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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-08-03

n character. Properly conscious Of be-
Ing well born and well bred and not un-
mindful Of his own success in life. he
does not estimate merit by the acci-
dent Of birth or the advantages Of
wealth or positdon. With him frank ID
but the guinea's stamp; the mans the
gowd for q that" He u man ~
much at home and equally a. enter
timing IN 9 crowd Of pps6peated
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-08-03
Princeton Goes to Shanghai.

Washington. Aug. 1.-The gunboat
Princeton has sailed from Annoy for
Shanghai. This move may have been
made owing to the disturbed condition
of affairs near Shanghai. The Prince
ton was not ordered to Shanghai by the
department, and probaly goes in obed-
ience to the orders of Admiray Remey,
who Is in command Of the Asiatic sta
tion,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-08-03
Suit on Promisory Note.

William p. Martin as administrator
Of Blanche King has ssued Goo. F. MIL
Ter ct al. for the collection Of promis-
sorry note amounting to ss54.03 by the
foreclosure OF mortgage. McCarty,
Craine and Mcdowell filed the petition
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-08-03

Those great British victories in South
Africa keep dwindiing In the light Of the
details. The Beers are not whipped
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-08-03

The fire-proof building material
known as uralite-much used in Rus
sia for furniture, etc.--is a compressed
mixture of asbestos, chalk silicates, sui
phuric acid, sulphate Of alumina, etc.,
saturated with glue and mineral color.
1t combines the advantages of stone
with those of wood, and on battlesbips
it removes the dangers of splintering
and firing of wood.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-08-03

The army ofacers are still looking for
recruits.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-08-03
evidently been brought from a nest
some distance away.

Lack of proper nesting places, too
little water, the English sparrow, boys,
collectors, birds on hats, and the cat,
are among the causes of the decrease
of song thirds enumerated by D. Lang.
He suggests protection and encourage
ment of the birds by planting trees and
shrubs for them to live in, putting up
nesting boxes for breeding, providing
water for feeding and bathing, and
feeding in unfavorable weather.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-16

A Russian correspondent sends us
details of very interesting and anus
ing tale told by a Russian veterinary
surgeon who was sent into the ural
district TO buy horses and hay for the
peasants Of the famine e-stricken prov
inceS. He had to do mostly with the
natives (kirghis), who are half-savage,
but who. nevertheless, were found to
be extremely honest and absolutely
trustworthy in all buying and selling,
some of them even Offering to give
horses for the starving peasants. Quite
different story has the surgeon to tell
of the Ural Cossacks, who did their
level best TO cheat him in the most
barefaced manner. and on whom no
reliance was to be placed. And yet
these Cossacks are very religious and
so simple in certain respects that a
swindler succeeded in selling them
quite number OF tickets for-para-
disc. The veterinary surgeon saw sew
eral of these tickets. which were
marked First rows" and sold for -
rubles, back seats bringing consid-
erably less.-Commercial Intelligence.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-16
THE SALT TRUST.

An Insignificant thing is salt, but it
is staple and therefore fair game for
the trusts to monopolize. Here it IS az
set forth in the Evansville Courier:
The National Salt Company is a
S12.000,000 New Jersey corporation
formed in 1899. BY ownership and
lease of factories, and by purchase Of
product, it now controls about 80 per
cent of our product Of salt. 1t and the
smaller combinations, which it has ab-
sorbed have, since 1896. nearly doubl-
ed the price of common salt to
,nany consumers in this country. l.
has dead rented" and closed many OF
its plants and is now being prosecuted
in Ohio, because it has. for monopoly
purposes, bought and closed three or
four furnaces at Pomeroy. Ohio.
The officers of this trust and of the
United Salt company. the local Ohio
corporation, are mainly Standard Oil
people; in fact, this trust appears to
be an adjunct to the Standard Oil
trust. With such backing we may ex-
pect it to do much during the next
few years to teach us the so-called
Economic advantages of trusts"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-16
American Randoliers Adnntel.

At the United Service Museum,
Whitehall, there will shortly be on
view one of new cartridge bandoliers
which are about to be supplied to our
troops in South Africa. 1t is the in.
vention of an American, and was worn
by the American troops during the
Cuban war, when its efficiency was
tested with admirable results. 1t is
not made of leather, but is woven
throughout in one piece, and is of a
soft dust colored material, which is
not affected by either heat or damp.
In weight alone it offers considerable
advantage over the present regulation
belt, as it weighs only seven ounces,
and, being pliable and very easily ad.
justed, it is far more comfortable to
wear, while the weight is more easily
distributed 1t can, il desirable, be
worn as waist belt.-Birmingham
tEngland) Post.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-16
M'KINLEY, THE MONARCH.

Like Robinson Crusoe. the gentle
man from Canton, Ohio,-not Canton.
China, please remembers to be left
monarch of all survey" to accom-
modate the political campaign now be-
ing inaugurated to make him Emperor
of the outlying dependencies as we'll as
President of these United States. The
fiat has gone forth, that is it is settled
by the Presidents fellow imperialists,
that he is to be left undisturbed in his
rule over the colonies, because the tif-
ty-sixth congress is afraid to tackle the
question. AS Republican senator
said:
IF We were to legisrate for th<a Phil
ippines we would draw the fire of
the whole anti-expansion army of the
country. We can avoid that by re-
naming quiet and leaving the Philip
pines as they are"
The cards are already out, that is
to say, the letter heads of the depart
ment of Our Colonial Possessions"
are printed, and the Q. M. G., the A. A.
G., the A. G., and the Secretary of
War are daily practicing penmanship
on the virgin sheets, the Secretary of
War even using one of them to write
the house of representatives (of the
U. S. asking it to provide additional
sergeants for the @. M. ID. This es-
tablishes a precedent, and we may
now expect Imperialism to be on the
rampage, and it may not be long ere
the plebian American must give way
before the high and mighty Lord OF
the colonial possessions. Faith,
though. what a come down it would be
If the American citizen should refuse
to pay the expenses of this almighty
.highness!
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-16
DRIVEN TO DESPERATION.

The trusts and monopolies have a
way of getting around high prices
that the poor cannot touch. They sim
ply give a poorer article at a higher
price and continue their work of be-
nevolence. This time wool aggravates
the trusts and they avoid the high
price of it in the following manner,
according to the Springfield Republi-
can:
THE high price of wool is driving
manufacturers to the use of rags and
shoddy and cotton in the manufacture
of cloth to an exceptional degree, so
the trade papers say, and this is, OF
course, what would be expected. Prices
in the rag market are accordingly quite
as strong and buoyant as in the wool
market. AS the general purchasing
power of the people has not increased
to such an extent as the prices of wool
and rags and shoddy, the result of it
all will be that the masses must wear
more adulterated wooden clothing than
usual and pay higher price for the
same. We hope. however that this
will not increase the liability of tho
people to colds and grip and pneu-
monia, in accordance with theory
advanced by the late David A. Wells" "
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-16
o4S "DlEo cLoRIoUsLY." cS2s,
knights -Errant of Journalism Who Met
Death at the Front.

Knights-Errant OF JOURNALISM VINO Met
Death at the Front.
Again the ranks of the knights
errant of journalism have been broken
by death on the field of duty, George
Warrington Stevens, of the London
Daily Mail, has just died at Lady
smith. He was at his post when the
Beers invested the town and shared
the common lot of his companions.
Although non -combatant, he en-
dured all the privatlons of the siege.
but succumbed to fever at time when
the relief Of the beleaguered camp
seems to be assured. Now that he is
dead, many a sage clubman in Pail
Mall who never had an idea that he
didn't filch from the newspapers must
cease to begin his wise talks about
the South African campaign with the
words: 81 see that Stevens says"
1t was so when the American, Mac
Gahan, showed Kaufman and Burnaby
the way to Khiva. And later, when
he described, with a pen dipped in
his hearts blood, the horrors of the
Turkish massacres in Bulgaria, Lon
don listened, then as now. Mac
Gahan's letters put new face on the
Eastern question. Though an Oriental
ist was then Premier of England and
sent British fleet to the Dardanelles,
he dared not land a man or fire gun.
Just as the American correspondent
had told the Bulgarians, amid the
smouldering ruins of their homes at
Batak, the Gear did come and avenge
their wrongs. MacGahan rode with
the Russian army up to the hour of
his death at San Stefano. He breathed
his last in sight of the minarets of
Constantinople, and the immortal
Skobeletf was chief mourner at his
grave.
The brave O'Shea, Of the London
Standard, lost his life in Egypt.
Ralph Keller, of the New York Tri-
bune, was mysteriously killed at Sau-
tiago during the Virginius campaign.
Many other heroes of journalism could
be mentioned.
For years in the Grand Army it was
the custom at nightfall when the roll
was called to have the name of Latour
d'Auvergne read off in order that the
sergeants of the Grenadiers might
salute and say: 'Dead, on the field
of battle!' So in every newspaper
Office to-day, when the name of Stee-
vens is called let each working jour
nalist give the salute to the dead and
say: 'Died gloriously at his post of
dutyI'-Philadelphia Times.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-16
PUZZLED.

Mr.. Mckinley is in danger OF being
run over by the imperial band wagon
he undertook to drive through the
worlds open door. Having got every
thing he wanted. like the child who
got hold of a wasp, he wishes he hadn't
got it. This time it is the question
of church property in the Philippines
and Puerto Rico. The President wants
to do the right thing, particularly on
the eve of his presidential campaign,
and therefore he desires to placate tho
Roman Catholics in regard to the dis
posal of this property. But, alas!
there are others who want him to do
the wrong thing. Hence he is puzzled,
very much embarrassed. He will be
damned If he does, and damned if he
don't 1t never yet has occurred to Mr..
Mckinley to do the right thing always,
and having demonstrated his inability
to do anything but wabble it is tins
for him to step out IF the way and let
the car of American progress move
along on the lines it was intended to
run.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-16

The western visitor in New York,
Philadelphia. Washington or Boston
is always asked the question, How
are crops out west?" He generally re-
CARDS this question as a mere observa-
tion, calculated to make talk, some
thing like that on the weather. But he
little realizes the Importance to the
people of the East of the crop condi-
tion of the West, writes ex-Congress-
man Hinrichsen in the Illinois Demo-
cratic Press Bulletin.
few years ago when asked this
question by Washington capitalist,
answered him and then politely asked
the condition of the crops in the East.
He seemed surprised and said: I'VE
have no crops" This started train OF
thought in my mind. l had begun TO
wonder what they did in the East.
found that they had money and thrift,
and that we, of the West, furnished
the wherewithal upon which they led.
How is it, then, that in the course OF
years, their stock of money grows
greater, while ours grows less, and yet.
they get our wheat, our corn, our pork
and our beef, in fact, everything we
raise except what Is absolutely neces-
sary for our own subsistence? Their
money makes money for them. The
debts we owe them makes the interest
charged large enough to overbalance
the farm production.
The advance in the price of the gold
dollar and the constant fall IN the
price of other articles makes it i'm
possible for us to pay this debt, and
year by year we find ourselves grow
ing poorer and the money lenders OF
the East growing richer,
The large fortunes held in money
roll over and over like the snow oa!l,
increasing in size, absorbing every
thing in touch year by year, while the
great mass of the people growing
poorer and poorer, find but little salts
faction in the thought that the country
as whole is growing richer. and tha;
the riches are all in the pockets OF the
men already rich. Is 1t any wonder,
then, that the moneyed rr,en of the East
are for a gold standard, and should not
our people favor rational increase, OF
the volume of our currency, which can
best be produced by the free and un-
limited coinage of both silver and gold
at ratio of 16 to l?
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-16

This faculty was strikingly mani
tested when, in the position of leader
of the House, Mr.. Gladstone had to
write frequent letters to the Queen
giving his impressions as to public
business. These letters lie often wrote
while sitting on the Treasury bench
after the dinner hour, and they some-
times appeared to tax even his mental
resources. He wrote them in small
and not very legible hand, and their
composition occupied considerable
time. Sometimes he would pause for
a few minutes before finishing half
written letter, and would occasionally
delete word or two after reading
what he had already written. In no
duty did he seem to take such care,
and keen observers often remarked
that he could more easily deliver a
long speech than write letter to her
Majesty. While his mind was ap-
parently absorbed in this work, he
was at the same time listening to the
speeches which were being delivered,
as was evidenced by the fact that he
often jumped up to correct an oral state
ment or to explain some point in re-
gard to the subject under discussion.
--Chambers's Journal.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-16
Paris Plagued with yoracious Rats.

Paris is suffering from plague OF
rats. Their ordinary resorts-the sew
ers--having been disturbed by the
work connected with the 1900 Exhibi-
ton along the banks of the Seine, they
took refuge in the neighboring houses,
preferably the new ones. There are
now streets near the river where the
inhabitants are afraid to allow their
children to cross the garden or the
courtyard after dark
The central markets are infested to
such an extent that rat hunting has
been abandoned in despair. AS soon
as dark sets in armies of rats attacks
the reserve provisions, to which they
have burrowed their way beneath the
masonry.
The cats, which are numerous at the
central markets, live on the best of
terms with the rats, and they are seen
trotting about together
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-16
Frightening tho Lions.

NJ Foa, the French explorer. says
that lions have a wholesome fear OF
African wolves, which hunt in packs,
and do not scruple to attack even the
lion. There are terrible battles in
which the lion succumbs to numbers.
and dies fighting. In connection with
the lions fear of wolves. NJ. 'oa tells
story from his own experience. 1t
was a very dark night so black that
trees could not be distinguished until
the travellers were close upon them.
Lions prowled about the party. one OF
them roaring from a point so close
as to have an alarming effect on the
nerves. The animals could not be
seen. but they could be heard on all
sides. Reaching tree, the men found
one of their comrades with rifle cooked
discover the wherea bouts of the ami
mails, that could be plainly heard walk
ing among the leaves. A second man
was trying to relight half-extin-
guished torch. Still the lions could
be heard coming and going in the
darkness. At this point the ma
tive servant whispered the advice
to initiate the cry OF wolves in
the distance. The party at once be-
gan barking and shouting. "Hu! hu!
hui" in an undertone. as if the pack
were still at a distance, while the man
at the camp made the same well-im-
tated cry. The effect was instantane-
hn "a
stampede across the dry leaves. The
lions decamped in panic, driven Off
by the supposed approach of pack
of wolves. For the rest OF the night
the party was undisturbed.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-16
1t Purifes
the Blood.
Cures
All Eruptions.
EradiCates
Scrofula.
A Counter Proposition.

A Memphis young lady who is very
fond of her sisters little child, boy
of or 3 years. who is visiting her
now, was trying yesterday to get him
to let her fix him up to have his
photograph taken She got her curl
ing tongs and was trying to coax him
to let her curl his hair. But with true
boyish disgust at the idea of having
his haiS> treated like girls. he re-
fused II submit to the process. She
insisted, however, and offered him
every kind of bribe, but in every in
stance he refused to allow her to do
what she wished, and finally, becom-
ing tired of her attempt to get him to
submit, he sat down, crossed his legs
and looked up at hei very seriously
and said: "Auntie, tell you what I'll
do. won't take dollar to let you
curl my hair, but I'll give you dollar
if you just go away and let my hair
alone. memphis Scimitar.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-16
DRUMMERS' REPENTANCE.

They were seedy lot, even their
Knights of the Roai happened On
Bryan's train. after a four months
trip away from home at one-half their
former salaries. doing the work of ten
men each. to enable the trusts to pay
large dividends and thus maintain
prosperity. They were smoking
"Stogies" in the enforced absence OF
choice Partagas. and sitting in the
smoker through the deprivation OF
Palace car perquisites, every one
thought deeply. At last breaking
through the oppressive silence:
Say Blobbs, it strikes me that
thousands of us who worked for Nc
Kinley and honest money in 1896, are
working ourselves out of job"
That's about it," coincided Jobbs
81 didn't know Bryan then. l just me.
him on the train for the first time
How they played us for suckers. l
thought Bryan wore his hair down his
back and talked through his hat. Boys,
I've found out something. Bryan suits
me-"
My size. exactly" confessed Nobbs
What a lot OF asses we were in 1896
Advance agents of prosperity that's
what they humbuggcd us with"
We'll, weren't we?" queried Slobbs.
I'VE gave our bosses all the prosper
ity, and there is nothing left for Ms.
That's just it, remarked Hobbs.
"Our house had 100 men on the ROAD
dnd l had three States. Now there are
less than a hundred and must worry
over eight States on split wages.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-16

was fool enough to vote for Mckinley
In 1896 but"
Say no more" interrupted Gobbs,
with waive of his hand. I'VE are all
with you. There isn't sensible trav-
cling man in the United States that
does not realize now what an ass he
was, shouting for Mckinley and Pros
perity' in 1896. Where is it, boys?
mean the prosperity; we've GO. McKin-
ley all right enough.
Il am for Bryan, and everything he
represents. l want opportunities to
live and have little surplus, we don't
get them with Mckinley. Hurrah for
Bryant"
All: "Hurrah for Bryan"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-16
EXPOSING THE FRAUD.

Senator Turner,in opposing the adop-
tion of the Beveridge resolution in fa-
vor of the retention of the Philippines
for all time, gives the imperialists a
point to consider that is very penetrat-
ing.
The senator basis an obje,tion to the
retention of the Philippines upon the
logic of that central economic prin-
ciple o. the Republican party-protec-
tion. The Kansas City Times, allud-
ing to the senator's point, says: Sen
ator Turner's contention cannot be re-
futed without the admission that the
Republican plea for a high tariff, which
that party has been making for the
past thirty years, on the ground that it
is essential, in order to protect Ameri-
can workingmen against the coIlpeti-
tion of the pauper labor Of other coun,'
tries, has been a delusion a sham, a
false pretense and campaign ruse. de-
vised for the purpose of gold-brlckins
the laboring classes of the country out
of their vote. He insists, as matter
of fact too obvious to be clou1ed by
political sophistry, that, even If, as the
imperialists contend. the Inhabitants
of these islands will, under a coloDia,
system, have all the privileges Of citi-
Zens of the United States for them
selves and their products, it will re-
suit in the pauperizing of the labor OF
this country, inasmuch as the 10000
900 underpaid and underfed natives of
the archipelago will be pitte1 competi-
lively against the artisan. the mechan-
ic and laboring men of the United
States"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-16

Among the unique institutions OF this city
is the Peabody Medical Institute. 4 BuIinch
street, established nine years before the
death OF the great philanthropist, the late
Mr.. George Peabody, from whom it takes
its name During the past thirty years it
has achieved a wide and lasting distinction.
and today it is the best OF its kind in this
country. The medical pubica pms OF this
institute have millions of readers, and are as
standard as gold. Their latest pamphlet,
ninety-four pages, entitled Know 1hyself, "
free by mail on receipt OF six cents for
postage Send for it to-day. Boston Jour
nal
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-16
Strength of the ,Boer Army.

An apparently well-informed COR
respondent of the Morning Post, of
London, says:
"The Boer strength, originally SO, =
600 men, is now heavily augmented
by Cape Colonists, and the enemy's
fighting forces may be estimated fair
ly at 1000 men and 206 guns. The
Beers are not compelled to guard
their communications. Their grass is
good, the crops are growing, vege-
tables, cattle and sheep are plenty,
and game is abundant.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-16
Something For Nothing.

What will the inventive brain of man do
next? J. G. Hubinger, "The Starch
King" is now introducing by his new and
original method, the Endless Chain Starch
book, which enables you to get from your
grocer one large lOc. package OF "Red
Cross" starch, one large 10c. package OF
"Hubinger's Best" starch, with the pre-
miums, two Shakespeare panels, printed in
twelve beautiful colors, or one Twentieth
Century Girl calendar, embossed in gold,
all for Sc. Ask your grocer.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-04-16
Why People Are RighthandeG.

A professor who has made a study
of children says he has discovered
why the majority Of people are right
handed. Infants use both hands until
they begin to speak. The motor speech
function controls the right side OF the
body and the first right handed mo-
tions, tending to help out speech. As
speech grows so grows right handed
ness