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The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-08-22
CURE FOR LIQUOR HABIT.

Washington Post: The liquor habit
or, rather, the habit of drunkenness
is disease. It is like chills and fever,
or cholera morbus. You cure these
maladies by this drug or that and the
patient will recover; but he is not
thereby gifted with perpetual immu-
nifty. He may be attacked again-he
usually is-and then the treatment
must be repeated. The history Of the
Kelley cure has done nothing to remove
drunkenness from this category. A
few seem to have been permanently
cured, but the many fall from grace
and, as rule, remain hopeless invalids.
And what occurs to us, this being the
case, is that the habitual drunkard can
be cured temporarily, with equal GER
tainty and far more safety, in other
ways than a resort to the gold cure.
We should like to see any one-even
the most inveterate tippler-who could
maintain his liquor habit concurrently
with free drinking of the waters of
White Sulphur Springs, in Virginia;
the Grayson Springs, in Kentucky, or
the French Lick Springs, in Indiana.
Indeed, there are great numbers Of
springs throughout the country to drink
at which is to make liquor intolerable
at once. 1t is not pretended by any one
that they effect permanent cures, any
more than calomel and quinine will
abolish fever and ague. But they will
stop the whisky for the moment, and
the man who keeps himself supplied
with any of these powerful beverages
will find it as hard to swallow his toddy
or his cocktail as to absorb 80 much
raw castor oil or cod liver oil.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-08-22
A Change of Tune,

These are trying times for free trad
ers. Once in while there is heard
a tomb-like utterance in which the
words tariff reform" seem to be strug-
Cling to reach the surface. But it is
seldom repeated. For the most part
the free traders are kept busy trying
to explain how every one of their dire
full prophecies concerning the Repub-
lican tariff legislation has proved
false. Some of the most prominent of
them, like Mr.. William R.. Grace, have
bowed to the teachings of experience
and Joined the protectionist ranks.
Others content themselves with bear
ing testimony to the wonderful pros
perity of the nation under that "high
protective tariff which they formerly
denounced in unmeasured terms.
For instance, Mr.. Horace White,
joint editor of the New York Evening
Post, the most rabid Of the free trade
organs, has seen new light, though
it does not shine in the columns of his
newspaper. When the Dingley bill
was pending before congress The Post
declared that it would ruin our grow
ing expert trade in manufactured
goods, and bring distress on our peo-
pie. But our exports of manufactured
goods have increased enormously, and
prosperity reigns over all the land.
This Mr.. White admits in an inter-
view with him printed in the New
York Herald, from which the follow
ing is an extract:
How do you regard the business
outlook at the present time?"
Every good, indeed. l have never
known it to be in such healthy con-
dition in my time as it is now"
What about the prospects of its
permanency?"
"The prospects of permanency are,
1 think for two or three years. 1 don't
think any body looks further ahead
than that The best index of the con-
dition of business is the iron trade
always That is now in first-rate con-
dition, and it is likely to continue so
for two or three years, if not longer"
The New York World was perhaps,
the most reckless among the newspa-
pers that denounced the tariff No
| city in the country is more dependent
on a protective tariff than is Pittsburg
| The World has been investigating bus
mess conditions at Pittsburg under
i Rep thliCan legislation which it de-
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-08-22
MOTHERLEss TRUSTS.
Sugar King Havemeyer Does Not Accoun
For Them In Free Trade Countries.

sugar A1n8 H0vemeyer Does NOT Account
For Them In Free Trade Countries.
Free traders have rolled under their
tongues as toothful morsel the utter
ance of Sugar King Havemeyer to the
effect that Protection is the mother
of all trusts" He ultimately denied
that his sugar trust was the offspring
Of protection, and so contradicted him
self. An interested public would like
to know who is the mother of not
only the sugar trust, but also the
trusts in free trade countries. Free
trade England has many trusts, one
engineering combine having a capital
of $56,000,000. Without protection,
England has her trusts in steel and
iron rails, petroleum, lead pipe, fish,
metal utensils, antimony, nickel, mer-
curry, thread, salt, alkali rubber ties,
etc., etc. In Germany, in the year
1897, there were organized 1S0 combi-
nations similar to the American trusts
Russia and France have many trusts,
including rolling mill trusts, iron
trusts, petroleum, sugar, chemicals
and many other kinds of trusts. Bel
GUM, which, next to England, is the
greatest free trade country in the
world, is literally overrun with trusts.
Thus we find the principal protective
policy countries with trusts, and also
the principal free trade countries with
trusts. Free trade and protection are
dramatically opposed to each other in
principle, and yet trusts exist side by
side in each. II free trade were de-
structive of trusts, there would be
none in free trade England and Bel
gium. Free trade would remove trusts
from our midst in about the same way
that an ounce of laudanum poured
down the throat would remove a boil
from the back of the neck, by killing
not only the boil but also the man who
was troubled with it. The Republican
lparty can be trusted to prescribe by
Legislation a remedy for the trust evil,
without destroying the prosperity of
1.-The wage Garner in doing il
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-08-22
THE AWFUL CHRISTOPHER.

Here is the way an exchange tells
about him: ga live grasshopper will
eat dead grasshopper. A Missouri
farmer mixed paris green and bran
together and let grasshopper eat 1t.
He died. Twenty ate him up. They
died. Four hundred ate those twenty
and they died. Eight thousand ate
those four hundred, and they died. A
hundred and sixty thousand ate those
eight thousand, and died, and the farmer
was troubled no more. In its fight
from the Far West the name OF the
statistician of this story has become
separated from his figures, but the fact
that the incident occurred in Missouri
is regarded as evidence of its possibility.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-08-22
Legal Notice.

Hattie E. O'Conner whose place of residence
is unknown, late of Big Springs, Logan coun-
ty, Ohio, will take notice that, on the 1St day
Of july A. ID. 1899, in the court of Common
is now pending, being cause No. 1888 ON the
docket of said court, the undersigned, Joseph
O'Conner filed his petition against the said
Hattie E. O'Conner, praying for divorce from
her, for the reason that she, the said Hattie
f. O'Conner, not regarding her duty towards
him, the said Joseph O'Oonner. has been guilty
OF gross neglect of duty and of adultery.
4 he said Hattie f. O'Conner is required to
answer the said petition in said action not
later than Saturday, the 10Th day of August,
1899, which divorce may be granted in her alb
sence. JOSEPH OCONNER.
West & West, Attorneys for Plaintiff.
July 4. 1S99-6t
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-08-22
A LITTLE SERMON.

To be honest; to be kind; to earn
little and spend little less; to make,
upon the whole, family happier for
his presence; to renounce, when that
shall be necessary, and not be imbitter-
ed; to keep few friends, but these
without capitulation; above all, on the
same grim condition, to keep friends
a man has of fortitude and delicacy.-
Robert Louis Stevenson.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-08-22

Words may lie; music cannot.-Frank
Damroch.
Music is love in search of a word
Sidney Lanier.
In music all hearts are revealed to us.
ShOrthouse.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-08-22

EFFECT OF PROSPERITY ON GREAT
TRANSPORTATION LINES.

Larger Gross Receipts Than Ever Before
and a Verv Large Per Cent of the
Increase Goes to the Payment of
Labor.
There is nothing that more surely
indicates the general activity of indus
tries than the great rush of business on
the railroads.
The railroads constitute the arterial
system of the industrial and mercan-
the world. These means of transporta-
tion are entirely dependent on the ac-
tivity Of the producing classes for the
territory tributary to them, and their
prosperity is proportionate to the pros
perity of the farmers and wage earners.
For example: Exports and through
shipments of flour, grain and provis-
ions from Chicago to Atlantic sea-
board points by the all-rail lines the
first week in August amounted to
125,597 tons. against 29, ,129 tons for the
corresponding week last year. Flour
shipments were 5.161 tons, against
3,007 tons last year; grain, 100,540
tons, against 12,005 last year; provis-
ions, 1886 tons, against 14,117.
Here we see a vast increase in the
passage from the producer to the con-
sumer of the most common necessaries
of life. Money had to change hands
in favor Of the producer in so doing.
Those producers in turn become con-
sumers when in possession of money
to purchase manufactured articles,
which money again finds its way into
the pockets of the wage earners who
| manufactured the articles. Hence it is
that the activity of the great systems
of transportation indicate the activity
of all classes in this country.
Industrial activity in the United
States is synonymous with industrial
prosperity and happiness, for men, as
| rule, are never happier than when
| legitimately engaged in making
money
The increased, and still increasing
earnings of the railroads very elo-
| quently testify to the warm rays OF
prosperity that are beaming upon all
|
selected at random are illusrrativaa cf
ALL
| The Ohio Central has just completed
a statement for the fiscal year ending
June 30 that makes a very gratifying
showing. The gross earnings were
81 1897, 1867, an increase of $11S,252; op.
Grating expenses were 81, ,296, ,453, an in.
crease of $50,757; net earnings were
$601, Ala, an increase of SGT The
increase in gross earnings was on both
freight and passenger trafice.
The Kanawha and Michigan division
made a corresponding good showing
for the year. Gross earning were
$634,064 an increase of $75,722; oper.
ating expenses were $466,18S, an in.
crease of $60,099; net earnings $751;.
876, an increase of SIS, ,623.
1t is to be noted that while there
was large increase in the gross earn.
ings, very great part of this went tt
the wage earners. In the case of thu
Ohio Central nearly one-half of tn,
increase in gross earnings was pait
out in increased operating expenses
and the increase in operating expense.
was more than three-fourths labor. II
the case of the Kanawha and Michigan
over 100000 of the $4,000 increase il
gross earnings went into increased op
lerating expenses; in other words, cap
ital got only one-fifth and labor four
fifths of the total gain.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-08-22
NOTICE..

The Board of Managers of the Logan Coun-
ty Agricultural Society will receive bids, until
Saturday, Aug. 10, at two o'clock p. M, for the
erection and construction of u poultry build
ing, to be located on the fair ground, and COM
pleted on or before Sept. 20. 1899, according to
plans and specifications on file with E. Pat
Chamberlin, Secretary. A bond of three hun
dred dollars will be required. The Board re-
serves the right to reject any or all bids.
August Is, 1899.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-08-22
AuCtiOneer!

II. P. Runyon is having great success In
crying sales, and is prepared to answer all
call on short notice.
Rates given on application.
Address me at Degraff or leave orders at
REPUBLICAN, Office. BellefOntaine.
February S, 1899 tt. II. 2. RUNYON,
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-08-22

Michael Hauss' Logan Common Pleas
rno,a w Rnsb of nj Case No. 745s.
Austin's Hawaiian weekly. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1899-190?, 1899-07-15

Portraits.

Men and women are judged by the express
sion and modelling of the face, and the oper-
ator must necessarily be a good Judge of
human nature, to take anything from the
delineation of n good face in doing the i'm
dividual an injustice. A good photographer
must be careful in the composition OF por.
trait, for the camera cannot tell lie. Mr..
Davey guarantees perfect photograph.
Austin's Hawaiian weekly. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1899-190?, 1899-07-15

Wee Willie sat a-thinliing
And he shook his curly head.
Around him on the nursery floor
His treasures lay outspread.
Fire-craciers and torpedoes.
Trumpet and flag and drum.
Rockets and pinwheels and paper caps.
For Fourth of July had come.
"But it makes me sort o. Sorrv."
Wee Willie said with sigh,
"To think of those poor little English
boys
Without any Fourth of July"
CAROLYN WELLS.
Austin's Hawaiian weekly. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1899-190?, 1899-07-15
Modern Quips and Saws.

ley's humorous articles on politi-
cal affairs. The following anec-
dote is characteristic OF the quiet
wit of the new humorist. On his
way to the steamer that was to
bear him to England, he passed
short time in New York, where he
astonished everyone by his appear
ance. why" Richard Harding
Davis is satirically reported to
have said to him, II thought you
were an Irishman with red
beard" and then Mr.. Dooley is
said to have replied: "'And l ex-
pected to find you in shirt waist"
AS a matter of fact, the real Mr..
Dooley is known as Peter Finley
Dunno, and is a good-looking,
smooth-shaven young man with
quiet, simple manners and with
nice taste in dress.
A leading citizen in little town
in the north of Scotland was asked
TO take the office of elder in the
kirk. He seemed reluctant to ac-
cept the honor till wag, who
knew his weakness, whispered to
him that if he became elder he
would get five pounds and a pair
of trousers at the end of the year
The year passed away, and when
the promised garment did not APP
pear, the elder went to the minis
ter and said: 81 haven't got the
breeks yet" "Wl,at breeks?" said
the minister. The elder explained,
and the minister smiled, and de-
clared that the promise was only
silly joke. The elder expressed
great disappointment about the
trousers. and was turning away,
when the minister said, "You seem
to care more about the breeks than
about the money!" ooh, ay! the fl
pun" replied the elder: 81 just
helpt masel' to that fra the plate"
The following curious sentence,
"SATOR AREPO TENET OPP
ERA ROTAS," is pretty bad La
tin, but may be freely translated
81 cease from my work; the sower
will wear away his wheels"
1t has these peculiarities:
First, it spells backwards and
forwards the same.
Second. the first letter of each
word spells the first word.
Third. the second letter of each
word spells the second word. and
so on with the third, fourth, and
fifth.
Fourth. the last letters. read
backwards. spell the first word: the
next to the last the second word,
and so on throughout.
Fifth, there are lust as many let
tiers in each word as there are
words.
A Western man prominent as
NJ, o5,,oo+or +o11e of i, +~;,, ~, So.
Austin's Hawaiian weekly. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1899-190?, 1899-07-15

away again the driver talked and
told stories and acted like another
man. Later he explained the mat
ter 81 didn't take shine to you
this morning." he said, because I
thought you was gospel fellow,
but when l seen you eating pie
with fork, l knowed right away
you was gambler"
Crawford =" There is nothing
like perseverance.
Crabshaw-"S Still, it hasn't done
much for the English in their at
tempts to win a yacht race" -
Judge.
Little Gabe Gin the midst of his
reading)-"Why, l didn't know
that rabbits knew anything about
'rithmetic."
Farmer Hawbuck -" ct h y
don't"
Little Gabe-" But, paw, it says
here that rabbits multiply with as
tonishin' rapidity."- Judge.
Little Clarence THE funny
bone is in the elbow, isn't it, Par"
Mr.. Callipers-"Yes, my son."
Little Clarence-"Well, Pa, is
that what makes people laugh in
their sleeves ?"-Puck.
The "How sweetly the
baby sleeps, John"
The Husband-"Yes seems like
a dream, doesn't it ?"-Puck.
apan is the door of the East,
while China is more in the nature
of door-mat.
a PIGEONS Notwithstanding
to the Premier of New Zealand, a
homing pigeon flew from Victoria
to New Zealand in three days. The
distance is about 1000 miles. and
the bird must have flown without
rest at speed of about fifteen
miles an hour.
The funds invested so far in the
Paris Exposition amount to
fI,52o,ooo. OF this sum GI,I2o,-
900 have been paid away during
the present year The Paris NUM-
the 100000 promised by the city
cipality has contributed f4So,ooo OF
and 100000 have been supplied
by the Western of France Railway
and other various undertakings.
The State has contributed 100000
francs, and has agreed to pay 7.
100000 francs more before the end
of 1900.
Austin's Hawaiian weekly. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1899-190?, 1899-07-15

A Western man prominent as
an educator. tells of triD on a far
Western stage coach. He sat be-
side the driver and tried to engage
him in conversation. but the driver
was silent, and almost surly. The
stage stopped for dinner at little
eating house, and when it rolled
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-12-28

much; your own ambition and aTtsie
and Your husbands welfare aud sue
cess are eNacting constant surrenderS
of time and strength, Rut there should
he n limit, No woman can afford to-
sacrifice her health and welfare OF her
higher nature at any price, Work thus
becomes q molech hut why not re-
fuse the terrible Offering of lie and
blood ami strength It claimsr Take
time to rest Rocreate, read, attend
the quarterly meetings, A human
life, 4 souls happiness, is worth moro
than a few paltry dollars, the pteasure
az outshiaing Your neighhors, having n
better houSe Or better dressed chtld-
ron. Tired, nervous oyertaXed wives.
! drop tina, work now and run out aud
! breathe the fresh air Of the fields Take
! N0ur children ont under the trees, You
will be the better for It, the children
will he the better Tor Il, aud the work
IWtll not h. the worse, An hours
ramhle or rest, listening 70 the singing
Of The birds, the whirr OF insects.
watching the shadows play with the
sunshine, ana drinking In the reviving
/ freshness OF the balmy winds is cheap
er than a doctors cali"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-12-28
NEW YEARS IN OLD NEW YORK.

In ulden times ladies expended their
chief care upon loading their new
years tables Az IN example OF tho
masses of provisions exhibited we ara
told of family Of Dutch descent who
prepared every new years day n table
Of astounding profusIon There were
usually -four turkeys Of enormous slice
upon II. and there were two vessels
Of pIcklod oysters, which must have
contained about half n barrel each.
There were rounds OF beef roasted and
boiled and huge masses OF Dutch
compound called "headcheese' built
mp into architectural forms and deco
rated with parsley. The mlnco plos,
turnoyers, tnrts and new years cakes
were exhibited in mounds and In
credible fantastic heaps.
BESIDES the food on the tables Tiers
WAS provision made down stairs for
supplying hot oysters In various forms.
with hot coffee and tIf the truth must
be todd with hot punch
There was an imcnae bowl Of cold
punch of potent composition standing
IN the room and kept replenished
from 10 In the morning until mid
night Philadelphia Times
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-12-28
THE KINGDOM or THE CHILD,

There's a light Of Love today
Failing on the worlds highway,
l.ilt OF song, and flow of mirth,
Glow of Star, and thrill Of Birth,
last as when to nethclohem Town
Came the holy Christ-chid down.
And DER wars and tumults wild
Rose the Kingdom OF the Child
Thrang of angels In the sky,
Wondrous music floating nigh,
Cherubim and scraphim
Teaching earth It's Christmas hymn,
simple shepherds hushcd to hear,
&IstCn sagcs drawing near;
Rosy clouds of dawning piled
Round the chariot Of the Child.
O'or the manager stood the star
Slipped from heaven through gatos
ajar;
Lowry on a couch Of hay
Lay the God who took our clay
lsroodod by sweet breath of kline,
Small aud fair and all-DiVlne--
Little lovely child to be
King DER carth's great family,
thus, IN Thee, the undeiilod,
Damned the long rule Of the Child
There a Mother Maiden pale
Az a suowdrop, white and rrail,
In her eyes such sacred thought
As Lire's Angel Pain had wrought.
Hrut above her Infant sweet
Kissed the dimpca Of Ills feet.
In that place, serene and mild
Born the Kingdom of the Child
Wide and large that Kingdom spreads
Whercsueyer golden heads
Cluster round KrIss kringle's tree,
Grave with awe and mystery
Still Gods Angels find the way
70 our earth on Christmas bay;
Still the seeker and the sought
Each to each are safely brought
And a truce to passions Wild
Here's the Kingdom OF the child.
Tiny, cfumpled baby's hand
Strong to lead rs and command
Lady, Mother. full Of grace,
Queen and sradler Of the race,
Cbcrubim and seraphlm
Fill your cup and sing your hymn,
Gloria in EXeclss," Hear
How 1t echoes, far and near
Peace on earth, good VIII to men!"
Angel chorus, uttered when
Unto lowly Bethlehem Town
Came the blessed Christ.child down,
And DER wars and tumults Wild
Rose the Kingdom OF the child.
Margaret e. SanRster In the DE.
cembor Woman's Home Companion
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-12-28
THE RED CROSS NURSE.

The praises of the admirals are ringing
everywhere;
The plaudits of the generals are sing
ing in the air;
The men who sailed to sink their
lives within the Merrimac
$50 dauntless they that even death was
fearful to attackD,
The hard marines whose tactics knew
no signal for retreat,
In the rain of Mauser bullets and the
drench of tropic heat,
The rough and ready riders in their
resolute advance,
Ali make our daily records a continu~
Gus romance.
We cry them in our stories; we chant
them in our verse:
But let us sing a stanza for the Red
Cross army nurse.
She is in tile foremost battle she is In
the rearmost tents,
She wears no weapon of attack, no ar
NOR of defense.
She is drawer than the bravest, she is
truer than the true,
She asks not if the soldier struck for
red and white and blue.
She asks not If he fell beneath lne yell
low and the red;
She is mother to the wounded, she is
sister to the dead.
The victor's cheer rings in her ears,
but these she does not heed;
The victims means and dying groans
are given as her need,
And many a suffering hero chokes his
blind and sullen curse
To smooth 1t to a blessing for the Red
Cross army nurse.
Work on o noble army and the
crown of crowns be yours,
Not always shall destruction be the
glory which endures,
It is coming; it is coming; you are
helping on the day
When We learn the nobler action is to
succor. not 10 slay:
It Is coming; it is coming: you are aid.
ing Il along,
When we know the feeblest nation Is
as potent as the strong.
II is coming; IL is coming; you are
bringing IL to pass,
When the ships have shed their armo-
and the fortresses are glass
But in the stormy waiting till the ar
maments dispense.
Dur blessings on the flower Of war--the
Red Cross army nurse!
}. r. V. Cooke, In The Herald Of
Peace