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SIXTEEN PAGES HAMILTON, OHIO, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 1C, SIXTEEN PAGES The Latest Styles of Hats and Bonnets For the coming week we are offering special bargains injLeghorns for girls making their first Communion. At such prices as we are selling them. Our trimmers are allJexperienceoVjand know their business. Come and see us and save money. Mrs.

Peter Buerger, Mo. 707 South Second Street Let 'Er Go At That! A Drive In Groceries! We will sell for a short time Groceries cheaper than any house in the county. White Sugar 4c per Ib. Prunes Raisins 5cperlb. Evaporated Peaches, fine ice perlb.

Evaporated Apricots 100 perlb. Pine Apple locpercan Good Corn 5c per can Tomatoes 70 per can Apricots percan Mustard Sardines 50 percan Ginger Snaps 5c perlb. Diamond Soap Powder 10 boxes for 250. Soap TO bars for HeadLightQH 8c. Starch 3 Ibs for.

toe, Rolled Oats 2 Ibs lor 5 c. We want to tell you that the PEERLESS Manufactured in this very town by F. L. Kahn is in every respect approached and unapproachable for every kind of cooking and baking, simplicity, economy and durability, by comparison with any range competing against it. The burners are perfection themselves, are patented, and have been pronounced by gas experts the best so far invented.

The Prices Are Not fligktr, Silt Cheaper Thau (then. OLD I I All brands of Flour sold at the very lowest prices in barrels or sacks, at J. S. Kriegenhafer's, 227 Vine HAMILTON, 0. J.C.

WINTER, 506 HEATON FOR DR GOODS GROCERIES 1 V. At Bottom Prices. The manufacturer's gtfilf- antee goes with each They can be seen at the Kann Stove Works, and are For sale and on exhibition at the Matthias Stove ol and Jtt Main St. GOOD, DENTIST. Residence, TJ N.

Third Street. Office Hoars to a. m. and i to 5 p. m.

Office High Street, Opft. Optra House. Of Hamilton as They Were in Auld Lang Syne. DR. A I of Prominent Fhystetans Contributes Article of Great Merit-Short of the of Ike Town- The 1'onnger Generation a Credit to Their Ancestors.

HAMILTON, April 1895. To the Edtlor of the Refiublitan. At a time like when the ranks of the old citizens are being to rabidly thinned out, there is great danger that mnch of the earlier history of Hamilton will be lost to the rising generation. When the late lamented Drs. Falconer and Scobey, like old clocks worn out by eating time and the weary wheels of life stopped, much of the earlier history of Hamilton that either oi them were competent of writing and would have been interesting reading, has been lost.

Who of all that are left will undertake the task. This contribution is written with the hope that some one whose longer residence in Hamilton has qualified them for this duty, will commit their knowledge to writing. I am credibly informed that after the death of the late James McBnde by some oversight in those who had charge of his effects, a large amount of his papers and pamphlets that he had accumulated during his life time, all bearing on the early history of Hamilton and the state were literally carted off to the paper will as so much refuse. Doubtless many of those documents were worth their weight in gold and never will be replaced. I shall only speak of the doctors, lawyers, merchants, manufacturers and business men, who were in active business in 1849 and prior to that date, as all those who have come upon the stage since that time are known to most of the people now liv ing.

I will, however, add that the younger generation are proving themselves worthy representatives of their illustrious prede cessors. The Physicians of To begin with the physicians who were in practice when I came to Hamilton in 1849. Drs. Daniel and R. B.

MtUikin, were what might be called the pioneers. I never met Dr. Dan Millikin as he died only a few months after my arrival in Hamilton, but his name was and still is household word Perhaps no two physicians that ever lived enjoyed a wider range of practice or left more favorable impression. With Dr. Millikin I was intimately acquainted and am largely indebted both to him and the late Dr.

Falconer for kind and cheering words during my first years of practice and I am glad of this opportunity of supplying an omission at Dr. Falconer's memorial service viz. his proverbial kindness to the younger members of the profession. More than one young physician owes a great deal of their success to Dr. Falconer's assistance.

The tribute paid to him in the services referred to relieves me of any feeble effort to speak of his worth and merits. Dr. Loami Rigdon lived in the house now owned and occupied by Dr. Dan Millikin. Dr.

Rigdon was an educated, dignified gentleman and while he was not physically strong, the temperate, correct life he lived enabled him to do a vast deal of professional work. Sidney Rigdon. brother of the doctor, was the brains of the Mormon church when Joseph Smith was at its head and but for Rigdon's advise the organization that has since cat such a figure in the world would have gone to pieces. Dr. Jacob Hittell, another of the pioneer physicians was a self-made man and a man of indomitable will.

He was an able physician and surgeon and enjoyed a lucrative lumored, a hard worker and an able pleader. So good and kind that he was often the victim of misplaced confidence. Had he een more careful and close he would have been a wealthy man. William B. Brown, whose office in olden times was where the Stengel block now stands, has led a uous life of devotion to business and bow well he has been rewarded.

He always thinks before he acts. He is a safe man to be at the head of a banking institution or in any other responsible position. And now let me mention one name and be still lives and stands erect like a towering oak and is the connecting link between the presented and a former generation of Your readers all know him-Thomas Millikin. When I first came ST to Hamilton the old men told me about his essay at Miami university. I was told by some who were present that people sat aad listened to his utterances.

bowing their heads in unison with his ges- ures. And the heads of the juiors still do the same and when be sees the motion he knows the result of the verdict before they leave their seats. I am reminded of a remark I heard not long ago "there is but one sun, one moon and one Tom The BasUrst Men of '40. Of the business men commencing at Main and streets Jacob Shaffer was a wholesale and retail grocer in the Odd Fellow's building. When the late John Longfellow induced him to stock the Waiter son.

Callender Seward distillery that had been recently erected.lwith hogs, the adventure proved a financial success and with Shaffet's share of the profits, he with Joseph Curtis started a bank opposite the court house. Mr. Shaffer afterwards bought oat the Itte'Tohn W. practice and knew bow to care for what he earned and by judicious investments in real estate amassed a princely fortune. Dr.

William Huber, one of Hamilton's early physicians, came from Pennsylvania. Hewaaa physician of sterling merit and bad tke double advantage of speaking the German language which gavebim prestige with the Germar. element. Dr. William H.

eT mfco tata ftw weeks ago "K-ded the drapery of his couch around him like one who lies down to pleasant dreams" was the last one of the physicians who came to Hamilton prior to 1819 and no one of bis associates enjoyed a larger practice. Dr. Henry Howells one of the first dentists if not the vei- first, affords a worthy exampjje to alt young men of what can be accomplished by a steady, persistent course. Jls face is worth a fortune, genial, kind social. Always the same manly, polite and retiring.

est in the Hydraulic mills at ithe east tend of the bridge across the Miami river. This was a profitable adventure and Mr. Shaffer became one of Hamilton's wealthiest men Isaac and Jacob Matthias for forty years or more carried on a copper smith and stove stove. Never were two brothers more dif ferent in their ways and manners and never were two men who worked in more perfect harmony. No matter what one did the other never uttered an objection.

They both lost heavily in their adventures in the dry goods business but by their frugality and industry always Ihed well and left valuable property behind whenjhey died-ijEaUjN. J. and J. Rossnian, two brothers in the dry goods business I on the same street from a time "whence 1 the memory of man runneth not John never married.while James had a happy family and it was a common saying tbat the good housewives along the streets from the store to his the habit of setting'their clocks to the his coming and going. In fact he was as regu lar as a clock in everything.

William in the grocery business about where the Cass (Hardware establishment now stands. He is still liv ing and is the vice president of the Seconc National bank. He worked bard and did heap of thinking, always cautious but resolute. It would be well for the young men to imitate his example. I find upon looking back, so many old solid business men that it mould be a Herculean task to naj or speak of each one as it would require a large volume to do justice to the subject.

On the east side on High street we found William Hunter, of the firm of Shaffer Hunter, owner of the Hydraulic mills. Mr. Hunter was a small compact man and gave employment to a large number of men.for bis mill at the time.was one of the largest and most complete in southern Ohio. He paid his men well and exacted from them honest work. He would not tolerate any foolishness, heldid not believe in synecures; he was the first man in his office in the morning and kept a strict watch over all tbat was going on and he left good round sum to hia family.

Perhaps one of the most notable men that ever lived in Hamilton was the late John W. Erwin. who was for years the trusted state engineer of the Board of Fub- lie Works. He was not otily an authority OB all questions of engineering bat was well versed in tke current literature of day and tke collateral sciences. He had.

grand presence and never faikd to lCt the attention of strangers and to cw His feeder gentleman, blowing his owa tiofti. nentsby the erection of what is known as teckett hall. It would not now be regarded anything worth mentioning, but at the ime it was built it was considered a big tin- dertaking and ftom the day it was com- leted he was at the bead and front of every public enterprise. It was Wm. Beckett that was the prime mover in bringing the Niles Tool works to Hamilton and it was Wm.

-Xckett and Job Owens who were the main movers in building the Variety Iron works. the nav, I can not forbear telling an allusion to Mr. Beckett by the ate Honorable R. C. Schenrk.

When in congress in 1867 a bill was before congress asking appropriation for the sufferers from flood on the Mississippi. Mr. Schenk arose in his place and said that he had no doubt that the people along the Mississippi river had sustained great damage by reason of the flood. He also said that there had Hen a Hood on the Miami river at his home, and although not present at the inie, a gentleman from Hamilton. Ohio, old him all about it and said 1 that when the old bridge was swept away Mr.

Beckett was present and actually shed tears and said rom his personal knowledge the bridge had been standing for over fifty years and that Mr. Becket must have had many pleasant reminiscences associated with the old bridge when the man said, no, it was not pleasant reminiscences, he was the argent stock holder in it. William Beckett, lob Owens and Abner Campbell--it was free trade with them in all business transactions. But when it came to politics it was like Greek meeting Greek. Then came the tug of war, neither of them scored a succession of triumphs they only carried the points It cannot be denied that it was the Owens, Lane Dyer manufacturing company that gave Hamilton its first big boom as a manufacturing city.

Maguireand Skinner were two strong men in character as well as in business in I Both bequeathed a good name to posterity and adequate means for those whom they left behind and now let me close this history of merchants by referring to Thomas V. Ho well, who is another mnectingMink: between the present and a former generation. Thomas Howell is an all around good business man. He pos sesses will power and by perseverance has reached the highest pinacle in mercantile life. Some say it is luck.

Luck is for him only who has the perseverance and ambi tion to conquer despite the surroundings. Persistency in the long, run will always out strip brilliancy. The list of mighty names en the annals of history protes this. Before closing this paper I desire to make mention of two men who were eminently qualified for any position in; life Major John M. Millikin and Arthur W.

Elliott. Neither lived in the city at the time but lived on farms adjacent to the city. Major MilliLin was the noblest type of a high- toned, dignified gentleman that I ever met, He was an able man and as an orator few excelled him, I remember him when in 1852 he stood on the platform on the east side of the old court house and delivered the welcome address to Major General Win. field Scott who paid Hamilton a visit at tbat time. I thought then that be was the handsomest man I ever saw and his ad dress was the most eloquent I ever beard.

Arthur W. Eliott was a man, of talent, a natural bom orator. In the pulpit or on the rostrum be was a power. I heard hi: when he pteached thefuneial of General Wingate and certainly Baacom, of national fame for oratory not have done better. It is said tbat during the great Log Cabin campaign of 1840 bin speeches were equal if not superior to any politician then living.

I must refer to one other figure promjo- ent He was more particularly identified tke early history of Hamilton. will any other man it. iorbutwas beat with genetooa ip- iad Dulses. One little to me by a lady in this, while our at noon for a little rest at a with a half dozen houses, an lady tke front and asked the commanding officer. She said the AN ANALYZED MAN.

Story Inspired by a Warm, Misty Moonlight BY PERLET P. SHEEHAH, Formerly of the Republican Stair and la Vmln lega Wild and at In the Concordiensis a paper published under the auspices of Union college of Schenectady N. appears an article writ- by Perlev P. Sbeehan formerly of tbe RKTOHLICAN, entitled "An Analyzed Manor The chemical Spook." The article is 'erley Sheehan all over and we are sure our readers will be interested in its perusal. The article is as follows It was one of those warm, misty, moon- it nights, so rich in malaria and mystery.

Driven by the maddening pain of bead- ache from the doubtful joys of mathematics, had sought the shadow of the "round building;" so thus, at the time this story opens, I was seated on the eastern doorsteps of the hall, my bead upon my knees, my hat upon tbe ground. Beneath the twofold opiate of cigarette and silence. I sat there, almost napping, my surronnd- ngs to become more eerie and more weird. Suddenly, a chill breath flitted across my face. Starting up half-frightened, striving in vain to clear my drowsy intellect, I saw Before me, as though the damp night fog iiad massed in an attempt to represent a human form, a pale, wavering column of mist.

Unstable as a pillar of amoke, the vision, for it could be nothing else, approached. Vainly I endeavored to cry out. Then, as my blood froze and my hair rose on end, I heard a voice addressing me. Tke faint, but distinctly enunciated words sounded as those spoken over a long dis- tnnknleafaoae. to my regret, I am no chemist.

In fact I am ignorant of the first principles of that noble eience. So when that ghashly voice beseeched me. "Get z-- Get I sat nonplussed. Slightly recovered from the first nervous shock, I essayed to speak, and found. tbat I could do so in a whisper.

I queried. 1 The antidote, was tbe earnest reply. "I don't know what that is," I said. Lost! Lost'" came the heart-broken response, and the shade was strangely perturbed. Lacking means of consolation and desiring to make up for my culpable ignorance, I asked the spook to tell me bis story.

saying, perhaps I could eventually aid him. Without a moment's delay he plunged into the follow ingtile, which, in the I have purged of all elaborations and irreV. evant matter. "In the year iS 1 was a Union, with plenty money bat a- the world. Of my mind, from earliest yoatk- sorbed in tbe tad been ab- and mt a mentaj tioaof f- circumstance Alabama armyhaltta the admiration of all who.

hcme lift wa; example worthy of imitation. Mark C. McMaken, like an ld patriarch whose stock of vigor-- his almost fivescore years seems scarcely to have impaired. His erect form, his firm step aad elastic limbs and undimmed senses are so many certificates of good conduct or rather so main jewels and orders of nobility with which nature has honored him for his fidelity to her laws. His fair complexion shows that his blood has never been corrupted: his pure breath that he has never jielded his digestive organs for a vintner's cesspool, his correct language and keen apprehension that bis brain has never been stnpi- others his equal but tfcev do not run -I ned by the poison of the tobaccoist.

En A teen to the Dts Williamson itid father of our tr associated together. Dr. Campbell brilliant man and when oft" in lidst of success left a void that was bard to fill. There were other physicians of lesser note and of ability I hav? not space to speak. Hie Of the profession no bar in the slaSe tras more abl represented.

John It -t (flint in intellect as mcll in 1 never but one raan that had any resemblance Jo ham and thai fv-l'niltd SlatesScnator of West Stanj were the tllti had at tJie Kiltki ocrantv bar nalh John Weller ard other C. K. mVj had law would Jme been a great lawjcr if ''jc let aid politics Vone 1 ,1 man of fine Elijah Vance Who of the old all foviag bis appetites to the highest he his preserved the power of enjoying them. De spite tke moral of tke school boj's story be has eaten his cake and still he has kept tbe I it- As be drains tke cup of life there are were BO Jess at the bottom. His organs will reach the goal of the.r exisiaace together, as painlOk 4 lamp bums down isa its socket.

11 oc make his exit and a little imagination would translate him like another Enoch to world without the of death. and Brown dfiggjsis J. N. confcctioeeiy localcd. Pettr and joha O.

Brown bard workers and by industry Jcntiou to masftd qiaate a forluot It was strictly 1 nith ticna. Thcj erylhiug in the of lc. ftill oi Henry an old time haJtcr. a -nan of many ftood qualities and mark until his death lie njtbl vcle of soldiers were raiding her premises and asked for protection on the grounds that her husband had been a general in the U. S.

army and that his last military service was at Fort Smith, thirty years before and to prove it she brought out thw commissions. I remarked to her that we had a man in Hamilton. Ohio, who used to run a trading boat to Fort Smith to which she replied that he was Captain Delorac and added that be had the kindest heart she ever saw. She said one of his men fell overboard and was drowned in the Arkansas river at Fort Smith and that he fished for him three days before he found him and then gave him a Christian burial. One more business man, grand old Adam Laurie--where will you abetter type of man.

He will tell you that hard work never kills men but that toil knits their limbs and purifies their blood. That it is idleness and the vices that killtfito men where hard work does not kill one. If tut world was full of such men there would be no need of law or order leagues. I crave the reader's tardon for any errors or mistakes or omissions as this paper has been prepared without consulting any authority or it altogether upon my own knowledge and II. OKI jdupon termed tke lotattra- Eagerly I longed to dome compound, tke drinking would separate my, separate it, so that i it could engage in several vohmtaiy tions.

By imperceptible tbe thought took such strong bold me, that never was it absent day or nigkt. I became an habitue of tbe chemical ratory; there spending my tinjc strange concoctions and prying Into Nature's secrets. (Here I omit, for private reasons, scientific data and explanations wkich I elicited and afterward entered in my diary.) "Tke effect of tke liquid would be to definitely embalm my physical self, bff set my mind a spirit free. Aft, wHk jhat an exulting heart I carried tke cions compound to my room. Then pack- ng my trunk and bidding goodbye to my ew acquaintances, I kastened away.

My destination, a cave known to none save myself, was in the A few days later, all was ready. 11 had so arranged the entrance to my retreat, tint it was next to impossible of discovery. Seated upon a boulder, surrounded by my books. I intended to make tbe pirllnjinni experiment. By tbe light of a candle I measu-edonta few drops of tbe potent in a graduate, then leaning back, 1 drained it to the bottom.

A qualm of ecstatic freedom MUgcd through my mind. In an instant, did my spirit seem to broaden and to rise. I perceived the whole world aad all its by an inward consciousness, known. And there upon tke stilled as though in death my body my. Bat at the name tnstoat, naveles? dread, an possessed me.

For, by my born, 1 knew, tke ffattly voice here rising to a waiUaf "wonld An? FEATHERS. a He a a i I never sa-v hin nt Slow to tons. without snoff bot and fall roffled shirt thai ccnjpicaotisly displayed frnsa tJie folds of his vest. He WAS fluent in speech and a power in bis dav. L.

D. and Tom Cotwin fre qaently engaged la the Rntter charts. Col. Thomas Moore, jolly and goad bnt dc when once formed he icsolale a-od Urrrnintd. no mtn in Southern Ohio bet lei known than Wm.

Beckttt, the pioneer paper nancfacluier. He was tbe first man in Hamilton to itiaagnrate public improve- Tun jwnjjlr of ucvt that isaVrat c-ier and fiftwn fwt higli Tin, 1h.it in n-! that thf Amirmn hare II arc in Kin OiO io oiliciaK for rabbit Tni. of tho 3 lined iJh a vft dovin thai cnaWcs the bird to fly without making the soand. A vulture eaptnral in the car 170S and to the aviary ScJi'v-nbrnnn castle, Vienna, lived until mc hundred and eighteen Clara-- Mr. JhldfeUack me that 1 am feet Easter boUo, Maude-- Don't ron it? Cara-No told him bad --TlTJtll.

"T3iar is the placo whar Uw fell through the ice," 1 "How do you know?" 1 -Easy enongh. Jest look lit cork flnathf yandcrr-- Comtt- talkm. A DM Friend (to are flllroc De Wfnia --tbat Tmtfc,.