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The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-03-12


Th4 young GIL who is known to the
reading world as Eliza Ha. ris was a Ken
tucky slave, owned ly nan near Rip
ley, o.. but on the slavery side of the
river. She had comfortable home and
an indulgeDt master and mistress. but
nnS5r the pressure OF financial difficult
ties ii became necessary for the slave to
be sold. This woG place Eliza in dam
ger of separation from her only child,
and she determined 10 carry the ch.ld to
free territory.
AS she approached the river. which she
had hoped 10 cross on the ice, she found
it full Of floating pieces, the ice having
broken up during tha night, and her pur-
suers just then appeared over the hill,
descending the bank. Il. her esperat. on
she rushed 20 the brink and sprang upon
a floating ice cake with her babe Then,
with the courage of speration, she leap
ed from CAKE 10 cake-SJm times sinking
to tn wais:. when. sliding her child
upon the next cake, sla word pull her
self up with her i,aSis-uatil at last,
benummod ard exhausted she reached
the Ohi; sacra ard was pjnied up the
bank by 4 man who h1d watched her
periious venture. She w5s taken 70 the
hon2e Of R,v. john i;ank'a. whose family
Still lives in Ripley ard there sheltered
Until she and thu chic could be forward
ed through Cincinnati 10 the home of
Levi Coffin. at Newport md, aal thence
to Canada. the Rankin house still
stands en- the high hill back of Ripley.
TOPSY AN AGGREGATION.
1t has been stated by some writer's Of
"reminiscences NAT the Topsy of the story
was girl Mrs. Stowe had brought from
the south but this is n. c1r affirmed On
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MRS. STOWE IN OHIO.
MANY SCENES AND CHARAC-
TIERS IN UNCLE TOMS CABIN
Drawn from the Queen City and
Nicinity-Eariy Friends and As
sociations of the Famous Aboli-
ZIONIST AEthnrGSS.

Strangers In the city OF Cincinnati are
always taken to visit the surroLn lin g
h:iltors. The city Itself, bait on a cup
like hollow, has spread u f.he base Of
the semi-c:rcle of lofty bluffs httar1:ng
Il in upon three sides. th2 fouTt!: S.Ge ex-
tending along the 5arde: OF the Ohio r.v-
er. Looking doF9n upon The sUwn, even
in the clearest wes ;her, the vision is oh
scured by the dense pail nf sE,ule. pour
ing from the bitunen-fed furnaces OF
vast brewer.es and factories, and hang
ing forever ov-l the roofs and streets,
though cae can discern here AMI there
IA tall spire rising like sractsr from the
cloud.
At walnut HIS. one Of the most beau
tiful suburbs, is located Lane Theological
seminary, closely associated with the his
tory of the Beecher family. It was here
that Harriet Beecher daughter of Ly
man Beecher, then president cf the SEM
mary, and afterward the wife of Prof.
Calvin Stowe. also of the seminary pass
ed many years of hex maiden ana mar
RED life Here, long before she ever
dreamed of becoming 4 famous author,
she learned to pity the slave, AMI felt
the throb of abolit.onisn IS it Slowly
grew into her life
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GRANTS BOYHOOD.
Georgetown, Chic, the Quaint and
Interesting Place Where Grant
Spent Has Ear,y Days.

In claiming the late L. S. Grant as a
Buckeye, Point Plcasa-t I, c .e,Tn ont coun-
ty, is always given as his native town
The great soldier was born al I't. Pleas
ant, but his parents moved to George
town, Brown county. when Ulysses was
but one year old, and it was here he
lived for sixteen years. Georgetown Is
one of the qraintest and most interest
ing places in the state.
Its air of rest and repose is perhaps its
distinguishing feature In q lengthy de-
scription c;f the place, a well-known
writer says:
1t is a town and section left behind
and upon one side by the railroads. I'm
til about ten years ago its only connec-
tion with the outside world was by stage
to towns on the Chesapeake & Ohio road
or north to Sardelia on the line from
Cincinnati to Portsmouth. This remote
ness left the town to develop new ideas
slowly and make it a sort of sleepy hol-
low, wherein traditions OF old days and
simple kindly manners and customs
clung like the smell OF cinnamon and
musk in a family bureau.
The cause of this isolation is simple.
To the south the Ohio r.ver makes wide
loop with Cincinnati at one end and
Portsmouth at the other A line of road
naturally cuts across this loop. leaving
Georgetown in the middle of the in
closed space. 1t was settled a a time
when the Ohio river was the great high
way, and now when rhe railway makes
the river too slow, Georgetown finds
herself timed TO the revolution of tho
paddle wheel rather than to the olapk-
ing rush OF the locomotive.
Notwithstanding all this. Georgetown
has It's glory am: its massage of repos=
to the rest of the world. 1t is 4 remark
able town. 1t is astonisling:y hcmoge
neous. II Is native and A--ielican. 1t
has 10 discoyeratle io-=ign population.
have ncyar b-en in town which was
so distinctly American in every name
anG in every accent.
1t WIS Settled froI:l New York, New
England, Pennsylvania, Virginia and
Ker tucly. There are Scotch-Irish
rames and occa sionaily a name OF
Dutch origin, but these are only traces
os ancestry not of present differing
habit or character.
1t is democratic. There ara no man
eions. The town has never had a boom
TO enrich the few at the expense of the
many. Each man IL called by his most
familiar nar1e. 'Urcie Jimmy IS real
ly judge. And "Chi!t" has been State
Sena tor, judge and congressman There
is an expression OF sGavity on the faces,
even OF the poorest of the laborers,
which is joy to ore who is accustomed
to the knotted b,'ows ot uneasy city
dwellers.
1t has a mighty war record also It
has net only furnished the United
States army four general officers and
one colonel. but nine generals and field
officers of volunteer forces and also
several naval officers ard two captains,
who served in the Mexican war And
last it was General Grants town.
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FREE .
Address
Free Press Detroit Mich.
ARE YOU GOING To CALIFOR-
MIA?

Probably you know all about Cal
iforni and the glorious climate of
which every one speaks who has
visited the Paciic coast, but perhaps
YOU do not know the best route to
reach this beautiful land. California
IS the only place where you can es-
cape the wet clustering months of
February and March and where life
is Ieally worth living. You can live
cheaper in California than any other
in the world and you can reach this
country in less time via the Buckeye
Route IN connection with the Santa
Fe than any other Line. The time
consumed from southern Ohio points
is four days, fast trains carrying ele-
giant par'or cars, Pullman sleepers
and first class coaches make direct
connection in the same depot in Chi !
cago with trains of the Santa Fe !
Route, composed of palatial Pullman
Buffet Sleeping, dining and parlor
reclining chair cars, through to Los
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cisco, also with trains composed of
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tourist sleeping cars.
If you want to know all about Cal
ifornia, time of trains, prices of sleep
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ure and profit by writing to any
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Fisher, G P & 7 A, Columbus, Ohio.
Tourist tickets at exceedingly low
rates Of faro going one way and re-
another are on sale during
the entire year.
Feb & Mar Is
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-IDb w plain and
fancy. prices reasonable at
he SENTINEL Office.
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Free Of Charoe

to limited number of persons.
Tins course will be completed in
forty lessons. No charge tor diplo-
mas. This offer will be open for a
United time only.
Our method Of instruction by
mail is far superior to that of a,v
other school. Hundreds of testimo-
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ERS EXCURSION
TICKETS VIA THE BUCK
EYE ROUTE.

Will be sold TO certain points ip
Alabama. Arizona, Oklahoma, Ark
ansas, Indian Territory, Tennessee,
Texas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississ-
ippi and Missouri at extremely low
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Heart On his Eight Side.

A case with very few parallels in the
medical world developed at the peniten-
tiary recently. Den MinEer. a United
States prisoner from Ohio. admitted De-
cember 10, 1894, to serve two years for
perjury. is the victim. ard It is claimed
by the physicians that his heart is on
the right Side instead Of the left, as Is
the case with ordinary nortals.
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No Mileage Ticket Equals it! The Buckeye
Ticket.
covers more mileage than any in
terchangeable mileage ticket now
on sale. 1t is good over the entire
b IL o system west of Pittsburgh;
The Erie Lines West of Salamanca; !;
The Big -Four System; The 3. & o.
System; The C. II. & D. and ninety
nine other raisroads.
The price is $40, good one year.
Ask agents c. Ii. V. IL r. Ry, fey
leaflet giving full list of railroads
covered, or address W. II. Fisher,
G. 7. A, columbus, 0.
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Magazine Editors Responsible.

A sad case of INSANITY developed in
Portsmouth recently. Miss Gertrude
Middleton, a rpetesS. became violently
insane from dis2 pooirtnlent over the re-
lection by magazine editors of numerous
manuscript poems submitted By her She
70 now in the Athens asylum
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Having consolidated business interests iEto
moth Hardware Store continue the business the old
plan has always been observed in this establish
ment, Good Goods. Fair Prices, Honest Deaing
The stock will consist of the best OF thing usually
kept in first class Hardware Store. Blacksmiths carpen-
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thing they want in the Hardware line. Come in ard
us and look at the goods have for sale.
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HOOKING VALLEY
B RID &c WORKS
LANCASTER, OHIO.
3NJAHi2 F. DUN, Proprietor.
Feb. /. '92-tEl

Don't you want a Pool or
Billiard Table? Bott Bros,
Columbus, Ohio, Will sell
them on easy payments, also
Bar fixtures, Billiard supplies
&c
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WHICH CURED HIM AFTER EVERY
THING ELSE FAILED.

Painful diseases are bad enough. but
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ingS are ten times worse than the most
severe pain. There is no let up to the
mental sufferingS day or night Sleep
is almost. impossible and under such a
strain men are scarcely responsible for
what they do. For years the writer
rolled and tossed on the troubled sea
of sexual weakness until it was a ques-
ton whether ne had not better take a
dose of poison and thus end all his trou-
bles. But providential inspiration came
to his aid in the shape of a combinati ton
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his weak, enaciated parts to natural
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any man who will take the trouble to
send his name and address may have the
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Now when L say free l mean absolutely
ened man to get the benefit of my expe-
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1 am not a philanthrooist. nor do
pose as an enthusiast, but there are
thousands of men suffering the mental
tortureS of weakened manhood who
would be cured at once could they but
get such a, remedy as the one that cured
me. Do not try to study out how | can
afford to pay the few postage stamps
send for it. and learn that there are
few things on earth that although they
cost nothing to get they are worth a
fortune to some men and mean a life
time of happiness to most of US. Write
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NoN-voTING NOT TAXABLE.

No doubt all good citizens, in theory
at least no matter what the practice
may be, take deep interest in all pub
lie affairs and discharge their duties in
that respect as promptly as they pay
their butcher bills. In theory one of
the very first essentials of good citizen
ship is that all voters shall go to the
polls on election day and cast their bal
lots for the candidates of their choice
But this is not always the case, and at
tempts of one kind or another have
been made to remedy it, usually
through persuasion. In Kansas City,
however, another method was pursued.
The city charter of that city contains
provision that every qualified voter
who failed to vote at a general cleo
ton should be taxed $3.50. A case arose
under this provision and was carried
to the supreme court of Missouri The
court declared the provision invalid.
1t does this on the ground that no one
can estimate the money value, to the
state, of a vote. and that it is degrad-
ing the elective franchise to associate
it with money value.
L TIC QCCiSlOH VIII commend 1tSelI 10
all right thinking people For various
reasons man may not desire to avail
himself of his right to vote at some
particular election, but still he should
not be made to suffer in consequence
of his non-action. To undertake to
compel him to vote implies the power
to make him give an explanation for
not voting, and even his explanation
might be deemed insufficient by his in
quisitors. Such legislation is in the
nature of an invasion of a mans per-
sonal rights.
1t is folly in the extreme to under
take TO make men model citizens by
means of legislation. If a voter does
not feel that it is always to his inter
est and the states to perform his duty
at the polls he cannot be made TO feel
it nor to perform it. People often do
not perform their duties as citizens
simply because they are content to let
them remain as they are, feeling no APP
prehension, and not because they have
no interest in public matters
A voter cannot be taxed into an ex-
ercise of the elective franchise if he
cannot be persuaded, any more than he
can be taxed into having a proper
idea of what constitutes patriotism.
There is far more freedom in having
the right to neglect to exercise a right
than in being compelled to exercise it:
the latter savors too much of Tyranny.
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CITY LODGINGS.

The fire and police commission has
authorized the converting of some
frame buildings in the rear of the po-
lice station into bunk house for city
dodgers. Whether the commission has
the power to do this may be doubted,
but there is one phase of the question
that should be given serious considera-
ton: Should those seeking these lodg
ings be given them free or made to
pay for them in work? Free city
lodgings in any place are always an in
vitation TO tramps to make their way
TO such place. Various cities in Mass
achusetts have made experiments with
the free lodging system, which have
demonstrated several things. 1t has
been demonstrated that those cities
that required tramps seeking free lodg-
ings to work were very soon avoided
by them, while those cities where no
such requirement existed were over
run with them. There is no class of
people in the world that has the theory
of moving along the curve of least re-
sistance so thoroughly mastered as
your tramp. Between an honest days
NOlh " earn Ills OOdAQ anu pay LII lllo
lodging and a long walk to avoid the
work and get the board and lodging
free. he viii always choose the walk.
In winter time the tramp nuisance
is nothing compared with what it is
in summer, and with free lodgings for
them in the city there is little lkeli-
hood that they Will increase to any
great extent, but even in winter time
those who seek city lodgings should
be made to do work enough to pay
for them, and if they object let them
seek them elsewhere.
1t is a splendid thing for city to
have the reputation of being a place
where tramps have to work; it is al
most as invaluable as a reputation for
economy and low taxes.
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INTERCHANGEAB AMMUNI,
TON.

The correspondent of the New York
Journal who accompanied a late fill
clustering expedition to Cuba relates
one very amusing incident of the fight
with the Spanish boats. He says that
a Cuban youth who had breathed de-
struction night and day was caught
trying to ram a Mauser cartridge down
the muzzle of his Remington rife. The
youths excitement was quite eXcus-
able, and doubtless he was more used
to muzzle-loaders than to breach-load-
ers. But a lesson can be drawn from
his experience. This lesson is that the
arms of any military force should all
be of the same pattern and use the
same ammunition. 1t would have been
just as useless for this youth to have
attempted to use a Mauser cartridge
in a Remington rife by inserting it in
the breech as TO ram it down the
muzzle.
Recently the United States army and
navy adopted new arms. They were of
entirely different make and calibre, and
should it ever become necessary for
marines from the navy to act with SOL
diers, both would have to use their
own ammunition, and if others supply
gave out their weapons would be use
less, as the others could render no as
sistance by supplying ammunition. 1t
Will not seem so presumptous for a
layman to say that it was mistake
for the army and navy to adopt weap-
ons of entirely different make and cal
ibre instead of arms in which inter
change of ammunition could be used
when the experts in both branches of
the service disagreed. If it is folly for
different regiments to have different
arms, it is also folly for the army and
navy to have different small arms.
Jealousy explains it ALL
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THE WINDS SONG.

o. winds that blow across the sea,
What is the story that you bring?
Leaves clap their hands on every tree
And birds about their branches sing
You sing TO flowers. and trees and birds
Your sea-songs over all the land
Could you not stay and whisper words
A little child might understand?
he roses nod to hear you sing:
But though 1 listen all the day
You never tell me anything
OF fathers ship so far away.
Its masts are taller than the trees;
It's sails are silver in the sun;
There's not a ship upon the seas
So beautiful as fathers ore.
With wings spread. out, it flies so fast
1t leaves the waves all white with
foam.
Just whisper to me- blowing past
If you have seen it sailing home
feel your breath upon my cheek,
And in my hair and on nv brow
Dear winds. if you could only speak.
l know what you would tell me now.
Ny fathers coming home. you'd say,
with precious presents, one, two,
three
A shawl for mother. beads for Nav.
And eggs and shells for Rob and me.
The winds sing songs where'er they
The leaves all clap their little hands;
Ny fathers ship is coming home
With wondrous things from foreign
lands.
Gabriel Seton-The Child World.
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''UNBRLDLED LICENSE OF THE
PRESS"

Mr.. E. c. Benedict, the very intimate
friend of President Cleveland, says:
These attacks upon vested inter
estS make me feel like retiring from
business and even from the country
feel sure that unless the unbridled
| license of the press is checked and
some restriction put upon the con-
slant interference with corporations
there must be within a few years some
radical change in our form of govern
ment.
If MIR. Benedict feels that he has
cali to retire from business and the
country, no one will say him nay; but
if any should attempt to interfere
with him in carrying out his inten-
tons, the courts of his country will
afford him full protection.
When Mr.. Benedict says that he feels
sure that unless the .'unbridled
license" of the press is stopped or
checked, and Some restriction put upon
its interference with the corporations.
there must be some radical change in
our form of government, he uses the
language of plutocrat who, could he
but have his way, would soon become
tyrant. Is not the country in far
more danger from the immense power
of the corporations than from the '.un-
bridled license" of the press? 1t is
very much better that there be '.un-
bridled license of the press than that
it be bridled at the dictation of the
corporations. The corporations have
done much fo- the country but they
have not done as much for the liberty
of mankind as the press. No doubt
some portions of the press go to ex-
tremes and make unwarrantable at
tacks on various things, but this
charge cannot be brought against the
press generally. It's vigilance is a real
safeguard and not a menace.
1t is not true that the press is con-
stantly interfering with corporations
or at all, nor that it is unfriendly to
them Generally speaking. it is UNI
friendly to the trusts, which are ag-
gregaticns of corporations. This IN
friendliness arises because the trusts
are real menace. If possible, they
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brock no competition and new enter
prises of kinds that are in their lire
are made to feel the weight of the
trusts heavy hand, or succumb to
their dictation- What is really needed
is a check upon the unbridled license
of the trusts.
No one can say definitely what Mr..
Benedict means by saying that if
press interference with the CORPORA
lions is not restricted there must be a
radical change in our form of govern
ment, but the language is that of
threat. The power of the corporations
that are aggregated into trusts is
hardly so great that they can threaten
a change in our form of government
if they are not allowed to have their
way. This very talk of Mr.. Benedicts
makes it plain that there is still great
need for a free and fearless press in
this country. His talk is really foolish.