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The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1899-01-02

Maynard & Christian. Brokers-We have
never hesitated for several months in pre-
dieting great era Of prosperity for the
country. and phenomenal advance in the
prices of securities as a consequence. 1t
is our belief that the present level of
prices on all good securities will be con-
sidered low in a few months.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1899-01-02

S. W. Woodward, of Woodward & 10th
rop, Department Store-I am convinced that
the year 1899 and the years to follow will
be most prosperous. The business outlook
is an entirely encouraging one. 1t is even
wonderful in its promise. The statistics
of the iron and steel trade published from
week to week by the trade reviews are
startling in their suggestiveness. There
has never been such a record as that of
the past year. but it is the universal opin
ion of the experts that even better things
are in the future. The iron and steel trade
is barometer of the entire business of
the country. Business men learn from it
what to expect in general business condi-
lions. The barometer now tells OF fair
weather in most certain fashion.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1899-01-02

B. NJ Bridget, of Parker & Bridget
Mems Furnishers-The year Of 1899 is full
of promise. We have made large improve
ments and spent a large amount of
money on them in the confident expec-
tation that the coming years are to be the
best that Washington has ever seen.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1899-01-02
SPECIAL.


Cloak and Sait Dept, ID floor.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-06-30
SOUTHERN NEGROES.
Suggestion of Col. Duncan II. Hnr-
rIsOn, of Chicago, for Supplying
Army for Philippines.

IF 1T becomes necessary to send vol
unteers to the Philippines" said Col.
Duncan B. Harrison, of Chicago, II
would suggest negro soldiers without
hesitation. Ny regiment of colored men
In Cuba taught me lesson of what the
race is capable of. They are more
amenable to discipline than white men,
fight less among themselves, and with
proper treatment follow their officers
anywhere. l know that before mus
tering out so per cent. of my regiment
voted to reenlist for two years if want
ed. would take the volunteers for the
Philippines from the southern negroes.
They would have no politicians or DEM
agogue governors bowling about them
and ther comforts, but, on the con-
trary, 1t would be relief to people of
the south to have them employed in the
army.
THE eolored troops are greatly ben
ehted by army service. They learn a
great deal, acquire personal dignity,
discover there is something in santa
ton, and go back to civil life better
than when they came into the army.
The colored soldier is a grim, deter
mined fighter, and good bushwhack-
er. He will put up uncomplainingly
with more discomforts than the white
soldier and undoubtedly is better fit
ted for campaigns in tropical countries
than seasoned white men. Colored
troops from the south need no acclimat-
ing to speak of. They know what heat
is. | believe 10000 volunteers could be
raised among the colored people of the
south within 60 days."
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-06-30
FISH, BIRD AND SNAKE YARNS
Hook A VoraciOus
Snake.

A farmer. residing near Middletown,
N. Y, recently noticed a remarkable
falling off in the production of eggs at
his hennery, which he was unable to ac-
count for. He concluded that an egg
thief was at work, and established
strict watch. The eggs continued to
disappear, and no clew to the thief was
obtained until day or two ago, while
working near the hennery, the farmer
came across a large blacksnake, which
he quickly dispatched. AS the snake
lay on the ground the farmer noticed
lump in the reptiles circumference,
and with his knife cut from the snakes
stomach large china egg. 1t is argued
that the snakes appetite for eggs in
creased at a more rapid rate than the
yield Of the hennery, and that it resort
ed to the china eggs in the absence of
the genuine article.
Edwin Robinson, respected resident
of Pawling, Is credited with capturing
a fine trout and bird resembling hen
hawk with the same bait. On a recent
fishing trip he dropped his hook in a
ripple, and the current carried it down
under some overhanging trees, where
a large trout struck it. There was no
opportunity to play for the trout, and
Mr.. Robinson gave his pole a smart
jerk, hoping TO land his prize on the
bank. Both trout and line went sailing
upward, and the line caught fast in
tree. The trout tore away from the
hook and Topped back into the water.
Mr.. Robinson had dropped his pole to
save his fish, and when he picked it up
again felt something tugging at it.
Looking upward, he discovered that he
had another bite. This time he landed
his prize, which proved to be large
bird, hooked through the lower side of
the bill
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-06-30
RED SHIRTS.
They Are Worn by Convicts of CALI
fornia Who Have Tried
to Escape.

There are men in the penitentiaries
of California who are favored with red
shirts, but they are not made particu-
larly happy thereby.
When a convict has once worn the
crimson shirt he hopes as ardently as a
convict can hope for anything that the
warden will never make him wear it
| again. 1t means that he has tried to
escape and failed.
But that is not all. Henceforth he is
q degraded man in prison circles. His
time credits are gone. Solitary con-
fnement, dungeons, bread and water
may be his portion. He is watched, sus-
pected by the officers, pointed out and
explained" to visitors and newcomers.
Among the 700 convicts in the jute mill
his red back may be distinguished at a
glance. If he be away from there mo-
ment the guards know it. Then the
prison bell rings, the officers assem-
BILE, bloodhounds are unclaimed, and
the hunt begins.
Frank Wheeler, known as "Ohio
Fatty" grows tired of prison life every
few months and walks away in his red
shirt. Originally he had only five years
to serve, but now it is nearer so, and all
the ICONS" glory in his spunk. Ohio
Fatty has walked out of prison five
times in his career-twice from San
Quentin and three times from Sing Sing,
Joliet and a bastile in Oregon. He is
now sojourning under the guns at Fol-
som, but he says he would like mighty
we'll to keep an engagement at the Paris
exposition" When he makes up his
mind to leave, red shirts will never
stop him. Nothing less than a cooper
minute gatling gun will change his
mind.
These flaming shirts leave an indel-
ible dread upon the convicts. Some of
the red-shirters at San Quintin are
among the most daring fellows that
ever scaled prison wall, and every
man of them has run the gantlet of
guard and gatling gun. Anybody in
stripes who breaks for liberty is liable
to be riddled with lead within 60 Sec
onds. The convicts know this; but
they also know that beyond the gray
stone walls there are green hills, and
deep ravines, and-possibly-freedom.
The man who is sentenced to die on
prison cot is willing to stake his life for
liberty. His days and nights are spent
preparing for the game. If he wins
the ICONS" he leaves behind are jubilant,
and many are the tales of pluck and
luck they will tell in memoriam. AS a
rule, no class of people stand by each
other like veteran "cons."
Down with the devil who gets cold
feet and 'squeals to the warden!'"
That is their slogan.-Detroit Free
Press.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-06-30
QUEER POSTAL SERVICE.
That of Havana when the United
States Took Charge of
ITS system.

Under the Spanish system the letter
carriers received their pay by charging
from three to five cents, and sometimes
more, for every letter they delivered.
1t took only day or two to have that
system abolished in Hanvana, much to
the relief of the merchants. The car
riers were put on salaries equivalent to
that which they were supposed to earn
by the assessmentmethodt they were per-
mitted to use under the former regime.
The carriers under the Spanish sys-
tenn not only charged for the delivery
of mail matter, but they ritled letters
freely, and made money by stealing
stamps from mail matter and selling
them. The letters and other grades of
mail matter would be forwarded with
out stamps, and the carrier at the other
end of the route would collect not only
for delivery, but for the stamps that
had been stolen. There was simply an
unparalleled looseness In the conduct
Of post Office business, and every man
seemed to have license to steal wherever
he could. Even newspapers would be
stolen from bundles and sold for what
ever could be got for them.
Another form of corruption was evi-
dent when the salary lists were ex-
amined. There was no scale of salaries.
In one city postmaster would receive
twice the salary that the postmaster of
a larger city received. Salaries seemed
to be arranged on the pull" plan, with
the possibilities of division with the ap-
pointing power afterward. Places that
under the liberal payment of the United
States would rate at $1,000 year were
worth frequently as much as $4,000 a
year.-Harper's Weekly.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-06-30
FORCED TO EAT LOVE LETTER,
serious Consequences of a New Jer-
sey Mans Joke on a Mar
ried Friend,

Albert Waugh, of Paterson, N. J.,
harbors in his stomach a lump of
desiccated note paper, favored with
violet ink. In its original form Waugh's
meal was high-fown love letter writ
ten by himself in feminine hand, un-
signed, and addressed to his comrade
and neighbor, John Watkins, a young
married man. Inclosed in the envelope
was the photograph of an attractive
girl. Waugh did not know who she was,
for the picture had fallen into his
hands by chance. Across the back he
wrote; ITO the only one love-"
Mrs. Watkins found the letter In her
husbands coat and it caused a tenn
porary separation. Waugh then &c
knowledged that 1t was all his work.
This confession reunited Watkins
and his wife, but the husband vowed TO
have vengeance. Encountering Waugh
he produced the letter and photograph
and commanded the practical joker 10
eat them, drawing pistol 70 enforce
the demand. Waugh obeyed meekly
enough so far as the latter was con-
cerned, but when II came to the photo
sraph his stomach revolted.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-06-30
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Joseph Hatton, the author and jour
nalist, takes ten-mile walk every day.
President Eliot, of Harvard, says he
considers Herbert Putnam, librarian of
congress, not only one of the best Ii
brarians in the country, but one of the
best that ever lived anywhere.
Robert Pollok was a Scotch religious
poet who lived during the first of this
century (179S-1s2O. His most notable
work was religious poem, "The Course
of Time," good edition of which can
be obtained of any bookseller.
When Admiral Farragut made his cell
ebrated tour of the principal ports Of
Europe in 1s67-9 he was so much ex-
hausted by the festivities of the cruise
that he was obliged to stop for month
in Port Mahon, Minorca, merely TO re-
cuperate.
Hamlet, soliloquizing on death,
speaks of the realm beyond the grave,
"the undiscovered country from whose
bourne no traveller returns;" yet he had
repeatedly seen and conversed with one
traveller from the undiscovered coun-
try-his fathers ghost.
The praise which Archbishop Ireland
is receiving in Europe for his eulogy of
Joan of Arc is not the first given him
for treatment of the same subject.
The first prize of the many he captured
during his schoolboy days was for q
paper on the maid of Orleans.
A portrait of Lord Kelvin, now on ex-
hibition in London, has been criticised
because the eminent scientists costume
was of rather antiquated pattern. A
picture of Lord Kelvin stylishly attired
would not be true to life and would
hardly be recognized by the subject.
Many of his admirers have often won
dered how the old gentleman would
look in a fashionable suit of clothes.
There is little known record in the
war department which reads: "Medal
of honor to Arthur Macarthur for cool
ness and conspicuous bravery in ac-
ton in seizing the colors of his regi-
ment at critical moment and planting
them on the captured works on the
crest of Missionary Ridge, Tenn, No
vember 25, 1868, while serving as first
lieutenant and adjutant, Twenty-fourth
Wisconsin infantry"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-06-30
OFFICIAL MARRIAGE BUREAU.
The Government of France Furnishes
wives with DOwries to Its
COlOnists Abroad.

learn that practical steps are about
TO be taken by the authorities to pro-
mote the emigration to the colonies of
French women. A year or two ago this
matter was the object of private initia-
tive, but the results of number of pub
hc meetings and an energetic newspa-
per campaign seem to have been wholly
negative. The French colonist contin-
ues to complain that it, is almost i'm
possible for him to find wife of his
own race unless he makes the journey
home for the purpose, an expedient
that is often impracticable for colonists
OF the poorer class. This state Of things
has more especially attracted the at
tention Of Gen. Gallieni in Madagascar,
and the contemplated action of the gov
eminent is largely due, L understand,
to his urgent representations.
The projected scheme is to take the
shape of a central emigration office for
women, to be installed in Paris un-
der the auspices of the ministry of
the colonies. This central institution
will open a number of branch offices
throughout the country in the agri-
cultural districts as well as in the
towns, In this way an effort will be
made to bring home the beauties of
emigration and the eligibility of
colonial husbands to suitable young
women. Something more will be done
for them, however, than to give them
well-meant, if not quite disinterested,
advice. Approved candidates for ex-
patriation will be provided with trous-
seau and with small sum of money
to enable them to live for time after
landing. The state is also to give them
a free passage, and will aid them to
find employment. Whether 1t will car
ry its solicitude to the extent of pro-
curing them introductions to marriage
able young men is not stated. Each
trousseau is to cost about e12, and
some ga is to be allowed as pocket
money. To begin with, an annual ex-
penditure is contemplated of 1OO,OOOf.
&c 10000, a sum which will endow the
colonies with 200 presumably willing
brides.-Pall Mall Gazette.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-06-30

The test for determining the civiliZa-
tion of country, so far as this relates
to its industries, is the amount of iron
annually consumed by its people. The
American and the English people are
said to be the largest consumers of this
material, using it each year to the per
capita amount of about 300 pounds. A
few years ago the English per capita
consumption was larger than ours, but
recently we have forged ahead in this
respect, so that at the present time it is
probable that, relatively, we use some
what more than our English cousins,
while actually our consumption is
much larger because of our greater
population. But when these two ma
tions are taken out of the list of con-
sumers a sharp decline takes place, as
may be realized when it is said that
the worlds consumption is estimated
to run under, rather than over, 40
pounds per capita. In South America
the average is less than ten pounds per
capita, and in China and Central Asia
1T is probably less than pound per
capita, although the present construc-
ton of railway system through ST.
IBERIA by the Russian government has
added greatly to the apparent consump-
ton OF that district.-Boston Herald.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-06-30
THE REPoRTORIAL SCOOP.
How 1t Was Worked on a st. Louis
Scribe by n ConscienceIess
Contemporary.

A reporter named Jones on daily in
st. Louis was detailed to interview the
governor of another state, who had
slipped into the city on a secret political
mission, says the San Francisco Argo-
naut. He learned to his disgust that
jackson, the star reporter of rival
sheet, also proposed to call in an hour.
Acting on inspiration, he sent up card
bearing Jackson's name and was
promptly admitted. When he had
learned all he wanted he asked, with
gross intentional impudence, whether
the information was really true.
The governor turned purple. "D'y'
question my word ?" he asked.
ooh, don't get gay!" replied Jones
airily; common governors cut no ice
with my Office"
The old man foamed at the mouth.
"You insolent scoundrel," he roared,
"get out of my room!" That was ex-
actly what Jones wanted and he went.
Presently Jackson showed up. Here,
boy" he said, pompously, take my
card to the governor" When the old
man looked at the pasteboard he nearly
expired. "The blankety-blanked in
famous villain!" he spluttered. 81
never heard Of such blankety- -blanked
effronery in my life! Tell that 1nis-
creant if he or anybody else from his
Internal paper comes up here I'll kill
'em!" The word was carried to jack
son, who went away raving. Next day
the paper intimated the governor was
in town on bender. Jones' paper had
capital interview and big SCOOP"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-06-30
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
The length of kfe of tradesman is
,lv txUo-th birds TINT of a farmer

The length of kfe of tradesman is
rnly two-thirds that of a farmer.
Coils p. Huntington says that the
best way to become rich is not to talk
during business hours.
Pennsylvania coal mines are prepar-
ing to substitute compressed air for
mules as the motive power for the cars
in the underground workings,
During the first week in May 256,oO0
pounds of cedar wood were shipped
from Navarro county, Tex, to pencil
factories in Cincinnati and New York.
A fly so minute as to be almost in
visible ran three inches in half second,
and was calculated to make no less
than $40 steps in the time healthy
man could breathe once, A man with
a proportionate agility could run "a
miles in a minute.
In Vienna the typhoid rate of 1875
deaths per 10000 inhabitants fell to IL
after pure water supply was obtained.
In Dantzic it fell from 10 per 10000 to
1.5. In Munich, after the introduction
of a good water supply and proper sew
uBNi ALC ldlC It'll llOll 81 per 1O,OOO W
6.3; in Boston from ia per 10000 to
sc.
Sand stored in large tank from
which II can be sifted automatically to
any or all parts Of the building in such
a manner as to smother a fire effect
lively, is a new idea to be used In the
new telephone company's exchange at
Indianapolis, Ind. 1t is thought sand
will be less injurious to the electrical
apparatus than water or chemicals.
Water is a very good transmitter Of
sound. A scientist by the name of
Calladon made some experiments on
Lake Geneva, Switzerland, to demon
strate the power of sound to travel
long way in water. A clock was made
to strike under the water and was
heard to distance of 10 miles. In a
second experiment the striking of a
clock was heard to a distance of 27
miles.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-06-30
Might Get Tired.

Grandmama had been explaining to
the little girl how our earth is kept
from flying off into infinite space by
the attraction of the sun, which is con-
stantly trying to draw the earth toward
itself, while the latter always keeps it's
distance.
"Grandmamma," said the little girl,
II should think the sun would get dis
eouraged after awhile and let go."-De-
troit Free Press.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-06-30

"What might have been"--if that
little cough hadn't been neglected-is
the sad reflection OF thousands of con.
sumptives. One Minute Cough Cure
cures coughs and colds. e. @. Miller,
East End Pharm., 1920 e. Tuscarawas
ST.; Fred p. Shanafelt & Co., w. Tusca-
rawas St.; Fishers drug store, 435
East Tuscarawas st.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-06-30

Incontineuce OF water during sleep
stopped Immediately by DIR. Z Det-
chon's Anti Diuretic. Cures children
and adults alike. Price 90 Sold by
Durbin, Wright & Co., druggists, Cam
ton, o.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-06-30
Foolish Notion.

A great many men fail to become
orators, in the opinion of the Washing
ton Post, because they cling to the no
ton that they must say something
when they talk.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-27
STATE SUPREME COURT
Continued from Page Two.)

mandamus to the end that the rights
and privileges of both the plaintiff and
the defendant might be preserved and
enforced in conformity with the laws of
the society. Under such circumstances
in view of the provisions of the obhga-
ton to submit to arbitration, mandam-
us would seem to be the only remedy
at law available to the plaintiff, I'M
less indeed, the refusal or delay were
tainted with bad faith, of which the
record presents no evidence. But dis
cussion or decision of this question is
unnecessary. since there was evidence
tending to show rejection. The writ
ten report of the committee may posi-
bly, not have been a complete rejection;
it was, however, at least a qualified re-
lection or a failure or refusal to APP
prove at the time the report was made
for the reason therein stated, which
reason prevented favorable action On
the claim. In addition to the written re
port the committee orally rejected the
claim. such report and rejection were
communicated to Butte lodge No. l, by
which, on plaintiffs behalf, the notice
and proof of death had been sent to he
defendant and the inference is that she
was duly advised of the disallowances.
I'm excluding the offer to show that
plaintiff never demanded hearing or
ordered to submit her claim to the
board of arbitration, the court erred to
the prejudice of the defendant"
The court also reversed the case of
the state VS.. Martin Harrison, convict
ed of robbery in Silver Bow county.
The reversal is ordered because of the
refusal of the lower court to give, as
requested by counsel for Harrison, an
instruction to the jury upon the pre-
sumption of innocence. The court to-
day heard arguments upon Coad vs..
,anbert from RrOa 6watpr county, and
dismissed upon motion of Attorney G.
B. Wilson of Anaconda the case of
Claus Oldhauber VS.. J. T. Carroll COM
Dany.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-27

afternoon. The chamber of deputies was
thronged and there was great animation
at the opening of the session when 1t be-
came knSwS <shat@two hostile groups, the
socialist radicals and the democratic left,
had decideFto vote in favor of the gov
ernment ana that NJ. Paul De Cassagnac
had withdrawn his Interpolation.
Identical statements were read in the
chamber of deputies by the premier, M.
Waldeck- Rousseau. and in the senate by
the minister of justice, NJ. Monis. They
were as follows: -
THE chamber of deputies, in expressing
itself resolved not to support any govern
ment but the one determined to defend
theoretically republican institutions and
assure public order, has clearly defined
the task upon the new cabinet. The min
istry has no other ambition than to ac-
complish it."
The senate, by vote of 1S7 to % ap-
proved the declaration of the govern
ment.