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The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1908-10-08

These fires would have consumed
the houses and been reported as of
unknown origin had not some one
been near to notice the smoke.
Many heavy losses on factories
come from fires in their paint shops
by paint dryers, turpentine and
linseed oil.
Lard, tallow and butter smeared
on rags and thrown into trash bar
rel are source of danger. The,
storafouses in which rags are
picked and bailed are very likely
to be destroyed by spontaneous
com bustion.
Petroleum, kerosene and gaso-
lene do not dry by uniting with
oxygen, therefore they cannot
cause spontaneous combustion.
A large number of substances
that are not greasy are liable to
get hot and and take fire withol 4
being near stove or flame. Many
barns are burned by new mown
hay getting too hot. A few are
burned by the heating of shredded
fodder, grain and meal.
Ice houses are very liable to
take fire from heating of the saw
dust in which the ice is packed, or
from the sawdust used to fill the
walls. Perhaps the grease from
the mill machinery getting into
the sawdust causes some of these
fires. Strange as it may seem,
materials are most likely uo burn
them selves when they are soaked
with water.
The foregoing statement of facts
is one of the 40 lectures which the
last Legislature directed the state
fire marshal to provide, and re
quires teachers IN primary and
grammar schools to read, one each
week, to their pupils. For pri-
mary schools the story is told in
simpler language.
w. S. ROGERs,
State Fire Marshal,
The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1908-10-08
MAKE THIS UP
At YOUR HOME

What will appear very interest.
ing to many people here is the ar
ticle taken from New York daily
paper, giving a simple prescrip'
tion, which is said to be a positive
remedy for backache or kidney or
bladder arrangement, if taken be-
fore the stage of Bright's disease.
Fluid Extract Dandellon, one
half ounce; Compound Kargon,
one ounce; Compound Syrup Sar-
saparilla, three ounces. Shake
we'll in bottle and take in tea
spoonful doses after each meal and
again at bedtime.
A well-known druggust here at
home, when ask regarding this
prescription, stated that the in.
gredients are all harmless, and can
be obtained at small cost from
any good prescription pharmacy,
or the mixture would be put up if
asked to do so. He further stated
that while this prescription is Oft
en- prescribed in rheumatic attiic-
tions with splendid results, he
could see no reason why it would
not be splendid remedy for kid
ney and urinary troubles and back
ache, as 1t has peculiar action
upon the kidney structure, cleans
ing these most important organs
and helping them to sift and filter
from the blood the foul acids and
waste matter which cause sickness
and suffering. Those of our read
ers who suffer can make no mis-
take in giving it trial.
Oct. l, 3-w
The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1908-10-08
LACKED MANHOOD TO
Retract When He Knew He Could Not Prove Charges De-
clares Haskell, In Letter Roosevelt

article and give the world the
impression that we were wrongful.
ly using the money appropriated
to conduct that institution.
"You charge that I vetoed q
child labor law. This you have
not apologized for, knowing as
you did that / did it with the
approval of union labor, and that
our state constitution, winch you
said is $50 bad your opinion on it
would not look we'll in print,
contains more detail anti-child
labor legislation than all you have
ever recommended to the New
York Legislature as Governor or
to the Congress of the United
States as president, and that had
approved IA acts of our Legisla-
ture passed at the solicitation of
union labor.
"You said in your first state
ment that / had suits brought
against me to recover title to
Creek Indian land. I Overwhelm-
/ ed you on that statement; adopt
ing your usual policy, you fee
from that statement without Just
apology and adopt the statement
now that it was Government town
site lots that you charged me with
being sued for.
eyes, | believe / am defend
ant as to certain Government town
site lots in one of nearly 1000
suits that you have had brought
against as many different honor
able and high-minded citizens of
this state during this Presidential
campaign year, aud you will not
undertake to deny that petty
politics for the purpose of republi-
canizing SO, 900 Indian voters was
your sole motive for having those
suits brought.
! charge you with knowing
that there has been no delay in
these cases, except that occasioned
by the Courts deliberations, taken
by himself as he deemed necessary
to consider whether or not there
is any merit in the petition filed
by your attorney.
"You say that on that land
question you will see that I get
hearing in Court. Yes, sir, l
welcome your hearing. Calling to
your assistance all the power that
your high office commands, pres
ent your case in any form you like,
! am ready to meet it, and before
it's conclusion the people OF
America will be disgusted that
they ever elected you President of
the United States.
Conclusive proof that you have
no case against me, Mt least to
your mind, should be the fact that
your own appointees, official
representatives of that locality,
from Chairman of the Dawes com.
mission down, bought lots from
the Government town sites In pre-
cisely the same manner bought
mine.
"Prairie Oil and Gas matter.
Mr.. Roosevelt, l have said that
you were responsible for granting
the franchise to the Prairie Oil
and Gas Company before state
hood, thereby creating vested
rights in that campany that our
state authority is powerless to
interrupt.
"You' have tried in your last
statement to eyade this issue.
You have tried to give your read
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OtS q WIouS im pIeb'ious WI 80
that the Interstate Department had
no power except where the pipe
line might cross an Indian reser.
walton. You would have your
readers believe that Indian Terri.
tory was then conducting it's own
government and that only parts of
the territory were Indian reserva
tions.
"Mr. Roosevelt, you know it is
not true that all the land in the
Indian Territory was Indian land.
There was no county government
nor township government, nor ter
ritOry government. The sole
government of Indian Territory
outside of local government in in
corporated towns was vested and
exercised by the Interior Depart
meht, with yourself as the final
dictator.
"But why place your word
against mine9 j cannot imagine
that any citizen of the United
States would today give your word
any greater weight than they
/ tl-nnII that 0f onnfhav ntk
What halo of integrity on account
of your office may have surround
ed you few weeks ago has GER
tainly, like the mlsts, faded away
and left you on the undignified,
discredited basis that you your
self have chosen, but my word
need not be taken as final.
"In the office of the Interior
Department the records will speak
between us. say you granted
that franchise. | say that you
did it at the solicitation of Sena-
tor Depew end others, and that
within a few days thereafter,
chiefly by subscriptions of Stand
ard Oil men, according to Harri-
man, the sum of 1850, 900 in cash
was added to your campaign fund.
~ challenge you to publish the
records of the Interior Depart.
ment on the subject of this fran
chise, and, mark you now, Mr..
Roosevelt, you must not garble the
records nor suppress any them.
The public shall know the truth
1t may have been sufficient four
years ago for you to wipe out the
truthful statement by Judge
Parker by simply calling him
liar, but that was four years ago,
and your. con trovesy is with man
who will not accept bluff in ex-
change for a receipt in full settle
ment.
'In any character of statement
you make that ! have at any time
during my entire life had any con
nection whatever, of any char
acter. with the Standard Oil Com.
psny or any of its subeompanies !
am ready to refute and to show
thar such statement is a falsehood.
You refer to a statement made by
Attorney Walker. in the trial of
lawsuit in New York. Even with
your limited experience you should
know that there is probably not
Court day in the year but what
in hundred cases throughout the
Union some excited and disap
pointed lawyer has referred un-
kindly to the witness of the other
side.
"Your reference to the case of
the Illinois Steel Company in the
name of their Office boy. Charles
Loder, is contemplate effort on
your part TO tell part Of the facts
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to this Mr.. RooseveltY
"You criticise me for directing
the dismissal of the suit agains
the Prairie Oil and Gas Company
which could not have been success
fully maintained by the state
Tell us, what your reason was fol
directing the dismissal of the suit
against the Atchison, Topeka an6
Santa Fe Railroad, being prose
cuted by Judge Harmon and Mr.
Judson, special council, when the
facts disclosed that a member OF
your Cabinet, Paul Morton, was
being uncovered as the prime Of
fender. Answer this, will youp
"Tell me, Mr.. Roosevelt, if you
were friend of the Delaware
Indians when you approved the
Adams leases for an immense area
of Indian land after Secretary
Hitchcock had refused to do so,
and what explanation have you to
make of this oil lease proposition n
and it's relation to the Standard
Oil Company
"Mr. Roosevelt, you cry out for
purity. You say that you did not
four years ago know where the
corruption fund was coming from
to secure your election until the
testimony of two years disclosed
the bargains and sales between
Mr.. Corteiyou and the corrupt
interests of Wall street. You
knew that fact two years ago, and
Mr.. Cortelyou is still a member
of your Cabinet.
"You also include pretended
letter from General West, but as
the records of both his office and
mine will show every essential
statement to be false, | assume
that you have been as reckless in
quoting his letter as you have on
all other propositions and there.
fore shall await an official copy
of his letter before assuming that
you have truthfully copied it, but
on receipt of a verified copy |
shall certainly respond.
"Mr. Roosevelt, last fall, when
your prosperity panic was at its
height, you made the statement
that you had simply turned on the
lights and were not responsible
for what it disclosed in other
words, you entered plea of con-
fession and avoidance. In later
to you shall show
in numerous particular instances
where your plea of avoidance
should be condemned and a
verdict of gnilty rendered against
you.
'Now, Mr.. Roosevelt, while
you are rejecting on these ques-
lions, will you justify yourself in
giving faith or credit to any
statement that has come to you
from your political associate, Mr..
Hearst, whom two years ago you
branded as the man chiefly respon-
,ible for the assassination of our
ate President?
Remember, Mr.. President, if
1T your next Cabinet meeting you
decide to try me under any of
your present, past or future
charges before your Cabinet sit
ing as a jury to try an honest
nan, that | challenge Mr.. Cortel-
you for cause.
"And further beg to inquire,
should your Crown Prince William
,e elected to the Presidency of
The United States, would we
necessarily understand that our
Missionaries in foreign lands were
10 be called home to convert him to
hat standard where he would be
qualified to take solemn official
'ach in the presence of Almighty
1od"-C. N. Haskell, Governor
If Oklahoma.
Died of Heart Failure.
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Expressing in the opening para
graph of his letter to the Presi-
dent surprise that Mr.. Roosevelt
has not before this apologzled to
him for charges made without a
hearing, Governor Haskell writes
"The serious character of your
charges should have suggested to
you that as Chief Executive you
should proceed with deliberation
and Gel tainty before making such
hearsay statements your own
declarations.
81 would have appealed to you
a second time to designate some
tribunal that might hear both
sides of the question, investigate
as to the truth and only condemn
when guilt had been reasonably
established. but, being interrupt
ed by receiving newspaper
which contains your last state
ment, l lay aside my appeal for
Justice for the reason that i am
convinced that no matter how
dignified, great and honorable the
office of President may be the
present clearly demonstrates the
fact that the occupant of that
Office may be without fairness,
justice or integrity.
"You have clearly d. monstrated,
by hearsay, judgment and vacila.
ting from one charge to another,
by admitting that various of your
charges were without information
and therefore abandoned, and yet,
without displaying the manhood
to apologize for the former un-
truthful statement, you seek an
other issue.
''It leads me to assert that l
shall seek justice from you before
the people and in Courts not
subject to your domination.
Frankly speaking, l could haye
arrived at no other conclusion
than that you, in your blind, reck-
less partisanship and disregard
ing the rights of others, would
pack a Court or fix jury.
"Your first charge was that /
was connected with an attempt to
bribe the Attorney-General of
Ohio nine years ago, but that you
have now abandoned. General
M0nnett said that he knsw nothing
of my own connection with that
case, except what g.. B. Squires
told him. g. Is. Squires signs a
written statement for the New
York World that never told him
anything and that he never
mentioned my name to Monnett,
and that he oid not know me ex.
cept as name occasionally seen
by him in newspaper.
"Charles +. Taft, brother of
your candidate, in his Ohio State
journal, of Columbus, Ohio, says;
'There has been no evidence pro.
duced against Haskell that would
be considered by any Court lt
remains for you alone t. lack the
manhood to candidly admit that
you accused me falsely.
"In touching ON the State Uni
versity question, you pretended to
quote from the Outlook Magazine
but how dishonesty you enlarged
on the magszine article. That
article charged me with substitu-
ting smocratic for Republican
professors for political purposes,
l have shown that statement to be
false, but charge yon with try
ing TO enlarge on that magazine
The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1908-10-08
NATIONAL FIRE PROOFING COMPANY
haydenvilIe, Hooking County, Ohio.

NO HUNTING-No hunting or
trespassing will be allowed on the
farm known as the Ed Stivison
farm, now owned by G. w, Evans.
Parties doing so, will be prosscut-
do to the full extent Of the law.
The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1908-10-08
CLOSET FIRES.

Many fires start in closets from
rag bags greasy overalls, and
from cloths used in oiling the floor.
Seven fires from the igniting of
greasy clothing IN closets have
happened in Ohio within two years,
The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1908-10-08
MONUMENT TO AMERICAN ENTERPRISE

Picture In your minds eye II you can an
industry utilizing over l 600 900 square feet
OF floor space.
This Is the combined area Of the enormous
ENDIcoTT-JoHNsoN CO., shoe plant at
Endlcott, N. Y. which Is the largest Of It's
kind in the World.
X is magnificent stupendous one Of the
seven wonders OF the Industrial world.
This wonderful organization with IT'S
thousands OF employees Is like a great city
In Itself. and II man should walk over
every square foot Of the floor space he would
have to travel distance Of 100 miles,
requiring nearly week to accomplish It.
This great plant is monument to Amer
lean push and enterprise and living exam
pie Of what can be accomplished In the In
dustrial and commercial fields by we'll direc-
ted energy and legitimate and straight-for-
ward business methods.
Mr.. II. b. Endicott and Mr.. Geo. r.
Johnson. the founders Of the business, are
both typical examples of American self-made
men.
The result of their efforts today stands for
20 years of hard, conscientious work along
original lines from small beg inning.
The firm motto eve lead others follow,
Is exemplified in the fact that they are the
first and only house In the World to tan
their own leather and make shoes independ-
ent Of all trusts.
The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1908-10-08

Foley's Honey and Tar cures
coughs quickly, strengthens the
lungs and expsls colds, Get the
genuine in a yellow package.
Bort n Co.
The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1908-10-08
Fire Dangers From Grease
and Oil.
A FIRE MAY START ITSELF.

Spontaneous combustion is tn,
only great fire danger about which
books have been written, and it il
the only one (which few people
know about. Fires from this cause
usually appear in the newspapers
as "probably" incendiary" or OF
"mysterious origin" What il
known of spontaneous com bustion,
aside from that gained in chemic cal
laboratories, comes entirely from
fires which are noticed when they
are starting. They soon destroy
the stuff which causes them and
then no one can tell how the fire
started.
The average number of fires a
year from spontaneous combustion
in Ohio is 1862. OF these more
than half are from grease on rags.
THE CHEMISTRY OF COMBUSTION,
The chemistry of spontaneous
com bustion is not hard to under.
stand if one knows how fire
burns. Burning is the same chemi-
cal process in the rotting log, blsz.
ing shaving and exploding dyna.
mite, the only difference being in
the time taken for the oxygen of
the air to unite with the carbon of
the wood. IL they unite slowly,
as in the rotting of wood or the
rusting of iron or decaying pota-
to, the heat is borne away unno-
ticed; if they unite fast enough to
produce heat that will roast out
and ignite burning gases, it makes
flame; if so fast that the expan-
sion of the water, in the form of
steam and the carbon dioxid which
are made by all combustion causes
shock and noise, it Is an explosion.
HIGH EXPLOSIVES
In high eXplos yes wood fibre
and chemicals rich in oxygen are
combined so that the fibre, cellu-
lose, can be burned in closed
space in which there is no air.
The expansion of gas formed with
in the space can throw cannon
ball or split a roeh. The most
powerful explosive mixture is one
containing two parts of hydrogen
to one part oxygen, that being the
proportion necessary to form water
by uniting chemically. The hot
test fires make the most water.
The taking fire of any material
comes from it's being heated 80 bot
that the hydrogen and carbon in
in begin to unite with the oxygen
of the air to form carbonic acid
gas. This gas, which is made up of
water in vapor and carbon dioxid,
is drawn up the tiue by the current
of heated air. The carbon dioxid
being slightly heayier than air
falls to furnish breath for trees
and plants while the watery vapor
rises to form clouds and return in
rain. So, we get back the pro-
duct of the burning of our houses,
but after it is greatly cheapened
IN value.
Spontaneous combustion, strict
ly speaking, is the igniting of
substance from heat caused by
chemical action within itself, but
the word is often used in speaking
Of any burning which happens
without the touch of flame, spark
Or live coal.
GREASY RAGS.
In the last 200 fires from spon-
taneous combustion reported to the
state fire marshal, fata or oils on
cotton fibres caused l22. A fat |
when warmed is oil; when smeared
IN anything it is grease. The ami
nal fats, tallow, butter and lard
lnless rancid, are less liable to
,ause spontaneous combustion than
the vegetable oils, linseed, cotton
seed, nut, castor bean and olive.
Mana nf ithaca nun fula Hra anon
The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1908-10-08

In the last 200 fires from spon-
taneous combustion reported to the
state fire marshal, fata or oils on
cotton fibres caused l22. A fat
when warmed is oil; when smeared
on anything it is grease. The ami
NAL fats, tallow, butter and lard
unless rancid, are less liable to
cause spontaneous combustion than
the vegetable oils, linseed, cotton
seed, nut, castor bean and olive.
None of these can take fire spon-
taneously unless spread over a
large surface of easily ignited ma
terial, his when II cotton rag is wet
with them. Then they take oXy-
gen from the air so fast that the
heat from the chemical union will
il il ia net carried away by move
ment OF air, rise to point at
which The tlhres of the rag will
first char and then take fire An
instance A mop used in oiling a
hoor in the Home for Working
Girls in Columbus took fire i'm u
few hours after heing put in "a
closet under the stair.
Linseed oil is charagable with
the greatest number Of burned
buildings. Cotton rags, sawdust
or scraps of silk wet with oliye or
cpttonseed oil, may take fire.
These oils are likely to get into
any pile of rubbish.
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ard OIL Company owned the ma
iority of the stock.
"Why did you give them a
monopoly on the Usage Nation oil
and2 Again, Mr., Barnsdale, the
well-known representative of the
Standard Oil Company, has leased,
as ! am advised by Mr.. Shea, of
Bartlesville, little over 1000
acres of Indian allotments in the
Indian Territory. and am advised
that on account of controversies
brought to the personal attention
that you know of these excessive
lease holdings. Why did you do
th,sY
81 also haye in hand letter to
Dennis Flynn from the Treasury
Department at Washington, ad-
vising that the public printing of
Oklahc ma Territory could be let to
the State Capital Printing Com
pany without receiving competitive
bids, this being the same printing
company who associated with
Flynn, Mcclure and Burford, all
Republican ex.territorial office
holders, that Is now sued by the
state of Oklahoma TO recover $l95,-
900 on alleged printing bills un-
lawfully taken from the Territory
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1908-07-23
JUMPING AT A CONCLUSION.
Marriage Did Not Follow the Nineteen
Years Courtship.

In the amiable way of villagers, they
were discussing the matrimonial af-
fairs of couple who. though recently
wed. had begun to find the yoke of
Hymen burden.
"'Tis all along O. these hasty mar.
riages," opined one caustic old gentle
man. who had been much to the fore
in the discussion. They did not un-
derstand each other; they'd nobbut
knowed each other for matter O.
seven year."
We'll, that seems long enough"
said an interested lady listener.
Long emo! Bah, ye're wrong!
When body's coortin he Gamma be
too careful. Why, my coortship lasted
matter O. 10 year,"
You certainly were careful" agreed
the lady listener. And did you find
your plan successful when you mar
ried?"
"Ye jump to conclusions" said the
old man, impatiently. Il understood
her then. SO didna' marry her!"-
Tit-Bits.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1908-07-23
DOCTOR SAID use curlcuRA"
In Bad Case Of Eczema on Child
Disease Had Reached Fearful
State-His Order Resulted
In Complete Cure.

when I was small I was troubled
with eczema for about three months
1t was all over my face and covered
nearly all of my head. 1t reached
such state that it was just large
scab all over, and the pain and itching
were terrible. doctored with an able
physician for some time and was then
advised by him to use the Cuticura
Remedies which l did and l was en-
tirely cured. l have not been bothered
with 1t since. l used Cuticura Soap
and Cuticura Ointment bu. do not
know exactly how much was used to
complete the cure. l can safely say
that Cuticura did a lot for me- Miss
Anabel Wilson, North Branch. Mich,
Oct. 20. 1907"