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Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-04-06
oNE-MlLE SPORTING RECORDS

Man Skating-2 minutes 12 3-5 Sec
onds, by j. f. Donoghue.
Iceboat-1 minute, at Newburg bay,
Hudson river.
Man Rowing-5 minutes 1 second, by
Ellis Ward, on the Savannah river,
Florida, April l, 1872.
Man Running minutes 12%, Sec
onds, professional, w. G. George; in
minutes II As seconds, amateur, r. P.
Conneff.
Man Walking-6 minutes 23 seconds,
professional, w. Perkins, of England;
in 6 minutes, 20 3-5 seconds, amateur,
+. p. Murray, of the United States.
Canoe-6 minutes 40 seconds, July.
1894, by C. E. Archibald, at the 18th an
nual meet of the A. C. A., held at Croton
Point, L. I.
Dog-1 minute 43 1-5 seconds, if the
greyhound coursed one mile, the usual
distance of 200 yards having been run
in 111A seconds.
Man Swimming 27 minutes 81 2-5
seconds, j. H. Tyers, Englishman; in
2S minutes IS 2-5 seconds, G. Whitaker,
American; both amateurs; both with
seven turns.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-04-06
LITERARY LETTER.

Sir Lewis Morris has in press new
work containing three narrative poems.
Prof. Henry Drummond has suffered
much recently from ill-health, and has
been recuperating at Tunbridge Wells.
Mr.. Purcell's biography of Cardinal
Manning has gone into a second Eng
lish edition. Mr.. Gladstone's letters to
the author gave a stimulus to the sale.
The London0Literary World begs Mr..
Gladstone to reconsider his refusal to
write for the Cosmopolitan at 81 a
word. 1t fears the Indignation of the
New York Critic.
London gossip has it that Mr.. Astor
has offered some New York journalist,
presumably Mr.. Smalley, the princely
salary OF $4,000 year to edit the Pail
Mall Gazette
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-04-06
CURIOUS AND ENTERTAINING.

Paris differs from London and other
large towns in this: Its better class
reside within the city and not in the
suburbs.
The foundation of a church at San
Como, Guatemala, has been shifted
seven inches by the growth of two large
white gum trees.
The Coliseum of Rome was built to
accommodate 100000 spectators. II
covers 5h acres of land, and was 120
feet high.
An unusually large gray eagle, which
measured seven feet from tip to tip of
it's wings, three inches between it's eyes,
four inches across the top of its head,
was killed near Philomath, Ore, few
days ago.
Florida is noted for its rivers and
lakes. The st. Johns river is nearly
400 miles long. The Indian river is a
salt water lagoon, 165 miles long and
from one to six miles wide, and is
famous for its oranges and pineapples.
National flowers have been adopted
in various countries as follows: Greece,
violet; Canada, sugar maple; Egypt,
lotus; England, rose; France, fenr
de lis; Germany, corn flower; Ireland,
shamrock; Italy, lily; Prussia, linden;
Saxony, mignonette; Scotland, thistle;
Spain, pomegranate; Wales, leek.
1t costs more to send ton of goods
from London to the west of Ireland
than to Japan. A ton of woolen goods
can be forwarded from London to New
York for $4; to Chicago, 1000 miles in
land, for 81, and to Japan for $40. The
same goods sent from Derry to Lon
don cost $14, and from Gweedore, 70
miles inland, $24.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-04-06
Tho Bicycles.

Tho Bicycles.
The bicycle is good thing. 1t is an
indirect advancer of civilization, for
the minute we begin to build roads up
on which we can travel, we move about
and shake off the homely wits which
Shakespeare says are the acquisition of
the housekeeping youth. Ofcourse we
can travel now on the railroads, and
see snatch of the country as we go
through, but the man who travels by
the cars learns of nothing but few of
the big cities, and can scarcely tell
bemlock tree from o tangle of mountain
laurel The bicycle is going to revolu-
tionize all of that.
The fellow who starts out on his
wheel on q bright spring morning will
not make bee line for the first big city
he can find. He will loosen himself up,
''scorch" few miles over good strip
of road, and then, as his legs get better
sense than his head, he will begin to
saunter. He will loaf under the shade
of the trees. He will stop at the way
side springs. He will watch for the
bits of charming scenery, for whether
he is naturally an admirer of the seen
cry, of the country, he will boast of
the sights along the road as one of the
advantages of bicycling, and before he
knows it he has become an ardent ad-
mirer of nature, because to be such
justifies the use of the wheel. He will
take his girl along, and together they
will seek out the aesthetic pathways
and the romantic corners. They will
cultivate taste for the outdoor side of
life, and for the rural regions.
People who dwell in towns have
grown too much into the notion that
life consists largely of hot payements
and brick walls, with an occasional
hour in the parks. Things of the coun-
try haye been regarded as wholly hay
seedy and moss-coyered, and not worth
moments time. The bicvcle man
has undertaken, whether. he is aware
of it or not, to restore to it's place as
an attraction the beauty of nature, and
to make of the generation that is COM
ing on worshiper at the shrine of our
first parents. whose temples were the
groves, and whose music the carol of
birds and the singing of the evening
winds in the tree-tops. The bicycle is
in that respect a benefactor, and even
though it is accused by some of foster
ing the bloomer form of lunacy, and is
the vehicle upon which is saddled the
sin of the creature who humps himself,
the bicycle is all right in spite of its
faults. 1t is a missionary in two of
the best causes on earth Pittsburg
Times.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-04-06
Bucklen,s Arm ca saIye

THE BEST SALvE in the world fol
Cuts, Bruises, Sores. Ulcers, Salt
Rheum, Fever Sores, letter, Chapped
Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin
Eruptions, and positively cures Piles
or no pay required. 1t is guaranteed t.
give perfect satisfaction, or money re-
funded. Price rs cents per box.
For sale by w. II. Styer.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-04-06

THE Lowell Herald is the name of a
neat 4-page publication the first num-
ber of which lies on our desk. John
ID. Hollinger, one of the leading demo-
Gratis of the county, is the editor of the
journal
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-04-06
COMPARISON

Shows up hard facts. During this
week comparison has been made by
different persons, thoroughly competent, Of
the suits others are selling for ZOO and $3.50
said to be worth $1,000, and they found our $3.50
suit BETTER in every respect Better trimmiuq better
made better cut and fit and far better goods Open your ewes
good folks! Don't think because marks his GOODS way
UP to price he calls their WORTH and then falls off 3 or
II price, for one week only he says "beinq it's YOU
ETC. that you're getting bargains values Don't think i'll
Better let him alone he has a axe to grind No SIS 90 suits
for 5000 here Our goods are all marked in plain aures at
an HONEST per cent Of profit and they REAL values
NOT FICTITIOUS!
For Reliable Clothing at Reliable Prices TRY US!!
S. r. Van Metre & Co.,
wholesale, Retail
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-04-06
For President,
WILLIAM MCKINLEY,
or the United States.
Republican State Ticket.

For Secretary of State,
CHARLES KINNEY, of Scioto Co.
For Judge of the Supreme Court
MARSHALL j. WILLIAMS. of Fayette Co.
For Food and Dairy Commissioner.
JOSEPH Il. BLACKBURN, Of Belmont Co.
For Member Board of Public Works,
FRANK A. HUFFMAN, of Van Vert Co.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-04-06
IN THE OIL FIELD.

Sistersyille, April 3d. What came
near being aiterrible accident occurred
at the wharf boat last evening when
the Hudson arrived here from Pitts
burg. The heavy wind blew the boat
about so that it was impossible for her
to land. although she made several at
tempts. During one of these attempts
the boat ran into the piling OF the oil
derrick located back of the Riverside
Restaurant, and for minute or two it
looked very much as though the der
rick was going to topple over.
There were quite number of people
in the wharfboat at the time this oc.
Cured and had the derrick fallen over
there would have been Il terrible dis
aster to chronicle. AS it was the per-
sons in the wharfboat were pretty bad
ly scared and Capt Hornbrools said he
never saw people get out of any place
so quick as they did. After quite a
number of attempts to land the Hud-
son finally gave up the struggle and
took the freight she had for this port
on to Marietta from where it will be
brought back today by the Liberty.
Sistersville, w. Va. April s. Word
was received here to-day from an ap-
parently reliable source, to the effect
that the Victor Oil and Gas Company's
No 9, on the Jackman farm, located a
little more than mile and a half south
west of the Kyle pool, is dry. While
this, of course, gives the territory in
that direction black eye of the worst
kind, however, it will not necessarily
stop developments in that direction,
and number of operators are beginning
to believe that the field will prove spot
ted throughout.
The latest advices from the well be
ing drilled on the Pitts farm, by Guffy
& Co., is to the effect that they have
again commenced drilling and at late
hour this afternoon had small show.
ing of oil
The Devonian Oil Company's well on
the Ash farm, is now making little
better than ten barrels day.
The Victor Oil and Gas Companv's
No. Joseph Spencer is making in the
neighborhood of 70 barrels a day,
while the well on the Sockman is MAX
ing between 55 and G5 barrels day.
Although these wells are not nearly rs
large as unanimously expected to be,
they are, nevertheless, paying wells,
and it is expected that there produc.
tiop can be increased.
Within the next ten days there will
be several wells in the territory sur
rounding Wick due, and much depends
upon the showing they make.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-04-06

We will consider 1t great favor II
subscribers Will report any failure
to get eheir Leader, or any careless
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punches his credit tag In subsorib-
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Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-04-06

put upon the same footing as the Ger
mans, by having Congresc' pass bill
putting duty upon German sugar of
the same amount that was paid by Ger
many as an export duty. They also
complained of the injustice ~~of the
withholding OF the money appropriated
by Congress to pay sugar bounties.
The Republican members of the com
mittee sympathize with the sugar
growers, and if they had the power
would gladly do something for them,
but their inability to do anything was
made plain by the suggestion of Chair
man Dingley that the delegation should
try to persuade She Senate to recede
from its attitude of opposition to tariff
legislation.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-04-06

A notable feature of the debate on
the report of the Election Committee
in favor of Col Dupont's right to seat
in the Senate has been the absence of
partisanship. 1t has been so far strict
ly legal discussion, conducted in
much the same manner as If it were in
a court room, instead of the Senate
chamber Up to this time no Republi-
can has declared against Col Dupont
and no Democrat for him. The only
Populist who has spoken apposed him.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-04-06

Superior corn is made for the best
people to eat
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-04-06

If you need an engine of any kind,
steam, gasoline, kerosene oil, send for
free illustrated circular to CHAs. p.
WILLARD & Co., 1877 Canal st., Chicago
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-04-06
CONGREGATIONAL Ticket.

For Congress- 18th District,
H. G. VAN vOORHIS, Of Muskingum Co.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-04-06

FOR SHERIFF..
EDITOR LEADER:--Please announce the
name of George A. Shapley, of Grandview, as
a candidate for the office of Sheriff, subject to
the will of Convention. HIS FRIENDS
EDITOR LEADER-Please state in the Leader
that Christopher ]. Pfaff, of Adams township,
will be candidate before the county conven-
tion for the office of Sherin. VOTERS.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-04-06

CITY SOLICITOR:
MR.. EDITOR: Will you please announce the
undersigned to be a candidate for the office OF
City Solicitor, subject to the will OF the voters
at the coming Spring electiony
CHARLES w. RICHARDS.
MR. EDITOR: Please announce that will be
a candidate for reelection to the office of City
Solicitor, at the coming April election.
L. O. BRENAN
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1896-01-23

short there are $1,000, 900 worth Of por-
table goods in the big house, which
a few expert cracksnen might be able
to get away with
But John Jacob Astor has been care
full to guard against such a calamity.
Ever since the tramp, John Garvey,
gained access to the old home at
Thirty-fourth street and Fifth avenue
and calmly walked upstairs, where he
entered a fine bedroom, dsrobed and
peacefully slept, young Astor has been
on his guard. Garvey was only a harm
less tramp, with an overwhelming de-
sire for sleep, but if he had been a
clever thief one of the greatest rob
berries of the age might have taken
place.
When young Astor had the new
house built particular attention was
paid to the construction of q safe. 1t
was built into the wall on the second
floor in a small room to the rear of
his sleeping apartment. Thomas sleeps
on the other side of it Mr.. Aston
knows considerable about electricity
ahd tAC oolC ilICu Win Oil ClCSLllCul
attachment, which would be difficult
for thief to get around. The wires
run through the safe itself and into
the wall at the back to prevent their
being tempered with. When the safe
door is closed the connection is es-
tablished and the slightest touch on
the combination lock would set a dozen
bells ringing, also an alarm in dhe
nearest district messenger office. Mr..
Astor and Thomas are the only ones in
the house who know how to turn the
current off. 1t would be almost as
difficult to burglarize this safe as to
rob the safe Of a big bank.
In the big Vanderbilt houses on Fifth
avenue at Fifty-first street there are
row of four safes built into the wall
in small room on the ground floor of
the central house occupied by Mrs.
William H. Vanderbilt. No one out
side of the family knows the value of
the treasures contained in these safes,
but million would hardly buy them.
Two watchmen patrol these houses all
night long and in addition there Is a
Waterman posted on the outside in the
street.
Commodore E,bridge T. Gerry was
always fond of mystery so he keeps a
good-sized painting hung in front Of
the door Of his safe, which is built into
the wall in room adjoining his sleep
ing apartment. The painting is sup
plemented by an electrical attachment
similar to that used by Mr.. Aston, and
burglars would have hard time get
ting away with any of the Gerry treas
ures.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1896-01-23
CATHOLIC SUMNER SCHOOL.
DIRECTORS MEET AND APPROVE
THE LIST OF LECTURES.
Notre Dame University Orchestra OF
Twenty Pieces to Attend the Com
ing Session of the School.
Madison, January 1S.

MdulSou, january 10.
The board of directors of the the
Columbian Catholic sumlnerschool met
at the Columbus club in Chicago
Thursday to transact it's financial bus
mess before the orening of the school
at Madison, July 10 next. The ses-
sion then will continue three weeks.
Directors ware In attendance from st.
Louis, Milwaukee, Notre Dame, Ind;
Columbus, o.; Cincinnati st. Paul,
Dubuque ana Fort Wayne. The Ri
Rev. Bishop Messmer, of Green Bay,
Wis, presided over the meeting.
1t was announced that the citizens
of Madison, both Roman Catholics and
Professionals alike, were eXcrting them
selves to render the visit OF the sum-
mer students agreeable. 1t is expect
ed that at least 5000 people VIII be in
attendance. A pleasant feature of the
school this summer will be the pres
ence of the Notre Dame university
orchestra Of twenty pieces
Father Zahm, c. s. c., chairman of
the committee on studies, reported the
following lis OF lectures for this
summers school: The Rev. P. H.
Danehy, OF st. Paul, Sacred Scriptures
Col. Richard Malcolm Johnson, Of
Baltimore, Spanish end French Liter
allure; DR.. Morris + Egan, of the
Catholic university in Washington, L.
c., English Literature; Dr. O'Gorman,
of the same il stitution, Church and
Society in the Middle Ages; the Rev.
Eugene Magerrey, OF Detroit, History
of Education: the Rev. John n. POI
land, S. j., of Cincinnati, Church and
Social Questions: DR. Stafford Wash.
ing, Oratory; DR., Pace, of Washington,
Psychology; Father Francis w. How
ard, of Columbus, Economics, and the
Rt. Rev. S. G. Messmer, of Green Bay,
Pope and Emperor.
number of others have been Sc
lected as additional lecturers with per-
mission TO choose their own subjects.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1896-01-23

had a place In the salon was the por-
trait In bust OF his intimate friend, an
American +. Wellington Ruckstuhl,
now secretary of the National Sculp-
ture society at New York, who ranks
high among native sculptors.
The first commission MacMonnies re-
ceived was In 1889 for three life-sized
angels In bronze for st. Paul's church,
New York. In the same year he re-
ceived the order for the statue of
Nathan Hale, erected in city hall park,
New York, and the year following he
begun work on the statue of James r.
Stranahan, for prospect park, Brook
Ign. Both were exhibited In the salon.
For the Stranahan MacMonnies re-
ceived second medal the first and
only time an American sculptor has
been 80 honoied. The creation of the
magnificent colossal fountain at the
worlds fair firmly established Mac
Monnies in a place among the first
sou. ptors OF the day. II also clearly
showed his ability to carry through
vast works that would appall less ener-
getlc men. The worlds fair fountains
twenty-seven colossal figures, involving
q dellcacy Of combination, tempted
some OF his friends to doubt his ability
to attain 1t. He has done many smaller
works since, but none Of them has
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1896-01-23

quadrlga for the soldiers and sailors
memorial arch, two rampant horses for
the pedestals Of the ocean parkway
gate, and two bronze eagles for the
columns ut the park entrance.
The first OF series of splendid op.
portunities came to MacMonnles when
In 1880 he was admitted to the studio
MncMonnies was then but seventeen
years old, having been born In Brook.
lyn In 1868. The young and ambitious
student worked hard In the stimuat-
Ing atmosphere of the great artists
studio All the time he was spending
his nights In the life classes of the
Academy of Design and the Art Stu
dents league laying the foundation
for that knowledge of the human fig
ure which Ia now Of such great service
to him In welding together masses Of
figures such as In the fountain for the
worlds fair All this prepared him for
his first visit to Europe, which was
In 1884. He had n knowledge which
few young men from America entering
upon an art career In Paris had ever
possessed. He had scarcely settled
there when the cholera broke out and
he had to go to Munich. There he did
few months work In the painting
school, This work awoke one of his
strongest feelngs-a love for painting
One of the leading seulptors OF Amer
lea said the other day: Successful M
NaeMonnies Is as sculptor, ho was
born n painter He Is really today
painter with chisel, His idea Of
color seems instructive"
A long pedestrian tour of the Alps
brought the young man into close COM
munion with those towering ideals of
dignity and grandeur. Returning to
Paris he was recalled to America by
ST. Gaudens, who needed him Ms as
sistant In the execution Of several i'm
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1896-01-23

winter season, and it is a difficult ar
ticle of furniture to watch. The care
of it devolves upon Thomas, the man
ager of Mrs. Astor's home affairs, and
the last thing he does at night and
the first duty of the morning is to
see that 1t IS safe,
When dinner is given and the gold
service is in use Thomas is full of
misery, for then miscellaneous lot of
servants have the handling of 1t. On
the proceeds of one gold plate the
average servant could enjoy a luXur
ious life of ease for year, and, know
ing this, Thomas does his best to keep
tab on the service on its journeyings
to and from the dining apartment.
Besides this service Mrs Astor has
silver service which cost $4,000, and
miscellaneous lot of silver and gold
dishes and table ornaments worth $20,-
600 more. This makes total of $780,,
600 for silver and goli tableware. Her
jewels are probably worth between
100000 and 100000. Her diamonds
are reputed to be the finest in town,
and she also has the finest pair of
pearl earrings. The pearls in these are
pear-shaped and they are almost as
large as very small pear. She rarely
wears them, as they are better suited
for curios than ornaments. These are
said to have cost $4,000.
II burglar could run loose in the
Astor home for a few hours he would
certainly have the finest time of his
life, picking up odds and ends, but it
is doubtful il he could get away with
any of the greater valuables. Mrs.
William Astor lives on the north side
of the big white palace on Fifth avenue
and Sixty-ffth street, and her son John
Jacob. with his family, live on the
south side, Young Mrs. Astor has
Jewels almost as valuable as her
mother-in-la law. and the ornamentations
of her home are quite as costly. In
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1896-01-23

yet she went to the opera almost Gov
cred with diamonds and still left
enough at home TO be robbed Of $4,000
worth. Prior to the theft her jewels
probably represented 100000, and
there are scores upon scores of other
society women who have as much, ii
not more; and they never attract any
attention This, in measure, goes to
show how many millions there are tied
up in jewels of which the outside world
knows nothing.
1t Is not generally known that many
Of the society women have, during the
past six or seven years, practiced
ruse for the very purpose of defeating
any effort which might be made to
rob them Of their gems. 1t is simply
this. Whenever they have a parttcu-
laply fine piece of jewelry made they
also order Il duplicate OF 1t, but in
the latter the gems are spurious. The
making of spurious gems is now
science, and so clever is the deceit
that II requires the knowledge of an
expert to distinguish the good from the
bad Diamonds, pearls, ruhies. emer-
aids and sapphires are made by using
carefully selected glass and adroitly
covering 1t With shavings of the gem
uine stones This work is confined
almost exclusively to Paris, but no Of
fort is ever made by the Partisan jew
olor to impose the bogus gems up on an
innocent customer, as the government
tai punishment for such an offeuse Is
most severe
The settings for the valueless SENS
are always the same as those used for
the real ones. The spurious gems wear
for Tears and are as pleasing TO the
eye as the genuine ones. The woman
whose social position Is secure can
wear these bogus ornamrnts through
out the season, while her genuine Jew
elry Is kept secure in some safe de,
post vault. No one would think of
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1896-01-23

portant works. After II year he re-
turned to Paris, He entered the Ate
lier Falguicrc, Ia the School of the
BauX Aras, working II portion of the
time in the private studio OF Antonn
Mercle, In the Atelier Falguiere he
bore off for two successive years the
highest prize open to foreigners, rank
Ing next to the PriX de Rome, the Prtx
4 Atelier. So original was the young
Americans work that the great French
sculptor advised him to leave his stu
do and strike out for himself This
MacMonnies did. working off and on
on Falguiere's pieces, perfecting him
self with great thoroughness His
first figure, a Diana, was shown In the
Paris salon OF 1889 and brought him
an honorable mention. This was not