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The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-03-28
FIRED BEFWEEN,sAcTS.
A Dry Chap Has His Engagement
Ring Returned for Co z-rar,
; fs-t-. -a ing Out .f

1t did not take place in the city of
Washington, because no man in Wash
ington leaves a lady alone while he
goes out between the acts at theater-
unless it be his wife, and, of course, that
doesn't count. But it did occur, and the
site of its occurrence is not west of the
Alleghenies, where, according to some
eastern thinkers, all the peculiar occur
rences occur.
The man in the case was perhaps 80,
the girl %, and the theater was one in
which the melodrama has its home.
The girl was pretty and there was that
kind of a jaw hedging the lower part
of her rosy cheeks that ought to have
been a hint to the young man. The
young man was a very fair sample of
the average chap who makes $1,000 to
$1,500 year.
Between them and the aisle sat big
man Of so and his wife and two daugh-
tiers, and the big man had a voice big
ger than he was. When the curtain
went down on the first act there was
slight scrap between the couple,
which ended in the young man not go
ing out between the first and second
acts, because the wait was short and he
hadn't time to argue. The girls cheeks
were redder than before when the cur
tain went up and the set of her jaw
was firmer. '''-e" le2a7 d7tu
At the next fall of the curtain there
was slight scrap again, which ended
this time in the young man dragging
himself over four people, and leaving
tie girl to sit alone until he was ready
/ to come back to her. Two minutes later
the girl dragged herself after him, over
the same four people, but she stopped
thing to the big man with the two
daughters. Then she disappeared. 1t
was long wait and just as the curtain
started up the young man hurried
down the aisle, and was about to drag
himself over the four people when the
big man called his attention to the va
cancy which had occurred during his
absence. The young mans jaw
dropped, and he actually grew red in
the face. The big man handed him
a ring with q bright little diamond
glistening in it. +7- lul utH,s Htsa
"She gave me that and told me to give
It to you," he said, with menace in
his tone, as he looked over at his own
girls, "and she said if you ever came
to her house again or spoke to her her
father would thrash you as you de.
served" The young man was para.
| lyzed. 4'a tEa zoo sle.
Sand I want to say" added the big
| man, "that If the old man amt able
| to do it he can call on me-" ,..-l5.'
Then he let the young man go, and
the way he went was a caution to q
flying machine. 1t was a clear case
of ships that pass in the night, but
with just little more interesting car
goes than usua1.-Washingt Star.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-03-28

Mr. VIM Wapole, of Walshtown S. D., says: GA
little botch about the size of pea came under my left
eye gradually growing larger from which shooting pains
at intervals in all directions became greatly alarmed
and consulted good doctor who pronounced it Cancer
and advised that it be out but this could
sent to. read in my local paper of effected by
s. s., and decided to try it, 1t acted like charm the
Cancer becoming at first rritated, and then dschargng
very freely This gradually less and then discon-
tnued altogether leaving small scab which soon drop
what threatened to destroy my life held full sway
Positively the only for Cancer is Swfts Specific
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-03-28
THE SERFS' LIBERTY.
Emancipation Meant Much to the
4.o Downtrodden Peasant of
Russia.

One evening our village priest found
a middle-aged peasant, Anton Save
lief, reading book of psalms, says
Prince Kropotkin. He was reading a
psalm of which each verse began with
the word REJOICE" 5..s- 5.,.,,s I'D.
"What are you reading?" he was
asked.
"Well, father, will tell you," was his
reply. fourteen years ago the old
prince came here. 1t was in the win
ter. I had just returned home, almost
frozen. A snowstorm was raging.
had just begun undressing, when we
heard knock at the window; it was
the elder who was shouting: Go to the
prince; he wants YOU We all - my
wife and our children-were thunder
stricken.
"'What may he want from you? my
wife began to cry. I signed myself
with the cross and went; the snow
storm was binding me as I crossed the
bridge. Well, it ended all right. The
old prince was taking his afternoon
sleep, and when he woke up he asked
me if knew plastering work, and only
| told me; Come tomorrow to repair
the plaster in that room So went
home quite happy, and when came tc
that bridge found my wife standing
there. She had stood there, all the time
with the baby in her arms, in the snow
storm, waiting for me. What has hap
pened, Savelich?' she cried. WELL
said, mo harm; he only asked me te
make some repairs That was, father
under the old prince. And now the
| young prince came here the other day
I went to see him, and found him in the
garden, at the tea table, in the shadow
of the house; you, father, sat with him
and the elder Of the canton, with hi
mayors chain upon his breast. Will
| you have tea, Savelich?' he asks me;
take a chair 'Petr Grigorief' - he
says that to the old one-'give us one
more chair And Petr Grigorieff-
know what terror for us he was wher
he was the manager of the old prince
brought the chair, and we all sat round
the tea table, talking, and he poured tes
for all Of us. Well, now, father, tht
evening is SO beautiful, the balm come.
from the prairies, and I sit and read
Rejoice! Rejoice!'"
This is what the abolition Of self
dom meant for the peasants.-Atlantic
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-03-28

Gan Ideal Scene Near Peekskill, N. "
would enable the government to "un-
dertake a very comprehensive system
of road building" If an amount equal
to that now paid for pensions, say $780,
OOO, 900, were expended annually on the
roads, it would cost the entire popula-
ton but two dollars each, and "a county
covering, say, 500 square miles, with
population of $4,000, would receive an
nually for the building of roads $50, 600.
This continued for ten years would
grade, macadamize and gravel every
road in an average county of this area.
-. Is there single person now using
the highways of the country, or whose
business is in any way affected by the
traffic on the highways, who would not
be willing to pay as much for good
roads as he now pays for the war with
Spain?
"The revenue bill passed by the last
session of congress, in order to raise
funds for carrying on the war, prom
ises to yield much larger income than
will be needed for war expenses. Broad
ly stated, it may be said that the peo-
pie of the country do not feel these war
taxes, and if this bill should be contin-
ued in effect, and the surplus revenue
to the extent of, say. $3.50, ,O00. 900 year
be voted to the improvement of the
roads throughout the country, the ag-
ricultural interests of every section
would be revolutionize6, farm life would
hecoma p0nular and a vast upward
movement would be given to every
phase and feature of the business, so
cial and educational life of America"
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-03-28

I have read in the Jersey Bulletin
quite discussion Of, and many differ
ent remedies to prevent, cows sucking
themselves. While have never had
any trouble of that kind, 1 have in my
mind the most humane thing think
could be done for COW with such q
habit, and know it would be sure
preventive. That is to simply encircle
the udder in a duck or drilling sack,
strapped on over the rump and back.
Such sack could be made to button
up and unbutton when milking, with
out taking it off, and could also be fas-
tened on by COW cover to keep off
flies in summer and keep the COW warm
in winter, and the COW would always
be clean for milking. This is easy to
try and I have no patent on its. P.
Hawkins, in Prairie Farmer.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-03-28
WIDE TIRE TESTIMONY.
Here IL Some Which Comes All the
Way from Australia, and II
Quite Convincing.

Testimony on the value of wide tires
comes from all sections Of the globe.
A correspondent of a paper in Sydney
describes road In which heavily
wagons with narrow tires sank "half-
spoke deep, and in places to their wheel
hubs" and yet load of five tons car
ried on six-inch tires sank but two to
four inches in the worst places. In dry
weather, he says, the roads are cut up
by narrow tires until the dust is foot
deep, and then the rain will not make
the dust set hard again.
Agood material for roads Is gravel,
'but no gravel loads Of ten and twelve
tons on three and four inch tires. An
experienced teamster will not speak
about the tonnage his team can draw.
He will say: 4 think the road will carry
five tons or more, as the case might be.
I have heard road superintendent say
that enormous sums of money could be
saved annually If broad tires were used.
The only objection I have heard raised
against the wide tires l. that they do
not fit into the ruts cut by the narrow
ones, which makes the draught heavier
upon the team. That 10 partially true,
but the ruts would not be cut If all
the wagons had wide tires. Portable
engines varying from six to eight horse
power and weighing five tons and over
are drawn by lighter teams than wag-
ons which, with their loads, would not
weigh more This is owing to the broad
tires already used on engines. The ash
pans on engines are seldom more than
about ten inches from the ground, but,
owing to the wide tires, these engines
seldom bog deep enough to allow the
pans to touch the ground" - North
American Horticulturist,
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-03-28
AII SHOULD work Together.

"Good roads assist in making pros
perity for farmers. Prosperous farm
ers bring prosperity for cities. Pros
porous cities and farming districts,
when coincident, mean happy people,
healthy people-healthy because hap
py. A happy and healthy people is the
goal of existence. Good roads are a
great force in reaching the goal.
Therefore all classes should assist in
securing them"
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-03-28
GOVERNMENT ROADS.
Their Construction EloQuent1y Urged
for Social, Business and Edu-
catiOnal Reasons.

The argument that it is the duty, and
within the province, of the gen
eral government to undertake road
building quite as much as internal inn
provements is not frequently advanced.
1t has recently been brought forward
by Col. j. B. Killebrew, of Nashville,
who says some interesting things about
it.
In the first place he claims that the
undertaking would be proper one, as
the constitution permits the construc-
tion of post roads," and this he thinks
may be construed 80 as to include all
roads made for carrying mails" which
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-03-28
A Small L..~S ~SP01
MAY Be CANCER.
lost VIOLENT CASES HAVE

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UHOIO HAfE scratch which
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The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-03-28
S. S. s. FOR THE BLOOD

the remedy which enough reach the
nothing its place.
Rheumatism
lSwi SntHc Comm lanta a.Georgia
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-03-28

The superiority of our Flour has long been
conceded. 1t combines good strength with
rich color and uniform quality, and stands
unrivalled. We are always in the market for
milling wheat in any quantity.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-10-29
IMMENSE SUPPLY
OF INDIAN NAMES.
GOVERNMENT hook OF STATISTICS
CONTAINS 4 GREAT AMOUNT OF
VALUABLE DATA.
Numbers OF the Tribes Estimated At
ESQ. oaO-inctc sam Maintains
schools for Education OF
AbSriEtncs.

% EEKERS for Indian names are re-
~ ferred for detailed information To
~ the statistics ~ Indian Tribes.
Indian Agencies ami Indian schools" for
fsa issued by the government printing
office This handbook gives the names OF
seyeftv-one Indian agencies ami so tribes.
with statistics of 80 schools. .nci,taing
agency day schools. independent day
schools reservation boarding schools and
nanre servati0u boarding schools.
The Indian population. summing tho
agency totals. which range from Sss in the
Sax and Fox agency Ia Iowa - 71,0lS IN
The Union agency. Indian territory. Is near
" e5Aea The estimated value OF Indian
school plants - s2.562 .el. nearly 100000
representing schools on reservations.
the parlor car companies and the apart
ment house builders have still big fund
If names. euphonotls and otherwise. 20
draw from, although. in running down the
list {, IS seen that there are limits TO the
selection II Indian names No one. for
instance. would want to live In the Two
Kettle Sioux apartments. and some OBJ
lection might he made 10 names Ike Win
lheeoShish, HumptuIips and Muckleshoat.
but there are many Pot;axatomse. MARI
copa Menomonee. Nomelackie. Pembina,
Piankeshaw, Shoshone. Tonklwa and Wy
isckla. which. II ;hey 10 not appeal 20 the
manners Of parlor cars and apartment
houses ought 20 help those American
horse owners who name their thorough
bretis by fantastic and inane systems.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-10-29
ALAskA's COD FISHERIES.
Experiments In Northern Waters
Are Great Financial Successes.

Not until within a few years have the ex-
tensiye Goldfish grounds off the Coast II
Alaska attracted much attention. OF late
years, vessels sent from San Francisco and
AnacOrtes. Wash, have met with great
success. and already a number CT wealthy
firms have Il large amount Of capital in
vested in this industry Al these places.
These Goldfish banks cover an area Of ie-
645 square miles. and are only exceeded in
extent ~ the grand banks OF Newfound-
land They lie ten 10 forty miles of the
Alaska coast. The schooner Vanderbilt, OF
San Francisco Cal. OF a recent voyage.
In one month caught $3.50 Goldfish (equal
10 our 2"o quintals) at Bristol bay Alas
ka. These fish measured IL length from -
to 81 inches.
These Alaska Goldfish banks are now WIS.,
tied by California fishery craft at all sea-
sons OF the year, where they fish during
the winter months. the climate being much
milder IN the North Pacific than the same
ATTITUDES in the Atlantic ocean.
The British Columbia people are only
now just beginning 10 realize what an in
exhaGstible mine Of wealth they nave close
at hand. which, If properly developed. must
pat the kIondike in the shade. and. in
time, far exceed the extensive salmon fish
cries Of British Columbia. With some of
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-10-29

NheFe was one difference between our
own ana tie American railway system
winch would strike every Traveller there.
ne used at one time o. his life - he
very o'fen IL America, and he Used 20
snaeayoT-he would recognize II now as a
- Nit'hs4 enaeaVor-to carry ont the raral-
iei between institutions ot Great Britain
dhG S3ch institutions Of the United States
as had been In SINE degree derived from
muse % Freat Britain. He was very hard
DAt 70 II To- find an aristocrarv IN me
tinted states. They did no, like ar!sto-
cfdtS' they did not mind plutocrats. hui,
i4s soon found that there vas an aris-
"~Facy IN the United States. an ariztoc-
faFE so exalted that The proslsiest members
~ cur afsiorracy here could hardly com
pare with them-he meant the railway
presidents OF the United States He rarra
10 tHe conclusion, after some study and
observation. and with much erati.u9..-f.r
ne experienced much Kindness ar their
hands-tEat railway president was lit
re more tnan the equivalent OF an Eng
hsh duke U4augh;er) They had = royyer
which appeared 10 an observer 4ir7as.
oespotic: they Travelled In a styIe ana in
private chariots 10 which no English Sui,e
could aspire. and they exercised a control
wfich, 50 far as he knew. VAS unnarai-
ieied In this country. Humble and demo-
cratic as his tastes were, he preferred IA.
BRUSH form of director and chairman
tCBeffs. p London Times
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-10-29

the worlds largest fish markets. such as
South and Central America Japan, China
ard Australia. all within quick and cheap
steamship tran spor-atlon of British Column
6ia, az Industry is now IN sight for that
province the wealth AZ which expert Will
Be mB.ious u dollars IN the near future.
To. enc obstacle . the development If
the dry FISH export trade from the Pacific
coast IL the past mas heen he difficulty
ard cost OF drying Goldfish IN the ordinary
manner owing "a the humidity az the cli-
mate on the Pacific coast
This can now be overcome by the use Of
Wht'man's patent 1sh drying process,
waich has already beer put in operation
y he Alaska Codnsh Company.
At 4 meeting held At the Board
- Ttads rooms Victoria. II. G. OF Sep
ternber Is last a gentleman well Known II
TIA city ~ aeiDg thoroughly conversant
with the NsAing industry on the Pacific
and Atlantic, Nj George Marsh. ot Ma
nsimo. n g. stated ma, ~ had for years
advocated Ire development of the North
Pacific Geep sea cod1Shery. the great i'm
IcrIanee ~ which was not ToptYly appre-
cisfef in British Columbia There Is no
question" ~ said. AS % the supply Of
Co<insh Ire f~h are 90 these banks IN al
most l,.sxAaa sE1t.s quantities. and as good
quality A. those on tAe North Atlantic SEA
eNAT3. while JaYao. CAirs Central and
south America and Australia will take all
" ran ser; them a. rcrnuaerative prices.
s. tee Quest!ar 81 markets need roy srou-
l5e -
A. fht< meeting II Vas resolved ara a
COMMITTEES WAS appointed - az orce or
sargxs "a 3si1f stock company = operate
fssa-d-Ytug establishment; 81 Victoria ~
fhe whitman rrocess--AnaaaoIi sgecta-
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-10-29
FIGHT BLASTED CAREER.
Indian Lost His Nose In n Melee ana
Gave Jp His Ambition.

Edward OShawano was the name, not
o. a descendant OF Irish kings. but OF
noted Indian chief. who has Just passed
away at his home on Sugar island. near
this place Sometimes O'Shawano was
called the Indian Chesterfield with the
Wax Nose" For he had n wax nose. His
own original nose was ohewed OF In
fight.
Yet notwithstanding the bright ana
Youthful tendencies which led him into IL.
oShawano was quite entitleN TO his name
Of tho Indian Chesterfield. lie was polish
81 and courteous In speech. tigni'ed In
hearing and always faultlessly dressed.
His language was excellent and clearly in
Dictated the good education he had For.
notwithstanding his father and mother
were full blooded Indians. Edward In MS
youth was one OF the brightest students
In tho Detroit public schools and after
wards In Albion college
IIis natural qu'ckness as boy and his
ambition 10 live "a white men DO drew at
ten.inr 20 him. and the Rev. Mr.. A. NJ.
Leach AMI II. G. Fitch. ~ Detroit became
his 1atrnns and helped him on. After leav-
ing Albion college no read law. and II was
expected he would make his mark at tho
bar But unfortunately ~ this epoch III hls
career he got into terrible light over
game Of cards with deckhands IN the
steamer Duhuqpc OShawano had taken
and held for a time In the Ice on st.
Nary'p river The game az cards began
20 while away the time. and one az Tho
deckhanas In the course ~ n dispute struck
O'ShanwanC in the face. The latent cav
ago i'm his blood broke loose nj this. ard
the Indian ran for 4 bowie knife, with
which he rnurferously attacked his assai'-
ant In she melee that followed pSha-
wano's nose was chewci on
Always tnor,lnstely proud ~ his person
ei an-earanco Ms Disagreement quite broke
his spirit From that time on he lived ne
Ne ~ a wandsrer but making his homo
often on lonely Sugar island. lie got
wax nose made ami Il fairly well conceal
81 MS afHagure r7eut hut o'Shawano never
reraire, hig lou; ambition. He vas 81
years oii when ~ fief
O'Shawau0's sister became the wife ~
Judge 7 T. Shtpman ~ Detroit who ala
all he could for he indian hrother~fn law.
fsut The lost nose meant q lost career FOR
the proud spirited F1wafd and M 'niu-
enc. could restore his olf spirit. He was
tho u = uotaa ouh@sy chief -Sa'iite
Sc. Marie special g. New York world.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-10-29
Lights His Nest With Etref1tcs.

Many birds suspend their nests from Tho
branches Of trees. one ~ the most curious
nests % that kind being that OF the caya
bird IN India Il is hung from the hTanca
with It's opening n the bottom. and hangs
like an inverted hottie. so as 20 he sec re
from The approach II tree snakes and other
reptiles The most curious thing about the
haya bird Is that Il Is said 10 light UT its
nest by sticking firefies on Its sides win
clay or soft mud. There SENS 20 be lttle
doubt OF the fact. Dg. Buchanan says: AT
night each of the habi!ations ia lighted IN
BY a FREELY stuck on the top with piece q
clay. The nest consists ~ TWO rooms.
sometimes there are three or four firefites.
and their blaze in the little cells dazxles
the eyes OF bats. which often destroy
the young OF these birds" Perhaps other
animals are scared of hy the haya bird 8
electric light. since writer IN Nature re-
cords this curious observation: II have
been Informed on safe authority that the
Indian bottle bird protects his ues. at night
by sticking several - these glow beetles
around the entrance by means OF clay:
and only Il few days back an intimate
friend u my own was watching three rats
on n roof rafter Of his bungalow: when a
glowfly lodged very close 20 them the rats
inlnle diately scampered ofY."-Our Animal
Friends
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-10-29
IMMENSE GROWTH
OF UNITED STATES.
EVIDENCE on EVERY SIDE OF
ASTONISHING NATIONAL
EXPANSION.
Material Wealth of the Country
Will Soon Equal That of Ger
many, Russia. Austro-Hun-
gary, Italy Combined.
TT is expected that the new census viii

n T is expected that the new census vii
H reveal the fact that the people, aside
- from me islands. number .5oreuso
souls. and the other fact that she material
wealth Of the country Will foot up quite
81. 01oo1o.1o. II this last Is realized. It
Will mean a capital equal 10 thai OF Ger
many. Russia, Austro-HungaTy and Italy
Compined.
Contemplating that the foreign states
men Will note that tor several decades The
wealth and people OF this country increased
al the rate Of per cent. per annu2. hal
The last two decades the increase has eX
cee9ed > per cent. and that at only l
per cent for the next generation, OF thir
ty-thTee years. il will mean. at the md
Of mat time, more than li00,a. 0sr Of people.
and more than one hundred and ten bill
liens OF wealth. Those two items are what
trouble the world. especially the last one.
What can stem such progress rs tina. -
and as they ask the question, a creepy
feeling comes over them which prompts tee
other question. What II that power IN an
aggressive way undertakes 10 dominate the
world?" The answer is in our flag and
what II represents. There is no power that
nee is TO fear the United States.
AZ the same time there will have to be
expansion A continent lies to the south
which needs roads and cities and bridges
be subdued and cultivated great mines to
be opened ana a mighty commerce 70 he
awakened and carried on. And the great
republic at least the spirit OF the great
republic. and the sons Of tho great repub-