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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-01-09

To the Court of Common Pleas:
The committee heretofore appointed
to examine the annual report Of the
county commissioners makes. report as
follows:
Your committee beginning on We'd
nesday, November 22nd, 1899, first
compared the bonded indebtedness with
the books of the auditor, checking the
various bond issues and the time of the
maturity of each, and finds the report
in that respect correct in detail. Each
Of the funds were in the same manner
compared with the auditors books, and
found to correspond in condition and
amount. AS most of the funds simply
pass through the auditors office for
apportionment, Qike the school funds
for example) no further examination
was made of these, but our attention
was directed mainly to the condition
and details of the particular funds over
which the commissioners have control;
notably the county, poor, bridge and
workhouse funds. Each of these were
examined in detail, each voucher being
examined and compared with the entry
on the books, and in every case we
found the report to present a detailed
and correct account of the actual ex-
peuditures from these funds. 1t is
wi h the legality and regularity of these
expenditures that this report will main
ly deal.
On September 1st, 1898, the report of
the commissioners shows the county
fund overdrawn Eleven Thousand -Four
Hundred and Seven Dollars and Ninety
Cents ($11, ,407.90). On September 1st,
1S99 1t was overdrawn Fourteen Thou
sand Two Hundred and Ninety Dollars
and Forty-three cents ($14,290. .43. }
Where a fund is overdrawn II
has been customary for the treasurer
to stamp on the warrants Of the audi
tor drawn on said fund, mot paid for
want of funds and until there Is
money in fund to meet payment of said
warrants, II has been customary to pay
interest thereon from the date of pre-
sentation until paid, at the rate of
per cent During the past year the sum
of Two Thousand Five Hundred and
Ninety-nine Dollars and Eight Cents
(s2.b99.0S) has been paid as interest by
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-01-09

the county upon county warrants is
sued against overdrawn funds. for
which there Is no authority in law.
Seven Thousand Five Hundred and
Ninety-two Dollars and Ninety
Cents ($7,592.9D was expended for
printing and stationary during the
year. A large part of this is for legal
advertising, but If the work of the
county was done by contract instead Of
in small jobs, a very large saving
might be made on this item.
The county poor fund had to it's
credit in September, 1898, Eleven Thou
sand Eight Hundred and Nine Dol
lars and Six Cents ($11, ,SO9.06). After
paying all expenses for the following
year. there remained in this fund in
September, 1899, Fifteen Thousand Six
Hundred and Eighty Dollars and
Forty-three Cents, C$15, ,680.43.) This in
dicates that the levy for poor fund
purposes which is made by the mfr
mary directors is unnecessarily high,
and that 1t has been long too high.
This curse affords temptation to
transfer the surplus to funds which
have been depleted by necessity or ex-
travagance, thereby evading the limita-
ton placed by the statute upon the tax
'iiS PcWSi ioa otiiSi PuIpOScS. LII ldCls
in April, 1898, law was passed to en-
able the commissioners to transfer
Ten Thousand Dollars $4,000 for the
poor fund, and Twenty Thousand Dol
lars ($2O,0OO0O) for the building fund,
{, to the bridge fund.
o. L. Vol. 9S, pages 62s-9.
OF this fund Seven Thousand Dollars
G7OOO.0O) was in fact transferred from,
the building fund.
| Under an amendment to section 963,
X. 8. passed April 26th, 1898, a reserve
fund, not exceeding at any time Two.
Hundred Dollars ($2OO.0O) may be set
aside by the infirmary directors at the
request of the superintendent, and ex-
pended by him as needed for current
supplies, etc. The sum OF -Four Hun.
dred Dollars ($4OO.OO) was expended In
this way during the past year, and
there seems to be no manner OF limiting
the expenditures OF the superintendent
from fund which may be replenlshed
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1900-05-25
stand Up to Fit a Shoe.

People would find less difficulty with
ready-made Shoes" said the expert
enced salesman, IF they would stand
up to fit them on instead of sitting
down. Nine persons out of ten, partic-
ularly women, want a comfortable
chair while they are fitting a shoe, and
1t is with the greatest difficulty you
can get them to stand for a few min
utes even after the shoe is fitted. Then,
when they begin walking about, they
wonder why the shoes are not so CON-
Portable as they were at first trial A
woman's foot Is considerably smaller
when she sits In a chair than when she
walks about. Exercise brings larger
quantity Of blood into the feet, and they
swell appreciably. The muscles also
require certain space, In buying shoes
this fact should be borne in mind"
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acres under perfect cultivation devot-
ed to coffee growing. Her income, as
may be imagined, is enormous. During
the Cuban-Spanish war her plantation
was idle, most of her 500 workmen
having gone to the front. But the
patriotic beauty paid every one his
wages-all for the good of her coun-
try's cause. This charming woman
lives in a magnificent mansion at
Cerro, pretty little suburb Of Ha-
vana. Her drawing-rooms are noted
for their splendor and exclusiveness,
and officers of the army and navy vie
with one another for her favor. But as
yet she is heart whole, and, 1t is freely
said, she is by no means unwilling to
change her condition In life when she
can find a man who will realize her
ideal. She Is especially fond Of Amer
leans because, she says, Americans
"can achieve great Deeds" while
Cubans and Spaniards can only sigh
and play upon a mandolin or guitar.
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"rabbitries, +" as they are called, each
OF which contain from 90 to 500 head
of valuable stock; careful estimate
puts the number of high grade rabbits
in Southern California at $50, 900.
The occupation is the subject oi
newspaper jest and topical song hu-
morist, and in many respects partakes
in spectacular manner of the craze
for town lots which swept over South
ern California in 1887 like a financial
siIocco. The hare faddists, however,
claim with reason that there is nc
speculative feature about their occupa-
tion and that there can be no danger oi
disaster. Hares can be eaten and are
eagerly sought for as an article of food
their pelts are of value, bringing from
25 cents to several dollars each, accord.
ing to quality. These in the hands ol
skillful flrriers make sealskin garments
and muffs almost as beautiful as the
real thing. In the city markets the
flesh of these creatures is as surely
found as the roast of beef or the leg ol
mutton. 1t is very popular and the
tourist is sure to demand 1T when he
hears encomiums of it uttered by
gourmets.
1t is from the demand for blooded
stock that most of the money comes.
The services OF high grade bucks bring
their owners i'll as much as $4,000 a
year. And the aristocratic does are
even more profitable. Here is the case
of one that was shown at the recent
Hare Exposition Of Los Angeles. She
is named Red Riding Hood, and her
owner refused a cash offer of $1,000
for her. This seems like a fabulous
price for a rabbit, but the declination
of the offer can be more readily under.
stood when it is stated that the owner
obtains an income from this doe alone
of SO, 900 to $500 a year by the sale
OF her progedy. These figures make
the rabbit about the only creature in
the world worth its weight in gold.
While the industry has only been
seriously taken up for little over a
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MISTAKE OF A NEWS AGENT.
His Bucolic-LookinR Customer Was G
Chicago Detective in Disguise.

His Bucolic-LookinR Customer Was a
Chicago Detective in Disguise.
When the west-bound New York spe.
cial on the Michigan Central stopped
at Dowagiac, Mich, last Wednesday
an elderly man, who possessed all the
outward characteristics Of a country
man, boarded the train and took seat
in the smoker. He announced In loud
voice to the travelling man across the
aisle that he was coming to Chicago to
see his boy. He also gave out the in
formation that this was his first trip to
the city.
The news agent heard him and gave
the wink 30 the commercial traveller.
1t had been bad trip for the agent
and he expected to unload good share
Of his stock on the man from Dowa-
giac. He tried unsuccessfully to sell
him maps, views Of Chicago, photo
graphs of celebrities, and other things.
The countryman's purse remained
closed.
Presently the wise butcher passed
down the aisle with basket of apples
on his arm. He stopped before the
Dowagiac mans seat, leaned over, and
said, loud enough to be heard from one
end Of the car to the other. Apples,
three for cent" and passed on. Now,
as matter Of fact his apples were
selling at the rate of three for a dime,
and everybody knew 1t. His offer to
the "yeoman" was unnoticed apparent
ly by that party.
In few minutes the agent returned
from his trip through the train, and
the countryman beckoned to him.
"Gfme six apples" he said, and held
out his hands to receive them.
"All right; three for a dime," the
butcher said, as he took six Northern
spies from his basket and dropped
them into the passengers lap.
Now, young feller." said the Do
wagiac man, when you pranced
through here minute ago you offered
the fruit to me three for cent. Here's
cents for siA. Now, run along and
be good"
mo, you don't"
But the agent was interrupted by the
loud shouts CT the other passengers,
and retreated to the baggage car.
And George Tousley. the Chicago de-
tective, who had been in Dowagiac on
business, divided his six apples with
the commercial traveler.-Chicago In
ter Ocean.
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year, experts say that there was al
least half million dollars worth oil
the stock on show at Hazard Is pavilion;
by the time the next show is held il
is safe to state that the value of the
stock will be three times that amount.
1t is difficult to get any average state.
ment of profits from the business, fol-
it is too young, and those that follow
it have not got the experience that in.
sures an evenness of income. 1t can
be seen at once, however, that there
must be good profit under even ad.
verse circumstances, and ordinarily a
large return on the investment. The
capital required is almost nothing. A
pair OF Belgian hares, dry goods box
for hutch, and a city lot can produce
enough feed for the stock. The pelts
bring from 20 cents to a dollar each.
while the carcass for meat will bring
from 90 cents to IS cents, and for very
large, fat creatures even a dollar. As
a doe will have from eight to Is at a
litter five or six times year, the prob.
lem OF making money resolves itself
simply into the provision of sufficient
space for the youngsters to frisk about
in.
The absence of hard work. the neces-
sary neatness and cleanliness and the
ease with which one can engage in the
business have of course attracted
women, so it is thought that fully half
OF the rabbitries of this locality are in
the hands of women; and the most
striking cases OF success are among that
sex.
DR.. Elmer Platt, general manager OF
the American Breeders of Belgian
Hares, considers that the industry is
just in its Infancy. "a new feature
that our organization intends to take
up" he said recently, will be the
canning OF hare meat and the tanning
OF their hides. In both of these
branches there is good money to be
made-in fact, the possibilities of the
business are just beginning to be an.
preciated. The industry has passed
the fad stage and now has assumed the
proportions of an important commercial
factor.
The Belgian hare show will be an
annual feature in Los Angeles, and
will be held in San Francisco, Seattle.
New York, Chicago, st. Paul and other
places.
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sRApsTREET's REPORT.
wheat Higher on Unfavorabls Cop
Reports.

Bradstreet's says: Continued dull
ness in many branches and a further
shading in several staple lines consti-
tute the leading features in the busi-
ness situation this week. The weak
ness OF prices is displayed in lower quo
tations for corn, pork, butter, cheese.
wool and cotton among the great agri-
cultural products and petroleum and
lead among the mineral products.
Wheat is slightly higher, partly owing
TO less favorable crop reports here and
abroad. Continued dryness in the
Northwest has given the spring wheat
situation less satisfactory appearance
and there is little improvement noted
in the winter wheat sections OF the
central west. 1t is doubtful, however,
II the dry weather has as yet really
affected the spring wheat, the chief
complaint coming from the lumber in
terests, which report low streams inter-
ferring with the forwarding of supplies.
The industrial situation is, on the
whole, rather much better than for
some time past, in that new disturb
ances are fewer and some old ones have
been settled. But practical tie-ups in
Chicago are still unbroken. At St.
Louis all kinds OF business have been
hurt by the strike of street railway
employees. and uncertainty at other
cities, particularly in the building
trade, has had an unsettling effect
upon lumber.
Wheat, including flour, shipments
for the week aggregate 5,178,422 bush
els, against 3 ,4S0, ,574 bushels last week,
Business failures in the United States
for the past week number l55, as com
pared with 174 last week. Failures in
the Dominion of Canada are slightly
more numerous, numbering "a for the
past week, sgainstl9 last week.
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Marvellous Speed of Arcturus.

On summer evening you may 81
Arcturus high up in the south or soutb
west In June or July, and furths
down In the west in August or Septen
Der. You will know it by its red colo
That star has been flying straigb
ahead ever since astronomers began Z
observe it at such speed that
would run from New York to Cbicag
in small fraction of a minute. YoI
would have to be spry to rise from you
chair, put on your hat and overcoat an
gloves and go out on the, street while
was crossing the Atlantic ocean froD
New York to Liverpool. And yet If yo'
should watch that star all your liz
and live as long as Methuselah, yOl
would not be able to see that it move
at all. The journey that it would maS
in 1000 years would be as nothin'
alongside its distance.-Youth's Cor
panion.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1900-05-25

house. This will do for a dozen birds,
half males and half females. for pig
cons pair, and each pair must have its
own nest.
For larger focks house may be
made on the top Of barn, and If the
barn has a cupola on top Of it, this Is
the very thing. Twenty, or even forty
pigeons may be kept In such a place,
but 1t will be necessary to have a trap
door at the bottom which must be care
fully closed every time the house is
left, after having been visited.
But larger flocks may have to be
provided for, and a small flock will
soon become large one, for although
these birds have only two young ones
In the nest, yet they will nest several
times In the year, and the young ones
soon go to keeping house for them
selves.
A large number of pigeons may be
kept In one house If it Is arranged in
proper manner, And pigeons If left to
themselves will soon bring their owner
into trouble, for they are apt to go on
to neighbors' newly sown fields, and
gather up the seed with much indus
try. This, however, is easily prevent
ed, for these birds love to stay about
their home, and If they are regularly
fed they will not wander away after
food. But If it is thought that the
home fields may be injured by the
birds, 1t may be said that where pig
cons have had full opportunity to run
over wheat or oat fields Tor peas, of
which they are extremely fond, yet
the seed they eat is well spent ON them,
for as rule the thinning of the seed
will increase the crop. so that the yield
at harvest time is often much larger
than 1t would have been but for the
pigeons thinning out the seed. If the
pigeon house is kept at the barn, or on
It, the birds will not wander away to
the fields, unless to one quite close to
them. A house large enough for
hundred pigeons is shown In the draw
ings, both the outside and inside of it.
The house is ten by eight feet and the
walls are eight feet high. The ar
rangement Of the inside is shown in
figure 2. The nest boxes are placed
on shelves fastened to the sides Of the
house, and roostlng platform is made
In front of the shelves. The shelves are
supported by props, and the little doors
on the outside open on to them. There
Is q box In the house In which food
is kept for use In stormy weather when
the birds do not wish to go out.
TO get a good view of the inside of
the house, bend one hand so as to make
short of tube to look through, and
use one eye only. shutting the other.
This makes the perspective very plain,
and shows just how the house would
look If one were In 1t.
OF course these birds, like all others,
must be kept very clean, and the house
should be swept and sanded twice a
week. 1t will be the least trouble to do
t every day, when a few minutes will
suffice to do the work. The floor should
be sanded after every sweeping, and
the nests should be busted with a mix
ture of sand and fine gravel, wood ash
es and sulphur. There will be no trou-
BILE with vermin If thorough cleanliness
Is observed and above all things the
sweepings of the house should be dis
posed of safely in the barnyard or
away from the house, for there Is moth
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1900-05-25
RAISING OF BELGIAN HAREs.
A New Industry in Southern California
That Is Proving Profitable.

A New Industry in Southern California
That Is Proving Profitable.
1t is not Difficult. to become Bel
gian hare fancier; all one has to do is
to get pair of hares. To the inquir-
ing skeptic the only Objectionable fea-
ture of the fad that now dominates
Southern California is the dreadful
possibility Of the industry.
One OF the foremost breeders OF Los
Angeles has made table OF calcula'
tions showing that if there were no in
reference one pair OF rabbits in five
years. time would have 5000, 900. .000,.
900 descendants. Fortunately, how
ever, the butcher and the furrier form
an interference to the outcome OF this
calculation, else humanity would be
showed off the globe and this earth be-
come one vast hutch.
1t is this extraordinary willingness
OF the little creatures to increase and
multiply that provides the large profits
made in their breeding. In and about
Los Angeles there are now oven 600
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1900-05-25
San Francisco Market.

Wool-Spring-Nevada l4@ Ice pei
pound; Eastern Oregon, l2@ Ice; Val
ley, 20@22c; Northern, 10@l2c.
Hops-ls99 crop, ll@lSc pei
pound.
Butter-Fancy creamery l7@l7la
do seconds, l6@16lsc; fancy dairy
Ice; do seconds, l4@l5e per pound.
Eggs-Store, l5o; fancy ranch
I7c.
Millstuffs - Middhngs, $500 a
5000; bran, $l2.50@lS.50.
Hay-Wheat Sc. 50@9,5O; wheat AMI
cat $6.00@9.00; best barley $4,000;
100; alfalfa, S5.00@6.50 per TOT
straw, 25@40c per bale.
Potatoes-Early Rose, coo csc; Orb
gon Burbanks, 70c@$l.00; river Bul- !
banks, 40@75c; Salinas Burbank b
s0c@l.l0 per sack.
Citrus Huit-Onnges, Valencia
$s.75@3.25; Mexican lines, $4.00@
500; California lemons 75c@$l.5&
do choice $l.75@2.00 per box.
Tropical Fruits-Bananas, $500
a,50 per bunch; pineapples. non
inal; Persian dates, 6@6hc PEI
pound.
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ON THITHER COAST.
New Gold Fields on the Siberian Shore
WIN Be Opened TO Ameri-
can Miners.

New gold fields rivaling in richness
the deposits OF Cape Nome will be
opened to American miners, II the ex-
pectations OF the members OF the Rus
sian expedition, which arrived in New
York on the Campania, on its way to
Northeastern Siberia, are fulfilled.
Vladimir Wonlarlarsky, colonel OF
the Russian Imperial Guard, obtained
the concession OF the Siberian tract
which the expedition is to examine.
There were more than 40 applicants for
the grant, which had been sought with
eagerness since the discovery of gold on
the American side OF Behring sea. BY
means OF court influence, Wonlarlarsky
carried off the prize. He formed a
company in Russia, which planned the
present expedition, headed by A. Bog
danoyitch, a Russian engineer. 1t If
understood that subsidiary company
has been formed in England in con-
nection with the concession, but sec
recy is maintained in regard TO the
English and American interests.
Miners who have visited the Siberian
coast by stealth have reported that it is
practically the same as the Nome coast,
consisting Of strip OF beach, behind
which lies tundra, or belt of gold
bearing sand. Many companies have
been formed to work dredges and pumps
off the coast OF Cape Nome, in order to
draw up the precious sand where ii
reaches the beach. 1t is expected that
the operation of these appliances will
be prevented by the beach miners, and
that apparatus in which large capital
has been invested will be idle, unless
new fields are opened 10 it. IL the ex-
pedition to Siberia finds what it ex-
peots, the company will invite pumps
and dredges to cross to the Siberian
shore and operate there upon payment
Of a royalty.
Hooley, the English promoter, has
nothing to do with the plan. George
d. Roberts, who Is a veteran California
miner, will be member OF the explor-
ing party. Mr.. Roberts has made a
study OF gold deposits in sea sands, and
has plan for extracting the gold from
the frozen tundra. The expedition will
sail from San Francisco about June !,
after the Russians have conferred with
the Russian minister at Washington.
1t will return about November ], and
expects then to make a complete report
OF the possibilities Of the region.
Mr.. Roberts said today that, from
information he had received, the de.
posit OF gold on the Siberian coast
promised to be the most valuable ever
discovered. No attempt will be made
to work the tundra this year, but the
party hopes to be able to make some
contracts with American owners o.
pumps and dredges.
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ALeeitimate Rnsiness.

From the district court at the national
capitol comes the judgment that the
sale Of newspapers on the streets is a
legitimate business, and that newsboys
have right to enter street cars and
sell papers to passengers, provided they
behave themselves and leave the car
when their business is finished. One
newsboy was forcibly elected from a
car in Washington some time ago, and
had leg crushed by car running on
the other track. He has just obtained
an award OF five thousand dollars dam
ages from jury. with instructions TO
the above effect
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HOUSE FOR PIGEONS.
FLOCKS SHOULD HAVE A HOME
OF THEIR OWN.
4 Large Number of the Birds May
Be Kept in One House If 1t Is Ar
ranged in the Proper Manner-Cats
Their Foe.

Cats are too fond Of pigeons to be
permitted to get anywhere near them,
and In the arrangement Of house for
these birds care Is to be taken that
these animals cannot disturb them.
For small flock small house may
be made round or with eight sides,
and with three or four floors. Each
side will have a door for the pigeons
to enter, and this house is set on a
pole firmly placed In the ground and
eight feet high or so, and having two
cross bars safely fitted to It so that a
ladder may be used to get up to the
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1900-05-25
Had a Pretty Good Hunct

"How did you come to pluck up
enough courage to propose to Miss
Frisbie, Bunting?"
"Well, she suggested that l had bet
ter not send her an expensive valentine
this year, but save my money to go to
housekeeping" confessed Bunting
Detroit Free Press.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1900-05-25

But cannot engage you as a house
maid when you tell me yourself that
nv friend across the street discharged
you for eavesdropping."
"But the temptation was so great.
You see, you don't know what 1t was l
heard"
"On second thought l will employ
you. Run and take off your hat"-New
York World.