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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1889-04-18

WIuuTA, Kan, April l5.-rho Ollo-
h0mn fever is burning Intensely Eyury'
thing Indicate ihHt uH the opening day
the territory Wi|l fairly ha inundated by
the eager lido of humanity anVHul
womm uro also preparing Jo nao up
claims Among them Wo iuWl Young
of Quincy lllu ml Aunu.m Daisy %
well known nHW Wpur writer u. Louis.
viii, Ny, MI# Bruce. who W1 dg.Un
out hy lhp l'liua, lf waiting u. Ar.Hn,
guA CITY, whore rho hlg r.gnutlv boon
Joined hy four other teachers of this
state, Eight girls Ut Purcell have formed
a coloncy and viii talu up clg.mlt and
business of all kinds will from The first
be- we'll represented, TCnla will be used
until buildings can bo erected, Two
young men from Colorado arrived here
yesterday with o caravan Of wagons,
each one store 10 be moved 10 suit the
tide Of emigration, A question that N
now interesting % certain class Of would
be Oklahoma settlers h the liquor laws
controlling the territory, An inyeatiga'
lion shows that this viii be one Of the
bcai-rcprCscntod lines OF business, and
that saloon keepers, who are prohibited
from selling In the state, win flock Ia
great numbers tO Oklahoma, Five tonis
arc being made here 10y one tCntemNkef
alone, Two Of them will hold hus 100
foot long.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1889-04-18
Returning 10 Port.

LONDON, April l5,-Tho steamship
Etruria, which arrived from New Yorh
yesterday, reports that the steamer Wis
oonhn Il returning to Liverpool She
has not yet, however, arrived at either
LiyeTpuul or Queenstown.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1889-04-18

SHAMoKIN, Pa, April 13.-ISpecial. +
The farmers all around here have had
exciting time for two days lighting
forest lres, which have been spreading,
but the rain last night has put iires out.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1889-04-18

STEuBENyu.LE April i5.-The Acme
glass works, employing 800 men, which
shut down for throc-duartom OF iN ca
pacity for thrco weeks 10 work of extra
stock, started up In full this morning.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1889-04-18

PlTTsBuR0, April l6-IspecIal 7
Iron and steel workers NJ convention
here IN June viii demand vacation Of
two months during which all the iron
mills shall be closed. They argue II
will be a good thing for trade and be u
benefit 10 all concerned.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1889-04-18
A Welcome Flood.

WrLLiAMsroHT, Pa, April ib.-ISpo
cial. There Is a seven foot Hood In the
river here aud the rise Is welcomed by
InmhOrmon.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1889-04-18

For Western Pennsylvania, rain, pre-.
coded 10y fair In Wcstmn New York
warmer; variable winds.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1889-04-18

NEWS IN BRIEF

AZ Brooklyn Brooklyn z, Newark g
AZ 81. Louia-SL Louis ID, Toronto T.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1889-04-18
COLONlES ORGANIZING,


MANY wan Take Fosseftlon April so
soldiers 10 Move nay or Two he'
fore 10 Chpclmatn rhem-rromendous
Rainfals--A Colony OF Women Iioo'a'
ors-Tho FlFst Row Epds In gho Death
ofAn American,
ARKAssAs CITY, Kanr April lb The
population Of thi city has Increased one
Third during thr pnbt week. Two thou
sand eager boomers ore here, ana at
least another thousand a-3 along tho line
south Of hero, The half dozen hardware
stores have sold out their entire stock,
and tho demand Ii not half supplied,
The boomers are falling Into small
colonies OF twenty-five 10 fifty persons,
aud are deyiHing schemes 10 outwit their
neighbOra and get into the heart OF Ok
lahoma by the appointed time,
There h feeling all along the border
that there viii he general forward
movement into the territory on the night
of April 30 Boomers who have been
here oil winter have picked out their
land, and they are suspicious and afraid
OF the new comors They don't propose
10 have the land they fought and bled
for jumped by recent arriyah
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1889-04-18

What the Iron aud stool workorpiwin
Do,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1889-04-18

For rent and for sale cards cheap at
the DEMOCRAT Office.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1889-04-18
Blood Medicine

My daughter Maud has used Hibbafds Rheu.
matte Syrup and plnaiort, which you 40 strongly
recommended her 10 Try for nnammalory fheuma.
itm. Her limbs wetr badly swollen .and the poor
girl was IN terrible agony, In The midst Of The pain
we wound the paAlcfa about her limbs, and, AZ a
result the swelling was reduced and she became
quiet and rested. Tho syrup corrected her indlgea
,hon, ecanscd The rheumatic poison from her blood
and she u now able 10 be around the house. Hb
bard's Rheumatic Syrup and Plaeters arc remedies
Of great merit RHv, j., ,RouHRrs,
Pastor First M. II. Church, Fidmont, Mich.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-02-18
AGENTS FOR THE LIGHT.
MONDAY. FEBRUARY, 10, 1899.
HOW THEY DO 1T.

The affection of a democratic news
paper for democratic office holder is
like that of Jonathan for David, it
certainly "pasSes the love of women"
The LIGHT is moved to this reflection
by recent occurrences. Some ten
days since gentleman of perfect re-
sponsibility, well known to this office,
came into the LIGHT sanctum and
laid down written paper giving
brief account of a defalcatiOn in a GER
tain Texas post-office as democratic
ally administered and offering to
substantiate the same, or be held
personally liable for its correctness.
His statement was to the effect that
the democratic postmaster of the
Office aforesaid had placed his son, a
young man of parts, in charge of
matters in the office, and that this
young man, moved by the instiga-
lions of the devil and the seduction
of young woman of color, had ap-
propriated 5000 of the office funds
and decamped with the said young
woman of color to New York The
postal authorities hearing of the
affair took up the case and the
postmaster was informed that restitu-
ton must be made and the young
office holder return to Texas for trial
or removal would ensue. The
young criminal was returned, indict-
ed by the grand jury and placed I'M
der a $1,000 bond. Placed under $1,000
bonds, mind you, for the theft of
5000. What became of the female
partner in the little game is not
stated. These were the facts that
came to the LIGHTS knowledge ten
days ago, and which are confirmed in
all essential particulars by the testi-
mony of gentleman formerly hold
ing an office of great trust in the fed
eral courts of this state. All this, and
yet not one word has ever been ut
tered by a democratic journal of this
state, concerning either the defalca-
ton, the ridiculOusly low amount of
bond required by the court, or the
peculiar taste of the young culprt in
choosing his travelling companion.
Had republican official got away
with twenty-seven dollars, much less
twenty-seven hundred, what a howl
would have gone up from every
democratic newspaper in Texas. Had
the republican official chosen young
woman of color as his travelling asso-
ciate what a screed would have been
published against the negrOphObia OF
the radical party and the republicans
Of the nation would have been reck-
oned particeps criminis in the whole
affair. Now, however, the boot is on
the democratic foot and an awful
silence, like that which pervaded
heaven for half an hour, has fallen
upon the democratic journals of this
state. The outcome Of this $1,000 bond
business will be awaited with interest
in republican circles.
Telephone your orders to Jess NJ.
Bell, the popular ieweler. Fine goods
and best work at bottom prices. loft
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-02-18
Bloody Work Of a Maxim Gun.
New York Sun.

New York Sun.
An encounter took place recently
in the Sulymah district Oh the west
coast of Africa, which provided a fair
test of the new arm known as the
Maxim gun, ard a fearful weapon it
proved to be. Sulymah is a British
protectorate adjacent to Sierra Leone,
and some warlike natives outside re-
Gently threatened an attack. The
English commander sent against
this party, although il could
not have been small, eleven
native policemen and one British Of
ticer, taking with them a Maxim gun.
They halted in front of native stock
AIDE, and soon the hostile savages,
the "War Boys" as they are called
in that country, marched out to the
assault, and the gun was set to work.
ing. The effect was magical. The
assailants turned and fled, but in that
short movement 13l of them were laid
on the ground dead. When it Is
remembered that savage tribes never
operate in very close formation, the
awful effectiveness of this ma chine
gun will be understOO
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-02-18
MORE LIGHT ON SAMOA.

Sunday morning dispatches show
the usurpatiOns and eXactiOns of the
German rulers in Samoa IN a very OBJ
noXiOus light. The simple narrative
of the trouble there, when related
without note or comment, will show
that the whole difficulty was caused
by an unwarranted attempt on the
part of the Germans to depOse the
old chief, Mataafa, because he would
not consent to be the mere catspaw
of the officiOus German consul. The
aid and comfort given by the Ger
man marines and war vessels and
residents to the rebel Tamasese was
plainly with the understanding that
he should acknowledge German su-
premacy in the islands. The high
handed proceedings of the German
consul in prOclaiming martial law,
Selling American property and Amer
lean citizens, suppressing printing Of
fees and refusing to permit ships to
land goods consigned to American
iiIOl ClittlI 70 tilC ali ClClS "IICIl
call forth the severe condemnation of
both the American and British gov
ernments The supineness of our
foreign office and the intellectual
dulness or worse of Secretary Bayard
have brought this country into dis
repute abroad and periled all Anne
rican interests on the island. A vigor-
GUS policy; a demand for indemnifica-
ton of all losses and distress sustain
eddy the American residents and re-
turn to the statu quo in which Anne
rican interests were equal to those of
Germany with a restoration to au-
lhOrity Of the rightful ruler of the
islands is what this country should
demand. Two weeks more and the
smbecile admins tratiOn of the foreign
office under which the disgrace has
come upon us will be at an end and
Americans abroad will breath freely.
The best furniture and more of it,
for the least money at Bottoms. If
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-02-18
TO CORRESPONDENTS

All communications for this paper should be
accompanied by the name of the author, not
necessarily for publication, but as evidence Of
good faith on the part of the writer. Write only
on one side of the paper, in plain hand. An
onymous communications vii! not be noticed.
The LIGHT will not be responsible for the state
nent Ofits correspondents.
All communications for publication, or per-
tanning to the Editorial or Local News Depart
1ents, should be addressed ITO the Editor o!
NE LIGHT"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-02-18
About the Way It Works.

Local option has resulted in making
about twO-thirds Of New Jersey, Gen.
Fisk's state, strictly prOhibitory. Gen.
Fisk and his party helped the demo-
Gratis carry it last fall, the result of
this being that local option is to be
abolished and New Jersey is to be
given over to free rum.
A Chinaman in New York has
started an evening school to teach
the English language to his own
cOuntrymen.
Mr.. H. DEMO, of VIcksburg, Miss,
has magnolia tree in his yard of a
species which is II curiosity, in that it
blooms in February.
A diamand of wonderful purity
weighing 240 carats was found at the
JagersfOnten mine in South Africa on
Christmas day.
Sunday is now generally observed
in Japan as day of rest. The move
ment began with the closing of the
government establishment on Sum
days.
by Washington at his Inauguration
anu dlSO W neu lie IeSlSu 6u HIS COIl-
mission as COMMUNICATIVE hief of the
army, is in a safe deposit vault in
Baltimore, the property of his great
niece, Miss Virginia Il. Lewis. This
is the one for the possession of which
Congressional committee has re-
commended an appropriation OF
500, 600.
General Butler was foored by his
young grandson, who put this con.
undrum to the willy old lawyer
"Take a plane and place a cylinder
on it, what part of the cylinder touch.
es the plane?" The general replied,
"The line" How can that be?n re-
spOnded the student. A line has no
width, breadth or depth. Being
without these, how can anything
rest on ito"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-02-18

SENATOR COKE is airing his knowl-
edge of the Washington county out
RACES in the United States senate. The
angels who raided ballot boxes will
appear with their wings all spread
under Coke's imaginative flights. All
the same, investigation has been and
condemnation will follow all such
damnable deeds of darkness as have
caused the practical disfranchisement
Of cOlored voters in the black districts
of this and other states.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-02-18
A Melancholy Whine,
rom Cincinnati Times-Star.

FROM CluCluudJl L iHes-SIdT.
This pitiful whining by democrats
that Grover beat the party is dis
gushing. Why do they not stand up
like men and manfully take their de-
feat? Why do they go around like
crying children, saying, He did it?"
1t is a babyish business, this long
drawn out wailing and complaining.
If Cleveland really beat his party,
why did his party not forsee trouble
last June? 1t has no one TO blame
but itself, for, it nominated Cleve-
land knowing full well in adj
vance the platform upon which he
must necessarily stand. 1t strikes us
that it is only the old. old case of a
party whose "hindsight is better than
its foresight" and it is grooming to
think that the case were not differ
ent. Think of such a thing as this
from the Washington correspondence
of the Enquirer:
The tears that democrats shed on
the 4th of March, while the republi-
cans are making Rome-or rather
Washing ton-"hOwl" will be sorrow
fully yielded up for the party, and not
for Grover Cleveland. 1t was Mr..
Cleveland who was beaten in 1888,
and not the democracy.
What stuff and twaddle! And
what melancholy whine of the de-
feated. We are losing the little re-
spect we had left for the democratic
party. 1t has usually known how to
take defeat gracefully. And it might
as well learn again how to do this,
for defeat is the fate which will be-
long to it Cor years to come.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-02-18

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Announcements for State and County officers
Ten Dollars in advance
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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-02-18

Telephone your orders to Jess NJ.
Bell, the popular ieweler. Fine goods
and best work at bottom prices. loft
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-02-18

The best furniture and more of it,
FOR the least money at Bottoms. If
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-02-18

Announcements for State and County officers
Ten Dollars in advance
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-09-06
4 Marine Hero.

Among the inmates of the National
Soldiers home at Togus, Me-, is Richard
Rowley, who was captain of the guns on
the Kearsarge when she sunk the Ala
bama off the harbor of Cherbourg,
France, and performed an act of bravery
which probably saved his ship and her
crew The battle had ragged for over an
hour and half, when 100 pound rifle
shell from the Alabama struck the gun
which RoSley was sighting and fell on
the deck, with the fuse still burning. In
an instant Rowley picked it pand threw
it into the sea, where it exploded just as
it touched the water The sailors beard
and mustache were burned off by the
fuse, but he stepped back to his gun and
sent a shot into the sinking Alabama.
Capt WTinslow at once gave the order
to man the rigging and give three cheers
for Quartermaster Rowley. The latter
was greatly lionized after his return to
this country. Congress voted him a gold
medal; he received other valuable gifts,
and President Lincoln personally thanked
him. For several days before his inter
view with the president, Rowley had ac-
cepted frequent invitations to drink
champagne, and probably showed the
effects. As he arose to go Mr.. Lincoln
gave him a hundred dollars, saying:
Now don't drink too much liquor;
drink Just little. but not too much. I
know you old sailors all like little grog,
but be careful and not drink too much
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-09-06

1t is a great mistake to suppose that
the best work of the world is done by
peopleof great strength and great oppor-
tunities 1t is unquestionably an advan-
tage to have both these things, but
neither of them is necessity to the man
who has the spirit and the pluck to
achieve great results Some of The
greatest work of our time has been done
by men of physical feebleness. No man
has left more distinct impression of
himself on this generation than Charles
Darwin, and there have been few men
who have had to struggle against such
prostrating i'll health
Darwin was rarely able to work long
at time. He accomplished his great
work by having a single aim, and putting
every ounce of his force and every hour
of his time into the task which he had
set before him. He never scattered his
energy, he never wasted an hour, and
by steadily keeping at it, in spite of con-
tinual i'll health aud of long intervals of
semi-iuvalidisln, he did great work,
and has left the impression upon the
world of a man of extraordinary energy
and working capacity. Success is rarely
a matter of accident, always matter Of
character The reason why so many
men fail is that 50 few are willing to pay
the price of self denial and hard work
which success exacts.-Christian Union.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-09-06
he Heara .8bnnt Lis Gra,e.

DO yea know my grave was dug in
this town during the war for me to be
hurled in:a said gentleman in our Office
last Thursday.
NO, sir; we never met you before.
"Well, it was. Ny name is Crane,
and was sergeant in company G, One
Hundred and Twenty-fourth Indiana
regiment was sick nigh unto death
in a hospital in Marietta, and heard the
doctor say to man who entered the
room: How many graves are you having
dug? Three was the response. We'll,
dig one about foot longer than the
usual length, for that tail sergeant Will
be dead by morning. and the instruc-
tions were carried out, but you see I did
not fill that grave"
mo, you don't look like a resurrected
corpse
''The reason didn't die was l got bet
ter the next morning and ate raspberry
jam, determined not to fill q grave that
was dug before dice. Marietta (Ga.)
Journal
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-09-06
Cir RnYIe,s HEulls. -

Sergt. Arabin had facility of max
ing ebullsn which would have done
credit to Sir Boyle Roche. Here is one
Of them: prisoner at the bar, if ever
there was a clearer case than this of a
man robbing his master, this case is that
case 1T is in my power" he said to
another delinquent, 80 subject you to
transportation for a period very consid-
erably beyond the term Of your natural
life, but the court, in its mercy, will not
go so far as it lawfully might 60" His
happiost effort was perhaps the offer to
give another prisoner ga chance Of re-
deeming a character which he had ire
trie7ably lost. San Francisco Argo-
nauf
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-09-06
Chinese Progress.

1t is not easy to determine whether
we should rejoice at Chinese progress or
regret it, for the waking up of the vast
Mongolian masses means the precipita-
ton of an overplus upon the Aryan
world that we do not yet know how to
deal with. However, it is certain that
China will soon be practically modern
state. The conservative clement is ef
fectually overcome and railway con-
struction has been entered on as nation.
al policy. Peking is at once to be Joined
to Tien Tsin by road passing through
the most populous districts of the en-
pire The radicals or reformer5 are at
last entirely triumphant, and China will
adopt every means for development. 1t
will be impossible to exist on the Same
planet under a system of mutual ex.
clusion.-St. Louis Glebe-Democrat.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-09-06
There Is a Difference.

There was a jolly little group about a
table in q down town cafe last night
shaking dice for the lemonade. The
man who threw the lowest number had
to pay for the lemonade and tell story
All at the table had been 'sstuck" but one
gentleman who is noted for his keenness
of repartee The gentlemen who had
been ''stuck" told nothing but anecdotes
and antique tales Not new story had
been recited; and they were all chest
nuts. When the gentleman noted for rep
artee had been stuck there was ap-
plause, call for drinks and demand
for a new story. Il can tell q story, !"
said the gentleman, as he ordered the
proper thing. "but I'll ask you conun
drum. Go ahead" he was told.
well" he went on, what is the differ
ence between turkey and mani"
This odd conundrum foored the
crowd The questioner was appealed to
for an answer. The difference between
turkey and man." he explained, as
he rose to leave, sis that a turkey isn't
stuffed with chestnuts until its dead"
The crowd OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Commercial.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-09-06

all things conforming strictly to me
rules of the prison, he is served with ex-
cellent food nicely cooked.
aHe can have chops, steaks, eggs, tea
and coffee, milk, white bread, ETC.; if he
is only fairly well behaved and does not
do his allotted task properly, is inclined
to growl and grr,mble at the regulations
of the institution, he is given ordinary
prison fare, mush and molasses, soup,
corn bread, ETC.; and if he is ugly and
insubordinate he is permitted to feast on
unlimited quantities of cold water and a
rather small allowance of bread. You
can have no idea now hard the conyicts
try toenter the first class, and once there
it's very seldom that one of them has to
be sent back to a lower class. thus going
to prove the truth Of the old theory that
men are most easily reached through
their stomachs. San Francisco Paper
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-09-06
The stomach as a Disciplinarian.

Said an ex-prison official; "They have
new and novel method ofmaintaining dis
cipline in the state prison at Folsom, CAL,
and as near as can learn it is proving
great success They have no dungeons
or dark cells in the prison, corporal
punishment is unheard Of, tying up by
the thumbs is never permitted; in short.
none of the old modes Of punishment are
recognized in this institution The sys-
tenn in vogue is this: When new priso-
ner is received he is informed that they
have three different bills of fare IN the
prison, and that it is optional with each
man as to how well he lives. If he is in
dustrious. orderly. well behaved, and ID