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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-11-18
CONGER TO RETURN.
UNITED STATES MINISTER TO
CHINA COMING HOME.
Has Had Wide Experience in Diplo-
matte Field Both in the Orient
and in South American
Countries.

Des Moines, Announcement is
made that on January 1 Edwin II.
Conger, United States minister to
China, will resign his diplomatic post
and return, with his family, to this
city. Few diplomatic careers of recent
years have been as adventurous and
picturesque as Maj. Conger's. Few
women of any rank or station of re-
cent years have played as important a
part in shaping the destinies of an
empire as Mrs. Conger. No less an
authority than William e. Curtis, on
his return from a tour of the world,
declared to the Chicago Womens club
that Mrs. Conger is directly RESPONSE
BILE for the recent action of the dowa-
ger empress establishing 16 universi-
ties in the largest cities of China. That
was but one example of the wonderful
influence which Mrs. Conger eXerts
over the real ruler of the celestial en-
pire.
Maj. and Mrs. Conger have now
been stationed at Peking for six years,
says special from this city to the
Chicago Chronicle. There they were
throughout the siege consequent upon
the "boxer" uprising. Imprisoned in
the legation, they remained until the
allied troops, with Gen. Chaffee in
command of the United States forces,
made their historic march to the re-
lief of the beleaguered diplomats.
1t was in 1898 that Maj. Cong was
sent to the Peking post, transferred
from Brazil, where he had served two
terms, from 1891 to 1893, and again in
1897 and 1898. An interesting story
is told of his appointment to the Bra
lillian mission. When he was a young
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-11-18
TILL NOON,
The Simple Dish That Keeps One
Vigorous and Well Fed.

When the Doctor takes his own med
1cine. and the grocer eats the food he
recommends, some confidence comes to
the observer.
A Grocer Of Ossian, Ind, had a prac-
teal experience with food worth any
ones attention.
He says: "Six years ago / became
80 weak from stomach and bowel trou-
BILE that was finally compelled to give
IN all work in my store, and, In fact,
all sorts of work, for about iour years
The last year was confined to the bed
nearly all Of the time, and much OF the
time unable to retain food or any sort
on my stomach. My bowels were bad
iy constipated continually, and lost
in weight from 165 pounds down to 8S
pounds.
when at the bottom oil the ladder l
changed treatment entirely, and start
ed In on Grape-Nuts and cream for
nourishment. l used absolutely moth
ing but this for. about three months.
slowly improved until got out of bed
and began to move about.
81 have been improving regularly
and now in the past two years have
been working about fifteen hours q
day in the store, and never felt better
IN my life.
During these two years have never
missed breakfast of Grape-Nuts and
cream, and often have it two meals 9
day, but the entire breakfast is al
ways made of Grape-Nuts and cream
alone.
"Since commencing the use Of Grape
Nuts | have never used anything tC
stimulate the action of the bowels. {
thing l had to do for years. but thi'
food keeps me regular and in : fin'
shape. and am growing stronger anc
heavier every day.
my customers, naturally, have beel
interested, and | am compelled to an
swer great many questions abou
Grape-Nuts.
"Some people would think that sim
pie dish of Grape Nuts and cream
would not carry one through to tn
MONDAY meal, but 1t will. and in tn
most vigorous fashion"
Name given by Postum Co.. Battl
Creek, Mich.
Look in each pkg. for the famous III
lie book, "The Road to Wellville."
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-11-18
LIFE IN ALEUTIAN ISLANDS.
High and Bears and Eagles
Are Very Large.


The simple announcement that
Mrs. Annie Vessey, of Kadiak, Alas
ka, had returned to- her home after
visit to Seattle, as reported in the
society columns of the newspapers,
meant little to the average reader but
the visit itself meant much to Mrs.
Vessey, for 1t was the first time she
had been outside Alaska, says the Sc
attic Times. Never before had she
ridden on a street car, seen locomo-
tive, been within theater or wit
messed the complex life of city. All
was new and strange to her. Her 20
years were spent entirely on Kadiak
island and the islands of the Aleu-
tian group. Mrs. Vessey's father, a
| descendant of the ancient house of
Romanoff, the ruling dynasty of Rus
sia, went to Alaska in 1860 and has
lived there continuously in the Rus
sian settlements of the Aleutians.
Mrs. Vessey speaks Russian as we'll
as English and several Indian tongues,
and her trip to Seattle was as inter-
prefer for the party of Aleutian is-
landers that went to the st. Louis
exposition recently. While here the
Interpreter, with her baby, one year
old, was the guest of Mr.. and Mrs.
j. e. Sandley. The baby Mrs. Vessey
dresses in suits made of squirrel skins,
such as the natives wear.
Just before leaving Alaska Mrs Ves-
seys mother shot a mammoth bear,
and forwarded the head to the Smith
sopian institution at Washington, d.
G. For the specimen the directors of
the big scientific museum sent it's
slayer $500. In the skull was found
imbedded a number of old-time Rus
sian handmade bullets, carried no one
knows how long by the Alaska bear
after victorious meeting with his nat
ural enemies. In the Aleutian islands
the natives have SO long been under
the Russian influence that the Greek
church is thoroughly established, and
all its festivals and rites are observed
most faithfully. The natives are nu.
merous.
Eagles grow to an enormous size on
Kadiak ana other islands, and the gov
ernment pays a bounty on each one
killed, for they carry off the sheep an6
are destructive in many ways.
The long days of the summer season
make the grass most abundant and il
grows to a height of five feet, while
berries also grow plentifully and en-
tirely without cultivation. On account
of the numerous wild flowers there are
many kinds of bugs and insects, rare
species of butterflies and bees. In col
lecting these Mrs Vessey's father
makes good income. Cattle do well
but must be fed heartily because O
the long and severe winters. Som,
mining is done. The climate as ;
whole is most healthful.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-11-18
A New Friend.

City Forester Gale, of Springfield.
Mass, has discovered a new bug,
which appears to have an exceptional
fondness for the eggs and larvae of
the elm tree beetle. and he has reason
to believe that the new discovery may
be of considerable Importance. The bug
appears to be the enemy of the elm
tree bettle, and 1t has already accom-
plished good results thus far in kill
ing and destroying the eggs and larvae
in large numbers. 1t is a small black
bug, and Mr.. Gale has never before
seen anything like 1t. nor has anyone
to whom he has shown it-Exchange,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-11-18
SLAUGHTER of Game.

Reports of the wholesale slaughter
of deer and game birds out of season
come to Duluth from the ranges. II
is claimed that scores of men are en-
gagged in hunting to supply camps and
individuals in the towns with venison
and partridges. The rate at which
game is being killed, 1t is claimed
will make serious inroads on deer and
partridges this year. The season for
partridge opened on October Is, but
the young birds have been full-grown
for a month. The deer season does
not open till November 10.-St. Paul
Pioneer.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-11-18
The Last Straw.

Mrs Ponsonbyde-Style you mean
TO say that all is lost?
Mr.. Ponsonby-de-Style- Every penny.
Nothing can be saved. We must give
up this fine house.
mo matter. We will have less care"
I'VE must give up our horses"
81 can walk"
-And our servants"
81 will do the work myself"
"And-our hyphen."
Then she fainted.-Cassell's.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-11-18
THE MARKETS.

New York, Nov. 16, 1904
Flour - Minnesota patent $1,000
GAO.
Wheat-No. 2 red $1.215s.
Corn-No. yellow 621ac.
Oats-Clipped white 37@39hc.
Hay-Firm.
Cattle-Weak Veals $4.5O@S.50.
Sheep-Slow at $3.00@4.50, lambs
$550@6.30.
Hogs-No sales reported.
Cleveland, Nov. .-Flour-Minne-
sofa patent S600@6.25.
Wheat-No. red $1.20k.
Corn-No. 3 yellow 50@52c.
Oats-No. 2 white SAC.
Butter-Best creamery 261Rc.
Cheese-York state 11hc.
Eggs-Strictly fresh 29c.
Potatoes-Best grades t5@50c.
Hay-Choice timothy $11.50.
Cattle = Best steers S5.00@5.50,
choice calves $700@725.
Sheep-Choice wethers $400@4.25,
best lambs S4.00.
Hogs-Yorkers $4.S5.
Toledo, Nov. 1G. Wheat-Cash
$1.16A.
Corn-December 47kc.
Oats-Cash 32hc.
Cloverseed-Cash $7471a.
East Buffalo, Nov 16.-Cattle-
Prime steers $5.35@575, Best veals
SG.50@7.75.
Sheep - Best wethers $4.25@450
lambs $5.75@5.90.
Hogs - Best Workers s4.90@5,00
pigs $3.50.
Pittsburg, Nov. 16.-Cattle-Choice
steers $5,5O@5.75, good $5.15@5,4O.
Sheep-Prime wethers $4.25Q4.40
lambs $3.50Q4.90.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-11-18
The Petroleum production.

It is not yet half century since Col.
Drake discovered petroleum on the
waters of Oil creek, near Titusville, Pa
The total production of crude petroleum
from 1859 to 1923 years-has been
no less than 1,165, ,2SO, 1877 barrels. or
this output Pennsylvania and New York
contributed 53.9 per cent; Ohio, 243 per
cent; West Virginia, 11,3 per cent; In
diana, 3.9 per cent; California, sc per
cent, and Texas, 81 per cent
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-11-18
Football Aids Police,

The Australian detectives find foot
ball useful. Criminals will hide six days
In the week, but they have to come out
on Saturdays to see the football game.
and the police are on hand.
The Glenwood post., 1904-01-30
Waits for His Master.

Hello. Ribs, he amt on this train"
Thus brakeman or baggagemaster
greets big black and white dog
which every evening trots down to
the station in small Pennsylvania
town TO meet the train on which his
master used to come home.
Ribs master has not come home or
the train for many months. He was
conductor of a train which was
wrecked. and was killed. But Ribs
has never missed train. He stands
on the platform wagging his tail, his
tongue hanging out, an expression of
anxious hope in his eyes, waiting for
his master.
When one of the trainmen explains,
''He amt on this train" the red
tongue goes slowly back into the big
mouth. the strong jaws close. the
shaggy tail drops and Ribs turns and
walks back to his kennel. But on the
following day he appears promptly
in time for his masters usual train.
and waits until some one of the pity
ing train hands tells him, He aiT't
come in yeti"
The Glenwood post., 1904-01-30

a Noteworthy the ould Forty-siv-
enth-yis, more, I'll say We might be a
officer in the guards, or in the Rile
Irish itself. b'gad. yes, sir!-Curly, We
divvil, what do we mean by putin
me friend on such brute, him the
first day in the land? And, Ned, how
are we goin' to like it here, me boy?"
Franklin wiped his forehead as he
replied to Battersleigh's running fire
of salutations.
well, Battersleigh," he said. 81
must say I've been pretty busy ever
since I got here, and so far as ] can
tell at this date, I'm much disposed to
think this is strange and rather rap
i'd sort Of country you've got out
here
BEST d--n pilgrim ever hit this
rodeo." repeated Curly, with convic-
ton.
shut up. Curly. We divvil!" said
Battersleigh. Come into the house,
the both of you. It's but a poor house,
but ye're welcome. An welcome we
are. too, Ned, me boy. to the New
World"
The Glenwood post., 1904-01-30
Broken Neck Cured.

Cured of broken neck, James
Dunn. seventeen years old. has been
discharged from hospital in New
York City, where he had spent five
motionless months. rigid in a plaster
cast and with heavy weights at his
head and feet which held his body i'm
movable.
The operation and cure have attract
ed great attention among surgeons
Dunn was injured while diving from
pier while bathing. Three vertebrae
were crushed and clipped He was
kept alive with great difficulty during
the operation. The splintered bone
was removed and the fractures set.
Then the whole of the upper body.
neck and head We're placed in plaster
cast.
Dunn was laid upon table and
heavy weights attached to his head
and feet. He was told that to move
meant death or permanent helpless
ness for him and he became the most
patient person imaginable. The bones
knitted perfectly and when the case
was removed the boy was found to be
as sound as ever.
The Glenwood post., 1904-01-30

Cling street. These new edifices were
for the most part used as business
places, the sorts of commerce being
but two-"general merchandise,
which meant chiefly saddles and fire
arms. and that other industry of new
lands which flaunts under such sign
boards as the Lone Star, the Happy
Home, the Quiet Place, the Cowboys
Dream and such descriptive nomencla-
ture. OF fourteen bushes houses, nine
were saloons, and all these were pros
porous.
4re. by one, then in a body. as
thodsh struck by panic, the white
tents of the railroad laborers van
ished. passing on yet farther to the
West, only the engineers remaining
at Ellisville and prosecuting from the
haven of the stone hotel the work of
continuing the line. The place of the
tents was taken by vast white-topped
wagons. the creaking cook carts of
the cattle trail. and the van of the
less nomadic man. 1t was the begin
ming of the great cattle drive from
the Southern to the Northern ranges.
q liduSt. WIN movement III AmeT1-
can life which carried in it's train a
set of conditions as vivid and peculiar
as they were transient.
Ellisville lay at an eddy in the
Plains and gathered toll of the
strange driftwood which was then
afloat. Though the cbutes at the rail
way were busy, yet other herds of
mi
on north. crowding at the heels of
the passing Indians, who now began
to see their own cattle to be doomed
The main herd of the buffalo was
now reported to be three or four days
drive from Ellisville, and the men
who killed for the railroad camps ut
tered loud complaints. The skin
hunting still went on. Great wagons,
loaded with parties of rough men,
passed on out, bound for the inner
haunts. where they might still find
their prey. The wagons came creak-
ing back loaded with bales of the
shaggy brown robes, which gave the
skin-hunters monev with which to
join the cowmen at the drinking
places. Not sinless was this society
at its incipiency. In any Social at
mosphere good and evil are necessary
concomitants. Sinless men would
form a community at best but perish
able. Tolerance, submission. patriot
ism so called, brotherly love so
named-all these things were to come
later. as they have ever done. in the
development Of communities, buiided
mainly upon the foundation Of in
dividual aggressiveness and individual
The Glenwood post., 1904-01-30
CHAPTER viIi.


Franklin's foot took hold upon the
out and laid hold upon the sky, the
harsh flowers, the rasping wind. He
gave, and he drank in. Thus grew
the people of the West.
Think you, Ned, my boy" said Bat
tersleigh, one day, as they stood at
the tent door-"think you, this old
gray world has been inhabited mil
lion years, by billions of people and
yet here we have a chance to own a
part of it, each for himself, here at
this last minute of the worlds life!
Do you mind that, what it means?
Never you think n chance like thatll
last forever. Yet here we are, before
the law. and almost antedatin the
social ijee.. It's the beginnin'. man.
it's the very beginnin' of things,
where we're standin' here, this very
blessed day of grace. It's Batty has
Travelled all his life. and seen the
lands, but never did Batty live till
now"
'It's grand" murmured Franklin,
half dreamily and unconsciously re-
peating the very words of his friend.
as he had done before.
Yet Franklin was well bitten of the
ambition germ. 1t would serve him
to run only In the front rank. He was
not content to dream. He saw the
great things ahead. and the small
things that lay between. In week
The Glenwood post., 1904-01-30

he was the guiding mind in the at
fairs of the odd partnership which
now sprang between him and his
friend. Battersleigh would have lived
till autumn in his tent, but Franklin
saw that the need of house was i'm
mediate. He took counsel of Curly.
the cowboy. who proved guardian and
benefactor. Curly forthwith pro-
duced workman, giant Mexican, a
half-witted moso, who had followed
the COW bands from the far South
west, and who had hung about Curly's
own place as a sort of mental. bound
to do unquestionably whatever Curly
babe. This curious being, very CO.
lossus of strength, was found to be
Possessed of a certain knowledge in
building houses after the fashion of
that land-that is to say, of sods and
earthen unbaked bricks-and since
under his masters direction he was
not less serviceable than docile, it
was not long before the claim" of
Battersleigh was adorned with COM
Portable house fit for either winter or
summer habitation.
Even III lHt uESI year Iue SetIleT
of the new West was able to make
his living. He killed off the buffalo
swiftly, but he killed them in num-
bers so desperately large that their
bones lay in uncounted tons all over
a desolated empire. First the hides
and then the bones of the buffalo gave
the settler his hold upon the land,
which perhaps he could not else have
won.
Franklin saw many wagons coming
and unloading their cargoes of
bleached bones at the side of the
railroad tracks. There was market
for all this back in that country which
had conceived this road across the
desert. Franklin put out wagon at
this industry, hauling in the fuel and
the merchandise of the raw plains. He
bought the grim product of others who
were ready to sell and go out the ear
lier again.
Meantime the little town added
building after building along it's strag-
The Glenwood post., 1904-01-30
CHAPTER TX.
The New Movers.


Far away, across the wide gray
plain. appeared tiny dot, apparently
an unimportant fixture of the land.
scape. An hour earlier it might not
have been observed at all by even
the keenest eye. and it would have
needed yet more time to assure an
observer even now that the dot was
moving object. Presently an occa.
sional side-blown puff of dust added q
certain heraldry, and thus finally the
white-topped wagon and its plodding
team came fully into view, crawling
ever persistently from the East to
the West.
Meantime, from the direction of the
north, there came travelling across the
prairie another cloud of dust more
rapid than that stirred up by the slow
moving emigrant wagon. Sam, the
stage driver, was crossing on his req
ular blackboard trip from Ellisville to
Plum Centre. and was now nearly
halfway on his journey. Obviously
the courses of these two vehicles
must intersect, and at the natural
point OF this intersection the driver
of the faster pulled up and waited for
the other. Movers" were not yet so
common in that region that the stage
driver natural news agent, m"st not
pause for investigation.
The driver of the wagon, tall,
dark man, drew rein with grave sal
utation, his tired horses standing with
dropping heads while there took place
one of the pregnant conversations of
the plains.
"Mornin, friend" said Sam.
"Mornin sir" said the other.
Which way you head;n', friend?"
asked Sam.
well. SIR" came the answer, slow
| ly. II rather reckon you've got me.
I've just been movin' on out. l want
| to locate, but reckon my team could
| travel little further if they had to-"
| This with a certain grimness in his
| SMILE as though he realized the whim-
sicality of the average motive which
governed in that day in quests like
his. SIS there much travel comm
through here this season." he re-
| sumed. turning in his seat and resting
one foot on the wheel as he sat still
| perched on the high wagon seat.
Well replied Sam, they amt SO
much just yet but they will be pretty
soon. You see, the Land Office is
about sixty miles east of here yet,
and folks is mostly stoppin' in there.
Land around here is pretty much all
open yet. If they move the Land Of
flee to the track-end, of course all this
land will be taken up good deal
| faster"
as it good farmin land around
here"
| Sure. Better'n it is farther west,
and Just as good as it is farther east.
Wheat1l do well here, and it amt too
| cold for corn. Best COW country on
earth
"How is Ellisville doing now?'
| "Boomin'."
Yes. sir, so | heard farther back.
Is it goin' to be a real town."
That's whatever! How can it help
it? It's goin' to be a division point
on the road. It's goin' to have all the
cattleshippin' trade. After a while
it'll have all the farmin' trade. It's
goin' to be the town, all right, don't
you neglect that. Yes. sir, Ellisville
is the place!'
(Which way are you bound. sir?"
asked the stranger, still sitting, ap-
parently in thought, with his chin
resting on his hand.
Ito be continued.)
The Glenwood post., 1904-01-30
No Love Of God in a Footnote.

Dr. Charles Parkhurst of New York
believes in people saying just what
they mean, and says he has horror
of footnotes Whenever l see foot
note" he says. 81 am always remind
ed of a certain Presbyterian church
meeting. One statute drawn up per-
tanned to the love of the Almighty.
and 1t was stated IN the rigid, old
fashioned Presbyterian style. with
more of sternness than love in it..
One of the more gentle Presbyterian
brethren suggested that a foot-note be
added mitigating somewhat the
harsher statement. Then up jumped
the Rev. DR.. Howard Crosby. 81 OBJ
1ect, gentlemen he said. I viii not
have the love Of God put In foot
note"
The Glenwood post., 1904-01-30
CHAPTER vII.-continued.

Franklin had small notion of Curly's
locality, but he heard his voice. half
haunting and half encouraging, and
calling on his pluck as he saw some
hope of successful issue. he resolved
to ride it out If it lay within him so
to do. He was well on with his reso-
luton when he heard another voice,
which he recognized clearly.
Good boy, Ned" cried out this
voice heartily, though likewise from
some locality yet vague. Bride the
divil to finish. me boy. Git up his
head, Ned! Git up his head! The
murderin', haythin' brute! Kill him!
Ride him out!'
And ride him out Franklin did, per-
haps as much by good fortune as by
skill, though none but shrewd horse
man would have hoped to do this
feat. Hurt and Jared, he yet kept
upright, and at last he did get the
horses head up and saw the wild per-
Torrance close as quickly as it had
begun. The pony ceased his grunt-
ing and fell into stiff trot, with little
to indicate his hidden pyrotechnic
quality. Franklin whirled him around
and rode up to where Battersleigh
and Curly had now Joined. He was a
bit pale, but he pulled himself togeth-
err well before he reached them and
dismounted with a good front of I'M
concern. Battersleigh grasped his
hand in both his own and greeted him
with a shower of welcomes and of
compliments. Curly slapped him
heartily upon the shoulders.
You're all right, pardner," said
he. You're the d--dest best pill
grim that ever struck this place. an
kin lick airy man that says differnt.
He's yore horse, now, shore"
"And how do ye do, Ned? God bless
vel" said Battersleigh moment later,
after things had become more tran
quill. I'm glad to see ye; glad as
liver 1 was in all me life to see liv-
in soul! Why didn't We tell We was
comm, and not come ridin' like a
murderin Cintaur-but ay, boy, ye're
The Glenwood post., 1904-01-30
A chance for Good Farm,rs

We are settling a tract of 10000 acres of
land In the San Luis valley. where there
kali good markets. all the land on a
broad gauge railway. We want few
do. To men who have tools stock and
cash enough to make start. we will sell
land on especially easy terms. provided
they will go down and begin work this
spring. Write to-day and tell us what
payment you can make down on 50 to 1850
acres. Prices range from $25 to $40 per
acre. The Colorado Bureau of Immigra-
ton. Zeph Chas. Felt. president. SIC Ma
jestic building. Denver. Colo.
The animals" Eve sighed and said,
II haven't counted since we've had 'em
The cunning serpent bent his head
And smiled. Let Adam add EN-.
madam -'