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The Florence daily tribune., 1898-11-21
LOCAL NEWS

DIR. Clark is in Canon City to-
day.
r. Fl. Sterling, of Canon City,
was IN the city yesterday.
The Clerks association will
hold meeting this evening in
the City hall.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIII Porter enter
tanned small company at whist
Saturday evening.
Rev. d. D. Proper of Des
Moines, Iowa, spent Sunday with
Rev. Robt. D. Graham.
Will Daniels has placed an auto
matte pencil sharpener in his
store for the benefit of his custom
ers.
Mrs. Jay Gillett left for Flor
ence Sunday where she with her
husband will reside. Delta Inde-
pendent.
Mrs. w. H. Brunnick came
down from Pueblo yesterday to
visit her mother, Mrs. w. H.
Wetmore.
About sixty people met at the
opera house yesterday afternoon to
rehearse the hymns to be sung in
the Moody meetings.
The school board this morning
inspected the new school building.
1t will not be accepted until sew
eral alterations are made.
Several Florence people are
talking of going to Colorado
Springs Thursday to see the game
of football between Golden and
Colorado College.
We have the largest display of
fresh candies in town. Watch for
our Christmas stock.
34-12 Frank Keller.
Miss Rollins school for dancing
and department will commence
next week under the auspices of
the Olivette club. Special atten-
ton will be given to the teaching
of children's classes. For full par
ticulars address Miss G. p. Rollins,
CITY. 37-6
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1898-11-15
Much Fiat.
lronton Register.

lronton Register.
A crank was picked up by the police
in New York the other day. The fol-
lowing letter was found on his person:
To Ui,liam b. Mckinley, United states Prest-
dent.
Esteemed Sii: have the honor four
years ago to make q request OF you Tor
assistance for the recouping of the Holy
Jepulchre. The only thing l needed
was me loan of the UNI States Navy.
As / did not rec+ive rpy answer, l write
this, which will be the last Unless
YOU loan me the United States Navy and
one thousand millions of dollars Will
blow up your home and kill every man,
woman and child in the United States.
The letter was unsigned. In the
mans pockets was also found package
of papers cut from newspapers, in the
shape of bank bills. Each one hsd
marked on it value, ranging from ST.
600 to 100000. The man eaid his
name was Smith Barth, that he had no
home and was thirty-seven years old.
He also said he was Bismarck, and lived
in Berlin. He gave Policeman OLeary
piece of paper marked $500 600 and
another policeman one marked $lO,OW'
but refused to give the sergeant any
thing. 1t is noticeable how soon fel-
low who goes daft tumbles into the fiat
nonsense and makes himself rich with
paper money that he cuts out himself.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1898-11-15
Face the Foe.

The last legislature was dominated by
the liquor interests. Temperance was
forced to back seat. It looks as if this
result was planned beforehand; that the
saloon was to sway the legislature. 1t
did. Tie fsct is, the friends Of temper
ance and morality will have to keep
their eyes open. They will have to
watch their politics constantly. Their
foes are organized and have money
When they can't elect, they try to buy.
Che people should see to it that men are
sent to the legislature who will face the
whisky traffic and dare to do the right
hing at all times. There is q liquor
trust forming in Ohio. 1t will seek 10
sxtend the cad il fuence of the saloon
IN the state. There is only one way TO
fight the trust, and that is the creation
If public sentiment that will not toll
crate traitors to the cause of the people
and will elect only true and sincere ners
to make our laws, men who are ou
spoken, who will not lie or sell out Ife
Republican party should always be seek
ng moral triumphs. 1t is this tha'
makes it better than the Democratic
party. Its very life consists in it's effor'
| to uphold freedom, quail rights, honesty
temperance and education. When il
,rows weak in advancing these ends, il
makes itself altogether weak.-Irontor
l Register,
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1898-11-15
MUSTACHE OF AN Ex-OUEEN.
Natalie Counts the Hair on Her Lip as
n Mark of Beauty.

Natalie Counts the Hair on Her Lip as
Mark of Beauty.
Ex-Queen Natalie Of Servia, who is
about to organize a corps of titled
ladies to act as nurses in the Cuban
war, has a mustache-a thick, well-de-
fined mustache, of which many a
downy-lipped dude might be justly en-
vious. Natalie is known as "the most
unfortunate queen in Europe" and to
the mind of the average American
woman the mustache is doubtless suf-
ficient ground to establish the title.
But Natalie is enough of an oriental to
count the shadowy line above her lip
as a mark of especial beauty-a partic-
ular mark of favor from the gods. She
has had more tragedies in her life than
any other queen consort of modern
times, not excepting the ill-fated Eu-
genie, who was an empress-consort,
by the way. One Of the favorite pas
times Of Natalie's disreputable hus-
band, King Milan, was to swing her
about by her long, black hair before
the entire court circle. Her son, Alex
ander, was torn from her arms at an
age when he most required her care.
Her life was saved by a party of stu
dents, who escorted her carriage over
the frontier when it was attacked by
hired assassins. Her reason finally
gave way under her burden Of sorrows,
but this last misfortune was only tenn
porary, and she went to convent for
a time for the peace the world could
not give. Natalie now forgets her own
griefs in trying to tighten those OF
othsyx
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1898-11-15
Good Dog.


A dog story Of the kind that every
one likes to read ,and no dog-lover finds
any difficulty in believing, is related by
a lady correspondent of the Dog Fan
cier. The animal in question was
brown and white cocker spaniel named
Hector On one occasion my husband
was taken very i'll in the night, and as
morning came 1 saw that he
would be unable to go to his Office.
knew that 1 must convey the informa-
tion to his brother, who is his assistant
in his business, as early as possible.
Now this brother was very fond of the
dog, and at his house the family often
had, at breakfast, certain kind Of In
dian cake which Hector was very fond
of. Regularly every morning, as soon
as he was let out of doors, he would
steer straight for the house, that he
might wheedle them into giving him
his beloved cake. On this particular
morning l called him to me, and told
him his master was sick, and / was go
ing to send him to the express Office to
tell Uncle George. He was very fond
of carrying parcels in his mouth; but
| for fear of some other dogs confiscat-
| ing the note, l said to him: Il am 60
| ing to pin this paper to your collar.
so you won't lose it, and now this
morning you must not go after your
cake; but l want you to go straight to
| the office, and go to Uncle George, and
ask him to take this note from your
collar He looked at me, drinking in
| every word. l let him out, and went
| to a window, from which l could see
| the Office, to note what he would do.
| The Office is in exactly an opposite
direction from the house of the cake.
| Straight on toward the Office went the
| faithful dog, and when he passed the
| corner, where the roads diverge, he
| gave one longing look up the street,
but never stopped, and 1 saw him pu.
up a paw and knock ut the Office door,
and be admitted. My husbands broth
er told us that he came straight up to
him, and turned himself round, to have
the note taken off his collar, and seem
ed delighted to think all our plans had
been so well carried out.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1898-11-15

The large fortune of wealthy Flem-
ish family, the Bracqs, began with "a
happy accident'-if such thing is toll
Grated in the prudent management of
Providence. The legend is narrated by
Mrs. w. TT Byrne in her Social
Hours ebrities." Years ago at
the h-2-. of house was a sugar mer-
chant, who, being uneducated, kept no
books, but recorded his mercantile
transactions on the back of shutter
with lump of chalk. On one occa-
sion Mynheer Van BRAGG told his chief
clerk to order certain number of tons
of sugar from the Barbados. The clerk
wrote one naught too many, but not till
the cargo arrived was the mistake dis
covered. What was to be done? The
merchant had not at that moment-for
the money for to pay for the cargo,
although he had taken care to have on
hand the sum needed for the payment
Of what he thought had been ordered.
The name of BRAGG had always been
a guarantee for scrupulous adherence
to bargain and for prompt payment
It must be kept untarnished; BRAGG
never borrowed, not even of his own
brother; yet this stupid 'naught" made
him liable for sum Of money which il
was impossible to pay. The merchant
did the wisest thing he could do; he
laid the case before his wife. She
brought out the family jewels-dia-
mond heirlooms which had been hand
Cd down from generation to generation
BRAGG did not strike an attitude and
exclaim, "The heart of her husband
doth safely trust in her!" He simply
looked at the diamonds, took in theii
value, and then, finding that it was
sufficient to make up the required sum
pledged them. Thus, without WORD
to any outsider, he extricatsd himself
from the embarrassing "naught." A
few days later the market turned. "Su
gars were lively" An unexpected an6
enormous rise in price enabled Brace
TO redeem the diamonds and laid the
foundation of his great fortune.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1898-11-15
scoundrels in the Early Congresses.

Durand tells us that Tom Paine, who
was then the secretary of the commit
tee on foreign affairs, and Of course
knew all its secrets, was engaged by
the French minister, for $1,000 year,
"to inspire the people with sentiments
favorable to France No doubt the
rascal earned his money, but who the
other members were that were thus in
spired we do not know. That such Gin
spiration," however, was used to q
greater or less extent, there can be no
possible doubt. One of the biograph-
ers of John Jay relates that some thir-
ty years after the events here men
toned Gouverneur Morris went over
from Morrisania to visit his old friend
Jay at Bedford. During their conver-
sation Morris suddenly calculated
through clouds of smoke: "Jay, what
a set of damned scoundrels we had in
that second congress!" YES" said
Jay, that we had," and the venerable
ex-chief justice knocked the ashes from
his pipe.-Charles Kendall Adams in
the August Atlantic.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1898-11-15
THOUGHTS OF A MASHER.
His Banishment Required by All tn
Requirements Of Decency.

His Banishment Required by All the
Requirements Of Decency.
The masher is Of necessity a para
site. He subsists upon others-some-
times on parents or other relatives,
and when he is not kept up in this way
he lives by gambling and other dis
reputable occupations. The vulgar
style which he flaunts is all the more
offensive because everybody knows
that it is paid for by somebody else.
In this way the masher becomes an
be easily impressed with the desirable
ity of good clothes without putting
forth any effort to obtain them, says
the New Orleans Telegraph. The van
ity Of the masher is insufferable. Moth
ing can be more revolving than the gal
vanized smirk with which his simian
face is perpetually wreathed. AS
spectacle which passersby must wit
ness many times in day in going to
and fro in the performance of custom
ary duties the masher becomes unen-
durable. He is by far a more forbid
ding figure than the unfortunate beg
gar who invites attention to his in
f1rmities as means of obtaining liv-
ing. In breed and variety the masher
ranges all the way from the dead
tough" veneered by fine raiment to the
silly youth with a brain but the con-
viction Of his own fancied charms. A
stunted mind and a well developed
body are the principal ingredients in
the composition Of the masher. His
manner and conduct proclaim his de-
graded instincts. He is slangy and
profane. He is given to libelous COM
ments about girls and women who
are compelled to undergo his imper-
| tinent scrutiny on the streets. He Is
an overfowing depository of scandal.
The masher is a perfectly legitimate
| object of the police surveillance. He
is nothing less than a confidence man,
and of the most disreputable stamp.
| His Incidence is an offense to thrifty
and busy community, his impertinence
is something which the public should
not be called upon to bear. the space
which he monopolizes on the crowded
thoroughfares is needed by people who
have better right to it, and his ban
ishment is demanded by all of the re-
Quirements of decency.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1898-11-15

MEANING OF A SCOTCH WORD
A Couple of Stories Told to Illustrate
Its Correct Use.

"A Couple OF Stories TOid 60 uiustraSe
Its Correct Use.
The Scotch word whammle cannot
be fully expressed by one word in
English, writes a contributor of the
Waverley. Like some French mots
it is untranslatable. A Scottish gen
tie story that illustrates the applica-
tion of "whammle" In some remote
parishes of Scotland it used to be a
custom among farming people at their
tea tables to invert or "whammle" the
cup into the saucer, as a signal that
the tea drinker was finished, or, as we
say in some parts of America,
through" No further pressure would
avail. The juniors in those parishes
were not encouraged to state what
they preferred for supper or tea, nor
did they sit with their elders, but
patiently waited for second table,
when the seniors had finished. At a
particular gathering rough-ahd-
ready boy sat on a low stool, watching
with wolfish eyes his jolly and ro-
tund mother swallowing innumerable
cups of tea. The beverage stimulated
the good woman's storytelling pow
ers, till, like DR.. Sam Johnson, she
lost count of the cups, and the boy,
whose hopes were waning, also fan
| cied danger to his mother. He could
be silent no longer, and cried out:
"IIey, mither! whammle or vel
BURST" Another still more inter
esting occasion on which "whammle'
was illustrated 1 heard described by
an old gentleman now living in Glas
| gov. He was, when lad, one day
watching some builders at work. UI
to the group walked a lame man, with
pen behind his ear, bareheaded. He
took hold of pail among the build
ing properties, and turning 1t ovel
said: when I do this what do you
call it?" The prompt reply vas WAN
blin' it over" Thank you, my man
That's the word I've been trying tt
get all morning." And Sir Walter
Scott walked away to finish the story
his search for the right word had in
terrupted.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1898-11-15
False Syntax Corrected.

There appears to be no end to the
humor of examination. Here is the
latest story that has come to us, and
that to us, at least, is new. 1t ap-
pears that in an elementary examina-
tion in English which was lately held
In school near New York City two
sentences were given out to be cor
rected by the younger scholars. The
first sentence was to be corrected as
to its subject matter and the second as
to it's syntax. These were the sem
tences: The hen has three legs" who
done it?' When the papers were
handed in it was found that one of the
examines had apparently regarded the
sentences as subtly connected in
thought, for his answer was as fol-
lows: "The hen didn't done it; God
done 1.-THE Bookman.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1898-11-15
The Sunset Was Not Natural i.

That same evening we walked down
to the lake and witnessed one Of the
most glorious sunsets have ever seen.
The turquoise tints of the sky and the
feathery clouds of red, with their silver
edges, were something beyond descrip-
ton. For moment 1 almost forgot the
presence of the Champion Kicker, but
be brought me back to the world, the
flesh, and the devil when he said: "Quite
sunset, but it would be prettier and
more natural if those pink clouds were
not so awfully pink. No artist would
ever paint sky like that for it isn't
tural,-Iron Age.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1898-11-15
THE STAR OF SWEDEN.
A Rousing Welcome Accorded in the
Land of Her Childhood.


Christine Nilsson, otherwise the
Countess de Casa Miranda, seems to be
surfeited for the time being with the
gaming tables at Monte Carlo and has
gone back to Sweden and the land OF
her childhood. Recently she went on
visit to the little home of her father,
called Snugge, in the parish Of Veders-
loefs. Many of her relatives came
forth to greet her with full hearts ana
empty hands, but their welcome was
warmer than she has received at many
a grand entertainment From Snugge
she went on to the village of Gottlosa
and put up at small inn kept by an
old friend. Forty years had passed
since she left her friends, payments
and the frugal but happy fireside of her
youth. On coming to the little hostel
ry, in the garden of which she sang as
child for a few coppers, and where
she bashfully passed through the par
lors years ago extending her wistful lit
tie hand to each of the guests in turn,
the tears came to her eyes. Look"
she sobbed, there is the same little
sofa on which sat the old gentleman
whose hand and heart never said no to
my itching palm" She walked the
streets of the little village of Wislandet
now, not as the street singer, but an
| honored guest. There" said she, near
yonder huge stone was a spring and
must taste it's water once more. Here
the old women of the village took the
| water and made that delicious coffee
| can taste it, smell it now. l remem-
| Der it as if it were but yesterday" She
spent the night at the old inn and once
again slept in the old-fashioned folding
sofa that her mother used to arrange
for her when beds were fewer than the
| family's needs. The next day she wen
to Lofhult, where long ago her father
labored as farm hand. Her father
took her with him to the market helt
at Vernamo, and her singing on thu
street brought in more money than th'
honest fathers butter In her old hom'
she found many changes. The beecl
trees that sheltered the path to thu
cottage had been removed, but In thu
field still stood the maypole. Here sh'
gave to all her old acquaintances gen
erous gifts.-Chicago Record.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1898-11-15
.Farragut's Opinion Of Dewey.

Rear Admiral Dewey a. . young Of
dcer impressed one as q self-contained
man with powerful native force. l often
think of the remark made by Admiral
Goldsborough to Farrsgut on the otca-
sion of the visit of the latter to our ship.
The two Admirals were within q few
feet of my table, and Dewey had stepped
back to give an order to the orderly.
"Farragut," said GoIdsboroueh, "Dew-
ey will make his mark in the world if he
ever gets an opportunity"
"Ay,"- answered FsrraRut, with the
pleasant smile go becoming to his home
ly face land he will make the opportu-
nifty"
And Farragut was . true prophet
Harper's Round Table.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1898-11-15
Remember the Gloucester.

Sir" said the second ofncer OF q
great Spanish battleship, "a hostile
ship is visible on the horizon" Can
you make her out?" "She is an Am
erican SIR "Ah, battleship! Clear
ship for action! We will give her a
stiff fight" ''Sir, it is not a battle
ship. 1t is an auxiliary cruiser, one
of those Yankee pleasure yachts has
tily transformed into a war vessel"
The commanders face blanched as he
replied: Then there is no help for US.
Run the ship to shore, beach her, and
blow her "-Pittsburg Chronicle
Telegraph.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1898-11-15
The Employer.

To do the best you can for the peo-
pie who work for you is, think, to
recognize their right to combine for
their own protection against the con-
scienceless greed which, in the COM
petitive regime, often forces you to re-
duce the wages.-Gladden.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1898-11-15
Looking the Matter Over.

Have you considered the trouble we
may have with people abroad if we
annex these outlying islands?" Not
much," replied the matter of-fact con-
gresham. But 1 have given some
thought to the trouble we're likely to
have with constituents at home if we
don't" t."-Indianapolis Journal.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1898-11-15

Miss Ollabrod-"There's q clever
sculptress down this way. You ought
to see what she can make out of but
ter" Miss Ritchley- y-Greest-"She's a
good one If she can make as much out
Of 1t as my pa makes out of oleomarga-
rine. ."-Chicago Tribune.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1898-11-15
War FeelluN

$50 your wife went without a new
gown to buy SILK f1ag-what touch
ing patriotism" "Well-partly that
and partly because she wanted to out
shine her neighbors."
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1898-11-15
School Examiners Meetings, 1883,

Examinations of teachers will be held on the
first Saturday of each month, except April and
July. Questions on therory and practice will
be based in part on Fitchs "The Arnolds;"
questions on reading will be based on the lit
erature prescribedI:by the o. T. R.iC.-Shake-
speare's Hamlet, Carlisle's Essay on Burns
selections from Burns poems.
Examinations of pupils under "Boxwell law
will be held on March 1S and April %, 1899
Hours of exa mination-9 to II q. m; l t.
M standard time.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1898-11-15

Pretty Cashier-You must give me a
holiday to recruit my health. My beau
ty is beginning to fade. Manager
Why do you think so? Pretty Cashier
The men are beginning to count their
change.-PearsOn's.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1898-11-15

British Army Rifle IL Complicated.
The British army rifle has eighty
two component parts, in the production
of which 925 machines are employed,
as we'll as various processes which do
not require machinery.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1898-11-15

Mack-Dr. Duer says Higbee's case
is the most stubborn he ever treated.
Wyld-Well, you know Higbee comes
Of long-lived family.-New York
World.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1898-11-15
Rerlin.s Bird Catcher.

Berlin pays a salary to profession
al bird catcher, who keeps scientific
institutions supplied with birds, nests
and eggs. He is the only man in the
empire permitted to do so.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1898-11-15
New Novelty in woman's Dress.

NOW NUVeIty III "ohnHHb 0Fosss
The new woman's latest novelty in
jewelry is set Of gold shirt waist
studs, three in number. in one of which
is watch that keeps excellent time,
the dial being about three-eighths Of
an inch in diamater.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1898-11-15
The Greenland Whale.

According to Nilsson, the zoologist.
the weight OF tne Greenland whale is
100 tons. or $4,000 pounds, or equal to
that Of eighty eight elephants. or 40
bears.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1898-11-15

Tea Is Cheap In China.
Tea is cheap in China. In one pro-
vince of the empire good tea is sold at
215 cents pound.