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The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-09-10
sHAWs VIEW is CHEERFUL
Secretary Asserts Microbe of Panic
Exists Only in Mind,


Exists Only in Mind.
'If prosperity ceases and disaster
comes it will be from causes psycholog-
ical, but not logical" said Secretary of
the Treasury Shaw at banquet given
by the members of the National Associa-
ton of Merchants and Travellers at the
Auditorium Hotel in Chicago.
'The microbe of panic if it exists is
in the mind; it is not elsewhere. There
exists to-day no one fact and no COM
bination of facts the logical sequence of
which suggests disaster"
1--WE are the mos prosperous people in
the world because we both produce and
consume more than Others" said Mr..
Shaw. Unless our factories and work
shops voluntarily close, or labor volun-
tarily refuses employment. or commerce
voluntarily ceases its activity, there is
no occasion for alarm: Unless appre-
hension becomes epidemic and ultra-con-
servativism contagious, the immediate
future holds for us rs much of real good
as the immediate past has showered up
on US.
"A very respectable number of good
people, and of that number desire to be
classed, believe our financial system.
good as it is. might be improved by add
ing an element of elasticity. I do not
think there exists any great number
who believe we should have any imitation.
Eight years ago We had $21 per capita.
Now we have more than $40 and proba-
bly, nearer $50 per capita. Conservative
business men and conservative bankers
do not generally consider this an INSULT
cient normal minimum volume of curren-
cy. ] repeat, the only criticism now of
fered relates to the want of elasticity.
''There is now no statutory prohibition
against the well-nigh inherent right of
banks to issue circulating notes. This
right exists throughout the United
States, but subject 10 tax of 10 per
cent per annum. This tax is prohibitory.
If l were given authority to formulate
a measure that would provide the requi-
site elasticity to our present currency
system, l think l should add an amend
ment permitting national banks, with
the consent of the Comptroller of the
Currency, to issue a volume of circulat-
ing notes equal to 80 per cent Of their
bond-secured circulation. at a tax of &
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-09-10
News of Minor Note.

John Brown, Rheems. Fa., while
drunk. perhaps fatally stabbed two of
his companions.
A street car in st. Paul. Mimi. struck
and upset a hook and ladder wagon. No
one injured.
In four days nineteen babies in Den
yer. Colo. died of diseases traced to milk
preserved with formaldehyde.
Engineer Dilly and Fireman COnley
were killed in a wreck. Little Falls, n
7. Engine jumped the track while on
a curve.
Steamer Annie Roberts. carrying 1,5OO
excursiOnists. sunk at the foot of Mar
ket street. McKeesport, Po. No one was
drowned.
As a result of the disastrous hurricane
in the West Indian islands the price of
bananas in New York has advanced from
15 cents to 50 bunch.
r. D. Rogers. who was appointed Cir
cult judge to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of Judge L. NJ. Hughes of
the Eleventh Missouri district, has sent
Gov Dockery his resignation.
Hamilton Zook. the 13-year old son of
jess ZoOk, city councilman and mining
editor of the Joplin. Mo-, Daily Globe,
was instantly killed by a runaway team,
attached to an ice wagon. The lads
neck was broken.
During drunken brawl ar the sol
diers' reunion grounds at Jefferson, o. T.,
Charles Haver, young man travelling
with a woman, was hit over the head
with a neckyoke and then stabbed
through the heart.
The State Department has been using
its good offices through Minister Leish-
man at Constantinople to secure permis-
sion from the Turkish government for
the wives and families of several natur-
allied Armcnians. who have succeeded in
business in the United States, to join
their husbands and fathers. Minister
Leishman cables the department that one
woDaan left the other day for America to
join her husband and that permission
has been granted for the families of a
number of other Armenians to come to
this country.
As a result of q trial at Pawhuska.
o. T., Friday. Mrs. James Lenox and
her 14-year-old son were held without
bail for the murder of her husband, near
Hominy, in the Usage reservation.
Vice Admiral Cervera, who surrender
ed to the American fleet off Santiago de
Cuba, has resigned the position of chief
of staff in the Spanish navy, to which
he was appointed in December, 1902.
The Postmaster General has signed
the protocol to the postal treaty between
the United States and Cuba made neces
sary by the amendments made by the
Cuban Senate. The treaty becomes eff
fective without ratification by the Seaat,
Of the United States.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-09-10

Inducements are being offered to
grain raisers in the Mississippi valley to
ship to the gulf ports.
The Des Moines, Iowa Falls and
Northern Railroad has opened for pas
senger and freight traffic.
Montreal and Toronto will not be on
the line of the Grand Trunks new Pa
cific road if present plans are followed.
The Lackawanna Railroad has secured
a new equipment of Pullmans for its two
through trains from Chicago to New
York.
The Central New England is reported
to have made joint freight tariff with
the Boston and Albany and the Bostin
and Maine.
S. 3. Kramer has been appointed mas
ter of transportation of the eastern d.
vision of the Grand Trunk, with head
quarters at Montreal.
The Southern Pacific has made an of
fer to furnish money to the United
States government to build tobacco dry
warehouse at NacogdOches, Texas.
Gross earnings of the Chicago Great
Western Railroad for the SECOND week
of August show all increase of S15,-
86O72 over the corresponding week of
last year.
An active canvass is being made in
New York against the proposition to
build an additional subway line down
Broadway, from Fory-second street to
Union Square.
The gross earnings for the Seaboard
Air Line Company for the fiscal year
ended June so. 1903. were $12, 1876 92S,
an increase of $1,OSS, ,449 over the same
period in 1902.
Thirty-four roads reporting for the
second week of August show aggregate
earnings of IS, 194,515, a gain of $3.50
800, or Ill per cent over the correspond
ing week of last year.
In the matter of local paying tonnage
the new Chicago-New Orleans line of
the Rock Island system will possess per
haps greater advantages than any north
and south system through the Missis-
appi valley.
The Chicago Great Western is re-
building and strengthening twenty steel
bEidges on its line from Des Moines to
ST. Joseph, so as to sustain the weight
of the extra heavy locomotives and roll
Ing stock that will be placed on that line.
Reports gathered in from eight of the
leading western roads with their con-
nections east of st. Louis and Chicago
show that in motive power, ear capacity,
yard facilities and general equipment TO
handle all descriptions of business they
are in a much better condition than a
year ago.
John L. Mckee. superintendent dining
service of the New York Central and
Hudson River Railroad Company. having
resigned to engage in other business, j.
B. Smart has been appointed superin-
tendent of dining service of the COM
pany.
Western roads have been appealed to
By Minneapolis millers to grant them
concessions which will enable them to
secure larger portion of the winter
wheat crop than they are obtaining at
the present time. They have asked the
roads to grant them n proportional rate
Of IA cents per 100 pounds on grain to
b milled in transit from Kansas City
by way of Minneapolis.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-09-10
EASTERN.

A gale swept long stretch Of the At
iantic coast, causing much damage tt
shipping and imperiling many lives.
1t transpires tha: the Olympia's bot
tom was damaged by contact with the
rocks during the war game off Portland
Wall street trading seemed ruled b,
professionals and commission house bust
ness is nt the lowest mark of the sum
mer.
have organized an anti-marrying society
There are sixty members, nearly half OF
them eligible young women.
THe Pennsylvania Democratic conven
tion nominated a State ticket by accla-
nation and adopted strong plank pledg-
ing the repeal of the Grady-Salus libel
law.
M1. Ogden Goelet at Newport an
nounces the engagement of her daughter.
Miss May GOelet, to the Duke of ROx-
burghe, member of distinguished fam
lily Of Britain.
Four collieries of the Union Coal Com
pany at Shamokin. Pa, employing 5000
men and boys, were closed down for an
indefinite period on account of the over
stocked coal market.
The United States gunboat Scorpion
mad big hole stove in her side and was
barely saved from sinking following a
collision with the steamer II. NJ. Whit
rey in the East River, New York.
The jury in the case of Charles Jack
son, the negro accused of the murder of
Charles w. Roxbury in River avenue,
New York. in July, returned a verdict Of
guilty of murder in the first degree.
While mixing paints in the shop of
Joseph Mukloskey, at Homestead, Pa,
a large can of bcnzine exploded, killing
Sadam Louchey. aged 81 years, almost
instantly, and fatally burning Sinus Wat
ley.
Cambridge, Mass, has honored ne
groes, and in spite of the fact that the
blacks are in the minority, colored men
now hold official positions there. and the
principal of grammar school is color
ed woman.
Deputy Sheriff Louis ]. Cook, at Bald
win, l.. l., shot and killed one burglar.
fatally wounded second and captured
two others. He discovered them trying
to break into house and desperate
Fight followed, hut Cook escaped injury.
Having produced 100000 tons of
anthracite coal since Jan. l, that being
tons above the normal output
for that period, the operators, headed by
the Philadelphia and Reading Company,
have begun to restrict the output. Orders
~ u n
of the Reading Company pro-
ducing pea and smaller sizes. There are
now on hand 100000 tons of small
steam coal, for which there appears to be
no market. Some producers began to cut
the price to get rid of the accumulated
products. This led the Reading to imme-
diately take steps to greatly decrease the
output.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-09-10
IN GENERAL

Frederick Law Olmsted, the noted
landscape architect, is dead.
War with Colombia is possible con-
tinsency should the canal treaty fail to
secure favorable action.
Dun's Review of Trade says business
generally is buOyant, thus disproving pes
simistic predictions of slump. Conser-
vatism is developed because Of uncer-
tainty of financial conditions.
The Union Pacific Railroad, in antici-
patton of coal strike, is buying Aarge
supplies of coal from outside mines.
while selling coal from its own mines to
the government at a good profit.
Excessive rainfall retards the maturity
of crops in Soma sections. The abnor-
mally cool weather is unfavorable for
the advancement of corn. The spring
wheat harvest is practically over.
Sir Thomas Upton says he may not
again race for the Americas cup until
England has produced a Herreshoff, and
admits he has been beaten in the yacht
races by brains and development.
The revised edition of the Christian
Science Manual contains important
changes in the church policy governing
healing" teachers being restricted to
thirty pupils in each twelve months.
Secret meeting of Baltimore and Ohio
engineers, firemen and trainmen resolved
to demand increase in wages, and intima-
ton has been given that a general strike
will be ordered if demand is not granted
Messrs. Stanley, Bixby and Needles,
members of the Dawes commission, have
requested the Secretary of the Interior
to make a thorough investigation of
charges involving their conduct of Indian
affairs.
Captain Perkins, commanding the mill
tary post at Fort Egbert on the Yukon,
has telegraphed for authority to send an
miners stranded in the Tenana river
country.
Inspector Van Nerta. who is to be
superintendent of construction of the Chi
cago federal building, has been sum-
moned TO Washington for conference
with the treasury officials before going to
his new post.
Governor Hemming of Jamaica has
asked the Associated Press to contradict
the report that there has been an out
break of the bubonic plague in Jamaica
and says the health of the inhabitants of
the island is excellent.
The schooner Minnie NJ. Cook reached
Sidney. Nova Scotia, with Captain Mas.
kell and FIVE of the crew of the schooner
Queen of the Fleet, who were taken of
their sinking ship thirty miles west of
Cape North in a gale.
The Panama canal treaty was rejected
by the Colombian Senate because of the
imperative nature of the notes received
from Secretary of State Hay and United
States Minister Beaupre. These nota
were regarded as offensive.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-09-10

riarch alluded, I am convinced that the
movement does not proceed spontaneous
ly from the population, but is instigated
from abroad. l hope the measures tax
en- will insure tranquility. l call God
to witness the sincerity of my declara-
tion and that all my aspirations and work
are for the welfare and prosperity of all
my subjects"
Turning then to the Bulgarian patri-
arch the Sultan bade him communicate
his words to his flock.
Next addressing the Greek patriarch
the Sultan said he regretted that the
Greek population had also suffered from
the recent troubles and declared he
would be pleased to contribute to the
subscriptions being raised in the patri-
archate in behalf of the sufferers
The Sultan further remarked that he
was very sorry that some of the SOL
diers had been guilty of acts contrary to
his orders and desires. The Sultan per-
sonally assured Mgr. Ormanian, the Ar
menian patriarch, that his words applied
to the Armenians as well as to the peo-
pie of other nationalities.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-09-10
THE FIELD OF BATTLE
INCIDENTS AND ANECDOTES OF
THE WAR.
The Veterans of the Rebellion Tell Of
Whistlin9 Bullets, Bright Bayonetss
Bursting Bombs, Bloody Battlss,
Camp Fire. Festive Bugs, ETC., Etc.

1t is common thing for soldiers to
make pet animals their companions
when they go to war. In the Crimean
campaign many of the Russians car
ried cats in their knapsacks. In the
American Civil War a Minnesota regi-
ment bore into many engagements a
half-grown bear; which was subse-
quently returned to Minnesota in good
condition. The FOrty-ninth Illinois
carried two game cocks. The One
Hundred and Second Pennsylvania
had large black and white dog.
named Jack, which smelt powder in
twenty battles and was wounded at
Malvern Hill. captur at Salem
Heights and imprisoned with most of
his regiment at Belle Isle. The Twelfth
Wisconsin Battery was accompanied
by raccOon, and several other Wis
cOnsin regiments had badgers. But
the most famous Of all the animal pets
which shared the hardships Of Union
soldiers during the Civil War was the
American eagle, Old Abe, carried by
the Eighth Wisconsin Volunteers. The
fame Of the eagle was reflected upon
his bearers, who came to be known as
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-09-10
Vitality and Pluck.

As an instance Of remarkable vital
ity and pluck ! believe surgical case
we had In the battle Of Lexington.
Mo-. in September. 1861, will equal
anything during the war.
A member Of Company E, Thirteenth
Missouri, was struck by cannon ball
which carried away his arm and
shoulder, and also lacerated his chest.
This happened about p. m. the first
day of our fight. The boy was picked
up and carried to the hospital, but as
the case was considered hopeless and
many others to attend to nothing was
done for him until II p. m., when all
the other wounded had been cared for.
Finding him still alive, ne was carried
to the table and his wounds carefully
dressed, but with no expectation of
recovery. On the seventh day Prices
men captured our hospital, which was
In a brick building some two hundred
yards to our right, and our wounded
were put in a cellar to be out of the
way of bullets. When our men charg-
ed to retake the hospital this boy
seized a gun in one hand, run out with
arms at trail from the cellar, and led
the charge into and through the build
ing. He lived through the trials and
exposures of our Imprisonment and is
living to-day.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-09-10

per cent, the same to be retired at will
or by direction Of the Comptroller by
the deposit of an equal amount of law
full money with any subtreasury.
Assuming, then, that We are in COM
parative health and in no imminent dan
ger Of disease, l want to invite your
attention to the Importance of forward
step. How shall we acquire more mar
kets? There are three ways suggested.
One is to voluntarily and gratuitOusly
set our doors more or less widely ajar
and permit more freedom of importation,
in the hope that other countries will give
lis greater freedom Of expectation.
Another way suggested is to trade
complments-to exchange trade privi-
leges-to set our doors somewhat ajar
for the special advantage of one cOun-
try on condition that it shall set its doors
ajar for the special advantage of our
DeODle"
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-09-10
Belle Roxd, the Rebel spx.

The recent marriage in this city Of
! the eldest daughter of Belle Boyd, the
rebel spy of the civil war, will recall
to many who were participants In the
struggles Of 1866 incidents In the
career of this noted woman, says the
New York Tribune. The daughter,
who was married to Charles W. Chase
few days ago. was the eldest Of the
three children of Belle Boyd aud her
second husband, Col. John 8. Ham
mond. She was few years ago re-
garded as having much Of her moth
er's disposition and daring.
Belle Boyd, as she always preferred
| to be called, was born in Martinsburg,
w. Va, in 1916, and she came from
an excellent family, notwithstanding
her reputation as spy and a much
married woman-fOr she had six hus-
bands in ALL They were Lieut.. Samuel
W. Harding, a volunteer navy officer;
Col. Hammond of Philadelphia; Cole
Younger. Sam" Starr, "Jim" Star and
! ''Nat" r. High. She had excellent
girl associations and though not a
pretty woman she was attractive be-
cause Of her dashing and fearless man
| ner. AS a girl she won a reputation
as hOrsewOman. riding in mems
| clothes as often as in women's dress.
| She was we'll educated; her father was
a prominent merchant and her mother
was of good family.
She was in sympathy with the South
at the outbreak of and during the Civil
War, and her secret service proved In
valuable to the Southern commanders,
especially to -Stonewalr" Jackson in
the Virginia campaign. Her first work
as a spy was in the course of visit
to Winchester, Va, after war was de-
clared, when, learning Of movement
which threatened her beloved South"
as she called it, she gallantly rode by
night to "Stonewalr' JacksOn's head
quarters and gave him the details.
From that time she was attached to
JacksOn's brigade, and became the pet
and pride of the army.
Later when jefferson Davis stated
| that he wanted the trustworthy SER
vices of some one to carry an import
ant document to England Jackson rec
commended Belle Boyd, and she was
selected. She sailed from Wilmington,
n. c., on the swift English blockade
runner Greyhound as one Of the crew
on May s. 1864, and few days later
the vessel was captured by the Uni
ted States gunboat Massachusetts, on
which vessel Harding was an officer,
and she was taken to Boston, where
the prize vessel and her cargo were
sold.
1t was stated that Harding secured
a large part of the proceeds OF the
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-09-10
War. Graate.t sn.etacte.

A cavalry charge. met by counter
charge Of cavalry. is still perhaps the
most terrible spectacle witnessed in
war. If the reader has never seen
such a charge, he can form little con-
ceptiOn Of its awe-inspiring fury. Inn
agine yourself looking down from Get
tysburg's heights upon the open, wide
spreading plain below, where 5000
horses are marshaled in battle line.
Standing beside them are 5000 riders.
armed, booted and spurred. and ready
to mount The bugles sound the
mount" and instantly 5000 plumes
rise .above the horses as the riders
spring into their saddles. In front of
the respective squadrons the daring
leaders take their places. The iutter-
ing pennants or streaming guidons,
ten In each regiment, mark the left of
the companies.
On the opposite slope Of the same
plain are 5000 hostile horsemen clad
in different uniforms, ready to meet
these in countercharge. Under those
10000 horses are their hoofs, iron-shod
and pitiless. beneath whose furious
tread the plain is soon to quiver.
Again on each slope Of the open field
the bugles sound. Ten thousand sa-
bers leap from scabbards and glisten
in the sun. The trained horses chafe
their restraining bits, and as the bugle
notes sound the charge. their nos
trils dilate and their flanks swell In
sympathetic impulse with the dashing
riders Forward! Forwardr' As this
order thrills through eager ears, sa-
bers flash, and spurs are planted in
palpitating flanks. The madly flying
horses thunder across the trembling
fields, filing the air with clouds of
dust and whizzing pebbles. Their IRON
rimmed hoofs In remorseless tread
crush the stones to powder and crash
through the flesh and bones of hapless
riders who chance to fall. AS, front
against front, these furious riders
plunge. their sweeping sabers flashing
edge against edge. = cutting a way
through opposing ranks, gashing faces,
breaking arms and splitting heads, 1t
is a scene of widest war, a whirling
tempest Of battle. short-lived but ter
rible.-Gen. John B. Gordon. in Scrib-
ner's.
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ChicayO-Cattle, common to prime,
$500 to $5.75; hogs, shipping grades,
$3.50 to $500; sheep. fair to choice, $500
to $3.50; wheat, No. . red, Soc to Sic;
corn, No. 2, 53c to 54c; oats, No. 2, 32c
to 34c; rye. No. 2, 51c to SIC; hay, tim
cthy, $3.50 to $3.50; prairie, $500 to
19c; eggs, fresh, lie to lie; potatoes,
63c to zoe per bushel.
IndianapOlis-Cat shipping, $500 to
$3.50; hogs, choice light, $4.OO to $6.O5;
sheep, common to prime, $3.50 to So. 10;
wheat, No. 2, 79c TO soc; corn. No. 2
white, sic to SIC; oats, No. 2 white, 34c
to 36c.
St. Louis-Cattle, $3.50 to S5.55; hogs,
$3.50 to 5000; sheep. $500 to S3.75;
wheat, No. 2. SIC to SIC; corn. No. 2,
46c to 47c; oats, No. 2, 33c to 34c; rye
No. 2, 55c to SIC.
Cincinnati-Cattle. $4.25 to $500;
hogs, $500 to $3.50; sheep, $275 to
$780, wheat, No. 2. SIC to SIC; corn,
No. mixed, sic to 54c; oats. No. 2
mixed, 34c TO Soc; rye. No. 2, 59c to 6Oc
Detroit-Cattle, $3.50 to $500; hogs,
S4.OO to S5.75; sheep. $3.50 to $3.25;
wheat, No. 2, Sic to SEC; corn, No. 8
yellow, 54c to soc; oats. No. 3 white,
36c to 31c; rye, No. 2, 54c to soc.
Milwaukee-Wheat, No. 2 northern,
Sic to Soc; corn, No. 3. SIC to ODE: oats,
No . white, 38c to 37c;: rye, No. /, b3c
to 54c: barley, No. ., - to 65c; pork
mess, $3.50.
Buffalo-Cattle choice shipping steers.
$3.50 to $40; hogs. fair to prime. s4.OO
% $500; sheep, fair to choice, S325 to
400; lambs, common TO choice, $4.00 70
$500.
Toledo-Wheat, No. mixed, Sic to
s3c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 53c to 55c: oats,
No. . mixed. 34c to 36c; rye. No. ., 52c
% 54c; clover seed, prime. 1856.
New York-Cattle. S4OO to $50;
iogs, $500 to 5000; sheep, $500 to
1915; wheat, No. Q red, Sic to SIC; corn,
No. 2, 5Sc to Soc; oats, No. white
zoe to 41c; butter, creamery, 1Sc to 19c;
,yyS woStarn loo to Coc