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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-06-22

cord, hook for the ceiling, the proper
number of ordinary coat hangers, and
the simple but effective thing was COM
plete.
Of course there are objections to this
arrangement; dust and flies, and the
marring of the general appearance of
the room. But where a corner of a room
be an easy matter to carry the curtains
up to the ceiling. Summer hotels and
boarding house keepers would make
themselves very popular with the sum-
mer girl by carrying out this idea in
the curtained recesses that answer for
ardrobes.-Ladies' Home journal.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-06-22
Her Subsequent Action.

The Widow lover the back fence)-
So you was over to Allegash yisterd'y +?
Any news there?
The Clam Peddler-Wa-al, Lucy Ann
Pine-you know her, guess-was set
tim alone in the dark, one evenin'
about two weeks ago, when a strange
man slipped into the house an
grabbed her an forcibly kissed her.
The Widow-I want to know.
The Clam Peddler-Yes'm an they
do say that she amt had light in the
hoI sc sence.-Judge.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-06-22
Malvern HisI.

The union and confederate troops
engaged in severe battle on this hill
on July /, 1862, resulting in the defeat
of the confederates. The hill is To-
Gated about IL miles from Richmond,
Va, and one mile from the James
river.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-06-22
Memory.

Il suppose you find good memory
of great assistance in your work?"
mo, sir" said Senator Sorghum.
Remembering is all well enough in it's
way. but a good forgotten, who can
change his opinions on short notice and
not worry over promises is the man
who gets on best in my part of the
state. te."-Washington Star.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-06-22
Bonds of sympathy.

Mrs. Ollabout-I thought you and
Mrs. Selldom-Holme were hardly on
speaking terms, but saw you talking
with her last evening in the friendliest
manner imaginable.
Mrs. Gotfrequent-Yes, 1 found out
she'd been having the same kind of
trouble with her hired girl that I've
had with mine.-Shicago Tribune.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-06-22
Compliments Of the senson.

Now the crablet in the sand
Turks beneath the waters blue,
And extends the gladstone hand
To the laughing bathers, who
Unsuspecting of his fell,
Wicked purpose, gayly pose,
Till loud and piercing yell
Tells US he has pinched their toes.
N. Y. World.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-06-22
A Suggestion.

That Nature gives hints to her children is
plain,
This fact in your hat you may paste;
Let summer girls go where an arm of the
sea
Forever encircles waste.
Puck.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-06-22
HeartIess Indifference

Young Wife-O, mamma! Clarence
is growing heartlessly Indifferent to
me already!
Her Mother-What has he said or
done?
Young Wife-Why, when L asked
him where he preferred me to go this
.ummer he said he had no preference,
because he knew I'd go just where 1
wanted to, anyway!-Puck.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-06-22
QuIefed.

'In my opinion" he said, women
ought to remove their hats in church
the same as they do in theaters."
How" she asked, do you know
that they don't?''
1t was at this time that the wild,
hunted look got into his eyes.-Chi-
cago Times-Herald.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-06-22
Equal to the occasIon.

Miss Jones-Professor, do you dare
to look me in the face and say that
originally sprang from monkey?
Professor Ga little taken aback, but
equal to the occasion)-Well,r really, 1t
must have been very charming mon
key.-Tit-Bit
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-06-22
Effective Energy.

"Joppo, you make nice, fine garden
BEDS
"Yes, when my wife sets me to dig
ging I'm mad enough to pulverize ev-
erything that comes in my way.'-De-
troit Free Press.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-06-22
In the GloamIng.

The sweet summer maid and the youth
fell out,
And this was the reason why:
They had nothing on earth to quarrel
about
But he swung the hammock too high.
Chicago Record.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-06-22
His New Line.

Dopes-I hear D'Auber's dropped his
work in oils and taken to black and
white?
Ropes--Yes, he's addressing envel-
opes for patent medicine firm.-Town
Topics.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-06-22
Love in the Kitchen.

O't tS sN.s
I've kiss for the cook,
'Sh! Don't give 1t away,
There Is no one to look
I've kiss for the cook:
You see Bridget forsook
Us. Wife's cooking to-day.
I've kiss for the cook
'Sh! Don't give 1t away.
Philadelphia Press.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-06-22
Well Posted.

"Does he know much about the firm's
business?"
"Know much! Well, say! the Office
boy actually doesn't consider himself
any better posted. Chicago Post.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-06-22

Bachelor-But | can't see much in
the girl you pointed out to me. She
is so insignificantly small.
Cheerful Matchmaker - Precisely.
That is why she happens to be avail
able-a remnant.-N. Y. World.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-06-22
Where 1t Came From.

Thou art so near. and yet so far
AS old as ancient Rome
Came first from one, who. nearly broke.
Was far away from home.
-Radford Review.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-06-22
A serioua ObstacIe.

Crolius-What is there between you
and that heiress?
Burgess (sadly)-Her father.-Town
Topics.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-06-22
An UnIIensaat Contrast.

He--I believe I'll go to church with
1ou this morning, Clara.
she-Indeed you won't; you've got
2aa new suit, and mine hasn't come
me yet" indianapolis Journal.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-06-22
RenIistic Reporter.

City Editor-How did that deaf and
dumb wedding come off?
Reporter = Quietly. Baltimore
Anierisan.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-06-22

Child labor in North Carolina mills
has decreased 50 per cent. in the past
three years.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-06-22

you'll have TO get an alarm clock" :"
'What FORE"
''To make these biscuits se."-Chi-
:ago Inter Ocean.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-06-22
Inequality.

The orator oft charms the crowd:
His talking-men adore 1t.
The auctioneer talks just as loud
And gets no notice for 1t.
-Washington Star
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-06-22

Grogblob (who has been pressed
into acting as nurse for half an hour)
Most 'stonishing thing this child
should keep on crying for mills-'spe-
cially when there's whisky in the
house.-Ally Soper.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-06-22
Not Always Tn US.
They called her Rose,

Ilty CiIItU lltI INU5G,
And this but shows
Why names should all go whistle:
The man who got
Her claims she's not
A sweet Rose, but thistle.
Chicago Times-Herald.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-04-27
Mr.. MORGAN, Please!

a short time since a committee of
Chicago business men wrote to Mr..
J. Pierpont Morgan begging him to
use his influence in railway councils
to stop determinations in rates so
that all shippers might be placed on an
equality in the matter of cost of trans
portation. Mr.. Morgan replies by sug-
costing various remedies, but com.
mits himself to nothing in particular.
The interesting fact here is that the
committee appealed. not to the Inter-
state Commerce Commission. which
was constituted by the national gov
eminent to prevent and punish such
unlawful discrimination, but to a pri-
vate individual who has no connection
whatever with the authorities charged
with the enforcement of the law.
Is Mr.. Morgan more powerful than
the Government? Can he grant by
ways of grace and favor what the
commission cannot compel with all
the power of government behind it?
The committees action is a recog-
milton of the fact already confessed
by the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion almost in terms 1t ought to en-
tighten the whole country concerning
the unseen influences which regulate
the Government at Washington.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-04-27
An InsoIent Imperialism.

If it be true, as intimated by Mr.
Hanna, that the Republican National
Committee is $65,0d0 in debt, the fact
is highly discreditlble to the benefi.
Charles of the administrations con-
slant care and solicitude. The Stand
ard Oil trust, which Mr.. Hanna him
self protected from the malignant per-
secution of Mr.. Frank Monnett. is
earning $S0,000000 per annum, accord
ing to it's last quarterly dividend. The
Carnegie steel trust cleaned up $21,-
100000 in 1899. All the other trusts
and monopolies undoubtedly have
done CORRESPONDENCE we'll Yet they
allow Mr.. Hanna's committee to be.
come insolvent when a trifiing con-
tribution from each of them would
fill its war chest to overlooking. Such
ingratitude is bound to bring down
retribution, and the retribution will
come when Mr.. Hanna gets out his
trusty skillet and begins making the
rounds again this fall. The trust
magnates may ignore the committees
necessities now, but their fat will
sizzle merrily when the leaves begin
to TALL Marcus will be merciless and
his demands will have to be met if
the r. SITS hope to enjoy four years
more license to plumber the people.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-04-27
WAGES and Provisions.

And yet they tell us that the trusts
have increased wages. Let us see.
The New York Labor Bureau, Repub-
lican board. mark you, have selected
siXty-six industrial institutions in that
state, each having an annual pay
roll of $4,000 and over, and has found
the total wages paid by them for each
since 1890. The tables given show
that the annual average wage has de-
creased nearly 10 per cent. In 1891
there were 1871 employees in these
factories, receiving an average of
$547 per year. In 1899 there were
25,035 people employed who received
$513 each for the year. In 1897 the
average wage was 1928 In 1898 it
was sos. These statistics were gath
cred by Republican officials, and can
not be successfully assailed by the
Republican press. They show that
there has been a constant diminution
of wages during the last nine years,
Notwithstanding the price of every
commodity made or controlled by the
trusts has been advanced from % to
140 per cent
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-04-27
Call for the Convention.

"The National Democratic Commit
tee, having met in the City of Wash
ington on the 22d day of February,
1900, has appointed Wednesday, the
4th day of July, as the time, and
chosen the city of Kansas City, Mo-,
as the place for holding the National
Democratic Convention.
Each State is entitled to repre-
sentation therein equal to double the
number of it's Senators and Repre-
sentatives in the Congress of the
United States, and each Territory,
Alaska, Indian Territory and the Dis
trict of Columbia shall have six dele
gates.
"All Democratic conservative re-
form citizens of the United States,
irrespective of past political associa-
tions and differences, who can unite
with us in the effort for pure, econom-
ical and constitutional government,
and who favor the Republic and op-
pose the empire, are cordially invited
to join us in sending delegates to the
convention"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-04-27
A MATTER OF LUCK.
When We Disregard One Sign We Be-
lieve in Another.


When business man was starting
on a short journey recently his wife
called him aside.
William" she said, earnestly,
don't you think of going to-day Put
it off till tomorrow or next week.
Something awful will happen if you
disregard my advice, and | know it,"
Whats the matter with you? Been
having dreams or consulting one of
these second-sight frauds.
mo, dear, but this is Friday, and it
is simply inviting trouble to make a
start on Friday"
"Oh, pshaw! Will you never get
over such foolishness? What's the day
got to do with it? Honest, it makes
me tired-this everlasting superstition
and belief in signs. If paid attention
to all such things we'd starve, for I'd
have no time to do business. Put all
Of them out of your head, little one
I've had just as good luck on Friday
as any other day, and the only serious
accident l ever had was on Monday
l can't disarrange my plans just to
humor a whim. I'll come back just as
safe and sound as l leave. Goodbye"
He went and she sat in the bay
window looking just as disconsolate
as though her worst fears had been
realized. At the end Of twenty minutes
she saw her husband hurrying toward
the house, carrying his hat in his
hand and hopping his forehead. She
ran to the door, pale with apprehen-
sion.
what is it, William? Tell me,
quick. 1 can bear anything as long
as you are all right"
Where's that old blue vest? That
lucky dime of mine is in one of the
pockets. I'd stay at home before I'd
go without it."-Detroit Free Press.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-04-27
She Looked; Then Leaped.

Hght-eyed Mary had a lover
Handsome, kind and true.
"But," she said, IL must discover
What is best to do"
So she went for sound advice
To aunts and cousins married
twice.
Don't" said Aunty Martha Teeters,
"Men are full of flaws;
Scold ng round-the hateful creeturs-
AT the slightest cause.
Taxa your aunly IS counsel, Mary.
Meu are always con ter ary.'n
Then she went to those still older,
Cousins Jane and Ruth,
Both agreed that aunty told her
Plain, unuarnished truth.
Married women sigh and mean.
dear,
Ycu JUS let the men alone, dear.
Pretty Mary stood and wondered
How these matrons nice,
Thinking thus, shonid ali have blum
derrd
Into marrying twice.
Then said she, They've gri-fs
and tear 'em"
I'll take one myself and share
'em."
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-04-27
Brutus Weeps over Caesar.

Nobody would guess where this is
from. 1t is not, as it might be sup
posed, calamity note from the Bugle
of Reform. 1t is from the oldest Re-
publican organ in Kansas, the Leaven-
worth Times. In Kansas politics pro-
duce many strange results, and not
the least of these strange results in
the first district consists that the
truth regarding railroad influence is
told. Read it:
"a grave danger confronts the Re-
publican party in Kansas The rail-
road corporations have begun their
efforts to gain control of the party
machinery, through their agents, the
Topeka bosses. One of the worst in
fiuences which can affect politicians
is that of the railroad corporations
working for their own interests. Their
representatives continually try to
worm their way into party councils,
caucuses, primaries. conventions; in
to the legislature or it's Hobbies; into
congress itself. No danger is more
to be avoided by the Republican party
in Kansas than this of yielding too
much to the railroad influence. In the
recent district contest two railroads,
the Missouri Pacific and the Rock ISL
and, played a prominent part through
their attorneys. They showed their
hands very plainly. There are many
Republicans who have a suspicion and
dread of the mere possibility of the
Republican party becoming pliable to
the manipulation of railroad corpora
tions. The indications may easily be
exaggerated and cause an alarm
which might reinstate the Populist
party in power again in Kansas"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-04-27

Dear reader, the day is fast ap-
preaching when you must decide
whether you are for continuance of
the republic or for the erection of a
monarchy in the United States. Which
side will you choose? A big, fat Troy
politician says he will choose the
monarchy-so he may get another
soft berth-but those places will be
scarce even in a monarchy; there'll
not be enough to go around.-Troy
(O.) Democrat.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-04-27

The wheat market is falling down
again. What's the matter. Republi
cans? Why don't you pray aloud to
your god of prosperity? Call out
afresh; make a noise; wake him up
AS Elijah of old said, "Perchance he
sleepeth, or is busy in his games of
pleasure, or maybe he has gone on
journey" By all means awake him,
and give him no rest until he or Mark
Hanna puts wheat back up to one
dollar per bushel-Troy CO., Demo
crat.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-04-27
Made It Warm for Him.

The young man, making social
call, found himself in pleasant sit
ting room, surrounded by bevy OF
dear, delightful creatures, who pro-
ceeded to assist the base burner to
make it warm for him
In fact it was altogether too warm
for the young man.
"This is the hottest room ever got
into" he exclaimed at last, as he
wiped the perspiration from his brow.
1T really makes me sick. I'm afraid
I'll have to throw up"
'Wha-a-t?"
-"the window" he went on.-Mem-
phis Scimitar.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-04-27

While considering the evils of COM
mercial trusts, we are not looking in
the direction of the money trust. For
the first time in the nations history
Congress has deliberately created a
national debt for the benefit of bank
ers, who reap 2 per cent. on $3.50, OO0,-
900 for thirty years instead of per
cent. for nine years, besides using the
debt itself as a basis upon which to
collect per cent interest on call.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-04-27

is no longer playing. She sits
with her arms folded on the
music rack, her head bowed be-
tween them. Now she rises and
lights the lamp OH the pier tables
under the mirrors and closes the
shutters softly. The mellow
light dispelS the shadows.
Dreaming in the dark, L had half
imagined that you were here.
But there is only your new por-
trait, which we hung this morn
ing over the piano. Ruth leans
on the piano and looks up at it.
Such an elegant new thing is
out of place in this old room with
its old furniture. Here is a
mantlepiece, intricately carved.
once white and gold, now dingy
white-the gold has long since
worn away; and fireplace with
brass andirons reflected in the
waxed floor, and decoration of
wild asparagus; and rickety, spin
die legged chairs and sofas, once
covered with satin damaSk, now
covered with cretonne; and inlaid
tables and cabinets. and mantel
ornaments of gilt and glass, all
broken and defaced; and portraits
OF gentlemen in wigs and velvet
coats, and Ofladies with powdered
hair who smile and hold baskets
of roses in their hands. Your
portrait is the false note III the
symphony.
So This is how you looked last
winter when all Paris was on its
knees adoring you for your wealth
and beauty-pale and broken
hearted! Was it so unsatisfying
after alls l, who have given some
thought to art, recognize this
painting as a masterpiece. How
the eyes and hair blend and con
trast with the pale green of the
dress!
l have read many things in
your mobile face dear: love and
pride, the agony of hopeless
pleading, and the grief Of hav-
ing wounded without the
strength to retrieve; but never,
never, this profound and hope
less sorrOw-not the sorrow Of
the strong, which stimulates, but
that of the weak, which kills.
But you are beautiful! These
ancient beauties of your family
smile indeed, but their smiles
seem fOrced--those of women who
fell themselves to be eclipsed. You
bend your head and languidly
play with the roses OH your knees.
How transparent and thin your
hands are! And that is his ring!
And those jewels-did he give
them to you?
He sent it here, this portrait.
He could not bear it, not yet
while his grief was so new. He
could not bear it, so he sent it
here! What mockery! [ under.
stand: that face will always be a
silent reproach to him, although,
God knows, he tried to make you
happy. Well, now, l know how
one looks when one is dying of
such pOiSOns as remorSe and an
untOrgiven sin! Ruth is crying.
There is patter of small feet
on the bare floor of the hall. The
little girls come in; one is a
hands breadth taller than the
other, and they wear white
dresses with black ribbons. Old
Violet, in her purple dress and
red and yellow head handker,
chief, waits in the doorway with
the nursery lamp. The little
girls are quiet and tired from
their play tonight. Ruth turns
and smiles on them. She kisses
them and says, "Good night, my
little daughters"
|, also, kiss them and say,
Good night, my little daughters"
And a tear falls Oh the fair hair
of the one who is named for You.
Mamie Goa.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-04-27

The Republicans have damned their
gold standard bill through Congress,
but not until they had hung the usual
Republican bimetallic bluff to it. The
Mckinley navigators lay down the
course of the ship according to the
famous sailing directions of the Bell
man in the children's Hunting of the
Shark. steer to the starboard, but
keep her to larboard."
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-04-27

The Hayites and the Hannaites
may say rot" and "bosh" in refuta-
ton of Macrum's charges till their
tongues hang out from WEAKNESS, but
that kind of argument can't obliterate
the Victoria Regina" stamped on the
slips pasted over the rips made in the
official envelopes by her majesty's
censor-Kansas City Times.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-04-27

The thanks of the country are due
to Congressman Littlefield, of Maine;
Mccall, of Massachusetts, and one or
two others, for their brave stand in
behalf of the government of the faith
ers and against the reasonable and
insidious attempt of the administra-
ton to outlaw the Constitution and
substitute a government of individual
Hannaites for the organic law.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-04-27

The Standard Oil aggregation does
not stop at oil. The surplus wealth
of the concern is so great and it's
money power so vast that it is able
to combine with the Rothschilds and
control the copper output of the
world. The profits 6f this combin-
alton last year from the rise of 6
cents in the price of copper are esti-
mated at $4,000 900.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-04-27

Most of the craftsmanship on the
Republican side of the Senate is oc-
cupied these days in an effort to sup
press Pettigrew. But Pettigrew won't
suppress worth cent, and talks right
along about the disagreeable things
that the administration has done and
is doing its best to hide.-Kansas City
Times.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-04-27

In 1899 the actual earnings of the
common stock of the steel and wire
trust amounted to 1877 per cent. 1t
was year of great prosperity-for
the trust.-Rock Island Argus.
By the way, how much were the
wages of the employees raised?
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-04-27

President Mckinley has been work
ing with might and main recently to
whip Republican members of Con-
gress into the ranks of the imperial
lists. He has succeeded with many of
them, but there are few RepEDli
can Congressman who still believe in
the government of the fathers and
prefer the displeasure of Hannaite
President to violating their oath of
Office.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-04-27
Prodlaious STRENGTH.

Browne-Is that doctors son as
strong as reported?"
Towne-Oh, yes. Why l saw him
lift one of his fathers bills.--NeW
York World.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-04-27

The gold Democrats are now say
ing that 1900 will end Bryan. Why,
they have been claiming all the time
that he was ended in 1S96.-Milwau-
kee News.