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Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-09-03
Burglars at Peninsula.
Especial Correspondence.)

Peninsula, Sept. 2.-Burglars entered
the store of A. Stuart, this place,
early Monday morning and stole Sc
yeral dollars worth of postage stamps
and a bicycle lamp. Not long ago burg
hrs were frightened away from this
ktorp
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-09-03

A never failing cure for cuts. burns,
scalds, ulcers, wounds and sores s
DeWltt's witch Hazel Salvc. A most
soothing and healing remedy for all
skin affections. Accept only the gen
uine.
William Warner, Gem Pharmacy, 113
S. Howard st.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-09-03

Chas. Replogle. of Atwater, o.. was
Unable to work on account of kidney
trouble. After using Foley's Kidney
Cure four days he was cured.
A. Warner, j. NJ. Laffer and j..
Lamparter & Co.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-09-03
GAME BIRDS.
They Are Reported Plentiful
EVERYWHERE This Fall.

The present outlook for a big crop
of partridges Guffed grouse) and wood
cock this fall is better than 1t has
been for several years. More part
ridges and woodcock, in coveys and
broods have been found in the parts
The times., 1901-06-16
SACRIFICING THEIR TAILS.
/ Trick Performed by Lizards to
Save Their Lives.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.)

\ remarkable defence about lizards has
recently been the subject Of investigation
10y "A prominent member Of the Academy
Of Sciences in Los Angeles, Cal. To save
its life he has discovered the California
lizard will sacrifice its tail, imparting to
the abandoned caudal appendage a tenn
pOTary life of its own, which enables it's
owner to escape.
Il noticed first" said he. that many of
the lizards had lost their tails when
caught them. and when I had collection
Of twenty or more l found that 1 had
singular assortment. Some Of the little
creatures had no tails, others stumps an
inch or two long. one had two tails or
stumps, growing, and the greater number
had new tails in process OF growth. The
enemies of the lizards here are snakes
and the road runner, bird, but it ap-
pearCd somewhat remarkable that so
merely the loss Of the tail. 1t was evident
Judging from my collections, which in
Ciudcd four kinds Of lizards, that most Of
the lizards attacked got away but that
they escaped by deliberately releasing the
tail never occurred TO me until | actually
saw the operation.
II kept some of my lizards staked out
by long cords in the sun that ! might
watch them. one day cat had discov-
cred the unusual herd of them, and as |
sat watching them she came creeping by
a small lizard with a blue patch beneath
its mouth attyacted her attention. and she
bounded toward il, struck at it, but miss
ed. her claw hitting the ground few
Inches away.
'"rhe lizard darted off to the full length
Of the cord, leaving, to the amaZemcnt Of
the cat, and / may say myself, its tail,
which squirmed, leaped and twisted as
The times., 1901-06-16
USE OF DRUGS IN VERMONT.
Many OF the People Partial to Mar
cOtic and stimulating Potions
(From the Chicago Chronicle }

DR.. A P. Grinneu, a prominent physi-
clan of Vermont, has been making a thor
ough canvass of the stores of that State
with view to ascertaining the extent to
which the people are given TO the drug
habit. The results of his Investigations
are startling TO those who have looked
upon that State as a land os steady hab-
its. In sixty-nine towns, from which the
doctor obtained statements of sales il
was found that the monthly sale of gum
opium was A pounds y ounces; OF NOR
phine powder, 10 pounds 10 ounces; of
morphine pills. 3.33S grains; of dovers
powders. p pounds; of paregoric. 81 gal
Ions and l quart; Of laIdanum, 81 gal
Ions and l quart: of cocaine 81 pounds
l dram and so grains; of chloral % pounds
ounces; of Indian hemp, 81 ounces; OF
qGin!ne powders, 10 pounds 10 ounces OF
quinine pills, 400.
Where the returns We're indefinite the
amounts were put down as zero and in
summing up his report on the subject
which was read before the Vermont Med
ical Society, the doctor stated that his fig
uT5S should be multiplied by five to obtain
the actual amount OF drugs sold in Yer
mont monthly, for he had rot included
drugs sold from wholesale stores nor
those used by practicing physicians for
their medicines or those used by manu-
facturers of medicines.
Analysis OF the actual figures obtained
without their being multiplied at all
shows that siXty-nine towns in Vermont
pay for morphine alone, at cost of 10
cents a grain, more than $1,000 month.
OF the consumption of opium in the State
the doctor says:
In the regular drug stores, and in 100
of the 1I2 general stores in the State of
Vermont, there are sold every month g.
100000 doses of opium, besides what is dis
pensed in patent medicines, and besides
what the doctors dispense, which gives
one and one-half doses of opium to every
man and woman in the State above the
age Of twcnty-one years every day of the
year. BY dose ! mean one grain of opium
Dne-eighth grain morphine. one-half ounce
oaregoric, and twenty drops of laudanum.
The amount consumed each month means
a half dose for every man. woman, and |
child in the State every day of the year"
He further says:
In one place, so small that it hardly |
shows on the map. three and oRe-haIf |
pounds Of gum opium. six ounces of NOR
1hine. five pints of paregoric. five pints of |
audanum and three ounces Of powdered |
luinine are consumed in a month -
The times., 1901-06-16
SCARED ALMOST INTO sPAsMs.
A Prospector Confronted by Noun
tain Lions.
From The St. Louis Rcpublic.)

up to five years ago" said a prospec-
tor TO reporter, Il didn't believe in such
a thing as mans hair standing on
end and then the old gentleman told
the story of the fright that led him TO
change his mind:
Il was in the mountains of Idaho with
friend and We ran short of fresh meat
50 one day | took my gun and started on
alone. l went into a raVine and was max
ing my way along a little brook when 1
came suddenly upon queer sight. Not
four feet in front Of me in the fun blaze
OF the sun, lay four mountain lions,
asleep.
For half a mEIte | thought them dead
but as / stood stirring at them with my
hcart In my mouth every one OF them
sprang up with "A growl. And they faced
around at me, looking ugly, smiling the
AR with their whiskErs drawn back,
showing the white line of their teeth,
switching their tails, and looking like de
mons.
As for me, l stood rooted to the spot
! couldn't l move, from sheer fright. a
queer, numb sensation began in my an
kies ana crept up my body, and / liter
any lelt my hair rise. / stood there mo-
tlonltss Tor several minutes; then one of
ihe beasts dropped his tail and whined
ihe others followed his example. My
presence my stlfied them. i few seconds
Iater they turned about and crept away
down the raviuc, looking back stealthily
two or three times to see me.
W hen they were out Of sight / began
TO breathe again. ! didn't care to hunt
any more that day and made for the
camp Il top speed. That was the time my
hair stood on end and my scalp was sore
10 the touch for week afLerWaTu.
The times., 1901-06-16
WON BY THE BUTToNHoLE.
Weighty Problem at Issue Before
Law Court.
From The Boston Transcript.


| Once upon a time case was brought
| before a learned judge, in which the ques-
! ton at issue was as 70 whether the but
! ton was made for the buttonhOle or the
! bEttOnhole for the button.
Counsel for the button held that il was
| so plain Is to render argument superfiu-
! Gus that the bIttOEhole was made for the
use and behoof of the button; still, for
form sake, he would give a few reasons
why his contention was the correct one
II was apparent, he said, that without the
/ outttonhoie the button would be unable
10 perform its function, and hence it was
plain that the button preceded the but
tonhole, and that the latter was invented
| in order that the button might be of ser
wee TO mankind. 1t should be clear to
everybody that had il not been for the
button the buttonhOle never would have
been thought Of. Its existence HecesSa rily
pTe-SuppOSed the existence of the button.
The lawyer Tor the other side was eaual-
" positive in the stand he had been en-
plONed to take. He aVerred that the but
tonhole preceded the button; that. in fact,
the button was merely an afterthOught.
lie said that, as everyone knew, the but
tonhOle can be employed without the but
ton. as witness Farmer Jones. who inva-
flabiy uses nail or silver of wood in
stead of the conventional button, whereas
It was impossible TO make an effective
use Of the button without the aid and as
siStance of the buttonhole Hence il was
shown beyond peradventure that the but
tunhole was Of greater Importance than
the button. and il was natural to infer
thdt the buttonhO!e was first invented and
that the button came later simply as an
ornament or, at best. as an Improvement
upon the nail. silver, or other instrument
tality whereWith the buttOnh0Ie was made
to perform its duty. To show the rela-
tive value of the buttOnhole and the but
ton, he said, take this simple example:
When a button comes of the buttonhole
can still be made serviceable but if the
buttonhole is slit open the button is of
no use whatever. With this the learned
counsel rested his case, although he
claimed that he had not exhausted the
subject.
When the court came in after recess the
learned judge promptly decided the case
in favor OF the buttonhole-clearly a just
decision. although it was whispered about
the courthouse that the decision might
have been different but for the fact that
while changing his linen between ad-
lOurnment and rcassembling of the court
his honor had dropped his collar button
and hunted for 1t without success for half
an hour, and perhaps might never have
found II had he not stepped upon it But
Of course this suggestion came from the
partisans Of the button and may fairly
be imputed to their disappointment and
chagrin.
The times., 1901-06-16

around, if they are hungry enough. but
the matinee girls are quite another prop
oSltion. They usually travel in crowds Of
from from two to eight or ten. They come in
early, because they want to have lots
OF time to eat and chew the-I mean
tax things over ] was going to saw
chew the rag, but / just caught myself
IN ume- trust you will pardon the ex-
preston, sir. 1t means a whole lot
Wen, sir, when l get a lunch Ike that.
L r. know there is nothing else doing
ihere only one table in the room for
littIe Willie, meaning me. and it's a hard
game TO go up against. Each girl is apt
10 change her mind sixteen times before
she finally decides on cup of cold con-
sonme and a chocolate eciaire or some
ltue neck clans and some tutti-frutti ice
cream Then when the check comes there
Is game Of compound fractions that
would drive n grammar school teacher
II cents
hope / haven't bored you. sir II isn't
otten ] get a chance to let myself loose
your stick Yes. sir. Here it is Thank
you sir Some day when you have time
d like to tell you how Francois-his real
name IS Mike-was bilked out OF a s. tip
Good day sir. '-Phladelphia Record
The times., 1901-06-16
DREAMS AND THE FAIR SEX.
Rife Even Among Edu-
cated Young Women.
From the Baltimore American.)

II doesn't seem possible that in this en-
nSntensd age. superstition could be rife
among the educated, but there are never
theless, number OF young women who
converse fuently, II not eloquently, in
three languag ges, and who read SDeuser
and Browning and Emerson, but who
place dreamhOok with their Bible on the
table beside the bed and consult il in the
morning the first thing. With a creduIit,-
worthy negro NANNY. If their SIeau has
been visited with unusual visitors, thew
seize TINS volume as soon as their ,-ves
are fairly opened and look for an eyEIa-
nation. n misfortune is foretold by il
the seeker after knowledge assumes a
DraNadO she is far from feeling q don-t
care, she says to herself, by wav of
FOSTERING up her courage, m not sun
erstitious. anyway and / don't believe In
Nous just the same for days until other
troubles have driven this ythicaI ono
out Of her mind
There's one young woman known to the
writer VINO never dreams of a Young
child without shivering and shaking for
happening to her. She has not consulted
q dreamboOk on the subject, and so she
COeSn know how infants and bad luck
became connected in her mind but new
ertheless, after she has had a visitant Of
this sort while sleeping she says PRAYERS
OF unusual length and then makes up her
mind to be patient under Affections sore
She is an intelligent woman. mind Won.
but she doesn't attempt to explain the
terror that beSets her at this particular
dream. She doesn't call herself supersti-
tOus-ot course no woman does, not even
the one who won't walk under a ladder
but her friends do, and make light Of her
when the subject is carefully avoided aft
cTward.
The times., 1901-06-16
COMPANY AT MEALS.
Companionship and Talk Needed for
Proper Digestion.
tFrom the London Laneet)

Ahi'iA Ailf LNn4ou Lancet
Many a barristcr business man or Jour
| nalist will say that one Of the most try
ing features of his unmarried life is to
have to eat alone.
There, are some few happily disposed in
dividuals who can dine alone and not eat
TOO last, nor too much, nor too little.
with the majority ii is different. The av-
efage man puts his novel or his paper be-
fore him and thinks that he will lengthen
out the meal with due deliberation by
reading little with. and more between.
the courses. He viii just employ his mind
enough to help, and too little to interfere
with, digestion. In fact, he viii provide
that gentle mental accompaniment which
meal
Fhis is your soIitary's excellent idea. In
reality ne becomes engrOssed in what he
Is reading till suddenly finding his chop
cold he dcmOlishes il in few mOuthfuIs;
or else he finds that he is hungry and
paying no attention to the book which he
llnSs aside. he rushes through his food as
fast as possible, TO plunge into his arm
cnair and literature afterward In either
case the lonely man must digest at a dis
advantage. For due and easy nutrition
food should be slowly taken and the mind
shpuid not be intensely exercised during
the process. Everyone knows that vio-
rent bodIly exercise is bad just after a
meal, and mental eXersion is equally So
Wise people do not even argue during
or Just after dinner. and observation of
aIter-dinner speeches will convince any
CiS tildt MOST speakers neither endure
themselves nor excite in their hearers any
severe intellectual effort
How does it fare with the many solitary
women of today2 No better we know
than with the man. but differently. Alone
or not man may generally be trusted at
any rate to take food enough. With wo-
man II IS different. She is more emotion
al more imaginative, and less inclined to
feallZe the gross necessities of existence
Therefore, the woman doomed to dine
alone as often as not does not dine at all
she gets dyspepsia, because her digestion
mas not sufficient practice; a man gets il
because his functions practice it too oft
en- IN the wrong way.
Worst of all. perhaps. is the case of
the solitary cook. In the myriads of small
nats IN London. there are thousands of
women doing for their solitary masters
or mistresses- These women, whose main
occupation is to prepare food for others
ma II Impossible to enjoy, or even to
take, food themselves. As confectioners
are said to give their apprentices free
run of the stock of the shop for the first
few days. knowing that it will effectually
cure appetite afterward, so the women
who are always occupied with buying and
preparing food grow unable TO use it for
themselves. These people suffer from
dyspepsia. which is cured If somebody
else manages their kitchen for week, sl- |
lowing them to take meals without pre-
pairing them
The times., 1901-06-16

pressure would result in spreading it out.
an event especially disastrous in the case
of the first impression, or centre of the
stamp. and rendering the allowance for
shrinkage and register marks entirely
misleading.
1t will thus be seen. a fact doubtless
appreciated by all collectors. that the
Pan-American stamp is one Of those prod
ucts Of human ingenuity which is largely
the result of hand and brain and not of
machinery. Occasional mistakes are made
in the printing and one secs in the exam
iDing room sheets rendered useless
through the centres yncroaching on bor-
dcTs or vice versa. But such mistakes
are rare, comparatively and the Pan
American stamp may properly be regard
ed as a triumph of the engravers and
printers skill and worthy Of the notable
CNent il Cnmme morales.
The times., 1901-06-16
Not Entirely a Benuty.
lFrom ~ EmrorIa. Kan.. GanlLe.)

II''TI w I4IITUTId, hdI, NdHiVIt'J
Lit Crum thinks he is going to be the
next jnitcd States marshal for Kansas.
No one could have accused CNlm OF be-
ing a Circassian beauty. He lacks 10 or
80 per cent Cf being peony or a lily of
the valley. His conversation is not up to
the fifth reader standard of sweetness; he
never posed mold of fashion and the
glass of form. But nevertheless he is the
shadow of great rock in the weary
land, cloud by day and pillar of light
by night His presence at the Copeland
adds to the gayety of nations and his
bright smile. although vanished, haunts
us still. He IS one of a half dozen men in
thousand who don't lie by nature and
deceive by preference when the truth
would suit his purpose. lie has a plain,
old-fashioned homemade face. made ON
the hlt-or-miss, gathered from such
scraps as Providence found in the rag bag
the morning of his birth.
The times., 1901-06-16
DEFENDING THE DUELLo.
An Assertion Tint II Is Not without
Some Merit.
From the New YORK Pres }


/ Apologists for the duel. OF whom there
! ere still some on the thither side Of Ma
son and Dixon S line. are wont 10 urge for
the custom that it superiuduces dignity Of
intercourse and responsibility of state
ment between men. The orator or editor
who knows himself likely TO be called
strictly 10 account for speech or writing
viii measure and weigh his words. il is
argued, with incest care.
The plea is plausible. but the steady de-
tericratiOn Of French and the steady anne
Iteration OF English and American public
manners in the last two generations give
singular evidence of how plaUsihility is
often another word for faisity. Nitupera-
ton Is lost art in the British press and
Parliament and largely SO in our own
Mr.. Healy, however inccnsCd. never
calls Lord Hugh Cecil further "0ut Of his
name than the prcmior.s SON How
tame is this compared TO O CDnucll. when
in similar genealogical strain he desig-
mated Disraeli as "a hreal descendant or
the impeniteut thief The Irish leader
for"knowlcdGe Of the fact IN no wise dis
suadod him 50, though Randolph Of
Roanoke knew quite well that Clay would
challenge him for his immortal. if unjust;
tan and the hlIckleg' IN Harry of the
Vests alliance with prim John Quincy
Adams. he did not deny himself his cpl
gram on that account.
Our modern cpigramatist from Maine
can DE quite as cutting as the tTcnChant
old Nirginian, yet never as merely SLAM
derous. His hint that the gentleman
needn't wOTry-he'll never be either 10
the bombastic bore who acclaimed that
ne would rather be right than Presi-
dent Is a cleaner verbal coup de grace
than Randolph ever delivered. Yet Mr.
Reed was never deferred from drawling
out any of those much worse things
which, he averred. he might have said
about the Democrats" by any fear of the
0ld-time Democratic argument. No man
care send OF carry a challenge in Wash
ington today for fear Of the prompt eX-
tinction of his hopes for national fame Ia
Homeric gulfaw of national laughter
The notion OF two Representatives taking
themselves and their quarrcls seriously
enough to resort to deadly weapons would
split the sides Of the American people.
The times., 1901-06-16
THE WANDERING YANKEE.
NHtiv"-Horn New EngianderS Nov N
the Minority There
Hrom the springaeld Republican }

H.
That the native population of Neyy
I England IS not maintaining it's numerical
strength is pretty well known. Hence the
. Come ecticut for last year, that the native
population is fast being overwhelmed nv
. the element of immediate foreign cxtrac-
ton, will surprise no one. 1t appears
/ that IN all sections of the State the
/ deaths among the :. tive population cx-
! ceed the births from native parentage.
! while the burden of providing natural
) increase in the population rests wholly
( upon people of foreign birth
This is true of the country as well as
! the urban districts In forty-one back
towns, peopled largely by natives. the
! deaths exceeded the births last year by
( 2i0
In the cities Of New .Haven, Hartford,
Meriden, Waterbury, New london, Nor
Wich and Bridgeport, the births from ma
tive born parents number 1893, while the
deaths Of native born numbered 4227;
among the foreign born births were 4.227
and deaths only l,S6l-there possibly be-
! ing an error in the duplication of the fig
ures 4,ZZI, but in any event. for the whole
static, the native births numb bered S22g
and deaths lo,3SS, and the foreign births
/ Ajl9 and deaths only 361S. From such
facts il is easy to figure out the early dis
placement Of the Older native element by
population of immediate or very recent
foreign origin
The Massachusetts vital statistics re-
veal the same population tendencies.
There are some COunterVailing conSid-
tTdllOnS 10 De taken INTO account when
studying such statistics as the above The
foreign born element possesses a much
larger proportion Of persons of child bear
ing age than the native born. for immi-
grafton draws chiefly from the youth of
other countries and the adult OF low ages
Hence also the death rate among the for
eign born is favored above the native
born by the absence Of normal proportion
Of people of advanced age
Furthermore, as the death rate is large
among young children and as the number
of children born here of fOreign-bOrn par
ents is relatively large. and as the deaths
OF such children count against the native
element in the above statistics another
and very material deduction is obvious
ly to be made on behalf of the native pop
ulatiOn. But after all allowances are made
the fact remains that the population Of
New England Of more th1n one genera
tion Of American nativity seems To- be los
ing ground. This may arse-doubtless
does arise-from the emigration Of the
Yankee youth toward the West, and in
making account of this the old New Eng
land family is unquestionably proving TO
be at least barely self-perpetuatiug but
on New England soil this Yankee element
Is slowly but surely being -engulfed by
other peoples VINO are comparative stran-
gers 10 the region.
The times., 1901-06-16

squirminE tail attracted the attention of
the cat. which. assuming it to be the liz
ard, seized it, only to find that the tail
vas an tive partner to the latter's plan
of escape. For two or three minutes the
tail loapcd and struggled. and as il y-as
two inches long its stimulation of q living
aninal or small lizard was complete,
50 exact indeed that the cat was deceived
tie animal itself to escape
This solved the mystery of nv lizards
with stub tails; they had all lost their
tails in adventures of this or a similar
kind, and the trick had saved their lives
/ am confident that it is not an accident.
but that it constitutes a wclI-defned feaf
ure OF the defence Of the lizard.