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The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-11-10
Times for Holding Common Plea.
-, ~ Court, A. D., 1900.
STATE OF OHIO,
TENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT.

TENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT.
y II Is ordered that the terms of the Common
Pleas Court Of the several Counties in said
Tenth judicial District, for the year 1900, be
liked as follows. towit:
Crawford county on the sth day of January
= and the 7th day Of May and the 18th day OF
October,
Hancock county on the sth day of January
and the "a day'of April, and the 18th day OF
Hardin county on the sth day of January and
the I'd day Of April, and the 18th day Of Sep
Logan county on the 5th day OF February, and
7 the 9TH day of May, and the 18th day of Oc-
tOber,
Marion county on the 22d day of January, and
the 9th day of April. and the 24th day OF
september.
and the 3Oth day of April, and the 18th day
of~October,
Union county on the I'd day of January an6
the sd day Of April, and the 10th day Of
September.
Wood county on the sth day Of January, ant
the I'd day OF April, and the nth day OF Sep.
teuiber.
Wyandot county on the 5th day of February
aud the2d day of April, and the 18th day OF
September.
IL il furher ordered that the Hon. James @
Tobias be designated as supervising Judge
AMI that said terms begin at nine O'Clock a. IN
October II, 1893.
- 81. j. W. ECHANFELLERGER,
DUNCAN Dow,
CHARLES NJ. MELHoRN.
JAMES q. TOBIAS,
ALLEN SMALLEY,
FRANK TAYLOR,
JUDGES.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-11-10
COLUMBUS DIv.-NoRTH BOUND.

Nos. /. 2. 3. 4 and run daily except Sunday.
Nos. and are mixed trains between Peoria
rnd Columbus Jet.
Through time OF Passenger trains between
Columbus and Peoria and between Columbus
Jc. and Lima is shown only for the informa-
tlon of the public.
n. E DEWEY, @. A. CHAMBERS,
Genl Manger. Gen. Pass. Agent.
Detroit, Mich.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-11-10
Believed In Signs.

Stubb-You remember that mer-
chant over the way who had "Please
Close the Door, sign in his window:
Penn-Yes.
Stubb-Well, the other day the sher.
iff went over and put paddock on the
door.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-11-10
The Successful Remedy fol
NASAL CATARRH

must be non-irritating easy Of application,
and one that by its own action, reaches the in
famed and diseased surfaces.
ELY'S CREAM BALM combines the i'm
portant requisites of quick action and specific
curatic powers with perfect safety to the pa
tient. This agreeable remedy has mastered
catarrh as nothing else has and both physi-
clans and patients freely concede the fact.
All druggists cheerfully acknowledge that in
it the acme of Pharmaceutical skill has been
reached. The most distressing symptoms
quickly yield to it. In accute cases the Balm
imparts almost immediate relief
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-11-10
Administrators Notice.

Notice is hereby given that the undersigned
has been duly appointed and qualified as ad-
ministrator of the estate of Catharine Morse
late Of Logan county, Ohio, deceased
EMANUEL j. HOWENST1NE,
Oct. %, 1899.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-11-10

"You know the rule, Arthur"
"NOt one word?"
mo, Arthur, not until your father
finishes the paper"
Arthur subsidized until the paper. was
finished, when he, was asked what he
wished to say.
"Oh. nothing! Only Nora put the
custards outside the window to cool,
and the cat has been eating them up!'
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The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-11-10

Arthur, who is forbidden to speak at
the table, had his revenge the other
day. AS dinner began, he was uneasy,
and finally said, "Ma, can't I say just
one Word?"
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-11-10
NEARLY
F'ifty-eight Years Old! s! F.!

It's long life, but devotion to the true in
terests and prosperity of the American Peo-
pie has won for it new friends as the years
rolled by and the original members of its fam
lily passed to their reward, and these admirers
are loyal and steadfast to-day, with faith in its
teachings, and confidence in the information
which it brings to their bones and firesides.
As a natural consequence it enjoys in its old
age all the vitality and vigCr of its youth,
Strengthened and ripened by the experiences
of over half a century.
1t has lived on its merits, ard On the cordial
support of progressive Americans
1t is The New-York Weekly Tribune"
acknowledged the country over as the leading
National Family Newspaper.
Recnpnizinr its Nnlne TO those who desire al
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-11-10
MAIN LINE-NoRTH BOUND.
COLUMBUS DIv.-soUTH BOUND.
Time Table in Effect October 8, 1900.
MAIN LINE-sOUTH BOUND.

STATIONS No.
Columbus Jet. =" Ar 500 .........
Col'us Jc. OLA Mo 5. Lv. 500 .........
IL. E.Qn
.
.
Peoria ct. & o: C) No. L. 4Lv. 7:39 .........
Columbus Ar.l $3.50 pm .........
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-07-10
A New Dock for Brooklyn.

The proposal to build another dry dock at
the Brooklyn Navy Yard, to be Of the first
class and, indeed the largest in the coun-
try, deserves the consideration of Congress.
We had bad luck with the last new dock
constructed there, but that was Of wood,
while the one now proposed would be OF
stone, or Of concrete faced with stone, and
might cost about $1,000, 900. That would
be enough for splendid structure.
A foreign technical journal, the London
Engineer, recently said of our navy that
"thc docking accommodation in the Govern
mcnt yards is practically at present, of no
value whatever, and had the country been
obliged to meet a really formidable enemy
at sea recently, instead OF the effetc, badly
armed and indiffcrently fought vessels Of
the Spanish navy, in the event of mishap
with one Of her large battlcships it is quito
possible that the injured vessel might have
gone down for want of q dry dock to
put her in" This Is not quite exact as
q statement OF what exists now. But it
is true that wo have only three Govern
ment docks capable OF accommodating the
largest battleships, and that while one of
these Is in Puget Sound, on the Pacific tho
TWO OH lnc hIlHnllC were disabled last year,
tho one at Port Royal by tho inadequacy of
the approaches, which needed dredging,
and the one at Brooklyn by faulty con-
struction, which for long time made it
unavailable.
1t was certainly fortunate, therefore, that
Spain inflicted no damage on our big ships.
But we have since had leisure to repair the
Brooklyn and Port Royal docks, and in
addition the last Congress authorized four
new and large docks, three OF timber at the
Kittcry League Island and Mare Island
yards, and one OF masonry Mt Boston, while
large floating dock Is to be placed at Al
gicrs, opposite New Orleans. Still, even
with these provisions our supply OF first
class docks will he only moderate. We
have now coming forward, in various stages,
the battlcships KeRrsarge, kentucky, Hi
nOis Alabama, Wisconsin, Maine, Missouri
and Ohio, while the battleships New Jersey,
Pennsylvania and Georgia and the great
armorcd cruisers West Virginia Nebraska
and California are authorized. Hero are
fourteen new vessels all surprising the
Indiana and her sister ships in size, and
impcrativcy requiring docking facilities
OF tho first class.
New York must always be great naval
centre. 1t is the metropolis OF American
commerce, and II assures to the Brooklyn
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-07-10
News from Underground.

The Hon. JOHN II. MCLEAN OF Ohio Is
assigned by those who know 1t all to an
important part in the German combination
to defeat BRYAN.
Mr. GoRMAN, rs everybody is aware, Is
down among the anglcworms, tunnclling to
undermine BRYAN and tho Chicago plat
form. His unseen and mysterious activity
is inspiring various and grandiosc rumors.
According to those who know 1t all he has
succeeded in perfcctng powerful anti
Bryanitc organization. which consists OF
MCLEAN In Ohio. CARTER II. HARRISON in
Illinois, HARRIrY in Pennsylvania, CROKER
IN New York, GoEBEL in Kentucky, and 50
OIL in various parts Of the Union.
Concerning the first item of this alleged
outfit we get ncws that does not come from
subtcrranran sources. The Cincinnati En-
Quircr Of Friday last prints doublc-leaded
editorial article welcoming Mr.. BRYAN to
Ohio, and welcoming him, moreover, to
indisputcd primacy in contemporary Dem
ocratic politics:
M. BRYAS comes to Ohio to-day under circum-
stances which enti.e him TO take great pleasure in
the visit. To feel assured of the more than kindly
feeling Of the Demo racy Of this State must he CRATE
ful to the mind of man who has aborcd 80 indus.
triously brilliantly and uuschshly in their cause.
Tonight Mr.. BRYAS will be surrounded by friends
who will vie with each other in supporting him for
another Presidential nomination. and then for elect
ing him In 1900. Tho only rivalry among them
will be in their zeal TO advance his interests as
party leader. Few mon have enjoyed the great
honors that have come to him. and fewer still have
had the great good sense not 10 he mslcd by those
who always anxious to handle great leader.
The Democrats of Ohio extend welcome to WILL
LIAM j. BRYAN. In coming here he will md himself
among men who look upon him as leader broad
enough to lead the entire Democratic hosts"
We observe that the name OF the Hon.
JOHN II. MCLEAN continues TO appear at
the head Of the editorial columns contain
ing this important declaration, which we
take pleasure in putting on record for the
Information of the Hon. ARTHUR PUE Cor
MAN and others.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-07-10

turned into corn lands or market gardens
by deepening the existing Dismal Swamp
Canal between Portsmouth and Albemarle
Sound and digging tributary bitches to the
east and west OF that canal. The work
might cost $4,ooo,ooo. but the money
value of the improved lands would not be
less than $16, ooo,o 900.
Small areas already reclaimed in the Dis
NAL Swamp are Of great fertility, produce
enormous crops Of Indian corn, and are we'll
adapted for market gardening. According
to the conclusions OF our best engineers
and surveyors tho South Atlantic States
contain drainable swamp lands and shallow
lakes that may add about 10000 square
miles OF the most fertile lands to our culti-
vablo domain. Tho fact that they arc
within easy reach Of our large coast cities
that would buy their products will hasten
the day when these waste lands shall be
transformed and made fruitful.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-07-10
The Gobelian War on Railroads.

Kentucky and Ohio are two American
States OF about tho same area. Kentucky
was admitted into the Union ten years
ahead Of Ohio, and enjoys certain climatic
advantages Of temperature and rainfall
which Ohio does not possess. But Ken
lucky suffers from tho disadvantage Of
having few navigable rivers within its
boundaries, although there are many I'M
navigable streams. OF which Salt River,
Goose Creek and some branches OF tho Big
Sandy are not unknown to topographers.
Although the two States are substantially
equal In area, Kentucky, by reason of this
lack of navigable water courses within its
boundaries, has the greater need OF rail-
way connections. The present railroad
mileage Of Ohio is nearly three times as
great as that OF its neighbor Kentucky
still adheres in some sections to its print
two system Of tollgates. the forcible and
lawless destruction Of which Is occasionally
undertaken by some Of its unemployed in
habitants.
Notwithstanding all this, the recent DEM
ocratic Convention In Louisville not only
denounced the e1tortionate, unfair and
discriminating freight rates '" by transpor-
taton companies but it put in nomination
for tho office OF Governor n candidate
pledged to wage unremitting war against
the railroads Of Kentucky, which are the
only available agencies for the transporta-
tion to market OF the fruits Of the labor OF
its farmers. His name Is GoEBEL, and the
President OF one Of tho chief railroads hav-
ing its northern terminus in that State,
President SMITH Of the Louisville and Nash
vile, says Of him:
Senator GoEBEL has for many years been Q snc-
cessu Spectator in damage claims for personal in
uries In the pursuit Of this business he is said to
have amassed a fortune. For about fifteen years he
has been legislator and during that period has
ered himself with less success TO secure the
enactment of legislation unjusty affecting the inter
ess Of corporations. and in some instances adapted
to promote his personal interests"
GoEBEL has already announced his project
Of suspending the war on the national credit
in order to take up vigorously 1.-The fight
against the railways"
And this fight against tho railroads is in
augurated by GoEBEL in a State which, for
geographical and economic reasons, is per-
haps more interested than any other in the
Union in extending and not retarding the
development Of railroads!
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-07-10
News from the Dismal Swamp.

1t Is reported that firm OF lumber man
ufacturcrs of Virginia has purchased tho
famous Dismal Swamp, which extends
through southeast Virginia and northeast
North Carolina, about two-thirds of tho
way between Chesapeake Bay and Albe-
marie Sound. Tho purpose is to drain tho
area and recover tho fallen cedar that has
been perfectly preserved under the swamp
waters. A still greater and more perma-
ncntly useful result Of drainage will be to
reclaim n large area Of fertile land.
Our Government has been spending much
money to develop irrigation in the semi
arid regions in order to add them to our
productive farm lands as far as avail
able water resources will permit. But
while large parts OF the swamp lands
OF the South Atlantic States, when re-
claimed. will be even more valuable than
the irrigated lands, area for area, the
Federal Government cannot participate
in the work, for they are all within tho
limits Of the thirteen original States, which
retained control OF their lands. Tho
swamps are not part Of the national hold
ings. Their reclamation must be carried
out by the States orby private enterprise.
The Geological Survey has estimated the
extent of the swamp lands throughout the
country that may be reclaimed for agricul-
tural purposes at over 100, 900 Square
miles, or double the area of Now York
State. Nearly all our lands that are imme-
diately fit for the plough are now in private
hands and We arc resorting to lands that
may be made available for tillagc by drain
age or irrigation. Europe has had similar
work in hand for centuries. About one
twentieth of her entire tllablo area has
thus been reclaimed. fifth of the most
fertile lands of England and Ireland were
once such bog district as we find along our
South Atlantic coast.
This lumber company wishes to recover
the cedar logs from the mud and water OF
Dismal Swamp because nearly all the tim
Der fit for manufacture and export has now
been cut by woodmcn or destroyed by fire,
and is not being replaced to any large cx-
tent by later forest growth. Ten years ago
the lumber product of the Dismal Swamp
was worth about $500 year. It's value
has been decreasing since that time. 1t
was estimated in 1887 that the timber
product OF this swamp would never be
worth over 500, 900 year, while IL the
land were fitted for agriculture the value
of its product would probably exceed
s., 600, 600 year. 1t adjoins the Norfolk
district which has long supplied several
millions of people between the James River
and the coast of Maine with a considerable
| part of the vegetables they eat.
Several years ago Prof SHALER for the
purposes of the Geological Survey, made q
special study VI these southern swamp
regions and particularly of the Dismal
swamp In his report he estimated at
| 100000 acres the area that might Lc
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-07-10
BOGUS CITY MARSHALS
HanRers-on in the Municipal Courts Whose
Illegal Prnctices Arc CoYered.n

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Str: Attention
has been called to tho practices OF pseudo
marshals who hang about the municipal courts
by the eviction OF young Hebrew widow on
the upper east side. She was served with n sum-
mons in dispossess proceedings on the Satur-
day before the Fourth Of July. The paper was
not filled out properly. as 1t did not state on
what day tho woman should appear in court.
and. OF course. she was not in court
that afternoon when the case was called.
But warrant for her eviction was issued,
and when she came from work Cd Monday
afternoon. having fetched her two little children
from day nursery. she found her household
goods piled up on the sidewalk. Neghbors cared
for her until she found another home. They
into the street was not a city marshal. but one
OF the court hangers-on who was marshal
some years ago. When this man was asked II
he had not broken the law by evicting family
without authority. he said that real city mar
sha had gone along with him-namins mar
shal from downtown district. The woman
could not show that this was not true. Had
snS fhG the I'm made out
dismissed the proceedings.
All these hangers-on who solicit business
about the courts are said to be covered" by
names to be used to cover" Illegal practices
marshals All free- lance marshais arc not
breaking me law, nor arc all regularly APP
pointed officers covering the lawbreakers
but there is u lot Of crooked work going on, and
court officers know it. They would like to see
it stopped. but they don't see how it can be so
long as these hanRcrS-on can be deputiZed by
the Justices With judicial authority to serve
summonses, these men go ahead and usurp the
powers of city marshals hy dispossessing ten
property of ignorant debtors. When. as some
times happens, one of these men gets into hot
water and question is raised as to the legality
of his practices, he sends for the real marshal
who is GOVERNS" him. and the marshal
swcars that he served the warrant
In the neighbOrhood Of every municipal court
are several of these pseudo marshals. whose Of
fees are side by side with those Of the regular
city marshals. They hang out signs reading
like this.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-07-10
Commodore Bye and His Brick Boat.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUS-Sir: Fact is stranger
than possible fiction. Some one reported to THE
Sun on July the existence of Mr.. Win Smouse but
meanwhile tas matter of fact because THE sun has
said iD. Pleas Wynn and Catlctt Upton were hanged
the first page OF tho same paper. and in the same
column Mr.. Hlly Blue advised to leave North
Carolina town. There may be something in a name
after all.
BE that as it may. the fact remains that for many
years the late lamented Commodore Pes Bye was
wcll-known citizen of Atlantic City. n. j.
1t is recorded OF this gentleman that he built q
brick boat. leaving Que brick out OF tho bottom in
order TO secure free and perfect drainage make
tho vessel a dry one.
While am about it may as we'll mention that in
Trenton n. j. sign has for years borne the legend
A, Sherry. shoemaker.
Why the mischief said sherry wasn't cobbler.
have never yet been able to fathom. EAR
ATLANTIC CITY, n. j.. July 8.
To THE EDITOR OF The sSCN-Sir: I submit two
names to he added To your list, that of Constant
Agony and also that of Rose Goosebcrry. persons
who formerly lived in our town. f.
PLArTsBURG. July 7.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-07-10
The Late Sam Wards Way of Eating Corr

To THE EDITOR OF THE suS-Sfr: Your CORE
spondent who asks to the proper way eat swe
corn may be grathed to know that the high author
ity fthe late Samuel Ward e. Uncle Sam ~ is on his
side, as to method.
They tell OF Texan youth who brought letter of
introduction to Samuel Ward and was invited by
him TO dine at Sutherland's.
Among the delicacies were course Of sweet corn
doubtless enshrned in soft and snow-white napkins
This and beverage bbulous so impressed tho
youth that on his way to his hotel no stopped at
Western Union Office TO wire his father what good
time he having but could collect his thoughts
only far to send the mewhAt perpleIin mes.
sage. Serve sweet on the cob as separate
course"
His father thought hc had gone crazy and wired to
= legal friend: go and see Tom, and report mental
condition. Have received crazy message"
The friend called. and shortly relieved tho father
by replying by telegraph
only been dining with Sam Ward" O. H. W.
SEABRIGHT July 8.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-07-10
NOW LARGE rs THE DOMAINS
The Best and Latest Information as to tho
Aren of the PHILIPPINES.

Areh OF the fhilippines.
To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir! observe
that the well-known geodesist and geographer.
Prof George Davidson, believes that our Gov
eminent publications are Understanding the
area OF the Philippine Islands. Official docu-
ments. he says. give the area rs something
over $4,000 square miles" and the latest he
has seen gives 1t as 114.328 square miles. He
thinks the Spanish documents have been too
hurrledy examined at Washington. and quotes
from the "Guia Official lie las Islas Fliplnas.
Manila. lSo"," published by the Secretary OF
the Governor General. which says that the
archipelago has an area of BOZ, 900 square
Kilometres. without including the Sulu group
The equivalent is, he says, l37,OJ7 square
miles. and he submits these figures as the best
determination OF the area of all the islands.
less the Sulus. Tho best determination we
have OF the area Of the Suus is 1928 square
miles. and II the Spanish figures arc worth
adopting the area Of our Philippine possess
sions Ia accordingly about 13SSS5 square
miles, which Is 24.55p square miles more than
the latest figures Prof. Davidson has seen In
the Government reports In other words the
Philippines are larger than they are repre-
scented to BIO in Washington documents by an
area equal to half that OF the State OF New York.
1t seems to me probable. however. that tho
learned professor has too readily accepted tho
Tbcre Ia ro,eop 70 bolInyo thottho C,o,,ornn,o,t
figures as to tho nroa are b,sod upon Tho host
determination that b,o ,,o, hnon ,,,a,,o nna 90
very much nearer the truth than the Spanish
figures
The Philippines have not yet been we'll
manned. hut for tbs haneft y, commorco soy.
eral nations bava nar.;cirotod In o,,,li,ir, ,
large mart Of their coosts 90 that tho ,nnroYi-
mate size md sbape ~ the ISLANDS ,re vcrv woll
known These data wnro en,hodIod ,n tba
Domain man n, the pbiIinninoa and su,u.
which nnnoored in mn Eruanyuroshoftn 20
Iete,,nanns Nitfeihinoen mo az 1897 This
man was IN tbo sc,Io ~ a Ooo nOo ar AZ a
miles TO the inch n sonia aur,lcient,v j,rga for
useful results in the ondenvor 70 ASCERTAIN the
area Of the islands bv the planImeter ths in
strument invented TO determine areas on mana
md plnns The aren. NJ tho pbilinninos and
Sulus according To the Domnnn man wora da
termined plapimcirically nv tho Gotha geo.
praphical establishment and the resnIt was
$50 1879 SQUARE Kilometres which IA eouiy,lent
to 114.358 square miles. The reduction 10
SQUARE miles is reacbod by using the American
eouivnlent NJ tbe lilometre which "a ,;von In
the toble issued Nv the Buro,u NJ sta,jstice "a
O6p137 milo
This approripote determination NJ thu toto,
oroo hoe s,,,o 49, ,o,o.,,, ,5 T., ..i,t
Gal and eaoeronhic,i writinos md ia non, wal
In our C,o,,a.,nt ,',h,Ian,1 ~ 80
~ courso ,orn brndro ~, vorx a., oil i.,o .,O
nd ronso that t., us.
,noasuranants h,'. ,ho,. .tainIn IS ~ t',ess
nav hnndroI, ~ sn,,oro r,iIas ~ ,,,a .atai