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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-07-07
MY OLD coMRADE.
Lines Written to Commemorate an
Old Brier Pipe Called "My
Old Comrade."

tThe following lines were written to COM
memorate an old brler root pipe in its rough
and natural state, presented to me in the
summer of 1864, while ward master in Belle
view hospital. Baltimore, Md, by COM
rade who had been a prisoner of war for
many long and weary months. l named
this consumer of the weed, My Old Com
rade in remembrance of him who gave it'll
My old comrade, my pipe, relic most
rare,
Dug out of Belle Islands cursed ground;
Where prisoners of war lived on scantiest
fare,
And hunger and disease did abound.
boy in blue from a brier root made
This quaint looking pipe,
My old Comrade
When he entered the pen he missed his clay
pipe,
The one that he smoked while in camp.
'Pwas the rebel guards plan to search and
to swipe
Everything-to postage stamp.
The boy in blue, in sunshine and shade
Sought pleasure in this
My old Comrade.
Where the blasts of winter howled dismal
ly round
His patched tent on many night,
ground,
And no sign of cheer-not light
The boy in blue there shiverinS laid,
With no friend but his pipe,
My old Comrade.
A gift of esteem from loyal young friend
In those days of hardship and toll,
When the north and the south for right did
contend,
And fought it out on southern soil.
The boy in blue within the stockade,
Passed time away with
My old Comrade.
The prison life scenes can ne'er be forgot
on history's pages they're told
The living and dying-a sad, wretcheo lot
Unfortunate boys of the fold;
The boy in blue, one of the brigade,
Smoked this self-same pipe,
My old Comrade.
Alfred w. Harris, Corporal Company D,
Louisville Legion, Fifth Kentucky In
fantry. in American Tribune.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-07-07
Vitality of Mosquito Eggs.

According to the investigations OF
Prof John B. Smith, 1t is not so easy
to destroy the mosquito as some per-
sons imagine. The eggs of the salt
marsh mosquito, for instance, may re-
main in dried mud for months, and yet
large percentage of them will hatch
out within few hours after becoming
covered with water, The remainder
lie dormant until the first lot has
reached full growth, and then. If still
submerged, most of them also will
hatch out. A few eggs of each brood
lie over to the following year, and all
the eggs of the last autumn nrood hi
bernate. The consequence is that tho
fret spring mosquito swarm is the
largest OF the season, and migrating
adults of this brood 1--we until Sep
'tember. swelling the number of mid
summer mosquitoes.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-07-07
UNCLE DAWES
VACATION
BY EDWARD MOTT wooLLEY
(Copyright, 1906. by W. q. chapmAnJ

I T was the first vacation David Angel
had taken in % years, and he would
not have taken this one if the doctor
had not told him, flatly, that he must
Uncle Dave, as the boys in the
wholesale house called him, had seen
68 years of rain and shine-mostly
rain. For 80 years he had sat on a
high stool in the office, outliving half
a dozen changes in the management,
and becoming, with each passing year,
a little grayer, little more round
shouldered, little more dim of vision.
Now his beard was snow white and
his step had no elasticity, but he was
the same quiet, cheerful, optimistic
Uncle Dave that he had been since the
memory of the oldest employe of the
house began. His clothing was as spot
lessly clean as on the day he first
set foot in the Office. and the books
over which he presided we're just as
neat as they had been when his hand
was firm and his eye bright.
The last vacation David Angel had
taken was the year before his wife's
death After that he resisted all at
tempts on the part of his friends to
induce him to take a rest, until one
night, while working late over his
ledger, he fell off his high stool in a
faint. The next day the doctor said
to him:
you've got to go to the country for
a couple of months, Mr.. Angel; If you
don't, you'll be dead man in the fall"
The old man accepted the ultimatum
sadly He was gloomy and cast down.
Such a break in the habits of two
decades oppressed him with forebod
ings of evil. Uncle Dave was fettered
tightly to habit, and the severing of
his simple daily. monthly, yearly rou-
tine seemed to him like the ending
of all things, or, at least, like the be-
ginning of the end.
Even before Uncle Dave left the
boarding house where he had lived for
many years he was homesick; but the
die was cast, and the lonely old man
set out one evening for his trip to the
country He had bought his ticket that
afternoon for Lake Geneva. His mood
was black, however, as he boarded the
car for the railway station, and bit
terly did he resent the necessity of
this enforced vacation.
Uncle Dawes course to the depot re-
quired change of street cars, and
as he was getting aboard the second
car he encountered a little old lady
leaving it. She was laden with a
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-07-07
Medical Ignorance.

The late Jay Cooke was talking one
day in his Ogontz residence about Gen.
Grant.
Gen. Grant" he said, smiling, "once
described to me an illiterate surgeon in
the employ of certain northern regi-
ment.
"A promising young officer had been
wounded, and his surgeon had dressed
his wounds. Gen. Grant sent for the sur
geon later to ascertain the young Off
GERS chances
He is wounded, said the surgeon
to the commander-il-chief, in three
places
"'Are these wounds fatal?' Gen. Grant
asked.
THE surgeon nodded grave assent.
"'Two of the wounds is fatal he said.
"The third is not. If we can leave him
to rest quiet for awhile, think he will
pull through. -"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-07-07
THE LOST CHORD FOUND.
cheerfully Supplied by Long-suffer-
ing Victims of Neighbor-
hood Nuisance.

He was a young man in lodgings and he
was learning to play the cornet There
was no disputing the earnestness and per
severance of this embryo cornetist, relates
London Tit-Bits.
Every evening during the late heat wave
he threw his window open and blew away
at the Lost Chord" 1t was ever the
Lost Chord"
In the commercial.room of the hotel op.
posite the knights of the road" sat,
scribbling off their orders and hurling
unathemas at the head OF the young man
player.
Finally they held council of war and
determined on his destruction.
Cutting off window cord, they rang
for the boots and ordered him to take
it across to the musician, with the fol
lowing note:
Dear Sir: Make no more trouble over
your Lost C(h)ord We send you a sub.
stitute which we hope you will find long
enough.
I'VE will arrange with the coroner and
guarantee a decent burial"
The doleful notes OF the Lost ChoSd'
were not heard in that street afterwards
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-07-07
SOLDIERS IN PANIC.
Some "reminiscences Which Show
They Occurred on Several occa-
sions During Civil War.

"In western Virginia saw company
that had fought for hours against reg
iment of confeds wilt when one OF our
own regiments dashed up and pep
pered the boys in the backs" says the
major, in the Chicago Inter Ocean.
This was too much and for the first
time that day the men on the firing line
were scared. AS they turned TO bolt
they saw the captain shaking his fist at
the Twenty-sixth Ohio in our rear, and
heard above the confusion the captains
voice in a swearing stunt that beat the
band. He didn't order his men back into
line. Their scare was over, and they
went back without orders, shouting
compliments at the captain, who was
still in action.
"At Stone river our regiment faced the
enemy for hours without sign of panic,
but when one of our brigades, changing
front under pressure ran over us, the
! boys lost their grip for about five min
utes and were joining in the foot race
when the colonel, who had been un-
| horsed, scrambled to his feet and roared:
i can lick the man or the regiment that
did that. But you, men, as you were! as
you were.-if any man has sense enough
to know where we We're This quieted
the panic in our line, but the stampede
involved other regiments. and / saw men
act like frightened squirrels and try to
squeeze their bulks into holes in the
ground or crevices in the rocks.
1T was all over in a few minutes, the
panic-stricken men returning to the
firing line on their own motion. The
next day there was a panic of another
kind, when men were swept off their
feet by a rush OF the enemy. Dazed by
the sudden onslaught. hundreds of men
drifted rearward, to the decentralization
of other regiments Gen. Thomas rode
across the line of retreat and, pistol in
hand, checked the panic, the men after
cooling off little returning to their
regiments.
There was panic at Chickamauga
caused by Longstreet's headlong charge;
but it was only local storm, the main
part of the army knowing nothing of it
There was a panic among stragglers al
Shiloh. but the men in front were fight
ing as coolly as ever they did in the
whole course of the war. There is al
ways more confusion and excitement in
the rear of an army than in front, but
the excitement means as little as the
confusion. An army itself engaged il
fierce conflict is rarely influenced by
what occurs at the rear; and yet the in
cidents in the rear are more often thar
otherwise exploited as indicating condi
tions in the army itself"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-07-07

satchel, telescope case, a shawl strap
and a couple of bundles. Mr.. Angel
stepped aside 10 let her pass. She got
off. dragging her traps after her.
Dear! dear! she sputtered. Il do
wish l had stayed at home! The idea
of an old body like me galivanting Off
on a summer touri"
The conductor impatiently gave the
signal to start, Uncle Dave was not
spry enough to make flying mount
and he found himself standing in the
street with the little old lady, while the
car sped on its way. What shamel"
she exclaimed, in genuine regret. Il
have made you miss your car"
ut doesn't matter" said Uncle Dave.
gallantly. 81 have time enough. Can
l assist you?"
She looked at him gratefully She
was such hopeless little body among
all the noise and turmoil of the city
that Uncle Dave was attracted toward
her. when my husband was alive. "
she said, as they made their way to the
curb. 81 never minded travelling in
the least, for he always looked after
everything so carefully"
she looked about helplessly.
Il should have taken carriage, "
she went on, but | live SO far out
that thought Tor once I'd try the
street cars"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-07-07
Extensive Citizenship.

Andrew Carnegie is citizen of more
towns than anyone else. He has re-
ceived the freedom OF almost every
city in England and Scotland for
which he has contributed free Ii
brary or other institution. He will
soon require museum to accommo-
date the caskets containing parchment
rolls of his citizenship. During the
last few weeks he has been exception
ally busy. In one week he received
the freedom of Ilkeston, to which he
presented library, and the freedom
of Eastbourne, and was admitted as a
member of the Worshipful Company
of Makers of Playing Cards, of Lon
don. receiving another casket from
that company.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-07-07
LASTING RELIEF.

MY nightly rest was broken, owing
to irregular action of the kidneys.
was suffering intensely from severe
pains in the small of my back and
through the kidneys and annoyed by
painful passages of abnormal sccre-
tions. No amount of doctoring relieved
this condition. took Doan's Kidney
Pills and experienced quick and lasting
relief. Doan's Kidney Pills will provs
blessing to all sufferers from kidney
disorders who will give them fais
trial"
Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo, n. w
proprietors. For sale by all druggists
price 80 cents per box.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-07-07
Sizing Up Her "staady."

"See my engagement ring!" said the
girl TO her friend, in small up-river
town.
yes replied the one addressed.
"Jknow where it came from?" contin-
ued the proud, engaged one, as she held
the precious thing up in the sunlight
well, replied the other with her
nose slightly elevated; 81 know it must
have come from the city; there are no
lnstallment iewelry stores in this towni"
--Yonkers Statesman.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-07-07
THE MUSIC IN THE MEDDER.

There is music in the medder
When the meller cowbells ring.
Soft, silvery cadences, jest
AS sweet as anything;
But the music in the grasses
Where the little insects hum,
Is like a benediction when
The end O. day is come.
There is music in the medder
When the sun is gettin' low,
When the shadders grow an deepen,
An the firefiies glow;
The katydid is singin', an
The crickets lyric call
Is soundin' in the medder when
The shadders start TO fall,
When the butterflies are restin'
An the bees are in the gum
Sleepin' where the honey is, an
Everything is mum,
Softly from the medder comes
The crickets lyric call,
Just liltin Ia the grasses when
The shadders start to fall.
N. o. Times Democrat.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-07-07
A Rarher,s View Of the Wnl

Tonsorialist Nagle ascrlbes the defeat
of the Russians to tkoir wearing whisk.
ers says the Big Rapids Bulletin No
nation says he, can be successful in war
unless its fighters are smooth shayen.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-07-07

Don't Get Footsors, Get Foot Ease.
aching feet and makes new or tight shoes
easy. Ask today for Aliens Foot Ease.
Accept no substitute. Trial package FREE.
Address A. S. Olmsted. LIE Roy. n. Y.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-07-07
Heartless Husband.

Mrs. Bryde-o John, this is terrible
The cat had fit in the kitchen and ruined
the pie had ready for dinner!
Mr. Brydc-Haven't you got the Sc
ouence of events turned around?
Haven't /? Oh! you cruel wretch'
Cleveland Leader.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-07-07
Do You Use Your own Judgment


Lion Coffee is package coffee that
reaches the homes of the people just as
it left the factory where it is roasted
and packed.
The beans are picked and carefully So
lected at the plantation, then shipped di.
rect to our factories to be prepared for
home use.
The most scrupulous care is taken with
every process, and the utmost cleanliness en-.
forced in every operation. Men and ma
chinery employed in making Lion Coffee
ready for the market are chosen on &C.
count of their excellence and fitness for
the work.
Some of the results of this scrupulous
treatment of Lion Coffee are a delicious
favor, perfect purity, and uniform
strength and quality.
All loose, Tor bulk coffee is open to
doubt-to put it mildly. The buyer does
not know, the seller does not know, where
the bean came from, or how it was
roasted, or where and when; how many
hands handled it, what kind of hands
they were, what contamination it re-
ceived from dust, insects, dirt, etc.
Lion Coffee is pure, fresh and clean
that much is certain. Loose coffee
there isn't anything at all certain about
it except that wise housewives will not
buy It'll
All grocers know the above to be true.
There may be a very few left who will
try to persuade you another way.
If they do, just ask them how they ac-
count for the increasing popularity of Lion
| Coffee in millions of homes for the past
quarter of a century,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-07-07

Piso's Cure cannot be too highly spoken o
as a cough cure.-J. w: O'Brien, 322 Thir.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-07-07

Red Cross Ball Blue shozid be in every
home. Ask your grocer for it. Large z
OF. package only 5 cents.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-07-07

The crosses that we make for ourstArSs
are not the ones that win us G,Dwns.-
The Commoner.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-07-07

None are too wise to be mistaken, but
few are so wisely just as to acknowledge
and correct their mistakes, and especially
the mistakes Of prejudice
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-07-07

All that a man hath will be give fs
his automobile.-Buffalo Express.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-07-07

Many q silk gown conceals q starved
heart.-N. o. Picayune.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-16
TAFT GAS Two ERRANDO HERE
ONE rs TO ELECT DIRECTORS or
THE PANAMA RAILROAD.

The other Is 20 Confer With Col. Clarence
Edwards on . Prospectus Of the
Philippine Railways With an Idea Of
Fliciting Competitive Bids for Them
Secretary Taft, accompanied by Mrs.
Taft, arrived in the city at $50 last evening
from Washington and went directly TO
$40 Lexington avenue, the residence OF
Secretary Tafts brother, Henry W. Taft,
where they will remain over Sunday. They
return 10 Washington tomorrow after
noon.
Secretary Taft il here 10 attend a meet
ing Of the stockholders Of the Panama
Railroad. 70 be held at the offices Of the
company, 50 State street, tomorrow morn
ing at 10 O'Clock.
This IL the first meeting Of the stock
holders under the new regime, he said
last evening, 'and l, IS the Secretary OF
War, am the stockholders. Enough shares
Of stock will be in other hands TO satisfy
legal requirements, but We practically own
all the stock. When l meet myself to-
morrow the stockholders will choose a
board OF directors. Speaking as the stock
holders, am able to forecast in . general
way what the stockholders will do at their
meeting and whom they will elect directors
! think all the present Panama Commission,
seven in all, will be elected dlreotors and
about six Of the old commission. Among
those Of the old commission who will be
elected IL William Barclay Parsons. Whether
Mr.. Burr will he / am unable 10 say. Mr..
Shouts and Mr.. Wallace will be there, and
when the directors are elected / suppose
tbsy will 10 To work and elect the oh1cerH
Of the road.
In addition TO the Panama Railroad
matter l shall give somo attention while
/ am here to the matter OF the Philippine
railways. Col. Clarence Edwards Of the
Bureau Of Insular Affairs Is here in New
York and has been for several days.
shall have q conference with b m before
return With reference TO drawing up pros
pectus inviting investment in the railways,
The Government guarantees Z per cent.
interest up TO an annual outlay Of 81, 200, 900.
That means a guaranteed 4 per cent, in
vestment Of $50 100000. We are in hopes 20
enlist capital irrespective Of this guarantee
by putting propositions sufficiently at
tractive before the public to induce COM
petitive bidding. The railroad lines now
under consideration in the Philippines
amount 10 about 900 miles. shall probe-
bly, not be able to say anything with refer
ence 10 the proposals. on this subject be-
fore return 10 Washington. The drawing
up Of such prospectus as we have in mind
is a matter requiring good deal Of oare,
and it will hardly be far enough advanced
by tomorrow night to be discussed in any
thing like definite manner
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-16
HETHODISTS DISMISS PASTOR.
Maine Conference Acts on Charges In.
vOiving . Girl PArithioneT.

yOlvtnB Girl PArithlOneT.
GARDENER, Me-, April IS-The investi-
eating committee Of the Maine Methodist
conference, now being held in this city
Yesterday unanimously voted TO dismiss
the Rev. T. II. Ellington, formerly pastor
Of the church at Wayne from the Confer
ence. The charges preferred against Mr..
Ellington alleged improper conduct on his
part toward one Of the girls Of his Wayne
parish.
IL was charged that he had occupied the
WAYNE pa stoTats but q short time when
his attentions 70 one Of the girls Of the
Fpworth League was the subject Of much
comment among his parishioners. A com
nittee was chosen " wait upon him and
ask for his resignation. He denied the
truth Of the Tumors and refused 10 resiEn.
By this time his alleged actions had
caused a scandal in the church and the
girl whose name was mentioned with his
suddenly left town. Ellington later re-
siRped and was transferred. 10 another
church, awaiting the action Of the Con-
his defence was a general denial Of all
charges Of improper relations With the
Young girl. He admitted that he was
much IN her company and interested Ia
her only a. friend and Aaaor sh.Jas]hAve
been.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-16
HOLY WEEK AT THE CATHEDRAL
Elaborate Services beginning To-day and
Ending With Easter sunday.


Archbishop Farley opens the Holy Week
services at the Cathedral this morning by
blessing the palms at the II o'clock mass.
The fun ceremonial Of the day will be OBJ
served and the chanting Of the Sacred
Passion will be done by three deacons from
st. Joseph's Seminary at Dunvoodie, N. Y.
Wednesday, ThursdAy and Friday after
Moons at O'Clock TenebrB VIII be chanted
by the full choir and the semlnaTtans, num-
berinE In all $50 voices. On Thursday
morning Archbishop Farley will celebrate
pontifoal high mass at 10 O'Clock, and win
bless the holy oils used during the ensuing
year. At the close Of the mass procession
Of the ohoirs, seminarians, priests and hfty
little girls IN white viii preCede the Arch
bishop, who viii carry the Blessed Sacra-
ment 10 the repository in the Blessed Virgins
altar In the north transept Of the Cathedral,
Wbere Il win remain exposed until Friday
morning at 10 O'Clock. Besides the regular
ministers at this mas there Will be seven
deaoons and seven sui -deacons assisting
the Archbishop.
Thursday evening the Holy Hour win
be observed between and O'Clock, and
BEGINNING at 10 O'Clock the nsn Of the d.
ferent socleties Of the Cathedral will OBJ
serve the nocturnal alteration. Bands Of
hfty or more men win kDeel In front Of the
tabernacle for one hour. This viii continue
until six O'Clock In the morning.
On Friday morning at 10 o'clock the
mas Of the PresRnc med VIII be sung
and the Sacred Passion viii again be ohanted
by three deacons. There will be q sermon
on the Passion by the Rev. R. o. Hughes
of the Cathedral and another procession
will bring the Blessed Sacrament from the
Blessed VirRin's altar 20 the ma In altar.
Good Friday IL the only day In the year
that a mass u said without the conservation
Of the host.
There win be Passion service Friday
evening, during which the faithful come 70
the sanctuary rail and kiss the cruoihx.
There will be another sermon on the PaeeiOn
IN the evening by the Rev. william b, Mar
tin OF the Cathedral. Saturday morning
the services are the longest Of the week
and begin at 9 O'Clock. A poutihcal mass
which be viii bless the holy water, the new
6re. The pSschal oandls and the bGptismsl
font. Easter Sunday morning at II O'Clock
Archbishop Farley will pontihcate AZ high
mass. The sermon VII be preached BY
the Jesuit Father the Rev Thomas J. NJ.
McC1uskey, former assistant priest a. the
Cathedral. Al the end Of the mass Arch
bishop Farley viii tmpaTt the Papal bens-
diotion, granting TO all the faithful present
IN the state Of grace q plenAIy Indulgence.
Pontihnal veapsu viii b az 4 o'clock, With
the Arohbishop ofaciating. The musical
proErs mne for the week WIN be the most
elaborate GregoriAn music ever given IN
The Cathedral