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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-04-12

petition among all the city students
In all schools and colleges where
military science is taught under fed
eral appropriation strict course in
target work is compulsory. Regular
army officers are on duty at these in
stitutions. If the movement contin-
ues to grow 1t is hoped that shooting
ranges will be established in every
public school in the land.
While the presidents idea is gen
orally approved, there are some per-
sons and some organizations very
much opposed to it. The Interparlia-
ment Art Union, which is working to
bring about the peace of the world is
antagonizing the presidents pro-
gramme on this particular question,
although 1t regards him as one of it's
stanchest supporters in the world
movement for universal peace. The
union takes the ground that If uni
versal peace is to be established by
means of international arbitration, It
becomes a false step for nation to
be cultivating warlike spirit among
its youths and young men by teach
ing them to shoot with the idea that
they may some time be called on to
shoot to kill in battle.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-04-12
GOVERNMENT MAKES BIG
SAVING In COST OF INK

that something was wrong. 1t de-
veloped that the ink used was made
by process invented by a man in
the bureau. The government paid As
cents a pound for a hard black" and
as high as 65 cents pound for a
soft black" When the charges we're
made last year, Director Sullivan of
the bureau made personal investi-
cation of the manner in which the
coior contracts were made, and found
that satisfactory black could be pro-
duced for 12 cents pound.
Thereupon the price was reduced.
and the saving for the year was more
than $114,000. The color contracts
heretofore had been in charge of the
ink expert of the bureau, and the
price had been about what is char ged
by several different ink concerns in
the open market
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-04-12

A LLEGED Irregularities in the pur-
n chase of dry colors for use in the
bureau of engraving and printing
have been brought to light through
which the government has paid about
$1,000,000 too much for its supplies.
Whether the irregularities are action
able or not is now under considera-
tion by United States Attorney Baker
of the District of Columbia.
The matter has been under investi-
CATION by the treasury department for
about year, and has been kept very
quiet. 1t finally transpired through
the publication OF the hearings on the
sundry civil bill before the house com
mittee on appropriations.
For several years the government
paid from As to 60 cents pound for
these colors. Concerns which had lost
In the bidding finally made charges
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-04-12
TEACHING SCHOOL BOYS
TO SHOOT WITH RIFLES
D RESIDENT RoosEvELTs ardent

~ 1NoNhoi1N y
wish to make America a nation of
sharpshooters is in fair way of
realization. Shooting clubs are being
formed in the various states and are
procuring arms from the war depart
ment; agents are being sent to the
large cities for the purpose of in
structing the students in the public
schools how to load and sight rifles
so that the school boys may acquire
proficiency. in the art of killing.
Not the least startling of the varied
progressive ideas Incorporated In
President Roosevelt's last message to
congress was suggestion that rifles
be put in the hands of public school
boys and course in firing at targets
be included in the education of Amer.
lean youths. This recommendation
was the final chapter in the presi'
dents message, apparently having
been added as an afterthought
In the Washington schools brisk
competition has been started to de-
termine the best marksman. The boys
are tested by firing the guns from
standing, kneeling and lying posi-
tions. The most expert pupils in the
different grades are to meet in com
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-04-12

ways, fine fountain, and other orna-
ments usually found in public pleasure
grounds. Moreover, visitors have been
free to wander through the grounds at
will for years.
Mr.. Letchworth found the land in a
dilapidated state, most of the wood
having been cut off by lumbermen
His first labor was to remove the
debris and replant the forests. Real
izing that the gorge and falls might at
any time be taken for business pur-
poses, he gradually extended his hold
ings until he owned the three cascades
and lands on both sides Of the river.
Farms have been laid out on the level
uplands, the farm houses and other
buildings being designed in the Swiss
chalet style. Back of his house is a
group of small buildings which add
greatly to the interest of the place.
These include a small fireproof mu-
scum containing several thousand In
dian relics and fossil head of mas
todon found a few miles away, and
geological specimens.
Another building in the group is an
old Indian council house built of logs
and removed to the spot from Cane
ada In this dwelling the survivors
of the Iroquois confederacy met in 1872
and held the last Indian council of the
Genesee valley. Close by is the grave
and monument of Mary Jemison, the
"Old White Woman of the Genesee."
Taken captive when girl during the
French and Indian war, she spent her
life among the Indians. She was
buried on the site of the city of Buf'
falo, and her grave was threatened
with determination in 1874 by the
opening of street. Mr.. Letchworth
had the body removed to his estate
and the monument erected over it. He
also caused a log cabin which the
white woman had built for one of hel
daughters to be brought there and
up near by.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-04-12

when the Governor sprung leak.
We threw everything overheard to
tighten her except few casks of wa
ter and two barrels of whisky. We
cut holes in the deck to bail water,
and part of the men engaged in this
work, while the rest held the ropes
to keep the hog-braces from falling
into the sea, for if they fell overheard
they would take the side of the YES
sci with them, when the Governor
would fill with water and sink. About
night we sighted steamer, the Odion
Queen. We sent up six rockets, all
we had, and some of the men fired
their muskets at the same time. She
answered our signal, but could do us
no good, as the sea was too rough
and the wind too strong. Our quarter
master sergeant would bring around a
mess kettle filled with whisky and a
tin cup, and the men were told to
take all they wanted, but / saw the
signs of liquor on no man. During
the night our rudder-chain was car
ried away; then, indeed, were We at
the mercy of wind and wave. Heavy
seas would strike the Governor
broadsides, and the men bailing water
would be thrown in all directions. On
the morning of November things
looked very bad for us. The gunboat
Isaac Smith, Capt. Nicholson, saw our
signal of distress, and came to our as
sistance. They got hawser on board
of us, but it slipped; then the crew
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-04-12

G OCIETY here and in Virginia is
~ deeply interested in rumor from
London to the effect that Miss Nora
Langhorne, youngest of the five hand
some daughters of c. d. Langhorne
OF Albemarle county, Va, has cap
tured the heart and received an offer
of the hand of Prince Francis of Teck,
the good-looking brother of the prin-
cess of Wales.
That Prince Francis family were
willing that he should marry a
wealthy American has been known
for some time, but Miss Langhorne
has not great fortune. Her brother
in-law, Waldorf Astor, and the lat
ter's father, William Waldorf Astor,
however, have more money than they
know what to do with and are said
to be heartily in favor of an alliance
that would place them in the inner
most circle of English society, which
as is we'll known, has not taken very
kindly to the elder Astor. The latter
is already reaping the benefit of the
popularity of his daughter-in-law, who
was Miss Mamie Langhorne and who
at the time of her marriage to young
Waldorf Astor was Mrs. Shaw, having
married and divorced Robert Gould
Shaw of Boston in surprisingly
short time after leaving the school
room. 1t was under her chaperonage
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-04-12

was boy and good jumper, but
was a boy ana a good jumper, and
watched my chance, and when the
Sabine's stern raised on the wave l
jumped and caught the ladder. When
r got to the top of the ladder one of
our men was on one side and a sailor
of the Sabine on the other, and they
pulled me on board and took me be-
low and gave me good drink of
whisky and cup of hot coffee. At
daylight the Sabine's boats got as
close to the Governor as they could,
the men would jump into the water,
and the boats crews pick them up
and put them on board the Sabine. At
eight o'clock on the morning of No
vember the Governors boiler and
machinery went to the bottom, and
her timber was scattered on the sea.
We were hard looking lot of men
when we mustered on the Sabine's
gundeck Most of us were not half
clothed but not man among us
would not risk his life to save ship
mate. Seven of our men were
drowned. We were on board the Sa-
bine until November s, and given all
the comforts that the ship afforded,
and all the clothing that could pos
sibly be spared. On the afternoon of
the Sth the sloop-of-war Mohegan
came alongside the Sabine and took
us on board, and her boats landed us
in safety that evening on Bay Point
g n
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-04-12

After Mrs. Dewey's marriage the X
street house was leased first to the
late Senator Alger, and latterly to
Secretary Hitchcock. Mr.. Hitchcock
recently gave up the place, and i'm
mediately worltmen began making re-
pairs and alterations. Their orders
were so imperative that they worked
far into the night.
Mrs. Dewey's home in X street is
magnificently furnished and it is said
that the Rhode Island avenue place
will be leased furnished. The X
street house was the home of Mrs.
Dewey during the lifetime of her first
husband, Gen. Hazen of the signal
service. Her X street house is much
nearer the residence of her mother.
and she likes that location better
than the house presented by the
American people to her husband. The
title to the Rhode Island avenue
house now stands is in Mrs. Dewey's
name.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-04-12

OF the Governor launched boat, al
the boat they had, for over $50 men.
Through carelessness the boat went
adrift then the Smith gave us an
other hawser, but the plunging of the
vessel and the heavy seas parted 1t as
before. Then Capt. Nicholson threw
his battery overheard to tighten his
vessel and tried to get us on board
the Smith, and about noon the pro-
peller bark Young Rover came up,
and its captain said he would stand
by us to the last. He also said there
was a large sailing frigate cruising
near Georgetown, s. c., and he would
go after her 1t proved to be the
Sabine, commanded by Capt. Ring
gold and better seaman or more
humane man never walked the deck
of an American man-of-war. When
the Young Rover got near the Sabine
she ran up the confederate flag, and
the Sabine Immediately gave chase.
Then the Young Rover ran up the sig
nal of distress. Late in the afternoon
the Sabine came to us and anchored
short distance ahead of us. Capt.
Ringgold assured us he would take us
all aboard Of the Sabine. Several
hawsers were past to us, but all part.
ed by the plungiIg of the waves. AL
the battalion will remember that
night until their dying day. The wa
ter was gaining on us very fast, the
hog-braces liable to go over at any
time, and the wind blowing perfect
gale. Our port-bow was close to the
Sabine's starboard quarter, and a
number Of our men managed to get
on the Sabine at the time heavy sea
caused the Sabine to strike the Gov
ernor The sea carried away part of
the Governors hurricane deck and
pilot.house. That was the time most
Of our men were drowned. At that
time / was holding one of the ropes
to keep the hog-brace from falling in
| the water with one hand, and with
the other / took off my coat and shoes.
| was a good swimmer, and wanted
to be ready After the Sabine struck
the Governor ! went to her port-bow
and saw the Sabine's Jacob ladder
hanging at her stern. 1t put new life
in me. 1t was good jump, but
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-04-12
Washington Day by Day
News Gathered Here and There
at the National Capital
DEWEY TO LEAVE HOME
PRESENTED BY PEOPLE

VNT ASHINGTON. - Admiral Dewey
w and wife are to rent out the
home in Rhode Island avenue, pre-
sented to them by the contributions
OF the American people, to live at
1901 X street, the home of Mrs.
Dewey before her marriage. The
smallness of the dining-room in the
gift house is said to be the cause of
it's abandonment by the admiral and
his wife. Admiral Dewey explained
that while the gift house is very COM
Portable, the dining-room is capable
of seating only IA persons, and this
fact has prevented Mrs. Dewey from
entertaining to any great extent. She
is fond of society, accepts many din
ner invitations and naturally wishes
to return the hospitalities of her
friends. She has given a number of
dinner parties, but has had to restrict
the number of her guests more than
she likes to do.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-04-12
Whole staff Met Death.

A factory at Fuchoni, Roumania, re-
Gently lost it's entire staff save one
or two by similar and almost stimuli
taneous catastrophes. 1t is the Jones'
Gu wood modelling factory and 1t en-
ployed 81 men. Fifteen of these were
going home when they were engulfed
by an avalanche from the Valca
Sitei mountain. The 16 others, who
were going home by different road,
were struck to death by another
avalanche from Mount Metarcea. One
man, who was caught on the edge of
the rushing mass, managed to free
himeelf Soldiers dug the men out of
80 feet of snow, but not one was
alive.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-04-12
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HTi o~~NS " -
WRECK OF THE GOVERNOR.
Desperate Battling With the Waves of
This Army Transport.

1t has been over As years since this
accident occurred, but / can remem-
Der 1t as distinctly as thought it hap
pened yesterday, writes an old soldier
to the National Tribune. There were
four companies of us, marines, COM
panies A, B, G and D. | belonged to
company ID, and we were commanded
by Maj. John G. Reynolds, veteran
of the Seminole and Mexican wars.
Most of us had been in the battle of
Bull Run, and were picked men from
the Marine Barracks at Washington
We left the barracks about October
"a, and went on board the Governor
at Hampton Roads about the 9th,
and left with the fleet on the Goth to
take Port Royal, s. G. All went well
until the morning of November l.,
when the wind began to blow and the
sea grew rough. We had a little rain
and saw rainbow, which some of the
sailors said was bad luck. 1t proved,
indeed, to be very bad luck The wind
blew harder every hour, and the
waves ran higher, and in the after
noon a heavy sea struck the Cover
nor, breaking her port hog-brace. All
hands worked with ropes to make it
secure, but in little while after that
the starboard hog-brace broke. We
made that secure, when the ropes
that held the smokestack parted, and
that went overheard about two feet
above the hurricane deck. To make
matters worse, steam pipe burst,
and we had no steam to run the en-
gine. We ran up the signal of dis
tress. flag at half mast. Union down.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-04-12
LincoIn's Gettysburg Address.

Lincolns brief but noble Gettysburg
address ought to be read at least once
a year by every citizen. To make this
easier for the young people in the
schools and for others, the Grand
Army of the Republic has had pre-
pared a bronze tablet on which the
whole address is inscribed. The tab
let, which is 20 by 20 inches, is adorn-
ed with the badges of the seven army
corps engaged in the battle, entwined
with flowers and grasses which grow
on the battlefield. This bronze,
mounted on marble slab. Is to be
fastened to the walls OF schoolhoases
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-04-12
Too Polite Younaster.

Sir Robert Ball, the famous British
scientist, is fond of imparting infor-
nation to the young. Once he was
showing a little boy how to study the
heavens through telescope. That
star" said Sir R,,bert, goes around
the other" Anxious to please such a
great man the youngster made this
staggering reply: "Yes, | saw It," AS
matter of fact the star to which the
scientist referred takes 900 years 10
make the circuit.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-04-12
Losan's War Trophies.

Mrs. John A. Logan has decided to
present the state of Illinois all the
war trophies. souvenirs and memen-
toes received by her late husband dur
ing his lifetime, as well as the stained
glass windows and the % painted
panels of the memorial room In her
present house, where the collection
haa lain hitherto.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-04-12

throughout the country, and in such
other places as may seem desirable,
where the lofty lesson of patriotism
that 1t sets may be studied with profit
by all.
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1907-12-19

she knew that all the time she car
ried beneath her songs and CHEEKY
words a heartache that was as hard
to bear as the young wifes own.
1t was Mark for whom her heart
ached. A year ago she had thought
that by this time she and Mark would
be settled in a pioneer cabin of their
own. Her quilts were all quilted, her
store of household goods was ready.
But GOODNESS had come between
them, and Mark had gone away
back east where girls were plenty"
Since then she had been learning to
live without him and it was a bitter
lesson. True she did not speak of
it, not even to her best friends, but
the ache was always there.
Her work was done at last She
had time to look at little Lille slum-
bering in her low trundle-bed with
her stocking spread out trustingly on
the pillow beside her Now was the
time for Santa Claus to come. But
with anxiety to be bothered There
was nobody to fill that stocking but
Hattie, and nothing to fill it with ex-
cept what her girls wit might devise.
She was very tired. All day she
had been battling against storm and
sickness, doing a woman's work and
a mans too. Now she must do Santa
Claus work. Was ever Santa
Claus so sleepy? Oh, what would she
not give to throw herself on the bed,
dressed as she was, and sleep? But
there was no time for that Santa
Claus must come to the waiting child.
She knew that in a little while the
sick woman would rouse again and
need her. Softly and YEARLY she lift
ed the one little drop-leaf table over
to the window farthest from the sick
mother and placed the lamp upon it.
Then she got out her precious, dimin-
ishing store of letter paper that had to
be brought to her from miles away,
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1907-12-19
NO.. s..
Saves Two Trains.

Mile Tarver, the 12-year-old daugh-
ter of Milton Tarver, sawmill man
residing on the line of the Hot Springs
Western road, saved two trains from
running into a burning bridge near
Benton. She discovered the burning
bridge, and catching up a little red
shawl, she hurried over the track to
the west to flag freight train which
she saw approaching. After seeing the
train come to a standstill within few
feet of the burning bridge, the little
heroine hurried up the tracks to the
east where a passenger train was
looming up in the distance, and again
frantically waving the red shawl, the
other train, and probably hundreds OF
lives were saved from disaster. The
railroad officials say that Santa Claus
will visit the little cabin home, and
the heart of one brave little girl will
revel in all that heart could wish for
during the holiday season.
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1907-12-19

might bring me some present that was
light, Hattie?"
Yes, he SHALL" said Hattie, with
determination.
She was only the hired girl who had
come in friendly pioneer fashion to
help the settlers wife through her
sickness; but to the inmates of the
little cabin she was a ministering
angel. Strong and faithful and eff
cient, an angel could hardly have
done more in that prairie home. Yet
she did not look in the least like an
angel as she put on the pioneers old
cap and coat, tied red wooden scarf
around her neck, drew old stockings
over her shoes and floundered out
through the drifts, stout and rosy in
the wind to do the chores for the
night. Not a glimpse of the near by
barn could be obtained from the cabin
door Hattie tied long rope to the
door knob and carefully held the other
end as she walked toward it. She
knew too well how more than one
pioneer had lost their way in the
trackless whiteness at no greater dis
lance than this from their homes, and
been frozen to death.
She pulled down hay and fed the
stock AID MIXED. She brought out
pals full of the snow water she had
melted in the big wash boiler for
them to drink She brought in a
great supply of fuel and made every
thing outdoors and in as snug and
CHEEKY as possible. Then she cooked
the supper-that did not take long
for there was little to cook-and
washed up the dishes and cared for
the sick woman and the little babe.
She put Lille to bed in the queer
little trundle-b ed-the child chattering
about Santa Claus every minute-and
tucked her in as happy as if there
were no fear or anxiety in the world;
oh, what would the pioneer families
have. done without the girls" of that
time?
The mercury ranged and de-
grees below zero. The storm outside
howled with the fury of legion of
demons. In some drift out there in
the whiteness John Carver might be
sinking to death now.
The baby cried and the sick woman
moaned. There was no lack of occu-
patton for the young helper. Hattie's
strong arms held the child till it was
Quoted and at the same time heated
fiannels, brought water, smoothed pill
lows, and did everything that could
be done for the anxious young
mother.
Hattie you haven't anything to
worry you," cried the sick woman, en-
viously.
"Not a thing except what worries
other people, answered Hattie. But
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1907-12-19
Burglars At Work.

Two bold burglaries were perpetrat-
ed at Corinth six miles from Nashville,
recently, by unknown parties. The
store of McClannahan & Co., was en-
tered and robbed of S125 in cash, a
gold watch valued at 500 and lodge
emblem charm valued at SIS belong
ing to a member of the firm. The
money and valuables were locked in
the safe which was blown open and
completely wrecked. The robbers also
broke into the postoffice and made
away with cash and stamps to the ag-
gregate of $50.