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The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1899-1900, 1899-03-29

In our next issue, the first week in April, we
shall commence series of personal sketches Of
people well known in Wellington. We shall open
the entertainment with sketch of the very first
subscriber Of the ENTERPRISE. Look out for this
as il viii be interesting.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1899-1900, 1899-03-29

OVRR in Ashland they have spelling bees at their
church socials. This relic of by gone days might
be revived, with much profit to all concerned.
Besides the amusement it affords, we'll planned
and properly conducted spelling bee is of great
importance as an educator of those who take part
in it. Let the good old custom of our childhood
days return.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1899-1900, 1899-03-29

OVER forty years ago two brothers went to law.
The controversy was over some mules and the
amount in litigation was $500. The brothers are
both dead but the case is industriousy prosecuted
by the administrators of their respective estates.
Just recently the case reached the Supreme Court
of Ohio for final adjudication.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1899-1900, 1899-03-29

Mr.. A. Hardy is reported down with
the grip.
Judge Nye was holding court in Akron
last week.
Miss Minnie Nielsen, Of 0berlin, is the
guest Of Miss Theresa Herbert.
Mr., and Mrs. Geo, H. Ely are taking a
two weeks trip through the east.
Mrs. G. D. Bates left last Thursday for
q weeks visit with friends in Chicago.
Mrs. Jane PhilpOtt left last Wednes-
day morning Tor a visit In sandusky Of a
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. B. CahoOn are the
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1899-1900, 1899-03-29

THE Physicians Municipal League Of Cleveland,
embracing about two hundred doctors, the majority
of whom are republicans met recently and en-.
dorsed John H. Farley, the democratic nominee fol
mayor.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1899-1900, 1899-03-29
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT

Estate Of Charles 4. HutliR, deceased.
The undersigned has been appointed And
qualified ~ execulllx Of the estate Of CHARLES
deceased. 1I-,
Dated this 1T daT Of March. 4, .. lsop.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1899-1900, 1899-03-29
TOWNSHIP
NEWS.
COLLECTED BY THE ENTERPRISES
CORPS OF CORRESPONDENTS.

Recent Happenings and Special Events
in wellington's Immediate Vicinity of
Interest to Everyone.--Our Correspon-
dents Spare No Pains to Clean the News.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1899-1900, 1899-03-29

A candidate for Justice of the Peace over in
Fitchville, bears the name of Clement L. Valland-
ingham Bell, and on the republican ticket tool
Should he be elected, he may be assured of our
sympathies in more ways than one.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1899-1900, 1899-03-29

MANSFIELD has woman attorney recently ad-
mitted. Well, let it come. We have long been
convinced of woman's native ability in the way Of
''argyfyin and objectin."
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1899-1900, 1899-03-29

Next Monday is election day, and every votei
should go to the polls and vote the straight
ticket.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1899-1900, 1899-03-29

Don't forget to do your duty on election day by
voting tor Adams, Hall and Spicer for councilmen,
and the whole CAUCUS ticket. s,,
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1899-1900, 1899-03-29

WrIL the Norwan Experiment please give us in
the future due credit for original matter taken from
THE ENrERpR1sE.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1899-1900, 1899-03-29

FROM the latest advices a revolt of the Carlist
element in Spain is imminent
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1899-1900, 1899-03-29
NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF
PARTNERSHIP.

The partnershlp heretofore existing under
the name Of Wilder 4 Vincent wherein II.
A. Wilder and y. NJ. Vincent, both OF the VII.
lage OF wellington. In the County Of Loraln,
and State Of Ohio, is this. the sixth day ol
March. A,D., 1888, dissolved By mutual con.
sent.
N. A. WILDER,
L. NJ. VINCENT.
The business will be continued at Welllnr.
ton, Ohio, By M. A. Wilder, who assumes an
indebtedneSs Of the said firm.
wellington. Ohio, March 9th, 1899.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-07

cell and walls up the opening. The TO
msIAable thing about this performance
Is the magic effect of her sting. Wheth-
er 1t is the result of a subtle poison or
whether 1t is a special spot in the
spiders nervous system where the
sting is inserted we do not know. Ger
tain it is that after being thus stung
the spider lives on in a paralyzed con-
dition for weeks and even months. 1t
can move only slightly and remains
helpless in its mud sepulcher until the
wasp egg matches into a voracious
grub, which at once falls to and eats
with great relish the meat thus mtrac-
ulously preserved. Whether the wasp
sting renders the spider insensible to
pain or not is a question not yet set
tied. However, the chances are in ia
vor Of the theory that it does. Any
way, we need waste no sympathy on
the spider, the most bloodthirsty Of all
the little people of the field and woods.
There is sense of retributive justice
in the thought of spider helpless and
at the mercy of small insect which it
would have mercilessly devoured had
it been able. So we need not accuse
our alert, Industrious cement-maker OF
any unreasonable cruelty if she, like
us, insists upon a meat diet for her
young, nor need we have any fear of
her sting, for she seldom uses it as a
weapon of offense or defense.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-07
Giant Trout In q BarreI,

From Greenville, Me-, at the foot of
Moosehead lake, comes a strange hSh
story. Cyrus Higgins of Olamon went
fishing at Moosehead in a brook run
ming into the lake, and for a time
caught only little bits of trout. Then
he felt a mighty tug at his hook, and
thought he had hold of a laker that
had wandered up the brook on the
high water. After much effort, how
ever. he found himself unable to haul
in his line, and began to investigate,
thinking the hook had become fouled
on some object at the bottom of the
pool. With the aid of a salmon gaff
he raised barrel to the surface, and
was surprised to perceive that his line
led into the bUnghole Of the barrel.
Further investigation showed that
there was something moving about in
side the barrel, and that whatever it
was it had hold of the hook. The
barrel was then broken up, and out
leaped an enormous trout; not laker
but a real red-spotted brook trout the
size of laker. Higgins theory is that
the trout went into the barrel when
small, and, protected alike from fish
ermen and other enemies and with
plenty to eat, T. had grown and grown,
until 1t became a giant among the
speckled tribe.-New York Press.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-07
A Garfield AneCdOte.

"Mr. w. E. Fasig was surrounded by
a knot of horsemen, answering ques-
tons as to the record of this horse
and that, until some one twitted on the
excellence of his memory" says the
Cleveland Plain Dealer. WELL he
said, my memory is pretty good, but
can tell you of a man who had a re-
markable memory, and that was the
late President James A. Garfield.
When l was 16 years old 1 ran away
from school and enlisted in Garfield's
regiment, the Forty-second Ohio. Down
in eastern Kentucky, Garfield, who, al
though only a colonel,was brigade COM
mander, organized a raid on Pound
Gap. a strong position, and personally
selected a detachment from each COM
pany in the regiment to take part in
the attack. I wasn't lucky enough to
be selected for the work, but 1 was
crazy to go, and when the cavalry
started out borrowed mule from the
quartermaster when he wasn't looking,
and went with the mounted troops,
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-07

who hid me. In due season I found my

who hid me. In due season found my
regiment, tied my mule, and Joined the
ranks. Well, we took the place. Then
I went back to my mule and made
tracks for the camp. 1t was dark, and
I lost my way, and remained missing
for five days. After 1 returned 1 was
marched up to Garfield, who examined
me, listened to what I had to say,
and then sent me to my tent under ar
rest, telling me I would be court-mar-
tailed. Five minutes later boat came
down the river, carrying Garfield's
commission as brigadier general. and
ordering him to join Thomas with his
command, and in the furry my case
was forgotten. Years after the war L
attended a reunion of my regiment in
Ashland, and the first thing Garfield
said when he saw me was: Look here,
Fasig, you never had that court-mar-
tial promised you
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-07
Sight. In Constantinople.

ConStantinople teens with monu-
ments and relics Of past ages, which
time has consecrated and not destroyed
and which await the contemplation OF
the visitor. The column of Constan-
tine the Great, erected in $50, still tow
ers, blackened and mutilated, but erect,
in the center of his ancient forum. I'M
posing remains of the gigantic triple
wall and Of the moat still stretch from
the Golden Horn to the Marmora. The
ruins of Justinian's palace still rise
from the ed of the sea and the palace
of the Heblomon still crowns the sew
enth hill. The monastery of Chora,
now Kachrie Djami, and dozen other
Byzantine churches still present all the
popularity of the Byzantine arch1-
tectural school. The subterranean els
terms. the most enormous ever con-
structed anywhere, still exist, the chief
or Royal cistern-now called by the
Ottomans Yeri Batan Serial, or the I'M
derground palace-still standing, with
it's 1856 marble columns in perfect SYM
metry. In the museum are the famous
sarcophagi from Sidon, two especially.
those of Alexander" and of THE
Weepers," unsurpassed among all the
existing 1egacies of ancient art. Most
precious of all the gifts of antiquity
is the bronze serpent of Delphi, cast by
the Greeks in 476 B. c., placed by them
in the favorite shrine of Apollo,
brought hither by Constantine $50 A.
D., and still showing distinct, as II
cut today, names of the immortal cities
which fought against and defeated
Xerxes. Most venerable of churches,
Sancta Sophia still scars heavenward
with it's marvellous dome and its af-
fuence of mosaic and its unequaled
churchly history of more than 1850
years.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-07
Clusters Joke on Osborn.

Chicago Record: The late Charles
| Osborn, the New York broker, and
General Custer were intimate friends,
and Osborn annually visited the gen.
eral at his camp on the plains. Dur
ing one of the Indian campaigns he In
vited Osborn and party of friends out
to Kansas, and after giving them
| buffalo hunt, arranged a novel expe-
rience in the way Of an Indian scare.
AS Osborn was lying in his tent one
night firing was heard at the outposts
and the rapid riding of pickets. Boots
and saddles was the order in the dis
turbed atmosphere of the night, and
Custer appeared to Osborn loaded with
rifle, two revolvers, a saber and
scalping knife. 'Charley,' he said, in
his quick, nervous way, you must de-
fend yourself. Sitting Bull and Flea
in our-Boots, with Wiggle-Tail-Jim
and Scalp-Lock Skowhegan, are on us
in force. 1 didn't want to alarm you
before, but the safety of my command
is my first duty. Things look serious.
If we don't meet again, God bless you.
The broker fell on his knees. MY
God, CUSTER he cried, "only get me
out of this! I'll carry 100000 shares
of Western Union for you into the
firm to set me home. Only save me"
But Custer was gone, and the camp by
shrewd arrangement burst into blaze,
and shots, oaths and war-whoops were
intermixed, until suddenly a painted
object doomed on Osborns sight, and
something was flung into his face-a
human scalp. He dropped to the
ground, said the Lords prayer, back
ward, forward and sideways, until the
noise died away, and there was ex-
posed a lighted supper table, with this
explanation on a transparency:
"Osborn's treat"
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-07
How . Doll Averted War.

From the Philadelphia Times: A
strange story is told Of how a child's
playthiEg once had a soothing influence
upon a warlike Apache tribe, and was
the means Of avoiding a serious war.
1t happ ned when Mr.. Bourke was in
Arizona with General Crook. The gen.
eral was trying to put band of Apach-
es back on the reserve, but could not
catch them without killing them, and
that he did not want to do. One day
his men captured a little Indian girl
and took her to the fort. She was
quiet all day, saying not a word, but
her black beads of eyes watched every
thing. When night came, however, she
broke down and sobbed just as any
white child would have done. They
tried in vain to comfort her, and then
Mr.. Bourke had an idea. From the
adjutant's wife he borrowed a pretty
doll that belonged to her little daugh-
ter and when the young Apache was
made to understand that it was hers to
keep, her sobs ceased and she fell
asleep. When morning came the doll
was still clasped in her arms. She
played with it all day. and apparently
all thought of ever getting back to her
tribe had left her. Several days passed
and as no overtures about the return Of
the papoose had been made by the
tribe, they sent her, with the doll still
in her possession, back to her people.
Mr. Bourke had no idea of the effect
his benevolent act would have upon
the Indians. When the child reached
them, with the pretty doll in its chubby
hands, it made great sensation among
them, and later on it's mother came
back to the post with it. She was kind
ly received and Hospitality treated, and
through her the tribe was soon after
ward persuaded to move back to the
reserve.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-07
CORPORAL Edwards Not a Hero.

The deluded followers of Aguinaldo
are running up against lot of marks
manship that would be the wonder OF
the world were it accomplished by any
except American troops. Generally
speaking the entire civilized world
knows how we'll the men who wear
the United States uniform can shoot,
but in the array of accurate fire there
are exceptions, and an officer just re-
turned from Manila tells Of one OF
these. With American advance is an
Individual known as Edwards. He is
a corporal in the Third United States
artillery, now serving as infantry, and
beyond the fact that he gave Kentucky
as his home, nothing is known of him.
Yet the blood of Daniel Boone, Nor
gan, Ballard, Dave Bowie and host
of others famous on the pages OF from
tier history must flow in his veins, or
else there is something in the Blue
Grass country that still makes marks
men. Edwards is a regular, not hero,
hence his little exploit with covey
OF the dusky-skinned natives of Luzon
has not been previously reported. He
was sent on the advance to scout, and
with three companions was carefully
moving through country all swamps
and bamboo thickets, when he was
fired on by hidden foe. Divining that
the shots came from clump of bushes
a hundred yards away, Edwards
charged the clump. He was all alone
in the charge, but he did not mind
that At his first rush four natives
broke cover and made dash to get
away They had full 100 yards start
and had only $50 yards to go across
open country before reaching a dense
swamp. Right here Edwards showed
how he could shoot He carried the
regular Krag service piece and had
five shells in the magazine, with one
in the barrel. He opened fire and five
times the Krag spit flame and steel
jacketed bullets. Then all the natives
were down. An examination of their
bodies showed that the first was hit
III the nape of the neck; his spine was
splintered and he fell dead. The sec
ond was hit full between the Shout
ders, his spine cut in twain, and he was
dead The third was shot plumb
through the small of the back, the
spine being shattered to flinders. The
fourth man alone escaped instant
death, and at him Edwards fired twice.
The first ball crashed through one of
his hips and crushed the joint, and ere
he could fall another tore through his
jaw about on a line with his wisdom
teeth, if he had any, and from the
two wounds he died in ten minutes.
Edwards still had a shell in his gun,
but there were no more Filipinos in
sight.-Philadelphia Press
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-07

1t was said during the late war with
Spain that Americas success was due
to the fact that her sailors could shoot
straight. Skill of that kind is no new
thing for Americans. AS far back as
1775 it was found that the marksmen
of this land could stand a test specially
designed to throw out all but the most
expert. Harper's Magazine reminds its
readers of the June of that year, when
congress passed a resolution creating
relays of swift horses carried the news
to the various county committees on
the frontier. In less than sixty days
from the date of the resolution, four
teen hundred and thirty, instead of
the eight hundred and ten men re-
quired, had been raised, and had Joined
the army, marching from four to seven
hundred miles over difficult roads, and
all without costing the continental
treasury a farthing. Volunteers had
poured into the little recruiting sta
tons in such numbers as to embarrass
the officers who would gladly have
been spared the duty of discriminating
One of these officers, beset by many
more applicants than his instructions
permitted him to enroll, hit upon a
clever expedient. Taking a piece of
chalk, he drew upon blackened board
the figure of mans nose, and placing
this at such a distance that none but
experts could hit it with bullet, he
declared that he would enlist only
those who shot nearest to the mark.
More than sixty men hit the nose. So
much for American Workmanship in
revolutionary times.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-07

At Tahiti, in the Society Islands,
partly by reason of the extreme ferttl-
ity of the soil which furnishes sub
sistence without labor the inhabitants
are idle and dissolute. They fatten
their noses, and bore a hole through
the middle partition Of that feature to
accommodate ornaments Of flowers or
feathers. Their ears are bored also,
and the teeth of sharks and of human
beings are inserted. Chiefs are distin-
guished by large circular markings in
tattoo over the whole body, while
common folks are tattooed only about
the loins. Another queer custom re-
quires all women, except those Of the
royal family, to cut their hair short.
All over Polynesia the practice of in
fanticide is quite general, but in Ia
hiti it is particularly prevalent, young
children being commonly strang1ed.
Some mothers on the island are known
to have done away with as many as
ten of their children in this manner.
Pigs, on the other hand, are greatly
pampered, being fed by the old women
and actually sucked by the young
women. They are stuffed like capons
with bread-fruit dough, and are
slaughtered at festivals, but, as rule,
their flesh is reserved for consumption
by the upper classes. The only other
important domestic mammal is the
dog, which is of small species and has
no bark at all, being bred chiefly for
meat and not as a household guardian.
Weapons made formidable by the at
tachment of sharks teeth are used by
the natives, while small instruments Of
a similar description have been GUS
tomarily employed for torturing and
cutting up prisoners Of war.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-07
She Let Him swing.

"Willie,'' she cried from the win
dow, you two boys get right out of
that hammock. The first thing you
know you will break it down.
1.-TWO little fellows like me and
Tommy break it down." exclaimed the
boy.
Eyes, you WILL
AN last night when that Mr..
Smithkins was calling on you. an you
got tired sittin' on the porch, an"
Never mind, Willie" she inter-
ruptsd, hastily Maybe it's all right,
after all. "-Stray Stories.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-07

I'VE wild never surrender" said the
Filipino subordinate.
81 don't know" said Aguinaldo, aS
he pensiveay drummed on the table
with his fingers. THE rainy season b
upon u.s."
What has that to do with our pa
triotic intentions?"
"Well, 1 have learned a great deal
by judging these Americans. 1 have
been wondering if we wouldn't make
more money by giving up this cam
paign and starting an umbrella trust"
Washington Sea-.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-07
Rubbing 1t In.

From the St. Paul Globe: cit
doesn't pay to be good" said a little
Zebidee boy
why, Willie, I'm shocked" said
his mother. Whatever put that idea
into your head?"
Pa
What do you mean?"
"You know he whipped me for going
in swimming last Sunday afternoon"
Eyes; 1 remember It,
"Well, that very morning he
preached a sermon about cleanliness
being next to godliness."
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-07
The Worm Turns.

Chicago News; 1.-The doctor says
you must not take anything that
doesn't agree with you,' said Mrs.
Peck to her invalid husband.
TITS lucky for you," replied the SUI
ferer, that he didn't give me that ad-
vice fifteen years ago."
why is it?" she asked.
Because the chances are you would
be an old maid today" answered the
sick man, with a peculiar smile.
And just to prove that she could
agree with him if she wanted to she
made no reply.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-07
Memorial Day.

C'er the breadth Of a great republic,
From ocean to ocean borne,
Whatever the stars of her banner
Clean out to the light of morn;
From the depth of her grain-sown val
The slopes of her wooded hills,
In the song of her wind-swept prairfes,
The rhyme Of her peaceful rills,
Comes the noiseless tramp of an army,
Shadowy, silent and gray
An army, though vanished its legionS,
Yet lives in our hearts to-day.
To the men who from field and forum
Uprose at the country's cry,
Their lives, it their need, for the honor,
Their honor for her to die;
Who, Selling the gun for the plowshare,
And grasping the sword for the pen'
Went forth an army of patriots,
OF noble and free-born men:
IT'S to these a hand of a nation
Its tributes of love will pay,
Wherever the grave of a soldier
Shall hollow its soil to-day.
Not with branches of yew nor cypress,
But with roses and blossoms sweet;
With amaranth and laurel above them,
And heart's-ease fair at their feet,
While softer than the winds of the sum-
mer
And sweeter than roses bloom,
Are the memories and love which gather
And brighten each silent tomb;
And though Time in his march triumph
ant
Bends all to his final sway,
Yet the touch of the Great Eternal
Is nearer than he to-day.
Ger these graves where all strife is
ended
Where the past and it's memories lie,
Rise the grateful hearts of the people
In prayer to the Lord Most High
For the hope of a prosperous future,
The gracious gift of His hand;
For great and united nation,
A free and a fruitful land;
For His angel of Peace. whose pinions
Stretch over that land to-day;
For the love that claspeth as brothers
The hands of the blue and gray
Beatrice Harlowe in the wv omen s
Home Companion.