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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-07-10
10 Mnke n snunre Kite.

One of the easiest to make, perhaps,
is the square kite. The frame is con-
posed of split bamboo, and should be
covered with tightly stretched Scotch
cambric. Although called square"
vet it is not exactly so, it being about
one-half longer than it is broad. The
frame should be bent backward, both
at the top and bottom. This is to
make the kite bulge outward, a posi-
ton which should be maintained by
means of twine stretched from the
corners, both above and below. The
breastband should be attached in the
usual manner, and the completed kite
should have two tails instead of one,
one at each lower corner.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-07-10
DAYS AND NIGHTS.


II days were only twice as long.
'Twould be a splendid thing!
Cause, don't you know, fore you're quite
dressed
The breakfast bell will ring;
And then it's time to go to school,
And then run home at noon,
And back to school; and four o'clock
Most always comes too soon;
And then you just begin to play,
And then it's time for tea;
And then in such little while,
Your bedtime comes, you see.
If nights were only twice as long,
'Twould be a splendid thing!
Cause, don't you know when you're tucked
up
Sometimes your motherll sing;
And first you lie and watch the stars,
Or maybe there's a moon,
And then you get all nice and warm,
And sleepy pretty soon;
And then, perhaps, you shut your eyes,
And then your motherll say:
"Have l a little boy who means
To lie in bed all day?'
Boston Budget.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-07-10
LIGHTING THE MATCHES.

and left and the matches must be
close to each other, side by side.
Now if you-hft the first match the
others will fall off, of course, and
scatter on the table; therefore you
will not try it. But lay an extra match
along the top of the IA, where they
cross the first one, and you can pro-
ceed confidently with your experiment.
For when you lift the first match the
IA will be held in place by the one you
have placed on top of them, and thus
the system will be made firm.-Brook-
lyn Eaple,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-07-10
rnhhx Minda n Clock.

Did you ever hear of a cat that winds
a clock? There is one in North Dakota.
Her name is Tabby, and she never has
to be told when 10 wind the clock. She
just sits near it as the time draws near,
and when the hands are at the right
place she climbs up and attends to the
matter. OF course, she doesn't have a
key. 1t isn't that kind of a clock
There are weights, and TRbby draws
the weights down that have gone up
during "a hours. That keeps the clock
going for "a hours again.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-07-10

surroundings and made herself at
home in one corner of the shop. ltwas
a cold, clustering afternoon, and the
workman who had charge of closing
the shop didn't have the heart to put
the cat out into the storm when he
went home. Since then "Tabby" has
lived at fire headquarters, and is con-
sidered an attache of the department.
"Tabby" has no long pedigree, and
has never won blue ribbons in cat
shows, but for intelligence fremen are
willing to wager their months pay that
there is no cat-show feline who de-
serves higher marks. She knows every
man attached to headquarters, and al
most every superior officer in the de-
partment. Ike firemen and horses, she
has learned to count the alarm bells
which ring in the station, and is said
by firemen to know the boxes to which
tower wagon No. 2 responds. Lieut..
Porter has charge, and she looks upon
him as her master, She will obey
commands from him, but has been
known to ignore firemen in his squad.
The Oliver street blaze was the great
est that "Tabby" ever witnessed, and
the distance was the longest she ever
travelled on a fire wagon, but it was by
no means the first fire she had been
to. Firemen tell stories of the cat
following the tower for blocks n year
ago, not daring to mount the drivers
seat for fear of being driven back to
the station, and having remained un-
der the tower until the fire was out.
During the past few months she has
been to a number of fires and ridden
beside the driver.
The other evening the excitement
was so intense in fire circles that
"Tabby" almost lost her head. 1t was
| the night when seven bell alarms were
sounded inside of two hours and fire.
men were kept on the jump. The con-
stant ringing of bells caused "Tabby"
to run back and forth in the station
and cry to go out.
When the bell came for the tower
company to start, "Tabby" made leap
to the drivers seat. She was there be-
fore the horses had left their stalls.
The driver knew that big fire was in
progress, and that there was some dis
tance to travel. His first thought was
to tell "Tabby" that she couldn't go.
He pushed her off the seat with a
command to remain behind. But Tab
by" was not to be left behind. She
seemed to realize that something out
of the ordinary was going on and want
ed to be at the scene.
Just as the tower was leaving the
house "Tabby" once more leaped 10 the
drivers seat. This time she remained,
because the driver had his hands full
taking care of the horses. She rode to
the fire with her forepaws on the driv.
er's knee and her head between his
arms. While the tower was in use she
remained on the seat, Notwithstanding
the fact that the tower was located
close to the burning building, where
tn" smoke was the Gensest and where
sparks were falling frequently, Tab
by" got back so the station pnhnrmed
She appeared to nave enjoyed herself
so much that in the future she will no
be molested when she expresses a de
sire to accompany the tower to fire
Boston Globe,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-07-10

ter conditions this year were perfect
for the big regatta and the largest
crowd that has ever witnessed the
event looked on. The varsity crew of
Cornell evidently outclassed all the
others, as they finished the course of
four miles six lengths ahead of the
next boat, covering the distance in
1857. The Georgetown crew nosed
out the men from Wisconsin and
finished second by a short margin,
with Pennsylvania, syracuse and Co.
lumbia trailing behind the latter. In
the freshman race Cornell broke the
record of 9:19h for the two miles,
made by Yale in 1897, going the route
in 9:1S. Syracuse and Wisconsin
finished second and third respectively,
with Columbia fourth and Pennsyl-
vania fifth. In the varsity four-oared
race of two miles the Cornell team won
in 1924. Pennsylvania finished Sec
on in this, with Wisconsin third and
Columbia fourth.
The oarsman from Yale university
also demonstrated their superiority
over those of Harvard by winning all
IuISe eNeHIS III Jne ANNUAL regatta De-
tween the two colleges on the Thames
river at New London, Conn. Yale
four took the first race by three COM
Portable lengths in 1859 %. The New
Haven freshmen, in a closer race,
finished a length and three.quarters
ahead of the Harvard youngsters in
DAB 1-5. In the big race Harvard, aft
er leading for a mile. rowed pluckily
to defeat at the hands of Yale's men,
who in the last half of the contest con-
trolled the situation in unmistable
style. 1t was the first time that Yale
has won all three events since the re-
gatta reached it's present programme,
Yale's time in the big race was
20:19 AS, within 8 4-5 second of the
record of the course. The freshmen's
record was broken by Yale's time Of
9:43 1-5.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-07-10

One of the characteristics of mod
ern scientific progress is the estab-
lishment of laboratories and observa-
tories of various kinds at points
where phenomena of great interest
can best be studied, although such
points may be remote from centers
of human population and from ordi-
nary lines of travel just now an eff
fort is making to establish scien-
tific station at the Tortugus Islands
near the coast of Florida. \ consid-
cradle number of naturalists have
expressed interest in the scheme.
Some think it would, be an excellent
point from which to observe the mi
grafton of birds; others that bio
logical laboratory established there
would give rich results. 1t is pointed
out that we now know more of the
life of the Red sea than we do of that
of the Caribbean sea and the gulf of
Mexico, lying almost at our doors.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-07-10

while the train is in. Here is a quick
lunch for the hungry peon, for it is
seldom the foreign traveller who tries
the rather suspicious looking viands.
Hot tamales," familiar cry;
crisp tortillas-made while you wait;
sweet cakes, fruit, soup in evil smell
ing pots and gourds of pulque, the ma
tive liquor.
Perhaps, here too, you will find the
toy notwithstanding you to take
monkey on a stick home to the baby.
AT many of the stations you will be
shown some commodity peculiar to the
place.
Trapuato Is the strawberry station
the year round. AS the train draws in
scores of young men, bearing dozens
of baskets on their heads, their shoul
'ders and in their hands, will come run
ming and fighting for the first place,
while the cry of "fresas, fresas," Is
screamed in a dozen different keys.
The unsophisticated traveller pays per-
haps a dollar for basket and thinks
himself fortunate in securing the lus-
cious fruit-but the wary one, who
knows the Mexican trader, understands
that the first price is a compliment to
your purse and that the omnipotent
dos reales or about % cents will pur-
chase as much as he can carry.
At one little town you will always
see two old men, blind and withered
with age. To a strumming accompani-
ment on two battered guitars you are
Tegaled with La Paloma, sung at the
topmost squeek of the wheezy old
voices A stolid old woman is their
guide and catches the pennies thrown
by the tortured by appreciative audi
ence.
If your heart inclines toward dainty
needleworlt the platform at Agnas
Calienties will appear to be a small
Paradise, for here is the home of the
Mexican drawn work. The venders
swarm about the train; under the win
dows they will camp if you so much as
notice them. Most beautiful-most
s1ine-so very cheap!"
Every stopping place has its eager
tradesmen and more eager beggars;
but such beggars as they are, tiny
satin-brown, half-clad or underclad
creatures; great brown eyes under
masses of tangled black hair. The
youngsters of the family are the recog-
nized beggars-the younger the better
and more effective. "Demi I'm CEN
tavo" over and over, in long drawn
out whine. Out of the novels along
the road, popping out of the ground
at every slackening of the train, over
the roar of the wheels, in the brightes
noon or dead of night, you will heal
the one English phrase known to every
Mexican beggar, Gimme one cent.
Or running an accompaniment to the
winds and the birds, the soft, monot
Pnous sing-song, "Demi un cen-ta-vo.
ANNA H CLARK
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-07-10
FROM A CAR WINDOW
Some Odd Sights Seen at Mexican
Railway Stations.
Tvery Depot Platform Offers some-
thing New for the Picturesque
Loving Tourist-The Beggnrs
and Their Methods.

1t is not the shining polish nor the
luxurious upholstering of Pullman
car that makes trip through Mexico
Seem leaf from the Arabian Nights"
but it is the strange and interesting
bits of life seen through the car win
dow.
The picturesque palm-thatched huts
dotted over the country and the naive
curiosity and assurance of the smiling
native transports the blase Americana
into another world.
Every way station or depot plat
form is a scene of amazing activity
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-07-10

sidered by some cheap form of art,
it is this very sensitiveness to
beauty and grandeur with which ma
ture has clothed the west that offers
the most promise of its rapid literary
advancement-a sensitiveness, more
over, that will become more and
more acute with t1fe cultivation of
the higher faculties through increas-
ing educational growth.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-07-10

man golfer, in the
finals of the open
woman's tourna-
ment at the Mid
lothian Country
club, was a popu-
lar one among the
golfers of Chicago
and vicinity. Miss
Anthony's chief
contender W a S
Miss ]. Anna Car
penter, and the
match was not de-
cided until the
lI
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-07-10
nnr stonned n Runaway.

A butcher named Matthews was de-
l;yering meat at house at Administer,
England, when the horse attached to
his cart bolted. The butchers deg at
once went in pursuit, jumped and
caught hold Of the reins near the
horses mouth and stopped the RUM
way,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-07-10
TABBY, THE FIREMAN.
Boston Cat which Attends Fires md
Enjoys the Excitement ns
Much rs boy.

"Tabby" is the name of pet cat
which rode to the scene of fire on
Oliver street beside the driver of tower
wagon No. 2 the other night. Some
thing like six or seven years ago Tab
by" strolled into the repair shop on
Bristol street, near fire headquarters,
looked around, appeared to like the
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-07-10
No Joke Being a King.

The new king of Servia became
greatly excited when he was informed
of his election. We can't blame him,
says the Chicago Record-Herald. Be-
ing elected king of Servia is no laugh
ing matter.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-07-10
SPORTS AND
ATHLETICS
The annual intercollegiate rowing |
races on the Hudson were held at :

Poughkeepsie, re-
Gently, and the
crews from Cor.
nell, under the
leadership o (
Capt. Frenzel and
Coach Courtney,
repeated la s t
y e r. s achieve
ment and captur-
ed all three races
the four cared,
the freshman and
the varsity. The
Nuanthar and Nya.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-07-10
The sultan a Joker.

The sultan of Turkey refuses to hear
that the king of Servia was assassin
ated. In Abdul Hamid's dominions She
manner of AleXander's death must be
referred to as "an unfortunate acci-
dent" remarks the Chicago Record
Herald. When it comes to fooling
himself the sultan is always thor
oughly successful.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-07-10
Why He Cried.

Mother-Tommy, what's the matter
with your little brother?
Tommy-Hes crying because I'm eat
ing my cake and won't give him any.
Mother-Is his own cake finished?
Tommy-Yes'm and he cried while
was eatin' that, oo.-Philadelphia Led
ger
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-07-10
Permanent Homo.

Landlord tell you this-I shan't
let you move out of my house till
you pay your rent!
Tenant-Ahl A permanent home
is what 1 have always wantedl-Tit-
Bits.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-07-10
New YorIs,s Public Baths.

New York, with 3,437, ,2O2 inhabitants,
has only one public bath, but has three
others under way London, with a
population of 4,536,063, has 3s.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-07-10
stiII LooIIinE for Him.

Patience = HASN'T Miss OIdun got
searching eyes?
Patrice-Well, don't wonder She's
been looking for husband for 20
yearA.-Yonkers Statesman.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-07-10

The recent victory of Miss Bessie
Anthony, the western champion wo
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-07-10

Jacob Schaefer the billiardist. has
sailed for New York. from Paris. He
has received challenge from Fournil
for a 3,OOO-point match at 1S-inch
balk.line billiards. two shots in, to
take place in January or February next
in Paris.
M. w. Savage. of Minneapolis,
owner of Dan Patch and Directum, the
two famous horses recently purchased
by him, has refused an offer of $4,000
for the two horses. w. w. Gentry
made the offer.
All records in the American league.
from the time of it's inception to the
present, were broken the other day
when the White Stockings and New
York Highlanders played for 1S in
ming to a tie, to G. Previous TO this
the record of the league has been II
innings, there having been four such
games in years gone by.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-07-10

where the latter lost the match. three
down and one to play The victory
and the form shown by Miss Anthony
are of especial interest because they
indicate that the west will have a
formidable candidate this year for the
national woman's championship, held
in the fall Western players have in
the past annexed their fair share of
the championship honors, as the sue
cesses of the professionals FOULS,
Herd, w. Smith and Auchterlonie in
the open event, and of amateurs Mac
Donald, Whigham and James in the
amateur event testify So far as the
scroll of honor in the women's cham
pionship is concerned, however, there
has been distressing vacancy as far
as western names are concerned. II
there Is any one player west of the AL
legheny mountains capable of upset
ting the line of successes of the east
ern players 1t is Miss Anthony, and on
her the hopes of the west will to a
large extent center when the women
experts meet on the links of the Chi
cago Golf club at Wheaton. The play
at the recent tournament showed good
form and Improvement in at least
two other players, Miss Carpenter and
Mrs. w. A. Alexander This year the
eastern representatives will be playing
on unfamiliar links, handicap the
westerners have had to face for sever
al seasons. Taken all together the
chances are very bright for western
iournav for tha next wOmens omen
championship in the game of golf.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1903-07-10
Pensions in the Year 1850.

From the Atlanta Constitution.
. Calculating from past experience
this country will be paying for the
liberation of Cuba for hundred and
fortyseven years to come. Accord
ing to last years. record we are still
paying pensions to four widows and
four daughters of pensioners of the
Revolutionary war, and that war
ended nearly hundred and twenty
years ago. One survivor of the war
of 1872 is yet getting his quarterly
pension checks, and 1877 widows of
his comrades are doing likewise.
There are 6,S2S Mexican war pension
ers living and the widows of S,O17 are
drawing pensions on that account.
The number of civil war pensioners a
year ago was 800, 446.
At the present time there are 81. 900
applications for pensions on account
of the war with Spain in 1898 and
$4,000 of them favorably acted upon.
1t is calculated that within few
months there will be one applicant
for a Spanish war pension for every
two of the soldiers enlisted in that
war. The pension agents are doing
a land Office business in this line and
when we calculate the number of
young men in that army and their
marriages at later periods than this
it is plain to be reckoned that in the
year 2OO3,w will have qnite COM
Portable. Spanish war pension list
still on hand. The bureau figures
that the last of these pensions may be
paid out in the year 2O5O.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1903-07-10
The Lynching Problem.

The killing and wounding of thirty
one people at Evansville, Ind, re-
Gently strongly suggests the necessity
of making some attempt Go check the
tendency to turn out and kill, without
regard to law, which is becoming SO
prevalent. There are two suggestions
that are attracting attention, both
looking to the same end-the suppress
sion of the growing tendency to mob
violence. The first suggestion is that
sheriff having charge shalt at once
lose his office. This is Objectionable,
as it is not the sheriff who starts the
lynchings and his desire to hold to
his position would make him the more
ready to shoot, aid the result would
in mahy cases be worse than at pres
ent The second suggestion is IT, at
counties be held liable in a large
amount for lynchings within their
territory. To our mind this seems to
come nearer to a solution of the prob
lem than any other yet offered. The
fact that a large amount of county
money was ato stake would make the
taxpayers of the community take
swift and active hand in checking
any suggestion leading to mob vio-.
lence. All know that it is simple
thing to stop these demonstrations if
they are taken in the beginning, and
nothing will make the influential peo-
pie of a community take q hand so
quickly as to know that their pocket
books are in danger.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1903-07-10
The Home of the Silver Dollar.

From Success. d.
The home of the silver dollar is the
West. An Eastern tenderfoot can al
ways be picked out in Western
town by his look of surprise or an
nOyance on taking handful Of silver
dollars in change. Out in the wheat
section a country merchant carefully
scrutinizes a silver certificate to see
If it real money. AS a matter of cur
iosity, a gentleman once searched an
Oklahoma town for two-doll Ger.
titicate. He discovered one. finally,
N drug shop. 1t was a very dirty
piece of money, and the shopkeeper
was glad to get rid of it in exchange
for two silver dollars. All the way
westward from Chicago to the coast,
the silver dollar is the everyday coin
of the people. No one can blame a
Westerner for preferring bright silver
dollars to the torn, dirty paper money
that circulates east of the Mississippi.
But, as the West comes more in touch
with the East, silver dollars are
bound to disappear gradually from
circulation. When it is CONS i,lerefl
how common is the use of silver dol
lars in the West, the small quantity
OF silver in circulation is amazing.
Although there are $50. DOC, 600 silver
dollars outstanding, and the. mints
are sending out fifteen hundred .thDus-
and month. theirs are only about
1900, 600 outside the treasury. The
treasury vaults are glutted with them
The space these unused silver dollars
occupy equals a tunnel seven feet in
diameter aud mile long OF this
great mass of silver, four hundred
and seventy million dollars are held
In trust against silver certificates.
practically all OF which are in circn-
| latiOn
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1903-07-10
PUBLICATION NOTICE.

State OF KANSAS, County of Edwards S.
In the District Courtin and for the County
and State aforesaid.
Ira NJ Cobe. Plaintiff. We. James d. arthur,
Margaret A. Arthur. Samuel y Brandon Ida
NJ Brandon. L. 6. Bran ion. Annie z. Bran
DOE, D. W. Crawford, F. B. Hine. The Penn
zier- Mrs. John II. Frazier, his wife, J. II.
Goddard. Cora A Goddard. his wife. George
w. Watson and Ella Watson. his wife, and
The Western Freehold and Live Stock Com
pany. corporation, Defendants.
James ID. Arthur, Margaret A. Arthur.
Samuel s. Brandon. Ida NJ. Brandon. /. E.
The Pennsylvania Insurance Company, john
II. Frazier. MRS. John HI. Frazier, his wife,
and Ella Watson, will take notice that the
said Ira NJ Cobe, plaintiff did on the 9th
day of july. 1898 file his petition in said Dis
trict Court within and for the County of Ed
wards in the state of Kansas against the said
must answer said petition filed as aforesaid
on or before the 2Ist day of August, 1903. or
said petition will be taken as true and de
cree rendered In said action against said de-
PENDANTS that plaintiffs claim to and title in
the following described property. situated in
said County of EdwaI DIS and state of Kansas,
four "a and the east cne-hsif ca of the west
One-half Gs) and the east one-half IA of
Section Seven %. Township Twenty four t24)
south of Range Twenty cor, west of the Sixth
Principal Meridian. less one acre i'm square
form out of the southeast corner of the
southeast quarter g f NJ of said Section,
Seven. is valid and perfect and that neither
the defendants nor any of them have or has
any right to any claim thereto and that they
nos either OF them have any estate or inter
est in and to the said premises, hut that they
be perpetualy barred and enjOined from
asserting any claim to said premises adverse
EDWARD C. WRIGHT
SEAL A. e. DYER,
AT test: Attorneys for Plaintiff.
HI. WILSON, Clerk. ~ ia