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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-07-29

night after post meetin'. He made
few remarks about these kid soldiers
that wouldn't pass muster in u crowd
o. women, but they wuz satisfyin to
me-"
81 don't see why Cap Nesbit wants to
pick onto these boys. 1 think they de-
serve lot o. credit for enlistin' an
gon' down there in that hot country
To fight
"Enlistin's all right an fightin's all
right, If you DO it. don't begrudge no
man the credit of goin' out an fightin'
for his country. These boys done well
as far as they went, but don't want
no kid to tell me what war is until he's
been through one. These young fellers
got a sniff o blood, and now they think
they've been through the slaughter
house. There's old Dan Bailey that got
shot so often he didn't mind it at all
toward the last, laid in Andersonville
till he was a rack o. bones, came home
here lookin' like corpse, and amt seen
n well day since, and he amt as big n
man in this town to-day as that grand
son o his that went down there to Porty
lNlSO ldSl NlhlCl All lilO III
for six months smokin' cigarettes. He's
what they call hero now-had an ice
cream reception for him when he come
home, didn't they? l don't reckullect
that anybody had an ice-cream recep-
ton for old Dan when he come home
Heroes wasn't quite so gosh-danged
scarce about that time. Nobody paid
any attention to 'em. They used to
ship 'em in here by the carload, an
most o 'em went right on through town
an out to the graveyard. Wuzn't it you,
mother, that wuz reatin' the other day
about some regiment that wouldn't git
on train becuz they wuzn't no sleep
ers? Great Jehoshophat! Id like to
seen somebody ask old Col. Griggs for
sleepin'car. I'd like to heard what
he'd say. Sleepin' cars! We wuz tickled
to death to git box cars, cattle cars
anything on wheels. We didn't need
no porter to brush our cloze, for the
darned good reason that we didn't have
no cloze to brush. Then there's all this
talk about embammed beef. We'd "a
been mighty glad to git tit-embammed,
petrified, moldy or any other way. We
thought we wuz lucky if we could git
a little hunk O. salt pork to drop in with
the beans now an then. We wuzn't
out on no moonlight excursion by gosh,
playin' tag with lot o. tambourine
players. We wuz out in the underbrush,
dad ding my buttons, havin' it out with
the toughest lot o human panthers that
ever wore uniforms. An yit like as
not, if we go to breakin' in on this San
Jewan celebration, We'll git back seat
in the gallery. We amt heroes, guess.
Wy, on Decoration day these kids
marched in front, everyone O. 'em
putfed up like toad in a thunderstorm
bigger man than old Grant, as the
feller says. Now, they're goin' to cele-
brate the anniversary of San Jewan.
There wuz another likely sliirmish
about the same date. Gettysburg,
think they call it. Wonder why some
body don't celebrate that. Hah!"-
George Ade, in Chicago Record.
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GREAT REVOLUTION.
Automobiles to He Used In PLACE OF
Cnmels to TrnverSe the DeA-
erts of Africa.

II seems likely that trade in the des-
ert of North Africa is going to under
so startling revolution. The long
caravan of camels, with their tinlsling
bells and white-robed drivers, may
shortly become nothing but n poetic
memory and live only in verse, says an
exchange.
1t is the autocar which is to effect
this revolution, and the way has al
ready been prepared by the adventurous
tour of two Belgian noblemen, Baron
Pierre and Baron Joseph de Crawhez.
The tour lasted three, months and eX-
tended over vast tracts of northern Af-
rica.
Baron Pierre is the winner of the
great Observation-Disclosures automo-
bile race and it was with the same We
hicle, which he has called the "Den2s-
tation," that he undertook the joulphy
into Africa. From Brussels the broth
ers drove to Paris and from there made
their way through Spain, where they
took ship for Algiers.
They traversed the valleys and
georges of the Owed Dilemma and made
their way to Sakkamodi after diff
cult climb of nearly 20 miles. At this
point the real novelty of the attempt
began.
The brothers, as they encamped upon
the heights of the Tablat oasis, were
about to do what no one had ever before
attempted-to enter the desert upon
motor car.
1t was with very varied feelings chat
they slowly descended the heights and
came out, well provided with water and
provisions, upon the actual desert.
There are no policemen or traffic reg
ulations in the desert, and the drivers
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perfect health was reflected on each of
their beaming faces. The children were
eXuberant, and their arms We're filed
with roses and violets.
At Halsted street their laughter
ceased as they saw little girl of about
their own age being tenderly assisted
into the car. Her face was very pale,
for an accident which had happened TO
her some weeks before had made her u
cripple for life. AS she sat down she
crossed her lap with her crutches and
then enyiously glanced at the little
giris opposite to her. In another mo-
ment two childish heads were in earnest
conversation. Then followed the swift
but clumsy movements of their fingers.
A garland was woven and they walked
across to where the cripple was seated,
lifted her faded hat from her head, re-
placed it with the wreath, kissed the
little sufferer and then took their seats
again.
Did anyone in that car laugh? No,
but tears of joy ran down woman's
face. She was the mother of the two
little girls. Chicago Daily News.
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DAHLGREN'S COURAGE.
Illustrative and Interesting Incl
dents Related by a Veteran
of His staff.

After the launching of the Dahlgren
at Bath on Monday afternoon, May 30,
Mr.. and Mrs. John V. Dahlgren, of New
York, gave reception and banquet at
the Hotel Phoenix to the members of
the Kennebec Naval Veterans associa-
ton, the Bath iron works officials, and
others. Judge Charles Cowley, of
Lowell, Mass, who had served as Judge
advocate on Admiral Dahlgren's staff
ports, paid a glowing tribute to the
memory of the admiral.
''The incident of Perry shifting his
flag from one ship to another in the bat
tie of Lake Erie has often been quoted
as cool piece of daring, and so it was"
said Mr.. Cowley. But it was a thing
that Admiral Dahlgren did repeatedly
and thought nothing of. The man for
whom we have named this warship was
one of the most intrepid men who ever
lived. L was with him when the Har-
vest Moon was blown up. She was a
Maine-built vessel, designed for duty in
shoal water. When she struck the tor
pedo an immense hole was blown
through her bottom, and she sank in
about two minutes after the contact.
Never shall | forget the perfect cool
ness of the admiral upon that occasion.
l was standing aft on deck and imme-
diately after the explosion | heard
Lieut.. G. III. ReXford excitedly exclaim:
Admiral, we have struck a torpedo L
think it very likely, Mr.. Rexford,' said
the admiral, coolly. We got out of the
situation with our lives, but that we did
was due to the perfect discipline that
the admiral enforced and to his marvel
GUS ability to keep his head under the
most trying experiences"
The speaker referred to the fact that
Admiral Dahlgren was not only sailor,
but a man of science as well. Some of
his inventions" said MIR. Cowley, "have
been superseded by the modern disap-
pearing guns, but many of his creations
in the department of naval science still
remain of practical utility. During the
civil war many heavy guns burst, kill
ing and manning hundreds, but think
there has never been recorded the
bursting of Dahlgren gun. The Mon
itor that fought the Merrimac was
armed with Dahlgren guns, and had the
executive officer of the ship earlier in
the fight made up his mind to double
charge his guns, the southern boat
would never have withdrawn. She
would have been sunk then and there.
Lemar, the chronicler of the south, was
generous enough to say that it was the
Dahlgren gun that put down the re-
bellion. ."-Lewiston (Me.) journal.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-07-29
THREE DOG STORIES.
They illustrate the Jealousy Which
Is Sometimes Manifested by
HodsehOld Pets.

Your story In recent number of the
Spectator of the dog who buried the
kitten alive MAY perhaps be corrobor
ated by two others within the expert
ence of the writer. In both jealousy APP
pears to have been the motive for the
interment of the rival. A mongrel ter
rier excessively devoted to his mistress
was very jealous of her love for kit
ten. Often when the latter had been
caressed by the lady the former would
go off and scratch hole in the garden,
and then, fetching the kitten, would
bury it therein. To prevent the kitten
forcing its way out the terrier would
post himself upon the grave, and so,
unhappily for his purpose, would guide
to the speedy rescue of the latter by
its friends. Once he chose pail of SCOT
for the death tomb. AT other times
the dog and the kitten were good
friends and playmates.
Another dog, this time spaniel, re-
sentful of the importation of a tortoise.
which her I:Naster had bought for his
children ara given the range of the
lawn, determined to put her rival to
death by the same method. Very short
ly after its coming, both the dog and
the tortoise could nowhere be found.
Presently the dog returned with her
paws covered with earth; not so the
tortoise. Suspicious OF the spaniel, her
master coaXed her to come and look for
it, when she guiltily drew off to the
garden and stopped before a small
mound of earth, which, when removed
with stick, revealed the tortoise. He
who hides can find.
Perhaps l may add story of skye.
He, too, belonged to the owner of the
terrier, the culprit of the first story.
The skye's favorite place was, as it
should be, at his mistress feet. He was
generally quite well behaved, but would
have lost his character one day had he
been without excuse. The skye was
running in front of his mistress and her
husband, and suddenly surprised them
by flying at poor girl and holding her
prisoner. When they came to her res
cue they found her TO be a child to
whom had been given a pair of the
sliye's mistress shoes. To secure what
ne deemed to be thief of his mistress
property, and this the shoes that had
so tenderly rubbed him, was clearly his
duty, and he did it.-Spectator.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-07-29
THE AMERICAN SOLDIER.

'Tls far. far cry from the minute men
And times of the buff and blue,
To the days of the withering Jorgensen,
The hands that hold It true
'Tis far, far cry from Lexington
To the isles of the China sea,
But ever the same the man and the gun
Ever the same are we.
For the blood OF the sires at Bunker Hill,
Through countless fierce campaigns,
Is as red and eager in,perilBtill
In the depths of the children's veins,
And the heart and the eye support the hand
No matter what odds there be
Ever the same thy sons, land,
Ever the same are we.
Not Valley Forge, nor a Wilderness,
Nor hail of a Cuban steep,
Can take one jot of our fearlessness,
who daily thy honor keep
We cary the flag through varying scenes
From the sign of the old pine tree
To the Stars and Stripes in the Philippines
Ever the same are we.
And the lad with the fresh, unshaded
mouth
Fights as his fathers fought
And the man from the north and the man
from the south
Do as their fathers wrought.
And whether from city or farm we come
We answer the call with glee-
We heroes upspring at the beat of the
drum
Ever the same are We
Edwin l.. Sabin, in Munsey's Magazine.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-07-29
MRS. PEARL RICHARDS CRAIGIE.
(Better Known as John Oliver Hobbes.")

MRS. PEARL RICHARDS CRAIGIE.
CBetter Known as John oliver Hobbes.D
known man of letters to-day. Yes she
would follow in their footsteps. For
while her mind turned toward religion,
during which she became converted to
the Roman Catholic faith; but her love
for the drama asserted itself, and she
began playwriting as a profession.
Within two years she had written three
plays, all of which were successes.
Mrs. Craigie is a slender woman, not
very tall, but very well built. Her face,
eyes and hair are dark, and she has
wonderful sort of personal magnetism
which her friends believe would have
served her well had she gone on the
stage.
Mrs. Craigie has the singular habit of
concentration, rare gift to-day. When
she is about to write she sits long hours
and thinks about her plot. It's char
acters become human beings to her;
the scenes real places. To secure per-
feet quiet she goes in convent, where
she engages room for meditation and
remains there as long as it pleases her
to do so. She cannot work where there
is noise and liability to interruption,
and for that reason she goes to the con-
vent to think and write if only for a day
at time. Her best scenes, the most
worldly, sharpest lines in her plays are
written from the walls of the convent.
Mrs. Craigie has only just begun her
work, she believes. She wants to write
comedy, tragedy, another society
play and several curtain raisers in the
near future. She has contracted for
each one of these. She writes, when
once she puts pen to paper, very rapid
ly, and without erasure. She does her
thinking from beginning to end before
she begins, and when her thoughts are
completed she writes.
Her library is magnificent thing, on
the first floor of the great mansion. Her
fathers book shelves line the ROOM and
there are exquisite pieces of statuary,
wonderful first editions on the shelves,
rarest objects of bric-a-brac from India
and rugs from Belochistan. 1t is the
ideal writing spot. Mrs. Craigie's boy
is an active little lad of eight years,
whose instruction is left to governess
and tutor. He has nurse and maid
who care for him when his mother is
busy. Mrs. Craigie does not like to
leave her boy too much to hirelings, and
in spite of her work she manages to De
with him great deal. When putting
on new play her hours are very irregu-
lar. The rcliearsals begin at 12 o'clock
midnight and last until two in tile
morning.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-07-29
THE AUTOMOBILE IN THE DESERT

did not scruple to make the best pos
sible running. In the vast, sandy, bar
rem solitudes nothing was heard but
the painting, rafting machine which
was the pioneer of new era.
The vultures circled round the trav-
elers as they went, wondering what this
strange invasion could mean, perhaps
dimly feeling that this swift monster
had come to rob them of many dead
camel or Arab sheik in the future. At
Aumale, large French military sta
ton, rs miles southeast from Algiers,
the sound of the explorers horns pro-
duced a scare among the native popu-
lation. The natives focked out of
their huts and escorted the autocarists
to the authorities, who welcomed them
with every courtesy.
The return journey back to the coast
was more adventurous. At Bonira the
road was swept away by torrent, ris-
ing from the rain, and they were
nearly projected over precipice.
Once they came to n river, but drove
boldly into the flood. The bottom was
very rough and the car bumped from
side to side, but after most perilous
passage, being nearly swept away more
than once, they reached the other side
in safety. Their proudest achievement,
however, was the crossing of a ridge
of the Atlas mountains, through vast
snowdrifts, at the height of $500 feet
above the sea level.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-07-29
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POPULAR IN LONDON.
Mrs. CrnIEie, an American Writer,
Has become the Fashion in
Englnnd's Metropolis.

An American girl is the rage in Lon
don; not Edna May in the BELL of New
York." but John Oliver Hobbes," Mrs.
Craigie, author of the successful play,
"rhe Ambassador" and the writer of
many other dramas.
Mrs. Craigie began playwriting
some years ago and won success
from the start. The last two years she
has devoted herself to it entirely, and
has now reached that delightful stage
of writer's career when everything
she writes is engaged before it leaves
her pen.
Thirty-two years ago there played in
Boston little girl, Pearl Mary Theresa
Richards, tall progressive little girl,
who could be very serious at the slight
est appeal to her imagination. Her
pastimes were dolls and stage, also
whole lot of writing materials.
AS the girl grew up she was taken
abroad for education, and on one of her
visits she married Reginald Walpole
Craigie. She was then only 10 years
old: and in the next four years she suf-
fered much unhappiness, out of which
grew the flower of genius.
Mrs. Craigie, at "a, secured divorce
and the custody of her boy; and with
the child went to live with her father,
DIR. Richards, editor of the Athenaeum,
who resides in a splendid mansion in
Lancaster Gate, near Hyde Park, Lon
don.
One day Mrs. Craigie sat down to
think. She had written little and had
an audience who admired her under the
name of John Oliver Hobbies. Why not
go on writing! She came of literary
stock. Her great-grandfathe was the
founder of Auburn Theological semina-
ry, her grandfather was the noted New
York clergyman; her father a we'll
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-07-29

"These boys don't remember the other
war;
81 guess they don't-I just good an
guess they don't. If they did they
wouldn't be spoutin' so much about
bein' heroes an all that. There's
blamed sight o difference between
chasin' some runt of a dago with
white feather in each hand and chasin'
six~foot Johnny Reb that jest raises
up on his everlastin' hind legs an como
at you like runaway horse, breathin'
smoke out of his nose an ears, y Cory,
an yellin' like an Injun. It's easy
enough to chase anything that runs the
other way, but this hero jobs got its
drawbacks when the other feller gets
it into his head that he wants to do the
chasin' an swoops out o. the woods
like an Ioway cyclone, by gosh, pump
in lead into you till you git too heavy
to run. Battle! When we had 'em
stacked up till we couldn't see over
'em an every regiment 'uz whitfield
down to company an our flags blown
into carpet rags an the blood got so
deep it wet the ammunition in the wag-
ons we used to begin to suspect that
we'd had a battle. Somethin' little
less argymentative than that we called
a skirmish. Anything the size O. this
San Jewan basket-meetin' we didn't
keep no tally of at all. That kind o.
come under the head O. target practice" /"
81 wouldn't be too hard on 'em, IA
ther. They say these boys fought real
well down there in Cuby."
"Well, to see 'em struttin' around
town here in their cowboy hats and
gassin' in front of every store you'd
think. by cracky, that every one o.
them had chawed up a thousand o
them Spanish generals, whiskers an
all. You take some old codger that
crawled through them swamps for four
years, dodgin' mimic balls and nothin
to keep him alive but hardtaclS an hot
slough water, an he amt in it no more
with one o. these cussed little whipper
snappers, by ginger, that-well, yol
ought 80 heard old Cap Nesbit the Other
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-07-29
Spinach n In NormandIe.

Wash one pound of potatoes, peel
them and cut them in half lengthwise.
Bake till soft and brown, with piece
of good beef dripping as big as wal
nut on top of each. Pick off stalks,
weeds and rubbish from two pounds
of spinach, and put it into a saucepan
with half pint of water, tablespoon
full of salt, and small pinch of soda.
Cook quickly for ten minutes, press
ing down with a wooden spoon, and
don't let it stick. Drain, chop fine, melt
two ounces of butter in a saucepan,
turn in the spinach to get thoroughly
hot, then put it down the center of a
hot dish, in n straight heap. Put the
baked potatoes down the middle of the
spinach, letting the slices overlap;
pour around one pint of tomato sauce;
and put half a pint of peas, either fresh
or canned, in four heaps around the
dish.-Housewife.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-07-29

with turn bands of linen hemstitched
and turned over the edge.
An ethereal design is suggested by
the ''Loie Fuller" which has a stock OF
dark satin finished with bows of chif-
fon tied la papilion.
The "Twentieth Century" is, natural.
ly, very "mannish," and simple. 1t is
rather narrow, finished with two little
points of lawn scalloped at the back,
and a small bow in the front.
The broad puff is as stylish and be-
coming as ever. Its newest feature is
that it is made wider and comes in q
greater variety of fabrics.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-07-29
A QUEER HOLE.

I have heard of boy who lived long ago
For such boys are not found nowadays,
you know
Whose friends were as troubled as they
could be
Because of hole in his memory.
A charge from his mother went in one day,
And the boy said: Yes" and hurried away;
But he met man with a musical top,
And his mothers words through that hole
did drop.
lesson went in. but-ah me! ah me!
For boy with a hole in his memory
When he rose to recite he was all in q
doubt,
Every word of that lesson had fallen out.
And at last, at last!-oh, terrible lot!-
He spoke only two words: II forgot"
Would it not be sad, indeed to be
A boy with hole in his memory?
Advocate and Guardian.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-07-29
SELECTING A CAT.
Fnncier Imparts Some Valuable
Hints to Boys and Girls fn
Search of Feline Pets.

Most of the cats that children have
for pets are never chosen at all. They
just wander into n house, purr con-
tidingly about some member of the
family, are given a saucer of milk,
petted a bit, and, before anybody re-
allies it, the stray visitor has settled
down in the household.
That is the way cats are usually
adopted, and sometimes these chance
pussies make the best sort of COM
panions. But now and then a boy or
girl is promised cat and given an
opportunity to pick one out at regu-
lar cat store. Then, of course, the
greatest taste and care are exercised
in making the choice. Here is some
thing a cat fancier has to say about Sc
lecting pet.
''Io find a good-natured cat, just the
sort of one for children to play with,
look for a well-developed bump on its
head, between the ears. 1t should have
nose that is round and short, kind OF
pug, and full cheeks and upper lip.
"The cat whose nose is thin and
sharp, and whose ears twitch nervous
ly, will never make good pet. As
for mousers, they are rather tricky
when it comes to petting. The keen
mouser has full, sharp and eloquent
eyes.
"The best and gentlest of cats,
though, can be ruined by overfeeding.
Too much meat is always, bad, but
especially in warm weather. Cats, as
well as people, grow cross and irritable
if their stomachs are out of order
n. Y. Herald.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-07-29
ChiIdren a. verso wrItcr,.

A lady who makes songs for children,
and makes them well, urges the cultiya-
ton of The verse-writing faculty in
little ones, and says: "A mother VINO
kept the most characteristic lines writ
ten by her children would have some
thing much more precious than photo
graphs. by which she could bring to
mind in later years the days of their
childhood; and she would have glimpses
into their little souls when those souls
were most innocent and full of hope"