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The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-06-23
OUR FIRST.

Owe have our first green corn and
cabbage from our garden today-June
%.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-06-23

Mrs Sarah E. Houseman has beer
appointed Postmaster at Bloom Centre
vice II. +. Valentine.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-06-23
Try those Velvet Chocolate Chips at
Eazer's.

Gasoline Stoves and Majestic Ranges
the best in the world, at ]. K. Milli-
gan's.-25tf
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-06-23
LOCAL BREVITIES.

Yesterday was the hottest day of this
season.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-06-23

When looking for a Hammock, SET
Frazer, the druggist, before you buy
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-06-23

Take your Prescriptions to Frazer,
the prescription druggist, I27 Colum-
bus street.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-06-23

A fine line Of Stationery, the latest
shapes and tints, just received Dt Fra
zer's Drug Store.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-06-23

A fresh inuoiee Of Gunther's Candy
ust received at Eazer's Drug Store.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-06-23
First-Class Steamboat Service Be-
tween Detroit and Cleveland and
Toledo, Detroit and MacI<inac.

lOicuO, OetEOIt anu MaCklndC.
D. & c. Floating Steel Palace Steam
ers are now running Daily between
Detroit and Cleveland. Two trips per
Week between Toledo, Detroit and
Mackinac Island. Regular service will
commence June II. Spend your vaca.
tion on the Great Lakes. Send 2 cents
for illustrated pamphlet. Address,
A. A. SCHANTZ,
G. P. A., D. & c. Line,
June 13-tf Detroit, Michigan
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-12-28
WHEN LOST IN A FOREST.
Make Smonldering Fire, Fire Your
Gun and Hnlloo ut Frequent
Intervals.

You know how the redskins of old
used, smoke signals? Now, let every
sportsman in Maine or elsewhere who
gets lost in the woods make smoke,
and the chances are one hundred to one
that the searchers who are looking for
him will find him within a few hours.
Start the smoke on bare rock on 4
side hill. Make n thin smoke and keep
it up. Sit down and take it easy and
vary the programme by gathering fuel
for the smudge or boughs for a wind
break or camp bed, in the possible
chance of having to lie over night. Look
for water to drink. No trouble to find
your way back to your rock with the
smoke TO guide you.
Every professional guide who takes
out n party of sportsmen should in
struct them in these particulars. 1t
will save painful worry, hunger, star
walton and too frequent death. To a
tyro in woodcraft would much prefer
making a smoke than an attempt to
study the divides, or even to follow n
stream out. In a country of limited
and seldom over 10 miles from the
crown of the divide to tide-water, as
in Nova Scotia, the latter would be the
best plan--to stick to the watercourses
and follow the downstream current.
In wilderness tangle a smoke is the
best, though in a fiat area Of dense for
est it is hard chance for a man unso-
l.. Il. NJ.
man should ever be without matches
in n waterproof safe and a serviceable
jackknife in his pocket. And above all
things, study the lay of the land before
you start out and see in which direction
the hills and valleys run. Getting lost
should be impossible when nature
makes all her paths so plain, at least it
seems so to me at these presents. But
then | have had 50-odd years Of eX-
perience in all regions and attitudes.
AS a rule, bewildered man, when he
finds himself lost, has not travelled far
from his starting point. Distance seems
vastly greater in a strange woods than
they do on turnpike. Indeed, aman
cannot travel fast and far through an
underground. SO the logic of the sit
uation is to stand still, halloo often,
fire both barrels Of your gun, and, final
~ make a smoke in a safe place, if you
cannot find slightly one as well; and
if you keep the blaze covered with moss,
punk and green bouGhs it will not run,
and it will give one employment to fill
up anxious time.-Charles Hallock, in
Forest and Stream.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-12-28
AFTER THE GOLD BOOMS.
Importance of the Reactions in De-
termininE the Population of
Western Towns.

The law that settlers follow the line
of least resistance suffers an exception
when men are seeking gold. In the
natural order of things, population
would have worked itself on continual
progression toward the Rocky noun
tains, crossing them only by compul-
sion, as the Alleghanies were crossed
and the Mississippi and the Missouri
rivers. But where there is gold in sight
there is no law. Humanity goes into
Alaska with the same blind avidity
that it went into California so years
ago, with the same fatuousness that it
swept to Pixies Peak in 1853. Popula-
ton forsool all its domiciles, its pat
ronages and its prosperity, in the Ar
gonaut period, and, as if driven by
some monstrous wind, surged over the
uneven earth to the Pacific and TO the
Rockies The whole world knows how
it did so, and the suffering that ensued
is as common a story as the fortunes
that were won. But the thing that is
not known, the matter of lasting inn
portance that is most often overlooked,
is the migratory reaction, the settling
back of the big flood to the places in
which, either by necessity or by choice,
it must finally rest. The character of
the great west, the trans-Missouri, with
its multiple variations, is determined by
this phenomenon.
A map and book of census statistics
will tell the story. 1t is the story of the
oil from the pitcher again. Men and
women touched the crest of the CONT
nent at Leadville, in Colorado, in 1858,
but fell back onto the plains again be-
fore the sixties were expired. The Nor
mon emigration filled the valley of the
Jordan in 1S47, but the general tide
of people either went to the lower val
leys of the Sacramento and the San
Joaquin on the oriental side of the
Sierra Nevadas, or receded on the east
ern slope of the Rockies. Successive
mining discoveries enticed rushes of
prospectors into northern Idaho and
British Columbia, but the greater mass
of the movers went back into the warm
or regions of California and Oregon.
Where the Comstock and the Consoli-
dated Virginia mines once magnetized
so many settlers as to beguile congress
into making a state of Nevada, there
is little left now but the evidence of
what has been and the promise of what
may be when the immigration of the
west begins to move again for less glo-
rious promises than acres of oranges
for the mere tilling of the soil, and mon
logs. The mesas of the two southwest
ern territories, Arizona and NewAIeX-
leo, seem to have absorbed the hosts
Of traders and adventures that went
into them, as the sandy soil of their
great areas drink in the freshets from
the ountains.--Ainslee's Magazine.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-12-28
Effect of Altitude.

Perhaps in no state of the union
has climate so much to do with the
character of the people as in Colo
RADIO. Go into Colorado; climb the
long ascent from the level of the Mis-
souri,, and then as you emerge from
the train into the handsomely i'm
proved streets, and among the unsur-
Denver, feel your head swim with the
lofty altitude and the rarefied air;
then realize that the miners went on
mile further into the air, that they
are working and taking out millions
of dollars of gold to the present day
mile higher in the air, at Cripple
Creek, at Leadville and a dozen other
places; it Will make you pause to
think what staying powers the pio-
necrs must have had. Wait a day or
so, until the vertigo has passed away,
and the exhilaration comes to you
that always comes when you have
climbed q mountain and stood upon
its top and gazcd out over a wide
world that expands below you; then
you will begin to feel that electric,
that nervous surcharge, that indom-
liable, interchangeable, almost tow
ering spirit of elevation that makes
Colorado almost the liveliest, the most
irrepressible, the most determined ele-
ment in the American body, social and
politic.-Ainslee's Magazine.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-12-28

only worn on state occasions, but the
bow knot is always worn. 1t is small
affair, with its specific ribbon. 1t is
of silk, white stripe in center, bor-
dered by two blue stripes, which are
bordered by two red stripes. 1t is an
inch in length and three-eighths of
an inch wide. The little emblem shows
that the wearer has received from this
government the highest honor that can
be conferred upon man. The secretary
of war recently issued an order, after a
conference with the executive commit
tee of the Medal of Honor Legion, that
hereafter on all official occasions, recep-
tons, banquets, etc, the congressional
medal of honor will be worn resting on
the breast and suspended by the broad
official ribbon of the order around the
neck.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-12-28
DIFFERENT HUED EBONY.
There Are Several Varieties of Afri-
can Trees That Yield the
Wood.

Ebony was known and highly es-
teemed by the ancients as an article Of
luxury, and was used by them for va
riety of purposes. In India it is said
that it was employed by kings for scep-
ters and also for images. On account
of its supposed antagonism to poisons
it was used largely for drinking cups.
It's use has been extended continuously
down to the present time, and in Eng
land, as we'll as on the continent, it has
always been held in high esteem by the
wealthy for toilet articles and boxes.
In France particularly the manufacture
of ebony goods has attained a high de-
gree of perfection. Within n few years
It's use in the United States has in
creased remarkably, in large measure,
no doubt, on account of it's combina-
ton with silver, which is believed to
have originated in this country. The
striking contrast of the dead black of
the wood with the brilliant white Of the
silver has from the outset commended
it to the American public. This com
bination, it is said has now been intro
duced into England and other European
countries.
The name ebony is given to the wood
Of several varieties of trees. All kinds
of ebony are distinguished for their
great density and dark color. The
wood in all varieties is heavier than
water; the heaviest varieties are the
darkest. The other grades require a
considerable amount of staining to
make them black. Ebony is Of uni
form color throughout, and will not
show any deterioration even from long
continued use. There are three varie-
ties Of ebony well known in commerce.
The ebony from the Gaboon coast Of
Africa is the darkest. The Madagascar
ebony is the densest. The Macassar eb-
ony furnishes the largest pieces. Al
most all ebony is sent in the form Of
logs 10 London, and from there shipped
10 the various countries in which it is
used for manufacturing purposes. 1t
is sold by weight.
limitations of ebony can always be
distinguished by their lighter weight,
and the cheaper limitations can be de-
tected by merely scratching the sur
face.-Jewelers' Weekly.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-12-28
2 ST.
4 Squan Greek Folks. 4
n Jep Jones Tells About Captain Kids Treasure. n
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| fur barl o whisky buried durin' the
revolutionary war. The stranger
worked every man in Squan Creek
down to Deacon Bolivar, who couldn't
afford to give him but so cents to tell
whar them S3,000,000 was buried. AS
nobody let on to another it was a safe
game to play. If he hadn't seemed to
be a dyin' man and if he hadn't had
mournful voice, he never could have
PLAYED the trick. The last man he
cum to was the deacon, and he says
to him:
Deacon Bolivar, they tell me that
your grandfather was hung fur muir
der but my grandfather was a pirate
and deserved to be hung, SO l ain t
lookin' down on We any. On the
'tother hand. 1t seems to kind O. draw
us together, and I'm willin' to do We
favor. How much cash kin We raise.
deacon?"
Jest so cents" was the reply.
Cant We make it dollar?'
Not if l was to be hung"
"Wall, I'll take it and give We a
chart to show whar' Capt. Kidd bur-
led 100000 in gold. In fact, the
spot is in yer own back yard, and
We won't hev to go down morn'n Is
feet"
The deacon passed over the so cents
and grabbed the map and rushed
home and begun to dig. He told his
wife what he was diggin' fur, and she
went out and told the nayburs, and
inside of an hour the cat was out of
the bag. 1t was three or four days,
however, before the diggers cum to
the conclusion that they had oeen
swindled. Sich an upheaval of the
airth was never known before nor
since in Squan Creek. Sum men went
as deep as 80 feet, and worked IS
hours out of the "a, and if the loose
dirt had bin spread on the marsh it
would have made three acres of land.
The swindle had to cum out at last,
and down went the fences, and the
gold-hunters ripped and cussed TIL
they had to stop fur want of breath.
Then public meeting was called, and
Hiram Oatfield got up and offered
the follerin'
"Wharas-Thar' was once an ole
critter in the pirate bizness named
Capt Kidd: and
"Wharas-He never had q blamed
cent tn bury in Squan Creek or any
other place; now tharfore
"Resolved-That we hev bin tooken
in and dun fur, and will make it
mighty Unhealthy fur that dyin' stran-
ger if we ever catch him"
But they never did He knew hls
gait and he had pursued it
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-12-28
HUMOROUS

Will Soon Be Heard.-"Porter. call mo
q cab" with or without, sir2" "Eh p
"Horse or auto, sir?'-Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
"As we get older we think less OF
ourselves" That's because we've had
time to get thoroughly well acquaint-
ed."-St. Louis Republic.
She-"I can sympathize with you. I
was married once myself" He-"But
you weren't married to a woman
Cincinnati Enquirer.
A Sure Sign.-"Those people next
door are newly married" "How do you
know" II see the husband helping
with the Homework" Ohio State Jour
nal.
The nthusiast-"Beautiful Ex-
quisite! Her voice has matchless tim
bre!" The Realst-"Timbre? 1t
sounds to me like a whole sawmill.'-
Philadelphia Record.
Yeast-"Will these automobiles GO
either way?" Crimsonbeak-"Oh, yes;
l knew a fellow who got one. 1t came
home last week on credit, and this week
it went back."-Yonkers Statesman.
Mrs. Housewife-"And so you have
fully decided to be married, Bridget.
Have you considered that marriage is a
very serious thing?" Bridget-"Yes,
mum. I've been watching you and Mr..
| Housewife. "-Somerville journal.
"Aspree in Japan costs only 20 cents"
said Weary Walker, who had been read
ing the scrap of newspaper which a
kind househeeper had wrapped around
"handout." what good is that to
us?" demanded Tired Thompson, when
part of the road from her to Japan is
covered with water miles deep?"-Pitts
burgh ChronicleTelegraph.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-12-28
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&
) UNGRATEFUL X
) * SAM WALKER.
y How He Rewarded the Men Who
! Played at Santa Claus for Him.
E Copyrighted. BY VI. QUAD.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

1t was the second day of Decembe
when Sam Walker shot down Silver
Davis on the streets of Paradise Flat,
and an hour later he would have been
hung to limb but for his crafty ways.
The rope was already noosed for him
when he asked leave to make a few
remarks, and this being granted he
said:
This town of Paradise Flat hadn't
any Fourth of July to speak of, and
it was way behind the times on Thanks
givin'. Christmas will soon be at hand,
and you can't even git up decent dog
fight to celebrate the occashun.
should think you'd want to show off
over Hill City and Jackvile."
eve do, SAM" replied the man who
had charge of the affair."" "but we
hain't got no chance"
you've got it right yere. I killed
Davis and hev got to be hung. IN
stead of hangin' me to-day why don't
you put it off till Christmas and make
big thing of it? It'll be the only
hangin' fur so miles around"
1t was promptly and unanimously
decided that Sam Walkers head was
level, and that he should be saved up"
for Christmas. He was confined in a
shanty, fed on the best in the camp,
and every evening number of the
boys made it a duty to call on him and
help him to pass the time as pleasant
ly as possible. He seemed to look for
ward to the day with cheerful indif-
ference, and it was voted again that
Sam was one man in ten thousand and
ought to be hung as gently as posi-
BILE. As Christmas drew near he said
to his callers:
Boys, as [ am dom the fair thing
by you | expect ye to pet me leetle
Fur instance, I'm goin' to hang up, my
stockin' on Christmas eve. same as in
nercent children do, and hope
shan't be neglected"
He wasn't. When the time came we
Clipped in and raised purse of 5000
as Santa Claus. gift, calculating that
it would come back to us after the
hanging. The stocking was hung up
and the purse went into it, and at a
late hour it was reported that con-
demned was sleeping with childlike
look on his face. The next report
came in at daylight. With the report
came the sight of the hole Sam had
dug under the walls of the shanty to
regain his liberty. 1t was Christmas
day, but he wasn't there tc @e hung,
and our purse had gone with linn
Public indignation was so greAt that
all were stupefed for time, but after
awhile it was
Resolved, That the next critt~r in
this town who orter to hung will be
stretched up 50 burned quick that no.
body but aisself will git any fun out
of it!''
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-12-28

this, the London Globe states, on the
authority of a French scientific jour
nal, that on motion of the celebrated
DR.. Hubenck, of Breslau, the leading
surgeons of Austria and Germany are
considering the adopting of a rule re-
curing surgeons to be clean-shaved.
or to, at least, as a preventive Of
danger, disinfect the hair of the face
before operating. Nothing is said as
to the hair of the head, but if this,
too, is included in the interdict, bald
headed surgeons will enjoy a graft
flying advantage.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-12-28

decided to take the chances. At the
end of the time prescribed two were un-
injured and went free, but the others
developed all the symptoms, and died
of Asiatic cholera. Two physicians de-
termined to take advantage of the i'm
questionable mind of a patient and
prove theory for the benefit of science.
The patient had complained of an itch
ing on his back. He was told that a
blister would be applied. Instead a
common postage stamp was used, and it
performed all the offices of the plaster
which was not there.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-12-28
MEDAL OF HONOR.
Few People Would Know the Rare
Decoration of Congress If
They Saw 1t.

The medal of honor granted by cons
gress for some conspicuous act of gall
lantry is so rare that hundreds of off,
GERS have never even seen it, says the
Cincinnati Enquirer.
The bow knot worn in the button
hole in lieu of the medal goes unrec-
ognized, except by the very few. The
medal is of black bronze, and is often
mistaken for the grand army insignia,
the latter having been patterned after
il to a certain degree. II is much larger
than the latter, and on the reverse side
is engraved the name, rank, date and
the battle in which the service was rem
dered, and the specific act of heroism
for which il was given. The medal is
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-12-28

entitled La vie Physique de Notre
Planete Devant les Lumeres de la Sci.
ence Contemporaries" in which the au.
thor regards the earth as a living or.
ganism whose functions are all closely
connected according to certain laws
Even the variations of terrestrial mag.
netism are connected with system OF
currents which traverse the earth's at.
mosphere and are correlated with its
cyclonic activity. He considers also that
the magnetic and electrical fields have
an influence on the progress of phe.
nomena at the surface of the earth. The
professors idea Of the earth as an or.
ganism is, however, not new 1t orig
mated many years ago with Guyot.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-12-28
IMAGINARY DANGERS.
Presentiments and Premonitions Ac-
count for the Death of Fully
One-Haif of Mankind.

"Of the whole number of persons sup
posed TO die of disease" said the house
surgeon of one of the hospitals, "at
least so per cent. are killed by fear"
In support of his statement he cited
various cases where prestinents, proph-
ecies, premonitions and general
nervousness all played their part.
Some years ago four criminals. con-
demned in Russia TO die, were taken TO
house and shown several beds, in
which. they were told, a certain number
of cholera patients had died. In reality,
the beds had never been slept in. They
were informed that they would Se set
at liberty if they would sleep several
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-12-28
4 Point In physfogno my.

The left side Of the face is usually the
best looking, declares a close observer.
Artists always put the best touches,
finest shading and most delicate twists
on the left side of the profile. Actors,
actresses and public singers and en-
tertainers always make a half turn to
the right when they wish to impress
their audiences. The left hand is more
magnetic than the right, and the
glance Of the left eye has charm
which the right lacks. N'tice your
friends" faces, and you will SEE that this
is quite true. There are exceptions, Of
course, but the rule holds good in 10
cases out Of 20.-Chicago Times-Herald.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-12-28
Surgeons Must Shave.

The omnipresent mcrobe is making
its disturbing influence felt i'll strange
and unexpected quarters. Boards and
mustaches are placed under ban as
being nesting-places of errant in
truders, some of them pathogenic, or,
in everyday parlance, having the
power to produce disease. Because of
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-12-28
Quickly ARA ged.

You take me quite by surprise,
she exclaimed, after he had finally put
the question.
well, am glad to get you in any
way" he replied, pursuing his adyan.
tage.
And she let it go at that-Phila
delphia North American.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-12-28
a BOer Delicacy.

A great square slice is cut off loaf
made Of coarse, unsifted meal, and COW
cred with a thick layer of jam-prefer-
ably strawberry. A row of sardines is
then placed on top and the oil from the
sardine box is literally poured over the
whole.-N. Y. Sun.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-12-28
Not what He Meant.

A rural editor thus writes of society
wedding: "rhe groom's present to the
besides many other beautiful things in
cut glass;.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-12-28
Jumping mt Cancellations.

Whtn a woman reads the opening
chapter of a novel she jumps to the
conclusion, chicago Daily News.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-12-28

Physical Life of Our Planet.
The Revue Scentifique contains an
paper by Prof. Klossovsky