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The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1904-03-18
Gen. Keifer Nominated.

Gen. ]. Warren Keifer was nominal
ted for Congress, on the first ballot,
at Springfield, yesterday.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1904-03-18

Country bacon, potatoes, apples,
we always need. We pay cash or
trade. CARTER BROTHERS.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1904-03-18

Wedding invitations, engraved or
printed, can be furnished at the
REPUBLICAN Office.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1904-03-18
Garden Seeds.

We have the best garden seeds we
can buy, d. NJ. Ferrys and Rice's.
None better. CARTER BROTHERS.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1904-03-18

Go to the Monolgue Entertainment
at the Baptist Church this evening
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-11-06

instructive with the fine old woodsman. But after
awhile we moved UP to a deserted farmhouse and
had our luncheon of sandwiches and pie
1t was as we sat thus that | caught sight of some
thing Just above the horizon more familiar than
woodcock. Yet it could not be. not here in the middle
of New-Iork State with no body of water anywhere
about. No, mol Yet | looked again. Certainly that
queer movement of the wings. those long, ungainly
necks, that strange formation in the flight
Captain. am | crazy, or are those duckss'
He turned and took a long look at the speeding
specks. and then got hastily to his feet.
"Duggummed if them ain mallardsl" sad h. in
wonder. Where be they a-goin: Where" And
then we watched them and saw them light il a field
of wheat stubble.
They can't be ducks" said / presently.
1t don't matter much what they can be" $ aid lie.
"Them's mallards for sure. down there in the stubble :"
Then I'm for EN-" | said, and off we vert. it
was a strange afternoon for a man who has lived his
bird-shooting life among ducks in the stands and
batteries by the sea. Here we were several hun bred
miles from salt water and something Close upon d
hundred miles from fresh water of any size, witnout
decoys. with Mrs Barnard on our hand, with hall d
dozen woodcock iii our pockets, going wid-duck
shooting in the mountains
II seemed that about twenty of the bro vn and
green feathered wanderers had really foregathered in a
marshy stubble field surrounded by long grass. And
after much consultation we came up to the shot
from behind the long grass and crawled through this
to the edge. 1t might have been the sea-coast, or the
shore of a lake, for the long grass made out into the
fields as do points of land into the sea.
The Captain sneaked out upon one point and |
took Mrs. Barnard to another. Her ladyship trusted
me. ! knew. but she could not understand this con-
cealment. nor vet my commands forbidding her to go
and point the birds which she well knew were nearby.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-11-06

as we did that day. he learns how tbs woodcock lives.
what it feeds on, what its little family ways are,
and more especially he learns to praise the Lord in
his Utmost soul for that He has laid ort so fair a
world and set such wonders thereon Fo- while you
wander in the covert. full of the work of your dogs.
in constant expectancy. there is little room in your
hea6 for the cares of business, yet there are vacant
pigeonholes for the learning of the woods. And at
the end you hold in your hand the materials for a
meal which the other man who would only shoot with
the camera will not hesitate to go and buy with money.
So we moved along for the rest of that morning.
now and then getting a shot, frequently resulting in a
miss on my part, never SO resulting on the Captain S
part He did not aim at all; he merely pulled the
trigger. and the 'feathered %critter" fell. 1t was all
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-11-06

exertion required to move one leg was enough to
disturb any bird within a hundred-foot radius. And
SO | stood. or rather SUM-, where 1 was. waiting for
Mrs Barnard to get the bird up. 1t was a reasonably
clear opening and everything promised well, pro-
vided the woodcock got up before the bog covered
nv ewes. Frankly. the race was worth gambling
on, with odds in favor of the cock; for as we waited |
began to feel a certain cold, clammy moisture pene-
trating viciously to my person somewhere about
midway between the shoulder and the knee, and it
required not a great ability to recognize that the
penetration was proceeding rapidly upward.
At this moment the Captain appeared ahead and the
woodcock likewise. With one solemn resolution On
my lips | followed the long beak around to the left
and dropped him Just beyond her ladyship The
Captain remarked that this was better, and he had
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-11-06

cold October air came down from the hills we trudged
along with dropping heads and loaded pockets, Mrs.
Barnard trotting peacefully at our heels. 1t is not
for a man who tells of an unpoetic day with the birds
to drift at eventide into poetry or into poetic descrip-
tons. but to my mind such a twilight at that month of
the year is something you feel in your poetry belt
strong and sure. All along the western horizon the
leafless trees stand up with the red light behind them
like an etching, only never was there such light and
such sharp branches on etchers copper. That same
strange afterglow brings out all the coors everywhere,
and reflects like silver from the pools in the ruts OF the
road and the burrows of the fields. Somehow you
tramp along in silence and think not of the days
sport. nor yet of the Office. but in a stupid Anglo
Saxon way of the Joy of living, of respect for the Mind
that can paint such sky and hills and trees and light,
of pride in being part OF it all, and of-of what | cannot
lust set down here. though | wish | could-a little
sense of surety that Gods in His Heaven and ais
right with the world.
And so we thus came to the old house again. and
sat us down by a huge wood fire with no other light
in the room. Mrs. Barnard curled UP on the rug
before the blaze; the Captain sat in a chair with his
feeJ stretched out to the burning glow and his healthy
old eyes gazing into the ernbers; and lay on the rug
by her ladyship with my fingers in her soft hair and
my thoughts wandering hither and thither, while the
woodcock Sizzlcd Cheerfully in preparation of a meal
that was no doubt fit for the gods, but was ultimately
consumed with infinite relish by common or garden
nortals.
| do not know if there be finer hours in this world,
but | do know that he who has not had such. who
does not recall such ends of tired days when the
body is so gloriously weary and the mind so rested
he would better go far in search of them than wait
to pile up another million. Some people can make
money at any time; others can never make it. But
rich or poor. the man who does not know the October
woods in our northern country is a miserable critter,
and deserves neither affiuence nor peace of mind.
My memento of those few days with the Captain is
Mrs. Barnard. | felt that it was love at first sight,
and so it turned out to be. For now at home she
sits by ME and looks up at me as of old. and never
seems to regret that she has cast in her lot with me
for better. for worse. The other lady of nv house
hold objected at first. and though now she has come
IN a way to accept the situation when we are in the
country. there is a balk at any such life in town,
tor there, she says: Such creatures are positively not
decent"
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-11-06

Still she trusted me and waited, as a woman always
should.
There were the ducks in full view trotting about
the wheat field, but with no assurance that they
would come our way. Then the wise old Captain
moved cautiously backward the way we had come.
circled the little rise of ground and came up on the
other side. Presently they saw him and started
clumsily upward. First came a wide circle; then a
narrower one. as is their wont, and in another moment
they swung in over me.
| gave them both barrels. and dropped the last bird.
On they went in the circle and the old man cracked
twice and took two out of the bunch. Mrs. Barnard
began to get nervous, but a promise of later COM
panionship quoted her, and the birds came around
again. Another shot. another bird, and all was ove.
for the wanderers had wandered elsewhere. There
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-11-06

personal interest in the remnant, and that if he would
lend a hand I'd like to make a break for liberty. Thus
with much reaching out of hands and long and steady
pulling | gradually oozed and sucked out of the mess
and recovered the use of my own legs. And as | sat on
a clumI endeavoring to clean up. Mrs. Barnard came
along an deposited the soft little body in my hand.
We have heard So much lately of the shooting of
birds ana beasts with the camera that a man who
kills one OF the feathered sons or daughters of Creation
is coming to be known in certain quarters as the
person who Immediately precedes the baker and the
andlestick-maker in Mother Goose's ancient rhyme.
And vet, like the procedure of Madam Carrie Nation.
while the object is worthy it lacks temperance in its
execution. There are MANY song-birds which it is
pleaSanter and better to hear than to eat. and they
are killed only by the men who bear that name, or
who should bear it. ii they do not now.
But on the other hand there are many birds that
furnish good and healthy food and that do not sing,
which being furnished for food in any case. might ia,
more properly and to much greater advantage be
killed by men who protect their country, who watch
carefully by summer and winter to see to it that
they increase in numbers and flourish in their native
haunts. than bv the barn yard tradesmen. We were
wrong not to encourage the sportsman some years ago.
and now we have no buffalo. If we do not encourage
him now. we shall soon have no woodcock. 1t is
because you and | want now and then to get a deer
in Maine that there are more deer there TO-DAY than
there have beer in the last hundred years. 1t. there
fore, becomes somewhat of a paradoXical truisn that
the men who want to, and who do. Kill game are the
men who not only keep them alive, but see to it that
they increase.
And, in the midst OF all this. those who know enough
get their chance to wander over the hills and through
the Swales, watching all that the good earth has to
tell, getting the health and the JOY that comes only
from the trees and the fields and all that in them is.
coming back by and by to the work that must be
done by some one to keep this country moving on to
leadership. Jack. being an extremely dull boy. if he
has all work and no play. is no imaginary person;
and if we cannot all be great men. we can certainly
all avoid being dull drones by getting a genteel suffi-
cheney of play. Furthermore. the real sportsman
gets a deal more out of his day in the woods than
the mere killing. He gets an inside suggestion of
what there is in the world besides railroad shares and
corporate interests and excessively late and indi-
gestible suppers. and he learns to put the last three
in their proper places.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-11-06
v A n I S III z ID
By MeLandburgh Wilson

Where is the girl that | used t. know,
With pigtails down her back,
The boy with the cow-lick on his brow
Where have they gone, alack?
Oh. life made their hair to stand on end.
Risen, indeed, each lock:
She has a wonderful pompadour;
He has a football shock.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-11-06

upon the real
qualities OF Mrs.
Barnard truly
came fort n.
She not only
brought in the
four ducks, but
S h e followed
two which had
separated from
the Others into
the timber near
by. picked out
one t h was
wounded, a d
finally thinking
she was pointed
at I h e other
brought up a
partridge that
l carefu
missed and that
tell to that I'm
canry accuracy
of the Captains
airnless S h OF
gun.
AS t h c IL
began to get
below the hori-
zon a d he
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-11-06

set Duslly tc
work to secure
the bird when
my comment
that his
a S an eN
pressive sight
worse drew his
attention to
me. Even then
/ was forced
TO ask nm II
he would nina
letting the
feathered -rea-
ture &C while
he helped me
to health and
happiness.
My!" said
he, coming
{ through the
bushes. There
amt much O
YOU left, be
there? | dun
nos the rest
is worth saw
in A"
] told him |
had a certain
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-04-14
QUERY.

When comp'ny comes to visit US
We allus makes lot o fuss,
An use our bestes china set
An solid-silver forks, you bet!
An nothing is too nice to bake
Not custard pie nor angel cake!
It's Jest becuz they're round! But say,
Why amt we jes' as good as they?
Ma she puts on her RUSTY dress.
An "a shaves twict day, guess,
An shines his shoes. an l mus wear
NV Sunday red tie everywhere!
We're all polite as We can be.
An no ones cross er putcheky.
It's diff rent when they've gone away
But amt we jes' as good as they?
I don't see why the compny is
So better'n we ourselves-gee whizz!
Err why we have to go an treat
Them with a lot O. stuff to eat
That we don't have when they amt here!
What makes us save it up-oE, dear!
Why don't we allus live that way?
Amt we worth things as much as they?
Edwin L. Sabin, in Woman's Home Com
paniOn
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-04-14
A TRICK WITH DOMlNOES.
It Is Jolly and Perplexing and Yet
So Simple That Any Boy or
Girl Can Learn It.
panion.

Here's jolly trick you can play with
dominoes, boys and girls.
Place ~ of them in circle (see pic
ture) and tell one of the players that
you can point out any domino he thinks
of.
This is the way to do it: Tell him you
will count around the circle, touching
various dominoes, each touch counting
one. He must count your touches and
when the number of touches plus the
number of spots on the domino which
he has thought of equals 20 he must say
STOP" The domino last touched is sure
to be the one he had in mind.
Here is an example Suppose he Sc
lects the double two. You begin touch
ing various dominoes with your finger,
silently counting /, g. 3, 4, 5, 6, Z as you
go. When you come to ''8'' be sure to
touch the double-siX domino, and then
count to the right without skipping a
single domino.
The six-five domino will be "9' you
understands; the dOuble-five TO-" the
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-04-14

THIS beautiful little toy can be
easily made and demonstrates the
power in just ray of sunshine
1t is made as follows, says the Farm
ers' Review:
First empty an egg shell of its con-
tents, which may be done by boring
a small hole in each end of it and
then blowing out its contents with
your mouth. Afterward close up both
holes with sealing wax. While the
stick of wax is still soft place plenty
of it on the large end of the egg, and
before it hardens stick five pennies
into it and hold them there until
firmly fixed in position. Now cut out
two delicate sticks of wood-very deli
cate-each II inches in length, and
fasten these to the small end of the
egg shell with sealing wax, and in po-
sition as shown in the picture. Be
sure to fasten these on in their ex-
act centers, so that the whole will
balance perfectly when placed in the
water. Afterward you may cut out
four pieces of stiff writing paper and
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-04-14

fasten them in nearly upright posi-
ton in each of the forward ends OF
your sticks. l say these should be
nearly upright, but, as a matter OF
fact, if you place them perfectly per-
pendicular and then tip them slightly
forward, all in the same direction.
you will come very near to having
them arranged properly.
If properly made your toy will be.
gin to revolve as soon as it floats ON
water. If, however, it should not,
bend all the paper little more slight
ly forward, when you will be sure to
meet with success. Much better re-
suits are obtained when this trick Is
performed in quite a cool room.
Those who would succeed in MAX
ing the top so far may advance to the
next step. Cut out small figures of
very thin cardboard and fasten these
with sealing wax to the ends Of the
sticks in place of the paper before
used.
Do not forget it is Of the utmost
Importance that your whirlabout
should be perfectly balanced
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-04-14
SUGGESTIONS FOR EASTER.
How Little Folks Can Apply Their
Artistic Talent to Producing APP
propriate Little Gifts.

Elementary art instruction is includ'
ed in the curriculum of most of the
schools of the day and despite the crit
icism that has been leveled at the
''frills, so-called, of modern education,
little folks like to sketch with pencil
and pen and ink and dabble in water
colors. In all the schools excellent
work in this line is done by children
of nine years and upward and these
youthful artists take a pride in their
drawing and color work that is very
gratifying and encouraging to their in
structors. In class work the sketches
must, of course, be uniform, but the
enthusiasm and skill of these clever
wielders of the artists pencil, pen or
brush need not be confined to the
stereotyped models or suggestions of
the classroom. A box of paints and a
drawing pencil are the inevitable pos
sessions of the boy or girl who has
been endowed with the least bit o.
artistic talent and suggestion for
their use is contained in the accom-
panying sketch-half a dozen sugges-
tons, in fact. Egg shells, long pin
and baby ribbon are the necessary par
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-04-14
HIS FOUNTAIN PEN LEAKED.
And Annabel Googan's Face Bore Evil
dence Convincing and Con-
demning.

"Annabel!" called Manchester mother
over the banisters, as she heard the front
door close.
Eyes, mamma replied sweet, girlish
voice, and Annabel Googan slowly framed
herself in the darkness OF the staircase,
relates London Tit-Bits.
WAS that Mr.. Tinberry, Annabel?"
1T was, mamma"
do you know it is 20 minutes past
liz" came in cold tones from the wrap
pered figure in the upper hall.
Mamma, we hadn't the slightest idea
it was so late" said the young girl,
earnestly. You see," she continued,
MIR. Tnberry has been telling me about
China and Japan. He said everybody
ought to know about them, and it was SO
interesting, we never thought how late
it was getting Do you know, mamma, y
added the sweet girl, as she reached the
landing, that in China they"
did Mr.. Tinberry draw a map of
China on your face, Annabel?" asked Mrs.
Googan, sternly.
why, mammal" asked the girl in
startled tones.
The young girl rushed to a mirror and
saw with horror-stricken glance that the
left side of her face was streaked and
stained with ink.
Heaven and earth!' she screamed !;
"his fountain pen must have leaked into
his waistcoat pocket" and with a shrek
of horror the beautiful girl fell fainting
to the floor.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-04-14
WHEN GLoRIES BLOOM.

Lord, I'm missin' of you. baby,
Guess you'll never know how much;
Missin' of your happy laughter
Dyin' for your tender touch;
Paps so mighty busy these days
But he'll knock off pretty soon.
An be with you, dear, and happy
When the glorieS are in bloom
1 can see you pickin' flowers
Out beside the cottage door;
can hear you scolding Rowdy
Cause your aprons soiled and tore:
See you holding Johnny jump-ups
Sos to catch their faint perfume
I'll be with you baby baby!
When the glories are in bloom!
Wonder, dear, if Rowdy knows it,
What lucky dog he is?
Knows I'm envying the frolics
And the seedlings that are his?
Knows I'm working. working. working
In the city's dust and gloom,
So that 1 can be there with you
When the glories are in bloom?
So that 1 can stand and watch you,
Oh, my queen of baby girls!
Watch you picking morning giories
When the wind is in your curls;
Picking "botay for papa
Life is shorn of all its gIoom
I am working to be with you
When the morning glories bloom
You're asleep when 1 leave home, dear
You're asleep again at night;
Though, when you half wake to Kiss me
1t makes ev'rything all right;
And hope paints the ways before me-
And my heart throbs to a tune,
When / think that I'll be with YOU
When the glories are in bloom
j. NJ. Lewis, in Houston Post.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-04-14
SOME EASTER TRIPLES.

aphernalia for this appropriate Easter
souvenir.
To prepare the shell the egg should
be punctured top and bottom with a
long pin and the contents gently blown
out, so as to leave the covering as
nearly intact as possible. The services
of the mothers of the little artists will
have to be called into requisition' in
preparing the shells, which can be
saved from eggs used for cake MAX
ing, omelets or other culinary pur-
poses. The decoration depends upon
the skill and patience of the child, but
so conspicuously on Easter trif1es is
a favorite subject, while floral designs
galore can be utilized in this way. For
an arrangement such as is here pic
tured bolt of baby ribbon, pink, blue,
scarlet or whatever be the desired color
is required and the decorated shells
on their silken chain make a really
pretty souvenir. Representing the
handiwork of the little giver, they pos
sess an added advantage on this &C.
count. Shells simply tinted in some
delicate hue and left plain or lettered
in gold may be substituted by the
child unequal to the more ambitious
decorative work, but the fancy variety
is apt to prove the favorite with giyer
and ecipient-Brooklyn Eagle
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-04-14

physical condition when this condition
is caused by sick Kidneys:
Mrs. Sadie Mettles of 394 w. 4th Ave,
Columbus, Ohio, says: "Prior to the
year 1898 suffered considerably from
baclSache, pain in the head, languor
and depression and weakness of the
action of the kidneys. The pain was
always worse in the morning and felt
miserable. was induced to procure n
box of Doan's Kidney Pills and began
their use. They proved prompt and
effective. They cured me and there
has been no return of the trouble since
taking them. / owe all the credit to
Doan's Kidney Pills"
A FREE TRIAL of this great kidney
medicine which cured Mrs. Mettles will
be mailed on application to any part of
the United States. Address Foster
Mlburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. For sale
by all druggists, price so cents per box.
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1ve-four I'll" and SO on until you reach
double-two. There you will be told to
"stop," for the number Of times you have
touched the various dominoes ZIG times)
plus the number of spots on the double
two domino (four spots) equals 20, you
see.
Now all you have to do is to say: "This
(the double-two) is the domino you
thought Of
He will say: you're right" and he
will wonder how you guessed it.
Be sure not to count aloud nor even
ing the touching. Inter Ocean.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-04-14
SKIN PURIFICATION.
Cuticura Soap, Ointment and Pills
Cleanse the Skin and Blood of
TorturinE Humors 49, Conn
pIete Treatment 81 90.

The agonizing itching and burning of
the skin, as in eczema; the frightful seal
ing, as in psoriasis; the loss of hair and
crusting of scalp, as in scaled head; the
facial Disagreement, as in pimples and
ringworm; the awful suffering Of infants,
and anxiety of worn-out parents, as in
mand remedy of almost superhuman
virtues to successfully cope with them.
That Cuticura Soap, Ointment and Pills
are such stands proven by the testimony
Of the civilized world.