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The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1904-02-25

60 HE Worlds Fair at st. Louis will
be the greatest exposition ever
4 held. The superlative adjective
describing this exposition is used with
authority. The acreage of the Louisiana
Purchase Exposition site is sufficient to
Include the combined acreage of the
Worlds Columbian Exposition at Chi
cngo in 1893, the Paris exposition in 1889
and the Pan-American exposition at Buff
falo in 1900, with space enough left over
to accommodate an exposition like that of
Omaha or Atlanta or Charleston. Upon
these 1,240 acres has been built an as
semblage of ediices surprising in archi-
tcctural splendors ''the grandeur that
was Greece and the glory that was
Rome" Within these buildings is being
installed q universal collection of the
products Of nature and man, more COM
prehensive, more diversified, more inter
esting to the average human than ever
WAS attempted before in the history of
the race.
The Worlds Fair at st. Louis is far
greater than was contemplated by its
creators. 1t has been estimated that at
least thirty per cent of the extent of this
exposition has been added to the original
conception, the promoters of the enter
prise merely promising at the outset that
they would build an exposition larger
and more universally inclusive than any
predecessor. The enterprise has grown
by involuntary accretion. Like snow
ball set rolling, it has gathered size and
so!idity, until it now is crystallized into
thing of such immensity that even the
nlen who set the ball a-rolling marvel
at its magnitude.
Great Exposition Site.
The exposition site is a mile and
quarter by mile and three-quarters in
extent. Six miles of fence enclose the
grounds. The Intramural Railway, op-
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RICH MEMS GREAT CHARITY.
Millionaires to Take the Poor of the
Cities and Plant I hem on Farms

W luxe TIC oDI VI thC
Cities and Plant I hem on Farms.
Chicago millionaires are organizing to
promote a gigantic philanthropic work,
no less than the colonization of the slum
population of the great American cities
upon farms. The Field and Workshop
Society is the corporation which has been
formed to work out the details. E. L.
Rosenthal. who is responsible for the
Industrial Art League. has been the prin-
cipal sponsor and creator.
The organization will be national.
Fifty thousand dollars will be spent in
organizing. When societies are organized
in all the cities, delegates will meet in
convention and elect trustees to conduct
the business of the society.
The first move of the new society will
be to get land from the United States
government That is the crux of the
scheme. The land, under the operation
of the homestead act. can be secured at
a nominal price by settlers remaining on
it for a brief term of years.
Having the land, the society makes a
selection from families of the slums and
move such as give promise of success
from the congested districts to new set
Elements. The society will locate the
families on the land. expecting the rail-
ways to give them free transportation.
The society will take care of the settlers.
until they can support themselves, and
as the lands become productive yearly
payments by the settlers to the society
will be expected until full settlement is
made.
The scheme is to be financed by>the
issuance of bonds against the lands Sc
cured by settlement. Millionaires are ex-
pected to take the bonds in $4,000 lots.
The project does not differ in purpose
from what other societies have attempts
ed. The difference is one of scope.
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SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY,

1t costs S2,74O to kill man in war.
Jews are barred from Siberia as be-
Ing undesirable settlers.
There are 2,S35 licensed automobiles
In the State of New York.
There are $50 glaciers in the Alps
that are said to be over five miles in
length.
st. Petersburg has the highest death
rate for any European capital, 81 per
1000.
The cost of city electric lights ranges
from two to three cents per hour per
lamp.
In northern Italy there is co-opera-
tive association for every 1000 inhab-
ltants.
Magazine publishers receive more
money from advertisers than from sub
scribers.
The Office of premier of Great Brit
ain, as such, does not carry with it
any salary.
Over 100000 people in Massachusetts,
are dependent upon the cotton mills
for their living.
A bakers oven, in France, which is
heated by electricity, is said to be a
success in every particular.
-Four thousand independent tele-
phone companies in the Middle West
have combined for long-distance ser
vice.
The authorities Of the universal ex-
position at Liege. Belgium, offer a
prize of S19,3OO for an airship competi-
ton.
One German city, Chemnitz, sold in
the United States last year S4,919.O11
worth Of stockings and $2.3O0,00O of
gloves.
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Cruise of SO, 900 Miles Ended.

Dr. Daniel n. Bertolette, of Reading,
feet surgeon of the Asiatic squadron.
is home after cruise of $4,000 miles.
DIR. Bertolette, as a member of the
staff of Rear Admiral Rodgers was re-
ceived by the Empress Dowager and
the Emperor in the royal palace in the
Imperial City, which is the innermost
part of Peking. Between thirty and
forty Of China's greatest mandarins
were in attendance.
On the day Of the presentation chairs
were sent to the United States lega-
ton, and United States Minister Con-
ger, Admiral Rodgers, Surgeon Ber-
toilette and the rest of the party. escort
ed by troop of cavalry, were carried
between four or five miles to the outer
gate of the Imperial City, reports the
Philadelphia North American. There
the cavalry escort stopped aud the
guests passed through. AT the next
gate all had to get out of their chairs
and walk, with the exception of the
admiral and the minister, and at the
third gate they, too, had to alight, and
then the party entered the ante-room
Of the palace.
They were received by the manda-
rims, and in half an hour entered a
large room, where, amid oriental splen-
dor, the 65-year-old Empress and the
young Emperor were seated on a raised
dais.
The visitors bowed on entering, then
took two steps and bowed again: two
more steps and another bow to their
majesties on the throne. Each Of the
visitors was presented, and DR.. Ber-
toilette is thus one of the very few
Americans to meet the famous oriental
rnIerS
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ALL OVER THE WORLD.

An ostrich farm will be exhibited by
Arizona at the next Worlds Fair.
\ man in Manchester, England, has
invented an electric pickpoeket alarm
The United States uses about third
more coffee than all the rest of the
world
Every rural school in Sweden
possesses garden, in which the stu
dents receive practical instruction in
horticulture.
Japan and Formosa are now con-
nected by a system of wireless teleg-
raphy.
1t is claimed that more than $50
books have been published on the war
of South Africa.
More than a million dollars worth
of copper is taken out of the mines at
Butte, Mont. weekly.
In 1G9S the first life Insurance society
was started in London, but it was not
successful venture.
1t is stated on good authority that
nearly all the royal families of Europe
employ American dentists.
Mulberry trees live from 30 to 30
years, and thousands of square miles
of them are planted in Italy.
There are larger number of persons
OF negro descent in Pennsylvania than
IN any other of the Northern States.
Tiny arrow heads cut out of jasper
and camelian are found by Arabs in
the desert sands and are strung into
necklaces for charms.
Australia and New Zealand raise one
and half times IS many sheep as the
whole of the United States. 990, 100000
sheep being raised in those islands
annually.
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PALACE MACHINERY-rHs BUILDING COVERS TEN ACRES

which includes splendid stone building
for gymnasium exhibitions and an out
door stadium like those OF ancient
Greece, where will be held the quadren-
nial Olympian games and many other
notable athletic contests; the rose garden
Of six acres, in which will be in bloom
10000 roses of various hues; the Aerial
COncourse, from which great airships
from various countries will start upon the
contest for the grand prize OF 100000
and number of lesser prizes; the Sunk
en- Garden between two of the grand ex-
hibit palaces; the Gardens of the Ma
tions, several foreign countries having
reproduced, upon the liberal allotment of
ground surrounding their government
buildings, some of the famous gardens of
their chief cities or monarchical estates.
Features of Enormous Magnitude.
Another feature of enormous magni-
tude which no other exposition has
known, even on small scale, is the
Philippine Islands Exposition-aptly
termed an exposition within an exposi-
ton. This occupies forty acres and in
clldes group of buildings having names
familiar to those of the main exposition
Education, Agriculture, Ethnology,
Government and the like. One thousand
natives of the islands will live in this
Filipino reservation during the Worlds
Fair, carrying on the occupations in
which they engage at home, so that the
general visitor may observe here i'll st.
Louis a considerable bit of the life and
enterprise of the far-off archipelago. \
reproduction of part of the walled city
of Manila is one of the interesting fea-
lures of this enterprise, and there are
huts and shacks and large buildings con-
structed by the natives themselves, of
native bamboo and nipa, and outftted
with native household utensils and fur
niture.
There is more than miles length of
picturesque lagoons. upon which the We
netian gondolier will push the Venetian
:sondola. Festival Hall, the central ar
feature of the great fair, has
a dome larger than that of the cathedral
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Slavery In the Jolo I.Isrds.

In answer to communication from W.
O. Dodd inquiring into the reported eX-
fstence of slavery in the Jolo islands and
enclosing newspaper clippings alleging
that Americans were the slave dealers,
Secretary Taft has written the following
letter:
my Dear Sir:-The statement with re-
spect to slavery in the Philippines is an
outrageous lie. There are no Americans
engaged in the slave trade at all. There
has been in the past some kidnapping by
the Moros of the hill tribes but this has
been suppressed and there is little of it
now. General Wood with the approval
of the Philippine commission, is using
every endeayor to suppress slavery
throughout the Moro provinces to which
it is almost wholly confined
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campus AAS' tney dttuCheu sepii
ately and the officers of one of them are
confident that they succeeded IN torpe-
doing n Russian warship.
The destroyer Asargiri, In charge Of
Lieutenant Commander Ishikawa, arriv-
ed off Port Arthur about 3 o'clock in the
morning and was met with sharp fire
from the fortress and Russian ships act
ing as scouts. The Asargiri discharged
several torpedoes at a big warship, but
the result is unknown.
Japan Embarks Three Divisiona.
An official dispatch received from To-
kio announces that one of the most inn
portant movements of japanese troops
yet made occurred Wednesday. One of
the main branches Of the army, consist.
ing of three divisions and including di-
vision of guards, went on board trans
ports. Previous landings of japanese
forces in Korea and elsewhere are said
to have been small compared with this
simultaneous sailing of three divisions,
aggresating approximately an army of
10000 to $4,000 men.
The japanese authorities, it is stated,
had taken every precaution to prevent in
formation from going out concerning the
embarkation and the destination of this
army. 1t is believed that the destination
Of this force is point near the mouth
of the Yalu river, or spot on the Lao
tung peninsula, fanking Port Arthur.
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The News y

Somewhere under the snowdrif.s fine
crop of winter wheat must be tucked
away.
Perhaps Mrs. Maybrick is in hiding for
the purpose of warding off marriage pro-
posals.
When few million bales of cotton
fall on financial house something is
likely to break.
Having ordered SO much canned beef,
Japan may feel that it must fight in or
der to get its money back
If he is going to act this way the
CORNER friends Of the grounding will
vote to have him made into sausage.
At Bismarck. \. D., the temperature
dropped fifty degrees in one night. Bis.
Iaarck must be the Chicago of the North.
west.
As the country was watching them the
congressman came to the conclusion that
l: would not be right TO take the extra
Eileage.
Do not lay all the blame for the trou-
tle in the cotton market OH the boil
weevil. The speculation weevil has had
something to do with it.
King Edward in his speech from the
throne said he was worried about the
scarcity of cotton. Still, the Queen gets
enough of it to darn his socks.
st. Louis has mortgaged the gate re-
ceipts of its exposition to Uncle Sam as
security for big loan. Uncle just can
Eot keep out of the show business.
Perhaps the attorneys for the Chicago
boy bandits were so particular about
selecting n jury because they remember
ed that their clients pleaded not guilty.
That London lawyer who left $50 900
in bank notes in an unlocked portmau-
teau in a hotel room while he went to
get shaved seems to have needed the les
son he got.
At Los Angeles n husband has sued
his wife for support. Evidently that man
thinks the gander has 4 right to the
same kind of sauce that the goose gets.
Nordica's ex-husband does not have
to pay alimony. Probably it will be all
he can do to look out for his own meal
tickets without his wife's wages added to
the family pile at the end of the week.
a Minneapolis man has been granted
o divorce on the ground that his wife
spent most of her time looking after the
inmates of the work house. The court
wisely ruled that housework duties
should come before work house chari-
lies, and the good lady is now free to
1evote all her time to the work house.
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PANORAMA OF THE WORLD
ABOUT THAT WHICH HAS BEEN
AND Is TO BE.
are Shown. Nothing Overlooked to
make 1t Complete.
Negro Burned at the stake.

Little Rock special: Glencoe Bays, .
negro hunted down by mob, was burned
at the stake near Crossett. He was
charged with the murder of j. D. Steph-
ems of Ashley County. Stephens, who
was a wealthy planter. had few words
with Bays, the negro later securing
shotgun and killing Stephens at elise
range. The negro then beat the body
with the butt of the gun and made his
escape. Bloodhounds were brought on
special train from Lakevillage. They
readily took the scent and traced the
murderer to his fathers house, where the
negro was found hiding in we'll. A
mob several hundred strong surged
around and dragged forth the murderer,
who made full confession. With hands
and feet tied he was bound to stake in
his fathers yard. Brush was piled
around him, the torch applied and the
man slowly burned to death.
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ElaShilCilt.

Great care must be taken not to eX-
plode cartridges for making flashlisht
photographs in q confined condition.
If confined n terrible explosion will re-
suit More than one experienced pho
to grapher has lost his life by becom-
ing careless in this respect. The mora
efficient Il flash compound is the high
er its explosive power, and it should
never be ignited i'll confined space,
not even the lid of box, but spread
in long train. The force of the ex-
plosion is, therefore minimized, while
the light area is increased.
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.Givjurthc S.itten-

There is still another phrase which
comes down to US from the days when
gloves were used in more ways than
they now are. Haven't you sometimes
heard it said, when young lady has
discarded her lover, that she gave him
the mitten?" This was first said in
the early times when lovers exchanged
gloves as sign that they intended
to marry each other. When girl
broke her engagement she gave back
the glove or mitten. We still use the
phrase, although gloves are no longer
exchanged.-St Nicholas.
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and power to fight ADMIRAL ALExIEFF
him. The spirit Of the Russian soldiers
and sailors is high. Our army and navy
know many renowned names, which must
in this hour serve as an example to us.
"Our God, who has always upheld the
cause that is just, is doing SO now. Let
us unite for the coming struggle; let ev-
cry man be of tranquil mind, in order
the better to fulfill his duty. trusting in
the help of the Almighty, and let every
man perform his task, emenlbering that
prayer to God and service to the EN-
peror are never wasted. Long live the
Emperor and the fatherland! God b
with us! Hurrahr'
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The Du.t OF ldlcness.

"How dusty these chairs are.
Norahr' said the mistress Of a rosy
Celtic treasure, lately acquired Norah
looked disturbed for a moment, but
quickly recovered.
She ran her finger along the scat Of
one Of the chairs, and then regarded
it closely.
''Now who'd iver think 'twud make
In 'em just the wan day, NUM-" said
Norah in amazement- 'If 'twasn't for
visitors Ord have to be at 'em wild
cloth all the tonne.
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Will Test Timber Law.

Merrill, millionaire American lum-
herman, who owns 10000 acres of timber
land in British Columbia, and James
Densmir, millionaire coal mine owner
of Nanaimo, b. c., who has niles of tim
Der lands granted from the government
OF the province, will Join issues in testing
the constituti0nality of the new timber
act taxing all timber exported to the
States from 81 to S. thousand. These
lands were secured from the government
before 1888, or before any royalty or tax
was put on timber in the province.
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sandelass Again in Vogue.

The sandglass Is again to be found
as picturesque dining table equip
ment, and the Old World timekeepers
look quite at home with the antique
furnishings now In vogue. Threemin.
ute sandglaases accompany the bronze
egg boilers now SO popular for break
fast table use. These glasses are EN-.
ployed by many housewives at table
when the cooking of dainty viands
runs the risk Of being spoiled by a
fraction Of second under or over do
Ing" They are also elaborately mount.
ed. and adorn desks and even cabi-
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The Arctic Expedition.

United States Minister John Barrett
reports to the State department from
Buenos Ayres, Jan. II, the arrival at that
port OF the Scottish Antarctic expedition
OF the Scotia and gives a brief statement
of the results of the expedition. The
Scotia covered four thousand miles of
previously unexplored sea and found q
new deep sea Of 2, 500 fathoms about five
hundred miles southeast of South Orkney
islands, abounding with fish and crustac-
cans. The Scotia was expected to re-
turn to Scotland by way of Cape of Good
Hope some time in June.
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peror, and now,
when the eyes of the
Gar Of Russia and
of the world are up
on us, we must re-
member that it is
our sacred duty to
protect the Gar
and the fatherland.
Russia is great
and powerful and if
our foe is strong
this must give us
additional strength
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Terrible Slaughter.

A special from Ogden, Utah, says: Two
cars Of dynamite attached to work train
on the Ogden Lucin cut off of the South
ern Pacific railroad, exploded with ter
rifle force arJackson station, eighty -eight
miles vest of Ogden, killing at least
twenty-hree persons, injuring as many
more, and destroying a large amount Il
property. The accident was caused by a
water train running into the two cars
loaded with powder. Five locomotives
were reduced to scrap iron and the big
steam shovel at Jackson station wa COM
pletely demolished.
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GOES OVER A DOLLAR.
MAY WHE AT REACHES A HIGH
PRICE IN CHICAGO.
Goal Reached Amid Wild Excitement
on the Board of Trade-Scene Like
That of 1S9S-Third His hest Record
in Last Twenty Years.

Dollar wheat is Il reality. May wheat
reached the dollar mark soon after the
opening of the market on the Chicago
Boaid of Trade Friday. nor did it stop
there. Amid scenes of the widest ex-
citement i'll the pit. it advanced steadily
until it sold for S1.033s a bushel. The
price under heavy selling by large brok-
ers broke to 991a cents. Within five min
utes, while shorts clamored for it, it re-
turned 10 the higher figure again. The
market opened at 81.
The pit was filled with wildly excited
shorts attempting to secure enough of
the commodity to fulfill their contracts.
Undtr the widest sort of bidding the
price went up steadily. There was no
wheat to be purchased and point by point
the price rose. AS it reached the $1.0l3s
point there was heavy selling and thou
sands OF bushels changed hands in
minute
This record price, the third highest in
the history of grain speculation in Chi
cago in the last twenty years. was reach
ed within fifteen minutes after the big
gong on the floor of the exchange an
nounced the opening of the days busi-
ness. The dollar mark is the goal to-
ward which May wheat has been strus
CLING for weeka
Cash Wheat Also Up.
During the time in which May wheat
was eclipsing its best earlier efforts. cash
wheat was not idle, and stimulated by
the advance of May the price of No. 2
red winter wheat went to S1.0S bushel.
simultaneously with the Chicago bulge
the price Of grain experienced similar
advance throughout the country-from
Winnebago, where 30 cents was paid for
May wheat, to Oklahoma, where wheat
for shipment to Europe via Galveston
commands price of 81. The rise in
price is partly the cause and in part the
result of a similar condition in England
and on the continent.
The conflict in the far East, the belli-
cose rumors from the Balkans, the fear
that the great powers may forsake their
pacific attitude and become involved in
one or the other OF these wars, are all
responsible in varying degrees for exist
ing high prices. These conditions are fur
ther aggravated by the unsatisfactory
reports from the grain producing districts
and the fact that Russia has been clear
ing no grain for several days.
In 1891 wheat for May delivery sold
at $1.0S and in 1898 Letter forced the
price to S1.S5.
Corn and oats were affected by the
wheat strength, but in less notable de-
gree.
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Grated by electricity, which has just been
completed, has fourteen miles of track;
it runs around the exposition as belt
line, with loops to take passengers into
the midst of the magnificence here and
there, and there are seventeen stations
Mt which the sishtseer may get aboard
or alight.
The Worlds Fair has nineteen exhibit
palaces. The outdoor exhibits include
several features of striking novelty and
extent that never have been seen at any
exposition. Among these may be men-
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The Empty Box.

Miss Veriscpht-"Why wasn't Mrs.
Tiarabump at the opera last night,
wonder:"
Miss Verjuice-'She had such Il cold
that she couldn't speak above 4 whisp-
er. so of course there was no use in
her g"-Judge.
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BY ROBERTUS LOVE.

toned the Mining Gulch of eleven acres,
situated in Il natural rayine running out
from the edge of the main picture of the
exposition, where the processes of mining
and reducing the various metals of COM
merce will be demonstrated daily at
model mines and furnaces in actual op-
Grafton; the physical culture section,