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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-12-18

I'm NOT AFRAID OF YOU" SHE SAID.
brows. Then in fumbling, hesitating
voice he inquired:
Does Mrs. - Mrs - Caspar live
here?"
MRS. Caspar, Mrs. Caspar.-never
hearn of the oman" sputtered the
dame. land zee been here going on
these five year"
The man stood still, as stunned, and
muttered. at was just five years ago."
ArOusing himself and. desperately, as
If clutching for the last straw, he lifted
an appealing face.
You must have known a pretty,
bright-eyed wife-a-a child, a little
girl, only so big" he measured with his
hands. almost baby, with soft gold
en- curls and eyes as blue as the-the
-" and he pointed upward.
"Come to think on 1t, do member
ahere was a young oman here before
me and a brat" answered the unpoetic
female, "but zee hearn tell since that
abe went and took up with some land
Aubber somewhere or t'other."
The S-awny sailor staggered back
as If struck blow, and without further
speech turned and blundered out the
gateway.
Wall, zee swow!" exclaimed the
woman, as she disappeared inside.
AlamminG the door. .-...,..l.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-12-18
Uncle Reuhen snxn,

"De world should expect a sartin
amount OF wisdom of every man, but
not too much. Oar must be occashuns
when eben de wisest Of us feel dat we
Kin pick de winnin' hoss, an up goes
ten dollars accordinly. We also accord
inly find dat our winner didn't win, an
am ready to go back to our wisdom an
warn our fellermen agin de traps an
pitfalls sot fur de unwary. detroit
Free Presa i.4,s5
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-12-18
Ahout the Limit.

Stranger-Do these big racing auto
mobiles come down this pike at great
speed?
Farmer-speed? Why, one of them
struck chicken the other day and the
force of wind picked him clean. Then the
friction heat came in and when he came
out he was the prettiest fried chicken
you ever saw.-Chicago Daily NewR 4
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-12-18


No other method of travel is in il
! want to go ripping, skipping and tipping
Away on the Limited Train
These lines are not original with me- They
are taken from a tuneful little ditty sung
in George AIDES comedy Peggy from Paris"
The jingle danced through my brain the
other day as we lay on the siding at Prairie
Junction, or some such place, to let the
Santa Fe's west bound California Limited
go by. 1t was a gorgeous train OF palace
cars, and behind the plate glass observation
windows beauty and fashion and youth and
old age were lolling among the .luxuriant
cushions, some visiting, some reading, some
pleasantly doing, some making wreaths OF
cigar smoke, some gazing dreamily through
the windows at the passing cities, and
fields, and forests and rivers.
/ stood on the rear platform of the last
car of our train and watched the California
Limited as she faded away toward the gold
en- west. And l thought of the difference
between travel now and travel in the days
of 40, when it took the gold-seek ker half a
long, weary year, filled with all kinds OF
covered in three days. L thought OF the
slowly moving wagons, the dust, the stones,
the jolting, the thirst, the hunger, the
homesickness, the snail-like crossing OF
plains, the laborious climbing of mountains,
the weary dragging weeks, the never ending
trail.
In these palaces that had just glided by
wcce people going to the same place to
spend the winter rsonths, where the climate
is perpetual summer. And they were not
to endure a single hardship on the journey.
When night came they were to lie IN beds
whose soft embrace makes sleep a luxury
and in the day time the velvet cushions of
their seats were to be made deeper still by
pilows-and thy were to spend a delightful
part of their time in the gi!ded and glittering
ticllled the palate is enticingly served-in
short, they were to have on the trip, all the
comforts of home-ard of the best kind OF
home.
| stood there and watched them pass out
of sight while my soul was consumed with
envy. But | derived some consolation out
of resolving that sometime ], too, would
see California. and | promised myself that
If ever did go there it would be over the
Santa Fe. JOHNNY DRUMMER.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-12-18
ON THE "pupEn TRAIN.

Johnny Drummcr, Who Is Side
Tracked to let the Limited no by,
Expresses his sentiments regards
ing TINT superb Train.
ut has been my dream of JOY supreme
To ride in plush and velvet spbendor
Parlor car for a swell tailender
Platform fenced with a swell brass fender
On the Regular Limited Train
Electric bell right under your nose
Porter to come and brush your clothes
Grub in the diner the best that grows
A downy bunk for nights repose
On the Regular Limited Train
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-12-18
THE MARKET 5.
New York. Dec, 15. 1908.

New York. Dec Is. 1903
Flour-Fairly active and steady.
Wheat-No. red 003sc.
Corn-No. . yellow sec.
Oats-No. white 42Ac.
Hay-Steady.
Beeves-Steers S4.OO@5OO, bulls
$2.5O@3.SO. Neals $4.OOMS.5O.
Sheep-Steady at $2.25@3.9O, lambs
S5.25@6.35.
Hogs-Higher at $5.12h@5.3O.
Cleveland, Dec. 5.-Flour-Nlinne-
sofa patent S44O@4s0.
Wheat-No. red SSc.
Corn-No. 2 yellow 49hc.
Oats-No. white SOC.
Butter-Best creamery 27c.
Cheese-York state 13c.
Eggs-Strictly fresh 32c.
Potatoes-Best grades 75MSOc.
Cattle-Best steers $475M5.00,
calves $6.25M6.75.
Sheep-Choice wethers $3.7j@4.OO,
best lambs $5.75.
Hogs-Yorkers S+.75.
Toledo, Dec. -Wheat-Cash
SSAc.
Corn-December 44Mc.
Oats-December 37c.
Cloverseed-Cash $3.50.
East Buffalo, Dec. 15.-CattIe--
Choice steers $5.25@5.5O, veals $7.25@
7.5O.
Sheep-Best wethers $4.OO@4.25,
lambs $6.15@6.30.
Hogs-Good Workers $4.0O@5.0O,
pigs $5.00@5.25.
Pittsburg, Dec. 15.-Cattle-Choicc
steers $5.O0@5.10, prime $4.7o@4.s0.
Sheep-Choice lambs $5.S0@6.00,
prime wethers $4.1004.25.
Hogs-Prime heavy $500, pigs $4.90,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-12-18

Piso's Cure for Consumption is an infalli
Bile medicine for coughs and colds.-N. w.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-12-18

Has the doctor given up all hope" "Oh,
no; he thinks the estate will settle the bill
ii his patient dies. .'-Cincinnat Times
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-12-18
Stops the Cough.

Nonfid,tce is the secret of strength
Monod.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-12-18

and works off the cold. Laxative Brom
Quinine Tablets. Price 25 cents
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-12-18

A woman's train of thought is often ol
her dress.-Eyery body's Magazine.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-12-18
Chorus

Biff! Bang! mile minute
No other method of travel is in il
want to go ripping, skipping and zipping
Away on the Limited Train"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-12-18

Beeves-Steers $4.OOG5.OO. bulls
81 2.5O@3.SO. Veals $4.OOMS.5O.
Sheep-Steady at $2.25@3.9O, lambs
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-14

rula, a cross between the horse and the
zebra. Formerly the opinion prevailed
that the zebra was almost extinct. The
opening up of Africa, particularly the
eastern part, reveals these fine animals in
large numbers. Compared with horses and
cattle, they possess peculiar advantages,
as they are immune against the very dam
gerous horse disease of Africa. and also
against the deadly tsetse fly. The ques-
ton was therefore raised whether the
zebra could not take the place of the
mule, commonly used in the tropics. The
greatest credit with reference 10 the sou-
ton of this problem is due TO Prof. Cos
sar Ewart who has been trying since 1895
TO produce crosses between horses and
zebras, with view TO developing an ami
NAL superior in every respect to the mule
Three species of Zebras still exist in
Africa; the so-called "Grevy zebra, on
the high plateaus Of Schoa, the common
mountain zebra, formerly found every
where in South Africa, and the "Burchell''
zebra, still frequently found. Prof. Ewart
produced crosses from mares of different
breeds and zebra stations of the Burchell
kind. The offspring is called Zebrula, and
on account of it's form and general bodily
condition-especially the hardness of the
hoofs-is especially adapted for all trans
port work heretofore performed by mules.
The zebrula is much livelier than the mule,
and at least as intelligent. The Indian
government has already experimental with
zebrulas for transporting mountain artil-
lery at Quetta. Experiments so far have
been so successful that IL is predicted the
zebrula during the present century VIII
completely supersede the mule.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-14

was the freezing point and the highest
point boiling water. The starting point OF
this scale, as mentioned, was the heat or
the human body, which he called by the
round number twelve. as the duodecimal
system was then in common use. He divided
the space between the freezing point and
the temperature of the body into twelve
points, and stated that the boiling point OF
water would be about 80, the tempera-
ture must be nearly three time that OF the
human body.
When Fahrenheit took up the subject
few years later he used the Newton instru-
ment, but, finding the scale not fine enough,
divided each degree into two parts. and so
made the measure between the freezing and
boiling point twenty-four parts instead or
twelve. Fahrenheit then discovered he
could obtain a lower degree of cold than
freezing and taking a mixture of ice and
salt for a starting point he counted twenty
four points up to body heat. By this meas
urement ne obtained eight for the freezing
point and fifty-three for the boiling point.
His scale now read: Zero; freezing, 5; body
heat. a. and boiling Wa n. So. 1t will be
noticed this scale is identically that of New
tons, only starting lower and having the
numbers doubled.
1t was with this scale which Fahrenheit
worked for a long time, but finally finding
divided each degree into four parts Multi
plying the numbers just given by four the
thermometer scale now in use results.
The chance choice of Newton OF the
figure twelve to represent the body heat de-
termlned the present thermometer scale,
even the yard. feet and inches meas
ure originally came from measures OF
parts of the human body, and as the width
of the railroad carriage was determined by
the track. which, in turn, was determined
by the width between the cart wheels neces-
sary to bear load which could comfortably
be drawn by mule.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-14
THE UNBLUsHING FRAUD
Which Has Been Behind Great Pro-
noting Schemes.

New York Evening Post
The bitter cry of Wall street for some
months past has been that confidence
was being undermined by some wicked man,
or men. Many Nathan-like voices have re-
proachfully said TO President Roosevelt,
Thou art the mani The moment. it has
been asserted, that the government brought
the Northern Securities suit, capital took
fright, the erstwhile Supplemented and con-
fiding investor received chill" the crops
took to doing badly. and the great captains
of industry-such as the builders of yachts
and automobiles for stock brokers and pro-
moters-began TO set their houses in order
1t was beautiful theory--so clear, so close
~ knit it logic. so comforting after its
melancholy fashion. We fear however, that
a rival explanation is likely to come into
vogue after the revelations of yesterday in
the United States Shipbuilding suit. by
means of which the screen was thrown
down and the public was permitted To see
promoting as she is really promoted. Con-
ndence would have to be a peculiarly hardy
growth not 10 be shaken by the scandalous
spectacle.
The testimony of Mr. Dresser disclosed
shocking state of affairs. 1T showed how
character had been wrecked as we'll as
values. Seldom can there have been un-
covered more vulgar conspiracy TO pluck
or shear the investing public-goose or
ldfD. Inc vendors or SelIeO mines dEt
entitled to hold up their heads, compared
with the discovered trcksters. Their moral
fraud was most unblushing. To be both
purchaser and seller, to have a pool within
pool, and an agreement behind an agree
ment, and, at the same moment that ~
ing prospectus was issued to the public, TO
fleece the investor even before he invested
that is the kind of thing i'm which supposed
ly honest men were engaged. What the
law Will say about their transactions we
must wait to see. 1t is certain that under
such a companys act as England has, the
whole proceeding would have been set aside
by the courts, and the promoters compelled
to disgorge their concealed profits.
On the moral aspect of the matter, how
ever, every intelligent man is competent
to pronounce judgment. His verdict Will
be that the methods practiced were no
more reputable than those of the COM
mon sharper. Nearly every element OF in
decent cheating appears to have been pres
ent, while the attempt to hoodwink and
bleed the public could not have been more
unblushing But what we ask is, How
is all this going to affect the small inves-
tor the country over? Is his confidence to
be restored Ly the publication of such
schemes to rob him? is he likely to come
trooping back to Wall street, and help
lift a sagging market, when he sees the
snraes laid to catch his feet? AS Destroy
ers of confidence ii appears to us certain
that those who have most lamented its de-
struction outstrip ali possible rivals.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-14
The "Charm- of Yachting.



1.-The great charm of yachting is getting
off the yacht writes a woman from the
deck of a vessel upon which she is a guest.
mo shipwrecked mariner on desert island
ever hailed a sail with greater JOY than a
yachting party halls the sight of a port
after a few days cruise. We all see too
much of each other. We have exhausted
our vocal repertory long ago. and half the
party play bridge so atrociously and are
keen about playing il that the other half
fervently wish they had never attempted
to learn the game. 1t never prevents my
accepting an invitation. but to my mind
yachting is the most unsatisfactory of
amusements, particularly for women. When
a woman goes yachting she abandons all
her creature comforts There Is no room
for her maid, and she has to keep her ward
robe i'm a locker about big enough for half
dozen pocket handkerchiefs. There is no
privacy, and every remark is overheard
by everybody else. The matrimonial differ
ences of the host and hostess are distinct
~ audible in adjoining staterooms, and fir
tations confied TO roommates at bedtime
are known to every one OH board the next
morning And then there is the all-peryad-
ing smell without which no seagoing vessel
is complete 1t permeates everywhere. but
is nevertheless a trifle compared to the
odor which emanantes from the cooks
quarters. All the same, yachting is we'll
worth its many discomforts, and as a re-
storative there is nothing TO compare
with il"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-14
EDWARDS AS A BOY.
4 Training Which Naturally A
counted for His Later Life.

The bicentenary of Jonathan Edwards's
birth calls out an extremely interesting
article on his personality by Kate M. Cone
in the Outlook's magazine number for Octo-
ber OF his boyhood the author says:
He was disciplined in the strict Observ
ances of religion to be expected in New
England minister's family of that time, and
the church and its welfare were the absorb
ing interest of the household, but with such
a mother there was little danger of getting
far away from the heart of things. His
fathers church was subject to seasons of
religious attention" One of these occurring
when Jonathan was seven or eight years old
he caught the prevailing emotional fever
and imagined himself concerned about his
souls salvation. He prayed five times n
day in secret, built booth with some of
his mates in retired spot in swamp,
where they assembled for prayer, and him.
self had particular secret places in the
woods where he went for devotion. In mid
die life, looking back upon these perform
ances he thought himselfa self-righteous lit
tie prig, as no doubt he innOcently was His
childhood and youth seemed to have
abounded in what he afterwards styled
common grace" He had no narrowing,
morbid experiences such as tormented some
of the Mathers, for instance, and was hard
put to it to know when he became con-
verted.
I'm character he was the kind of a boy
to fill a mothers heart with satisfaction,
as his was the kind of a mother to have
that kind of boy-sweet-tempered, modest
teachable, dutiful to his parents, kind and
-
and responsible. Sweetness and light de-
scribe him in his early years, as they are
said to have been always, the one his favor
lite word and the other the characteristic of
his thought.
.In the marvellous development of his
mind, what sympathy and understanding
too deep for pride his mother must have
felt! She doubtless read perhaps ii was she
who cherished and preserved the letter re-
futing the materiaity of the soul and the
essay on the habits of the field-spider,
which have come down to as samples of
his boyish writings. He entered Yale Col
lege at thirteen, at fourteen read with great
effect upon his own mind, Lockes Essay on
the Human Understanding, and in the next
two years, between the ages of fourteen
and sixteen, made his Notes on the Mind
and on Natural Science which, says Prof.
Allen, present him as an intellectual prod
ICY which has parallel No other boy
of sixteen, it is safe to say, ever made OBJ
servations on the nature of true excellence
and the vexed question whether matter is
real or a fiction of the mind, in manner to
merit the serious consideration of philos-
ophers and men of science. He graduated
from college in 1719. at the age of sixteen
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-14

AtcniSon Globe.

AtcniSon Globe.
In every neighborhood there is woman
who owns cow which stalks over lawns
and flower beds and is nuisance. Such
cow is owned near the corner of Atchson
and Ninth street. The neighbors say the
owner of the cow opens gates at night,
and drives her cow on lawns. To-day at
noon Mrs. George Moore found the cow
on her lawn, and made up her mind to
rebel. She hated TO make trouble, but
the COW had bothered her so much that
she boldly went to the telephone and asked
the chief to send policeman. Mrs. Moore
hated 20 have the cow killed and the
woman arrested and put in jail. but she
had made up her mind; she had suffered
enough! There! After a very long time
the policeman arrived. He found the cow
en- the lawn, and the owner of the COW,
whose name is Mrs. Johanna Smith, hap
pened along. Mrs. Smith and the police
man met in front of Mrs. Moores house
Mrs Moore hid her head and waited for
the finish. This is what happened: Mrs.
Smith," asked the officer. lis that your
cow?'' Mrs. Smith promptly acknowledged
that ii was (thus saving trial, Mrs. Moore
thought, in which she would be compelled
to testify. well, them. said the police
man, humbly, please take 1t home" (May
be you think Mrs Moore isn't madD
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-14
NOVEL CONCEPTION OF HIS PART.
Ideas of the Young Man Who Wanted
to Go the Stage.
Philadelphia Telegraph.

q
People who apply for positions in dra
matte companies sometimes have queer
ideas as to the consistency of things said
a theatrical agent the other day. Several
years ago L was managing a company doing
standard and Shakspearean plays in cities
of the middle West One day young man
-beardless. dignified, with all the marks of
rural training-came up to me in the cor
ridor of hotel in little Indi ma town.
He wanted to act. and wanted it badly.
What have you played? L asked him.
!" L made big HIT he replied. when the
Romeo and Juliet" last month
What did you play-Romeo"
oh, no, sir. L played the apothecary.
a right to be astonished. You know, the
part is very small one-merely a totter-
ing, starved old man, whose poverty causes
him TO break the law by selling poison to
Romeo.
~ made a very big hit reiterated the
dramatic aspirant. confidently. Indeed, so
great was my success that did an encore
'How?' / was now too much astonished
for words.
We'll, you see, it was this way the
youth explained. My conception of the
role was original--all my friends say I'm
very original in everything 1 do You know
the place where the apothecary gives
Roemo the poison and Romeo hands the
old beggar purse. Well, it's been so long
since the apothecary knew what money was
that the instant he felt the purse in his
hand L made him fall in fit. L rolled
around for a while and frothed at the
mouth; then two men came on the stage
and carried me away
But how did you do the encore?
1.-THE boy looked at me contemptuously
for a moment before he replied. oh, L
say you don't know what an encore is.
The audience liked my acting so much
when / had that fit that they clapped and
clapped and wouldn't let Romeo finish the
scene: So / came out and bowed, and they
handed up a bunch of American Beauties
hof /
the encore-l pretended TO fall in another
fit >"