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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-08-01
ELECTRIC EARNING.
A New York Farmer Turns the Sod with
Trolley Plow.


Now for the trolley plow. The old
time farmer is out of date.
Electricity, the master force, which
by the end of the century will dom
mate every field of human work and
solve all the problems that have so long
batfied mankind, has been enlisted in
the most essential of mortal occupa-
tions-agriculture.
The farming of the future is to be
done by electricity. Dynamos and
wires will attend to the business CT
the big farm. The sonorous "gec
haw!" of the up-country soil-tiller will
be heard no more, and the farm hand
who would keep his job will have to be
thoroughly acquainted with ohms,
volts and amperos.
Edward NJ. Bentley, of New York, has
just made a long step toward the es
tablishment of electricity as hard
working factor on the farm. He has
patented an electric plow, which runs
back and forth across field and turns
up the soil in fashion that would haN e
made pioneer farmers of a hundred
years ago stand dumb with amazement.
His invention calls into use the most
recent developments in the line of trans
mission of electric power. A power
house in a centrally located village can
furnish motive force for all the farm
work to be done within a radius of
many miles.
Along the two opposite sides OF a
field, poles and wires are put up, and
between these, stretching directly
across the field, is stretched a third
wire, which serves as a trolley upon
which the plow travels. This wire is
slack, so that it may run through tho
plow contrivance, which let's out wire
behind as it progresses and winds it in
at the front.
When the plow reaches the end of a
furrow the current is automatically re-
versed, so as to start the machine back
again. Thus the plow goes back and
forth until The whole field is traversed.
The ends of the trolley wire, as the
work progresses, travel along on tho
wires strung alongside the field.-N,
Y. Journal
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-08-01
The coooan,, p.,r,

Tho most peculiar of all the gems in
the remarkable concretions OCCASION
ally found in the flesh and other por-
tions of the common cocoanut 1t is
composed of pure calcium carbonate,
without trace of other salts or vege-
table matter, and is capable of taking
on polish equal to that which an ex-
perienced workman can put on piece
OF the finest Italian marble. Years ago
wonderful stories were told about the
cocoanut pearls, but they were gener-
ally discredited by the best known
naturalists. 1t was said that they were
priced in India and Africa as charms
against snake bites and those of pois-
onous insects. The natives of Molucoa
islands, it was further said, used them
as charms against disease and evil
spirits. But the scientific world laughed
at all this as nonsense up to about ten
years ago. In 1883 S. ]. Hickman, an
English traveller in the Celebes, OBJ
tanned two fine specimens of the cocoa
nut pearl. One of these is now in the
Kew Gardens museum, London. A few
years later DIR. j. G. f. Riedel collected
several of them. 1t is now no longer
disputed that such things as "cocoanut
pearls" exist They are real wonders,
too.-St. Louis Republic
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-08-01
Depends on the Amount.

"If ever get hold of Binks I'll thrash
him so that his OWE mother wouldn't
recognize him."
What's the matter?"
Hes been slandering me. He says
that l beat him out of five dollars in a
poker game"
"Not at all. heard the remark my
self"
"Then what did he say?"
"He said that you beat him out of
$1,000 in wheat deal"
"Oh, well, then suppose it's all right,
I could hardly believe that he was tho
kind of man who would stand around
telling stories that reflected on me in
that way."-Chicago Post.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-08-01
A Great Induetrv.

The Stark Bros Nurseries, this city and
Rockport H., 10 veritable beehive. The
propagating plants of the "Two Pilkes,n en-.
larged. "Old Pixies" statesmen work from
New York Westward. The ofiice force is
hurrying out 5000 new style canvassine
outfits, photos of fruits, trees, orchards,
packing, fruit painted from nature, ETC. Sew.
eral departments give all their time to Sc.
curing statesmen. Stark Bros have room
for energetic solicitors. with such progress,
and mill;sns of fruit trees, dull times un.
known. Louisiana Missouri Press.
"Mr DEAR" said a sick husband, as he lay
with his eyes closed, II think my time has
come at last l can hear strains of the
sweetest music that ever mortal ear
"That's little German band on the street,
john" "That's So" he said, rousing him
self. "Tell them to move onw-Harper's
Bazaar.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-08-01
That Terrible Scourge.

Malarial disease is invariably supple
mented by disturbance of the liver, the
bowels, the stomach and the nerves. To
the removal of both the cause and its eff
fects, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is fully
adequate. 1t "flls the bill" as no other
remedy does, performing its work thor
some, and it admirably serves to build up a
system broken by i'll health and shorn of
strength. Constipation, liver and kidney
complaint and nervousness are conquered
by it.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-08-01
Getting Serious.

so you've brolsen your engagement,
Ethel?"
"Yes. George was so foolishly impetu-
Gus that he practically forced me to do
it,"
"In what way?"
"Why, he took everything so serious
ly that ] found I'd very likely he ex-
pected to marry him if permitted the
engagement to last any longer, Some
men are so foolish, you know Chics'
90 Evening Post. -.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-08-01

A cheap temporary sun-break in the
pastures will afford the stock great
deal of comfort, and will be money in
the pocket of the stock owner, for the
81 ock will thrive better than if uncom-
Portable.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-08-01
DURABLE WAGON JACK.

Its Introduction Makes the OiIing of
Wagons Very Easy.
My wagon jack is made OF a piece of
scantling by inches by feet in
length, as illustrated. A short slot
6 inches long is made in the top of at
d and hole is bored half way down
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-08-01

Commends itself to the well-informed, tc
do pleasantly and effectually what was
formerly done in the crudest manner and
disagreeably as well. To cleanse the sys
TEN nnd break up colds, headaches and fe
vers without unpleasant after effects, use
the delightful liquid laxative remedy, Syrur
of Figs. Manufactured by California Fig
Syrup Company.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-08-01
Oldest Convict in Indiana Dies.

Samuel Schupp, the oldest convict in
the state prison south, of Indiana, died
the other day. He was sent to the PEN
itentiary from Lawrenceburg in 1889
for life for the killing of his son-in-
law. Schupp was ss years of age. Ira
Crabb, another life prisoner, died few
davs since
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-08-01

through which bolt passes, at e. Tho
lever or handle, b, is . by 4 inches and
2 feet long and the support, C, is by
3 inches and feet long with notches
cut SO as to catch on bolt, "A. w.
Cooke, in Farm and Home.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-08-01
Low Rates to salt Lake

Via the North Western Line Chicago a.
North Western R'y), August 6 and Z, 1885
For full information apply to ticket agents
of connecting lines or address
w. B. KNIsKEKN. G. ?. & L. A, Chicago, Ill
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-08-01

"EvERYTHING is marked down these
days." remarked Mrs. Bargain Hunter.
Yes" assented her husband. "Even plain
ordinary goose feathers - Pittsburgh
Chronicle-Telegraph
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-08-01
Children for Adoption.

If you desire to adopt nice child of any
age address l. G. Home Society, 2S4 La
Sale st, Room pol, Chicago, Ill. Enclose
2 cent stamp for reply with circular.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-08-01

GERMAN FRIEND-''De bicture you hat
bainted is most butiful; dere is only Won
word in de English lanckgidge vich de.
scribes it-and l haf vorgotten it."-Tit-
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-08-01

CLARA-"Oh have you heard about Cora
Carrotl She is going to marry rich
widower with six children" Dora--"She
always was u greedy "-Tit-Bits
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-08-01

- FITS stopped free and permanently cured.
No fits after first days use of DR.. Klines
Great Nerve Restorer. Free SO trial bottle
& treatise. DIR. KLINE. 933 Arch ST. Phila Pa.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-08-01

BILLsoN-''I know where you can find q
remarkably cheap piano mover.n Briggs
"How did you discover him2" Billson-"I
let my piano rent get behind. ."-Cleveland
Plaindealer
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-08-01

=, SEA air roughens the skin. Use Glenn's
Sulphur Soap
Hills Hair and Whisker Dye, so cents,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-08-01

TEMPERAMENT is but the atmosphere OF
character, while its groundwork in nature
is fixed and unchangeable.-A.H Helps.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-08-01

If growing pigs are kept confined
give them good variety of food.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-08-01

"YoUR lawn is beautifully moved; 1t
looks like velvet" sit ought to. | never
saw velvet that cost as much yard as that
lawn oes."-Detroit Free Press.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-08-01
Half Rates to Omaha

Via The Northwestern Line Chicago &
North Western R'yl, August Is, 16 and II,
lS96-one fare for the round trip. On Au-
gust "A excursion tickets at very low rates
will also be sold from Omaha to Denver and
the famous Hot Springs of South Dakota.
For full information apply to ticket agents
of connecting lines or address
w. B, KNISKERN, G. p. IL 7. A, Chicago, Ill.
STRANGER-"Well boys, how did the game
go to-dayf' Boys-"We lost" Stranger
"What have you got in that bundle9" Boys
1.-THE umpire"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-08-01

Halls Catarrh Cure
Is Constitutional Cure Price 75c.
The world needs not more men, but more
maH.-Rev. G. w. Guillette.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-08-01

AGENTS Wanted IN every town and city to sell
HoINi nh article needed by everybody. Agents
can make Y 70 S0per day For particulars a id re IS
Dcnally Mig.Co., Downing 4 Bedford SITS. New York
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-25
The Vice-PreSidential Nominee
Endeared to the People
of Paterson.
POPULARITY GAINED BY TRAITS
OF UNSELFISHNEss.
Aside From Business He Finds Time
to Assist His Wife in Noble
Work.

PATERSON, n. j., June 24.-On each
Of the steps leading to Carroll Hall, the
home of Garret Augustus Hobart, is
floral horseshoe about six feet in diane
ter, placed there last Monday night when
$4,000 people marched by, shouting and
cheering for Paterson's foremost citizen.
New Jersey is not at all behind Ohio il
appreciation of honors paid to her favorite
sons. And the smoke of the celebration,
the echoes of the cheers and of the big
bands of music had not died away when 1
arrived last night from Cleveland. The
air was still full of enthusiasm and of Re-
publicanism. Local pride was wearing its
Sunday clothes, and the silk factories ana
other factories in this. the Lyons of
America, displayed the stars and stripes
and the tri-color
Carroll Hall is neat three-story resi-
dence, with grass lawn in front, shaded
by tall elms and surrounded by neat
picket fence. On two sides of the building
and facing the two streets is a piazza,
where one can sit in the moist, hot even
ings of summer and watch the rosy sun
sets. 1t is not a Mob Hill house
nor a Mob Hill district, but modest little
residence such as you viii find anywhere
on the hills of San Francisco outside of
Van Ness avenue, Pacific Heights or Mob
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-25
NOT YET READY FOR SILVER.

San FraEciscans to repeat after changing
the language to suit the local conditions.
This is what he said:
Now the point 1 wish to make is the
importance of civic pride and public
spirit. 1t is this that has produced the
marvellous change in our city in this
period. have been guilty myself of some
of that pride in the city of Paterson and |
rejoice in it. l invoke you Democrats and
Republicans alike to do even more than
you have done to manifest more civic
pride, more public spirit, 70 make Pater-
son what it is destined to be, the greatest
city of the future of the State of New Jer-
sey, to make it possible to have larger fac
tories and more of them, to bring more
people here, to have moro and better
homes for them and so make it the lead
ing city in New Jersey. We want to make
a city OF comfortable homes for working
people and with ample facilities for them
to earn enough to own and enjoy their
homes. 1t is the advancement of this
idea that [ have devoted my time, my en-
ergy, my work, to the best of my ability in
order that l might more fully show my re-
gard and affection for those who surround
me, those with whom I am in friendly
contact every day of my life"
Mr.. Hobart left to-day for Canton, Ohio,
to be present on the occasion of the mon
ster celebration to be given there next
Saturday. JOHN PAUL CosGRAvE.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-25

accomplished wife, Mrs. Jennie Tuttle
Hobart, in the matter of that charity
which, says the immortal poet, falls as
the gentle dew from heaven upon the
place beneath, blessing him that gives as
well as him that takes, and which be-
cometh the throned monarch better than
crown. The gentle hand of Mrs. Hobart
has wiped away many tear of distress in
this town of busy looms; her kind words
and loving ministrations have changed
many a sob of sorrow into smile of joy.
No roof was too lowly that she could not
stoop her gracious head to enter; no home
SO dark and cheerless that her presence
could not fill with light and hope. Here
in Paterson and especially in the winter
season there are many opportunities for
the exercise of charity as there are in all
manufacturing towns on the coast OF the
Atlantic, and there are several Christian
societies which have taken the work in
hand. They are the Old Ladies Home,
the Children's Day Nursery and the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union,
in all of which Mrs. Hobart is leading
and most valuable member.
Neither she nor her husband has done
highway with heralds before them bugling
their praises, but quietly and without show.
Not one-half of their benefactions has be-
come known, for poverty with decent
pride exists in Paterson as well as in San
Francisco. Generous, open-hearted and
free-handed" were the expressions / heard
to-day from business men and others
when they spoke of the candidate for the
Vice-Presidency from New Jersey. To
ordinary enterprises needing assistance he
has given double that which would have
been due from him, because he dreaded to
be considered selfish or mean. Where one
man gave $40 toward the establishment of
some local enterprise Mr.. Hobart gave $25.
He is unassuming and modest withal and
good Christian, he and Mrs. Hobart
being members of the Church of the Re-
deemer (Presbyterian). With Methodist
for President and Presbyterian for Vice
President the Christian voters of this
country should surely be satisfied. He is
not bigoted in religious matters, for he
has literally subscribed toward the erec-
ton of st. Johns and several other Cath
olic churches. He is also a subscriber for
the Barnet Memorial Temple and for
every other church OF every denomina ton
that has been erected in this city during
the last thirty years. Hospitals, orphan
asylums and old ladies' homes of every
denomination have been blessed by the
cheerful giving of his hands.
This trait of nobility and of unselfish-
ness has gained for the leading citizen of
Paterson all his popularity. From the
green Catskill, where the clear streams of
ripping water refresh the tired New
Yorker, to the farthest point of Long
Island, where the waves of the Atlantic
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-25

adopted by the Republican party at St.
Louis
In substance these letters set forth that
the Eastern press is filled with specific
statements that Thomas G. Platt and his
friends per formed successfully an arduous
and delicate mission during the conven-
ton in forcing McKinley's friends to ac-
cept the gold declaration against their will.
'The skeleton of the money plank
adopted by the convention" Hanna said
yesterday, in reply to these pretensions,
twas in st. Louis before ex-senator Platt,
Senator Lodge and E. II. Lauterbach ar
rived. do not desire to detract from the
efforts made by these gentlemen for the
cause of sound money, but | do wish TO
state most emphatically that the plank
defining the party's position was advocated
by Western men, drawn up by Western
men, and approved by me before a man
from the East reached st. Louis. The
plank as it was finally approved by me
went the convention without Eastern in
reference or suggestion.
Finally, | may state with equal en-
phasis that the plank shown me by Sem
ator Lodge as representing the Eastern
sentiment was not adopted by the con-
vention, nor was it anything like the dec
laration made officially for the Republican
party, being only two or three sentences
long"
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-25
GARRETT HOBART At HIS HOME.

eyes are grayish-blue, but their keenness
is weakened by a slight cast in one of
them. Mr.. Hobart is a man of intense en-
ergy and of great capacity for business
affairs. Like his friend, Marcus Aurelius
Hanna, he is an active spirit in many in
dustrial en- terprises, but l think he lacks
the GOODNESS, the presence of mind, the
self-poise which have made Mr.. Hanna
one Of the most remarkable business and
political managers in the country.
Mr.. Hobart is so earnest In his energy
that he shows it in every movement. His
manner of speech is abrupt and quick;
his language plain Saxon and to the bulls
eye. / soon found that he would not talk
politics. He said that he would not do so
except from the public platform, but as
his political ideas are well known nobody
will suffer because of his silence. In his
younger days he was a Democrat, but
after he had begun to get an insight into
true business principles and the secret of
the prosperity of all nations he found that
Democratic free trade Utopianism would
not be successful even in the management
of a peanut-stand, and he became a Re-
publican. He saw that the Republican
party was established on principles which
were for the best interest of employer and
empIoye as we'll as for the farming ele-
ment of the community and for the whole
people. The Republican party to-day has
no more devoted, earnest, sincere and self
sacrificing adherent than Garret A. Ho-
bart.
"I'm piled to the ears with work." he
said, with an impatient glance at the big
stack of letters on the table, land letters
are coming in thicker and faster by every
mail. How was Major Mckinley managing
to handle his correspondence when you
saw him at Canton?"
replied that perhaps the major did not
attempt TO read all the letters that came
to his address. 1 presumed that he took
up those from personal friends and big
men in the nation and let his private Sec
retary and his three stenographer clerks
attend to the rest at their leisure. Many
of the letters received by Mr.. Hobart are
from persons asking financial aid; one
from Massachusetts, to perfect a patent,
another to help raise mortgage on a corn
farm in Kansas ruined by drought,
another to assist poor but deserving col
ored family in Texas, and all of them as
suring Mr.. Hobart that should he be so
generous as to send them a check or a
green back they would secure all the way
Fl ON 100 to 1000 Democratic votes for him
Mr.. Hobart would not mention it. but
learned from others somewhat of the
known record of this gentleman and his
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-25

removal of the tax upon which New Jer-
sey prides herself; another was an act for
the arbitration of labor disputes. From
1880 to 1891 Mr.. Hobart was chairman of
the State Republican Committee of New
Jersey, and under his leadership the party
conducted some of the most brilliant cam
paigns of its history. In 1884 he was
chosen a mem ber of the Republican Ma
tional Committee, upon which he has
served since that time, and has constantly
served on its executive committee.
In the same year he was nominated by
his party in joint caucus as its candidate
for United States Senator, but the Legisla-
ture peing Democratic he was defeated for
election by the Hon. John r. Macpherson.
During more than one Presidential con-
test he was asked to accept the chairman
ship OF the National Committee, but his
business interests were so vast that he was
obliged to decline the honor. On Decem-
ber II last he was selected one OF three
arbitrators by the thirty railroad presi-
dents, whose duty it was to select three
persons to finally hear and settle all diff
ferences that might arise between the
members of the joint traffic association,
which membership constitutes the great
est aggregation of representative capital
in the world. Mr.. Hobart's remarkable
capacity for business and his well-known
executive ability have led to his aid being
sought in the organization and develop
ment of perhaps more corporate and pri-
vate enterprises than any other citizen of
New Jersey.
In his speech last Monday night before
the big ratification meeting, attended by
$1,000 people, Mr.. Hobart said something
which it would be well for a few score of
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-25

Hill, and is far humber in appearance
than you would expect to find when Mr..
Hobart's financial standing and social
position are taken into consideration. 1t
makes an excellent match for Major Nc
Kinley's cottage in Canton, Ohio, just as
the two men make an excellent team to
head the Repu blican ticket.
I found Mrs. Hobart and few lady
friends on the porch enjoying the cool airs
that gently strolled from the Atlantic
after the sun had gone down. The hall
door stood Hospitality open, and in few
moments l was ushered into the presence
of the Republican candidate for the Vice.
Presidency The back parlor in which he
was sitting was brilliantly lighted and
Iuxurious!y furnished, Mrs. Hobart's re.
fined taste being exemplifed by the chaste
beauty of the articles of vertu there dis
played. Mr.. Hobart was almost concealed
by the high back OF an upholstered easy
chair, so that the first glimpse | had was
at the top of his head, which was bald up
a bove the forehead; two locks of dark hair
had been brushed SO that his portraits do
not give any indication of his badness.
He was dressed in light brown suit of
grass cloth, a costume very popular in this
climate, and was debating letters to
young woman stenographer.
That he was very busy was evident from
q pile of about 1000 unanswered letters
lying on the table and I therefore remained
only long enough to get a good look at
him. He is neither tall nor short, stand
ing about five feet eight and one-half
inches, and is stout and compact, but
without any apparent tendency toward an
excess of adipose tissue; the forehead is
well developed, broadest across the eyes
and filling out little aDove the temples.
The nose is straight, of the Roman order,
but not too long; the frmly-closed lips
are shaded by long sandy-gray mus
tache and the firm, square chin sits well
forward. The general shape of the head
and face is round, the greatest width be-
ing from cheek to cheek on a level with
the mouth. The eyebrows are straight
and horizontal, close to the eyes and have
downward leaning at the corners. His |