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The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-02
GOV. HARRIS
Would Have Legislators Visit the
State Institutions.

Columbus, O.-Gov Harris is desir-
GUS of having every member of the
general assembly visit the various in
stituticns of the state, and thus get
first hand information before the next
session. This is in order that bills af-
fecting these institutions may be voted
upon inteligently. This was brought
about by Senators Gayman and Brandt,
from this county, calling upon the
chief executive and requesting the
freedom of the institutions in this city,
especially the penitentiary. The privi-
lege was at once extended, and Gov.
Harris stated that he wished all the
other members would act in a like
manner
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-02
WELTED BY "WHiTECAPS."
Husband Who Had Pounded His Wife
Was the Victim.

Columbus, O.-The spirit q the
"whitecaps" has not died in Franklin
county, according to reports that reach
ed the city from BellewCod, a small
village in the eastern section of the
county Jackson Hartsook was the
victim, and, since his experience, has
made himself scarce in that vicinity
Hartsook enjoyed himself occasionally
by making a punching bag of his wife.
and so we'll did she take to the sport
that a week ago she filed suit for di-
vOrce.
The farmers in that section of the
bailiwick seem to scorn wife-beaters,
for 12 of the real husky ones, armed
with whips, dragged Jackson from his
bed and left their prints on his body
in innumerable places. The chastisers
were decked in the regulation whits
sheet coverings.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-02

the catalogue seems, in some cases at
least, to be lower than the price
quoted at the local store. Isn't that
conclusive? Let's see. The catalogue
describes the goods and quotes a
price; maybe it gives picture of the
article also, but you don't see the
goods. The local merchant shows you
the goods; you may examine them
critically; he may allow you to test
them or to call in an expert to advise
you. Is it fair to conclude that the
catalogue article is the cheaper just
because the price is lower?
An element that must enter into the
comparison of goods and prices is,
that in any attempt to fool the GUS
toner, the local merchant is decided
ly at disadvantage. He must show
the goods, not merely describe them.
His business depends wholly upon the
limited trading area of his town and
his ability to inspire confidence within
that circle. He cannot afford to make
a practice of misrepresenting his
goods.
The mail order house is not so tied
down to the maxim that Honesty is
the best policy" 1t has no neighbors,
no fellow citizens, no mutual interests
with it's patrons. Its trade area is
wide and always shifting. Naturally
these conditions do not demand extra
ordinary vigilance in supplying hon
est-made goods. And where Vigilance
is not a needed employe in the busi-
ness he is generally taken off the pay
roll which makes a saving in expense,
as we'll as in the cost of the goods. If
lower prices are quoted by the cata-
logue house, may not this account for
it?
"Will it pay?" Is it a matter of
economy to buy inferior and damaged
goods when the same money. or even
little more, will pay for goods of the
best quality? Which course does a
mans first duty to his own household
dictate?
But to get at the bottom of that
question, we must consider the far
reaching general effect of mail order
trading. If single catalogue houses
are to be capitalized at $4,000, 900,
they must be reckoned with along
with Standard Oil, the beef trust and
railroad mergers. If they are allowed
to suck the blod from our country
towns, your grandchildren will find
conditions much the same as those of
your grandfathers time. Their mar
kets will be 80, so or rs miles away.
The towns and villages will be de-
serted, and the hubs" will be too dis.
tant to send the radiating spokes OF
rural mail, telephone lines and other
modern conveniences far into the
country.
CHARLES BRADSHAW,
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-02

your farm? The accessibility OF a
market. You know what your grand
father did on that same farm? Drove
his hogs and hauled his grain 30, 80,
maybe rs miles to the nearest market
town, and received prices for them
that would make you howl about the
trusts. And he hauled back the fam
.ly supplies for which he paid what
you would consider monopolistic
prices. Do you happen to know what
he old farm was worth then? Well,
Il lacked a good deal of being SIS or
S10O an acre.
Yes, the home town, with its handy
market, has advanced the value of
your property and made you worth
several thousand dollars more than
your grandfather was worth. The
home town affords schooling for your
children, and perhaps social and
church privileges which your family
would not otherwise enjoy. The rural
mail routes and telephone systems,
:adiating from the home town, as
spokes from hub, bring to your
nome the greatest conveniences of
modern times.
What would your farm be worth
and how many of these advantages
would you be enjoying now, if the
city from which that mail order cata-
ogue came were your nearest market,
your most accessible trading point,
your only post Office and social center,
he only place to which you could look
20 connect you with the outside
world?
Have you ever noticed that the first
hing the settlers of newly-opened
reservation do is to send for a wagon
Dad of mail order catalogues? Well,
haven't They lay out town cite
every six or eight miles, start two or
.hree general stores, build school
house, church, blacksmith shop, a
grain elevator, petition the depart.
rent for a post office, and start a
newspaper. They know, from former
experience that. with these things
close by, life will be endurable, what
,ver hardships may come. They know
llso, that without them they must live
ives of isolation and endure an exist
,nce that is contrary to all naturai
human instincts.
On the other hand it goes without
laying, that the average country town
annot exist without the support oi
is tributary territory. Then, if that
own affords the advantages for the
ural citizen that have been enumerat
ID, there exists what we may call an
nterdependence and moral obliga
ion between the two.' Are you, Mr.
Thrifty Farmer, living up to that OBJ
igation when you do your trading
With the mail order house?.
To this line of argument the farmer
nay answer that his greatest obliga
ion, his first duty. is to his immediate
lousehold, and that among the dutie!
his family and to the heirs of hi.
state is that of practicing judiciouI
conomy-buying where he can buy
he cbenrest and to the best advan
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-02

aries and their sons is an accusation
familiar to almost everybody.
Hawaiians Still Worshiping Devils.
Even more serious, to my mind, was
the charge made by Prof. William T..
Brigham, director of the famous Bish-
op Museum of Polynesian objects, in
Honolulu. Prof. Brigham has spent a
lifetime in the study of South Sea Is
land history, manners and customs.
He declared to me that the work of
the Christianization and civilization of
the Hawaiian people has been alto
gether superficial, and that, if the
whites were to move out tomorrow
the native would be found restoring
his old affairs and worship the very
next day.
AS proof of this he said that he had
recently found native judge in one
of the Honolulu courts-I think he
said a United States court--worship-
ing at an old native altar in one of
the remy te parts of the Island of Oahu.
Within a stones throw of the Bishop
museum, where we were talking, was
a broken down altar, which, at the
time of the political overthrow in 1898,
was reestablished, along with a some
what general recrudescence of idola-
try throughout the islands. Within
three months, he further said, in the
city of Honolulu itself, native priest
had fallen dead while conducting
heathen rites before the altar. The
worshipers, fearful that the devil
would catch them also, quickly
bundled up the appliances of idol wor.
ship and carried them to Prof.
Brigham, for they said, he would know
what to do with the devil better than
any other man Of their acquaintance.
Obookiah and the Haystack.
Before setting down the conclusions
of e first-hand investigation of re.
ligious and social conditions on these
islands (Which investigation has in
cluded interviews with thoroughly-in-
formed representatives of all parties,
and study of great mass of docu-
mentary evidence, available only here)
1t is necessary to tell the story of
Obookiah, and of the islands as the
missionaries found them. sse ~
The Sandwich islands, as the Ha-
waiian group were named by their dis
coverer, Capt. Cook, were populated
by race of remote Aryan origin, who
in the sixth century before had been
driven north from the Samoan islands,
over thousands Of miles of sea, in
canoes of their own making AS late
as the thirteenth century they main
tained relations, mostly wArliRe, with
the people of the southern Poiynesiar
archipelago They never practiced
cannibahsm, though human sacrifice
was one of their religious rites. They
were race of unusual yigor, longevity
and comeliness. Their skill In fIandi
craft Is attested by the marvellous
feather c1oaks once worn by Hawaiian
royalty, and now the almost priceless
a0ssessicn of few museums.
e.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-02
INAUMANlTY CHARGED
Toward Starving and Injured Cattle,
To Senator kinsman.

. Warren, O--As the result Of an in
vestigation by William COrll, humane
agent, of the condition Of stock on
Senator Thomas Kinsman's farm, at
Kinsman, the statesman has been sum-
moned to appear before Justice c. c..
Bubb to answer to charge Of neg
lcct.
Corll says he found uncared for in
the barn heifer with a broken leg,
and a dead sheep nearby, while other
sheep were dead over the farm. Twen-
ty-four cows and horses were found in
bad condition, it is said, having had
little or no care during the winter.
The entire place is in most unsanI-
tary condition." Corll declares.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-02

Such was the stock from which
came the 14-year-old boy, bearing the
euphonious name of Oboolliah, who,
in 1909, was found weeping on the
doorsteps of Yale college. He had
fled from Hawaii, having seen his
parents slain before his eyes in a
civil war, and had made his way to
America in one of the New England
ships which then piled all waters. His
thirst for knowledge and religion at.
tracted widespread attention. Samuel
]. Mills, a young man who had come
to New Haven from Williams college,
was especially interested in this lat.
est man from Macedonia" and he
took Obookiah to his own home, at
Torringford
Mills was a missionary enthusiast.
He was the prime mover in the little
band of Williams students who had
devoted themselves to the cause of
foreign missions, and whose historic
prayer meeting in 1906, under a Will
Jamestown haystack. is regarded as
the beginning of the American foreign
mission enterprise winch to-day en-
braces practically all Christian
churches in the land and has made
the American missionary a conspicu-
GUS figure on all the continents and
islands of the earth. Out of that hay
stack meeting--the site is now marked
by monument-grew the American
board, then representing both Congre.
grationalists and Presbyterians.
Oboolliah's pleadings pointed to
Hawaii as the first stronghold of
heathenism to be attacked by the new
movement and the young zealots who
were its real leaders. In 1919 a party
of % persons, seven of whom were
wives and five children, set sail for
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-02
Ight. by Joseph B. Bowles.)

Copyright by Joseph B. Bowles)
Honolulu, T. H. - AS "a para
disc of natural beauty Hawaii is
of interest to the tourists; but
to the student of religious, social
and political questions it's greatest i'm
portance lies in the swiftness of its
transition from a savage community,
bound by the practice of human sacri-
fee and the allied and greater curse of
the taboo, into self-governing, order
ly and prosperous community, admit
ted into the sisterhood of the Amer
lean union within rs years after the
time it began to emerge from rank
barbarism
A Complete Product Of Missions.
AS a widely-heralded completed
product of missions Hawaii has long.
been advertised by missionary work
ers. 1t has been said, times without
number, that this is one of the few
places on the globe where the mis-
sionaries finished their task; leaving
to support and direct themselves as a
Christian nation, the people whom,
little more than a generation before.
they had found naked savages. For in
1853 the American board formally
withdrew from the Hawaiian islands,
which it hac entered in 1920.
Are the Missionaries Grafters?
There, broadly stated, is one side of
the situation. On the other hand. it
has been charged, by innumerable per
sons and publications, that while the
missionaries to Hawaii pointed the be-
nighted native to mansions in the
skies they at the same time quietly
took possession of the natives earthly
real estate. That the whole island,
even since it has become territory
is the private graft of the mission
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-02
Arnold's Bitter Cup,

MiI1ersburg, O.-That Franklin Ar
mold, living west of here, had been
badly crippled in both legs and had
lost a hand in recent years evidently
was not enough. His horse ran away
He was thrown out. His hip was fear
fully crushed, one lip torn away and
other injuries sustained.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-02
sleenv Juror Made Trouble.

A French barrister, whose client
had the misfortune to be found guilty,
appealed on the ground that during
the trial juryman was asleep. The
court Of cessation has held that the
juryman, being. asleep, was technical
ly not present during the hearing, and
has quashed the verdict and ordered
a new trial.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-02
Suee Mine Maonate.

Akron, O.-Fraud is charged against
A. r. Barnett, of this city, millionaire
miner, by James H. Canston, one OF
his former partners in the gold fields,
in a suit filed here Some time ago Bar
nett created considerable sensation by
sending $5O,OOO in gold nuggets to a
local hank
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-02
MShn4 IInn the Town.

Lima, O.-Three strangers shot up"
the village of Beaverdam and looted
the hardware store of C. c. Keller and
the general stores of ]. c. Patterson.
The thieves took Winchesters and re-
volvers, and are believed to have been
rails Of the ALLEGED Sidney murderers.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-02
To Found Settlement.

Columbus Grove, O.-By order OF tha
general church committee a party OF
ministers and laymen have gone to-
Texas, Oklahoma and Indian Territory
for the purpose of purchasing land to
establish new Mennonite settlement
Fifty thousand acres will be bought
and Mennonites will be given every ad-
vantage in locating in the new coun-
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-02
Police Chiefs Win in zee Case,

Columbus, O.-The supreme court
handed down decision which is Of
rar-reaching effect in municipalities
within the state. Under the decision,
chiefs of police in cities where there
is no police court ere entitled to re-
ceiYe fees in state cases.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-02
Saws charoes Are False.

Sandusky, O.-J. C. Porterfield, for
merly chief game warden, says he will
disprove every charge lodged against
him with Gov. Harris by Paul North,
president of the state fish and game
commission He is en- route to Co
lumbus from Cleveland, where he has
been searching court records.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-02

Columbus, O.-Seized with wild in
sanity on board Pennsylvania train,
Frank NJ. Thompson, superintendent of
the United States geological survey,
fought the train crew all the way from
Logansport, Ind, to Columbus, where
he was removed to a police station,
where he killed himself in his cell.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-02
TWO Utter ImposslbIIltlss.

Palpably spurious is the claim Of a
Boston man that he has discovered a
method for producing an exact coun-
terfeit of the best grade of maple
sugar. 1t would be no more possible
to counterfeit real maple sugar than
it would be to develop even plausl.
bic imitation of Boston man.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-02
rnn Much Of a Task.

A London professor has been count
ing the germs that were picked up by
a woman who dragged her skirt
through the street, He found 16;KO0,.
900 of them. We are authorized, how.
ever, to say that he did not take the
trouble to name Them all.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-02
Win Live in Cincinnati.

Hamilton O.-After an acquaintance
of two weeks Robert Terry, photo
grapher, and Miss Vera Kellogg elope'
to Cincinnati and were married in Ken
lucky. Terry has been appointed Off
ciaI photographer for the Cincinnati
Zoo, and the couple will live in Gin
cfnnati.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-02
RIeedinn To Death.

Springfield, O.-Walter Shires was
found bleeding to death from wound
in his head. He told the police he
had been struck by Frank Jones in a
wineroon fight over a woman at the
. Palmer house. Shires may recover.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-02
Maniac = Suicide.

East Liverpool, O.-Fred Myers. a
baker, 4S, thwarted in an attempt tc
shoot his wife, drank carbolic acid and
died in a few minutes. Members oi
her family saved the wife. Myers on
ly recently was a patient at the Mas
sill0n ASYLUM.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-02
plan Mnnster nlke-

Marietta, O,-The board of trade ana
the Merchants association have ap-
pointed joint committee to consider
the construction Of dixie around thu
city as a protection against foods Of
the Ohio river.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-02
Eerru Boat Capsized.

Marietta, O.-During a severe wind
storm, which was accompanied by an
electric display, ferry boat was cap
sized. There were eight persons on
board the boat at the time, but all
were rescued
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-02
$500 Paner Men Strike.

Hamilton, O.-The night force at
the Champion Coated Paper Co.'S
plant, numbering 1900 persons, went
on strike, demanding an eight-hour
shift. This is the largest paper mill
in the country.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-02

Hamilton, O.-Paul Sorg, son of the
late Congressman Paul ]. Sorg, of Mid,
dletown, O., transferred his interests
In the United States hotel, the Sorg
opera house and the Homestead prop
erty, all in Middletown, to his mother
The consideration named was 81.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-02
Oil Driller Killed,

Steubenvile, o. William Grant,
aged A, an oil driller, of Rimershurg,
Pa. was killed here by lightning that
struck an oil derrick on the Strain
farm, on the West Virginia side of the
river
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-02
Eaton Gets the Plant.

Columbus, O.-The state board OF
health at it's meeting approved the
plans for a sewage-disposal plant at
Eaton. A large delegation was pres
ent from Greenville, requesting an ex,
tension of three years further time in
which to complete the disposal plant
there
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-02
cars and Shops DESTROYED.

Cincinnati.-Fire totally destroyed
the big car barn and the repair shop
of the Cincinnati, Georgetown & Ports
mouth Electric Railway Co., located in
the east end. The damage done is es-
timated at 100000, with $4,000 insur-
ancQ
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-02
s+rsnoved With shoestrinos,

Marion, O-James Leach, a shoe
string peddler, minus both feet, was
found dead in the city prison. He had
strangIed himself with two pairs of
shoestrings. He had prayed all day
in his cell
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-02
CHARLES BRADSHAW
Cunnlnn and lonorance.

Cunning always has been the Of.
fensive and defensive weapon of ig.
norance. Match cunning with Gun.
ming" only as last resort-John A.
Rowland.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1907-02-15
Delinquent Taxes
for the Year 1905

by virtue of a warrant issued by the
County Clerk and ex-officio Clerk of the
county Court OF Lincoln County, State
of Oregon, by order of the County Court
of said county, dated January IA, 1907,
the several, tracts or parcels of real
property embraced in the delinquent
tax fist for the year 1905, which is hereto
annexed and made a part of this notice, in
the manner and .orm as upon sale of real
property under execution to the person
who will pay the taxes cost and accruing
penalties thereon and take a certificate at
the lowest rate OF interest l shall con-
tinue the sale, from day to day, beginning
on the 23rd of February, 1907, until all
OF said real estate shall have been sold.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1907-02-15

tcontinued on page y
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-03-26
EMPLOYERS BENEfITTEn
THROUGH THE EFFORT TO
ERADICATE CONSUMPTION.

determined effort is being made Providence L. to stamp
out tuberculosis particularly the mill hands
poyes The Brown Sharp Mfg Co. which employs upward OF 1000
actively cooperating Ia this movement
The first notice In the works. explaining the
the disease the danger OF negecng the early
TOMS advising the effective
specially ubecular disease provided
the empoye, TO examine and advice each
employees took advantage OF the privilege
given suggestion follow
we'll advice while still Others had
effort.
among Some were
State Sanatom for modern open air
take air work. and wherever possible
them No re-
the works. for his we'll for that fellow
Sanitary precautions prevent
Many OF the have already returned work robust
aud generally 10 fine condition.
Few any large Adjustments
sumption among employees well known fact that pulmonary
tuberculosis ndous 10 Its workings that the victim seldom real
the until the disease has taken strong hold
the apparently superficial colds coughs that the cpien
found suggestion employer the thing needed
Doubtless the future will
regulations governing tuberculosis aud the progressive
who doing this work OF their voton only anticipating
what will probably be made compulsory.
Colds often lead serious and should be
colds the
formula prescribed by authority lung trouble that calls
half Whskey, OF Glycne and half
Virgin oil OF Pine ure) These ingredients little
prescription druggist
we'll md In tesspoonful doses every hours.
Virgin oil Of Pine tPure for dispensing only half
vial securely sealed
engraved wrapper showing Pure guaran
the Food and Drugs Act OF June 1906
il by Leach Chemical Cincinnati Ohio-pany
printed thereon. sold rank limitations
OF Virgin oil OF Pine ure) under style
package only Ineffective but always
object OF mltator deceive
substitute for Virgin Oil OF Pine tPure).