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The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1907-02-20

lOf Couh'Vio hS ~ No"Au 8 w e
the same information. Eve n
after the ambassador had been
in sight Tor half an hour, still it
was deemed necessary 10 notify
the Governor that he was COM
ing. A grand procession. with
music and rejoicing. took place
through the principal street.
MOROCCO is ROTTEN THROUGH AND
THROUGH.
The houses here are small and
the people live largely in the
streets. Some of the very poor
sleep in the streets on the hard
pavement. An early stroll Will
enable you to see them lying
here and yonder. | saw several
whose morning slum bers had not
been broken. Their bed cloth
ing was a tow sack and a long
ba.ket made of mating. They
lust crawl in the basket and
their rest is peaceful and their
dreams pleasant. The more pros
porous have an apology for bed
and even pay some attention to
style. The bulk of the people go
barefooted all the winter, but a
few are extravagant enough to
wear shoes-out no socks. The
more dudish ones wear "yaller"
shoes, which harmonic nicely
with the hide on their legs.
Among the many novel things
seen here is one that | never eX-
pected and never wished to see.
1t is the sight of humnn beings
in the bonds Of slavery. Such q
thing is allowed and practiced in
Morocco. These slaves are cap
tured and stolen in the Soudan,
in Nubia and in the interior of
Africa, brought to Morocco and
sold into slavery. Over at Fee,
the capital, they are sold at pub
lie auction. There are certain
days for these sales. They can
be bought here at private
sale. 1t is burning shame
that such a condition should ex-
ist anywhere in the twentieth
century. But nothing in Mo-
rocco should excite surprise. 1t
is one Of the most rotten cOun
tries on earth it is particularly
sorry every way.-lf it were wi
ped off the map the world would
be none the worse off, or rather
Ine WOIlu WOuIu NC 'uo SdluCl
if its people were wiped out
1t is just now in the public eye
great deal: not on account OF
any good it has done, but on &C
count of its very worthlessness.
The present situation cannot last
Morocco is practically without a
government. 1t has none such
as can protect the person and
property. There is much said in
the public press about the safety
and protection of foreigners il
Morocco and demand for bet
ter protection. France and Spain
want to put police in here and
thereby furnish better protec'
tion. The Moors do not want
that, and are just now on theiI
a-ool l.,I,.x.;o,, Ero,oa l,o, fo,,,
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1907-02-20

AhOSS PoP
blood, in religion and in thought,
and the same statement applies
to them with equal truth.
JUSTICE RESTS WITH HIM WHO HAS
MOST MONEY.
In conversation with ma.
tive Moroccan, | got his estimate
of the character of his people,
both in public and private mat
ters. According to bis very can
did statement, lying, swindling
and rascality are some of their
leading traits of character. And
worse still, it is idle to resort 10
court for remedy. There JUS
tice cuts no figure. My inform
ant cited instances showing that
bribery was the winning card in
lawsuit. | asked him If they
had no lawyers, and if so why a
party didn't get lawyer who
would see that his client got his
rights. YES" said he, "we have
lawyers. The same way with
them. One will accept fees from
both sides and work for the one
giving him the most" "Well,
then,"I asked him, "why don't
the Judges see that justice is
done ?" '.Same way with them, "
was his ready response "a side
wink and money will get their
decision" For some time we
travelled with a German lady VINO
has lived in Morocco for 10years,
and she bears similar testimony
to the Moor's character and his
inordinate love for money. Her
husband is a merchant at Casa
blanca and also acting consul
general there for our govern
ment.
THE GENTLEMAN WHO GAVE THE
UNITED STATES TROUBLE.
France has already policed
Casablanca and foreigners resi-
dent there fear q war between
the French and the Moroccans
Such war might prove a bless
ing in disguise. For the truth
of the matter is, the natives are
not capable of self-government
In the interior they are constant
ly at war with each other, tribe
robbing tribe of their cattle anC
goods. The home government II
unable to punish the robbers anc
has actually sanctioned lawless
ness by appointing Raisuli a
governor of district. Thi!
Raisuli is the same duck VIII,
kidnapped Ian Perdicarls anC
his son.in-law, Mr.. Varley, 'som'
time since and held them for
ransom. Our government sen
fleet to Tangier and the Sultal
procured the release OF Perdicari
by paying Raisuli $4,000 an
appointing him governor Of tn
province just outside OF Tangier
His rule became so bad that Ger
tain European representative
addressed a note 10 the Sultal
demanding the removal of Raj
: suli, at the same time filling tn
Tangier bay with warships. Th
Sultan, in obedience TO that note
.
St. Paul tidende. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1902-1928, 1907-10-04

&acifiefDitens 9aniaforeninger bap.
De ifblge &apport fra Soreningernes
Sperlefret9r, @r. Carl Nlolp af Be
talnma, 5. 1. sSnlt 8. ST. 2,029 Meo
len1mer % bar babt EN- Silgang a
19 Meolemmer / be foruogaaenoe {
Maane6er. Haa 1anme Si6spunft
bab6e Soreningerne eli lamlet Sor
mue af $82,705 og baboe / 0e foruo.
gaaenbe 6 Maaneoer bart Ell sSor.
mueforggelie of $5,S18. 9er<er tt
Dato oprettet 81 @f6elinger. Haci.
ficfDltens Dania Soreninger, bbis
Birfefelt er begr9n6iet til California
og NeDa6a er en- meget Delitaaen6e
Screening, bbis 5ormue belpber fig
til ober $40 pr. M3eolem. Gems SO.
spe6formaol er at gipe 5tgtte til iDge
Weolemn1er, men Ben nirfer oglao
for an6re itore og imuffe Gormaal.
trabnlig for at bepare 4iarligBe6e,
til 0nnff 5prog og 2iteratur, o6 oer,
&etni11g birfer ben beo at itgtte ban.
ife aunftnere og 6oreoragsbol
bebs feitIige 5ammenfon1iter % aar
lige aonper1tioner ihn1t peo 9pretbol.
oelfe at gobe oanif g Ibliiotbef fer.
St. Paul tidende. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1902-1928, 1907-10-04
Gn &pfera.G Gpiben1i bite fla / flere

Gn &pfera.Gpibeu,i bite fig i flere
rushffe &ropi11ier / 8egpnoelfen af
slrguit, og Sen bar be iiolte Tiger
:preot Jig n,eo betpoelie goloiombeo.
spgoont1elr biier Zig melt / golga
Tlobens Dplano, men bar ogiaa
ipreot fig lanet i,,o 5ibiriel,, 81. a.
til Omif, Gomif % ltralif. Nropi,.-
ierne 5amara, Saratoga og 9iicbnti
9fongoro6 er Ibaarbeit angrebne,
9iaonlig / 8peri1e freper @mitte,l
mango Dire.
Silitauben paa Gaba giper oe1
nliolertioige an1erifanlfe Monli,1iitro-
ton u1ber @uuerllgr Magoor a6lfil=
Zig 8efpmri1g% Ser er ooifillige
@trejfer, oeriblp1rot Ell Sernbane<
itreife, ion1 0ogsiffe for Siben gigr
ipnoerlig 9lfbrqf i Grafifen, ioet
tbperfen Suffers eller Sobafsafgrg-
6erne ct moone til slfIfibning. Mo-
,ifillige minore strcifer er ogloa be-
gpnot aoifillige gper. 2igelebes er
Der megen politiif ltro, og poa for
ifjellige 9teoer paa gen bar Ser iarn-
let Zig repolutionare 8ar6er, ionn
befempes of 2an6militie1l Sc ioo-
fo10te u&uraleS" ,#oer bar Sr6re til
fife at legge 6inarene imellem, bpor
De trqffer iaaoa1111e 8an6er. l1ro-
.ligbeoerne cel1trerer Jig nnrneit ON
Gienfuegos, bpor Ser tillige er ,16-
brlt6t en- @nlfeber=@ptbeni.
St. Paul tidende. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1902-1928, 1907-10-04

So Gcnts pr. @tl SSernbonebil~
letterne bar foraariaget en- 11nnaa6elig
Gorggelie Sa1get af Sernbanebil1et=
ter / 5taten Sllinois. J. Sernbanee1n=
be6sm9n0ene paa alle State11s So
peblinier i116r6n11ner bette lon1 en-
@jen0sgierning, men ON Sernbaner=
ne tiener noget be6 Sen forgge6e Era=
tit tgr oe en6nu iffe 11btaIe nogen
Mening. Dog bar Driftsbeitprerne
paa 11ogle af SSernbanerne antp6et, at
set forggeoe 8illetiaIg bill afboIoe
Dem fra at inolebe 4o11teiter angaa-
enoe Me6Iattelien i 8illetpriierne,
iaale6es JON planIqgt beo St16f6rel-
fen at 2 Gents &riien, &aa 11ogIe
al sSernbnnerne bar set biit fig, at
Der er iolgt fra Ell Sjer0eoel til en-
bolp Sang iaa mango 8iIletter ii6elt
2 Gents 2ope't traaote &roft, fon1 /
ben tilibaren6e &erio6e un6er 3
Gents pr. Mil 8riierne. S Clinton,
ssSa., bar 8illetiuIget iteget 100 4ro-
cent % i 9atporoen 800 8roeer1t I
Sui Moaneo ober 8u11i
St. Paul tidende. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1902-1928, 1907-10-04

sSnbbanbringen til Ganaba fra Sc
5orenebe 5tater bari benjenere Gio
taget ct meget betp6eligt 0piping,
meo6eles set | EN- &apport, u0giDet af
&eitern &asienger Msiociation. S
oe 12 Mnane0er, Ser e1ote 80. SUM-
5. 81. bleo ls7 Der ,is5oe ggne, ionl faar
lin Silfgriel pes slsiociottonens 2i=
11ier, taget 41,869 @on1eiteoos, bpil-
fet repraienterer Ell 8efolfning al
105,420 Menneifer. slf oisie fon1
1888 Someiteaoers, ioare116e til Ell
8efolfning af 81 500, fra Sc 6or.
Stoter. Stotiltifen biler, at ssSn6ban-
oringel1 fra Il. g. til Canada iii er
laa flor, at Sen naa bGffe megen
Spmprfiombe0. S 6et lib1te Sioar
bor 272,609 &erloner fra Sc Sor.
5tater taget &omeiteaos Canada,
og napnlig | Sc to itoite @or er oelne
SSroban0ring tiftoget rneget fnrft. .
St. Paul tidende. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1902-1928, 1907-10-04
CaIl0sIlldn0.
&nnbt / an,erifa.

. 4
&cbaftsr 5opbus 6art,uitf, l1ogi.
per al .8ien", BET ba1ife 8lab 5on
Jral1cisco, rejite Sorsoag iibite l1ee
fra geetp Oorf for at aflpgge ct 8e.
igg 3anmarf, bpor BAN life bar nr.
ret ii6en ban toni til 9lmerifa for %
9lar iioel1. @ans Mooer lcner enbn,
% boer ajsbenbapn. SS11ben bans
Afreiie fra San Grancisco gap bans
mango 8enner Ser i.Bpell bom c.
SurprilepnrtD. peo bpilfel1 9gligbc'
Ser blep oberraft Bam Ell inuf @ciie.
S5aan6fuffert.
&rpfesiprbpttet ,nellenn &igben.
bapns ltl,iDerlitet og Seem Dorf lt,i-
beriitD, bborom fanfe,1 er fremIat at
8rofeslor Carl 2orent5ea be6 Seem
Dorf ltniberittp, Dil mulig fur1ne req.
ltleres. &rofeslor 2ore11t5en bar I'LL.
Ser ct Cpbolo &jgbenbabn / Com.
| lner agiteret for Sagen og far ful16et
ret goo Stem11ing for ben, og ser bi,
1nuligt blipe forelagt Sen oa11lft
&tgsoog ct 6orllog ON Ell 8epilfine
til oenne Gag. Sglaa beo Seem Oprt
l1niperiitet ltiller man Zig pclllial
oberfor Sa11fen.
Gn &eobenoranfe fra Sborsalbicns
@rap. ST.. Socob 9l. @iis bQr frem,
Iat BEN lmuffe Sanfe, at Ser pla11te.
bes en- @e0ben6ranfe fra Sborpalb.
lens @'rap Mnleets @oar6 &ig
benbapn beo Sborboloien Statuen /
Central Horf / Seem gorf, Ser lom
tioligere nieooelt nplig er flpttet til
en- gob Blo6s i Harfe,1. Siglgt
uNor0lDlet" bar WulGun1sbeltpreliel1
/ &jpbenbabn gibet tit Minoe til, al
en- laa6mn &onfe blep toget fra Sra.
ben. Sen bleb }e16t fra &igbenbabn
me6 en- al 9lmerifabaooene 5. 19.
September og er al1tagelig MI plantet
paa tit fremtioige 8ofsefteo beo Cen
trail 8arf Monnmentet.
9lleranber 2arien ct 9lopnet poa en-
oonif Mano, oprtn6elig Gigormager
al &rofeslton, Ser bar paft betpoelig
}.Gpmprflombeo / Sc 2rrbes 8er6e1,
peo fine fotogrofilfe 5tuoter al 2Dn
| ltroalen og SEN eleftriife @niit. &an
er boito6enoe Gbicogo og er netop
! biemfommen fra Danmarf, iom ba1
iflg. vgtor6l." bar belggt Somme'
efter 81 9lars Sroparelle. &anl
5tnoier oper 2pnltraalen foretage,
| ban meo ct roterenoe Camera for a
| fon1me pao set rene lne6 2Dnglimtets
8origbeo og Saltigbeo og for at fin
Sc 6e Subitanler, al bpilfe Sen BE-
itaar. San itettes lit arbeibe a
Smttbionian SSnltitute i @albineton
9. g., og ban bar ifrebet en- Mf
bon6ling ON 6ette @ntne, ser er opta.
get / ssSnititutets pi6enifabelige @ap.
porter. Sans Mrbeioer paa bette Sm.
roo6e bar paft en- iaax flor 0pmerf.
iombe6, at ban fra mange bioenifa'
belige Si6sifriftcr bar mo6taget M1
mooning ON 8ioras, iom ban ool
bar ufiloaet.
St. Paul tidende. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1902-1928, 1907-10-04

&plisfiun Ell Sunncl. Sra Mol1-
tes, Granfrige, me0oeles, at ct &os-
iogertrG11, Ser fprte fgrlte &lasles
Hosiogerer til @berboltrg fra 9aris
for Sn0fibning mes cit sltlanter=
bdpsbamper til Seem Sort, Onsoae
li0lte ltge foli0ereoe meo ct an0et
Serlbonetren en- Sun1el. Irpnene
fon bagefter binon6en paa iamme
Spor, og set fgrite at 6em itan6le0e
itrafs efter at bore fonmet gjennem
Eunnelen paa @run6 al Maifinifaoe,
men Mur0ifabet forigmte at berge
en- Signallpgte uo. Set bagerltt
Sren lpb in0 moo set forreIte, noen
at set 6og blep til &olisiion. Gel
1tan6ie6e / Sunnelen, men ct treote
Sren Ser TOM efter set, lgb in6
set og b6elagoe flere 8ogne. ssSnge11
Mennefer omfom, men mango SPAS.
iagerer, beriblan6t flere Mmerifonere
blep baar6t iaare6e.
St. Paul tidende. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1902-1928, 1907-10-04

81 ienbcr ,neb @lpbe ssrepenur,t-
re I'll enbper, Der annooer ON ida-,
bos,aie
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-02-22
WASHINGTON.

Soldier and statesman, rarest unison;
High-polsed example of great duties
done
Simply as breathing, worlds honors
worn
AS life's Indifferent gifts to all men
born;
Dumb for himself, unless 1t were to
God,
But for his barefoot soldiers eloquent
Tranpine the snow to coral where
they trod,
Held by his awe in hollow-eyed con.
tent;
Modest, yet firm as Natures self; un.
blamed
Save by the men his nobIer temper
shamed;
Not honored then or now because he
wooed
The popular voice, but that he still
withstood;
Broad-minded, hisher-souIed, there Is
but one
Who was all this, and ours, and all
men's,-Washington.
James Russell Lowell.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-02-22
A WARRIOR, TOO.
Memorial Day Mistake That Brought
Delight to Poor Swede's Heart.

The wooden boards that had marked
the graves in a certain rural ceme-
terry rotted off, and were raked up
in the spring cleaning; consequently,
on Memorial day, when the delega-
ton from the G. A. r. arrived with
flags and appropriate floral decora-
tions for their departed comrades, the
decorating committee found itself
somewhat in doubt as to which grave
belonged to Captain Blodgett and
which to Hannah Ericsson.
The mistaken delegates. says
Youths Companion, heaped their
offerings upon Hannah's last resting
place and departed. That afternoon,
Ericsson, the widower, drifted, with
the rest of his world, to the cemetery.
When he saw the flag and the flowers
above Hannah, the astonished Swede
fell to chuckling joyously.
WELL" he exclaimed, delightedly,
dose faller bane pooty smart, too!
Ay tank dat vo- all right and som
guide yoke on Hannah-he vor pooty
guide fighter herselluf."
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-02-22
Boy to be Tried for Murder.

Wooster, o., Feb. 19.-Harry White,
the Alliance boy. who passed his eigh-
teenth birthday in the Jail in this city,
will be placed on trial here to-day for
murder in the first degree. He Is
charged, with William Eberhart and
Allen Miller, also of Alliance and
about the same age, with shooting and
killing Thomas Dye, 15 years old, at
Orrville last spring. The three boys
had been reading trashy novels and
smoking cigarets, and started out
ION the road" Each had revolver.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-02-22

stayed to see everything given out,
and some of them went to their tents
to see what the folks had sent them,
or to read the letters that had come
with the gifts. And so the things in
the box got lower and lower, while
still there were some men who had as
yet got nothing and who now were
more and more anXious-and how joy
fully relieved when at last something
came up for them
But there were few, very few,
who fingered in vain; who among all
these gifts got nothing; and plainly
disappointed were some of these,
while others took 1t jauntily-perhapS
they had no one to send them, these
but still all bore 1t bravely; and be
sure that those who got shared what
they could share with those who had
nothing in the box
"What came in the Christmas box?
Well, not much bric-a-brac, not many
fancy candlesticks, nor card cases.
nor fancy purses, nor that sort OF
thing, but mostly useful articles;
though among these were watches and
pocketknives, and SO on; but there
were home knit stockings, and sewing
kits, and suspenders, and shoes, and
books, not forgetting Bibles and Tes-
taments; and tobacco and pipes and
cigars; all sorts of useful things,
and many letters and pictures.
And from whom did all these
| things come? From wives, and from
children; and from sisters, and sweet
hearts, and mothers; and 1t was that
that made them all so dear And
bless their dear hearts, they did not
forget, they did not at all forget, the
things to eat.
"The box seemed full of roasted
chicken and cookies and jellies ano
sausages, and sealed up cans of but
ter and grand cakes, and all manner:
of good things to eat. True, we hat
pork enough, and we had plenty o
hardtack; but here was something
that savored of Christmas!"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-02-22
Ex.Mayor Shot Two Italians.

Steubenville, o., Feb. 15.-Return-
ing to car late Wednesday night in
Mingo, to come home to Steubenville,
Mrs. John Miller, Mrs. Robert HUFF
man and Miss Margaret Selick, w. G.
T. U. women, were stopped by six
Italians near Red Row. The women
fled to the home of ex-Mayor Bu-
chanan, who returned with them.
The Italians met the party and at
tempted an assault on the women,
when Buchanan fired The Italians
returned the fire. Buchanan was
slightly injured. One of the Italians
was shot through the abdomen and
will die, and another was shot through
the leg.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-02-22

tion to win a better country for them.
Home and patriotism are linked to-
gether. The children will help to
make the nation. But the nation will
help to make those children.
That little dimpled cheek will not
allow you to take off your uniform for
single day
You must build his home. You
must fight for his inheritance. You
must put your life into the moving and
marching forces of righteousness that
are trying to win victories for him.
The next generation will live in the
country which this generation is max.
ing for 1t. And each one of us is help.
ing to make it. All of us are nation
builders. Every time we cast a bal.
lot for an unclean office-seeker we are
committing an outrage upon the fu-
ture.
Patriotism can never be selfish. 1t
can never be bound up and roped
round in its own pleasures and com.
forts.
1t can never stand still, looking
backwards.
1t can never content itself with
making noise.
In Washington's farewell address
we see the prayers of a great SOU
embracing a nations posterity. The
pen that wrote the emancipation
proclamation was tracing on the paper
a hearts desire for long procession
of centuries.
And out of this love of country ant
this guardianship of our children will
come the patriotism of service.
The Roman soldier cried out at Il
beautiful to die for ones country.
Our country does not want anybody t,
die for it now, but it does want all tn,
multitudes of its people to live for IL
to do their big best or their little bes
to serve its highest and noblest in
tents, and pass it along to the futur
cleansed. purified, sweet to the hear
and sound to the core.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-02-22
Is a Breeding Place for Disease.

Cleveland, Feb. 19.-The contagious
disease annex of the City hospital is
hotbed and breeding place OF dis
eases of the most repulsive kind. Chill
dren suffering from diphtheria and
other ordinary contagious diseases
have been sent to the hospital for
treatment and have there been infect
ed with worse diseases of kind Pc
culiarly adapted to the wrecking Of
their lives. These victims have been
mere children, mostly girls. Condi-
tions have become so intolerable that
the Academy of Medicine sent COM
mittee to investigate and adopted the
committees report.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-02-22
Jones Endorses Boards Action.

Columbus, o., Feb. 15.-The board
of education at Leroy, near Paines-
vile, o., acted within it's rights in ex-
Guiding two Finnish boys from the
school becaused they talked in their
native tongue about the playground.
This is the opinion of State School
Commissioner Jones, to whose atten-
tion the case was brought Thursday
This stand is taken on the ground
that Section 1896 OF the statutes en-
powers boards of education to make
such rules as are deemed necessary
in the government of schools. Nc
court can abrogate the boards power
i. is said.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-02-22
OHIO NEWS.
Happenings in the Buck
eye State.
win Sue for an Accounting.

Cincinnati, Feb. 16.-One of the
most important actions ever institut-
ed by railroad official for the return
of freight cars from other roads will
soon be taken in the United States
court by Judge Harmon, receiver for
the Pere Marquette and Cincinnati,
Hamilton e Dayton railroads. There
are several thousand freight cars of
these two roads held by many other
roads throughout the country, and it
is the intention of Receiver Harmon
to compel the culprit roads, through
legal action, to give an accounting for
the use of his cars. The action con-
templated by Receiver Harmon is the
most sweeping of its kind ever taken
in this country
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-02-22
iSai+sla,5ai|3y&aE ii'.ijl
- JN3ESNES
HS4S X ~
AN ARMY REMlNlscENcE.
How Santa Claus. Came to Conn
pany X.

"The regiment served in put in
good part of it's time in states on the
southern Atlantic seaboard, In South
Carolina, Georgia and Florida, where,
with water transportation to us, we
could be got at rather more easily
than troops not so far away, but at in
terror points, says veteran of the
civil war in the New York Sun; and
so while you couldn't have things
shipped to you there as you could in
this town or the other in times of
peace, still you could get things there
pretty well, and the patron of whom
our company was named when it was
first recruited, back in the town in
which it was raised, used to see to
it that at Christmas time there was
delivered to us Big box filled with
things from friends at home.
I'VE no longer bore his name in the
army, for from the minute we were
mustered into the United States serv-
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-02-22
TWENTY-oNE YEARS LATE.
Former Guardsman Ordered to Report
For Militia Practice in 1886.

Frank A. Bovey, secretary of the
Bovey-DeLaittre Lumber company,
has been summoned to appear at the
armory in fatigue uniform to drill
with company c, First infantry, N. G.
S. NJ, says the Minneapolis Journal.
His presence is required at 7:45 p. m.
sharp, Monday, January 20, 1886, and
again on the evening of Wednesday,
the twenty-ninth of the same month.
For nearly 81 years the postal card
bearing this order has been on its
way to Mr.. Bovey. There have been
some delays along the way, but the
card is at length in the hands of the
superintendent of mail delivery, Marc
D. Wanter, and will reach Mr.. Bovey
in time for him to report at the
armory just 81 years late for drill.
Blame for this, the record slow de-
livery of Minneapolis, does not rest
with the local post office, but with the
old mail chute in the old chamber OF
commerce building, where the card
has spent the greater part of the time
intervening between its dispatch and
| it's delivery. For the last two years
| the chute has been out of order, and
| now workmen are busy replacing it.
On taking the old chute apart, the
workmen to-day discovered the card
addressed to Mr.. Bovey, and several
letters The latter are of recent date
and have already been returned to
their senders by the post office.
| Twenty-one years of lettering on the
road have aged the militia summons
until it is as unrecognizable as Rip
Van Wrinkle after his 20 years naI
in the Catskills. Between the ink
fading and the paper turning dark, the
writing is hardly legible and the
buffeting of other mail matter shot
past it through the chute has worr
several holes in the card.
The card is addressed to "F. A
Bovey, care Eastman, Bovey & Co.
Minneapolis, Mimi" The summons
partly printed and partly written
reads as follows: "Headquarter'
Company c, First infantry, N. G. S
M.-You are hereby ordered to repor
at the armory in fatigue uniform a
7:45 p. ~. sharp, Monday and Wed
nesday, 23th inst, for drill. BY orde
of John %. Osgood, captain command
ing. John L. hines, sergeant"