Darke County Democratic Advocate from Greenville, Ohio • 2

Raw Ants for Desert. Francisco met An Examiner man yesterday Anof Los J. B. Clarke, a carpenter formerly lived in Northern geles, who Maine, where he was a lumberman. the habits of the lumIn speaking of bermen and their tastes as regards food, he said: "The lumbermen North of Bangor, and in the vicinity my native place, fond of of New Brunswick, are very which they relish when they are out in eating wood ants, as rare bonbons the lumber districts.

ant-eater studies connoisseur habits of wood ants as carefully the studies the habits 88. a duck hunter To begin with, he knows of ducks. how an ant community is constituted; he knows that the ants hibernate, and wrapped in slumber while they are of some big tree he under the bark the comatose community slips upon and rivals the armadillo in devouring it, by Continuing his story Mr. Clarke platoons and double handfuls." "For almost a year I saw my said: eating ants as desert fellow-workmen meals in lumber tents were after our over. I regarded, them as gastronomionly a little above 1 the cal monsters Digger, Indians that devour the pedifame, otherwise known calus, of army as graybacks.

"One day I became seized with a desire to eat ants myself, so I wrapped three up in a paper and stole two or behind a tree, somewhat a8 8 away boy would do to smoke his first elgar, so that if I got sick nobody would get the laugh on me. I shut my eyes and ate one ant. He was delicious-flavored like a lemon-drop, juicy, yet rich as a walnut. "The flesh of an ant is refined, not vulgar hog meat. The ant is an insect with a highly nervous organization, and bis meat is wholesome.

Ants eat the soft meats of other insects' bodies, and they devour plenty of fruit also. I believe the day will come when ants will be considered a more delicate dish than frog legs. I ate ice cream as desert, but I would have preferred a plate of hibernated ants, raw." Politeness of Clerks. Politeness is an essential requisite to the successful clerk. There need be no cringing or 'undue deference, bat the customer must be made to feel that the clerk's time and service are at his disposal, and often the case, receive the impression his presence has most inopportunely interrupted a chat with a fellow clerk, and the sooner he buys what he wants the better; or, worse still, the quicker be leaves, whether he purchases or not, the better satisfied the clerk will be.

This is entirely wrong. The clerk's employer pays him for his time, and if the employe be an honest man be endeavors to earn his salary by devoting his energies to the sale of the goods intrusted his charge. The dawdling salesman will never rise from behind the counter. It is the brisk, alert and attentive- clerk who is selected to fill a higher position when a vacancy occurs, and it is the same young man who, as the years roll by, is either admitted to partnership or starts for himself. No fortune has ever been made behind a counter, but it has been the steppingstone for more than one merchant prince.

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The Scriptures says, 'Even the ravens are cared "Yes," replied the minister, "but the Scriptures say nothing about caring for Hawks." John have you seen that woman lately? John, in astonishment: What That woman picking grapes for Speer's Wine. Just see her in another column and read about it. The wines are found by chemists to be absloutely pure and equal to the best in the world. The Boards of Health in large cities and leading hospitals have adopted their use where wines are needed. Do you suffer with catarrh? You can be cured if you take Hood's Sarsaparilla, the great blood purifier.

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DEMOGRATIG ADVOCATE BY W. A. BROWNE. OFFICIAL PAPER OF DARKE COUNTY. THURSDAY.

JAN. 24. 1889. GREENVILLE'S PETITION, The following is the petition presented to the Legislature yesterday on behalf of the Greenville Gas Bill, and sets out the many excellent reasons city should be granted the why our privilege asked: To the Members of the Legislature. The undersigued Committee, appointed by the citizens of Greenville, Ohio, to the passage of a bill to urge authorize our city to bring Natural Gas into said city, and to authorize said city to issue bonds to defray exof same, call your attention to penses the following facts, which show the of said city to assume such a ability burden We respectfully show youThat Greenville is a city of the second class, fourth grade; that the city has ample School Houses to accommodate all and many more scholars than now live in said city; that the city owns public buildings for Fire Department, Mayor's Office, Council Chamber, City Prison, places for holdelections, and a public ball for ing also owns two rotary steam fire rent; engines, a hook and ladder outfit, aleeping apartments for firemen, four horses to draw engines, hose and book and ladder appliances.

That all of said buildings are substantial brick structures and in good condition. That all bridges in said city are constructed of iron, resting on cut abutments, and in good condition. All the streets, sidewalks and gutters, street crossings, culverts and surface drainage of said city are constructed, in good repair, and so built in all parts of the city, and in every street where houses are built. The city is amply provided with main sewerage, and cisterns to supply the Fire Department. That no other additional expenses will be imposed on said city to keep up all of said improvements, excepting for repairing the same, until, by the growth of the city, additional or extensions of said improvements shall become necessary.

That the said city owns real estate for which it has no use, and is offering for sale, worth about $4,000, and has an indebtedness of only $6,000, due in 1890 and 1891. That certain citizens of Greenville own a tract of eighty acres of land on which they sunk two wells, and which are piped and under control, which wells register a yield of nearly three and a quarter million cubic feet of natural gas per day. These citizens offered and tendered said lands and wells, some time during the year 1888, to the city at actual cost, and again on January 21, 1889, the owners of said lands and wells made a proposition in writing to the Council of said city, offering said property to the city at actual cost to present owners, towit, $6,050, which proposition gives to said city the option of receiving or rejecting the same within ninety days from February 1, 1889, and the City Council adjourned the consideration of said proposition for thirty days, to await the action of the Legislature on the Greenville Gas Bill; that the said lands are situated nineteen miles from Greenville, and in what is known as the Mercer County Gas Belt; that ample gas-producing land can be bought or leased adjacent to said tract. That the tax duplicate of said city amounts in round numbers to 030; that all the wants of said city for years will be amply supplied by a levy of five mills on the dollar; that under the law said city is authorized to levy nine mills on the dollar. That an election held in said city in June last, where a fairly full vote of the electors of said city voted on the question of taxing the city for bringing said gas in to be used by said city and its citizens, resulted in a vote in the ratio of twenty-eight in favor to one against said proposition, and this vote substantially represents the feeling of the citizens of said city at the present time.

And we show that the indebtedness contemplated by this bill is $130,000, which, being added to the present indebtedness of the city, $6,000, will make a total indebtedness of $136,000. Now, per cent. of the taxable prop- erty of said city amounts to about $147,000. Thus it will be seen that if this bill should become a law, and said city should incur under it an indebtedness to the full limit of the bill, yet the grand total indebtedness of said city will then be less than five per cent. of the taxable property of said city.

We have now shown you our Ipresent condition, our wants, our ability to assume and pay the amount asked for by this bill. We do not in this take into account the fact that by selling this gas for fuel to our citizens at seventy-five per cent. of present cost of coal we are certain to realize not less than $40,000 per annum, and we firmly believe that the revenue to be derived from this source alone will liquidate this indebtedness in from to four years without levying a three dollar by way of taxation on our peo- ple. Respectfully submitted, GEO. W.

MOORE, C. ANDERSON, F. McWHINNEY, J. R. KNOX, J.

E. BREADEN, GEO. MARTZ, SIMON BACHMAN, L. F. BOWMAN, JNO.

C. CLARK, GEo. W. STUDABAKER, L. E.

CHENOWETH, B. BLOTTMAN, Citizens' Committee. CERTIFICATES. edness. WM.

SULLIVAN, City' Clerk. January 21, 1889. At a regular meeting of the City of Greenville, Ohio, held in Council their Council Room, January 21, A. D. 1889, a proposition in writing was made to the Council by the Trustees of the association of citizens called Greenville Gas and Fuel Comthe offering to sell an eighty acre pany, tract of land owned by the Company, situated nineteen miles from GreenObio, on which are two natural ville, wells, yielding three and onegas quarter million feet of natural gas day; also, an engine and drilling per apparatus, at the price of $6,050.00, which proposition is made subject to our acceptance or rejection within days from February 1, 1889.

ninety On motion, the said proposition was received and consideration of the laid over to await the action of same the Ohio Legislature on the Greenville Gas Bill. William Sullivan, Clerk of the city of Greenville, Darke county, Ohio, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and full copy of the proceedof the Council of said city on the ings proposition of the Greenville Natural Gas and Fuel Company to sell the lands and property of said Company to said city, bad on January 21, 1889. W. SULLIVAN, City Clerk. William Sullivan, Clerk of the city of Greenville, Darke county, hereby certify that the total indebtedness of said city at this date is $7,000, which will fall due in installments and all be due by August 1, 1891, and that there is now in the treasury of said city the sum of $1,000 applicable to payment on said indebt- William Sullivan, Clerk of the city of Greenville, Darke county, Ohio, do hereby certify that at the special election held in said city on the 25th day of June, 1888, on the question of the said city piping natural gas to said city, for use of same and its citizens, there were 726 votes cast in favor of said city furnishing said gas, and 26 votes against, as shown by the poll books and tally sheets of said election.

W. SULLIVAN, City Clerk. January 21, 1 1889 I certify that the total valuation of the taxable property in the city of Greenville at this date, as shown by the Grand Duplicate, including additions and deductions, is. $2,672,030. CYRUS MINNICH, Auditor of Darke County, January 21, 1889.

THE INAUGURATION. Wisdom of the Pennsylvania Lines in Arranging for the Traffic to Washington. The number of visitors to Washington for the inauguration of Presidentelect Harrison is expected to exceed the number in attendance at any similar previous event. The great railway companies whose lines lead into Washington are vieing with each other in. preparing for the enormous traffic.

The Pennsylvania System owns over two thousand passenger coaches, more than any other railway system in the country, and the requisite number of locomotives for their movement. This extensive equipment, together with Pullman' Vestibale, Sleeping and Parlor Cars, will be at the service of the pilgrims to the Capital. The prompt movement of the Pennsylvania trains is insured by the excellent road-bed and precision of the methods of operation. The Pennsylvania Lines propose to 80- commodate their patrons by excursion tickets at cheap rates and running trains in safety and on time, through from all principal points. The Inaugural Committee on Public Comfort has made preparation for the accommodation of half a million visitora during the ceremonies, and there is no question that people will fare well by placing themselves in the hands of this committee.

For full information write or make personal application to the nearest passeuger or ticket agent of the Pennsylvanis Lines. It will I be well to remember that the spacious depot of the Pennsylvania Lines in Washington is just off Pennsylvania avenue, almost within a stone's throw of the Capitol, and near all places of interest. The Pennsylvania road on its way to Washington leads through the and ever beautiful scenery of famous the Allegheny mountains. Newspapers all over Kansas say the new wheat is in as fine condition as 18 possible for it to be. STRANGER THAN FICTION.

Soldier Finds His Wife in An Old Poor-House After TwentySeven Years. romance not inclosed in covA real ers, came to light yesterday, which again proves the wisdom of the saythat truth is stranger than fiction. ing Hall, a veteran of many batFrank tles, who was in the city yesterday, is the hero of the story, and his exof the past week were such happen outside the confines periences as rarely play-house or the pages of a of the novel. In the year 1860 Hall, then comparman, lived in Wauatively a young kesba, where he was employed in a flour-mill. In his association with of the village he bethe young people acquainted with pretty Annie came Rivers, then a bonnie lass of twenty, and a mutual attachment sprang up.

He wooed and won, and on a sunny the church bells rang merrily for day the union of two hearts. after came the breaking out Shortly of the war and its consequent exciteand among the first to volunment, teer for the defense of the Nation was Frank Hall. The last moment arrived, and having bade an affectionate farewell to his weeping bride, he entered and was taken to an Illinois the cars regiment, to which bel had asked to be assigned. In the Forty-second Illinois Volunteers he went to the front, and none were more frequent in writing home at all possible opporthan he. The letters from tunities his wife came regularly at first, one informing him of the birth of a son; then they began to drop off.

Finally was a long silence, although he there continued to send home his pay. One when the soldiers' mail was day handed out there was a letter for Frank Hall which brought sad news. It was from a friend in Wisconsin who, in a scarcely legible hand, wrote to acquaint him of the death of his wife. In 1863 Hall was disabled and received a discharge at Atlanta, going to hospital for a time. On mending he re-inlisted, this time in the Thirteenth Ohio, and served until the war.

He determined to continue in his country's service, and enlisted in the Sixth Cavalry of the regular service, being sent to Texas. In 1869 he left the service and settled in Kansas, afterward going to Washington Territory, thence. to Michigan, and later to Iowa, where be lately resided at Fort Madison. A few weeks ago he left Fort Madison to visit relatives in Illinois and Wisconsin, and arrived in Milwaukee about a week ago, with the intention of looking over familiar ground at Waukesha and learning the story of his wife's death and the whereabouts of the eon be had never seen. On Monday he alighted from the cars at the Western Saratoga, and, although scarcely recognizing the town, managed to see a familiar sign.

It bore the name of one of the old mill proprietors. The man was not in, but be was informed as to where Joe Gaudy, a relative of his wife, could be found, and thither be went, having hired a livery rig. Mr. Gaudy was espied in front of the house designated, and he called out to him: "Hello, Joe!" "Who are you?" asked the astonished Joe. Hall made himself known, and invited Gaudy to a seat in the buggy.

The conversation turned to the subject of the Rivers family, and Hall asked where his wife was buried, "Buried- exclaimed Gaudy, "she's no more dead than you are. She's down to the Poor House." A more surprised man than Frank Hall never breathed. Explanations followed, and they started off toward the institution in question. It seemed that a brother of Hall's wife had died at about the time he had heard of her death, and that must have occasioned a mistake. His own letters in some way bad failed to reach their destination, and it was generally thought that he had been killed, and his wife had monrned him for dead.

She had become reduced in circumstances, and for ten years had been an inmate of the Alms House. When they arrived at their destination, Hall and his friend were ushered in, and the matron being acquainted with the nature of their visit, called Annie into their presence. "Annie, do you know this man?" asked Gaudy. She shook ber head. Hall, who recognized her instantly in spite of her added years, called to her with outstretched arms asking if she did not know his face.

She started at the sound of his voice, but did not seem to place him. "Don't you know Frank, your husband?" cried Hall. The woman stood a moment in surprise and then rushed into the arms of her husband. During that the affecting scene followed Hall told her that better times were coming, and an hour later took his leave to make necessary returning arrangements for her release, to claim his to this city. ay he goes wife, and the happy reunited couple will shortly start for Jowa, rudely there broken to renew the fireside so by war.

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