretty,
And I'm seldom very good
II no one ever marries me
[ shan't mind very much;
L snail buy squirrel in cage,
And little rabbit hutch;
l shall have cottage near a wood,
And pony all my own,
And a little lamb, quite nice and tame
That I can take to town
And when I'm getting really old
At twenty-eight or nine
L shall buy a little orphan girl,
And bring her up as mine"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-09

THE AMERICAN POSTAL FSTAB.
LISHMENT.
The postal service of the United States
is perhaps the largest and best managed
concern in the world A letter can be
carried from Florida to Alaska in less
than twenty days, and for two cents.
To carry the same by special messenger
would cost something like 1920. In con-
nection with other governments letters
are carried to many different countries of
the world at cost Of five cents each.
The above diagram shows the number
of miles travelled by the various classes
of carriers. This does not include the
miles walked by the city letter carriers
BY "star route is meant a route
where the transportation IS something
other than railway, steamboat, street
car, or pneumatic tube. The daily travel
for one year by the star routes is 361. $50
miles, or seventeen times around the
world. The number of miles Travelled per
annum by the mail carrying railroads is
nearly 300 900, COO the daily travel being
$4,000 miles, or thirty-one tri9s around
the world. The steamboats, cover in q
year 4,327,O28 miles. The street cal. serv-
ice amounts to 4,97S 1870 miles in a year
The pneumatic tube service IS, Of course
small, there being only S05 miles Of
pneumatic tube in the whole country
This service is confined to Boston, New
York Washington, Brooklyn and PhfIa-
delphia.
in one year the railway postal clerks
alone have handled 10, S51, 1892, T25 pieces of
mail In addition they handled II. 537. 05S
packages Of registered mail. It has been
calculated that the railway mail clerks
make one error for every 1900 correctly
forwarded pieces Of mail
''First-class" mail matter includes Ie.-
tiers, postal cards and sealed matter.
Second-class" matter includes news
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-09
Said by the
Old Folks.
"a LITTLE NONSENSE NOW AND THEN
IS GOOD FOR BOTH WOnEN AND MEN"

~--N~"~@~N~~~--~~N-~~N
ice, a tiny bit Of baking powder, a broom.
a loaf of bread, a hammer, few lacks
and 81 half peck of apples, and she had
the nerve today to put upon her back
door the sign: Groceries at Retail
Wouldn't that shock you?-Chicago Post.
A GOOD sYsTEM-Mr. Meddergrass-
Hi Slocum sent $40 to a Teller in New
York to find out how to win at roulette
Mr.. Feddersnack-"What did the Teller
say?' Mr. Meddergrass-' Said to run
the game yourself Baltimore Ameri-
can
HARD LUCK-He-"Fo goodness sake
what are you signing about?" She (be-
hind the paper)-"Oh. there are such
lovely bargains here in Jones & Jones'
advertisement, and ! can't take advan-
tage of them" He-"Bonnets, I sup
pose She--"No. complete line of pa
tent medicines reduced one-half, and
there's not a blessed thing the matter
with any of s.'-Philadelphia Press.
LOVELY, BUT-Mrs smith-''It is
not lovely, when husband and wife are
Smith" Certainly; only it makes such a
great difference whose opinion it is"
WON OUT AT SOME EXPENSE-Mr.
Hauskeep-''My wife broke a fairy-lamp.
two vases and cut glass flower stand
in the drawing room last night, but she
accomplished her purpose" Mr. Ascum
For goodness sake, what was her
purpose?" Mr.. Hauskeep-"To capture
clothes moth she saw flying around"
MORE INFORMATION ommy-"say.
pa" Mr.. F'igg-'fWell?" What is low
water mark" 'Tt is usually about the
top of your neck, if someone don't kaep an
eye on you when you are washing your
face indianapolis Press.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-09
Dear TO Rdfglre's BeaM.
Plant
Life.
ARTICLE NO. 2.

flower, seems to resemble the butterfly
of variegated wing; but the naturalist
considers the humming bird more like
an elephant than a butterfly He will
call the bird and elephant vertebrate ami
mails, and will show a striking resem-
blance between the skeleton of the tiny
wing of the one and the huge leg of the
other.
THE STUDY OF FLOWERS.
Few pursuits in which the mind can
engage are purer or have more tendency
to afford innocent and happy thoughts,
than the study of flowers generally; ana
though it may be some advantage to posi-
sess gardens and Conservatives Well
stocked with the gorgeous natives Of 9TH
er climates, the mere contemplation Of
these can never bring half the pleas
urable excitement which the search after
the wild plants Of our own country
affords to the Jealous collector and stu
dent The former are the privileges of
the rich, the latter are open to the poor
est in the land
"a blessing given
Fen to the poorest little one
That wanders meath the vault of heaY-
en-.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-09
Odds and ends.

stickers for society-Pins.
Running expenses-Playing the races.
The nation most observation-disclosures
An expensive fault-one settled by
jury.
How to make it hot for any one-Be
The last embers of the XIX century
November and December.
Sometimes the most right minded per-
sons are left
This would be much better world il
more people took their own advice
The rich man has mug at the barber
shop The poor man takes his there.
A woman may be the weaker vessel.
but it is always the husband that is
broke
Times change; several years ago the
business man took his pen in hand, and