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Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-01-05

General Wheeler is old but full of
ideas, and his plan for higher educa-
tion among Cubans is excellent, OBJ
serves the New York Commercial Ad
vertiser. He proposes, in brief, that
each American college give free tut
tion to few Cuban youth. The col
leges are doing well in agreeing to
General Wheeler's plan, and it will
be good thing for Cuba. Wealthy
Cubans have sent their sons here to
be educated nearly as often as to Eu-
rope, but now the wealthy class are
embarrassed, and the middle class are
poor. No doubt many Cuban youth
who would otherwise be prevented by
poverty from coming here for educa-
tion will be able to come nnder this
plan. Anything to spread American
ideas, the English language, and ac-
quaintance with scientific and me-
chanical progress among the Cuban
people will be salutary, The closer
connection there is between Cuba and
the United States the better for the
Cubans and for civilization.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-01-05
British Naval Attache Under Fire.

1t was in this fight that shrapne
shell struck the road within ten inches
of the foot of the British naval attache,
Captain Paget, and lifted five Wiscon
sin volunteers off their feet and
knocked them down. For a moment
Paget was lost to view in a cloud Of
dust and smoke, from which no one
expected to see him reappear alive, but
he strobe out of it untouched, remark.
ing, in tone of extreme annoyance,
''There was shell in the Soudan once
did exactly that same thing to me. "
His tone seemed to suggest that there
was limit to any mans patience. a
few minutes later solitary tree be.
meath which he was sitting was struck
by another shell which killed two aud
wounded three men. Paget, who had
been in dozen campaigns, took it all
as a matter of course and assisted one
of the wounded men out of the range
of the bullets from the side of steep
and high hill. The sight did more to
popularize the Anglo-American alliance
with the soldiers than could the
weightiest argument of ambassadors
or statesmen. Richard Harding Davis
in Scribner's,
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-01-05

A flash Of Arbitration filed the cor
poraPs eyes. 'eGod, sir!' he NUT
tered. they'll shoot you like dog;
L"
ITO the rear, sir!' shouted Captain
Bnrden; 'he's light and
Then, as the bulky corporal lifted
the wounded cavalryman, singing him
across his shoulder like bag of meal,
Burden faced the astonished Span
iards.
"No," cried Hardey, struggling in
the arms which would bear him in
safety; "stop, for Gods sake, cor
poral!" Then, in an appeal of agony:
"Save yourself, Burden; she will not
marry me, it's you-"
The sharp crack of the captains re-
volver cut short the sentence. ''Run!'
he shouted; ''I'll hold them off,"
-Four times the revolver cracked ere
the Spaniards, realizing twas but one
man who confronted them, raised theil
rifles.
Corporal Joyce, tearing through the
chapparal, heard the whiplike crack
of the dreaded Mausers, then once
more the sharp report OF the captains
revolver. Afterward came silence,
save for the groaning of Private Har-
dey and the rustic of the parting
branches.
On the morning of July 3, after the
charge on El Caney,an an orderly halted
before the quarters of the fighting
til.
ga letter for Captain Burden" re-
piled he to the sentry's query, "franked
at the war department, an from lady.
l reckon he won't want to wait for it,
The colonel pushed aside the tent
flap. Surgeon" said he, turning to
the officer who followed him, ''tell that
fellow Captain Burden s dead, killed in
an ambuscade. And, surgeon, you'd
better take the letter and forward it to
Washington. Washington Star.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-01-05

Princeton defeated Yale in football
this season by one brilliant play. 1t
was not the kind of defeat college
men enjoy; if they must be beaten
they would rather be overcome by
conventional football. In some quar-
ters the victory will undoubtedly be
called fuke, but it was not fuke,
it was chance-a chance in thou
sand-instantly seized and turned to
most brilliant account. In general
the two teams were evenly matched,
Yale being better ground-gaine
Princeton being better at punting.
Poe seized the one opportunity that
offered and won the victory. In foot
ball as in war, that is genius.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-01-05
The Discovery of a crannog.

About mile east of Dumbarton
Rock, in the Firth of Clyde, dwell
ing on piles, OF crannog, has been dis
covered below high-water mark, some
fifty yards from the -lowwater mark.
1t is 1874 feet in circumference, the
outer circle piles being of oakwood,
sharpened with stone axes. The trans.
verse beams and floor are of oak,
willow, elder and branches of fir,
beech and hazel, with bracken (ferns),
moss and chips. In the refuse heaps
outside of the crannog were found the
bones of stays, cows, sheep, signs of
fire, many fire stones, and a milestone
or hone. Near by was a canoe
thirty feet long by four feet
wide, followed from a single trunk of
oak. This crannog is the first yet
found in an estuary, and it evidently
dates from the Stone Age; therefore,
it seems earlier than others yet found
in the British Isles. Public Opinion
Uondon).
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-01-05

How much reverence have we !.
Some years ago at an auction in Edin-
burgh two bones announced to have
formed part of Robert Bruce's anat-
omy, fetched $40, and one of the ver-
tebra of William the Conqueror sold
for $22.5 What is called ga most
interesting relic" was put under the
hammer at London. 1t was mans
garment made of blue silk and stained
with blood To this CORY raiment
there was document attached, duly
certified, which declared that it was
worn by Charles | when on the scat
fold, and became the property of DR..
Juxon, who attended the king during
his last moments. The h story of this
garment is then traced through iAS
numerous possesors up to today
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-01-05

The government commission on tu-
berculosis in England has issued its
report, which is strongly in favor of
public slaughter houses in all cities
and towns. There is no question that
the private slaughter house is a relic
of days when sanitation and prevent
i've medicine were unknown factors in
life. That in England, as here, GUS
tom and usage have maintained them
so long is discreditable. However, as
the facts as to the spread of disease
became more clearly apprehended, and
as the need of warding off tuberculo-
sis infection is seen in its true light,
the demand for the adjustment of pri-
vate slaughter houses will become
more insistent. Clean, well-appointed
public slaughter houses, where in
spection will be more than perfume
tory, are civic necessaries not luxu-
ries, and no municipality can consider
that it has solved sanitation until it
has absolute control of its slaughter
houses. And this it cannot have un-
less the public slaughter house be
substituted for the private establish
Nent
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-01-05

The London Lancet says in regard
to the work of the society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Children: "If
we take the record for last August
alone we find that it contains 2141
cases of proved cruelty. The great
majority of these appear under the
heading of Neglect and Starvation,
though nearly 400 are instances of di-
rect ill-treatment and assault. In
other words, vice and poverty are the
most fruitful sources of domestic
tyranny. The method of treatment
adopted by the society is commenda-
bly, judicious. Though armed with
the power of punitive law, prefer
ence is given wherever possible to
less heroic measures. OF the 2141
cases referred to 1875 were dismissed
with warning, but it is noteworthy
that out of 259 prosecutions there
were 24S convictions.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-01-05

The United States of Central Amer
lea Salvador, Nicaragua and Hon
duras-start business as federated
republic with the usual grandiose an
ticipations and performances. We
wish them well, says the Philadelphia
Record. Under the managing hand
of man like President Diaz of Mex
co, who is practically king masquer-
aiding as an elective official, the new
states might be glued together by
something more substantial than
wittten agreements. But there is
nothing in the past history of the
Central American states to justify
hopes for the future of settled govern
ment,
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-01-05

The London Times says: ga good
story of the things one would rather
have expressed differently type is be-
ing whispered about Gloucester.
Some crank has been writing to the
local papers complaining that during
the festival he is not admitted to the
cathedral free, that being place of
worship. The crank turned up at
the cathedral the other day and was
told he could not be admitted without
ticket. DO you mean to tell me, he
excitedly argued, that I shall re-
quire ticket to enter the kingdom of
heaven?' We'll, no, explained the
polite steward, but you won't hear
Nine Albani in heaven And then,
when the enormity of his remark
dawned upon him, that steward turned
and fed"
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-01-05
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.

Taxes on boards are levied in Jap
anese cities.
Coins 1000 years old are in circu-
lation in China.
Fowls are plucked alive in Malta, in
the public markets, and IL some parts
OF England.
Hogs are fattened on oranges in
Paraguay, aud orange--ed pork is said
to be very good.
Bamboo pens still retain their hold
in India, where they have been in use
for more than 1000 years.
In Hungary there are thousands of
villages and hundreds OF small towns
without doctor within ten miles.
In the Franco German war every
third German soldier had map of the
country through which he was trav-
cling.
A medical authority in Berlin, Ger
many, declares that not one of Ger
many's professional bicyciists has a
sound heart.
Originally the custom of raising the
hat was a sign of submission, imply
ing that the person uncovered placed
himself at the mercy of his foe.
The town clock in the city hall of
Kokomo, Ind, got out of order, re-
Gently, and William Brinkman, blind
man, was called upon to repair it. He
climbed to the tower, at height OF
1856 feet and deftly performed the
| work.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-01-05

One of the latest inventions is said
to be fog dispeller, an apparatus
consisting of horizontal outlook
pipe, some eight feet in length and
eight feet in diameter, into which en-
ters tube from below, connecting
with blower deep down in a steam
ships interior. This blower sends q
powerful stream of air into the tube,
the current of dir, so to speak, bor-
ing hole through the fog, and in
ducing cone of clear atmosphere
with it's apex at the mouth of the
tube. By the aid of this apparatuO
pilot who stands with his eye at TIA
glass at the rear of the tube, can, it is
claimed, pick up his buoys and look
out for other vessels ahead. The in
ventor hopes eventually to make the
.dispeller" effective at range of
thousand feet. Certainly any appara-
tus or agency capable of dissipating
fogs at sea or on land, whether the
mists be physical, mental, or spiritual,
would be boon to mankind
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-01-05
HUMOROUS.

''And why did she choose him
among so many?" '"The others did
not propose.
Teller-The cashier has skipped.
President-Tve been afraid that that
fellow would get ahead of me.
"What makes you admire Miss Jes-
sup so much?" 81 tried to make love
to her and she wouldn't let me-"
Fond Mamma-Bobby, Bobby, what
ever makes you so restless? Bobby
Having to keep still so much, sup
pose.
"Don't you know me, Willie? I am
your fathers uncle" care you the
man pa goes to when he's short of
money!"
The Sweet Young Thing But why
should not women enter politics? The
Savage Bachelor-Too many bosses
there now.
Armstrong-Shortson claims to be
a self-made man. Conklin - HIN,
looks as if he ran out OF material,
doesn't he?
The tramp sat ON the farmers fence,
And made happy sigh;
His life seemed full of rosy tints,
For he was full of pie.
Bill-What kind of whiskers ought
butchers to " ear, Jack? Jack -Blowe0
if l know. Bill-Why, mutton chops,
of course.
He told her that it was impossible
to find words to tell her how much he
loved her. The next day he received
present of a dictionary.
''She has such liquid tones," said
the young man. Glow appropriated!
said the young woman. "Her talk
browns every other sound"
First Tramp hear they are build,
ing new Jail with all modern i'm.
provements. Second Tramp-That
won't do us no good. You'll need
pull to get in there.
"Since this percale gown supplies
me with rations for two days, L sup.
pose it is what is termed rational
costume," remarked the goat, chuck.
ling coarsely to himself.
"Poor Maud She was cruelty de
ceived when she married old Gotrox."
"Didn't he have any money!" 'Plenty
of it; but she has learned that he is
ten years younger than he said ha
was.
He's in his tomb but that is not
The reason why his widow frets
She welded him for wealth, she thought,
And he left behind IA lot of debts.
Harry-It is enough to kill anybody
the way you women kiss one another.
l saw you kiss Polly Breese last even.
ing, and know you hate her. Har.
riet-Oh, well, what's kiss? 1 know
where 1 can get plenty more.
First Volunteer hear Bills fell
dead in love with that girl that nurse6
him. Second Volunteer-Right you
are. He got mashed on the beautiful
way she always stuck her little finger
out when she fixed his bandages.
Uncle Visiting his student nephew
Glad to see you SO hard at work, my
boy. What are you doing therei
Nephew = Chemical experiments, IN.
cle--combining acids with metal. BY
the way, do you happen to have any
metal about you?
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-01-05
WHEN ONE is YouNop

When one is young what matters carer
For youth has mirth and Joy to spare.
The future is blazing fire
That lights the pathway Of desire,
And doing's but name for dare.
What smiling masks the grim fates wear.
How amiable and debonair!
The best seems easy to acquire
When one is young.
Youth is multi-millionaire
Who fattens on the best of fare:
Whom all delights and naught can tire,
Who treats the world as his empire.
But old age sets its fatal snare
When one is young.
Chicago Record.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-01-05

A Canadian paper has cartoon on
the .'unwonted activity" of England
just now. Uncle Sam, smoking a
"Manila" cigar, says to John Bull,
striding along in sailor clothes, with
a gun on his shoulder: "Whar you
goin' a gunnin', John?" and John
answers: "Blest if quite knows yet,
Sammy. Maybe hover to Frawnce.
h'eagle uniting and then h'again may
be hover to Roosher, bear 'untin'
y'know."
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-01-05

A student of Spanish annals has
added an interesting chapter to the
history of prices by revealing from
the archives of the Escurial what it
cost to discover the New World. The
stipends of the discoverers, at all
events, did not amount to much. The
pay of an able seaman was only, it
seems, 50 month, while a captain
drew only SIG month. AS for Chris
topher Columbus himself, his earn
ings were at the rate of $500 per an
mum. Even in Spain salaries have
risen since those days.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-01-05
again.

The Anarchist who killed the Aus.
trian empress says his doctrine is that
no one who doesn't work should be
pretty general death sentence to his
&ribo
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-01-05

A new manufacturing company OF
New Jersey announces that it is going
to manufacture preparation which
man can put on his face and remove
his beard without the aid of razor.
The company is capitalized for $780,
00O
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-01-05
DEATHS FERRYMAN.


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Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-01-05

A rule has been adopted in New
York forbidding the employment OF
married women as teachers in the pub
lie schools. The married women may
be able to stand such a discrimination,
but the blow will fall heavily upon
some of the married men.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-01-05

A Colorado millionaire celebrated
his birthday by giving $4,000 ban
lquet to the poor Of Denver. He's the
sort of man who deserves to be born
ionoio
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-01-05

Maine packed about 600,0 600 cases
Of sardines this season. Possibly q
few small herring may have got in
among them here and there.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-01-05

1t has been calculated that the loss
from illness averages 20, 600. 600 weeks
of work in the year, or IL per cent.
of tn. work done by the whole popu-
lation between fifteen and sixty-tiye
years q age.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-01-05

While the British lion is waiting to
lave the powers twist its tail, appar-
rently just yet that is not the end they
are seeking.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-07-22

Spect, different from any other show
presented to the public. One strong
feature which has added materially
to the drawing quality of the exhibit
ton is the timely production of the
Battle of San Juan Hill. The details
of the original being so recently and
firmly impressed upon the minds
and hearts of the American people
that they welcome the enterprise of
the management of the Wild West in
affording them an opportunity to see
this wonderful realistic representa-
ton of that famous battle, and at
the same time allow them to give eX-
preston of their patriotism almost
directly to the many score of heroes
of the Spanish-American war.
The audiences attending the Wild
West have been of an exceptional
character and have included among
their numbers nearly every promi-
nent soldier and civilian in and about
New York, and the enthusiasm of
sedate old men has been as great as
that of the small boy perched in the
topmost chair in the gallery. Other
features that have added new inter-
est to the entertainment is the put
ting on exhibition of the representa-
tives of our new island possessions,
both from the West Indies and the
Pacific ocean.
Colonel Cody Buffalo Bill is as
active in his part of the exhibition as
ever before, and his every appear
ance in the arena is signal for large
expression of approval from all parts
of the house. The sharpshooting of
Johnnie Baker and Annie Oakley,
the rough riding of the Cossacks
and soldiers, the tumbling and pyra-
mid building of the Arabs, the lasso
throwing of the MeXicans, the bolas
pitching of the Gauchos, the ''bronco
busting" of the cowboys, the pecu-
liar peace and war methods OF the
Indians all remain interesting items
of the program and are, if possible,
better this season than ever before.
The Wild West and Rough Riders
will give two performances, after
noon and evening. The location of
the grounds is easily accessible, be-
ing on Thornton st.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-07-22
Fellow" In the Bible.

The New England papers are having
a pleasant little battle over the origin
andseXact meaning of the word Eel
low." They have dragged forth ex-
amples from the four corners of litera-
ture, but by some strange freak they
have missed the word as used by Tyn-
dale. The free use of old days allowed
him to write in translating Genesis
xxxix. ., And the Lord was with Jo-
seph. and he was Il luckie fellow"
That looks at least quaint to most of
us, but the effect is accentuated when
we come 10 Mark iv, Al: What felowe
is this? For booth winds and see
obey him. and Mark Ii, Z, How doth
this felowe biasphemeY' Again in
John vi. -. we read. How can this
felowe give us his fleshhe to eat?" Let
the people of New England study the
early Bibles.-Philadelph Press.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-07-22
PERSONALS.

Mr.. John Wilson, the banana rep
resentative of New Orleans, is here
to close an annual banana contract
with Nick LaskariS.
Miss Blanche Rede of GAINESVILLE,
is the guest of Miss Grace Wall.
Lundley Smith and wife, Ed Can
non. George Flath and the Misses
Lena and Emma Walters of Raven
ma, are in the city today.
The Misses Ida Acker, of 166 Ben
jamin street, Rachel Davies, of ll9
Johnston street. and Miss Alice
Miller, went TO Cleveland Friday to
attend the Alliance Convention,
which will last for ten days, after
which time Miss Ida Acker will
visit at the home of Rev. A. Fothroes.
E. E. Horn returned Friday from a
two-weeks' business trip in Michigan.
Miss Jane Smith of Youngstown,
who has been visiting Miss Consi-
dine during the Elks' fair, has re-
turned home.
Frank Considine, who travels in
the interest of the Sterling Boiler
works, is visiting his parents.
Rev. d. Van Horne DID,, president
of Heidelberg Theological seminary
at Tiffin, o., is being entertained at
the home of J. c. Frank, Esq, l19 S.
Maple st.
Miss Vinough of Canton is the
guest of Miss Grace Mitchell on
Summit ST.
| Will Monnett of Canton is spend
ing a few days in the city.
Miss Anna Durling of Wadsworth
is visiting Akron friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. E. Null of Spring
field, formerly of Akron, is visiting
friends here.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. Vulery of Ft.
Wayne, Ind, stopped off here Friday
Oli "d.f W.
Falls.
L. NJ. Billing and wife of Canal
Fulton, visited her Friday.
Mrs. J. w. Rust of GAINESVILLE. the
guest of Mrs. w. E. Young, All Per-
kins ST.. will leave Sunday for her
home, Mrs. Young will accompany
her as far as Columbus, where she
will visit week.
Samuel Findley addressed the
summer school of Scio college in
New Philadelphia, Friday. He
spoke on Pedagogy
Miss Mabel Adler of Bellevue, is
the guest of Rev. and Mrs. w. H.
Brightmire.
Farewell Party.
A farewell party ives given by the
Pythian Sisterhood in 4Etolia hall
Friday evening in honor of Mrs. J. P.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-07-22
The Romantic.

the romantic play related his woes to
his good fairy-how the heroine had be-
come cold and Indifferent toward him.
"Can you restore her to me2" he de-
manded anXiously.
"Oh, yes!" replied the good fairy,
with a smile. 'I'll just disguise my
self as a matinee girl and make her
Jealous"
The drama, generally speaking, suf-
fered distinct loss by the passing Of
the good fairy. SO few of these effects
can be produced by electricity.-De-
troit Journal.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-07-22
DIDN'T WANT ANY PREFACE,
But Got the Spanking That He
ROundIy Deserved.

But Got the Spanking That He
ROundIy Deserved.
The mother of a little Boston boy
visiting friends on Capitol hill. round
ed the kid up when he appeared fol
breakfast the other morning.
"Wendall,' she said to him. "you
will recall that upon the second even.
ing of our arrival here forbade you
reading Herbert Spencer and Huxley
at night by the light of the gas in
the room set aside for you. on account
of the heating properties of the illu-
minating fluid. You have disobeyed
me, and am about TO punish you.
am very sorry to have to-
Il beg of you to eliminate the pre-.
amble," replied the kid Punitive
measures inflicted conversationally
create distinct sense of fatigue with
in me. At any rate 1 pray you to i,e-
serve your didactic discourse until
after the application of the birch"
Then the slipper fell and the kid
bawled almost like something human.
Washington Post.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-07-22
Musical.

Many persons have called at $40 E.
Mill ST. and examined the Schatf
Bros. Co. pianos and expressed their
approval and delight.
These sample pianos will be closed
out in few days. SO all intending
purchasing should call at once and
make a selection.
They are strictly high grade and
Will positively be sold at wholesale
prices.