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Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1899-12-27
DiSBARRED AND D,SSRACtD.

by n unanimous decision Of the su.
preme court John B. Welcome Inns
been disbarred from the practice of
law In this state, thecOurt practically
finding him guilty OF bribery as
charged.
Although this paid tool may not
be further pursued, he has been brand.
ed as q criminal by the highest conrt
In the state and should be SD regarded
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1899-12-27
A. r. & A. NJ.

Masonic stationeryo of all varieties. programs,
invitations, announcements, souvenirs, folders,
etc. An elegant lite can be seen Al this office.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1899-12-27

Pettlgrewo Of South Dakota IS crow
ing more petty every day. HIS po-
litieal sun il rapidly settling.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-06-02
ROOSEVELT AND HONEST MEN.

In peace, as in war, Colonel Roose-
velt has pronounced opinions and rad
ical ways. In his late address before
the Independent Club, of Buffalo, upon
the use and abuse of property, he said:
The rich man who buys privilege
from Board of Aldermen for rail-
way which he represents, who gets a
privilege through the Legislature by
bribery and corruption for any corpora
tion, is committing an offense against
the community, which it is possible
may some day have to be condoned for
in blood and destruction-not by him,
not by his sons, but by you and your
sons.
The one hope and one safety in deal
ing with this problem is to send into
our public bodies men who shall be
honest; who shall realize their obliga-
tions to the rich and poor alike, and
and who shall draw the line, not be-
tween the rich man and the poor man,
but between the honest man and dis
honest man.
There is a keynote in that paragraph.
Put honest men into all public bodies.
Then municipality, a State or Ma
tion need have no concern about the
future. Draw the line between honest
men and dishonest men when they are
up for Office, and there win be nc
trouble.-Cin. Com. Tribune.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-06-02
THE MACHETE's DEADLY CUT.
Lieut.. Lying, from Havana, Telis
How q Spaniard's Body
Was Severed.

The execution possible with a machete
when welded by a brawny Cuban
horseman is told by Lieut.. L. Lying,
assistant surgeon y. S. A., who is home
in Minneapolis on a furlough from Cuba.
During his service in Cuba Lieut.. Lying.
whose swarthy complexion causes him
to be mistaken for Cuban officer often
er than for a native of Norway, which
he is, collected many photographs and
relics, says the Chicago News.
"While I was in attendance In one of
the operating wards" said he, "a Span
lard was brought in who had been all
but cut in two by machete. The blow
severed his left arm just below the arm
pit, and proceeded through the mans
body until it encountered the spine and
breastbone. Few soldiers who fell afoul
of deft fencer with the machete ever
lived to tell the tale"
Among Lieut.. Lyng's collection OF
photographs is one of gigantic heap
of bones of reconcentrados whose bod
les had been thrown in pile on the out
skirts of Havana and covered with
lime. Another picture shows pit full
of skeletons, where the work of the
auicklime had been left to vultures.
These were bones of persons whose
bodies were dug up and moved out OF
cemeteries because relatives had been
unable to keep up the installment pay
ments on their graves.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-06-02
DAFFODIL LAND.
A New York Artists Description OF
the Charms of the Sicily
Islands.

A letter written by New York artist
who is painting there gives an enthusi-
astic description of the Scilly islands,
which have, so far, been comparatively
unknown to American tourists. Even
the English have been slow in realizing
the charm of the islands so near their
own shores, but it seems that this
spring many artists have gone to "daf-
fodil land" and the winter exhibitions
will probably be flooded with pictures
of the islands. Daffodils have always
grown in great profusion in the Scilly
islands. February and March are the
height of their blossoming time, and,
to quote the artists letter:
1.-The whole land is a blazing sea OF
brilliant yellow daffodils, surging up
upon gray rocks and falling back In
foambursts of white narcissus. Even
the tulip fields in Holland don't give
such gorgeous effects of color. You
should stand on one of the little hills
here and look across the sunlit fields If
you want to see the loveliest things In
the world; yet, sometimes 1 think the
f1ower-drifted land is more beautiful
under moonlight than In the daytime; I;
and, daytime or nighttime, the air is
scented as though 1t blew straight from
Araby the blest."
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-06-02
LETTER FROM WASACHT.
HARDY, ARK, May IS, 1899.

HARDY, ARK, May IS, 1899.
EDITOR AND FRIENDS OF THE REPUBLICAN:
1t has been quite long time since have
had a line in your good, old paper 1t was not
because 1 had forgotten you, as L read the
REPUBLICAN twice week just the same as Of
old. was called away from my home some
days ago and as I have become somewhat
/ homesick since being away and having to
| wait for a train from o'clock D. m till 12:5a
a. M, thought would write you.
This is one OF the greatest grass and fruit
| countries L ever saw. The grass all over the
| hills and wales is knee high and all kinds of
| stock are as fat as seals.
This railroad station of about 800 people has
shipped over 100 crates of Strawberries per
day for five or six weeks. The apple pear,
plum and small fruit trees and vines are
| ladened The peaches are partially killed.
| Wheat, oats and grass look well over Ten
nessee and also here, all along my route.
Corn is uneven. The people whom have
been engaged with have planted their corn
over twice; all in the valley of the Yellow
creek In Tennessee 1t was the incest of any
large fields have seen yet. The potato CROP
| east OF Memphis, which Is quite extensive, Is
all out in bloom and looks well. All potatoes
in Arkansas from Memphis up here, 135 miles
look well.
met several old Logan county boys, who
are railroad engineers, on my trip. Mr.. Lou
Cutting, who was running fast night express
from Pine Bluffs, Missouri, to Memphis, was
Obliged to quit over a year ago on account OF
losing one of his eyes by water gage glass
bursting. He is now foreman of the round
house at Pine Bluffs, where three divisions
run in. Lou is well and doing well. also
met Billie Mildes and Frank Mallen, two boy.
who were formerly upon the old G. 8. & G
K. r. in Rush R. Sloan's days.
We are still enjoying ourselves in Tennessee,
but have moved over near McEwen, Tennes
see, good live town about like Belle Center
shipping the most grains and other articles O
any station on the road, from Nashville t,
Jacksonville, Tennessee. 1t is level countr,
for three to seven miles all around it, w,
have all kinds of churches. colleges and goot
schools, and a great many northern people
lover forty families from Ohio, and quite
number of Amish Dutch people who are yer,
prosperous and good farmers. The Tennesse
people say the northern people know how t.
farm.
Politics are low, but have heard numbe
Of good Democrats say that Bryan would b
nominated, but never elected. Excuse haste
Very Truly,
J. H SIMPSON
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-06-02

Kansas is the great soldier state and
is furnishing the greatest fighting
regiment in the Philippine war. Kan
sas is the greatest agricultural state
and turns out, yearly, more farm pro-
ducts than can be bought with all the
gold that has been dug out of the
Klondike mines. Kansas produces
more live stock, more poultry, more
butter and eggs and more fruit and
garden vegetables in proportion to the
area devoted to the business, than
were ever produced in the Promised
Land of the Israelites or the far famed
valley of the Nile. Kansas has pro-
duced more populists, more grass
hoppers, more cyclones and more pol
iticians to the quarter section than
any other country on earth, but those
were products of her early adversely.
She now appears at the head of the
procession and her farmers and bust
ness men have learned to raise more
corn and larger business houses, more
cattle and better boys, than can be
grown from the soil of any other state.
Treasures laid up in Kansas are beyond
the reach of thieves and moth and rust
do not corrupt. Through difficulties
she has moved onward and upward
toward the stars until life in "Sunny
Kansas" is one glad, sweet song
Pratt KS Register.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-06-02
GIVE FORTH INJUSTICE"

11N Il L O1t Il IA O04Si
thus defied them all, single-handed? :?
But, scared though they were, they
could not give up their hopes of plum
der so easily.
''The wise man hath said: Words
are but dried leaves, deeds are fruit, :"
replied the chief. "What proof dost
thou give us that thou art an en-
chanter?"
"Can the sons of the Arabs call forth
music out of stones?" asked Herr Al
tenstein.
mo, nor canst thou, either" an
swered the robber.
II can." rejoined the professor, SOL
emnly, "and thou thyself shalt see it.
Behold"
So saying, he wound up his musical
box under cover Of the skirt of his
loose robe, and then, feigning to pick
up stone, he placed the boN-whose
gritty surface made it look exactly like
one-on the bowlder beside him and
called out to it:
"Give forth music!"
The first notes of "Die Wacht am
Rhein" had scarcely fioated on the air
when they were drowned by howl of
dismay from the robbers, who turned
and fled as if lion were chasing them.
One let fall his gun; another broke his
head against a rock; a third fell
sprawling into ditch; fourth upset
one of his flying comrades and tumbled
over him. Never was there a more COM
plete stampede" and so long as Prof
Altenstein remained in that part of the
country no one ventured to molest him
any more.-Golden DAYS.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-06-02

very mysterious and wonderful person
In their eyes, and his strange doings--
which grew stranger still every time
thev were told-were the talk of the
whole country round.
But it unluckily happened that
among the many who heard and won-
dered at these stories were band OF
Arab robbers who haunted the neigh
boring mountains; and it struck these
gentlemen that it would be no bad plan
to get hold of this woodworking
European, force him to unearth some
of the hidden money for them, and so
make themselves rich for life.
one hot afternoon the professor had
wandered to a considerable distance
from the camp in search of new spots
to dig for relics. He was sitting in the
shade OF bowlder, thinking over all he
had done and all that he meant to do,
when suddenly there came gliding out
from between two great rocks right in
'front.' of him six or seven tai, wild-eyed,
ferce-looking Arabs, in soiled white
turbans and ragged blue frocks, every
man with long gun on his shoulder
and huge knife in his tattered GRIM
son sash.
Herr Altenstein knew at the first
glance who these grim-looking fellows
were, and what they wanted. But he
had not lived for years in the east with
out knowing how to deal with Arabs.
He never stirred from his place, but
only turned his head slowly round, and
looked full ut them through his great
| green spectacles, without uttering a
| word
| Now, a story has got abroad about
these spectacles, as about everything
else belonging to- the "enchanter." 1t
was said that he had killed tiger and
put on its eyes over his own, by which
means he could find his way in the
dark and see things which were to be
seen by no one else. So when the SUI
] perstitious robbers saw the glare of
these terrible double eyes" turned full
, upon them they began to lose heart al
once, to hang back as If the professor
had been q loaded cannon.
Then Herr Altenstein rose slowly to
his full height aud cried in Arabic:
"Who are ye who dare to disturb me
on my own ground?'
The robbers looked scared, for ar
eastern brigand is always inclined te
be afraid of any man who does not
seem at all afraid of him. But theil
chief thought of the buried money an6
plucked up courage.
"Art thou the western enchanter?' p
asked he.
81 am," said the professor, sternly
"and 1 know well why ye come. Yo,
wish to seize me and make me brins
gold out of the earth for you; but
fear not"
The brigands eyed each other in dis
may. Who was this man, who coul'
read their secret thoughts? And VIII
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-06-02
The LAND OF PEACE.

Oh, tell me the way to the realms of peace,
Where in childhood days we strayed:
Where we plucked fair blossoms from
boughs of gold,
And then, when the days sweet tale was
told,
Slumbered and walked in peace.
We have travelled far from the peaceful
land. 4.s.e
Where those sunny days were spent,
Out into the world Of sorrow and care,
Away from the quiet and beauty there
In that far-off land of peace.
And we often sigh, mid the toll and strife
OF this workaday world of ours,
For glimpse of the sunny lanes and dellS,
The sound of the magical, musical bells
OF our childhood 3 realms of peace.
Oh, tell me the way to the realms Of peace;
have searched for 1t far and wide;
Have somtimes fancied saw its trees,
And the snowy wings on the evening
breeze
OF its brooding angel of peace.
We may not return to the sun-kissed CLINE
| OF our childhood dreams again;
We have travelled too far; our weary feet
The long, long journey could not repeat
To regain that land of peace.
But we journey on to a fairer land
Than that which in dreams we see;
And we know full well, sometime, some
where.
We shall catch the radiance, wondrous,
fair,
| OF the land of perpetual peace.
| We shall catch the notes Of sweeter song
Than e'er we have dreamed or heard;
We shall see vision of streets. all gold;
| We shall fall asleep as in days of old,
And slumber and wake in peace.
Harriet e. Hull. in Good Housekeeping.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-06-02

The wreck of the Paris affords q
striking contrast to the wreck Of the
French liner short time since. 1t will
be remembered that at that time the
crew completely lost their heads. and
fought desperately for their lives. The
rights of the passengers were forgotten.
In fact, it was the crew that was saved;
the passengers were drowned. In the
wreck of the Paris, so perfect was the
order, with the captain standing upon
the bridge like statue and the seamen
moving quietly about, that even the
women stood unconcernedly in line
waiting to be lowered into the lifeboats.
The wreck of the Paris speaks volumes
for the discipline on the American line.
-Ev
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-06-02
HORSE OF THE UNDERTAKEN.
Circumstances In Which 1t Takes
on the Briskness of the
Living

The horse of the undertaken, drawing
the black and sober wagon, is common
ly driven, not at walk, but trot,
though trot that is never fast. There
are times, however, when the horse
seems to take on an added touch of
briskness and animation, in keeping
with its surroundings, as, for instance,
when it is seen, as sometimes it may be,
with it's black wagon, in the busy, quick
moving throng of vehicles that fills the
streets in the neighborhood of Broad
way and Thirty-fourth street, at the
theater hour at night, says the New
York Sun.
Here and at this time, in this constant
weaving of light and motion, of cars
running back and forth on the elevated
road overhead, and moving cars, cable,
trolley and horse, on the streets below,
intermingled with all sorts of vehicles,
including carriages of all descriptions,
coaches, broughams, hansoms, electric
cabs, and so on, everything and every
body seems to be in hurry; or, if not in
a hurry, to be going with a rush, quick
ly, eagerly, with the anticipation of
pleasure. The cars are crowded as they
rush by, and every carriage is dawn
briskly.
Emerging from the busy traffic may
| sometimes be seen an undertakers
wagon, its black, vanished sides glis-
tening in the electric lights, its silver
plate shining and its horse going right
along smartly. The wagon is just as
black, just as decorous as ever, and the
driver the same, but it seems as though
the horse had caught the spirit of the
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-06-02

Says the Chicago record: This is
President Harrison's first trip abroad.
He has never before been outside the
limits OF the United States, and does
not expect to return for two years or
more. In the meantime he and Mrs.
Harrison will visit the principal cities
OF Europe, and perhaps spend the win
ter in Egypt and the Holy Land. The
ex-President takes with him a special
passport, prepared by direction OF Sec
retary Hay, and when the custom
house or police officials of the effete
monarchies examine it they will learn
that he is about the biggest fish that
was ever landed in their net.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-06-02
EEXPLORED TOO MUCH.
A Hustling Yankee Skip
per Greatly Disturbed
a City.
He Proved That 1t Was Not the Head
of Navigation on the Amazon
River. sesxk

Washington, May, 1899.---The Navy
Department has just received from
Commander Todd, of the Wilmington,
an interesting account of the remark
able voyage of an exploration of the
Amazon River, made by that vessel in
April last. The Wilmington was in
structed by the Navy Department to
push on up the great river, and ascer-
tain how far it was navigable. Captain
Todd reports that he ascended to Yui-
quitos, in Peru, which is about 2, 100
miles up the river. The voyage was
made, as he says, against an adverse
current averaging three knots for the
entire distance. .ta 80
Manaos, at the junction of the Rio
Negro with the Amazon, has hereto
fore been regarded as the head of navi-
CATION for steam vessels, and from that
fact it has grown to be a prosperous
city of $40, 600 inhabitants. Consequent
ly, the intention of Captain Todd to as
cend the river above that point caused
CONSERVATION, and in the end, as reveal
ed by subsequent reports, led to some
adverse demonstrations against the
American Consul and against the ma
tive pilots who assisted the Whining
toms commander to make the voyage.
Captain Todd succeeded, notwith-
standing these obstacles, in ascending
the Amazon for one thousand miles
above Manaos, and, had it not been for
lack Of fuel, he could. have steamed
about 300 miles further, he believes.
AS it was, the Wilmington, which en-
tered the Amazon from the Atlantic,
was within about 400 miles of the
Pacific and well into Peru before she
turned back down the river.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-06-02

THE Episcopal church has had
another distinguished accession from
the Presbyterian church. Rev. Charles
Shields, former Professor in Princeton
University, who signed petition for 9
Princeton inn, or saloon, and was con-
demned for his action by his Presby-
terry, resigned his position, left the
Presbyterian church and has been
made a priest in the Episcopal church.
He is IA years old. He ought to have
needed the voice of his church, If he
thinks it is witness for Christ, and
not gone off in huff.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-06-02
LIGHTS OUT.

How often in our little boat
On summer evenings we would float
Careless of time, of east and west,
Ceasing from idle talk and jest,
As DER the waters restless flow,
Drifted in cadence sweet and low,
That plaintive bugle cali
Lights outi''
How through the old fort 1t would ring.
Strange echoes from the classmates bring.
While we would wait, our oars at rest
Upon the rivers peaceful breast,
And watch the yellow lamp CLEANS die
At the silvery warning sigh
OF that plaintive bugle call
Lights out!"
From faroff camp, from land of fears,
Ger wastes of distance, parting, tears,
Comes the familiar sound of old,
Our life in darkness to enfold.
Alone, upon life's troubled sea,
The fateful message comes to me,
OF that plaintive bugle call
Lights outi"
Gertrude F. Lynch in Chap Book.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-06-02
THE ONLY DOOR OUT.

A man must not choose his neigh
bors. He must take the neighbor that
God sends him. In that neighbor,
whoever be he, hidden or unrevealed, q
beautiful brother. The neighbor is
just the man who is next to you at the
moment. This love of our neighbor Is
the only door out of the dungeon of
self.-George Mcdonald.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-06-02
THERE ARE OTHERS.

Columbus, o., May 31.-Mr. F. o.
Brown, of Canal Dover, O., . brake
man employed on the Pittsburg Divis-
ion of the Panhandle, was operated
upon in this city yesterday afternoon
by DR.. Charles Turner, of Mt. Vernon
and Monroe avenues, for abnormally
large ears,
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-06-02
His Prophecy Came True,

Thirty-four years ago Secretary
Seward offered Chauncey Depew the
ministry to Japan. He refused, pre-
ferring to become counsel for the Har-
lem railroad, which was the beginning
of his connection with the Vanderbi1ts,
Mr.. Depew then said: "If I stay in this
position my practice will grow, and
when I am old If I want to go to the
senate or to get mission 1 shall prob
ably succeed" It is only now, after "a
years, that his words have come true.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-06-02
One SPOT Avoided by SparrOws.

In the fourth edition of YarrelPs
British Birds" Prof. Newton, f. r. s.,
gives in footnote the curious fact that
in the village of Shepstor, moorland
village of Devon, England, the sparrow
is never seen. This is the sole eXcep-
ton known to the professor to the spar
rows universal distribution in Eng
land,
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-06-02
IN SEARCH OF ANDREE.

Copenhagen, May 25.-The expedi-
tion under Prof. A. G. Nathorst, which
is to search along the northeast coast
of Greenland for Prof. Andree, the
missing aeronaut, sailed today from
Helsingborg, Sweden.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-06-02
]. w. YOUNG, M. D.

DHYSICIAN and Surgeon. General prac-
L tice of medicine Have special test
lenses for accurately fitting glasses for those
who need them. Office 135 West Columbus
Ave. Residence, 40a East Sandusky Ave.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-06-02

The high court of England costs the
country about C 100000 a year, the ex-
penditures being 6 6OO,o and the re-
ceipts 6 100000. The salaries of the
judges come to e14s, s,462, and those of
other officials to E 24s, 1903. The pen
sions of retired judges amount to e TO-
575, and those of ex-officials to 6 IS, ,9o2.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-06-02
HAMILTON BROS,

A ATTORNEY-AT-LAW and Real Estate
IA Agents. Office in the Hamilton Building,
east of the Logan House, BelefdAtaine, Ohio
Particular attention given to collections and
settlement of estates. VIII practice in State
and U. s. Courts. All business promptly at
tended to.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-06-02
FRANK A. POOL,

PHYSICIAN and Surgeon, Office-135 West
i Columbus Ave-, Bellefontaine, o. Special
attention given to the treatment of all forms
of rupture and pelvic diseases. All calls
answered IRON the Office.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-06-02
John c. HOVER.

A TTORNEY-AT-LA Special attention
n given all office practice, settlement of
estates, collections and loans. Office and s,
Lawrence Block, Bellefontaine Ohio.