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The Mahoning dispatch. [volume] (Canfield, Mahoning County, Ohio) 1877-1968, 1910-03-04
State News
RISING STREAMS PLAY HAVOC
Eneroaehine Water In Every Part Of
State Threatens Great Damage
Many Families Homeless.


Cleveland, o.-one village under
water, railroad tracks washed away
families forced from dwellings,
manufacturing plants shut down and
many buildings endangered-this in
part is the result of floods in Ohio.
Every section OF the state is suffering
from high water, although the total
damage yet is small. Elkton, Colum.
biana county, is entirely under water.
The food is due to an unprecedented
rise in the waters of Beaver creek
Howard Lightbody of Youngstown,
seven, son of Hamilton Lightbody,
city fireman, went through the rotten
ice on Dry Run in the East End park
and was drowned. His death was the
only one indirectly due to the floods
In the state.
At GAINESVILLE the city is facing the
worst flood situation since the record
breaking high waters of 1898. Both
the Muskingum and Licking rivers
have been rising steadily, until the
danger mark has been passed. Fully
800 families we're driven from their
homes and are being housed in
churches and public buildings.
Reports from Coshocton, Dresden
and Cambridge indicate further rise
of the Muskingum. The water is six
feet deep on the floors of both the
Hook and Drone four mills.
Reports from northwestern Ohio in.
dica& more serious condition than
existed a few weeks ago. Defiance,
. q
Ind, are hardest hit. The river at
j Napoleon is IL feet above normal and
rising. 1t has overfowed It's banks
4 in the lower parts of the town and
has driven out number of families.
Families at Canton marooned in the
4 second stories of their homes in diff.
7 ferent parts of the lowland districts
business places flooded, a score or
more of streets inundated and city
and interurban car service interrupted
were the results there when the east
branch of Nimishillen creek and
Sbriyers run overfowed their banks
East and South Akron are suffering
from high waters from the Little Guy
ahoga river.
Il Fremont finds it's only salvation
from further damage depends on the
holding Of the up-river gorges. TC
add 10 the suffering among food vic
dims, the gas mains became Allied
with water, shutting of the supply fol
heat and light
Chillicothe families were forced
from their homes. The Detroit, Tole
do & Ironton was washed out neal
Storms, interrupting traffic on tha
line. At Frankfort break in a leve'
Jet the waters through to open coun
try, saving the village and the Cincin
Z matt, Hamilton & Dayton tracks from
peing flooded.
Hamilton has 100 families homeless
svith two feet of water in their houses
All travel in some districts is by boat
The main line of the Ohio Electri
railway is under three feet of waite
at Engleside.
Newark policemen rescued man,
families where water was rushin
Through the lower stories of dwell
ings. A number of foundations cave
jim and there is danger of the house
collapsing.
The Mahoning dispatch. [volume] (Canfield, Mahoning County, Ohio) 1877-1968, 1910-03-04
LAKE SHORE IS FINED $1,000
Pleads Guilty to Accepting conees'
sion In Shipments, Violating
Elkins Law.

Cincinnati, o.-The first indictment
under the Ell1ins railroad law in
which common carrier was accused
bf accepting a concession, resulted
bere in plea of guilty on the part
If the Lake Shore & Michigan South
rn railroad. Judge Safer of the Unit.
. d States district court fined the cor
|oration $1,000, the minimum penalty,
The case rested upon shipment of
hes from Ozone. Tenn, to Bryan, o.
the ties We're transshipped at Gin.
=innati over the Cincinnati Northern
=Rilroad, a part of the New York Cen
rails system, to which the defendant
5oad also belongs. 1t is alleged that
% escape a high local rate the tim.
Iers were billed through to Chicago,
[lthough there was no intention OF
lending them beyond Bryan.
The Mahoning dispatch. [volume] (Canfield, Mahoning County, Ohio) 1877-1968, 1910-03-04
SLANG WELL BORN.
Some Of II is Credited to the Worlds
Literary Geniuses.

Some diligent student contributes
to Puck list of striking instances to
the use in famous books of slang
phrases which came into vogue long
after the writer's who fathered them,
often, 1t is true. in an entirely differ.
ent sense, passed away from earth.
Forget it-cast II away" comes from
Hawthorne's Marble Faun," and It's
a Sure Thing" is found in Goldsmith's
"She Stoops to Conquer" 1t appears
that "Twenty-three," signifying the
last, is in that wonderful. and least
Dickenseque of Dickens novels, "A
Tale of Two Cities" "Cut in and
Win" ia traced to Thackeray's ivan.
ity Fair"
Farther back, Nothing doing" crops
out in Addison's Letters. and Gone
to the wall" is found in John Bun.
yan's immortal Pilgrims Progress"
In Loves Labors Lost II is discov.
cred that Shakespeare says "Give
Hector a gift-a gilt nutmeg-a lem
on" So one of the very best slang
bo.l phrases of the day. Make good"
can be located in Deuteronomy.
The truth is that many slang ex.
pressions are merely the popular dis.
'overy or second birth of phrases and
words of ancient and excellent line
ge. 1t is a great mistake to lump all
lang together as of like quality and
Justification for its existence. Some
is very bad but some is admirably
vivid. expressive, and forceful. Most
1f it dies quickly lingering longest
n the slackwater corners of the earth
where time drags and life is least
ilert. But there are words and
1sAases which pass from slang into
he realm of duly approved language
nd good literature, there to remain.
The Mahoning dispatch. [volume] (Canfield, Mahoning County, Ohio) 1877-1968, 1910-03-04
Buckeye Editor is Lashed.

Lisbon, o.-Wilson Potts, editor
Of the Daily Patriot, assaulted
and severely beaten with a heavy
whip, asserted that he-will ask for a
warrant charging George Riddle, son
of the superintendent of the county
fHfirmary, with assault. The as
,sault, Mr.. Potts says, was the
.culmination of what he terms an ex.
pose of conditions at the infirmary
The stories have been printed In the
Patriot, Potts says that he was
struck from behind by man. who he
charges is Riddle.
The Mahoning dispatch. [volume] (Canfield, Mahoning County, Ohio) 1877-1968, 1910-03-04
Not Complete.

"Ha!" cried the nervous woman.
starting from her slumbef, There
is a burglar In the house! What shall
we do?"
Let US put our heads together"
suggested the resourceful woman.
1T is impossiblei" the nervous wo-
man gasped after short struggle.
Her hair. to be sure. hung on the
bedpost, but where were her teeth?-
Newark Star.
The Mahoning dispatch. [volume] (Canfield, Mahoning County, Ohio) 1877-1968, 1910-03-04
New London Has Light War.

! Norwalk, O.-The Acknowledgment
IHo. of New London is attempting by
legal process TO restrain the village
authorities from engaging in the com
|mercial lighting business in connec.
|tion with its municipal plant. The
|Arnold-Creager Co. is now furnishing
electric power and day lighting, using
municipal poles, which the village au-
rthorities threaten to deprive them of.
The court is asked to enjoin the vii.
jage officers, the claim being that the
ordinance under which the municipal
plant was constructed does not per.
init commercial service.
The Mahoning dispatch. [volume] (Canfield, Mahoning County, Ohio) 1877-1968, 1910-03-04
Every Man His Own Bucket shop.


That's another thing that has
1elped no end TO brighten and richen
~ the neighborhood" says the rural
"astman in an article in Success
Magazine" Take the farmers on my
'onte. ! guess nine out of ten have
rhones and every night and morning
there's what they speak of as gen.
aral call-twelve short rings-when
Everybody takes down his receiver
nd hears all the latest market quota.
ions. Then, If they have anything
O buy or sell, they just call up the
1ther party, and make the dicker at
he most favorable price; where In
he old days they might have driven
round the country half week and
hen not have done any business"
And take Ike Roberts over here.
lie mad lot of barley in the elevator
n town. The quotations didn't come
fast enough to suit him by mail
nd general call so he kept all the
ime 'phoning the elevator to know
ow barley was doing, as If barley
las his best friend on the point of
cath. That's all right; he was able
q sell out just before the drop and
uade s1l7 clear on the lot"
The Mahoning dispatch. [volume] (Canfield, Mahoning County, Ohio) 1877-1968, 1910-03-04
Taking His Measure.

''Your husband is something OF a
baseball fan, isn't he?" said the visi-
tor
Fan doesn't begin to express It,"
replied young Mrs Torkins. Char
ley is a regular windmill. Washing
ton Star.
The Mahoning dispatch. [volume] (Canfield, Mahoning County, Ohio) 1877-1968, 1910-03-04
Eft Punishment.

I'd like to take certain man and
punish him by this fierce plan: I'd
take him to the far north pole where
frigid breezes roar and roll. and there
I'd set him on the ice and feed him on
his own advice.
I'd take him where his ears and
nose and all his fingers and his toes
would be effectively congealed by all
the coldness there unsealed and glad
ly would / read each rule he's written
on How to Keep Cool.
And | am willing now to bet that
he'd begin to fume and fret and worry
over his advice until he melted all
the ice. and all the echoes In that
spot would sing his language: "Gsel
It's hotl"
The Mahoning dispatch. [volume] (Canfield, Mahoning County, Ohio) 1877-1968, 1910-03-04
ResponslbIlity.

Irate Diner Ito waiter who persist.
entity hovers about the table)-What
on earth are you waiting for. manG l
don't want you. Waiter Excuse me.
sir, but / am responsible for the sill
yer-Tit- Bits
The Mahoning dispatch. [volume] (Canfield, Mahoning County, Ohio) 1877-1968, 1910-03-04
Naluahla lnformatIon.

Al used word in speaking to my
wife which offended her sorely a week
ago. She has not spoken to me since.
B-Would you mind telling me what
It was?
The Mahoning dispatch. [volume] (Canfield, Mahoning County, Ohio) 1877-1968, 1910-03-04
Daily Thouaht.

Foresight is very wise. but foresor-
row is very foolish; and castles are at
any rate better than dungeons in the
air.-sir John Lubbock.
The Mahoning dispatch. [volume] (Canfield, Mahoning County, Ohio) 1877-1968, 1910-03-04


Print us a menu that gives all the
toasts;
Welcome him now to our beautiful city.
Tell him we're glad that we may be his
hosts.
What has he done? Has he won an
election,
Fought with the champion pug in the
ring,
Or do his talents lie in the direction
OF those who paint or who carve or
who sing?
What does it matter? Wen honor him
duly
Ho for the ilet of beef with green
pease!-
Ask him to write us his scrawline
Yours truly"
Ladle the punch till he's quite at his
ease.
Once they'd have made him duke or a
baron.
Thrown up their hats and huzza'd on
the street,
Now it's as certain as that trip with
Charon
Wen make him glad il we ask him to
eat.
What do we care. just so he is a win
ner?
He may be shy and retiring and meek
Still, tits our duty TO give him a dinner
And talk of any old thing when we
speak
The Mahoning dispatch. [volume] (Canfield, Mahoning County, Ohio) 1877-1968, 1910-03-04

The submarine cables Of the world
cover q total Of a7s.2os miles. distrlb-
utsd among 205s cables Three
fourths OF this total mileage Is owned
my private companies.
The Mahoning dispatch. [volume] (Canfield, Mahoning County, Ohio) 1877-1968, 1910-03-04
overworksd.

Il need q rest" remarked the hard
worked student. Wherewith he went
over to his desk calendar and took
day onf.-corneil Widow
The Mahoning dispatch. [volume] (Canfield, Mahoning County, Ohio) 1877-1968, 1910-03-04

Pneumonia follows cold but ney-
er follows the use Of F'oley's Honey
ana Tar which stops the cough. heals
ahe lungs ana expele the cold from
4hessystem. + A. Morris. canheld.
The Mahoning dispatch. [volume] (Canfield, Mahoning County, Ohio) 1877-1968, 1910-03-04

BY Degrees.

Hubby, do you like my new hat?"
Il guess l can learn to like It," an
swered hubby. after viewing the latest
effect.--Louisville Courier-Journal.
The Mahoning dispatch. [volume] (Canfield, Mahoning County, Ohio) 1877-1968, 1910-03-04
lJneIe Ezra Saws:

1T amt good fur man 10 be alone.
but did you ever see an oil bach who
Knew what wuz good fur him?'
The Mahoning dispatch. [volume] (Canfield, Mahoning County, Ohio) 1877-1968, 1910-03-04
rhis A. "A Easy r@t.

shake Aliens Foot-Ease In one shoe and not In
ahe other, and notice the difference Just the
thing 70 use uhen rubbers OF oEershoes become
necessary. and yoar Shoes seem 70 pinch. Sold
escry where, 75c Don't accept any substitutes
The Mahoning dispatch. [volume] (Canfield, Mahoning County, Ohio) 1877-1968, 1910-03-04

OF storm-t0ssed boats a-sailing,
OF monsters of the deep,
or little white-winged sehooners
On oceans breast that sleep;
OF little isles quite hidden
+. From the big world outside
OF many strange things shipwrecked
Brought In upon the tide.
So, sitting by the seaside
Are little Joe and Nell
Listening to the whitecaps
To hear what they may tell.
The Mahoning dispatch. [volume] (Canfield, Mahoning County, Ohio) 1877-1968, 1910-03-04
Earlx alble Plctures.

The earliest Bible pictures were
painted on the church walls instead Of
being bound between the book covers
The Mahoning dispatch. [volume] (Canfield, Mahoning County, Ohio) 1877-1968, 1910-03-04

Hs-How is it you are always out
when call?
She-Just luck.
The Mahoning dispatch. [volume] (Canfield, Mahoning County, Ohio) 1877-1968, 1910-03-04
Best Prayer.

The best prayer Al the beginning Of
: day Is that We may not lose its mo
menes.
The Mahoning dispatch. [volume] (Canfield, Mahoning County, Ohio) 1877-1968, 1910-03-04
Another Mature Faker.

Wanted-Situation As dairyman:
can milk or drive wagon. Dairyman.
care Georgian---Atlanta Georgian.
The Mahoning dispatch. [volume] (Canfield, Mahoning County, Ohio) 1877-1968, 1910-03-04

sIt was all over IN minute. " might
refer to 4 railway accident or TO .
wedding
The Mahoning dispatch. [volume] (Canfield, Mahoning County, Ohio) 1877-1968, 1910-03-04
srltaIn's Costly Administration.

The salaries of government ofhcials
in the United Kingdom amount to over
SIT. 900. 900 annually
The Mahoning dispatch. [volume] (Canfield, Mahoning County, Ohio) 1877-1968, 1910-03-04

How can We tell whether resolu-
ton Is good or not til after We have
broken TT
The Mahoning dispatch. [volume] (Canfield, Mahoning County, Ohio) 1877-1968, 1910-03-04

In these times OF high prices every
body has to pay Even the oyster
ls compelled to shell out.
The Mahoning dispatch. [volume] (Canfield, Mahoning County, Ohio) 1877-1968, 1910-03-04
a naIsnndaratandk,

Geraldine-''Do you like Bacons-
Gerald-"No.. I'm . vegetarian"
The Mahoning dispatch. [volume] (Canfield, Mahoning County, Ohio) 1877-1968, 1910-03-04

A woman exercises as much ingenu'
ity in buying face powder in village
drug store as man does In getting a
drink on the sly in the same store,
The Mahoning dispatch. [volume] (Canfield, Mahoning County, Ohio) 1877-1968, 1910-03-04

Lizzie Fulsom
has a trained
voice, but it
breaks training
every now and
then.
The Mahoning dispatch. [volume] (Canfield, Mahoning County, Ohio) 1877-1968, 1910-03-04
Listening.

Listening.
Sitting by the seaside
Are little Joe and Nell
Listening TO the whitecaps
To hear what they may tell
The Mahoning dispatch. [volume] (Canfield, Mahoning County, Ohio) 1877-1968, 1910-03-04

Ezra Todd's girl and her beau to
change from singing Love Me and the
World Is Mine" all the time.
Eli Plumm is worried; he doesn't
know whether to talk about how to
dig the Panama canal or how to find
the north pole.
The Mahoning dispatch. [volume] (Canfield, Mahoning County, Ohio) 1877-1968, 1910-03-04

Goodness and HappIness.
Hamilton: A cottage. II goodness
be there, win hold As much happiness
as = palace.
The Mahoning dispatch. [volume] (Canfield, Mahoning County, Ohio) 1877-1968, 1910-03-04
LDMAN GIDDLEs
OBSERVES.

All things come
to the man who
waits - but too
often they come
second handed.
The Mahoning dispatch. [volume] (Canfield, Mahoning County, Ohio) 1877-1968, 1910-03-04

The man who smokes 10 cigars a
day brags about 1t as much as the
man who hasn't smoked any for ten
years.
Wild oats are generally sown on
mortgaged land.
The Mahoning dispatch. [volume] (Canfield, Mahoning County, Ohio) 1877-1968, 1910-03-04

Compliments are like pancakes
they are only good when fresh and
hot. A cold pancake or an overdue
compliment is the most disconsoiate
thing on earth.
The Mahoning dispatch. [volume] (Canfield, Mahoning County, Ohio) 1877-1968, 1910-03-04
6GS5FFnSTI,o, 6GS5F 3, ,! 55!.
OVl MILsuR D MEssIr.
MF MFAwERNCAW
LSTOM
-

What hase he done
Tor us7 Won us a
battle,
Captured a. pen
nant or written a
book ?
Shown us the way
we may fatten
our cattle,
Dried up an ocean
or damned up a
brooke
What shall we DE-
for him, now he's
a winner?
That is an easy
one; don't ash
again.
Come, we will hlI
him clear UP at 9
dinner
AS we do all oi
our prominen
Give him a seat a.
the long speak
ers' table.
Ply him with cock
tails and serve
him with wine
We may be slow II
some ways, bu
we're able
Always and evei
to go out anC
dine.
Get out the swallow
tails, name
The Mahoning dispatch. [volume] (Canfield, Mahoning County, Ohio) 1877-1968, 1910-03-04

Ernest Maltravers Daubigney came
here last week and got a job In the
sawmill, and Peter Smutts of this
town is selling poetry to the maga'
zines. Art and labor must have
crossed the wires on those names.
Popular songs are to be sold for a
cent apiece, | read. This will enable
Holbrook argus., 1910-05-31
Haunting Him.

It was housecleaning time, and MT. Stubb was removing the dusty pie lures from the walls. The frames slipped, the step-ladder creaked om- inously, and the precipitation rolled from MT. Stubb's brow. Tn the humor to bite a nail in half he turned and discovered Mrs. Stubb laughing.
 That's it!" he roared, az the step ladder swayed. Laugh and show your gold teeth
 And still she laughed.
 Do you think there is anything funny in my moving these pictures 7'' he sputtered, in fierce tones.
 "No, indeed, John," said Mrs. Stubb. soothingly, "but you know you look go funny it looks like moving pic. ture show
 Then MT Stubb swallowed 2 pint of dust and simply fumed.
Holbrook argus., 1910-05-31
Delayed.

Though his complexion was pale green, he managed to totter to the deck in the third day after leaving port. There he met an exasperating ly jovial and healthy looking fellow. passenger.
 Glad to see you" exclaimed the latter to the man with the green face; "how is it that you haven't been on deck before this?''
 Well, you see," replied the other leach time that I planned to get or deck, something kept coming up, so had to postpone the trip"
Holbrook argus., 1910-05-31
Attitude Toward Death.

The normal attitude of men toward death seems to be one of matt ention or evasion. They do not trouble about 1t; they do not want to trouble about 1t, and they resent it's being called to their notice. On this point the late Frederick Myers used to tell a story which I have always thought very il' luminating. In conversation after dinner he was pressing on his host the unwelcome question, what he thought would happen after death. After many evasions and much recalcitrancy the reluctant admission was extorted: "Of course, If you press me, believe that we shall all enter into eternal bliss but I wish you wouldn't talk about such disagreeable subjects" This, l believe, is typical of the normal mood of most men. They don't want to be worried; and though probably, if the question were pressed, they would ob- ject to the idea of extinction, they can hardly be said to desire immor- tality. Even at the point of death. it would seem, this attitude ia often maintained.-Atlantic
Holbrook argus., 1910-05-31
THE EYE ON CHINESE JUNKS.
Cantonese Legend Explains Why Apparently Purposeless Sym.
 bol Is Placed There.

Few people know why Chinese junks have an eye painted on the port side of the bow. A Cantonese legend explains the origin of that singular custom in way that Is sug- gegtive of Anglo-Saxon humor.
 A Chinese mandarin who lived cen turies before the Christian era, find ing himself in need of a navy, sent for the royal boat builder and ordered him to build a certain number of ships. So the builder drew up plans and presented them to the mandarin. But the plans evidently did not suit his majesty, for he flew into vio- lent rage and ordered the boat build CT from his presence.
 Then how shall I build them, your celestial highness?" he pleaded
 Whereupon the mandarin drew of one of his slippers and threw it at the boat builder, who fled from the room At the door he turned for 3 moment. just in time to catch the mandarin winking at his prime minister.
 The boat builder picked up the roy. al slipper and used 1t as model, and then painted one eye on it's bow to represent the royal masters wink.
Holbrook argus., 1910-05-31
STORY OF THE HUMBLE CLAM
Small and Comparatively Unlmpor- tsnt, Nevertheless He Has His
 Good Points,

Everybody has heard of the clam, for he has of late years achieved ce- iebrity by lending the use of his name for broth, a form of warm water used in restaurants and soda fountains.
 Those who have studied the clam, however, know that he is in reality 8 remarkable individual 1
 The clam begins by depositing him self in sand bank He takes out no Ere insurance, and may be seen oc- casionally squirting out water, as a precsution against any sparks that might fall inadvertently.
 The clam in summer wears a sheath gown open at the sides, but so modest ia he Cor she) that 1t Is immediately closed up at the approach of another person.
 Clans have decollete necks, which they are very fond of displaying in broad daylight. This, of course, makes them very sunburned
 It would be much better if, during the sunny part of the day, the clam would wear 8 veil.
 Clans live usually in flats, and al ways go down through the roof.
 In their native element they are very much at home, but when seen in company with human beings they are usually in the soup or frittering away their lives.-Judge.
Holbrook argus., 1910-05-31
Not 3 Question of Ideas.

q think" said Miss Cayenne, "fhat in the course of time we shall be com I municating with Mars
 What of it?" inquired the profes sor. We won't be able to exchange any ideas of importance"
 Perhaps not. But the conversation at teas and receptions should tortify us for little disappointment like that"
Holbrook argus., 1910-05-31

If you are in business and you want to m lake more money you will read every word we have te say. Are yoe spending yeHR money for aas vertising In hap hazard fashieA as if intended
The copper era., 1910-10-14
County Seat Mass Meeting.

A mass meeting has been called for Friday evening of thls week at Lib rary Hall at o'clock, and it is earn estly requested that every public spirited citizen be present. The pur- pose of the meeting is for the perfec- tion of permanent County Seat Club. It is to the interest of every taxpayer and citizen to be present and take an active part in the discussion of this important question. The subject of the location of the county seat has all ready been too long in abeyance and now that election is drawing near it is only by concerted action upon the part of Clifton citizens that we will be able to land the county seat. Clifton wants it and wants it badly and she is going to devote her untir- ing efforts to secure it.
 This is the only logical location for the new county seat but there are other aspirants for it and if Clifton intends to land it now is the time to get busy and that quickly. We must fight for it and only by united effort will the struggle be fruitful. Let every voter turn out to this mass meeting and show the people that we mean business.