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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-22
HOW TO DESTROY EXPLOSIVES.
Precautions to Be Taken with Gun
powder and Nitroglycerine.

The best way to destroy ordinary
black gunpowder is to throw 1t into a
stream under conditions that prevent
any harm coming to human beings or
animals through the dissolving of the
saltpeter. If no suitable stream is
available the gunpowder may be
stirred with water in tubs, or the dry
gunpowder may be poured out on the
ground in a long thin line and ignited
with fuse at one end.
To destroy dynamite cartridges the
paper wrappings should be carefully
removed, the bare cartridges laid in
a row with their ends in contact and
| the first cartridge ignited with fuse
without cap. Even with these pre-
cautions a simultaneous explosion of
the entire mass may occur, so that 1t
is wise to retire to safe distance.
The row of cartridges should be laid
parallel with the wind and ignited at
the leeward end so that the flame will
| be driven away from the mass.
Frozen dynamite should be handled
with special care, as its combustion is
peculiarly liable to assume an explo
sive character. A small quantity of
dynamite may be destroyed by throw
ing it in very small bits into an open
fire, or the cartridges may be ex-
ploded one by one in the open air
with fuses and caps.
Dynamite should never be thrown
into water, as the nitroglycerine
which it contains remains undissolved
and capable of doing mischief. Other
explosives which contain nitroglycer-
inc should be treated in the same way
as dynamite.
Ammonium nitrate explosives may
be thrown in small fragments into an
open fire, or If they do not contain
nitroglycerine may be destroyed by
means of water. Explosive caps
should be exploded singly with pieces
of fuse.-Scientifc American.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-22

They pick up tunes with surprising
readiness, and repeating them with
trills and variations" is an amuse-
ment that never pals on them.
1t gives the missionary respite for
his letters home or to fall asleep over
a book or to go out and look at the
stars and wonder how it would seem
to talk to man of his own kind or to
hear good music or merely to see elec-
trio lights, to feel hard pavements un-
der his feet and hear the changing of
street cars. Or he may wonder how
in all the petty worries that sap his
strength he is to keep the freshness of
mind that will enable him to present
spiritual ideals in the guise to appeal
to a savage people. But in this re-
spect he often feels that he is past
praying for.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-22

children, is no puzzle at all to them. 1t
was thus their own kings lived when
they were in their glory. In the same
way the agricultural figures of speech
in the parallels of Christ fit right into
their own speech. Their favorite books
in the Bible are those that abound in
picturesque imagery such as the
Apocalypse, the Book of Job and
best of all-The Song of Solomon.
1t is very different thing when it
comes to learning a foreign language
and mastering the intricacies of gram
mar, arithmetic and geography. Gram
mar might as well be relegated to the
outer darkness at once. When you
have taught an African native the diff
ference between a verb and noun
you have taught him about as much as
his mind can grasp. On the other
hand, the children learn easily foreign
words and expressions in parrot-like
way. A young native who has worked
for a white man for month or two
has no difficulty in calling his breth
rem "black devil" and damn nigger."
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-22
sunday Afternoon Newspapers.

The Westerly (R. ~ Sun rises up to
remark that Frank A. Munsey OF the
Washington Times. instead of being 4
pioneer in his scheme of Sunday
afternoon paper in the capital, is real
ly copying after at least two other
newspapers. THE Sun" writes the
editor claims to be the originator Of
the Sunday afternoon edition business,
except in the case of New Orleans
newspaper. which has been printed
seven afternoons each week for u
good many years. We are ready to
give Mr.. Munsey credit for being the
first in wide circle of periodical lit
erature, but he is out of 1t 30 far as
the Sunday afternoon newspaper is
concerned"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-22
WINTHROP TO BE kNoxs AID.
Massachusetts, Man Chosen for First
Assistant Secretary of State.

hington.-Beekman Winthrop
Of Massachusetts, assistant Sec
retary of the treasury, will be first
assistant secretary Of state under the
incoming administration, succeeding
Robert Bacon of New York, who is ex-
pected temporarily to succeed Elihu
Root upon the latter's retirement in
the near future.
The tender was made with the con-
sent of President-elect Taft by Senator
Knox, whose selection as secretary of
state was announced short time ago.
Mr.. Winthrop, who is of the eighth
generation in descent from John Win
throp, the first governor of Massachu-
sets, and of the seventh from John
Winthrop, the first governor of Con-
necticut, was born in Orange, N. j.,
and is "a years old. He graduated
from Harvard in 1897 and from the
Harvard law school, and was admitted
to the New York bar in 1899. He be-
came private secretary to Mr.. Taft as
governor of the Philippine islands In
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-22
Must Build His own House.

Shelter must be provided for teach
ers and pupils, and also for horses,
calves, pigs and chickens. Brick is a
favorite material, for the African
woods usually are too hard to be
worked easily. The minister fresh
from theological seminary may find
that building a brick kiln with moth,
ing but African labor is quite as diff
cult as to construct Greek sentences.
And that is the beginning. He prefers
not to think of the masonry, the put
ting in of doors and windows and the
thatching of the roof. At least he does
not need to worry about the floors.
The native girls take that part of the
building into their own hands. They
simply fill 1t up with an even layer of
red soil taken from an ant heap. They
rub 1t and pound it and sprinkle 1t,
and rub 1t again till 1t shines like
black polished marble, and there is
the floor. Healthy? Well, no; but 1t
Is cheap. When night comes the ma
tives gather around the fire in the
Bitchen or the schoolhouse to sing,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-22
DUST EXPERT IN A WAY.
One Man Who Is Constantly Conscious
of the Presence of Dust in the Air.

mo matter where you live and how
ever high in the air you always find
lust settling on everything every.
where, but" said the near-sighted
man, IF you want to realize this fact
as you never did before you want to
wear spectacles and work at some
employment that requires constant
bending over.
Fourteen times day, or as much
oftener as you look, you will find
your glasses covered with fine par
ticles of dust. Maybe you don't look,
and then maybe some bigger particle,
some speck that is by comparison a
veritable bowlder of dust, settles
there square in your line of vision,
where 1t may not obstruct your sight
but where it cannot fail to arrest your
attention. Then when you take them
off to remove that bowlder you find
your glasses covered with dust In
finer PARTICLES, as you would find
them, indeed, however often you
might look.
"Over such an area as that of New
YORK, for instance, there are tons of
dust floating in the air, as though,
perhaps without figuring out its
weight, many people. such az house
wives and storekeepers. are aware;
but perhaps nobody is reminded of
this so constantly as the man who
wears spectacles and who bends over
at his work, and on whose glasses.
where 1t is ever before him, dust IL
constantly settling"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-22

with his wife and babies through
South Africa when no one else dared
venture outside of the white settle
ments, and no one thought of molest-
ing him. He was the only man who
had any influence over Moselikatse,
the most bloodthirsty chief in South
Africa.
The great Norwegian missionary,
Bishop Schroeder, held similar posi-
ton in the regard of the fierce Zulu
chief Cetewayo, and it was Schreuder's
presence in the English camp that
gave the natives courage to surrender
themselves to the British when they
had been vanquished in the last Zulu
war in 1870. His house was the only
white mans dwelling that was left
standing in Zululand. The savage
split in two, one division passed over
the hills to the north of Schreuder's
station, the other over the hills on the
south, for the chiefs knew that in the
frenzy of battle their braves could not
be restrained from destroying what
ever came in their way.
Missionary work in most parts of
Africa has lost much of its spectacular
| features. 1t now is mostly matter
of hard, grinding, monotonous work.
The popular conception of missionaries
includes two figures. One is that of a
spiritual fanatic bent mainly on teach
ing the savages to sing hymns instead
of bowling war songs, the dupe usual
ly of willy savages who feign "conver
sion" while laughing in their new mis-
sionary gingham sleeves. The Other
is that of clever self-seeker exploit
ing the childish native to his own ad
vantage.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-22
Great Aid to Missionaries.

Even If the president should not
take an active part in the work, he un-
doubtedly will visit the mission sta
tions, and the mere fact that a chief
of such bigness that the full scope of
he African Imagination hardly can
take in his orbit visits Familiarity with
the missionaries will give very help
ful prestige to them in the eyes of the
natives Respect for his own chief is
The bone and sinew of the Africans
code of morals and is, in fact, one with
Ills religion. Combined with this is a
surprising penetration into the who's
Who of other nations. 1t takes an
african native something less than
five minutes 10 know who is the real
thing" and who merely masquerades
n the borrowed feathers of authority.
?he hostile attitude toward missions
sometimes taken by individual white
magistrates often has done incalcul-
able harm to the work of the mission
ary, because these magistrates in the
native eye are invested with dignity
as the representatives of the great
white chiefs 'pesheya' Ton the other
side-meaning of the ocean,. The
coming in person of one of the great
est of these chief to the house of their
own "umfundisi" (teacher) will neu
ttalize the unfriendliness of any resi-
dent magistrate.
On the other hand, President Roose-
welt in his writings certainly will
touch en- the practical side of work
Of such Significance as that of the
Christian missions. The question o.
the capacity of the African native foi
civilization must be answered at the
mission stations IL II is answered al
all
Missionaries have opened the coun
try to white men, and the chief high
ways penetrating the African CONT
nent still are called missionary
roads" When Livingstone's house
was sacked, his books torn and scat
tered to the winds and his medicine
bottles broken in revenge for his
championship of tie natives against
the aggressions of. e border ruffians
this disaster was the impetus tha
drove him to his real work as an eX
plorer. No one ever has accomplished
nore with fewer resources. To the
last he remained always the mission
airy, travelling among the natives al
one who sought only their good ant
had nothing to fear from them. AL
the world knows how Livingstone
work became the inspiration of Stan
ley's career and resulted ultimately II
the real opening of the dark continent
Even before Liyingstone's time hi
father-in-law, Robert Moffat, trayele'
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-22
THE suNplAL IN MEXICO.
Primitive TImekeepers still Popular In
tho Southern Republic.

Mexico City.-The sundial still is in
common use in many parts of Mexi-
co. These primitive time indicators
are to be seen upon many of the build
ings in the towns and cities. Even In
the capital of the republic, with its
many great clocks, sundials are to be
found upon many of the ancient build
ings 1t is in the smaller towns, how
ever, where the sundial is still relied
upon by the natives as the true mark.
er of time. Upon the high plateau,
where the weather is seldom cloudy,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-22
New science Announced.

A new science is announced which
is more fantastic than palmistry. II
is taking forecasts from the organs
of speech. A French paper, which
has enriched our stock of knowledge
by announcing the birth OF the So
called science, declares that long
tongue indicates that the possessor
should prosper; narrow tongue, the
gift of divinatioD; short but large
tongue, good lover; and long and
broad tongue. that the possession Win
make many voyages.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-22
The True Missionary.

There is third figure, very different
from either Kipling has written with
sympathetic insight the story of the
obscure official or non-commissioned
officer in his struggle to beat civiliza-
tion into the savage half devil and
half child" The Sergeant What's-'Is-
Name" of the mission field has yet to
find his interpreter-or her interpreter,
for the sergeant is just as often a
woman.
Life at an African mission station is
very much the same throughout the
continent. The day begins usually
with the call of the bell at sunrise in
the summer and an hour or two before
that time in the winter, for in the mat
ter of early rising it is the white man
who must adapt himself to the native
habit. After brief sunrise prayer the
boys and girls of the school are mus
tered in the courtyard; they shoulder
their hoes, and it is away to the corn
field or the sweet potato patch. Stand
ing in row at the bottom of the field,
they lift their heavy hoes far above
their heads and bring them down with
force that sends the iron blade far
into the ground, lift them again and
let them fall with rhythmic regularity
AS they do so they chant in slow
heavy monotone, which is their near
est approach to singing, any incidents
in their life that may be uppermost
in their minds-the ripening of the
corn, the marriage of the chiefs
daughter or any of the happenings OF
the day. Sometimes the work lags and
needs the constant impatient "She
| Shani" (hurry) of the white teacher
The African holds a theory quite the
| opposite of Darwin's; he believes that
| monkeys were evolved from a race ol
lazy people that loafed leaning on the
! handles of their hoes, until the usefu
implements grew into tails, to the
everlasting shame of the loafers
| Breakfast consists of one of the three
staples, sweet potatoes, squash or corn
either as mush or on the cob. 1t Is
eaten from platters at a bare table
with quick lunch effect, rather tes
of discipline, for the native loves tc
squat on. straw mat and take his
time about chewing. No greater dis
] courtesy can be offered native thar
to interrupt his meal. But the schoo
bell is memorable.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-22

the sundial is in service most hours of
the day Some of these dials are two
or three centuries old. They are
carved out of stone with artistic pre-
cision. In order that the general pub
lie may obtain the benefit of the suns
markings the sundials usually are
placed upon buildings having a wide
and commanding view.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-22
Bible Images Familiar.

Classes and recitations and more
particularly lessons to be prepared Of
fer more violence to the native preju
dices. He likes to hear the Bible
stories or stories of other countries and
to read them for himself when he has
mastered the combination of letters in.
to familiar sounds. The oriental images
of the Bible are perfectly familiar to
him. The idea of the patriarchs of the
Old Testament living in tents as cattle
men and yet being really kings, which
Is such puzzle to city bred white
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-22
. ASHINGTON -

-Ww yx W ASHINGTON. - The
Va A heroes of the dark
Va N continent are not ali
w w mighty hunters and ex-
v plorers. The hardest
fight that is waged for
the opening of the continent is not a
fight in the open with wild beasts or
bowling savages while the world looks
on and applauds. Rather 1t is a Crap
pling in the dark with shadows, the
@hadows of spiritual gloom that loom
20 black and yet are so elusive to the
grasp. 1t is fight for the spread of
light in dark places waged by men and
women unused to physical hardships
and with breeding that renders them
peculiarly sensitive to the spiritual
wear and tear of their work. 1t is a
fight without fanfare, without an audi
cnce. and too often without immediate
results.
II president Roosevelt accepts the
."vitation of the Methodist Missionary
society to take part in missionary work
while travelling through Africa he will
have thrown the weight of his influ.
Hnce in the scales for cause particu-
larly in need of such help. In the same
way as the presidents declamations
against race suicide unquestionably
lave helped domestic life, so perhaps
Ee can throw some light on phase
II civilizing work peculiarly misunder-
stood by the majority of white people
ut home and abroad. 1t requires no
great stretch of the Imagination to get
4 vision of the president preaching q
oOmmon-sense religion TO black au'
dience. just as he has preached do
mesticity, fearlessness, strenuousness
aad great many kindred virtues to
The people in America. But it requires
an intimate knowledge of the African
,haracter. its keen sense of authority
and position, its veneration for big
,Eiefs" of whatever country, to gauge
be tremendous influence his words
would carry.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-22
Dry Fall.

what are you doing with that cap
on?" demanded the stern housewife as
she took a firmer grip on the snow
shovel
why, num-" responded Gritty
George, I'm a distressed yachtsman.
just fell off me yacht and thought
maybe ye could"
"oh, nonsense! II you had fallen
on the yacht yer clothing would be
wet"
"Er-no. mum. Yer see. dis was an
Ice yacht. t."-Chicago Daily News.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-22
Missionary's Garden Necessary.

Meantime the boys are engaged in
the work of the farm or in building or
carpentry. The pastor of the station
is fortunate if he has white man to
assist him in experimenting these
branches of the work. More likely he,
in addition to his cares as pastor, is
physician and magistrate, his own
farmer, gardener, builder, architect
and furniture maker. The farm must
provide food for the boys and girls of
the school. The garden must supply
fruit and vegetables for the mission.
ary's table, for he soon learns that he
cannot keep his strength long if he at
tempts to live as a native. He must
have variety of food and incidental
ly, tablecloths and napkins. A noted
African traveller has said that white
men die in the tropics not for want
of the necessities of life but for want
of the luxuries. Besides, his house and
garden must be an object lesson in
civilized living quite as important as
his preaching.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-22

Paris Pattern No. 2724, All Seans
Allowed.-Soft French or viyella far.
mel, cashmere, albatross, challis or
fiannelette are adaptable for the de-
velopment of this pretty and simple
model The front fastens on the left
side with buttons covered with the
material or fancy bone or enamel but
tons may be used, if desired. The
fullness is held in place at the waist
line by a narrow belt of the material
at the left side of the front with a
button and button-hole. The neck is
finished with a rundown collar of the
material and the long, close-fltting
sleeves are finished with straight
cuffs. The pattern Is in four sizes
32, SO, 0and A inches bust measure
To procure this pattern send 10 cents
to Pattern Department" OF this paper.
Write name and address plainly, and be
sure to give size and number of pattern.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-22
Harsh Language an Obstacle.

AS for arithmetic, it is not easy to
learn the multiplication table, when to
say nine times eight" you have to
let out the following mouthful of
sound: "Tata isishiyangalolonye pinda
nge sishangalombili." But the natives
have an adjunct to difficult enuncia,
ton, a sort of first aid, in the language
of the fingers. Beginning from right to
left, the little finger means one, the
left thumb means six, the left forefin
ger seven and so on. If time or energy
fail YOU, you simply wag finger, or il
the number goes into the tens, you
wag two fingers, and the deed is done
Your breath is saved.
The white woman teacher in a
school of eighty or hundred natives
is likely to find, even if she has one OIL
two. native assistants, that her position
as the motor nerve of this too, toe
solid mass of African flesh is wearing
to say the least. The industrial part
of the work is not so difficult as the
purely intellectual. 1t is not so hope
less task to make the African native
fashion something with his hands as
to make him grasp anything with hi:
brain. The women have learned II
their native handicrafts such as straw
plating deftness of touch that make
them fairly apt in the acquisition o
the domestic arts of sewing, cooking
baking, washing, ironing and cleaning
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-22

Paris Pattern No. 2720, All Seams
Allowed-This attractive little apron,
which may be worn while sewing or
during the morning hours when there
are busting and slight housework
duties to be attended to, is adaptable
for cambria, heavy linen, Indian-head
cotton, chambray and gingham; the
latter material being in plain color or
in figured, checked or dotted design.
The apron has the fullness distributed
in wide plaits, either side of the
front, and is attached to shaped
belt of the material, the lower edge
being trimmed with wide gathered
ruffle of the material.
To procure this pattern send 10 cents
to Pattern Department" of this paper.
Write name and address plainly, and be
sure to give size and number of pattern.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-22

November, 1900; governor Of Porto
Rico on July 4, 1904, and assistant
secretary of the treasury in 1907.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-22

w VIZ W ASHINGTON. - The
VA A heroes of the dark
Va M continent are not ali
w w mighty hunters and ex-
v plorers. The hardest
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-25

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, September o5.-This day
the metropolis. including Hoboken and
certain other nearby. but very foreign
parts, and a considerable fraction OF the
rest of the country begin to manifest
their joy because tine Hudson river was
discovered and because a steamboat was
built to sail upon 1t. The most carefully
prepared celebration ever known here
abouts is in full swing, and the city 10
expanding itself in such frenzy Of en-
thusiasm as cannot be compared with
anything in the memory of old timers
Out from the XIII Won kull this morn
ing there stole two craft, outlandish in
our eyes-a noisy. puffy, flutter mill Of a
steamboat called the Clermont. and
tiny high-pooped ship which sails, named
the Half Moon.
AS they issued from the mouth OF the
XIII into the upper bay 10000 steam
whistles tried to burst their brazen gull
lets, cannon above. below, on both shores
began booming: huzzah that grew and
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