The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1903-06-23
NUMBER so.

majority of the ladies. There are but
few residences or homes occupied.
They are chiefly boarding houses now.
This is the direct result of the busy
month when the divorce courts turned
out an average daily grist of 213 de-
crees, a total aggregation of 6,391, for
the month of November, 194S. On the
other hand, many are reunited who
had been estranged before.
Several prominent and highly esteem
ed citizens are residing for the present
in the city Jail, while as many prison.
ers are released, their innocence having
been proved beyond doubt since the
advent of the Martian.
Everybody has read the famous
Truth Issue of the Anaconda Copper
Sheet. 1t has been translated into
fourteen languages AS is well known.
IT was caused by an unexpected visit
of the Marian to the editorial rooms
just as the printers devils began their
nightly rush for copy.
We need not describe that memora-
BILE sheet, pocket edition. size by Q
inches, its advertising columns Of bar
6diho icddNcn " ldNis IOuf cAilAD
Of nonpareil, its society news shorn Of
all glory or glowing adjectives. the MI
croscopic corner occupied by police
items divested of their padding, re-
minding one of a row of brownie skele-
tons: the page devoted to paying gold
mines and rich strikes in the Klondike
shrunk by the hydraulic pressure Of
that Marian eye to five lines, the un-
complimentary nature of thenremarks
about the "greenroom" and the re-
suits thereof-all this is well known
ton destined to be issued from the
Copper Sheet fonts. That paper Is now
no more. The building was burned to
the ground that night. The editor was
forced to fly for his life, but he after
ward made great fortune by printing
souvenir editions of the Truth Issue,
which have been sold in all parts Of
the world. The editor has since retired
to private life.
That the Marian monster finally
Travelled over this great country Of
ours. seeking whom he might devour.
and that wreckage and destruction fol-
lowed in his. path are matters Of cur
| rent history. We need not repeat them
here.
When he created such terrible havoc
| in our halls of congress, as result Of
which we have had to call extra elec-
I, tons to fill the numerous vacant seats
/, in both houses on account Of the Doodle
/, and bribery scandals; when he tam
/ pered with the presidents message.
1 which told us how many millions ac-
crued to that noble statesman from the
: sugar trust; when our marts Of COM
merce had been closed by him; when
/, the Stock Exchange had been made the
4 abode of spiders and silence; when at
!, the last he committed the heinous
I, crime of disclosing and therefore de-
, stroying the methods by which a mod
el machine made city government was
conducted in our great vice protecting
city of New York; when, in short, our
whole system of living had been turned
upside down and inside out by the Ar
chimedes screw of that compelling eye.
1t was time for the nation to rebel. And
we did.
No common methods would avail to
rid us of a visitor who could render
himself invisible to the police when
wanted. So day of public hypnotism
was appointed. On that day, Dec. %,
1913. at 10 a. m. the whole country
4 Joined in an effort to hypnotic the
Marian back to his lair in the empy-
rean. Standing under the open sky and
looking toward the east; every person
In the United States over eighteen
! years Of age concentrated his thoughts
and prayers upon that one object.
! The hum of industry was stopped;
every train and mill and store and fac
tory in the whole vast area of the CONT
uent was blanketed in one tremendous
silence as the millions of people faced
the morning sun as though by the
swing of a mighty pendulum swayed
by a common human impulse, for every
soul on earth has some dread of q pow
er which compels the unvarnished
truth at all times.
The common enemy was in Washing
ton at the time. ascending the steps of
the Congressional library. So many
hostile thought currents focused upon
his will proved too much for him He
was overwhelmed by an inclination to
call his air ship and journey again
homeward
| At 1920 a black speck appeared In
the sky above the gilded dome Of the
library. At 1880 he stepped into his
conjured air snip, and the awful eye
was seen to close slowly three times ~
the vessel rose above the city.
|. The Canals of France.
!. Few who have not travelled in SOUTH
ern and central France know Of her
vast systems of canals and canalized
rivers. Many persons spend months
, or years in Paris and know nothing Of
the great basins in that city from
. which canals radiate. binding all parts
, of France TO the great heart of the cap
ital These canals run into rivers con-
Meeting those of the water sheds north,
south and west. Through many Of
, these small streams-we at home would
call them creeks-you will see little
. towboats putting, grunting and lifting
up a heavy chain from the canalized
| river bed, winding it round a drum and
. thus towing long lines of barges with
4 a most economic expenditure of power,
'-Argonaut.