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The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1904-07-21
Books for Children.

The books child reads have quite
as strong an influence in molding his
character as his companions can have
If it is worth while to train our chill
dren at all it is worth while not only
TO watch the books they read. but to
study what books to give them to
read. They will read something: and
as soon as ciiild begins to beg for
stories so soon should we begin TO Sc
lect. A good plan is to enter in a
book the name and author of any espe-
cially good and interesting books you
come across. 1t Is surprising how rap
idly the list will grow: vet if we neg
lect TO note their names in some such
way it Is surprising how few of the
books We can recall when we want to
make use of them. As TO telling sto-
ries. mothers might do much more of
it than most do, with profit TO them
selves as well as the children. if the
stories are selected with care. 1t is
an excellent plan TO take turns with
the children. and require them 10 tell
the stories occasionally.
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The Reason for the Fit.

The work of the regimental tailor
may or may not be addressed to style
1t all depends. as in other lines of sol
diering. on his superior officer.
When the late Sir George Grove was
a young man in the West Indies, super,
intending the erection of lighthouses.
lie met an English army officer, who
was so exceedingly well-dressed thai
he was moved TO say:
You don't get those clothes here, l
suppose?'
"Oh, yes" replied the officer. ''The
regimental tailor made them for me" !"
rs it really possible that the regi.
mental tailor can fit you so well?" ex
claimed the young engineer, in sur.
prise.
Il should think sou the officer an.
swered. He had better fit me! ]
would give him three days heavy drill
If he didn't-and he knows it,
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1904-07-21
A BACK LICK.
Settled the Case With Her.

Many great discoveries have been
made by accident and things better
than gold mines have been found in
this way, for example when even the
accidental discovery that coffee is the
real cause of ones sickness proves of
most tremendous value because it To-
Gates the cause and the person has then
a chance to get well.
For over % years. says Missouri
woman, II suffered untold agonies in
my stomach and even the best physi-
clans disagreed as to the cause without
giving me any permanent help. differ
ent ones saying it was gastritis. indi-
gestion, neuralgia, etc, so l dragged
along from year to year, always half
sick, until finally l gave up all hopes
of ever being well again.
When taking dinner with friend
one day she said she had a new drink
which turned out to be Postum and
liked 1t so well | told her | thought |
would stop coffee for awhile and use
it, which l did
so for three months we had Postum
in place of coffee without ever having
one of my old spells, but was always
healthy and vigorous instead
Husband kept saying he was con-
vinced it was coffee that caused those
spells. but even then l wouldn't believe
it until one day we got out of Postum
and as we lived two miles from town
thought to use the coffee we had in the
house.
'.The result of q weeks use of coffee
again was that / had another terrible
spell of agony and distress. proving
that 1t was the coffee and nothing else.
That settled it and / said goodbye TO
Coffee forever and since then Postum
alone has been our hot mealtime drink.
MY friends all say am looking
worlds better and my complexion is
much improved. All the other members
of our family have been benefited. too.
by Postum in place of the old drink.
coffee" Name given by Postum Co.
Battle Creek. Mich.
Ten days trial of Postum in place of
coffee or tea is the wise thiag for ev-
cry coffee drinker. Such a trial tells
the exact truth often where coffee j.
not suspected.
Look in each pkg. for the famous lit
tie book, THE Road to Wellville."
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Korea must be nice place to live
in. Here is list Of penalties for va
riOus crimes, according to Korean law:
Treason, man-Decapitated together
with male relatives TO the fifth degree
Mother. wife and daughter poisoned
or reduced to slavery.
Treason, woman-Poisoned.
Murder, man-Decapitated. Wife
poisoned
Murder, woman-Strangled or poi
soned
Arson. man-Strangled or poisoned
Wife poisoned.
Arson, woman-Poisoned
Theft, man-Strangled, decapitated,
or banished. Wife reduced to slavery;
cOnfiscation of all property.
Dissertation Of graves-Decapitated
together with male relatives to the
fifth degree. Mother, wife and daugh
ter poisoned.
Counterfeiting-Str or de
capitation. Wife pOisOned.-Liverpool
Post
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Our Pampered Infants.

What would the people think of a
foundings home that insisted that its
inmates should continue to be support
ed by the people until they should fin
ally die of pampered old age, weak
ened in body and intellect because they
were not required to do anything
themselves in the battle for existence?
In that case the imposition would not
bV permitted to stand for a moment,
but the people have permitted the in
fant industries of the country to take
the same course. always drawing their
subsistence from the nursing bottle
called the tariff.
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Surgery in High Favor.

Not so many years ago surgical opei-
atiOns were generally regarded by the
public as means of last resort. and
were submitted to only when the pa
tient or his family was advised that
no other escape was open for the sdf-
ferer. Frequently the sick man was in
extremes when he went under the sur
geon's knife. and it is asserted by med
ical men that the large mortality in a
given number of operations was due
to this fact. In this way the popular
fear of going through these ordeals
was increased. the surgeons generally
being held responsible for the fatal
outcome.
To-day there is less fear Of the knife.
and statistics show that the mortality
is far less. This is attributed by the
profession to the advanced views now
held and what may be termed the
greater popularity of surgery. OF
course, most potent contribution TO
this condition of affairs is the more eX
tensiye knowledge possessed by the
modern surgeon and his greater skill.
But there is another source from which
help comes; that Is, that cases requir-
ing the services Of surgeons are not de-
layed until the last minute, when the
patients are so exhausted or they can
not stand the shock they must neces-
sarily sustain.
To-day 1t is appreciated by all stu
dents of the Ills to which flesh is heir
that il the knife is to be used the soon
ar it is done the better; just as every
body knows that IL disease is to be
checked the sooner medicine Is admin
istered the better. And to this view of
the matter the doctor and the surgeon
have gradually educated the people.
This accounts for the popularity of sur
gerry ard for the material diminishing
Of the death rate of persons passing
under the eknife-BaltimOre Herald.
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OF Wide Interest.

Breed, Wis, July 1S.-Special.-
Chas. Y. Peterson. Justice of the Peace
for OcOntO Co. has delivered judg-
Iuent that is of interest to the whole
United States. Put briefly. that judg-
ment is. "DOdd's Kidney Pills are the
best Kidney medicine on the market to-
day"
And Mr.. Peterson gives his reason
for this judgment. He says: Last win
ter l had an aching pain in my back
which troubled me. very much In the
morning 1 could hardly straighten my
back. did not know what it was, but
an advertisement led me to try DOdd's S
Kidney Pills. After taking one box
can only say they have done more for
me than expected, as feel as we'll now
as ever l did before"
Pain in the back is one of the first
symptoms of Kidney disease. If not
cured by Dodd's Kidney Pills it may
develop into Bright's Disease. Diabetes.
rheumatism or some of the other dead
ly forms of Kidney Disease.
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The "1owa idea. viii Not Down.

The National Manufacturers Asso-
citation. at its late meeting at Pitts
burg, committed itself to the policy Of
reciprocity in competition products. A
resolution was adopted calling for a
permanent tariff and reciprocity COM
mission and for Presidential authority
to issue proclamation giving effect TO
reciprocity treaties. The Des Moines
Register concludes that:
Had the manufacturers idea been
Incorporated in the Dingley bill, ev-
cry one of the KassOn trade arrange
ments would to-day be in full opera
ton to the great advantage of Ameri-
can industry"
President Roosevelt or Chairman
Cortelyou, will have to bring pressure
TO bear upon this Iowa idea" enthusi-
asst. or the leaven of tariff reform will
start to working again in Iowa. and
may become unmanageable. Corpora
ton influence and railroad money was
too much for the Register and Gov
ernor Cummins when the delegates to
the Republican convention We're elect
ed. but the voters may yet show, even
In that trust ruled State. that high
tariff prices and railroad monopoly
are more than they will submit to.
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In Mt the Victory.

Il was one of the crew of the Fed
eral gunboat Hull at the capture of
! Plymouth, \. c." said the one-armed
veteran. land we had to fight three
forts, all mounting heavy guns, togeth-
er with about 1000 infantry in rifle
pits. The Hull was a passenger steam
er, having little or no protection, and
had we not gone in slapdash she would
have been knocked to pieces at once.
1--WE led the fleet and when the first
shot struck us thought we were done
for. The missile was nine-inch
shell, and it entered her bows and ira
versed nearly her whole length. Had
it exploded when it stopped it must
have wiped out score Of men.
was knocked down by flying splinter
and when l got up would have given
about five worlds like this to have
been set down mile away. l believe
l should have jumped overheard had
not the captain of my gun caught me
by the shoulder and yelled fearful
oath in my ear. We kept going ahead
at full speed. using only the bow gun,
and when we got the position we de-
sired We were within pistol shot of
one Of the forts.
After We got to work with our gun
1 had no feeling Of fear, but was told
after the fight that 1 kept hurrahing
and cursing. However, we all did
that,.I guess. At every discharge of
our broadside the old craft was pushed
four or five feet nearer the bottom
and as she came up again she seemed
to be shaking herself to pieces. A
gunboat called the Shamrock followed
us in and for few minutes twenty.
eight heavy cannon were laundering
away. The noise was heard twenty
miles at sea.
1.-The only words remember to
have heard during the half hour the
fight lasted were from the captain of
our gun, as we ran the piece in and
out and changed from shot to shell
and from that to canister. All at once
the firing ceased, and every man of us
sat down and dug at his ears with his
uuScES. IL WIS IL bOluc Oue udu
pressed cotton into them. We lost six
men killed, ten wounded and the
steamer was little better than a heap
of kindling wood. She had been struck
nineteen times by shot and shell, and
there was bullet hole in every square
inch of her, above water. The fight
was all over and the boys hurrahing,
when one Of the men at my gun shout
ed in my ear:
Tom, why the devil don't you go
for the cockpit?
"'What forY I asked.
"'To get your other arm taken off,
so that you can be a draw in a dime
museum?'
"My left arm was gone" said the
veteran, taken off as clean as you
please. There was no pain until /
saw the arm lying on the deck, and
then what should 1 do but begin to
blubber like boy and faint away like
a woman"
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1904-07-21
Removing the Aposeate,

In the early days Of the British
Royal Academy reverence for the ''old
masters" of painting amounted almost
to worship. When at a dinner Sir
Martin Shee, one of the early presi-
dents. openly expressed doubts of their
Infinite superiority, says NJ. A. p, his
bearers We're Mortified
Sir Martin leaned across the dinner
table and raped upon it 10 empha-
size his points.
Now there's Raphaelw he thun-
dered. "What did Raphael do that We
can't do better nowadays? Old mas
ter? Why, gentlemen. I'd be sorry to
think we had not dozen men in the
Il. A. now who can draw better than
Raphael"
The bold declaration was too much
for old WOOdburn. picture dealer.
who sat opposite.
Sir Martin" he said. huskily, fairly
pale with emotion. I've often card
people say they didn't admire 'Omer
But this is the first time. sir. I've ever
card it said that it was 'Omer's fault"
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Disobedient Heroes.

The officers and men In the navy are
always ready to face danger, and some
times come near actual insubordina-
ton in their desire for heroic action
A seaman Of the Revolution, on being
rebuked for taking it upon himself to
lead party Of boarders on the
enemy's deck, said, 'I-I-jes' couldn't
help 1t, sirv' In Moses Brown, Cap
tain U. S. NJ Mr.. Maclay gives other
instances where men. in their enthus-
iasm, have rlsked the disapproval of
their superior officers.
We turn with pride to the episode of
the slender Philadelphian youth, who,
against the sternest commands, snug
gled himself abroad the ketch In
trepid, when she started on her mission
Of extreme peril into the harbor Of
TripOli. His explanation was, mere
ly because l wished to see the parts"
We remember the bold act of Capt.
Isaac Hull, who sailed out of Boston
in 1872 without the orders of the Sec
retary of the Navy, an act for which
he might easily have been shot. and
began that series Of brilliant victories
on the high seas which made Ameri-
can naval prowess feared and respect
ed the world over.
Farragut's determination to run his
frai wooden ships past the COnfeder-
ate forts below New Orleans and the
barriers that stretched across the river
in the dead of night was against the
urgent advice of some Of his highest
officers and in utter defiance of all
recognized rules of naval warfare.
Had that extraordinary venture ter
minated disastrously, Farragut I'M
doubtedly would have been summarily
removed from command, TO await
severer handling. Farragut's dash
over the fatal line Of torpedoes in
Mobile Bay, two years later. was
against all rules of propriety and pro-
fessional caution.
1t was Collingwood who, while lead
ing the second line of the British fleet
at Trafalgar. at moment when his
life was in imminent peril. exultantly
exclaimed, what would Nelson give
to be here-' At the same moment
Nelson remarked, "See how that noble
fellow, Collingwood, carries his ship
into actiOnr' Each was reyeling in the
opportunity for action then within
grasp.
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Fifty Men and One Elephan..

Interesting tests were made re-
Gently in the Madison Square Garden,
New York, to determine the respective
pulling power of horses, men and ele-
ahauts. Two horses, weighing 1.60O
pounds each, together pulled 800
pounds, or $50 pounds more than their
combined weight. One elephant, weigh.
ing 1900 pounds. pulled $3.50 pounds,
or $3.50 pounds less than his weight
Fifty men, aggregating about 1900
pounds in weight. pulled $3.50 pounds,
or just as much as the single elephant.
But, like the horses, they pulled more
than their own weight. One hundred
men pulled 12o00 pounds.
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way" as Senator Lodge arrogantly
puts 1t, further postal investigation
will he undertaken. In our own time
and our own way we will attend to
such revision of the tariff as may be
necessary, say the Republican leaders.
The Republican platform, however,
does not indOrse Senator Lodge, or
perfpps when the Senator wrote the
platform he thought it would be best
to say as little as possible about so
uncomfortable a subject as frauds
and scandals and claim everything
was all right, anyway. So the plat
form says:
Our administrations of the great
| departments of the government has
been honest and efficient, and wher-
ever wrOngdoing has been discovered,
the Republican administration has not
hesitated to probe the evil and bring
offenders to justice without regard to
party or political ties"
How honest and efficient the Repub-
| lican administration has been is
shown by. not only the postoffice
frauds. but by the land frauds, the
| Department of Justice scandals, the
| Littauer glove scandal, the Indian
Territory scandals, the Philippine
scandals, the Porto Rico smuggling
| scandals, the District of Columbia
scandals and other frauds and scan
| dals. In fact, no department of the
government is free from them. and it
Is no wonder that not even in their
own time and their own way do the
Republicans care to publicly mention
them, much less allow a thorough in
vestigation. Some charged with per-
petrating frauds are candidates for
Office on the Republican ticket. and
others are still high in Republican
councils, and it would be disastrous to
talk of such matters with the voters
about to take action.
The same program is attempted on
the tariff. The Republican leaders say,
stand pat. and if the time ever comes
when it becomes necessary for party
success to amend the tariff in our own
time we will do it. Therefore the
Republican platform said: 1--WE in
sist upon the maintenance of the prin-
ciples of protection''-thati is, we stand
pat-"and therefore rates of duty
should be readjusted only when con-
ditions have so changed that the pub
lie interests demands their alteration"
That is, when we-the Republican
leaders - find conditions have so
changed that the public" seem deter
mined to defeat us, we will introduce
a bill in the House of Representatives
to readjust rates of duty, and If the
trust majority in the Senate defeat
the bill we can't help it, but will try
again if you continue us in power.
But for Gods sake don't trust the
Democrats"
This is what a spring poet describes
as residing. under the bamboozle
tree" and in his latest effusion he
says:
There's the smooth politician who
lives on the dream that he's
surely bamboozling the voters
With his CAB and his graft, till he |
finds in the end he's been bad
ly bamboozled by ''floaters."
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Future Great Men.

The replies Of Mr.. Root TO the news
paper men who interviewed him while
he was Secretary of War were often
sharp and witty. One day. says tae
New York Times. number Of them,
entering his office, found him signing
documents.
What are you doing, Mr.. Secre-
tary?" they asked.
appointing lieutenant generals, y
was the instant reply. As he was sign
ing the commissions of West Point
graduates, it is safe 10 say that none OF
those commissioned would have doubt
ed that he spoke the truth.
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hands and almost my whole body
were bloated. l was languid and the
kidney secretions were profuse. Ply
sicians told me l had diabetes in its
worst form, and feared would never
recover. Doan's Kidney Pills cured me
in 1896. and l have been well ever
since"
A FREE TRIAL of this great kid
ney medicine which cured Mrs. Dau-
scher will be mailed TO any part of the
United States. Address Foster-Mil-
burn Co. Buffalo. y. Y Sold by ali
dealers, price 80 cents per box.
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and sweeping forward at a bayonet

and sweeping forward at a bayonet
charge, they simply ran over the
rebels. capturing $50 prisoners and
scattering the rebel brigade that had
reached the rear of the hard pressed
Union army. AS the boys marched
back, one of them asked. Which way
are we going now, to the front or
rear? and another replied, 'Darnfino
and darnficare We don't have to
hunt long to find the Johnnies' any
where. Chicago Inter Ocean.
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One Sure Rule.

Interviewer|I understand. Mr.. MMar.
ply, that you are one hundred years
old. In that case you can no doubt give
the public some valuable rules for the at
tainment of long life.
Mr.. Murphy-There is only wan.
'Only one? So much the better. What
is it:"
.sGet born in Oirland.'
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Does it pay to save hve per cent OF
your income by economizing on your
vacation this year and break down next
wear from the continued strain and be
obliged TO pay 30 per cent for doctors
bills, besides the time lost in enforced
idleness success.
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in C h Il n e e n b ] c
weather. Urinary
troubles add TO
your misery. No
rest, no comfort,
until the kidneys
are we'll. Cure
them with Doan's
Kidney Pills.
Mrs. W. NJ. Dau-
scher. of % Water
street, Bradford,
Pa, says: Il had
an almost continu-
Gus pain in the
small of the back.
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The injunction that President ROose-
welt and his Attorney General obtain
ed about two years ago against the
beef trust seems to have had just the
opposite effect intended. 1t was sup
posed at the time that President
Roosevelt was hunting. with intent to
kill. the most conspicuous bad trust
he had discovered. 1t is impossible to
fathOm upon what theory President
Roosevelt selected the beef trust as
the sole bad industrial trust he could
find to prosecute, for the ccal trust,
the Standard Oil trust, the steel trust
and dozens of others, were culpable
in the same degree. The profits of
the Standard Oil trust We're larger
and the dividends paid much greater
and the monopoly even more grinding
than the beef trust, for 1t had ad-
vanced Its prices 100 per cent in
year. The coal trust was equally
guilty and quite as oppressive. The
steel trust was more gigantic. and as
a monopoly spared neither high nor
low. Why were none of these select
ed as the horrible eXample?"
The reason WAS plain; they were all
too strong politically and had been in
the past and were expected TO be in
the near future, large contributors to
the Republican campaign fund. 1t
would never do to run amuck"
against such good friends, with their
Wall street connections that controlled
banks, trust companies, railroads and
other industrial combines with half
the capital of the country at their
back. The beef combine men We're
small potatoes compared to the other
trust magnates. and as public opinion
was centered on beef. in consequence
of the extraordinary increase in price,
the packers combination was selected
for Knox to slaughter.
But the Packers combine people
were no nOvices in the legal game Of
bluff, and being advised by their at
torneys that an injunction restraining |
them from combining in restraint of |
trade, did not hinder them from a
" az SCli dl
the same price and not bid against |
each other for cattle and hogs, left |
the injunction obtained by the admin
''up in the air" in the Ian
guage of the street"
So President Roosevelt got all the |
credit for his war on the trust, but |
the beef consumers have profited moth
ing, for the price of beef is still high. |
But even the Republican Congress
could not justify state Of affairs that |
kept up the price of beef and reduced
the price of cattle, so last winter Sec
retary COrtelyou, of the Department |
Of Commerce and Labor. was ordered |
to investigate the Packers Combine.
1t is presumed that for months this
has been going on, but |
it does not seem to worry the pack
nrs and certainly has had no restrain
ing effect on the other trusts, for they
ire all still charging "all the traffic
will bear" If the voters of the coun-
-ry are satisfied with this playing at
war against the trusts and vote to in
1orse such namby-pamby operations
hey deserve to pay trust prices for
he balance of their lives and will
do so.
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Cutting Reply.

Mr.. D'Avnue-My start. More money!
What on earth did you do with all gave
you last week?
Mrs. D'Avnue-Well, l used little of
it in buying new album for the photo
graphs of the dukes and princes l re-
fused before l married you.