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Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-04-08
More Court House.

There has been good deal of Court
House talk and the time is now ripe
for more than has been indulged in
heretofore. The Commissioners have
returned from their third trip of in
spection of Court Houses and sites and
should now be able to judge pretty ac-
curately what Is required in this coun-
ty in the shape of building for the
transaction of the county's business
and the keeping of records of such
transactions, as we'll as the provision
OF safe place wherein to keep the
few prisoners we have to take care of
from time to time.
They have seen a number of build
ings, some of which cost a great deal
more than we have to devote to the
purpose here and some of which did
not cost any more than the amount
which We propose to spend. Architects
innumerabie are anxious to submit
plans and drawings for the new build
ing and here are any number of good
locations for the building that are
both available and convenient.
The next thing in order to be done
by the Committee and Commissioners
Is to select site, and the reason that
this Is the next hing to be done is be-
cause that upon the cite for the build
ing great deal depends as to the nee
essary preparation of plans for the
building. The Ice Harbor lot would
require one kind of foundation while
the location on Quadranaou square
would require an entirely different
kind. Above the foundation there
would be necessary changes OF plan
also for the different locations, as
what would be the proper thing for
one would not be advisable or ever
suitable for the other.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-04-08
The Ohio EIe ctions.

The result of the April city and
township elections in Ohio, while gov
erned somewhat by local rather than
state or national issues, Is very graft
flying to the Republican party, for in
nearly every section Of the state where
selctions were held Monday, there were
marked Republican gains Cincinnati
has been changed from a Democratic
to Republican city, through a gain OF
$4,000. Columbus has elected a ReDub-
hcan Mayor for bhe first time in 12
years. In Cleveland the whole Repub-
hcan ticket, except Mayor McKisson,
who was a candidate for reelection,
was successful and the defeat of Nc.
Kisson is one of the most decisive Re
publican victories In the state. Il
was this political migrate who led the
legislative fight against Senator Han
ma, and incidentally against the nat
ional administrations fight that was
inspired by purely personal and fac
tional considerations and conspicuous
ly dlsloyal to party and to the best in
terests OF the state. The greatest vic
tories that parties achieve in personal
politics are those in which they repud-
late the men who assume that they are
bigger than their organization, and
who try to use the organization to
which they attach themselves simply
to further their personal ends.
The general gains of the Republican
party in Ohio are especially gratifying
because they indicate hearty support
of President Mckinley in his own
state-a compliment that is at once
pleasing and ignificant.-Kansas City
Journal
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-04-08
Washington Statue.

We are likely to have statue of
Washington as we'll as of Lafayette to
unvell in Paris on the Fourth of July,
900, for the Association of American
Women, which has been engaged for
several years in raising funds to pre-
sent one to the people of France In ex-
change for the Lafayette statue, which
stands in Jackson park in Washington,
has made contract with Daniel c.
French, the well-known sculptor, to
make an equestrian figure heroic size
with the understanding that it shall be
completed and ready for unwilling on
the day named. Mrs. Field, wife of
the associate justice of the Supreme
Court; Mrs. Hobart, wife of the vice
presinedt; Mrs. Mcmillan, wife of the
senator from Michigan, and Mrs.
Phoebe A. Hurst are the committee in
charge and have the cooperation of
many prominent women In different
parts of the country. A large portion
of the fund has already been raised,
but $4,000 more is needed, and an ap-
peal will soon be made for contrlbu-
tions from the patriotic women of
Ameriea.-Curtis in Chicago Record.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-04-08
A Blow To Radical Dress Reform

A London court has just rendered a
decision which strikes directly at rad
lcalism in dress reform.
Inc case which evoked the decision
was some what novel one. Lady
Harberton charged the landlady OF a
hotel with refusing to serve her be-
cause she was attired in boomers
TIL plaintiff asserted that she had
travelled 1000 miles in the costume and
had never before been subjected to
such an indignity. The defense Of
the landlady was that she had only re-
fused to serve Lady Harberton in the
coffee room, but would have served her
in private room. She also set up the
claim that her business would be ruin
ed il she were compelled to serve
women in bloomers.
Lady Harberton, who is treasurer of
the Rational Dress league, brought the
case with view of testing the righ $
of women to wear bloomers in public
places, and as the decision was against
her, 1t must be inferred that bloomers
can no longer be regarded as becoming
or proper costume to be worn by wom-
en- in public places in England. The
decision will no doubt be discouraging
to the league, but it is not at all likely
to lessen the zeal of the advocates of
rational dress.
The decision is interesting as show
ing the conservatism which exists in
England on the question of dress. The
right of woman to wear bloomers in
public places has neverbeen questioned
in this country. Many women object
to them because they are too mannish,
and it is improbable that they will
ever be generally worn, but we do not
believe the proprietor of any hotel in
this country would refuse to serve a
woman in the public dining room
merely because she wore bloomers.-
State Journal.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-04-08

The new star In the Democratic fir
mament that seems to have recently
appeared and Is now shining so bright
in the bourbon constellation is Mr..
Charles N. Haskell, OF Ottawa, Putnam
county. He is young lawyer who is
emulating the late Calvin S. Brice in
both railroad ethics and political pro-
gress. He has risen like meteor, but
has made his mark in northwestern
Ohio as well as Wall street, from
which he recently retired with
"bar'p not smaller than 81 900, 900. He
is the promoter of the Detroit, Lima
and Northern road and has been In
other railroad ventures with tremend-
GUS successes both in pocket and fame.
Many OF the staid old Democratic
weeklies of the Thirty and
Thirty-third Senatorial districts are
advocating Mr.. Haskell's nomination,
while the journals of Putnam, ,Auglaize
Allen and other counties are giving
this railroad magnate a boom.--Ohio
State Journal.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-04-08
The Spring Cleaning Microbe.

First the spring hat, and then comes
the spring housekeeping.
A mere man wonders why his wom-
ankind take these things so seriously.
He admits an element of reason in the
hat, as a tastefully-dressed wife fiat
ters his judgment, but why the annual
upheaval OF the lares and penates Just
when the millinery bills are being
pressed? Surely, one of these things is
enough at a time
Is 1t a spring microbe that effects the
eternal feminine, as the rose fever its
victim as soon as the roses bloom? Or
is it just heritage handed down from
generations of notable housewives
who yearly upset their households for
an ultimate good?
A newwoman housekeeper, who has
all sorts of clubs and societies for
ameliorating all sorts of things, pro-
tests that it's just AN antediluvian sur
vival-this sspring cleaning. She con-
tends that with rugs all over the house
and method in management there is
no need Of turning everything upside
down, making the family miserable
and "frazzling,, ones nerves every
spring and fall.
Eternal vigilance" is her motto and
not two spasms of virtue a year. 1t
nartainlv docs cnund nracttoahla and
comfortable to man.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-04-08

Bryan's Democratic National Com
mite is now without collector, Coin
Harvey having closed his accounts and
sent in his resignation. The post was
arduous the returns were slim; rota-
ton in Office Is recognized Democrat
ic principle; one must get out some
time; so Harvey gauged his departure
to the low-water mark of the nilome-
ter registering the inflow of campaign
funds. There is no suspicion that he
has robbed bhe till, and he drops back
into the ranks with no stain on his
character and no change in his pockets
or principles.-New York Tribune.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-04-08
The Serious Chinaman.

A recent traveller in China has
something to say of John Chinaman
that may we'll fill the hearts of all
Americans with envy. He remarks
that John never seems to get tired or
nervous. He can write all day, work
all day, stand in one position all day.
weave, beat gold, carve ivory, do in
deftely tedlouse jobs for ever and
ever, and experltN Nee no more weari-
ness and irritation than If he were a
machine. This quality apears in early
life. There are no restless, naughty
boys in China. They are all appalling
ly good, and will plod away In school
wi,nout recess or play OF any kind.
The Chlnaman can do without exer-
else. Sport or play seems to him SO
much waste of labor. He can sleep
anywhere-amid deafening nproar. on
the ground, or in any posltion.-Phil-
adelphla Inquirer.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-04-08
Marion Crawford or. the Poue,

Mr.. Marion Crawford, the novelist,
thus describes Leo XIII in an article
in the April outlook:
Notwithstanding a popular pro-
phecy concerning the reigns of the
Popes which predicted that he was to
live at least twenty years after his
election, 1t was not generally expected
that he would have long reign.
People forgot the remarkable physical
strength which had been his as a
young man, and which was much due
to the vigorous stock from which he
sprang as to the fact that he was born
and bred in the healthy air Of theVol-
scian Mountains, and had been both a
sportsman and athlete. Before he was
seventy he was already unusually thin
and transparently pale; but he was still
perfectly erect; he had, believe,
never suffered any serious illness; he
was still so active that younger men
had difficulty in keeping pace with him
when he walked, while he himself
needed so little rest that he frequently
ate his meals standing, by mouthfuis,
rather than wholly interrupt the
writing he was doing at another table;
and he rarely If ever slept more than
five hours during the night. He has
the excessively bright eyes which gen.
orally denote one of three sorts Of tai
ent-military, financial or literary.
Possibly he possesses something of all
three, but his superiority as man of
letters and financier cannot be ques-
toned. His speech is unhesltatlng
rather than fluent, impressive rather
than persuasive, and his manner Is at
once authoritive and very formal. He
neither invites confidence or gives 1t
easily; and yet nothing in his conver-
sation suggests the idea Of diplomat
ic choice of truths, for If he consents
to speak on any subject at al he treats
it with the frankness of one willing
that all should know his opinions, but
also with the dignity of one who
claims that all shall respect them,
whether agreeing with him or not"
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-04-08
An Important oueslion.

II your friends or ueiShbors are suffering
from coughs. colds. sore throat, or any throat
hem Il they have ever used OttO's Cure This
tmohs German remedy is having large sale
hece ana is performing some wonderful cures
4 throat and lung diseases. No matter what
osher medicines have failed 70 do try OttO's
ure. Large sizes Ac and Soc SOLD by all
ruggists.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-04-08
Cheap Excursion to Columbus.

The 2. & o. R. will run a cheap ex-
cursion to Columbus at $40O for the
round "trip, good going any day from
April A to April II. Returning until
April "a inclusive. CAN at Union De-
pot or Front street Office for particu-
lars
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-04-08

Ordinary household accidents have
no terrors when there's bottle of DR..
Thomas Bclectric Oil in the medicine
chest Heals burns, cuts, bruises,
sprains. Instant relief.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-04-08
[. A. w. Notes,

- NJ W. NOt6St
League repair shopsappointed-ICan-
al Dover. Edmund Weber; Dayton,
Nelbaus q Dohse, Forrer and Schaffer,
William Hall, @. w. Schroyer Co.;
Middletown, Geo. W. Townsend.
The Phillips has been appointed the
League hotel in Dayton.
Starbuck, the American middle dis
tance performer, is racing In Italy.
George A. Banker, the worlds mile
champion, is also in Italy, but now
resting for the coming campaign.
Banker will return to America this
year to defend his title as the worlds
championship meeting ait Montreal,
and he will also probably ride at the
Ohio state meet at Canal Dover, on
July and g.
On the subject of good roads Andrew
Carnegie says:
Only one who has coached and
Travelled year after year through Eu-
rope can estimate the advantages that
would flow from similar roads in our
country. 1t would really change the
conditions of life in the rural and ag-
ricultural districts. This is the kind
of work that justifies the issue of
bonds, IL necessary, to secure 1t. 1t is
false economy to delay such work and
I wish you success to the fullest ex-
tent
A new l.. A w. club has been or
ganized at Columbus:
A measure intended to deny wheel
men their just rights on the road has
meen defeated in the Wisconsin legis-
lature at the instance of F. r. Van
Valkenburgh, the League s chief con-
sui in that state. With League officials
alive to wheelmens' interests, there is
little liability of success for obnoxious
legislation in these days.
The cycle path measure has become
a law in New York Governor Roose-
welt having attached his signature to
the bill.
HTf iha rNroofiaal 1xy
League" says President Keenan,, may
be mentioned the prosecution of very
many cases in which the rights of
wheelmen were sought to be invaded.
The passage of the so-called Liberty
Bill by the New York legislature is a
case in point. Wheelmen are not al
lowed Ito ride in New York parks nor
on the boulevards. In that city there
was no where else to ride. We made
test case and carried it through the
lower courts to the Supreme Court.
We were beaten; $4,000 spent and
nothing gained. We went to the legis-
lature and got new law. This was
uoue dilcr uuCu lduOT anu great ex-
pense. The Liberty Bill was framed
and pushed through by officers OF the
r. A. w. This measure, in brief, pro-
vides that no laws nor local restric-
tions shall be enacted against the use
of the wheel in the State of New York,
that are not equally applicable to vehi-
cles drawn by horses. New York
wheelmen reaped the advantages ac-
cruing to an extent not anticipated.
Central Park was Immediately opened
and now the wheel has rights with the
carriage in that state. In several 9TH
er states we have obtained similar bills
The Ohio Division offers reward of
$25 for the arrest and conviction of
each thief who steals the wheel of a
League member. This constitutes on
the bicycle of members of the division.
L. A. w. membership blanks can be
secured by addressing Secretary W. H.
Chubb, 81 Bell avenue, Cleveland, o.
TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-04-08

Take DIR. BulI's Cough Syrup for al
thoao dangerous Affections severe coils
Dieufiay and grippe,-wbich FAN and Winter
bring along. It's the greatest cure for bron
chitis and all throat and lung affections
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-04-08
SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 1899.

Hotel men accomplishing that busl-
ness is taxing them severely to furnish
rooms for the trade.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-04-08

DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup, the peoples
friend, has been 10 use over fifty years 1t
ures the sevsrest affections OF the throat and
ungs; such as, bronchitis, grippe laryngitis
and tncipient consumption, Price only 25
,ents bottle
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-04-08
BUSINESS LOCALS.

ES If you have an Old Line Life Insur-
ance Policy to sell at a good price, call on
or address S. ii. PIumer, Marietta, Ohio.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-04-08

SSGooD COW for SALE three-fourths Jer-
sey. Will be fresh OIL. Call IA W Washington
Street, Mlrietta, Ohio
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-04-08

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Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-04-08

A lazy liver makes lazy man.
Burdock Blood Bitters is the natural,
never failing remedy for lazy liver.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-04-08

az FOR RENT barn with four stalls
two granaries, harness room, carriage ROOM
and large hay loft Call at $40 Front street.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-04-08

TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
ruggists refund the money II 1t fails to cure
2jc. The genuine has L. b. Q on each tablet
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-04-08

13S- FOR RENT new room house
good lot and good stable sl2.5O per month In,
Curtis's Addition Call on J. P. Ward, Mills
Building, Putnam Street.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-04-08

eB-FoR RENT-G Good Pasture. Enquire
500 Butler Streetr
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-04-08

L. A. w. membership blanks can be
secured by addressing Secretary W. H.
Chubb, 81 Bell avenue, Cleveland, o.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-04-08

The Ohio Division offers reward of
$25 for the arrest and conviction of
each thief who steals the wheel of a
League member This constitutes on
the bicycle of members of the division.
The Globe-republican., 1899-02-23

The Wetternsee, in Sweden, like so
many other lakes. has long enjoyed
The local reputation of being bot
tomless pit The Swedish scientists
have now destroyed the venerable leg
end, for in the measurements taken a
few days ago they have successfully
demonstrated that the greatest depth
of the lake is only 119 meters. There
still remains, however, series of mys-
tories which science must be >coatent
to leave unsolved-at least, for q
time. It is not only legendary be-
lief but there is quasi-scientific
ground for the queer superstition that
living creatures. animal and vegetable.
can and do make journeys to and fro
between the high northern lake of
Wettern and the south German lake
of Constance.
This bold conclusion has been part
" justified by the appearance CO ex-
actly the same fauna and even Of the
same animal life in the Swedish and
the Swabian inland seas. 1t is even
asserted that whenever there is a
storm on the Lake of Constance the
Lake of Wettern begins sympathetic
ca.ly to roll and swell. and that the
southern lake is similarly moved by
any agitation in the distant northern
lake.-Kleine-Zeitun
The Globe-republican., 1899-02-23
Flowers for Easter.

Everyone likes to have flowers at
Easter. and one Of the easiest methods
of securing them is the planting OF
bulbs that can be made to bloom in
doors.
The bulb which is of easiest cul-
ture and is surest to bloom is the Chin
csc sacred lily, provided you procure
large, strong bulbs. The small. cheap
bulbs will sometimes give no flowers,
nothing but leaves. says Wisconsin
Horticulturist. Peel your bulb-that
is. remove all the dark skin-then
place 1t in a rather shallow dish. and
put into the dish enough pebbles and
gravel or coarse sand to hold the bulb
firmly in position. so that the roots
will not push it out cf place when they
begin to grow. Fill the dish nearly
full Of lukewarm water. and set 1t IN
q warm, dark closet for q few days.
then remove to q sunny window. When
the pebbles-Me put in the dish bit1
of charcoal should be scattered freely
among them to keep the water pure
The Globe-republican., 1899-02-23
'lD N LONDON '.G|1T" 1HATS WORTH UNTOLD MILLIONS

in. and they are decreasing annually in
number. At night there are nearly
5000 vacant buildings in this richest
place on earth. In daytime it is popu-
lated by nearly half a million persons.
and temporarily occupied or visited by
some 9OO, 900 more-all this on a patch
Of ground a mile and half long and
less than a mile wide It is scarcely
any wonder that land prices have be-
gun to soar in the congested spot. es-
pecially as the relief afforded to tho
crowded places Of New York and Chi
cago-the sky-scraper-is denied by
law to London. In consequence one
finds corporations rated at millions do
ing business in one dingy floor. with
clerks huddled together like school,
boys. under gas lights that burn all
day long. But even with this economy
Of space the demand for room is in
creasing. until it seems as If this tiny
city within city would burst before
long, or else take two day and night
shifts, two firms occupying the same
quarters at different times If the day.
Yet with all this phenomenal crowd
ing, no one dreams of abrOgating the
law against high buildings. A London
banker to whom l suggested this REM
edy was so astouned at such audac-
The Globe-republican., 1899-02-23

at the corner of Broad and Wall
streets in New York on land Of which
apart cost $3.50 square foot-and more
than a quarter of a century ago at
that. But that was, of course. an ar
tificial price. The land was 50 neces-
sary for the Drexel building that the
owners could charge about what they
liked for it. Judged by such transac-
tions, London is ahead, for Lombard
street clearinghouse is said to have
paid on one occasion $500 square foot
for little patch of land on their
street They had to have it. whatever
the price, and paid accordingly.
1t is one-story building that stands
on the dearest land in London. There
isn't a window in the building, al
though the structure spreads itself
lavishly over four acres of ground, and
it is as ugly as a grimy old stone sar-
cophagus could be. 1t is occupied by
''the old lady of Threadneedle street, -
the Bank of England, and, although
the actual value of the land on which
it rests is estimated at $2S,00O,0O0 it
couldn't be bought for all Of the $780,
OO0, 900 of sterling in gold and silver
which sleep in the banks gloomy
vaults, like the Rhinegold.
Hard to Make an Estimate.
1t is about as difficult to put an es-
innate on land in the city proper as it
is to say how much the Queen should
charge for her crown if she wanted TO
sell it. Not an inch Of available land
is left from the Temple to the Tower,
and there have been practically no
sales In late years except one in Lom-
bard street at the rate of $5,0OO,OO0 an
acre-rather less than $12O a square
The Globe-republican., 1899-02-23
Qondon Letter.)

One would naturally suppose that
the highest priced land in the world
would be in the worlds largest city.
and have just been surprised by the
results of inquiry on the subject
apropos of the fact that conservative
DID London is having a quiet but vast
real estate boom in its innermost
'miSst.'
Prices of land in the center of the
little city Of $4,000 inhabitants, which
is the real city of London, about which
the worlds metropolis sprawls, and
which has its own separate govern
ment, have doubled and in some in
stances tripled in the last four years;
ret today the most valuable plot of
ground in the heart Of this wonderful
little city is estimated to be worth
only about 100000 an acre, or $3.50
square foot. whereas ]. Pierpont
Morgan 'remorganizes" his railroads