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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1903-04-03
SECRETARY HAY A
HEBREW SCHOLAR.

Grateful for Secretary Hays efforts
on behalf of prosecuted Jews In liou-
mania, Rev. Marcus II. Dubov. a rabbi
of Evansville, Ind. wrote him touch
ing lettc. 2. thanks. Using the He
brew tongue. He was somewhat sur
prised to receive from Mr. Hay an
autograph letter in the same lam
g,iage. Very few persons. even among
The secretary's intimates were aware
that he was Hebrew scholar Of dis
tinetion.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1903-04-03
sHATTUc's BRILLIANT IDE,

Representative Shattuc Of Ohio sat
In his committee-room busily stamp
ing his name at the bottom of q large
number of letters with rubber
stamp cut in facsimile. What do you
usc stamp for. Shattuc?" asked
Representative Beidler. We'll" said
shattuc, III the letters are all right
II makes no difference. and if the let
tcrs are not all right / can say my
secretary wrote them and used the
stamp"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1903-04-03

again.
Rev. Heron has commenced REVIVAL
services at Sandyville.
Asl'ury Sunday school will give a
special Easter service April 12 They
elected A. X. Eversole to the County
Sunday school convention at Massil-
Ion.
Mrs Annie Yarger is dangerously
sick
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1903-04-03

MUST DO PROPER PENANCE.
He - But you admitted to my sister
yesterday that you were wrong.
She Suppose did?
He Well, then, &hy won't You
make UP with me?
She = will as soon as you apologize.
Philadelphia Press.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1903-04-03
BORN roo SOON.

Janitor's Wife : Phwat are yez read
in?
Janitor Dim reading tn history av
Napoleon Bonaparte. Moy! Moy!
phwat a ianitor he wud av made!--
New York Weekly.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1903-04-03
THE YOUNG MAN VINDICATEp.

THE YOUNG MAN INDICATED.
tellect = New York World.
Professor Marchand of Paris says
the brain has its maximum weight at
20 years. This tallies with the ~
year yonth's estimates of his own i'm
tellect. - New York World.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1903-04-03
WHO'LL REPRESENTED.

Docs your wife favor woman's suf-
frage?' .a
Il don't know that She doea," an
'swerod Mr.. Meelston. There's no use
OF her dressing up and going to tho
polls to vote when she can send me-
Washington Star.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1903-04-03

oKO. r. DLAkR.
Ota1 Correspondent.)

Columbus, o., April 2. Attorney,
General Sheets has rendered an opin-
ion to Auditor of State Guilbert that
leased real estate should be listed for
taxation in the name of the fee simple
owner II the lease is not perpetual
When not perpetual, it may be listed
either in the name of the owner OF the
lee simple or the lessee, according to
the terms of the lease.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1903-04-03

FRANK NORRIS AT GREENWOOD LAKE
Norris
young American novelist and such lite critics M
fiowels Owen Wis
When MI MOTIFS died. months
reading the last attempted corner
ne wheat supply auth
me epic the wheat from the Western
subject Ocopusto
the final relief of
was to be called "The wo trip around
'he world to material
sold before first of the
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1903-04-03
WHAT BOTHERED HIM.

mo use ter grieve over spilled milk,
Bre'r williams"
II know dey amt = but dey done
stoled my cow!" - Atlanta Constitt-
tion.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1903-04-03

Even admittin dat folks is des-
|eended fun monkeys" said Uncle
Eben. II knows some people dat ain
no special credit to DER ancestors. -
Washington Star.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1903-04-03

The farmer sows his wheat and oats,
His whiskers freely flowing,
And rides around the bumpy fields
With features red and glowing;
The little calves with shaky legs ;.
Are ever loudly bawling,
And in the hog lot little pigs
In mud and filth are sprawling.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1903-04-03
THE ONE THING NEEpFtyJ,.

Don't be despondent, Henry: there
are plenty Of good things in this life
besides money"
y II know n. Martha. but you can't
have them Without money New
York Sun.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1903-04-03
WILI4ING no ACCOMMOpATH.

Furniture Dealer = Yes, ma'am. this
he'd room set will last you fifteen years.
Purchaser And II 1t doesn't:
Dealer Then come back and We
will sell you another one. = Kansas
City Journal,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1903-04-03

Yeast-Well. he has something now
he can't control
Crimsonbeak-Grac Has he
bought an automobile or been getting
married ?-Yonkers Statesman.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1903-04-03

George Washington, they tell us,
TO falsehood never turned,
Had he been weather prophet
He would probably have learned.
Washington Star.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1903-04-03
Correspondence

Ilartville, April 2. = A pleasant sur
prise was given Melvin and Leon steffy
Tuesday evening at the home Of their
grandfather, Samuel Brumbaugh, by
their teacher, Miss Julia Bair, oi
School District No. IL, and her pupils
aud friends. The hospitable home OF
Mr.. Brumbaugh was given UP to the
children. Instrumental and vocal mus
ic and games of various kinds were in
dulged In, after which q bcunteous
treat Of home made taffy and popcorn
was served.
Mr.. Stcffy is moving his family to
Hartville and his children will be
greatly missed in the school which they
attended during the past winter, but
Hartville will have creditable ac-
quisition to its population.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1903-04-03

Peg pardon, madam" said the
clerk, hut what did you say your
name was?"
Il didn't say" snapped the Chica-
go woman, who had just completed
her seventh matrimonial venture.
all you need to know is what my
name s."-Philadelphia Press.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1903-04-03

North Industry. April 2. Farmers
are all busy plowing for oats.
Moving is tho order of the day here
this week.
The Lutherars are preparing a pro-
gram to be given Easter night at the
church.
The ladies Of the Women's Christian
Temperance union will give an enter
tainment Friday night, April 10, at
the school house. The entertainment.
will consist OF songs, recitations and
phonograph recitation by Charles
Tebay of Canton.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1903-04-03
BY-PRoDUCTs
MUST DO PROPER PENANCE

IL Z
MUST DO PROPER PENANCE,
He - But you admitted to my sister
yesterday that you were wrong.
She Suppose did?
He = Well, then, Why won't you
make UP with me?
She = will as soon as you apologize.
Philadelphia Press.
THE YOUNG MAN INDICATED.
tellect - New York World.
Professor Marchand of Paris says
the brain has its maximum weight at
20 years, This tallies with the ~
year yo1th's estimates of his own i'm
tellect. - New York World. i,
Even admittin' dat folks is des-
|cended fun monkeys" said Uncle
Eben. Il knows some people dat ain
no special credit to DER ancestors
Washington Star
The farmer sows his wheat and oats,
His whiskers freely flowing,
And rides around the bumpy fields
With features red and glowing;
The little calves with -shaky legs =
Are ever loudly bawling,
And in the hog lot little pigs
In mud and filth are sprawling.
Yeast-Well, he has something now
he can't control.
msonbeak-Gracious! Has he
houuht an ortoronhiIa ~ haav, r,ns<tpr
married ?-Yonkers Statesman.
Peg pardon, madam" said the
clerk, "but what did you say your
name was?"
Il didn't say" snapped the Chica-
go woman, who had just completed
her seventh matrimonial venture.
all you need to know is what my
name s."--Philadelphia Press.
George Washington, they tell us,
TO falsehood never turned,
Had he been a weather prophet
lie would probably have learned.
Washington Star.
BORN roo SOON.
Janitor's Wife - Phwat are yez read
in?
Janitor --Oi'm reading tn history av
Napoleon Bonaparte. Moy! Moy!
phwat ianitor he wud av made!--
New York Weekly.
WELL REPRESENTED.
Docs your wife favor woman's suf-
frage?" .a
II don't know that She doee," an
swerod Mr.. Meelston. There's no use
OF her dressing up and going to tho
polls to vote when she can send me-
Washington Star.
WHAT BOTHERED HIM.
mo use ter grieve over spilled milk,
Bre'r Williams"
II know dey amt - but dey done
stoled my cow!" Atlanta Constitu-
tion.
WILLING TO ACCOMMODATE )
Furniture Dealer Yes, ma'am. this
led room set will last you fifteen years.
Purchaser And II 1t doesn't:
Dealer Then come back and We
will sell you another one. - Kansas
City Journal,
THE ONE THING NEEDFuI4.
Don't be despondent, Henry: there
are plenty Of good things in this life
besides money"
y II know II. Martha. but you can't
have them Without money " New
York Sun.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1903-04-03

Il d pTobabIe thnt eyory natIonal
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1903-04-03

didate or George B. Cox, OF Cincinnati
Cor the Republican nomination for gov
ernor and will be the only candidate
against Myron T. Herrick of Cleveland
The report has some semblance to
plausibility when 1t is considered that
F'leischman was averse to standing for
another term as mayor, but was per-
suaded ID reconsider and enter the race
by Cox and his henchmen. Contem-
poraneously II is reported that Senator
w. G. Harding, of Marion, and Albert
Douglass, OF Chillicothe, would retire
from the race for governor before the
convention meets should Fleischmann
be candidate. II is claimed for him
that without any special effort he could
control the strength of the southeastern
counties, which would draw support
from other parts OF the state. This Is
the first important story affecting the
governorship which has been In evil
dence for several weeks. A vast deal
hinges on the result OF the Cleveland
municipal fight. II the Republicans win
Herrick's chances will he immeasur-
ably enhanced; IL Tom johnson tri-
uraphs the Republicans will look to
some other city for standard bearer.
1t Ia probable that every national
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-12-22

neck and the molten moon fire from her tumbled hair-the color of corn silk, but finer.
 Behind her lurked the low, even shadow of the forest where the moon was not, band of velvet against which the girl and the light-touched twigs and bushes and grass blades were etched like frost against black window pane. There was something, too, of the frostwork's evanescent spir itual quality in the scene, as though at any moment, with buff of the balmy summer wind, the radiant glade, the lowering figure, the filigreed silver of the entire setting would melt into the accustomed stern and menacing forest of the northland, with its wolves and its wild deer and the voices of it's sterner calling.
 Thorpe held his breath and waited. Again the white-throat lifted his clear, spiritual note across the brightness, slow, trembling with ecstasy. The girl never moved. She stood in the moon light like beautiful emblem of si- lence, half real, half fancy, part wo- man, wholly divine, listening to the little birds message. ..4 .
 For the third time the song shivered across the night; then Thorpe, with a soft sob, dropped his face in his hands and looked no more.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-12-22

removed one by one and either piled to one side or burned. In the end, how ever, it would pay. French creek was not large stream, but 1t could be driven during the time of the spring freshets.
 Each night the men returned in the beautiful dreamlike twilight to the camp. There they sat after eating, smoking their pipes in the open air. Much of tie time they sang, while Phil, crouching wolf-like over his violin. rasped out an accompaniment of disso- nances. The mems voices lent them selves well to the weird minor strains of the chanteys These times, when the men sang and the night wind rose and died in the hemlock tops, were Thorpe's worst moments. His soul, tired with the days iron struggle, fell to breeding. He wanted something, he knew not what.
 The men were singing in a mighty chorus, swaying their heads in unison and bringing out with a roar the em- phatic words of the crude ditties writ ten by some genius from their own ranks.
 Come all ye sons of freedom throughout
 old Michigan,
 Come all ye gallant lumbermen, list to a
 shanty man. On the banks of the Muskegon, where the
 rapid waters flow,
 Oh, we'll range the wild woods o'er while
 a-lumbering we go."
 Here was the bold unabashed front of the pioneer, here was absolute cer- tainty In the superiority of his calling, absolute scorn of all others. Thorpe passed his hand across his brow. The same spirit was once fully and freely his.
 'tThe music of our furnished ax shall
 make the woods resound, And many a lofty ancient pine will tum- F ble to the ground.
 At night around our shanty fire we'll sing
 while rude winds blow Oh, we'll range the wild woods o'er while
 a-lumberin' we go!''
 That was what he was here for. Things were going right. It would be pitiful to fail merely on account of this fdiotic lassitude, this unmanly weak ness, this boyish impatience and desire for play. He woodsman! He fellow with these big strong men!
 A single voice, clear and high, struck into quick measure:
 'I am a jolly shanty boy,
 As you will soon discover;
 To all the dodges am fly, A hustling pine wood rover.
 A peavey hook it is my pride:
 An ax well can handle;
 To fell a tree or punch a bull
 Get rattling Danny Randall"
 And then, with a rattle and crash, the whole Fighting Forty shrieked out the chorus:
 "Bung yer eye! Bung yer eyer'
 Active, alert, prepared for any emer- gency that might arise; hearty ready for everything, from punehingySulls to felling trees that was something like! Thorpe despised himself. The song wnnt an
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-12-22
[To BE CONTINUED
CYCLONE DIETING BARN,
CircuIar Structure Erected on ax
 Indiana Farm.

CircuIar Structure Erected on an
 Indiana Farm. .. F..
 A circular barn, one of the most unique structures ever erected on an Indiana farm, has been completed by James Sears, whose farm is near La pei, Ind, says the Chicago Record-Her- aid. The walls, or, rather, wall, of the barn is twenty-five feet high and sixty five feet in diameter, the roof running to cone. There is no such thing as a post or pillar in the barn. In order to prevent the weight of the roof from spreading the wall Sears, who is practical blacksmith, forged three heavy steel hoops, and with these he enclrcled the structure as band would be put around big water tank The barn is cyclone proof for Boreas has no chance to get hold on the structure.
 Inside, driveway runs clear around. The stalls for horses and cattle are ar ranged ill circle, there is big feed ing room in the center, and silo ex- tends from the ground to the roofs cone
 Mr. Sears claims that he can shelter more stock and stow away more feed In the barn than i'll the ordinary farm structure.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-12-22
I3o East Main Street.

To encourage our friends strive for the PIANO and MONEY which giving away FREE. We offer this
 Extraordinary nduGement From Now Until Christmas Day.
 On every purchase made during This Time the pur- chaser will entitled to 10 for the piano and money n stead of bring in this coupon Present whyour sale slips and get creditor the This coupon must be presented before Christmas, Not good afteS.
 Address,
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-12-22
6be BZuzed By STEWART FAZA ~@0 EDWARD
 WHITE

ISO7. by -<fs~ert Ed~ard a,Ssss .

| ton he had ever been required to be- stow on a trivial subject he again un- consciously sank by degrees into the old apathy. Glad 1t isn't the busy seasonw he commented to himself. Here, must quit this! Guess it's the warm weather I'll get down to the mill for a day or two." ..@u
 There he found himself incapable of even the most petty routine work He sat at his desk at 8 o'clock and began the perusal of a sheaf of letters. The first three he read carefully, the follow ing two rather hurriedly, of the next one he seized only the salient and es- sential points, the seventh and eighth he skinned, the remainder of the bun dle he thrust aside in uncomfortable impatfence. Next day he returned to the woods.
 The incident of the letters had aroused to the full his old fighting spir- 1t, before which no mere instincts could stand.
 Once more his mental process became clear and incisive, his commands direct and to the point. To all outward ap- pearance Thorpe was as before.
 He opened Camp One, and the Fight ing Forty came back from distant drinking joints. This was in early Sep tember. That ablebodied and devoted band of men was on hand when need ed. Shearer in some subtle manner of his own had let them feel that this year meant 30,000.O00 or "bust" They frightened their leather belts and stood ready for command. After rauch dis cussion with Shearer the yo,aag man decided to take out the logs from eleven" by driving them down French creek.
 To this end a gang was put to clear ing the creek bed. It was a tremen- dous job. Centuries of forest life had choked the little stream nearly to tlie level of it's banks. Old snags and stumps lay irnbedded in the ooze; de- cayed trunks moss grown, blocked the current; leaning tamaracks, fallen tim Der, tangled vines, dense thickets, gave to its course more the appearance of q tropical Jungle than of north country brook bed, All these things had to be
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-12-22
THE WILLIAMSBURG BRIDGE
Some Features of the New sxructnra
 Spanning the East River.

Some Features of the New sxructnra
 Spanning the Hast River.
 In every respect the Williamsburg bridge, spanning the East river and connecting New York and Brooklyn, is the most remarkable highway through the air' in the world, says the New York Herald. The weight of the steel in each of the towers is 3,O48 tons. The steel in the Brooklyn approach weighs 6,0S5 tons, while that in the Manhattan approach weighs 1o,550 tons. The main span weighs 7,772 tons, while the ca bles and fittings weigh 5000 tons. The diameter of the suspension cables, out side of the wires, is eighteen and three quarter inches. There are 7,696 wires in each cable. Each wire is about three-sixteenths of an inch in diana- eter, and the length of each is $500 feet.
 The timber used in the construction of the bridge amounted to 6,5OO, GOO feet. The excavating eQualed 125. .000 cubic yards. Of concrete masonry there are 60,000 cubic yards and of stone masonry 130,000 cubic yards. The steel used amounted to 4o.ooo tons.
 The Manhattan anchorage rests on $500 piles driven through clay to sand overlying rock. The Brooklyn anchor age rests on natural sand.
 The foundations for the towers of the bridge rest on the solid rock. The north pier on the Manhattan side is f1fty-six feet deep at high water, while the south pier is ten feet deeper. On the Brooklyn side the north pier is no feet below high water, while the south pier is only 90 feet deep.
 The first wire for the construction of the temporary footbridge was strung on April Il, 1901, and the first wire for the hepermanent cable crossed on Friday, Nov. %. 1901.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-12-22
~I love a girl in Saginaw:
 She lives with her mother. I defy all Michigan

~I love girl in Saginaw:
 She lives with her mother.
 defy all Michigan
 To find such another.
 She's tall and slim; her hair is red:
 Her face is plump and nretty.
 She's my daisy Sunday best-day girl,
 And her front name stands for Kitty" And again, as before. the Fighting Forty howled truculently,
 "Bung yer eye! Bung yer eyet''
 The words were vulgar, the air a mere minor chant. Yet Thorpe's mind was stilled. His aroused subconscious- ness had been engaged in reconstruct ing these men entire as their songs voiced rudely the inner characteristics of their beings. Now his spirit halted. Their bravery, pride of caste, resource, bravado, boastfulness-au these he had checked off approvingly. Here now was the idea of the mate. Somewhere for each of them was a kitty" a daisy Sunday best-day girl" At the present or in the past these woods roisterers, this Fighting Forty, had known love. Thorpe rose abruptly and turned at random into the forest. The song pursued him as he went.
 
 A mossback gave the bfdding;
 Silver Jack bossed the she@ang, .
 And Big Dan played the fiddle.
 We danced and drank the livelong night,
 With fights between the dancing,
 Till Silver Jack cleaned out the ranch
 And sent the mossbacks prancing."
 And with the increasing war and turmoil of the quick water the last shout of the Fighting Forty mingled faintly and was lost.
 ''Bung yer eye! Bung yer eyev'
 Thorpe found himself at the edge of the woods facing little glade into which streamed the radiance of full moon.
 There he stood and looked silently, not understanding, not caring to in- Quire. Across the way white throat was singing, clear, beautiful, like the shadow of a dream. The girl stood listening.
 Her small, fair head was inclined ever so little sideways, and her finger was on her lips as though she wished to still the very hush of night, to which impression the inclination of her SUD- pie body lent its grace. The moon light shone full upon her countenance. A little white face 1t was, with wide, clear eyes and sensitive, proud mouth that now half parted like child's. Her eyebrows arched from her straight nose in the peculiarly graceful curve that falls just short of pride on the one side and of power on the other to fill the eyes with pathos of trust and innocence. The man watching could catch the boise of her long white
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-12-22
CHAPTER XXI.

@~~@H HHE moment had struck for the woman. Thorpe did not know 1t, but 1t was true. A solitary,
 breeding life in the midst of grand surroundings; an active, stren- uous life among great responsibilities; a starved, hungry life of the affections whence even the sister had withdrawn her Iove-all these had worked un- obtrusively toward the formation of single psychological condition. Such Q moment comes to every man. Then are happiness and misery beside which the mere struggle to dominate men be comes trivial, the petty striving with the forces of nature a little thing, ana the woman he at that time meets is more than woman she is the best of that man made visible.
 Thorpe found himself for the first time filled with the spirit of restless. ness. His customary iron evenness of temper was gone, so that he wandered quickly from one detail of his work to another without seeming to penetrate below the surface need of any one task s-sdt week before he had felt himself absorbed in the component parts of his enterprise. Now he was outside of it. Thorpe took this state of mind much to heart and combated it. Invariably he aeld himself to his task. By an effort, q tremendous effort, he succeeded in doing so. Tire effort left him limp. He found himself often standing or nov ing gently, his eyes staring sightless, his will chained so softly and vet so firmly that he felt no strength and hardly the desire 20 break from the lroam that lulied him. Then he was conscious of the physical warmth of the sun, the faint sweet wood smells, the soothing cares of the breeze, the sleepy cicada-like note of the pine creeper. He wanted nothing so much as to sit on the pine needles there ill the golden food of radiance and dream
 dream on vaguely, comfortably, gweetly
 Lord, Lordn' he cried impatiently. sWhat's coming to me? I must be lit De off my feedr' a
 And he hurried rapidly to his duties. After an hour of the hardest concentra-
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-12-22
Useful.

katie got the first prize at our sum. mer cooking class"
 How proud she must be! What was it?"
 "A useful book, First Aid to the In jured.' Judge
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-12-22

You May Find It Hard to Stop Him.
 When you are alone with man and the conversatisr languishes, get him to talk about himself. You won't find it difficult. Snmarvtlla Journal