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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1901-03-15

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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1901-03-15
CANTON-MASSILLO ELECTRIC X. r,
Inter-Urban Division.

On and after Monday, September "a In
terurban trains will leave the public
square Canton, for Massillon, and the
City Park, Massillon, for Canton, hourly.
on the half hour as follows.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1901-03-15
TRY THE POSTAL CARD SYSTEM.
1T WILL PAY.
Always ehdeavor to Write Plainly and sign
your name to the communication.

TERMS;-Not exceeding 80 Words. 2 in
sertlons, 20 Cents. Cash with order, 9th
erwise we will charge double price to cover
cost of bookkeeping and collecting.
Holbrook argus., 1901-02-02
M'KINLEY IMPRESSED.
The Generosity of Californians Most
Graciously Acknowledged.

Washington.-The Washington Star
gave considerable prominence to Sam
ual M. Shortridge, Col George Stone
and members of the California con-
gressional delegation who called at the
White House and were received by
president. The Star says: President
Mckinley is receiving and seeing so
many evidences of CALIFORNIA; mag
nificent style of doing things that he
will no doubt be prepared for almost
anything when he goes to that State
in May next. Just yesterday he re-
ceived an invitation from California
Commandery, No. 1, Knights Templar,
to visit them, the invitation being a
solid card of gold and containing a
diamond and gold seal worth probably
$500.
Friday he was presented with a bal
lot box used by the California electors
in casting their votes for president
and vice-president 1t is beautiful
piece of work, and the gold on it is
estimated to be worth $500 to $500.
The box was made to receive the votes
of the electors when they met at Sac
ramento, January IA, to declare the
result of the presidential election, and
was brought here by the messenger
who came to Washington to deliver
the vote to the president of the senate.
'The president received the Califor-
mans graciously and expressed his high
appreciation of this any many other
expressions of the good will of the peo-
pie of the Golden State''
Holbrook argus., 1901-02-02
REMINISCENT OF THE QUEEN
Her Tender Sympathy to Sorrow &
Strong Characteristic.

At the request of representative
of tho Associated Press, Mrs. George
CORVALLIS West has written the fol-
lowing from London:
when Colonel Towne recently went
to Windsor to receive the Victoria
Cross for valorous deed by which
he lost his eyesight, those present
have since told me that as he ad-
vanced, led by his wife, toward the
queen, tears poured down her cheeks
and it was in broken voice that she
spoke to him. Few at eighty-one years
of age could forget their own dim and
failing eyes for the blind ones of
others.
1.-THE queen may be counted on as
one of the victims of the war. Every
defeat, every unsuccessful skirmish,
the loss or wounding of any brave SOL
der, was personal to her.
when 1 had the honor of seeing her
majesty at Windsor in December, 1889,
before leaving for South Africa, in the
American hospital ship Maine, she
evinced the greatest interest in all the
details and fittings of the ship, and
particularly as to the history of the
hospital staff, doctors and nurses,
whom she had received a few days
previously. Several times she repeated
to me: 1T is very good of the Amer
lean people to subscribe for this ship,
and l am most grateful to them for
coming over and helping to take care
of my sick and wounded"
Holbrook argus., 1901-02-02
HoRTICULTURIsTs ALARMED
Commissioners Will Try to Prevent In
PRODUCTION of the Dreaded "White
Fly"

An insect commonly known as the
white fly" is now occupying the at
tention of horticulturists in this part
of the State. The insect is new in
this State, but has been doing consid-
cradle damage to citrus fruits in Flor
ida. 1t is feared by local horticultu-
rists that if prohibitive measures are
not adopted the insect will be imported
to this State and gain hold before
it can be exterminated. All nursery
stock coming from the southeastern
states is now being closely watched
for the pest. 1t is more than likely
that when the horticultural commits
sioners of Southern California meet
in this city on the first of next month
some action will be taken to prohibit
the importation of citrus nursery stock
from states where the parasite has
taken hold.
The insect has been the cause of Sc
rious damage to Florida orchards. 1t
fastens itself to the under surface of
the leaves. The tree becomes dry in
a very short time and is defoliated.
Owing to the dangerous character of
the parasite local horticulturists are
taking special care not to allow the
insect to come into the State.-Herald.
Holbrook argus., 1901-02-02
The Catch About It.

The business Of fire insurance seems
to have been good deal of mystery
to the middle-aged Englishwoman who
according to the Leeds Mercury, called
at an agents office and said that she
wished to insure her house
For how much?" asked the agent.
"Oh, for about f200."
every well. I'll come up and inves
tigate it."
81 don't know much about insur
ance," she said.
Its very simple, ma'am.''
"If I'm insured for E20O and the
house is burned down, 1 get the mon
ey, do II"
Certainly"
"And they don't ask who set it afire p
"Oh, but they do. We shall want t.
know all about it."
"Then you needn't come up" she
said, as she rose to go. 81 heard there
was some catch about it somewhere
and now l see where it is"
Holbrook argus., 1901-02-02
Conqer Chins Chang

Peking.-United States Minister Con-
ger called upon Prince Ching Friday.
The visit was mainly a social call.
Prince Ching expressed regret at the
refusal of the minister to give the
Chinese the forbidden city in order
that they might prepare for the en-
peror, saying that it was impossible
for the emperor to return to Peking
until a place shall have been prepared
for his residence. Prince Ching also
stated that he had informed the mis-
sionaries that the Chinese government
had no objection to their remaining
in their country and continuing their
work, which was often beneficial to
the country. He considered many OF
them good men.
Holbrook argus., 1901-02-02
Litigation over a Rich Mine.

The fight over the Cobre Grande
copper properties, in Sonora, Mexico,
is again revived, this time with a more
vicious look than ever. There are
some things that never, never die, and
a fight over a copper property is one
of them, says the Mining Review A
couple of weeks ago we were told that
the Cobre Grande's affairs had been
permanently settled to the satisfaction
of everybody. How true that was is
made clear in the announcement that
suit has been commenced against all
three companies which laid claim to
the property, for the recovery of $685.
900, claimed by the party bringing the
suit, to be due him on certain prom
issory notes made by the Cobre Grande
Company. Besides that there is an
other attachment against the Cobre
Grande for $2,500,000.
Holbrook argus., 1901-02-02

A Chicago doctor who wants to pose
as a health faddist says that exercise
lis for men past middle life."
This is really a wonderful discovery
If true. Exercise is merely the use of
the muscular system. Whatever bene-
fetal effects it has consist In the slim
ulation of the circulation of the blood
and the consequent consumption Of
waste and renewal of tissue in the
muscles and organs. 1t also, if it be
Of the proper kind, keeps the muscles
flexible and the joints in good condi-
ton. If man past middle life ought
not to exercise he ought not to use his
muscles. Nor ought he to think, be-
cause thinking exercises his brain, and
that might be detrimental; in fact, he
ought not to breathe, for that is exer-
cising his lungs, and he ought to give
all his organs a complete rest If our
Chicago man is right the man past
middle age ought not to live-it may be
detrimental. The mummy seems to be
the ideal -past-middle-life, accord
Ing to the no-exercise-past-m iddle-life
faddist.
Holbrook argus., 1901-02-02

been much speculation as to why this Is
true especially in such lines of trade as
shoes and ready-made clothing, among
the cOmmonest necessarles of life. The
real explanation lies in the fact that
very large percentage of the purchases
of the American people are in excess
of their actual necessities. The aver
age American has more than one suit of
clothing and more than one pair of
shoes. When an intended purchase is
passed over on account of bad weather
or some other accident, the chances are
that some other article-a luxury per-
haps-will absorb the money before an
other opportunity for making the pur
chase turns up. 1t may further be said,
with truth, that very large percentage
of the purchases of those of peo-
pie of very small means-are made on
the impulse Of the moment or Of the
hour. The purchaser sees something
and buys 1t. The need for it may have
been more or less felt, but in all prob
ability it was not pressing, and he
might not have thought again Of buy
ing it had he not seen 1t. This impul-
siveness Is peculiarly true of the pur-
chases made by wonderland they are
the ones that do the great bulk of the
retail buying. The American people
are already the most luxurious the
world has known, and If there shall be
no great check to our national accumu-
lation of wealth, there is no predicting
to what lengths the love of luxury may
go. In our travel we crowd the palace
cars and are willing to pay any kind
of prices, but insist that every luxury
that can be conceived by the ingenuity
of man shall be at our command. The
maritime world knows nothing to equal
the luxurious appointments Of the At
lantic liner, and it is made to meet the
American, not the European, demand.
Our hotels surpass anything the world
has known in the trappings and con-
veniences of luxury-and in prices.
People pay the prices without muir
muir, but, if they cannot have hot baths
and velvet carpets, their objections are
loud and long. Men find it profitable to
erect enormous caravansaries in out-of-
the way places and fit them up as no
royal palace abroad is fitted, and keep
them open but few months in the
year, because Americans will pay the
dizziest prices for few weeks of crest"
in them From bottom to top and back
again, the extravaganza of Americans
as people is the wonder of the world.
Holbrook argus., 1901-02-02
A New Steel Combine.

Andrew Carnegie has secured control
of the Pressed Steel Car Company,
which is paying 100000 a year in
dividends. 1t is also announced that
F. N Hofstatt has been chosen presi-
dent of the combination to succeed
Charles T. Schoen, founder of the COM
pany. Hofstatt is one of Carnegie's
lieutenants. By securing control of
the Pressed Steel Car Company it is
said Mr. Carnegie will be able to con-
troll the manufacture of steel cars.
Henry w. Oliver, another friend of
Carnegie, is an influential director in
the pressed steel car combination.
Holbrook argus., 1901-02-02

"After having supplied a moonshiner
in a South Carolina Jail with a months
supply of smoking tobacco" said a gov
eminent surveyor, 81 presumed upon
tire deed to ask:
"Didn't you know it was against
the law to manufacture moonshine
whiskyY
"I heard that was a law once,' he
replied.
what do you mean by once?
"'Why, Juba French told me thar
was SIGH law, but when 1 asked Jim
Truman about it he says that Juba is
SIGH liar that nobody kin believe him
under oath, and so L reckoned l was
safe to go ahead. Shoe, but 1 won
der how Juba come to tell the truth fur
that one time! Washington Post
Holbrook argus., 1901-02-02
Editors Unusual Luck.

Cripple Creek.-P. H. Knowlton, edi-
tor of the Evening Star of this city,
has struck it rich. but not in Cripple
Creek. A few months ago his father
died, leaving considerable real estate
in different States. Among the assets
were a hundred and twenty acres of
wild land at Beaumont, Texas. 1t ad-
joins the tract of ground on which the
big oil we'll was recently opened up.
About three weeks ago Mr.. Knowl-
ton had about consummated a deal for
the transfer of the hundred and twenty
acres for $500, but the would-be pur-
chaser refused to accept the deed until
the title was cleared up, which would
require the probate courts action on
his fathers will. Today Mr.. Knowl-
ton received a wire offer of SIC, 900 cash
for the tract, and he says the land is
worth $4,000 an acre.
Holbrook argus., 1901-02-02

Every once in while a man, disgust
ed with the battles over the dollars left
by dead men, decides to dispose of his
property during his lifetime. He wants
to be a benefactor, to make glad those
who need the wealth he possesses. to
bestow charity and feel the good of Civ
Ing. The world doesn't seem ripe for
that kind of philanthropy. Many have
tried it and died poor and neglected
The man who has robbed himself to
benefit others isn't always sure of kind
ness and consideration, more's the nitv
Alexander Jackson, 70, of Camden
Del, allowed the fact to become pubIic
that he proposed to distribute his
wealth during life. To-day he is dis
gusted with humanity. He is making
enemies where he hoped to do only
good He has been cajoled and threat
ened, he gets begging letters by the
wagon load, and the most of them come
from people who care nothing for Alex
ander Jackson. The smell of money at
tracted a horde of vultures, who are
ready to fight for spoil. Mr.. Jackson
made mistake. He admits it. Nearly
every other man who has tried this
particular brand of philanthropy can
consistently say, 81 told you SOL
Holbrook argus., 1901-02-02

One of the curious facts revealed by
the census for 1900 is that for the first
time since 1880 has the center of popu-
ward but actually has receded little,
and is now on the Miami River, just
north of Cincinnati and short distance
east of where it was ten years ago.
This is generally ascribed to the greater
increase of city population as compared
with that of the country. Whatever the
reason, however, Ohio is again the
pivotal State as to population, and the
Buckeye is ready, as usual, to sit down
on the pivot and gather in the offices as
they come along.
Holbrook argus., 1901-02-02
KING EDWARDS PLEDGE.
He Stands for the Good and Ameliora-
ton of His People.

In assuming the duties and response
bilities of the monarch at his acces-
sion to the crown, King Edward VII
delivered the following very simple but
commendable speech before the privy
council last Tuesday:
"Your Royal Highnesses, My Lords
and Gentlemen: This is the most pain
full occasion on which 1 shall ever be
called upon to address you. My first
and melancholy duty is to announce to
you the death of my beloved mother,
the queen, and know how deeply you
and the whole nation. and, 1 think,
l may say, the whole world, sympa-
thize with me in the irreparable loss
we have all sustained.
81 need hardly say that my constant
endeavor will be always to walk in
her footsteps.
'In undertaking the heavy load
which now devolves upon me, 1 am
fully determined to be a constitutional
sovereign in the strictest sense of the
word, and, so long as there is breath
in my body, to work for the good and
amelioration of my people.
81 have resolved to be known by
the name of Edward, which has been
borne by six of my ancestors. In do
ing so I do not undervalue the name
of Albert, which I have inherited from
my er-to-be-lamented great and wise
father, who, by universal consent, is,
1 think, deservedly known by the name
of Albert the Good, and 1 desire that
his name should stand alone.
I'm conclusion, l trust to parliament
and to the nation to support me in
the arduous duties which now devolve
upon me by inheritance, and to which
1 am determined to devote my whole
strength during the remainder of my
life'
Holbrook argus., 1901-02-02

any day from Washington, and when
they do come bids for the work will
be advertised Immediately. The site
has already been purchased. 1t is To-
Gated on Magnolia avenue, and the
surroundings are admirably suited for
the new institution of learning.
The additional appropriation of $75,-
900 secured through the efforts of Sen
ator Bard, together with the original
appropriation, makes a total of $780,
600 for the construction, equipment
and maintenance of the school. 1t is
the intention to in time accommodate
one thousand Indian children and
make it the Carlisle of the West.
Holbrook argus., 1901-02-02
New York's Mayor Anti English.

New Worthwhile many flags were
lowered throughout the city to half
mast out of respect to Queen Victoria's
memory, that on the city hall was not.
When asked why no official notice had
been taken of her death, Mayor Van
Wyck is reported to have replied: 81
know that the flag has not been low
cred. This city takes no notice of the
death of foreign monarchs."
Corporation Counsel Whalen said
that he knew of no ordinance prohib-
iting the mayor from showing official
respect to foreign nations upon the
death of their rulers.
Holbrook argus., 1901-02-02
general NEWS ITEMS
Covering Every County and Many De-
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Who Enjoy their Information in a Con-
densed and Pithy Form and are too
Busy to Read Long and Useless Re-
Forts Of Space Writers.

Salem.-The senate passed a bill
providing that the people shall be
given the right to express by ballot
at the regular State elections their
choice for United States senator.
New York.-Lieutenant r. P. Hob
son will leave the Presbyterian hospi-
tai here, where he has been since De-
cember 1, suffering from typhoid fever.
He will go to the home of friends I'M
til we'll enough to report for duty.
Secretary Gage sent
to the house a full statement of the
Indebtedness incurred by the annexa-
ton of Hawaii, with a request for an
appropriation to pay, aggregating 49,
447.545.
Holbrook argus., 1901-02-02
Sousa and His Band are Coming to Los
Angeles.

Cablegrams from the various CORE
spondents in Paris of American news
papers all indicate that John Philip
Sousa made a great personal and ar
tistic triumph in Paris. We are told
in speaking of his success, in a cable
to the New York Journal stated:
Nothing could surpass the enthusiasm
of the reception accorded both the mu-
sic and musicians American music is
little known, but was marvelously well
received, and mere absence from home
will not account for the fact that
many veterans like Colonel Care, ex-
Minister to Denmark, and Consul-Gen-
eral Gowdy shed tears when the band
played in soul-stirring fashion The
Star Spangled Banner" The Paris
correspondent of the Associated Press
states, ut is no exaggeration to say
that the performances of Sousa's band
have been the features of the EXPOSE
ton the past week, and, while Amer
leans are naturally delighted to hear
the familiar national airs and popular
marches and melodies, the intense en-
thusiasm displayed by the French au-
diences and the encomiums they have
passed on the music and its interpre-
tation have been most f1attering to
Sousa's fe1low-countrymen. At Haz-
ards Pavilion, Feb. 21-22-23, three
evenings and two matinees.
Holbrook argus., 1901-02-02

There are certain families, in this
country the members of which deem
public Office their own prescriptive and
peculiar right Having had fathers and
grandfathers in Office, they feel that
office-holding is their inalienable privi-
lege. Hence Uncle George is a Federal
Judge, Uncle Tom is Commissioner to
Revise the Fish Laws, Grandfather is
Consul to Ttmbuctoo, and Aunt Jane is
his clerk. Willie and Harry and John,
having grown too big for Senatorial
pages, will be put somewhere in the
Treasury Department. The national
government is especially infected with
generation after generation of these
parasites. The only power equal to a
suppression of the plague is Congress.
And Congress spreads it
Holbrook argus., 1901-02-02

1t is not absolutely necessary to the
suppression of haZing that the cadets
who hazed the young Pennsylvania
should be discovered and punished. The
practice itself should be stopped right
now, whether those boys are reached or
not. 1t is not necessary to the making
of good soldiers. Indeed, men of the
true soldierly spirit are not given to the
torturing of the helpless. A fair fight
in the open is more to their liking in the
line of rough play.
Holbrook argus., 1901-02-02
Kruger May Come.

London.-President Kruger seems
likely to visit the United States, after
all. Such is the news from The Hague.
A fortnight ago all preparations for
visiting America. seemed to have been
abandoned. He was suffering from
bronchial catarrh, and his cabinet had
not recovered from the effects of the
rebuff they had endured at the hands
of the kaiser They were full of ner-
vous horror of crossing the Atlantic
only to find their experience of Cologne
repeated in New York. But since then
they have had time to think it over
and their minds are turning toward
the great republic of the west.
Holbrook argus., 1901-02-02

Not long ago we had "rainy Satur-
day." much to the grief of all those
retail merchants whose trade comes
largely from the families of wage earn
ers and salaried men. 1t is a peculiar
fact. which every merchant has no.
Hced, that when disagreeable weather
ruins the trade Of one Saturday, the av-
erage trade of the month will not make
up the loss. The hole thus made in his
profits is never filed up, and there has
Holbrook argus., 1901-02-02
ARattIesnake Tran.

Rattlesnakes were the most danger
Gus wild animals with which the early
settlers of New Jersey had to contend.
They were very numerous, and their
bite, if not treated properly at once,
was generally fatal. In Stories from
American History f. R. Stockton cites
an incident which gives an idea of the
abundance of rattlers in the new col
ony.
In a quarry, from which the work
men were engaged in getting out stone
for the foundations of Princeton Col
lege, a wide crack in the rocts was dis
covered, which led downward to a large
cavity; and in this cave were found
about twenty bushels Of rattlesnake
bones.
There was no reason to believe thai
this was a snake cemetery, to which
the creatures retired when they sup
posed they were approaching the end
Of their days; but it was, without
doubt, a great rattlesnake trap.
The winding, narrow passage leading
to it must have been very attractive to
a snake seeking retired quarters in
which to take its long winter nap. AL
though the cave at the bottom Of the
great crack was easy enough to get
into, it was so arranged that it was
difficult, if not impossible, for snake
to get out of it, especially in the spring,
when these creatures are very thin and
weak, having been nourished all winter
by their own fat.
Thus year after year the rattlesnakes
must have gone down into that cavity,
without knowing that they could never
get out again.
Holbrook argus., 1901-02-02
Mckinley to King Edward.

Immediately upon receipt of news
of the death of Queen Victoria, Presl-
dent Mckinley .cabled as follows:
''His Majesty, the King, Osborne
House, Isle of Wight: I have received
with profound sorrow the lamentabIe
tidings of the death of Her Majesty,
the Queen. Allow me, sir, to offer my
sincere sympathy and that of the
American people in your personal be-
reavement and in the loss England
has suffered in the death of it's ven
cradle and illustrious sovereign, whose
noble life and beneficent influence have
promoted the peace and won the af-
lection of the world.
Holbrook argus., 1901-02-02
Governments Scientific Excurcion.

Washington.-The navy department
has perfected arrangements for send
ing party of scientists to the island
of Sumatra to observe the total eclipse
of the sun on May IL next. The party
will be in charge of Prof. A. N. Skin
ner of the naval observatory, and will
start from San Francisco between Feb
ruary &c and March 1.