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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-09-20
Told on a Governor of Georgia


~ have heard many good stories on
Gov. Atkinson of Georgia, who served
the state from 1895 to 1899, but the
best was one heard not long time
ago." said w. M. Miller, or Savannah.
During one of his visits to a convict
camp he called at one of the coal
mines to make thorough inspection
of the condition of the convicts at
work. Two guards accompanied him
to the bottom Of the shaft and were
showing him everything of interest.
Finally they took him to the place
where the convicts were working.
When the party approached the gang
of convicts one of them rushed up and
said Bill Atkinson, as sure as you
are alive. IRever expected to see you
here. What did they send you here
for?
1T was one Of the men he had
known since childhood. milwaukee,
Sentinel.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-09-20
FIVE CHILDREN
Burned to Death in Their
Home

Columbus, KY, Sept. 15.-Five chill
dren were burned to death early to-
day near Rolly, Adair county, and Mr.
and Mrs. Jesse Sapp, their parents,
were probably fatally burned in trying
to save them. The children were in
bed in the second story Of the building
and the parents on the first floor
The parents were unable to explain the
origin of the fire. unless it be that
rats gnawed matches and thus caused
the flames.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-09-20
c. II. G. D. STOCKHOLDERS.
Decline to Accept Proposed Plan Of
Settlement.

Cincinnati, O., Sept. 15.-Several
large holders of Cincinnati, Hamilton
& Dayton railway five per cent pre-
ferred stock, announced today that
they will turn in their stock under the
present plan of settlement which calls
t1' ihE sale of tn STICK at siiD per
share, less So per share to defray the
expenses Of settlement. They claim
the road is now in better shape than
ever before and the five per cent divi-
dend is satisfactory to them as here
tofore.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-09-20
FAIRBANKS
GLORlFlES THE REPUBLI.
GAN PARTY.
SHOWS ALLEGED DANGER
OF Democratic Success
to Country.

Elmira, N. Y, Sept. Ex-senator
Charles w. Fairbanks, of Indiana, the
Republican nominee for vice presi-
dent, addressed large gathering here
tonight, the occasion being a celebra-
ton anent of the 5Oth anniversary eel
elbration of the birth of the Republi
can party. From here the senator will
go to Parkersburg, w. Va, there to
open the Republican campaign In that
state on September II and after two
days of speech making, the candidate
will shift his scene of campaigning to
Maryland.
Senator Fairbanks topic tonight
was the currency question and with
the aid of facts and figures he at
tempted to show the financial integ-
rity had always been the keynote of
his partys financial legislation. The
most significant part of his speech
came after he had reviewed the finan-
and, alluding to Judge Parkers gold
telegram, he said: at is common
knowledge that the committee on res
olutions (of the Democratic national
convention,) by an overwhelming vote,
rejected a resolution recognizing the
settlement of the money question. The
vote signifies that the enemies of th2
gold standard are still numerous and
powerful. We have an assurance from
one of the greatest leaders of Dem
ocracy that the question is not, in fact,
settled but that it is for a time, merely
in allegiance"
Senator Fairbanks then went on tc
show how, simply through the loss of
few seats in congress by the Re-
publicans, the law maintaining the
gold standard could be amended,
changed or repealed.
"Those who are In the leadership of
Democracy today" he continued,
"were among those who aided in the
assault on national and individual
credit in 1896 and in the great cam
paign of 1900, also. Their triumph
over Republcanism in either of these
great contests would have resulted in
plunging the country into panic and
commercial distress beyond the power
of the imagination to contemplate.
Those who failed in accomplishing
their purpose then, should not be en-
trusted with the management of our
fiscal and monetary affairs now"
Senator Fairbanks then gave then
wording Of the act establishing the
gold standard as the monetary system
of the United States. "This great
measure Is the fruit of Republican
craftsmanship" he said. 1T was Sc
cured against practically the solid op-
position Of those who now refuse to
avow frankly their belief in its sound
ness and its wisdom and who content
themselves with the expression that 1t
is firmly and 'irrevocably' established
The gold standard Is firmly establish
ed but 1t is not irrevocably establish
ed Congress established the stand
ard but congress can also amend or
repeal 1t. The standard is established
so long, and so long only, as there is
congress ready and willing to main
tain it,"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-09-20
Proposals for carryino Mails.

Washington, Sept. 15.-The postof-
fee department was today issuing ad-
vertisements inviting proposals for
carrying the mail on all star and
steamboat routes in New England,
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania.
Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and
West Virginia for the next contract
term of four years, beginning July /,
1905. There are 4.s79 of these routes,
for which the annual contract pay is
approximately $1,555,000
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-09-20
EMBEZZLER
Caught in the Republic
Of Panama.

Panama, Sept. 15.-Haas, the alleg-
ed embezzler of the Chicago Corn
Exchange bank, has been apprehended
in Panama by the civil authorities.
The Panama state department, by vlr-
tue of the act of comfy between
Panama and the United States, has in
formed United States minister Bar
ret Of the arrest and referred further
disposition Of the case to him. Haas
was jailed pending the arrival of fur
ther orders from the United States.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-09-20
Cruiser Boston at San Francisco.

San Francisco, Cal, Sept. 15.-The
U s.. cruiser Boston steamed out of
the harbor today and it was given out
that the trip had no particular sig.
nificance. 1t is generally agreed,
however, that the Boston's object is
to patrol the coast and sail to the west
a short distance to ascertain whether
or not any Japanese or Russian war
ships are in the vicinity
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-09-20
FR0STS
Are Expected in the Low
Sections.

The probabilities are that there ara
frosts this morning in the low grounds.
The weather became quite cold early
in the night and the thermometer stood
at about A up untll o'clock this
morning. This was right up in the
heart Of the city. In the more expos
ed places and in the valleys it would
be several degrees colder. 1t is not
thought however that any serious dam
age will be done.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-09-20
Sailors Rescued.

Charleston, s. c., Sept 15.--Captain
Ingram, of the Clyde Liner Huron,
brought into Charleston today three
seamen of the crew of the fishing
smack Grey Eagle. lost at sea. There
were eight men In the crew, five of
whom were drowned in the effort to
rescue them, The Grey Eagle sailed
from this port. The dead men all
came from Charleston.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-09-20
Aued Resident Dead.

Lorain, Sept. 15,-John Horn. aged
So years, and for 81 years resident
here Is dead. He leaves widow, three
daughters. IA grandchildren and ten
great-grandchildren, The funeral will
be held Saturday
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-09-20
Failed on His Task.

Berlin, Sept. 16.-G. M. Smelling,
who left New York in August, 1897,
for the purpose of walking around the
globe in four years without begging or
borrowing arrived here yesterday
He failed in his task, but continued
nevertheless and has now covered
$4,000 miles
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-09-20
Died at the HospitaI.

The remains of Mrs. George B. Nc
Clellan, of 70S East Fourth street,
who died at the Aultman hospital We'd
nesday night, will be taken to Stone
Creek, Tuscarawas county, for burial.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-09-20
Hearino Will Proceed.

Warren, Sept. 15.-Iudge Roberts
refused today to continue the injunc-
tion case against the strikers at the
Girard Steel mill and the hearing or
dered to proceed.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-07-13
One Litter VS.. Two.

OF all persons who till the soil, we
know Of no one who has better advan-
tages for raising pigs than the dairy
man. Just because he is a dairyman
he ought to be in position to raise
good riss and raise them cheaply, too.
What I had started out to refer to is
this: 1 have noticed that all hog men
as well as other breeders OF thorough
bred stock, recommend the. raising OF
but one litter of pigs in the year from
a SOW. Now is that the best way for
our ordinary farmers? 1t seems TO me
it costs too much to keep SOW a year
10 raise but one litter of pigs. II am
wrong. about this, have been making
a mistake eve. since commenced to
raise hogs. because it has always been
my D, aetice to raise two ltters year
and think got just as good growth
out of each litter as If had only raised
one. have in mind now one SOW thar
raised me sixty pigs in three years, two
filters each year. an average of ten.
OF course this SOW was unusually good.
l know of breeders who feel that II they
raise two filters year they cannot
sell the fall pigs to rs good advantage
as they can lie sr,jLg pigs. Some only
raise enough fall pigs to use up the
milk and other feed to advantage in the
winter. aid raise ell The spring pigs
ti:ey can as their niain crop. I think
1t ia mostly tia,.yi7an who have large
quantity of skin, milk II at are in posi-
tim to handle fall jiss to advantage
I.aKcta Breeder.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-07-13
ANENT THE CORN CONTEST.
Will n. Wilson's Excellent Advice and
Helpful Observation.

Will n. Wilson's Excellent Advice and
Helpful Observation.
On counting the entries in the corn
contest there appear to be sixty-three
boys who took Reid's yellow Dent and
eight who took Silvermine; but it is
probable there was an error in checking
TWO or three as yellow that were really
white. A few who sent notice of entry
failed to apply for seed, so there was
about a peck of the yellow left May
21st, which / planted that afternoon
in late field of my own. AS appar-
emily every kernel OF that grew, l sup
pose the boys all have good stands
Shall try to find opportunity soon to
visit as many ais possible. So, boys. II
there are any weeds in your patches
you had better get after them with
hand and hoe. I understand some of
the fellows are almost using fine tooth
combs. This contest is going to be
very interesting and probably of ma
terial value as we'll; but 1t will not be
surprising II the county farm expert,
ments develop varieties previously
grown in Marshall county. equal or
superior to the Reid's Yellow Dent. The
seed furnished by the state experiment
station was certainly choice, but quite
a percentage of kernels show too much
tendency to the shoe-peg type, and of
fifty ears which I secured for my pri-
vate use from an Illinois man person
ally recommended by Prof. Holden, ten
were so faulty In that respect that
discarded them. OF the remainder
fourteen ears were planted each in a
separate row and they already show
decided variations in their individual
characteristics, tending to prove that
the experiment station authorities do
not too strongly emphasize the import
ance of this method of growing seed
corn. Surely nothing short OF 1t is en-
titled to be called corn breeding"
While we are getting fair start this
year, and the experiments at the coun-
~ farm will be well worth attending
the picnic to be held there August 81.
it is hoped that the variety test will be
greatly enlarged next year, and, If pos
sible, duplicated at two or three other
points. However, if the claims of some
who furnish seed this season are accur-
ate, there are varieties now on trial
that may make Marshall county IA
nous. So be it. But let there be first
a solid foundation of scientific breeding
and not repeat the error of dealers in
much advertised town in this state.
who, with ordinary Shovel selected
seed, sends clippings from a local pa
per giving foolish attack on Prof.
Holden for his efforts to lead farmers
to better things
Now just two more words to the
boys: first: If you do not already have
experiment station bulletin No. n.
please write at once card to the Iowa
state College. Ames. about like this:
please put my name on mailing list,
beginning with No. II" OF course one
in each family is enough. Second:
Plan by all means to attend the picnic.
Prof, Christie wants to get all the corn
contest boys together in meeting by
ourselves. and If any should fail to be
nresent, they would miss treat and
deprive the others of the pleasure of
knowing them.
s. WILL II. WILSON.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-07-13
The Heart Of the Woods.

y hear Il beat In morning stu
when April slxiss have lost their gloom.
And through the weeds there runs thrill
THAT WAKES arbutus into bloom.
hear Il throb In sprouting May
mulaed murmuT on tho breeze,
IKE mellow thunder leagues away,
or booming voice OF distant seas.
IN daisied Juns catch its roll.
Pulsine through the lsafy shade.
And fain am TO reach lite goal
And zee the Arummer unafraid.
nr when the autumn leaves are shed.
And frosts attend the fading year.
ldkA secret mine sprung BY my tread
A covey bursts from hiding near.
feel its pulse mid winter SHOWS.
And feei my oWn with added foycs.
Mhsa red run DROPS his cautious pose
And forward takes his humming course.
THE startled birchss shake their curls;
A withsrsd leaf leaps In the breeze;
Some hidden mortar speaks and hurts
Its feather missile through the trees.
compact of life. Of fervent wing.
A dynamo OF feathered power,
THY drum II music in the spring.
Thy fight Is music every hour
John Burroughs.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-07-13
EVERYTHING NEW.

When Solomon said there is Moth
inc new under the sun he probably re-
ferrad to the great principles and ele-
merits Of the universe. Men worked
and loved and hated then as they do
now and the great forces, natural and
human, kept the word in motion. But
il Solomon meant to include in his
sweeping pronouncement the ways OF
doing things, of guiding and directing
nature to human advantage he was
away on Solomon had fire but he
never scratched match. He was
great thinker more or less conceited
over his own conclusions, but the ten
year-old boy In the grammar grades
today has seen more than Solomon,
builder of temple. magnificent in its
way but without an electric light or
even a tallow candle. When BENJAMIN
Franklin leased spark to earth along
his kite string il was something new
under the sun When Morse sent his
message the WoiuSi Had SioNih oae
Solomon, Franklin. Morse and all the
sases never dreamed of the newer
things crowding beneath the sun to be-
come the common adjuncts of present
day civilization.
Electricity warns and lights us,
cooks our food, brings us the happen
inss of a globe, and kills our enemies
1t is at once our servant and an as
sassin.
Away on the east coast person
speaks to telephone and instantly his
words are reproduced in Chicago. The
laps storm UP IA hillside in Manchuria
and the story of their success or fail
IRE the evolutions of the battle, the
strategy that repealed or achieved. the
list of killed ard wounded and all the
details of the fight are spread IN INK
upon paper to be read in Iowa before
the smoke of the guns has drifted out
OF the ravines. A scouting vessei
sneaking cautiously thru the night dis
covers the Russian fleet Then an In
strument stirs in her cabin chattering
It's news to the viewless air and across
thirty leagues of rolling water its mate
hid in the bowels of the war ship takes
up the tale in repetition and Togo or
Kaminura's sea eagles head for their
prey guided by a system of communi-
cation that is. twin to telepathy "A
torpedo boat dashes in under cover OF
darkness and discharges its deadly
messenger. Electricity steers it. If Il
dives too deep the silent force guides 1t
higher, IL it floats the same invisible
finger forces 1t beneath the waves II
ii fails electricity disarms it. Nothing
new under the sun? Everything new
except the imnlutable'
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-07-13

finance and finds it's counterpart only
in the methods of Schwab in pro-
noting the ship building trust. Bryan
is going to support the ticket because
he wants to be in line to .'reorganize"
the party right after election but he
don't expect the lahoring men, the tariff
reformers, the antitrust men or free
silver democrats to vote the ticket
because the candidate virtually repudi-
ates all the principles cherished by
them. Bryan Will support the ticket
but he advises all other honest men to
stay away. Shrewd is Mr. Bryan.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-07-13
Milk as Hog Feed.

1t is now over twenty years since
began dairy work. but until the last
two years ] was virtually ignorant of
the great value of skim milk to the
farmer, writes j. H. Denham in Hoard's
Dairyman l, of course. knew that
skinned milk was good thing, and
that 1t was valuable feed for calves
and pigs: but had never made a
careful study of how to make the most
out of 1T.
Farmers in general do but little ex-
perimenting; keep no account of their
feeds; know but little of the cost of
making a pound of pork, pound of
butter, or pound OF beef. Hog feed
ing in connection with dairy farming.
when skim milk can be kept on the
farm, is wonderfully remunerative
side line to the farmer, especially where
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-07-13

And put in one bolognafied.
AS Hill remarked, when sausage is
Composed. one hates to follow it
But here's this pungent link, gee whizz
And l may have to swallow 1t.
My wrath l nursed;
I feared the wurst.
A sausage? Full of meat in scrape,
Some of them allegorical,
And some that should be canned. per-
haps,
And some chunks oratorical.
A sausage? Let that statement be
BY ealmer Judgment qualified
The product turned out seems to me
To be quite hot tamalified-
And from the first
I feared the wurst.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-07-13
Nrsdap anp 3 1904

state distanced. Comparing the tastes
of the west and east, the lecture bureau
man asserts the fasteners demand tbs
men who do sleight of hand tricks ano
the fellows who draw funny pictures
ON the blackboards. while the western
ers call for the heavy lecturers and in
sist upon having them. Culture APP
pears to be drifting from the land OF
beans to the country of hog and hom-
my.
The Chicago Chronicle has slid dowr
off the fence to the republican side. II
is a notable accession, but one the re-
publican party might well do without
There are plenty of republican papers
In Chicago of standing in the party,
and while the door Is open to the,
Chronicle there is no occasion for jubi-
lee over its flop.
era If not to Jeffersonian principles
when the democrats nominated q vice
president 50 years old.
The insane wife of New York oil
magnate is being given the luxury
cure She is surrounded by every con-
ceivable luxury, and her mind is said
to be slowly resuming its normal state
The success of the experiment is likely,
however. to drive a lot Of other women
crazy.
1 love to think Of boyhood days;
The farmhouse nesting low.
The wood chopped, the chores did
In the days of long ago.
Twas then I labored in the sur
To reap the golden wheat;
Twas then l drove the cattle home
Thru twilight dusk and sweet.
/ see again the upturned earth.
The burrows Of the plough
/ love to think and thank my stars
| needn't do 1t now.
-McLandburgh Wilson in New York
Sun.
John Mcdowell is the oldest living
trade unionist In America. He will be
9S years old on his next birthday. He
is the treasurer of the Hatmakers'
Union at Bethel. Conn, and has held
that office steadily for forty years.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-07-13
MIR. BRYAN,s FEARS.

lCnlt9BO lFlDune.J
When David Bennett Hill declared
That platforms We're like sausages,
BY butcher architects prepared
With ornamental hostages.
Twas then l felt that he would view
My charger as hobby horse,
way back in '92
We thought it was a nobby horse.
Yes, from the first
/ feared the wurst.
o, sharper than the serpent's tooth,
Indeed, is base ingratitude.
And duller than hens in truth,
A platform filled with platitude,
l argued early. pleaded late,
In words now stern, now pitiful-
They growled they viewed as out of
date
A platform Kansas Citiful.
In gloom Immersed.
! feared the wurst
I urged my silver money plank
AS something that was bona fide-
They muttered something as to
crank"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-07-13
BRyAH's RgcolL,nG ENDORSEMENT.

Bryan is not going to bolt the ticket
No, he is too shrewd for that. He says
that Parker represents enough that is
good to justify him in voting the
democratic ticket but as soon as the
election Is over II shall undertake to
reorganize the democratic party to Sc
cure relief from the plutocratic ele-
ment that controls the republican party
and for the time being is in control of
the democratic party"
Mr., Bryan says he will support the
ticket because the party and the
candidate represent opposition to inn
recognition of the colored race, reversal
of Roosevelt's war loving policies and
reduction of the standing army. But
3 this support of the ticket Mr., Bryan
explains, is not going to close his
mouth to the truth of the situation, SO
he proceeds to explain that "a demo-
cratic victory will mean very little, il
any, progress on economic questions as
long as the party is under the control
of the Wall Street element" On the
money question Mr.. Bryan says Parker
is Thoroughly committed to the
financiers": on the labor question the
fiscal influence back of him will not
permit him to take the labor side; on
the trust question his nomination
virtually nuilifies any anti-trust
plank" and ON the tariff question "the
Parker men are necessarily in favor of
. very conservative tariff plank"
Damned with support of this kind
the Dave Hill democrats may be heard
rendering up loud prayers to the
Great Jehovah that Bryan may be In
spired TO bolt or else be struck speech
less till after this campaign. THE
nomination was secured by crooked
ana indefensible methods" says Bryan
ana he Is right. The game played by
August Bea,nont's democrats was bor-
rowed bodily from the book OF high