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The Republican journal., 1898-04-07

very sick and for several days 1t seemed as
II he would never be any better. After
while he began to improve and in few
weeks was able to 60 out, although weak
and miserable. Then, gradually
All Strength in His Limbs
gave out. The physicians told US it was
paralysis, which sometimes follows an at
tack of diphtheria. We did everything
for him, but he grew worse until he was in
q pitiful condition. He suffered terribly
at night and complained continually Of
his head, and in what little sleep he was
able to get, moaned increasingly. He lost
all control Of the muscles OF his body and
limbs. He had no appetite and complained
OF feeling sick at his stomach all the time.
After we had tried many different reme-
dies and had about given up all hope,
we commenced giving him Hoods Sarsa-
parilla. In short time he ceased to COM
plain, his appetite improved and at the
end OF three months he was able to attend
school part of the time. Now he Is we'll
and quite strong and rugged boy. You
arc at liberty to use this testimonial,
The Republican journal., 1898-04-07

A Bath clergyman says that Sunday
newspapers are as poisonous as cigarettes;
but what appears to be paid reader in
the daily papers announces that cigarettes
are not poisonous.
The Republican journal., 1898-04-07
Americas Greatest Medicine

The following is characteristic Hoods
Sarsaparilla testimonial. Facts like
these have made Hoods Sarsaparilla
Americas Greatest Medicine and en-
deared it to thousands of homes scat
tered all over this broad land.
The Republican journal., 1898-04-07

The re opening and growing attendance
at the old academies is encouraging.
These Institutions of learning have done
much good i'll the past and there is large
field OF usefulness before them We in
Waldo county may well rejoice over the
regeneration of Freedom Academy and
the large attendance at it's opening term.
Hampden A-cademy, which little more
chan year ago had but 2S students in its
classes, opened its spring term with "a
students Oh the list, with the prospect of
increasing the number to TO- A dozen at
least of men prominent in the ministry,
in literature and as college Presidents are
graduates of the old Washington Academy
in East Machias. After 1.-THE little red
schoolhouse' comes the Academy in the
work of making good citizens and increas-
ing the Intellectual strength of our coun-
try.
The Republican journal., 1898-04-07

as we feel we cannot say too much
In praise Of Hoods Sarsaparilla as blood
purifier and building up medicine" MRS.
R. E. ANDERSON, Cumberland, Maine.
The Republican journal., 1898-04-07

Some people think that two nations
should rush into war with no more con-
sideration or formality than attends an
encounter between two dogs in the street.
President Mckinley, Speaker Reed, Sec
rotary Long, Congressman Boutelle, and
many others whose ability and patriotism
are alike unquestioned look upon the
matter differently There would be no
glory in wal with Spain, and there is no
occasion for this country to 60 to war for
glory or conquest, SPANS treatment of
The Cubars is an otfepse to civilization,
and she is morally responsible for the
destruction Of the Maine but it is posi-
bic TO settle these questions without war,
while aggression on our part would divert
sympathy TO the weaker power.
The Republican journal., 1898-04-07

The London afternoon papers of April
ID deplore. war between Spain and the
United States but declare that is inevi-
table unless third nation succeeds in
patching an eleventh hour peace. Some
Of the PAPERS delide the Madrid demon
stJauon. The Westminster Gazette refers
-o., as a sort of International Nellie Far
zen peri finance in the Royal theatre "
The Pal Mall Gazette says: president
NJ kinley has played great part, but he
will know when the limit has been reach
ed, and if war is to be, he will enter upon
it with quiet dignity contrasting strong
ly with the excitable, stage army effects
of the Madrid Opera House,
The Republican journal., 1898-04-07

March. true to tradition, came in like a
lamb and went out like lion.
The Republican journal., 1898-04-07

War to-day, with the improved explo-
sives and projectiles, would be very
different thing from war a generation ago.
The yard arm to yard-arm engagements
of our early naval history are no longer
possible, and the modern battleship is
practically an untried experiment. In
this connection an extract from the April
Century, published on the I'd page, des-
cribng the engagement between Chilean
a nd Peruvian ironclads off the coast of
Bolivia in 1870, will be read with Interest.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-02-15
HIGGINS CHARGED ALONE.
On Confederate Testimony He Has Been
Given Modal of Honor.

On Confederate Testimony He Has Been
Given a Medsi of Honor.
"The Secretary OF War granted q
medal of honor few days ago to a
federal soldier on the affidavit of a
confederate" said Charles I. Evans OF
Texas, candidate for office, who oc-
casionally visits the White House, "and
1t is probably the first instance on
record of this kind. The federal sold
Ter who received the medal was Thoin-
as |. Higgins, now of Hannibal, Mo.
During the war he was the color-bear-
er of the Goth Illinois Regiment. and
was holding that position at the siege
of Vicksburg. In an assault on the 22d
of May, 1868, the Doth Illinois was
ordered to charge and not to look
back. was member of the I'd Texas
charging Illinoisians. We repulsed the
Illinois regiment short distance from
the breastworks and sent 1t back In
confusion. Higgins, however, was lit
orally obeying the orders. He never
looked back. He never noticed the re-
~ SHe Vi lis iO5iihOhtg DuS Satho pOuhN
ing forward, his colors flying as pref
tily as soldier ever saw. When
within forty yards of our works word
was passed along the line not to shoot
the brave soldier, and all firing ceased.
When Higgins saw his predicament he
started to retreat with his colors, but
we told him to come on or we would
have to shoot him. Several men ran
out and brought him within the breast
works. We kept him several days,
during which time we learned to like
and admire him. He was then par
oiled. l was one of the men who wit
messed his heroic deed and made an af-
fidavit to that effect. Several of my
companions who remembered Higgins
and his charge also made affidavits. On
these the Secretary of War granted a
medal. Higgins could have been
vouched for by members of his own
regiment, but the novelty of recon-
mendation by his former foes led to
that course"
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-02-15
A Horn with a History.

There is an old battered tin horn in
the possession of an ancient colored
man at Dalton, Ca, around which are
associated memories Of many deeds OF
violence.
In ante-bellum days the horn was the
property of Colonel Ben" Longhridge,
a wealthy planter of Murray county
1t was originally used to summon his
many slaves to work and to meals, and
its welcome note at sunset was the sig
nal for them to rest from the days la
bors.
After the war the horn became sepa-
rated from the Longhridge family, and
from that time until few months age
was the period of it's stirring history
Murray county has for years been a
stronghold of the "moonshiners. :"
Time after time the revenue officers
made desperate raids on the Illicit dis
tillers, killing and being killed, yet
never entirely subduing the stubborn
mountaineers. The mellow note of
the old tin horn would always warn
the whisky rebels Of the approach of
their enemies, and many good mans
death has it presaged.
The moonshiners would station a
lusty lunged sentinel on some promi-
nent mountain rock, which command
ed view Of the valley below, and the
slightest suspicious symptom In the
lower defiles was sufficient to send the
bass echoes of the old horn flying, and
the moopshiners themselves scurrying
to their improvised fortresses, armed
to the teeth and ready to take and risk
life for what they considered their
rights and in the defense of their
hearthstones. To the revenues" it al
ways bore the dismal information that
from the next crag or bramble they
might expect a Staying yolley from
their hidden foes,
The venerable horn is special re-
minder of notorious gang which ter
rorized the county up to within a year
ago. 1t was used to rally the forces Of
this gang and was often the preface to
a bloody conflict between them and the
laws representatives.
When the gang was finally disposed
of the horn passed into the possession
of old "Uncle" Isaac, typical "befo'
de war" colored man and the old man
often brings it out and recounts its in
teresting history;
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-02-15
Antics of a Tame wild Cat.

4 tame wildcat from the northern
Minnesota woods has been sent to Mr..
M;thison of III Randolph street, Chi
caso. The cat. which is as large as a
go od-sized bulldog, and, according to
tn, claims of it's proud owner, could
wi ip an even dozen Of those iron
ia we'd beasts in as many minutes, is
as docile as little kitten.
The thing was captured, when so
small its eyes had hardly opened, by
II apper James Wilson, whose log cab
in is situated in the wilds of the Min
ntsota woods surrounding Sturgeon
Luke, and he trained II for thirteen
months, feeding 1t ON cooked beef
milk and bread and to-day, in its new
Chicago home, it plays about the office
in amusing gentleness, stands gravely
in the window gazing with wondering
eyes out upon the street, with Its null
titude of horses and wagons, or starts
in its brislSer moods on a wild career
OF leaping about the Office. A jump OF
seyen-foot partition Ia not quite the
limit of Its endeavors, and a spring
of ten or eleven feet from the top of
a desk to distant stack of boxes,
landing without causing the pile to
topple over, Is one OF its feats.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-02-15


despatch in the st. Louis Globe.
Democrat says that few instances
have been recalled where men of ma.
ture age were forced to learn how to
talk, read and write after securing di.
plomas and honors for proficiency ir
all three
Ellis county, Texas, has a man thai
has learned to talk, read and write
twice in his life, and he is just turning
the point known as the prime" Of
manhood. This man is DR.. o. p. Hus.
ton, Of Nash. A little over a year age
DR.. Huston received heavy blow or
the head, crushing in a portion of this
skull. For time it was thought he
would die. Physicians attended the
sufferer, and several months later two
or three large pieces of bone were
successfully removed from the
wound. lie began to improve, and
finally got so he could walk
around. He found it necessary to
write, talk and read, but the blow on
the head had paralyZed that portion OF
the brain controlling speech. A score
or more Of simple words were learned
and after time very good Yocahula-
ry was brought into use. Then the
copybook movements were put into
use, and the old handwriting returned
to him. The student was ambitious;
he succeeded.
Before the sad accident to the talent
ed doctor, young lady had given him
her heart, and while he was suffering
for months and months, trying to over
come what most people thought death
she clung to him. She had other suit
ors, and during the time the second
schooling was in progress they tried
to impress her with their ability tc
take care of pretty wife. She re.
fused all offers. Sunday, November z
at Forreston, In the Presbyterian
church, DR.. Huston led to the altar
Miss Inez Strickland, the daughter ol
a well=to-do farmer, The ceremony
was performed by the Rev. Mr.. Ken,
non. The bride has long been admired
for her beauty and intelligence, ant
while her marriage was a surprise tt
some the majority of her friend:
thought she followed Out the prompt
ings Of her heart and blessed her fol-
her selection: It seems almost impos
sible for Or. Huston to be what he was
before tbe accident, but there is one
thing that he can always count on
and that is the love of devoted wife
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-02-15
neadIng Newspapers on sunun,

1t Is very unusual to hear preacher
refer to the Sunday newspapers with.
out censure; much more unusual to
hear them speak of the Sunday news.
papers with approval. The Rev. Doc.
tor l.. s.. Osborne, rector of Trinity
Episcopal Church in Newark, N. J..
recently addressed meeting of the
Wednesday Club of that city, and in re.
ference to newspapers said that as far
as Sunday papers are concerned, there
Is no reason for not reading them
any more than there is not to read
Saturday papers as long as they dc
not interfere with a mans religious
duties, lie does so. he said, and SO
do some of his parishioners. While he
did not like papers "prying into person,
al affairs and family history" he cen,
sidered them necessary adjunct to the
affairs OF life. "The proper function
ofsthe newspaper, like that of the pul.
pit" he added, is to have high, deer
ard broad views of men and things OF
the world at large
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-02-15
The Cigarette in Diplomacy.

An attache of one of the legations in
Washington said the other day: Dip
lomacy couldn't get along without the
cigarette. For hundreds of years am
bassadors used the snuff box as dis
courager of impulsiveness and temper.
You can't think of Talleyrand, for in
stance, without his precious snuff box.
Recall the paintings and prints of the
picturesque old fellow: he seemed to be
always offering pinch OF snuff to
some other smirking chap. When pas
sions became strained, or things that
ought not to be said were likely to be
forced out by sly remark of ones ad-
versary, or an unexpected situation de-
veloped. the passing of snuff always
gained time. The cigarette does the
same business now. The cigar is too
big and too heavy for many men, but
the cigarette is dainty and harmless,
and IL it does anything, it steadies the
nerve for the time. 1t is a graceful
thing to offer; 1t affords a chance for
a polite smile; it helps fellow to get
an impassive face; and most of all it
makes him careful in speech. Why
the world never will know how often
even war has been averted by the Gig
arctic. There is always a war of dip
Iomats before the open war of nations,
and that little roll of tobacco has
again and again during the last ten
years been spell of peace among am-
bassadors when irritation had got the
better OF them and any moment might
hear the irrevocable words which
would precipitate war. All the sensit-
iyesness of a whole nation Is some
times tingling In the person of it's one
ambassador during q critical inter-
view, and I could tell you strange
stories, were I at liberty, which 1 have
gathered among the diplomatic corps
of various capitals of how international
anger has been soothed by the smoke
of a cigarette"
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-02-15

streets In cart With blanket or
something similar thrown over her.
She was finally found, and where do
you suppose7 In the bottom of a dry
well In the centre of barren hopfield,
covered with pile of boards, unable
to escape and probably fed by her kid
nappers. who had learned Of the pur-
suit. Through the cunning OF the de-
tectives the man who had been hired
TO do the work and the bogus brother
in-law were captured and brought to
trial, the case being proved against
them without any doubt.
But were they convicted? No; the
Judge dismissed the case on the
ground that 1t was not case of kid
mapping because the trouble had all oc-
Cured within the lines of one country
To be kidnapped the woman must have
been carried across the county line; so
the lawyer told his clieLt that he was
free, and the latter passed out a liber-
ated man. An Gong, maddened at the
travesty of justice, pulled out his re-
'ct'Si oho nave luC
case there, but my friend and infor-
mant with others interfered in time to
prevent murder. The enraged hus-
band then shouted. All right! If /
cannot get justice in the courts of a
free country, can in the institutions
Of the Chinese. l will hire a High
binder to kill him.
Whether he did do not know"
said the speaker, "but the troubles OF
Que Nan ended here. She was restored
to her husband and now is the mother
Of happy family, and no more ef-
forts have been made to claim her by
presumable owners. But here is a case
Of slavery as plain as any you can find
in Africa, or anywhere. More than this
this very travesty in your courts, this
miscarriage Of justice this possibility
of bribery and corruption is one cause
of many of the murders in Chinatown.
l know knothing about the ending OF
this particular case, but since that time
a number Of Cinnamon have been
found dead, many public fights have
occurred in the streets of San Fran.
cisco, and they have been reported as
feuds between Highbinders."
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-02-15
ssv.n Feet of Hair on His Chin.

Mr.. Legrand Larow of Lamar, Mo-,
has beard which perhaps is the long
est worn by any man in the world. His
beard is feet in length. and has
measured 71s feet. Mr.. Larow was
born in Tompkins County, N. Y, in
1852, and his relatives are notedS fog
heavy boards, but not of extraordj nary
length. He is feet in height, and
weighs ITS pounds. When standing
with his beard down it extends feet
upon the flood. He has not shaved for
over twenty years. He wears his beard
braided and wound around his body
or else wrapped and lodged inside his
vest. ,.sEA,
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-02-15
FALLING oF TIE STARS.


The Coming shower of Mcteroids and Rain
OF Ere One Year Hence.
The astronomers look for the next
great meteroric shower on the morn
ing Of November Is, 1899. They cal
culate that the earth will then pass
again through the center of an inn
mense swarm Of meteoroids, as they
are called, before combustion. These
great "Leonide Star Showers" as they
are called, occur at intervals of every
33 years and one day. The great show
er of 1899 occurred on November IL;
that of 1888 on November IA, and, con-
sequently repetition of the next won
derful phenomena is expected on the
morning of November Is, 1899.
In the meanwhile, however, as the ag-
gregation of meteoroids is of immense
length, one end of 1t will encounter the
earth in 1898 and the other in 1900,
making as Professor Lewis Smith, the
distinguished astronomer of Rochester,
N. Y, says considerable showers in
those years also. Not only this, but
II Is stated on the same authority that
many forerunners of the great shower
may be expected to come within the
earth's atmosphere on November IA,
1897 because many of the meteoroids
are always considerably in advance OF
the main cluster. Professor Swift says
"the thickness of the meteoroidal
tion of the shower is equal to the time
of the diagonal passage of the earth
through it, usually from midnight to
dawn" He adds: "As there is light
shower Of Leonoids every November,
we know that there is vast ring form
ed by the comets tail, and that the i'm
mense shoal in one portion is the pro-
duct of the exploded comet itself, and
through which we pass once every 33
years and a day"
The meteoroids are dark bodies, and
1t is only when they pass into the
earth's atmosphere that they are igni-
ted by friction and become visible for
a few seconds. The stream makes a
revolution around the sun in about SO
Ia years, and by consequence the
earth passes through it in a new place
every year. The length of the swarm
is so enormous that although 1t moves
at the rate of nearly 25 miles second,
yet it takes it two years to pass the
earth, SO that when it's hinder part Is
still with us it's advancing side will
have reached the orbits Of Jupiter and
Saturn. Notwithstanding this extent,
1t is but fraction of the entire orbit.
Professor Swift says: This great clus-
ter will reach the earth's orbit about
June !. 1899, but the earth will not
have arrived there then, but will be
due nearly six months later, when our
planet will plunge into the swarming
mass, and for at least five years we
shall experience literal rain of fire."
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-02-15
MIR. Hu,ton's Cold and Wet Night.

Ed Huston of Sparta, KY, attended
a party in the country on a recent
night, and after the close of the social
affair started for home across farm
lot to shorten the distance, but walked
over an unused we'll that was covered
with rotton boards, which gave way
under his weight and let him drop
thirty feet into its darkened depths. He
descended feet first into four feet OF
water, thus enabling him to keep his
head above ana prevent drowning, but
he was compelled to remain In his un,
comfortable position until daylight,
when his shouts attracted the atten-
ton Of the owner of the premises, and
he was pulled out of his predlcament
ALMOST dead from exhaustion.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-02-15
A Russian Dragon.

A real old-fashioned dragon was seem
not long ago, day by day, by terrified
peasants, in the River Vistula, near
Cracow, Russia. 1t was finally cap.
tured in net and killed, when II Prov
ed to be an alligator which had escaped
from a menagerie.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-02-15

"a
He sowed, and hoped for; reaping--
A happy man and wise;;
The ciouds--thsy did his weeping,
The wind-it sighed bis, sighs.
He made what Fortune brought him
The limit of desire; i @
Thanked God for shade In summer
days. e. tE
In winter time, for fire, s
When tempest. as with vengeful rod.
His earthly mansion cleft,
On the blank sod, he still thanked God
Life and the land were left
Content. bis earthly race he, ran,
And died-so people say
Some ten years later than the man
Who worried his life away. =
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-02-15
The IRON Heel Again.

"Yes, sir" said the Chairman Of the
Dyea Vigilance Committee, "the durn
skunk hez one wife here an another at
It. Mlchael's."
Down with monopolyi" nBust the
sestsl" came the hoarse shout from
undreds Of throats.
1t was generally conceded that hang
ng was too good for bigamist in
,ountry where there were 1853 men to
every woman.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-02-15
Don't Gamble ON This.

It is an old saying that those who
were born in the last six months OF
the year will have great change OF
experience every seventh year, and
their dreams will have significance dur
InE the full Of the moon,
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-02-15
Coming Back.

1t was the beginning of their we'd
ding trip. :,
Dear" she inquired anxiously, "in
the excitement of leaving. did you say
goodby to papa and mama?"
mo" he replied; II said 'au re-
yoir.'"
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-02-15

w ater w OrkS tfuSteeS:-
John Ucser ,Thos Rochester, ,Chas. tight.
Cemetery Trustees:
DR.. NH. Blosser,z v. .Raney John E.Rauch.
Library Trustees:-
l.. ID. Vickers, Z res, ]. B. Dolison. Sec'y,
LIE wis Green. S IL. Bright, j. A Smith.
Board of Education:
o. w. H. Wright, Pres, DR.. Blosser, Sec'y,
q. w. Schwenke, Treas, L.. Warner
q, Nj. Bowlby, Dr. j : ii Dye.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-02-15
Logan school Exnmners meetings.

The Board OF Sch ool Examiners of Logan
vi age will hold regular meetings for the
Examination ofapplicants Te achers Certih-
Gates on the Thild Wednesday OF February,
April. June, August, October and Decembef
At the ONCE ofthe Superintendent, in the
School Building of said Village Examina-
tons begin at $3.50 A. M. standard OF each
day.
By orderof Board ofEx.
s o.W II Wright Pres
II. +. Ravman. Clerk.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-02-15
He Probably Knew.

Miss Courtright-"What do You
think of man who will marry a wo-.
man for money!" Mr.. Spooner-"All
can say is that such a fellow mpst,.be
hard up" |'aA +
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-02-15
Farm Police.

The farmers of Morgan, Hendricks
and other counties within easy reach Of
indianapolis. Indiana, have decided to
furnish their own police protection.
They are organizing by townships. 49,.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-02-15
A CryIns Matter.

She (at the theatre)-Isn't this an
awfully sad play?
He-Very. Even the seats are in
tiers.