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The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1905-07-20

ing and returning to the States. With
such conditions, work has necessarily
Jagged. 4 man often does not take time
to become more than partially familiar
with the duties of his position before he
resigns or quits and new man must be
sent down from the United States to
learn the work.
Rain and Fever.
The rainy season started about April
]. All outdoor work until the season
closes, in November. is now carried on
under difficulties which are unknown in
n temperate climate. One or more show
ers-cloudbursts they would he called in
this country-are of practically daily oc-
currence. Sometimes they continue for
hours, or even days. but the usual pro-
gram is a shower of about an hours
duration every morning and every after
noon. In the intervals when the sun
shines things dry quickly. but when it
does not appear the atmosphere is pain
fully depressing.
Under this downpour the ground be-
comes moist and unstable, the beds of
dry creeks become boiling mountain tor
rents. and for weeks. and sometimes
months. interior towns are cut off from
all communication with one another, ex-
cept by way of the oceans.
The dread yellow fever accompanies
the rainy season and is most active dur
ing July. No precautions thus far found
have availed to prevent it. 1t strikes
suddenly and hard, and within five days
the victim is either on the road to re-
covery or is dead. A person may be
feeling in the best of health in the even
ing, but wake up with splitting head
ache and with chills and pains in his
joints in the morning. Before noon his
temperature will have risen above 100
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1905-07-20
An Important Legal victory.

Allen 8. Olmsted, of LIE Roy, n. Y, has
the courage Of his convictions. He is the
inventor and proprietor Of .Foot-Ease,"
weil-known proprietary article Of merit and
enjoying large sale all over the world Mr..
Olmsted has been a heavy advertiser and.
backed up by the superior quality of the
article he has offered to the public has beer
able to make a trademark of great value.
Others have noted this with Jealous eye and
have sought, by underhand methods and by
copying. to stsal-'.stear' is the word ex-
actly ftting the crime-the benefits to be
had from confusing the mind of the public.
Mr.. Olmsted engaged eminent counsel and
brought his dishonest competitors right ur
into the Supreme Court Of New York State.
which recently granted an injunction with
costs, restraining the offenders from max.
ing or selling a foot powder resembling Al
lens Foot Ease In outward form or design
or otherwise, the article which MIR. Olmsted
had made a household word on two contf-
nents This Is where Mr.. Olmsted showed
the courage Of his convictions. for another
man might have smarted under the sting Of
imitation. unfair competition and substitu-
tion, and accepted the situation with souI
grace without doing anything In particular.
The entire advertising fraternity of the
United States owes debt of gratitude to
Allen s. Olmsted. of lie Roy, n. Y, the
owner Of the trademark Foot Ease" fos
taking this firm stand against the bucca-
ncers Of trade who, having no inventive
power themselves, are always willing ia
profit by another's brains and, by methods
akin to those of the bushranger, becoms
social highwaymen In stealing the benefits
Of long, extensive and clever advertising.
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Notes of current Eyent..

Four policemen rescued four men and
three women who were stranded and in
great peril on the rocks of the Bronx
Kills, New York.
Edward Burke, prominent resident
of North Scranton, Pa, was killed on
the Delaware and Hudson railroad. His
body was cut in two.
The American Museum of Natural
History, New York, has been robbed of
$1,000 in gold ores, part of one of the
finest collections in the world.
Many buildings in the business district
of White Sulphur Springs. Mont, were
destroyed by fire, and one man burned to
death. Loss $4,000, with little insur-
ance.
The body of Mary o. Rogers, daugh-
ter of Alexander Rogers of Leesburs,
Va, was found in Saranac river, near
Saranac lake, New York. She wandered
from the hotel in a delirium Monday
morning.
Major Z. A. Burke of New Orleans
is still alive and at Puerto Cortez, Hon
duras, according to a letter from there,
despite the recent report of his death.
He is assistant superintendent of the
Honduras Interoceanic railway.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1905-07-20
WHEAT and CORN THRIVING.
Crops Generally in Promising Com
ditiOn-Corn Suffers from Rain.

Crops Generally in Promising Con.
dition-Corn Suffers from Rain.
The weather bureaus weekly bulletin
summarizes crop conditions as follows:
In the district east of the Rocky Noun
tains temperature conditions were gem
orally favorable. though rather cool in
the Missouri valley. Over much the
greater part ce the country from the
South Atlantic and gulf coasts northward
to the lake region. Minnesota and the
Dakotas excessive rain fell. greatly him
dercd the cultivation of crops, caused
rapid growth of weeds and in places in
jured hay and harvest grain. There
was practically no rain in New England.
only light showers on the immediate mid
die Atlantic coast, and none in the Rocky
Mountain and Pacific coast regions. In
central and northern California and por-
tions of Oregon and Washington intense
heat prevailed during the latter part of
the week.
The corn crop has had a week of very
favorable conditions for growth, except
in the upper Missouri valley, where its
progress has been rather slow on ac-
count of insufficient heat and lack of
sunshine. While rains have interfered
with cultivation 10 some extent. the crop
as a whole is in fairly good state of
cultivation AMI is largely laid by except
in the more northerly districts.
Winter wheat harvest continues in the
northerly districts and is largely finished
elsewhere. Rainy weather has extern
sively interfered with thrashing and has
caused damage to grain in shock in parts
of the middle Atlantic States and central
valleys. The abnormal heat on the north
Pacific coast during the latter part of
the week probably caused damage to
the wheat crop in Washington.
In portions of South Dakota and Min
nesota spring wheat on lowlands has suf-
fcred from Ovcrhows, but elsewhere in
the spring wheat region the crop is i'll
promising condition. Rust continues in
South Dakota and Minnesota, though not
materially increasing. and is beginning
to appear III North Dakota. Spring
wheat continues promising on the north
Pacific coast, though exposed to trying
heat conditions during the latter part of
the week.
Both standing and harvested oats have
suffered considerably from wet weather,
which has caused lodging, hindered har-
vesting and injured oats in stack or
shock. A fine crop, however, is general
ly indicated.
In Illinois frequent showers were un-
favorable for harvesting. thrashing and
haying. Oats are ripening. Many mea
dows are oyerripe, but the ground is too
wet for reaperS and mowers. The con-
dition of corn is exceptionally favorable.
some tasseling. Oats generally are
standing up well, but some badly lodged.
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News of Minor Note.

The strike among the Monte, ideo har-
Dor hands is declining. Disturbances
have occurred at Villa Cerro, Uruguay,
but order is re-established.
The Liberals were defeated at the
Rome election owing to party dissensions.
The Clericals voted for the first time
since 1870. uniting with the Moderates.
George Rowe and Stephen Bedner,
mine workers of Wilkesbarre, Pa. were
killed by water car breaking loose and
dashing them against the side of the
mine.
Jonas Coleman shot and killed neigh
Dor named Justice ut Rife. forty-three
miles east of Chehalis. Wash. and then
committed suicide. There had been
trouble between the two for some time.
Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke, director of
the Metropolitan Museum of Art at New
York. was given farewell banquet in
London. He was presented with Il SOU
venir in the form of Il massive silver
bowl on an ebony plinth.
The government of Costa Rica has Civ
en- strict orders that measures be taken
to prevent possible contagion from bu-
bonic plague. \ special message has
been sent ordering the stopping of ships
coming to Limon by way of Colon.
An advance in wages made by the in
dependent iron manufacturers of Pitts
burg to meet the advance made by the
Republic company to puddlers will affect
1000 men.
Eight relays of carrier pigeons took a
message from st. Louis to Boston in
eight days. The best time was between
Cincinnati and Pittsburg, the birds COW
ering 275 miles in nine hours against
strong head wind.
The jury in the case of Andrew \.
Lipscomb. an attorney of Washington,
D. c., indicted with Thomas NJ. Fields
on the charge of embezzlemert from the
Washington Beneficial Endowment Asso-
ciation. returned verdict Of not guilty.
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Chicago.

--|t tail branches, yet deal
ings reached large aggregate, due
to improved holiday demand, and the
been of satisfactory extent. Country
advices indicate that retail sales en-
larged and that this feature is steadily
spreading to those sections where har-
vesting progresses and money be
comes more abundant. Records in
seasonable goods have held up well
for both interior and city, testify
ing to heavy consumption.
Wholesale lines report fair advance
sales in forward selections for fall
delivery and there is sustained ship
ment in dry goods, summer clothing,
footwear and food products. Ware
house exhibits now are being prepared
for the approaching advance guard of
visiting buyers and the outlook favors
large transactions.
The rush of building needs main
tains good demand for lumber, al
though receipts Of latter are lower,
o''cc.OOO ASNts WIN ~,
$50 feet last week. Orders have been
liberal for stone, brick, cement and
plumbing material. Receipts of hides
were 2,114,O57 pounds. against 1880,
S33 pounds last week and 2,1O7,9S7
pounds n year ago. Consumers made
fair purchases and the higher prices
were maintained
Primary foodstuffs again furnished
active dealings, especially in the lead
ing cereals, which were subjected to
conflicting reports as to the status
of new crops. Flour, however, has
shown no recovery in the general de-
mand, and millers bought wheat only
TO satisfy absolute needs.
Receipts of live stock, 2S4, 900 head,
comparew ith 245. .131 head year ago.
Packing operations were large, and
the monthly statement of provisions
in store showed a smaller reduction
than was looked for.
Bank clearings, SITS, POI, ,45O, exceed
those of the corresponding week in
1904 by 50 per cent.
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict numbered 16, against 81 last
week and 10 year ago.
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Wall street control of great companies in
which the money of the people is depos-
tied.
Chauncey NJ. Depew, United States
Senator, will. n correspondent says, have
to resign from the board of directors OF
the Equitable society. He will be given
an opportunity to send over his resigna-
ton from Europe, where he now is max
ing his annual rounds. If it is not forth
coming in reasonable time he Will be
forced out by the trustees. 1t IS SAID
that Grover Cleveland will not stand
longer for Mr.. Depew's connection with
the society.
A strong demand is being made by
Yale men that Depew resign from the
Yale corporation, the university govern
ing body, because of the scandal nvolv-
ed in his connection with the Equitable
Life Society.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1905-07-20
THE GLORIOUS FOURTH.
More Lives Lost in Celebrating 1t thai
Achieving Indepeudauce


Achieving Independence.
1t will come with something of a sur
prise to many persons to be told that
more lives have been sacrificed in cele
brating the Fourth of July than in gain
ing independence. The annual casualties
in America from Independence day cele-
brations exceed those of any battle of
the revolution. Every year vast num-
bers of persons. mostly children. are kill
ed or injured for life in an attempt to
show their patriotism.
Up te wednesday night statistics COM
piled by he Chicago Tribune showed
that the Fourth of July celebration this
year had cost 50 persons their lives,
while the number of persons who were in
jured aggregated 3,169. Every year the
nation pays tribute in blood because of
an utterly irrational method of celebrat-
ing the Fourth of July. 1t is gratifying
to observe, however, that in all the large
cities there is a reaction against the pres
ent senseless way of observing the Re-
public's natal day. The time is not dis
tant, it appears, when the law will be
invoked everywhere to secure a rational
celebra ton. In New York this year the
Fourth of July observance actually began
several days before the anniversary ar
rived, much to the discomfort Of resi-
dents. To have a week of GLORIOUS
Fourth is a barbarity to which no COM
munity should submit. So great has be-
come this American peril that some of
the best men in the country are taking
radical measures to eradicate the nui
sance
The exact total of casualties during
the Revolutionary war is not known, but
from losses in individual encounters of
which We have figures it is found that
the dead and injured for 1903 far exceed
the numbers who lost their lives in the
battles of Bunker Hill, Brandywine and
Long Island. The total of casualties in
these three encounters was 3,349 killed
and wounded. In 1903 500 persons died
either on July or afterward from in
juries received-principally lockjaw. The
total of injuries all over the country was
1888.
Taking the years from 1899 to 1904. it
is found that LILO persons lost their
lives and 5000 were injured for life.
Some of these people undoubtedly after
ward died from the effects of their in
juries. but of these no record has been
taken. 1t is estimated that 800 persons
during this time lost one or both eyes in
the celebration of the Fourth of July.
and the number of those who lost limb
or botf limbs was about 250.
One of the most dangerous of all
classes of fireworks is undoubtedly the
dynamite torpedo. In 1900 out of total
of 1 1,325 accidents almost one-third were
brought about from the explosion of these
deadly things. Many cities have passed
laws forbidding the sale of dynamite tor
pedoes, but in spite of this they are still
to be bought in every large city on each
recurring Fourth of July.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1905-07-20
AT A MAORI FEAST.
Nose Rubbing Preceded the Dinner oi
nr,~L oud Oror-o~

Nose Rubbing Preceded the Dinner Oh
Duck and Oranges.
1 was greatly pleased with the nose.
rubbing" which I had never seen be.
fore. One old woman in wonderful
striped garments, very stately and
solemn and carrying fine green web
a battle-ax shaped like round fan.
came down the street and stopped
whenever she saw a woman she knew,
took her left hand in her own left,
made beautiful bow, leaned over her,
and gently, very gently. touched noses!
The Maori girls did pretty welcom
ing dance. singing and dancing slowly
backward all the way till We got to
the inclosure around the meeting house
(whare purie), where the speeches
ysere to be made. Then the older peO
pie cut amazing capers, shouted them
selves hoarse and made the most re-
pulsive faces you ever saw by way OF
welcome to their chief. Chairs were
put for us on the veranda of the WHARF,
which was prettly decorated with
beautiful palms.
After some time or this and the
presentation of mats. etc. we were in
vited into the WHARF to lunch. 1t was
laid most correctly or big tables with
cloths, but the menu consisted of roast
duck, chicken, beef and sucking pig,
and, so it said. potatoes, peas and kne-
maros (sweet potatoes,, cooked in
Maori oven. I chose cold duck with
peas and potatoes. The duck arrived
quickly, but the Maori girl who
brought it said with broad smiles
"The potatoes aren't cooked yet!' So
my lunch consisted Of duck. bread and
two oranges. Just as 1 finished, the
potatoes arrived in prettily plated
green fax basketS.-New Zealand Let.
ter in London Outlook.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1905-07-20
ATHLETICS ARE HURTFUL,
At Least That Idea Seems to be Gain.
ing Ground.

ing Ground.
John Cranston, Harvard's former foot
ball coach and center of the great team
which defeated Yale in 1890, is of the
opinion that the severe strain undergone
by college athletes units them to great
extent for business or professional life.
because of weakness induced by oyerex-
ertion.
81 have had several serious spells of
sickness since leaving college, which l
attribute to the great strain of my ath-
letic training" says Cranston. "On the
whole, l cannot say that athletics have
benefited me any in my business career
l sincerely believe that l would have
been better off in my life since college if
l had left athletics alone"
With the idea of ascertaining the ac-
tuai effect of the long training and the
great efforts incident to contests, college
presidents are collecting statistics regard
ing the health of famous athletes and
their accomplishments in the affairs of
life.
These statistics will not be ready for
official publication before next October,
but President Jones of the University of
Illinois says that undoubtedly they will
cause much surprise to the men who de-
clare that the college athlete develops
into the vigorous man who does things.
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Moreover, the court decides it has
the right to go behind the motive Of
the Legislature and that the establish
ment of branch penitentiary at
which Oil is to be refined by convicts
is clearly subterfuge.
Attention is called to Gov. Hoch's
message signing the bill providing for
the refinery, in which the refinery
is referred to exclusively as such, and
no reference is made to establishing
penitentiary.
Gov. Hoch, advised of the decision,
expressed disappointment. The Gov
ernor would make no statement as to
calling a special session to take steps
carrying the project through in some
other way.
The decision took the form of re-
fusing to order State Treasurer Kelley
and Penitentiary Warden Jewett to
sign the proposed issue of bonds for
$4,000
Kansas is sorry that it ever spoke so
harshly about Standard Oil, corre-
spondent declares, and it is said that if
MIR. Rockefeller would intimate desire
to kiss and make up that State refinery
would not be built. A year ago the best
grade Of Kansas oil brought $1.35 bar
rel. Now it costs 81 cents and is going
lower. A year ago fuel oil was easily
disposed of at 80 cents a barrel. Now
it is pretty much of a drug at II cents.
Low grade oils are down to 81 cents,
about 10 cents below the price of year
ago. The prospects are that the price
will drop still further. With prices drop
ping steadily the business of drilling new
wells has almost stopped. The promoters
have folded up their tents and left.
Kansas oil is being Disseminated
against by the Standard, whose favors
are now bestowed on the Indian Terri
tory. The weekly average run out of
this district has been a tank for each
of the properties, but the Standards
gaugers have developed sudden and mys
terious ailments and are unable to work
half the time. Over in the Territory the
Standard is increasing tankage capacity
and doubling daily runs.
The stagnation has made thousands of
men idle. Field workers, gaugers, clerks
and bookkeepers are a drug upon the
market. and many of these are leaving
for other points. Many of these men
are in bad shape financially. They were
caught in the oil excitement of a year
ago, and most of their savings have gone
into oil stocks. 1t was from the holders
of Oil stock that all of the legislative
agitation of last winter really came.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1905-07-20
COMES A TIME.
When Coffee Shows What 1t Has Been


Doing.
'Of late years coffee has disagreed
with me-" writes matron from Rome,
n. Y, Its lightest punishment was to
make me 'logy' and dizzy, and it seem-
ed to thicken up my blood.
The heaviest was when 1t upset my
stomach completely, destroying my ap-
petite and making me nervous and irri-
table, and sent me to my bed. After
one Of these attacks, in which nearly
lost my life, l concluded to quit and
try Postum Food Coffee.
at went right to the spot! l found
1t not only most palatable and re-
freshing beverage, but food as well.
All my ailments, the "loginess' and
dizziness, the unsatisfactory condition
Of my blood, my nervousness and irri-
liability disappeared in short order and
my sorely afflicted stomach began
quickly to recover. 1 began to rebuild
and have steadily continued Until now.
Have a good appetite and am rejoicing
in sound health, which l owe to the
use of Postum Food Coffee" Name
given by Postum Co., Battle Greek,
Mich.
There's a reason.
Read the little book, The Road to
WsllYi!!e." found IN each pkg.
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| New York.

NHI IUlh. regular weather and crop
reports and seasonable
shutdowns for repairs and inventories
have tended to limit the turnover of
the week. Too much rain in the West
has retarded trade in that section, and
from the South similar reports come
In the Central West, the East and
Southwest, however, trade is of full
volume, with good retail distribution.
The sharp advance in raw cotton has
had a rather stimulating effect on
Southern trade sentiment, though in
dicating smaller than expected yields,
the feeling being that higher prices
will offset reduced production The
advance in raw cotton has stimulated
inquiry for cotton goods, which have
been generally advanced ) to 10 per
cent, and buyers complain of deliy-
cries. Wool has strengthened, and the
market for footwear. though quiet. has
shown the effect of present high prices
of leather and the highest prices for
hides i'm years. Building material of
all kinds reflects the demands OF a
record year in this respect. Pig iron
has been dull and moved lower, but
heavy finished products have been in
good call.
Labor is well employed, and the
signing of the new tin plate scale re
moves the only important threatening
feature in industrial lines, which re-
port no important strikes occurring.
Railway earnings continue large, the
gain in June being 6 per cent. May
net earnings exceed last year by S.5
per cent, and the fiscal year will show
gain of Z per cent.
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Dopfisb Sval,owed Row.

A story which equals the usual warm
weather tales of the sea serpent comes
from Messina, Sicily, and has aroused a
great deal Of interest. A boy of disap-
peared several days ago and no trace of
him could be found, although systematic
search was made of the entire neighbor-
hood. Yesterday fisherman caught dog
fish which measured seventeen feet. When
the monster was cut open the boys body
was found intact in the stomach of the fish.
The mother of the boy has positively iden-
titled the body as that of her son.
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PAST AND PRESENT
AS " COMES TO US FROM ALL
CORNERS OF THE EARTH.
Tele9raphic Information Gathered
by the Few for the Enlishtenment
Of the Many.
AImo.t pecapitates Self.

Charles A. Lowry, young man en-
ployed by the Indianapolis Bleaching
Company, killed himself by slashing his
in the evening Lowry remained inside.
His dead body was found on the floor be-
tween two tables on the second floor when
the employees came to work the next morn
ing. Nearly all the blood In the mans
body was on the floor. Lowry's motive for
killing himself is not known. His mother
lives in Paris Crossing. small town near
North Vernon, Ind. In his pocket was a
letter from the mother telling him she was
tired of staying where she was because of
some alleged danger.