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The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1904-03-11

Above farms are well Improved. hne rich
soil. on pike roads near railroads towns
school and church. u cash. write for farm list
and further information Vim Fleming.
Greensburg. Ind.
Laundry. in a town Of 200 population.
worth twice the money Il will take 70 buy IL
best OF reasons for selling. L. r. Fleming,
Greensburg. Ind Jan. d. 1904.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1904-03-11
Turnfng away Wrath.

'T don't believe You love me any
MORE" pouted she.
II couldn't" replied he.
After thinking it over she smiled and
told him she could make the same old
dress do another season.-Houston Post
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1904-03-11
Could Not Guarantee Them.

"Have You any eggs" inquired the
customer.
Yes. sir" said the waiter. II can
bring you some eggs. but want you to
remember that this is a ten cent lunch
counter Chicago Tribune.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1904-03-11

Mrs. Jilson-I wonder If Slimkins
succeeded in breaking his fathers
wilIs
Old Jilson-I think he did His
lawyer was in the office today pricing
some bonds.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1904-03-11
Sale Bills.

Let US have your sale bills to print.
Teh advertisement In the REPUBLICAN
will be worth all the bills you can put
up, and this goes gratis to those who
get us 10 print their bills.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1904-03-11

Sunday School Teacher-why, jim
mie, how pale you are,
Jimmie 1 amt pale. Some agent
left sample cake of soap at cur
house dis mornin'.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1904-03-11
OUR MERRY-GO-ROUND.
.He-The tiger made a spring at
me-and missed me.
She-How awful,

Stllers-Do you hink you can safe
ly rely on a gas meter?
Burt-The gas company can"
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1904-03-11

What are you doing?"
Looking for desirable quarters"
"Going to move again:~
Mo
But you said
81 said was looking for desirable
quarters, but that is only my modest
way of putting it. would much pre-
fer halves or dollars or eagles.
cago P,s.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-08

able people would be called by the UNI
for the president to shake his rod over
the trusts and then say that the adj
ministration did not intend "to run
anuek among the business interests
of the country. 1t was bad enough for
campaign managers and campaign COL
lectors to use this situation to procure
money and pledges of support, with
the understanding that the law would
be pushed against recalcitrants and
unenforced upon those who were
plant. 1t was shameful enough that an
action should be carried through the
directly within the scope of the law
might be exempted from it's operation
for a consideration All this hideous
performance in the name of virtue and
law enforcement and public good
should be, for it's inherent hypocrisy, a
byword and kissing among the hon
est people of this country.
1t is a step beyond even that when
those who are guilty or so shameful a
performance begin to pose, through the
reports of special correspondents, as
the enemies of monopoly. and to de-
| clare their intention to prosecute those
| with whom they have struck hands
and made their political bargain-after
| the election. If there is the fine sense
of honor that we believe there is
among the American people, if their
| gorge rises over pretenses and men
dacity and solemn powwows between
| dignitaries in the language of virtue.
! While each winks the other eye and
| whispers that the people are suckers
| and fools. then we think that this
/ brazen performance of the administra-
ton and of its organs throughout the
country will bring down upon it the re-
/ buke that it deserves
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-08
THE ST. PAUL GLOBE THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER s. 1904

tacles. Writing of his travels in Japan
Kipling said: Il have seen scores of
persons with spectacles whom it were
fiattery to call soldiers. Their officers
were as miserable a set Of men as
Japan could furnish, specialized. UNI
der sized, hollow backed and hump
of command and had to trot by the
side of their men to keep UP with
them
They are still wearing their spec
tacles and trotting by the side of their
men up to the very mouth of the Rus
sian cannon and losing their glasses in
the hail of death. Their burly foes flee
before them in very terror of their lives,
and the joke Of yesterday has become
the most tragic of the engines of civ
iiization of today.
Is it the spectacles7 Fifty years ago
The nation had not commenced to
think. When the awakening came the
Japanese became students first and
then thinkers. Consumed with fire
Of patriotism of which we apparently
have no conception the Japanese
turned to the books of the occident.
When a Yankee invented a gun a little
brown man turned up and studied the
mechanism of the piece so hard that
he was compelled to go out and buy a
pair of cheap spectacles. In the libra
rieS and laboratories of the world the
japanese lest their sight and took to
glasses. And they invited the ridicule
of Kipling and the rest because they
squeaked and they We're bespectacled.
But it may be said for them that they
have been too busy learning by looking
and reading to pay much attention to
voice culture, and stature does not
cut much figure. If their legs were
so short that they had to run, SO much
| the better-the want of deep voice
and the extremely short stride of the
| specialized Jap has helped him in lead
ing men who were bigger than himself
| and not developed to the spectacle
stage. Not being able to command eff
fectively he ran in the lead instead OF
ordering from the rear
Do not make fun of the little man in
speetaeles. He may not be a world
beater, but the glasses indicate an in
curing mind. One who reads and in
quires is likely to think and the midget
who thinks is likely to go forth and win
battle of Liau-yang.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-08
Contemporary comment
Who'll Speak Softly

Speak softly and carry a big stick
ana you'll go far" said Mr.. Roosevelt
but how far will we go if Mr.. Roose-
Welt is to do the speaking?'
surely he is not president of soft
speech. Without any disrespect it may
fairly be Said that he is an interna
tional bully.
mat was not soft speech when he
made. the Pickwickian and altogether
unnecessary protest to Russia.
Ihey were not soft orders, those
mistaken and superfiuous ones which
ne gave to the United States battleship
at Beirut
1t is not speaking softly when he
uttefs threats against South Ameri-
can natloas4whieh do not respect them
serves or their financial obligations.
II IS not speaking softly when he ex-
tolls the glories of war and stumps the
country with bellicose orations.
1t is not soft speaking when he adj
Jures soldiers to love fight for it's own
sake and bemoans the fact that there
WASH enough of the Spanish war to
go round
We have the big stick in the form of
powerful and enlarged navy and a
I competent army and we need now a
sort voice. The fact that the big stick
| is carried by the commander-in-cf
with the strident voice and everbear-
ing manner is precisely what makes the
country uneaSy.-St. Louis Republic.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-08
RAILROAD NEWS
SEEKS AN OUTLET
ACROSS CONTINENT
Great Canadian Firm Negotl.
stes for Purchase of Con-
Meeting Railroad Link
Special to The Globe

Special to The Globe
DULUTH, Mimi, Sept. IA report
mas reached Duluth and is being dis
cussed in transportation circles to the
effect that negotiations are on foot
which may result in the purchase of
the Canadian Northern by the Grand
Trunk Pacific. The story originated
from Canadian sources and is there
fore given more consideration than
otherwise. If this deal should go
through the Grand Trunk Pacific
would use the Canadian Northern
from Port Arthur westward
Mckenzie & Mann are the head of
the Canadian Northern. 1t is known
that Mr.. McKenzie's ruling ambition
for years has been to be in charge of a
transcontinental railroad On the
other hand, it is known that Mr. Mann
has political ambitions.
In the event of such a deal as IS
now believed to be under considera-
ton, it would seem that Mr.. Mckenzie
has changed his mind and would be
willing to retire with TIE wealth and
honor that he has gained in connection
with the construct ton of the new rail-
road. 1t is asserted that he and Mr..
Mann could sell out for a large profit,
and they have both gained fame in
canada by the success of their big
railroad enterprises. Mr.. Mann is
thought to have ambition to become
member of parliament. He is an eX
cellent platform speaker, and, like his
business partner, is two or three times
a millionaire at least
There have been no developments as
yet regarding the proposed extension
of the Port Arthur. Duluth & Western
to Ely to complete and all-rail line to
Duluth. This road is owned by the
Canadian Northern.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-08
MORTON TO SPEAK
Secretary of Navy viii Address
Railroad Agents

WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept. THE
forty-ninth annual meeting of the
American Association of General Pas
senger and Ticket Agents will be held
at Old Point Comfort Va, Oct. 1920.
An attendance of between 400 and 500
is expected.
Secretary Paul Morton, of the navy
department, who is an honorary men,
Der of the association, having been
formerly a general passenger agent,
has accepted an invitation to attend
banquet given by the association.
Among other guests will be Gov. Mon
tague, of Virginia, and Gen Fitzhugh
Lee.
The addresses at the banquet will be
made by the secretary of the pavy, the
governor of Virginia and Gen. Fitz-
hugh Lee. The last named will pre-
sent gavel from the jamestown oak.
S. H. Hardwick, passenger traffic man
ager of the Southern railway, also will
speak as orator of the association.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-08
THE LITTLE MAN IN spEcTAcres

You remember the little brown man
who attracted your attention when he
was new in these parts because of his
oriental placidity and his spectacles?
When he first appeared he wore a
gaudy robe and had no spectacles, but
occidental gear and glasses have mark
ed him of late. He was something OF
curiosity once and there was dis
position to think him a funny little
man. His possibilities as a joke were
recognized by. Gilbert and he added
something to the gayety of nations
when he appeared as Ko-Ko. But
mostly he was derided because he
was little and wore spectacles. Well,
he is chasing the big, lusty Russian
who never had to wear spectacles so
hard that Mukden and Hardin promise
to be way stations ON the return to st.
Petersburg.
Even so close a student Of humanity
in the raw as Rudyard KipIing made
fun Of the little brown man in spec
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-08
LETTERS FROM THEPEOPLE
It Is the Few Unreasonable People Who
Cause the Trouble
To the Editor of The Globe:

To the Editor of The Globe:
Your editorial why Not Be Reason
able" in your issue of Sept 4. fully and
impasSonately explains the situation in
ST. Paul in regard to the proposed ordi-
nance against whistling by factories and
+ locomotives.
You draw attention to the fact that if
there was that mutual respect for
one anothers rights that ought to be the
first consideration of civilized society, the
hideous footing of whistles for several
minutes. or even half an hour at time,
destroying public comfort and outraging
the rights of the community, would not
be in evidence. 1t IS a known fact that
more than 10000 children in this city go
to school. and not one of the schools is
provided with a steam whistle. 1t is fur
Their known that out of sheer parsimony
whistling is resorted to, which is avoid
able. This continuous and promiscuous
whistling is the cause of a great deal of
discomfort. ANNOYANCE, runaways and ac-
cidental deaths, and it is not necessary
sign of boom and prosperity, like the fire.
cracker on the Fourth of July.
II is wrong to assume that people
should be disturbed in their sleep after a
hard days work by the footing of railroad
whistles in the resident district of a city
in order that the railroad companv might
save a fagman, or that a little factory
may make its existence known as a
chronic tooter to the discomfort of many
people residing in its neighborhood.
Everybody knows that the health depart
ment is enforcing the laws and ordinances
pertaining to the welfare and health Of
the people, according to their spirit, not
according to the letter of the law It Is
for the purpose to compel "a very few,
obstinate, bull-headed and callous indi-
viduals.'' as you fifty term them. to take
proper cognizance of the public comfort
and rights of others that / have propos-
ed the ordinance against whistling be-
fore the city council; it is to give US a
club to use on those which so far have
used the club upon others.
j. Onage. NJ D..
Commissioner of Health
st. Paul, Mimi. Sept. z. 1904.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-08
PERSONAL MENTION

Merchandise. w Mann, Devils Lake;
j. C. Blaisdell, Chokio; E. Mcneil, Ever
EFT, Wash; C. w. Donavon, Portland
Or; William Leichett, Terre Haute. Ind.
P. III. Hough, La Crosse; j. B. Winder-
beck and wife, Ladd,f Iowa; ]. c. Moore,
Mason City,
Ryan-Edward Jones. ST. Cloud; Edgar
G. Miller Baltimore; E. Lloyd Pratt and
wife. Sydney N. s. W.; Peter Mcclellan,
Fort William, A. II. Neil and wife, Bethel;
William Brown, Manistee, Mich; e. G,
Trobridge and wife. Waseca; E. III. Kent
Grand Forks; Frank McGray, Underwood;
NJ Sands. Helena.
Windsor-G A. De Wilde. Sheboygan
Wis; Ell Mcdonald, Bemidji; D. H
Hammers Two Harbers; p Carnochan
Butte; NJ S., Wilbur, Kansas City; c. H
Mccoy and WIFE Spokane; F. D. Wan
derburg. Faribault; c. H. Edgerton, Win
nipeg; Lyndon A. Smith. Montevideo.
FREDERICK S. Valentine. Des Moines;
William Eakeiy, Chicago; Henry Baldrey
Syracuses w. D. Grant, Omaha; Samuel
H HART, Chicago; F. o. Brown, Chester
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-08
What the Editors Say

Ii Mr.. Johnson can command the
vote of his own party his election is
not impossible, although, of course, the
odds are against hini-and still there
may be so great a Republican revolt
that his majority may be surprisingly
large. There is no use in Disgusting
the fact that many of the stalwart Re-
publicans all over the state today be-
lieve that the best thing that can hap
pen to the Republican, party is to re-
ceIve SO overwhelming a defeat that
never again will it dare to place in
nomination a candidate through the in
huence of corporations, aided by the
Democrats, and by the disfranchise-
ment of the largest Republican county
in the state. If the voters of Mime
sofa shall elect John A. Johnson gov
ernor, Democrat though he is, he will
I'LL the Office with credit, we have no
doubt. Certainly he has the ability,
and is a@gentleman who would dignity
the posi:ion.-St. Cloud Journal-Press
The "standpatters'' begin to see that
their policy has overreached itself
While the Republican party thought it
was standing pat it was in reality
playing into the hands of one man,
and that man is not conservative, is
not Self-restraining American citi-
zen He is Self-centered, self-ambi-
tious, wholly for Mr.. Roosevelt
1t was an awful calamity that made
1T possible for Mr.. Roosevelt to OCCUPY
the position he now holds. He was not
elected to it by the vote of the people.
1t would have been a political impoSSi-
bility for him to have been nominated
as a candidate to the presidency at the
national convention of 1900 He was
not looked upon as available for the
nomination. In fact, his nomination to
the second place was opposed. 1t was
even then limited that he was a danger
Gus man. But the Buffalo days came;
the national tragedy was enacted and
Mr.. Roosevelt was observation-disclosures
Independent.
Now that the state board of health
has butted in to make business for the
eyeglass adjuster and the culturegog-
gle vender, 1 should think these very
astute human regulators might FIND
just as potent and unworked field of
usefulness by devising some method of
regulating WomenS screams to CORE
spond with the possible danger No
man power legislature would step in
and upset their schemes as was done
two years ago when, the board kept
thousands of children out of school
during the time the health officials and
the ornery parents quarreled over the
| merits and dement's of pinking the arm
with cowpox virus.-Fairmont Sentinel.
It's dated st. Petersburg. 1t saws
that Gen. Kuropatkin did not retreat.
he just moved back to his secret
stronghold, ands,hat it was an advance
anyhow, because the head of the army
has been placed on the other end to
fool the Jsps.-Crookston Times.
'Ah, yes, my husband has decided to
become candidate for reelection to
the legislature. His business REQUIRES
him to travel about the state a great
deal, and he needs the passes.
Browns Valley Tribune.
Albert Bergh at the eleventh hour
decides that he will not run for repre-
sentative in Roseau county. Too fat.
l-Bemidji Pioneer.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-08
A WEST SIDE PARK

The city is highly fortunate in hav-
park purposes, including a consider
able portion of the bluff on the West
side. This section of the city is not
highly favored in the matter of parks.
1t abounds in beautiful outlooks, and
the bluff front especially has long been
gazed upon with a covetous eye by
those who appreciated its possibil-
ties. Nothing could add so much to
the beauty of the city as whole, as
we'll as to the enjoyment of the resi-
dents of that particular portion of it,
as the improvement and adornment of
the great bluff that slants upward
from the further side of the Missis-
sippi.
Long ago it was perceived by those
with an eye for beauty that the bluff
edges in st. Paul constitute it's most
picturesque feature, and contain the
most abundant and plentiful resources
for park uses. Unhappily it was i'm
possible to arouse sufficient interest
in this early enough to prevent them
from appropriation and dissertation.
The fine parkway and plaza on upper
Third street which was the dream of
our earlier history and would have
revolutionized in some respects the de-
velopment of the business section, is
no longer to be thought Of The great
er part Of our river slopes has been
devoted to commercial or other pri-
yate uses and is not available fol
parks.
There still remain, however, many
slightly spots overlooking the stream
and the city which can be so utilized
The best of these by all odds after the
Indian mounds is that which has beer
secured on the West side, and tc
which we hope from time to time new
and larger areas may now be added
Great credit for this addition to st
Paul's attractions is due to those citi-
zens who started the movement, to the
park board that concluded arrange
ments for securing the property
through a long series Of delays and
discouragements, and especially to the
president, whose indefatigable interes
in park development is visible here an6
elsewhere. The purchase of this parl
1 property is money well spent and viii
return its value to the city many fold.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-08
TODAY'S WEATHER
MAsHINGToN. D. q. Sent. 7.-F

! WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept. Fore
cast:
warmer in the south portion; probably
showers at night; Friday fair.
Wisconsin-Fair Thursday, warmer in
the west portion, showers at night or Fri
day in north portion fair in the south;
variable winds.
Upper Michigan-Partl cloudy Thurs
day, warmer in the west portion Friday
partly cloudy; probably showers; variable
winds.
Montana and North Dakota-Fair
Thursday and Friday.
Iowa-Fair warmer Thursday; Friday
fair.
in the east portion: Friday fair.
st. Yesterdays observations by
the United States weather bureau, st.
Paul, W. E. Oliver, observer, for the
twenty-feur hours ended at Z o'clock last
night-Barometer corrected for tempera-
ture and elevation. Highest tempera-
ture, 68;i lowest temperature So; average
temperature, 81; daily range 13; barom-
eter, 30.16; precipitation, %; Z p. m. tenn
perature, 67; p. m. wind, southeast;
weather. partly cloudy.
Vest erday'S TemDeratureS-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-08
THE VERMONT ELECTION

A Republican newspaper would not
answer the purpose for which Repub-
lican newspapers are permitted by an
inscrutabIe Providence to exist if it
did not proclaim the result of the Yer
mont election as a wondrous triumph
for the party and guarantee of the
success of Roosevelt and Fairbanks in
November. 1t is as much a part of the
game as the vociferations of the
barker" outside a booth at county
fair. But the event also admits of
sane and sound comment
Vermont has gone precisely as it
| was expected to go and as it always
does go. Whether majority in that
state is $4,000 or 10000 cuts no more
figure than whether that in Arkansas
is $4,000 or $4,000 The size of ma
jority in a state whose political COM
plexion is absolutely and unchangeably
| fixed before the election is Indicative
| of some unimportant details 1t may
show the state of the weather on cleo
| ton day, or the progress of harvesting,
or general political Indifference or un-
popularity or the reverse in a candi-
] date. It's relation to general issues
| and the fortunes Of parties at large is
| exactly nothing.
Both parties. in their practical con-
J duct of campaigns, long ago discarded
! the theory of the Importance of Sep
| TENDER elections. That vanished in
| 1880. The work they do and the money
| they spend there is for show purposes
solely, and should be charged to adj
vertising account. 1t pleased the Re-
publicans this year to make an espe-
cially strong effort in Vermont. They
/ threw speakers of national reputation
| into the state and made an effort to
run up the majority. They succeeded
| The Democrats, on the other hand; de-
| cided that it would be wiser for them
! to save their strength for states where
L
| They made no special effort and con-
| tented themselves with merely holding
| the normal vote of late years. They
| succeeded. So honors are even.
/ OF course if the Democrats had car
| ried Vermont, or even if they had cut
| the majority far below precedent, il
| would have been significant Such an
| event would have been revolutionary
Nobody dreamed of it. The Demo
| cratic contention is that states which
| are normally Democratic, under condi-
| tons favorable to the party, will bs
| Democratic in November. If they are
| as we believe they will be, Judge Par.
ker will be the next president. Yer.
! mont is not among them. Outside OF
the South and of Pennsylvania there
are no people in the United States less
susceptible Of political change, less
! liable to be touched by new issues. les:
pervious to new forces, less habited tt
the heresy of independent voting. A.
we have cherished no hopes of Yer.
mont, we shed no tears over her re-
newed demonstration that, when ths
rest of the country is full of new en-
deavor and new faith, she is Joined t.
] her idols.