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The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1907-05-30
NoTRE DAME OF ReIMs.
No Cathedral In France Its Equal In
Wealth or Ornament.


Wealth or Ornament.
The place where 1t (Reims cathe-
draD stands is far too closely shut In
by small and insignificant houses But
the strongest light the meanest sur
roundings, could not lessen the marvel
Of 20 marvellous q church, and mag
nificent is the word that occurs to one
on the threshold, as to Arthur Young
on the distant hilltop. There is no ca
thedral in France that can equal 1t In
wealth, in extravaganza, In gorgeous
ness of ornament The facade of Notre
Dame of Paris, while something like 1t
In general design, is of Puritan sim
plicity beside the facade of Notre
Dame Of Reims. No other west doors
are more deeply recessed, more richly
charged with sculpture, row upon row.
tier upon tier, some statues being as
Unexpectedly Greek in character as
others are Gothic. No other sculptures
are on so large and imposing n scale.
No other gables over the doors soar
upward in such high, acute angles. No
Othti ShOW ouNh thbhhSfNhNht Va
figures and traceries. And the great.
tall windows above and the rose be-
tween are 80 beset with ornament that
hardly an inch of bare stone remains
about them. In the gallery of kings
the statues stand under carven cano-
pies. intricate, delicate, lacellke In their
elaboration. The tall central gable,
fretted and 1amboyant reaches up still
higher, and on each side of II the tow
ers. with the long lines Of their arches
and windows. seem bent on carrying
the glory of 1t all to the very heights
of heaven.
Nor were architect and sculptor less
lavish when they turned from the west
front. Everywhere 1t Is the same. The
buttresses stand firm. mass Of ar
cades, inches sheltering wide winged
angels and tall pinnacles, or they 90
flying across aisles In as light. graceful
and ornate a flight as II beauty were
Its only object. They are the most
beautiful buttresses in France, Fergus
son says; the grandest pinnacles. Mr..
Moore declares. and both are right.
The transepts are only new spaces for
new ornament; the apse Is only new
motive for the new arrangement Of
buttresses and plnnaoles. The gar
goyles somehow seem more mon
strous than those that look down from
other cathedral walls, and around the
top Of the apse, perched on a high bal
ustrade, are grotesQues-owls, mer-
maids, grifIins, unicorns-strange be-
ings that come of the same family as
the devils of Notre Dame in Paris, only
the grotesques of Reims are where
they can be seen from below, where
they serve In the decorative scheme.
breaking the horizontal lines of the bal
ustrade with the effect Of still another
row of pinnacles. have wandered for
days about the cathedral without COM
Ing to the end of Its inexhaustible de-
tail. 1t Is almost incredible that one
church could be so covered with orna-
ment, that Its walls could bear upon
their surface such a rhythmical con-
fusion of sculptured stone.--Ellzabetb
Robins Pennell in Century.
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Stablerize your house cleaning.
SINKING SPRING.
MAY 81, 1907.


Several ladies of the W. c. T. U.
attended the convention at Hillsboro
Wednesday.
F. Bennington, of Taylorsville, has
been employed as principal of our
schools, and Miss Jennie Hite as
primary teacher. ~
Helen House and Lulu Butler we're
successful applicants at the Patter-
son examination.
HARLEM Wickerham, of Mt. Grab, is
visiting his uncle, o. G. Wickerham.
Mrs. Harley Butler, of Springfield,
ls the guest of relatives here.
Rev, Bolton spent a part of last
week with his daughter at Winches-
ter.
Mr.. and Mrs, F.. Belleson and son
James, spent Sunday with Mrs. George
Eubanks, of Carmel.
Mrs. Essie Johnston, of Portsmouth,
10 the guest of relatives here.
Mrs. Frank Garman has returned
from a visit with her daughters at
Springfield.
Ars. Simeon Overhulzer and son
have returned to their home IN Spring,
neAu'f fi tYt t@ ~ \ e5@Fxe ffN
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BELL.
May q, 1901.

- May q, 1907.
The heavy frost and freeze of last
night did considerable damage to
vegetation. 81
Mrs. Mollie Simms, after spending
a few days here the past week, re-
turned to Greenfield.
Mrs. washburn, of Red Line, is
spending few weeks with her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Marie Frazier.
Wedding cards are out for two of
Belfast's former boys. DR.. John Gar
rett, of Indiana, and Homer Cooper,
of Indian Territory.
Several from here attended the
Sunday School convention at Hills
boro and report very interesting
session.
The farmers who planted real early
had to plant their corn over.
Miss Nellie swonger, of Lexington,
10 spending the summer with her aunt,
Mrs. Joseph swonGer. t
Mrs. Joseph swonger and Mrs. Frank
Kelly recently visited Mrs. Franc es
Kelly, of Hillsboro, who is quite poorly
Lycurgus Mendenhall became un-
manageable last Friday and on Mon
day he was returned to the asylum at
Athens.
Miss Mable Kelly has been spending
the past few weeks with friends at
Hillsboro.
Mrs. Mary e. Lovett, who spent the
past four years here caring for her
aged parents, returned Tuesday to
her home and friends in Lyons, Kan.
She leaves host of we'll wishing
friends here. She was accompanied
to the train by her sister-in-law, Mrs.
Elizabeth Lovett.
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Stablerize your house cleaning.
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FORT HILL.
Nav 81, 1867

"oy 80 ioos'
Miss Dora Hickman, of Columbus,
is the guest of her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. T. A. Hickman.
Wesley Washburn and wife, John
Vanzant, wife and babe, of Dallas,
spent Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. j. P.
Harens.
Mrs. Permelia A. Kissling visited
friends in Sinking Spring Friday.
Mrs. Dan Butler and daughter, Miss
Bess, and grandson visited at the
home of T. L. Lovett, at Rainsboro,
Friday.
Clay White, wife and babe, of Tur.
key, called on the formers parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. White, Sunday.
Walter Rhoades, of Sinking Spring,
called on Mrs. Phina Hickman Sun
day afternoon.
James Mccoy and wife and James
Mccall, wife and son, David, of Gym
thiana, spent Sunday with the latter's
son, Tom Mccall, and wife.
John Mace and daughter, Miss
Edith, visited Charlie Eubank and
family at Carmel Saturday and Sun.
day.
Charlie Turner, Of New Vienna,
visited Dan Butler Sunday night and
Monday.
=. 8. Dearduff and son, Roy. made a
business trip to Hillsboro Saturday.
Mrs. Rebecca Stults, who has been
quite sick, is now better.
Mr.. and Mrs. Manford Lawson, of
Ceader Chapel, called ON Mrs. Rebecca
Stults Thursday afternoon. sf
Mr.. and Mrs. George Malone and
little son, of PEBBLES, Nathan West,
of Bellefountaine, and Mise Cora
Garrett, of Belfast, spent Sunday at
'Butler's Springs, sfas. 4
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was planning. and he was glad when
the tiny clock struck II and he had
an excuse for stopping for lunch.
He had not yet made his fame as an
architect and lunch was an elementary
meal-a couple of sandwiches brought
down from home and cake of maple
sugar that he had picked up some
where. He Clipped Off corner of the
cake with his eraser.
On the broken half yellowish CLINT
caught his eye. and he further dissected
his portion II was ring. slender
band OF gold. with ct. III. to A. G.,
1904" engraved inside. Plainly some
girls engagement ring this. Perhaps
some little country girl was bewailing
her loss even yet. He caught up the
box, with its gaudy label II bore the
address. and that evening he posted n
letter addressed to Thomas Gillespie,
Wycoma. VT, In which he explained
the discovery Of the ring and announc-
ed his willingness to return 1t on a
proper description.
With his own little romance OF the
girl across the hall. Vance Keeler felt
interested In all romances. and as he
slipped the letter into the box he sent
after II wish for good luck.
But sometimes blessings. like curses.
come home to roost. He was beginning
to fear that there would be no answer
to his letter. that perhaps the label
was but an evasion Of the pure food
law, when there came knock at his
door. and In answer to his ENTER"
there appeared the girl from across the
hall. bushing rosily.
81 believe that you are Mr.. Vance
Keeler." she began as Vance sprang to
his feet and busted of the company
chair.
"You have the advantage Of me-" he
suggested. "since I do not know your
name"
81 am Agnes Gillespie" she ex-
planned. "My father wrote me to see
you about letter you sent him."
"And you were working right across
the hall all the timer he cried. "Rath-
err a roundabout way, isn't it7 l sup
pose you can describe It,"
"It was plain gold band" she
said ''The initials were T. III. and A.
G. and the date 1904"
"The initials are right" he agreed,
"but the date Is wrong. It's 1904"
"That Ia because the ring has been
worn SO long" she explained, the red
suffusing her face. "The Is partly
erased"
The blush convinced him. and his
heart sank as he drew out the ring.
Perhaps she was bashful about admit
ting her engagement, but 1t was 1904.
He could swear to that.
Her face broke into smiles as he
drew It from his pocket and passed II
b her.
II never thought that ! should see II
again." she ran on. 1T dropped of
my hand last year while was helping
with the sugaring. I never realized
that It might be In the sugar until II
had all been shipped"
She slipped the ring on her finger. and
Vance noticed that 1t was perfect IT.
He breathed silent vengeance on "T
H." as he held the door open for her
but took satisfaction In the thought
that he at least knew her name.
After that when they met on the
stairs they, exchanged greetings. and
several times she had to run into bor'
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Up to Date.

This time, snya the Tablet. 1t Is the
Sunday school from which emanates
the twentieth century distinction be-
tween the quick aud the dead" .
"Yes. miss" said the youthful but
observing scholar. 'the quick IL them
that gets out Of the way OF motor eays.
and the ossd y them a. dossu't"
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delight by the weary players-and
with especial delight toward the
end OF II hard season, when there
Is but small chance to play off the
nostponomcnt.
II Is on these rainy days that things
are doing around the hotels. The
first drop of rain is the signal for
the poker games to start and, with
dozen players, all vulgarly healthy,
cooped up In one hotel. and usually
on one floor. there are certain to be
things started
When there is n game on the pres
cnce of a ball club in big hotel
scarcely is noticed by the other
guests, bur. ON rainy days the hotel
management usually has It's own
troubles
There was q game stopped by rain
at Cament, little town below San
Bernardino, Cal, last winter. which
The umpire never called. In spite OF
that act, however, it was stopped all
right.
The ball grounds were at the edge
OF town in n beautiful valley in the
midst of vegetable gardens, straw
berry patches and short distance
up toward the foothills the orange
groves began, and down below, per-
hnps 200 yards from the ball field
there was river bed with drop or
two of water iii It,. Most of the bed
OF that river was as dry as a bone.
ne team OF Pomona was playing
ut Cament that Sunday afternoon
and the glorious sunshine of Califor-
, mia was, for the first time i'm DAYS.
flooding the field. Perhaps 200 rival
RIOTERS were present.
In the sixth inning. with Camoent
two runs behind. Il cloud shot out
from the mountains and little rain
fell Pomona wanted the game stop
ped and Cament protested. The UNI
pire decided to continue,
in the next inning a little more rain
fell, and the argument was removed.
The players and umpire and most
of the spectators were GROUPED in the
field wrangling end arguing, when
suddenly the cepter fielder ran. an
instant later n val of water fnnr
feet high broke across the fell The
umpire didn't wait Ia call The game.
he saw that cloii,hursf I'D the
mountain had swelled the torrent,
and he fled. Three of the players
end perhaps dozen spectators came
near being washed away before they
reached the higher ground
Mill creek, working in conjunction
with, the Ohio river mt Cincinnati.
once tnserrupted s game and caused
one of the oddesI decisions ever Civ.
cn The Poplar Stars were 3laying
down in the Liberty street bottoms
against Jake Stencils team. This
Sat before Jake ever broke into fast.
company, George Yaager, Barry Nc
Co'miclS. Big Mike Ryan, Eddie Ash
ant:. a lot of others who afterwards
sshtne in base bali. were playing on
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With iIhe Paranraphers.

Rochester Herald: Schmltz is n
striking example of the kind of man
who seizes opportunity greediiy and
wrings It's neck
st. Louis Republic: CUP like a
rocket and down like a stick" we
tIust has no subtle reference to a
decline of big-stick popularity.
Chicago Tribune: eff you can't
telegraph" says the st. Louis Times,
tell a phone" And If can't wire
more, wireless.
Rochester Union and Advertiser:
Evidently the cannon cracker should
receive careful attention from the au-
tborities between this and the
Fourth.
Brooklyn Eagle: Mark Twain and
the King of Siam divide attention Mt
Windsor, and the white silt takes
more than little shine off the white
elephant.
Secretary Taft is beginning pain
fully to realize that there is one
qualification for sitting on the lid
and another for sprlnting TO the
perch. Macon Telegraph.
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Supcrstitious.

4 we'll known New Yorker, while
dining ut his club one evening OBJ
served that his order of oysters on the
shell was not complete, there being
only eleven bivalves instead Of the
dozen it was his custom TO order. On
rejecting that his waiter. an Irishman.
was newcomer. he decided to let the
matter pass. but when on the next
evening the same thing occurred he
became trlfle impatient.
See here" exclaimed he to the wait
err, what do you mean by bringing me
eleven oysters when order twelve?
This is the second time that this thing
has happened"
Sure, sir" quietly responded the
Celt. 81 didn't think you would want to
risk being thirteen at table. sir"
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A COINCIDENCE.
Peculiar Combination Of Events Re-
lated by Andrew Lana.

hatcu by Andrew Lang.
AS to "the long arm of coincidence"
It may be as long as is necessary.
Nothing is impossible to coincidence.
An instance of my own experience,
said Andrew Lang. convinces me Of
this fact. l had been reading Il foolish
book, "Out of the Hurry Burly." and
some of the rhymes ran in my head.
They began:
Bury Bartholomew out In the woods
In beautiful hole in the ground
In the afternoon drove with par
ty of friends, and we took the refresh
ment of tea at house where there
were several other guests. oil unknown
to me even by name. AS two of these
lived at place on our homeward
route, they accompanied us in our We.
hicle. AS we passed wood on hill
side one of these anonymous strangers
said TO me. This is the burial place OF
the Murrays OF Glendhubreac." alb
sently and automatically replied:
Bury Bartholomew out In the woods
In q beautiful hole in the ground
a kind of chill. blight settled on the
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Whom Life is Wasted.

Life is wasted every time one gives
away to gloomy, selfish angry or re-
vengcful thoughts; when resentment
or a grudge against man or fate is al
lowed to find root in the heart; when
the temper is let fly loose over q trifle;
when one goes to pieces neryously
when obliged to repeat remark and
the voice is allowed to rise in anger;
when one forgets that a loose temper
is a sign Of vulgarity and lack OF Gull
ture.- Philadelphia Press.
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BOOKS AND BINDINGS.
q Critics Comparison of tho Modern
With the Ancient.

"
With the Ancient.
. zone of the strangest things about
The early printing is the fact that the
paper ana binding were so much bet
Ter than we have nowadays" suid St.
Louis collector.
81 have books on my shelves printed
and bound by presumably reputable
Trims. and yet after six or eight years
of careful use the paper IS coming to
pieces and the bindings are gone while
side by side with them are books 300
years old with paper intact and the
bindings rs good rs new. The differ
cnce is of course In honesty of ma
terial and work. In the old DAYS a
hide was allowed to lie in the tan
ners watts for ycar before 1t was
thought fit for use. Paper was hand
made of real linen rags. Now book
leather Is ready two or three weeks
after the calf has been skinned. Pa
per Is machine made of heaven knows
what. OF course there may be honest
ly made paper and strong binding now,
as there We're then, but couple of
hundred years ago good binding and pa
per were the rule. Now they are the
rare. also the costly, exceptions. 1t is
true that the high temperatures OF the
houses, the gases and coal fumes may
have something to do with impalring
leather bindings. for, as everybody
knows. stout cloth or canvas binding
is better than the leather now used.
The same influences may also damage
the paper, but still the fact remains
that neither the temperature nor the
gases affect the work of the old print
ers, so the difference after all, is one
OF quality."--St. Louis Globc-Democrat
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julius Caesar.

The consensus of learned opinion is
to the effect that history's all around
greatest man was julius Caesar, the
originator of Roman Imperialism. Gaze
sar was great as general and great
rs writer and speaker. but greater
rs statesman. Could lie have been
spared the assassin's dagger and been
permitted to live ten years longer he
might have set civilization ahead a
full thousand years.--New York Ameri-
can.
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nrNss, h.

party, though one or tnem tacuully
asked me what poet I was quoting
When we had set down our two
strangers at their own home was
asked whether knew the name of the
gentleman on whom | had expended
my poetlcal quotation? or course dill
not know, and of course his surname
was Bartholomew, while, rs he seemed
i'll bad health. my citation had an air
OF brutal appropriateness. "Thus does
fortune banter u.s." for Bartholomew
is most unusual name in Scotland.
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strobe his horse and spurred up the

strobe his horse and spurred up the
valley
About five minutes later, with the
score 81 to 10 and two out, there
came u rush of water that flooded the
irrigation bitches. poured over the
field, and broke up the game.
'Blondy' had opened the gates and
let half the water out OF the reser-
voir-but he had saved Mowry. so
there was no kick from the ranchers
who suffered from the flood and loss
OF precious water.
Comiskey ran against wet ground
postponement at San Francisco once
where two grasping Eastern rs. were
hoist by their own petard. They had
guaranteed Comiskcy's team 81 400
for the afternoon game, and had put
up certified checks to bind their ag-
rooment. Rain fell Internationally all
morning Int not enough to stop play.
yet the Native Sons would not Civ
up. Tho idea of small crowd and n
payment of 81 400 after taking in
perhaps $3.50 Jared him.
Comiskcy happened to stray into
the park about noon and found the
native sons, busily working with fire
hose Flooding the grounds and MAX
Ing them too wet for play He call
cd witnesses, watched the entire per-
formancc, and waited. That after
noon the sun shone brightly, t hous-
ands flocked To the park to see the
champions. but the game was called
on account of wet grounds.
One of the men who attempted to
turn tho rick and bcat the Customers
out of their money later became a
great prize fight manager and later
broke into the theatrical business. He
has, proposed and grown rich, but it
is not recorded that he ever turned
the hose ON to any grounds to save
4 guarantee since that time.
But. in spite of that, he has had
imiators even in big leagues whip
have helped out nature in making
the grounds too wet to play, espec-
tally in the days when the home cub
guaranteed certain sums to the visi-
tors
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( Eail PLAYERS Ike Rain.

No game, RAIN" Is one Of the
bright sports in the line of ball
player. The deluge that brings sor-
row TO the fans and dismay to the
Management always is greeted with
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NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Yesterdays Results.

Yesterdays Results.
Chicago, i: Pittsburg, 2.
Philadelphia-New York, postponed;
rain.
Cincinnati, A; st. Louis, D. IA in
nings).
Brooklyn-Boston, postponed, rain.
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The Certain Way.

Tell me-" said the lovelorn youth.
what's tho best way to find out what
a woman thinks of you?y
Marry her!p replied Peckham
promptly, Philadelphia Press.
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Club STANDINGS.

Yesterdays Results.
Richmond-Danville, no game; rain.
Two games postponed.
Roanoke-Norfolk, postponed; rain.
MISUNDERSTANDING, no game;
rain.
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Cycnjus.

The last chapter of this novel
ends, and they lived happy forever
after"
''Ah then they didn't marry.r-At.
lanta Constitution.
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afternoon in April they were enjoy
ing the rare pleasure of playing in
an Enclosed groud-whch had been
the property of some gun club.
The Ohio was OH IL rampage, anu
for the third time in the spring had
reaohcd flood stage, but the bottoms
were not submerged. On that after
noon, late in the game, one OF Stem
zeIs team hit Il long fly to left. The
fielder went after it--and just as he
did so, the left field fence started to-
ward him. carried on the crest of a
huge wave of bnckwater which had
piled up Mill creek. The fence came
so rapidly that the ball went over it
and the left fielder turned and fled
In two minutes the entire space was
inundated and the players and spec
tators were squatting on railway en-
bankmcnt and trying to fish out
floating bats
Then the argument arose. The Po-
plar Stars, who were run ahead
claimed the game, while the Stencil
crowd argued that, as tile ball went
over the fence, IL was home run
and they won.
The umpire finally decided that he
had called the game on account of
wet grounds and that the score re-
ycrtcd ia Il tie.
The meanost wet ground game ever
played, however, was pulled off at
Mowry, n Nj. few years ago There
was great rivalry between the team
Mt Mowry and the team representing
/ Nuts, on the other side of the noun
tains. THE Mowry team was compos-
Cd almost entirely of cowboy won,
del, who once pitched against the Chi
cage National league team, and with
ms spurs OH al that. The Nuts team
was composed mainly of miners and
railway men, so naturally there was
great rivalty, and much coin was
waged on the outcome. Nuts is on
the cast side of the Mmbres range
all6 MowIy on the west Nuts is at
the edge of the mountains. on sion.
ms grounds. and Mowry. while IL
stands right at the base of Crook
peak, is situated in flat ground. ire
gated, and alongside the Mimbres
river. The ball ground is near where
me old Santo Fe trail crosses tho
Mimbres.
There the teams met in deadly com.
bat, and beef steers were wagdd
against>copper claims and lead mines
with reckless disregard of value.
AT the beginning of the eighth in.
ming Mawry was leading by score
OF 10 to ., and Danny Taylor was
pitching In great shape. using his
famous lariet curve. Suddenly, how.
ever. in the first of the eighth, Tay.
lor hurt his arm and retired in favor
az Bill Shatton, and Nuts began to
crack the ball mo pun intendcd).
a regular stream of Nuts players
swarmed around the bases, and they
had scored 16 runs with only one oui
when "Blsndy' Kiskadden decided to
take hand.
@Blondy" wasn't in the game bit
he had some $3.50 In cash and about
forty head of steers wagered. and
he didn't propose to lose to n bunch
miners and sheep herders from the
Rio Grande side of the hills He he