The Journal-Republican from Wilmington, Ohio • 1

She Wilmington Innrnnl VOL kxxvil WILMINGTON OHIO WEDNESDAY AUGUST 24 1904 NUMBER 23 11 i 1 ft5 'A THE JOURNAL Satenl at tk Pttfroffie ia WUmlnftoa Ohio a Moond Im matuc PUBLISHED ETERY TUESDAY Corner ef Hain and Mnlberrf Streets Ctiatoa TlakaaMaI TERMS In advance SI 50 At the end of the rear S3 COUNT'S NEWS MARTINSVILLE Raymond Williamson who has been employed by the Street Railway Com pany at Dayton come home a few days ago with an injured hand The gravel haulers are now busy on the pikes Mrs Bilderback is very low at the home of her sister with cancer in the face 1 Born to the wife of Eli Hawk Sun day night a daughter Miss Cora Loney who has been in very poor health all summer spent Sunday with the Misses Simmons George Leaf who was brought home from Athens Hospital a few weeks ago has been taken to a private sanitarium near Columbus Victor Moon andfamily of Van Wert are the guests of Wyatt Moon and family this week Mrs Dan Hogan came up from Blan chester a few days ago for a visit with her parents Mrs Henry Ackles and sister Miss Mamie Kelley went to Hillsboro Sun day for a visit with relatives Mrs Oscar leming and Elmer Cash man have gone to Martinsville Ind to spend a few weeks in the sanitarium The band concert at Lynchburg drew a good many of our people Mr and Mrs Johd Trenary and Mr and Mrs Omer Brown have returned from a ten visit at the air Mr and Mrs Dr Ruble Mr and Mrs Charles Ayres have just returned from an outing They took their tent and spent a couple of weeks among the hills near Ogden Mrs John Gibler and two daughters of New Lexington have been the guests of relatives here Mrs Louisa Ladd of Leesburg spent a couple of days here last week The opening of the Yearly Meeting was well represented from this part of the county Mr Scott of Blanchester has been spending a week at the Leaf home Hunt and wife entertained on Sunday last Hunt and wife of Wilmington and Herbert Wallum of Chicago Jeptha Garner of Tennessee is here to attend the Yearly Meeting and re union Mr and Mrs Creamer of Co lumbus and MrsC Hunt of Scotts burg Ind have been the guests of their brother Sanford Doan and fam ily of this place They all attended the family reunion at the home of Elias Doan in Wilmington August 12 Mrs Cash has gone to Chicago where her husband is creating a plant to man ufacture orangeade They will return to California for the winter Mr and Mrs Jay royally en tertained a number of ladies at dinner Wednesday in honor of Mrs Hunt of Scottsburg Ind and Mrs Creamer of Columbus There were twelve ladies present all of whom were cousins of Mrs Jay except Mrs Phebe Hunt who is the only living aunt to the cousins Six families were represented by two sisters and one was represented by three sisters Those present were Mesdames Hunt Doan Eliel West David Lieurance Pierce Lieurance Warren Whinery 0 West Eliel Green Will Hunt Creamer and Aunt Phebe Hunt An elegant four course dinner was served and the occasion was a most en joyable reunion Mrs Hunt and Mrs Creamer will return to their separate homes on Monday the 22d CUBA The sick are improving armers are rejoicing over our fine rains 4 Mrs Whipple and daughter of South Charleston spent a few days last week with her daughter Mrs Rev1 Hill Sever Aof our young people attend ed the surprise on Henry Brown Sat urday evening The lecture on Japan delivered by James Richardson Saturday evening' at riends Church was well attended and highly appreciated Roy Kerans with his cousins Katie and rankie Dodds of Cincinnati were guests of Mrs Emma Kerans over Sunday Clark of Columbus was home over Sunday Several from here have been attend ing Yearly Meeting The home of John Crouse a mile and a half east of here was searched by burglars Sundaywhile the family was away They got $10 in gold and other things Bloodhounds were put on their trail and some clothing was found James Hannah wife and daughter were entertained by Emory on Sunday Maud Brandenburg is visiting her grandparents and attending Yearly Meeting Stella Jones is Visiting her sisters Mrs Brown and Mrs Weimer during Yearly Meeting rank Hunt of Cincinnatirvisited Sunday with his sister Mrs Jennie Ireland Dr Blackburn has given up practice on account of ill health and moved to his farm south of Cuba NEW BURLINGTON Mrs Lew Holland and three chil dren of Spring Valley spent the past week with her sister Mrs Reeves Several from here attended the Yearly Meeting A party of young people consisting of Mr and Mrs Walter Lackey Roy and Harley and Misses Hattie Smith Sallie McKay and Burwell Miller of this place and Mr and Mrs Carl Bangham of Wilmington are spend ing a week camping at the caves in Highland County Mrs Leonard James and children of Xenia were guests of Richard Jones and wife over Sunday Harlan and family of Center ville spent Sunday with A Harlan and family Mr and Mrs William Smith of Day ton spent Sunday with Mrs Rachel Smith and family Mrs Sells of Columbus and niece Grace Greenaway of Dayton were guests of A Reeves and family rank Peterson and family Xenia spent the past week with his parents James Peterson and wife NEW VIENNA Charles arren and wife who have been visiting relatives and friends here for the past two weeks left for their home in Chicago Monday Miss Vivian daughter of Prof West formerly of this place now of Wilmington arrived Saturday evening for a several stay with her friend Miss losse Wright Mr and Mrs Drummond Smithson the aged couple whb left the County Infirmary early in the summer and were married were returned to that institution on Saturday of last week Miss Zylpha West a teacher in our schools who has been spending the summer at Marion Ind sent her res ignation to the Board of Education last week The Board met Tuesday and appointed Miss Gertrude Good to fill the vacancy of Miss West in the primary room Miss Julia Polk was also appointed to fill the vacancy in the fourth grade caused by the mar riage of Miss Anna Powell to Dr Ter BLANCHESTER Bowman has been reappointed by the Township Trustees to succeed himself as Justice of the Peace till the fall election Edward Spelzhaus a young man from Cincinnati visiting at the home of Ja cob rey near Westboro while driv ing across the track at Wright street Thursday night was struck by a west bound train terribly mangling the body and killing the horse The much talked of Harvest Home enterprise to be given by the citizens of Blanchester is rapidly assuming a tangible form and from present indi cations we are justified in the predic tion that the fair will take place and prove a decided success Prof Boone the hypnotist who vis ited Blanchester and the surrounding towns some years since aud who cre ated quite a sensation by his feats of legerdemain has been taken into cus tody at Piqua on the charge of loiter ing It would seem that time has not dealt kindly with the man who was so long the center of so much attraction and who made and spent money lav Republican OAKLAND Born to the wife of Harry Atchison a daughter August 7 Alonzo Bailey has typhoid fever but getting along nicely at this writing Ed Cook rank Curl rank Win field Park Hadly and their wives spent last Thursday in Dayton Quite a number of the relatives of 8 Craig and family met at his home Thursday last as a basket picnic in honor of his two sons Ed and 3 and their wives About fifty persons were present from Spring Valley New Burlington and Creek Charles Venard of Indiana was home last week on his way to St Louis Dan Miller and wife started to Colo rado Springs for the benefit of his health Samuel Craig and family spent Sun day at his brother CLARKSVILLE Bothtfiecanning houses opened Mon day with a full force of workmen and the work will be pushed until the end of the season Samuel Christy one of the oldest members of the A died Thurs day evening and was buried under the auspices of the Order Saturday Miss Addie Madden has returned af ter a pleasant visit with relatives at Springfield Mr and Mrs Clinton Leevre of Marion Ind are guests of Thomas Gorman George Kelley accompanied Kath leen Kelley to her home in Dayton Retta Gardner of Wilmington was a guest of Mrs John Baugh Tuesday The Sunday school has ac cepted the invitation to attend the Sunday school celebration to be held at Creek the 27th and 28th They will travel In wagons Mrs Ella Crawford and son of Con nersville Ind were entertained by her brother A Madden last week Nathan Gray of Waynesville visit ed Alonzo Gray last week Mrs Caroline Hadley was the guest of Henry Pyle last week The Post office was moved to the new location Sunday and was ready for business Monday A Bowman and Urton at tended a stock sale near Lexington Ky last week Mr Urton purchased four head of fine stock Mr? Ashley Barnhart and daughter of Pittsburg Mrs Runyan of South Lebanon Harry and Mattie Hegler of Centre and Roy McLloyd of Memphis' Tenn formed a merry party of visit ors at the home of Charles Runyan last week The arrangements for a re union have been fully made to be held on September 17 Mr and Mrs rank Balshizer of Morrow are visiting Mrs red Dakin left Wednesday for a visit with relatives in Kentucky Miss lorence Moore will be a guest of her uncle Clark Moore in Cam bridge several weeks Mrs Wjlliam Murrell has been quite seriously ill the past week Prof Robert Burton and family were guests of Duer Jack and wife Cov ington last Sunday Mrs Milton Miller and Mrs Jennie Howland were entertained by Mrs Mollie Ennis of Morrow Wednesday Ephraim Castello of Columbus will visit at Lumen Van a few days Mrs Dr Batten is quite indisposed Samuel McCray and wife were enter tained by Christy McCray and niece Mollie Sunday Lloyd Burton celebrated his fourth birthday by a party last riday to which his little friends came in legion some of whom were heard to remark that they had eaten personally fifty pounds of ice cream Mrs Charles Chenoweth is enter taining her sister from Dakota George Anson and wife entertained A Anson and family of Harveys burg Sunday $nd Monday The little grandson of Harvey Shank was interred here Monday Kent Wilson an old citizen of this place died in a Cincinnati hospital Sunday night and was buried here Tuesday Roll call at the Church Sun day August 28 All Societies con nected with the Church will report An interesting time can be looked for Let all the friends and relatives that are connected remember the Mian picnic will be held at Center Church Thursday September 1 John Dymond and family came over Iron? Xenia to attend Yearly Meeting and visited his father Robert Dymond Tom Burke and sister Katie are guests of their brother John and wife in Pennsylvania Hattie Hackney of Dayton is visit ing her brother Ed and family Mrs Harley Smith and children spent a few days at Hillsboro guests of Henry Smith and wife Charles Houston was in Dayton Tues day and while there saw a man fall from a scaffold six stories high and was killed The building is a fine structure and fourteen stories high The building was commenced six weeks ago and three men have been killed while at work The very hard rainfall has been quite bad for Yearly Meeting but was so greatly needed we can not complain only the corn is blown down very badly Mrs Eliza Miars visited her daugh ter Mrs Leonard this week MIDLAND Mrs Harvey Tuff and children and Mrs Adair of Second Creek spent Thursday at Mrs Harvey Mrs Josie Jones entertained Tues day Mrs Libbie Snyder and children of Dayton and Mrs Mary Patton and Ollie Bailey and Miss Murphy of Pansy Newt Wickeuham and family of Cincinnati are spending a few weeks with his father Wickersham and other relatives i Mrs Oliver Healer and Mrs Moore were called to Williamsburg by the sickness of a near relative Miss Bessie Slone has returned home from Hamilton where: she has been visiting her aunt Mana Tullis of Pleasant Plain is visiting her grandmother Mrs James The new beef shop is flourishing with Will Bailey and sons in charge Mrs Jim Carson is entertaining her sister of Chillicothe George Cowgill and wife and Mrs Scott of Blanchester spent Wed nesday with Mr and Mrs Collins Mrs John ord and son of Clarks ville spent Monday with Jennie Mc Collum A West and family of Cuba spent Wednesday with Mrs mother Ruth Biggs Everybody is enjoying the Yearly Meeting at Wilmington Bertie and Gertrude Chaney have been entertaining their lady friends of Edenton Misses Doughmen WESTBORO Election under the Beal law was held Thursday for the township resulting in 132 for the and 21 Hammer of Dayton visited relatives here last week Van Pelt and family of Port William were Sunday guests of Miller Mrs Moon and son of Louis ville are visiting friends here Goldie Hudson of Blanchester vis ited this week with her cousin Verda Garner Nellie Moon is in Cincinnati learn ing millinery Mr and Mrs Burger and Dr A Hammer aud wife attended the funeral of Mrs sister in law at Bethel Thursday Mrs Charles Webster is in Dan ville Ill for several visit Stogden is quite ill Bessie Holaday is improving The Rev Moore of the Anti Saloon League delivered an entertaining ad dress at the riends Church Tuesday evening The Misses Lenna and Elizabeth Brunson of Carmel Ind are guests of Mrs Annie Moon They are on their way home from a visit in Wash ington Born to the wife of Thos Cham berlain of Chicago a son The community was quite shocked to hear of the tragic end of Ed Speltz haus of Cincinnati who was visiting at the rey farm near here as a guest of his friend red rey Thornhill of College Hill is at home After a long drouth a rain was glad ly welcomed riday Miss Verna Green living 'near here received the Delaware scholarship of the Blanchester High School SABINA Morton arrived the latter part of the week from Charleston Va on a ten visit with relatives Mrs Burnett of Wilmington was the guest of Burnett and wite a portion of the past week Dr A Reynolds has been called by his congregation to spend another year as pastor of the Methodist Prot estant Church William Lappe has passed the exam ination and has been appointed to the position of operator for the at Sabina Rex Wells of Toledo has been elect ed by the Sabina Board of Education as Principal of the HighSchool for the coming year Mr Wells is a graduate of the4he 0 at Delaware and is a son of Rev Wells at one time the pastor of the Church in Wil Record Charles Shoemaker and wife nee Myrtle Lightner of Lincoln Neb and Mrs Emerson Haynie arrived in Sa bina riday night for a visit McKay who has been in Wood County the past seven weeks returned home Thursday direct from the coun ty Prohibition convention at Bowling Green He has been working a pledge in which men pledge them selves to vote the Prohibition ticket on condition that one thousand such pledges are BEECH GROVE After being an employe among the Indians at Apache Ariz for the last six years Isaiah Osborn re turned home on riday Mrs Mary Adams and son Cecil of London after spending two months with her parents Adam Deffenbaugh and wife returned home Monday Clint Jay and family of Marion Ind are visiting Mrs parents Charles Osborn and wife Harry Irvin and family of Ridge ville are visiting at his Mrs rances Irvin Mrs Seth Osborn of Columbus is a guest at the home of I Osborn I Stewart and family and Allie McGee of Wilmington Jesse and Wil lis Crites and sisters Edith and Ethel and loyd Osborn and sister ay were pleasantly entertained at the Deffen baugh home Monday night Tom Nevins has returned to Cincin nati Cleo Urton of Lebanon is visiting relatives here China Downing and sister? Mrs Laura oster and Miss Jennie Down ing of Columbus spent last week at the Deffenbaugh home Wallace and wife have re turned home from a pleasant visit with Indiana relatives Harry Kelsey has been visiting rela tives at Springfield and Xenia Clar ence Riley of Xenia returned home with him Isaac McEl wee and wife go this week to spend two weeks with relatives in Delaware County rank Carey and family of New Vi enna spent Sunday night and Monday at his parents Amos Carey and wife NEW ANTIOCH The long wished for rain came at last Mr Brown of Indiana is visiting his uncles Will Reynolds and ife Robert Todhunter is still disabled on account of heart trouble He has suf fered greatly the past month Gertrude Oglesbee and daughter of Dayton are here to remain' several days with relatives A strong force is now removing the dirt from under the church with the view of placing a furnace for winter weather It will be ready for the fur nace this week Homer Miller Corda Sprigg Anna tenner and Minnie Williams attended Lancaster Camp meeting Sunday Charles Clyborn of Trumbull Coun ty is calling on friends here Mrs Patrick Dehan died at her home east of here riday afternoon Mrs Beeson Marble and two daugh ters are visiting with Allie Marble and wife Lester Thatcher is seriously ill at the home of his father Milan Thatcher in New Vienna Harry Haynie is visiting with his sister Mrs Phil isher The Tokyo tea was well attended Andy Murphy and sister Eva Anna and Bessie Reynolds left riday for a visit with relatives and friends in Day ton and Indiana Rev Rowley gave a lecture at the church Sunday evening Miss Ethel States of Wilmington is spending a few days with Mr and Mrs Huffman Mary Thatcher and daughter visited at A Ben Thompson of Clarksville vis ited with Hubert Clements Saturday Queue There is sorrow among the members of the Wong family in Chinatown Pittsburg Wong You of 442 Third avenue lost his queue as a result of an assault committed on him in his laun dry by Jesse Clarra of 308 Scott street Allegheny early yesterday morning Clarra beat the Chinaman over the head with a short piece of board in flicting a deep wonnd on thp top of his bead cutting his shoulder and break ing a finger on his right hand Clarra is in the Central Station and will be committed to jail this morn! ng to await the recoveryto appear against him Dr Gundlash of Second ave nue and Grant street was summoned after the assault and after making an examination of the injur ies he found it necessary to remove the queue to stitch his scalp Dr Gunlash told Wong You his pig tail would have to come off and the Chinaman cried His countrymen were sent for and the physician ex plained the circumstances to them After an extended conference among Wong friendsthey told the phy sician to take off the queue but the operation was delayed to permit the religious and social rites prescribed for such an occasion being observed Sev eral small brass idols were brought in the room and placed on the table where they could see if they had sight On a long sheet of linen the Chinamen made a complete record of the opera tion This was signed by Wong friends and after the physician cut oil the queue he was asked to add his signature to the record on the sheet When the operation was completed the Chinamen held another religious service and Wong queue was carefully placed in a box with the lin en record of the operation and given to the high officer of the Wong family Should Wong You want to return to his native country before his queue grows out he will be permitted to en ter the sacred circle of the Wong fam ily in China on the presentation of his queue and the record showing how he lost it If Bishop Potter wants to inaugurate a real reform what would be the mat ter with his putting in his saloon gome slot machines that a fellow can beat! Beast Tamers Poorly Paid a marvel that men can be found to run such crazy exclaimed the average citizen when he read that Bonavita the lion tamer at Coney Is land had again been terribly mangled by one of his lions This remark was made within the hearing of an old showman who has traveled around the country with many wild beast circuses and he smiled cyn ically when he heard it trouble is not to find them but to shoo them he said you had been in the business as long as I have you would know that it is easy to pick up a or a woman who does stunts with live leopard as it is to hire cash girls for a department store The market is overstocked with them Plenty of first class animal trainers are to be found working as stable hands in the and they are men too who have worked in a cage with their half dozen lions and been featured by the press agent they are glad to get $8 or $10 a week They have fallen on hard luck through no fault of theirs but simply because of the lack of jobs for all the men capable of filling them just as sailors holding cer tificates often have to ship before the mast nowadays these men might earn more money if they got out of the cir cus business but just what they do It would be easier for an opium fiend to give up his dope Once a man has had a taste of wild beast taming he rarely gives it up until he is killed or so badly hurt that he can not perform in a cage again people who crowd into the show paying their dollar or half dol lar and cheer themselves hoarse when the tamer smashes one of his brutes on the nose with an iron bar naturally suppose that the man is paid an enor mous salary for running such risks They will argue that they themselves go into the cage for a thou sand dollars a performance and size it up that the trainer must get anywere from two to five hundred dollars a week believe that anywhere ifcj the world there is a wild beast tamer who draws more than $50 a week pro vided he is not part owner of the show Of course if he owns his animals he gets more but very few trainers do own them The beasts are worth a great deal more in the market than their masters are There area hundred men ready to replace Bonlvita to mor row if he drops out of the game "Twenty dollars a week is a good average wage for a lion tamer who performs in public at a high class cir cus This may sound incredible but it is the solid fact I could name one of the most daring men in the business who has been getting $5 more than that for risking his life three or four times a day in a cageful of lions "A woman who thrills audiences daily by her daring performances with several leopards and who has been torn and bitten by them again and again draws $20 on pay day That sum includes her wages He does less exacting stunts and helps generally around the show know an elephant tamer who has under his charge one of the best train ed gangs of elephants in the United S8tates He is a wonder at his trade There is no better man to be had And he gets $22 a week He has been working up to that sum for many years from the situation of stable lad at $3 a week and he may be regarded as having reached the top of the tree "I know that all this sounds absurd but it is the truth You must remem ber that these men and women are helpless when away from the show which employs them If they quit their job they quit the tools of their trade The show has the animals and can easily promote an ambitious stable hand to the post of lion king ven if the trainer got a job with another circus it is a hundred to one that he find a group of animals he was accustomed to You might say that if he was a popular favorite it would pay a rival show to obtain his services and buy animals for him But it would take a year to import them and get them in training and by that time he would be forgotten even if he could manage to live in the mean while The whole point is that the business is overcrowded: "Any circus boss could tell yon that people come to him in pretty nearly every town he visits and want to be lion tamers I remember when I was playing in Wyoming five years ago a young man came to me and almost cried because I give him a show with a couple of panthers that were my star feature And I found out next day that he had just been married to one of the prettiest little girls I ever saw that a circumstance to the experience of a friend of mine who ran a dinky little show that toured the New England States He employed a strapping nervy woman who came to him one evening and offered to do stunts with a lioness that had left her trainer in a hospital at the last town The woman was a great success in the business She seemed born to com mand wild beasts But three weeks later her husband tracked her down having followed from town to town She had left him and three small chil dren just because 'the fascination of the beasts had caught hold of her as it catches hold of so many women She defied him and said she would stay with the show but my friend dis charged her and then she went back to her babies meekly enough 1 England the wages paid are very much smaller than they are in this country You can get as many animal trainers as you want for a pound dr thirty shillings a week Nine times out of ten they have been born in a caravan and have lived with circuses' from babyhood They know nothing about the outside world or that they could make a better living in it Out side of their own work they are as ig norant and helpless as babies That indeed is characteristic of peo as we call them in the profession all the world over They have lots of pluck but not much sense' If they had' I suppose they face a horrible deathevery day for the wages1 of a cheap clerk or an Italian laborer "There is no exaggeration about the danger of the business Indeed exag geration is hardly possible however fertile may be the imagination of the press agent Nine out of ten of the are killed by the beasts sooner or later They may last for ten twenty or tmrty years but the beasts get them in the end "I knew a woman in England who put her head in a lion's mouth twice a day bar Sundays for seven years Last October at Sittingbourne Kent she was killed A lock of her hair got loose tickled the tongue and annoyed him He closed his jaws with terrible force and nearly severed her head from her body What did she earn? Nine dollars a week when I knew her or forty five shillings in English The Tea Tipplers of Thibet Tea forms one of the principal arti cles of commerce throughout Thibet and Mongolia The native is misera ble without it and when it can not be obtained is willing to cheat himself by various expedients such as boiling dried onion heads herbs or even an infusion of chips of wood in water in order that he may not be at least without a suggestion of his favorite beverage The tea imported from Chi na is pressed into small oblong shaped bricks made up into cases of nine bricks securely sewn in rawhide and not only is used as a beverage but in fact forms a staple of currency as ne gotiable as Bank of England notes or American paper currency The native method of preparing thia delicacy is not appetizing The tea is first ground to a fine powder by vigor ously pounding it in a mortar until no splints of wood or other impurities are visible to the eye It is then put into the kettle when the water is hot to boil ten or fifteen minutes By way of giving increased flavor salt or soda is added and this part of the operation being completed the all important bus iness of drinking it commences The family being gathered round the fire of yak dung in order that atmosphere as painters would say should not be lacking each one draws from some hidden recess in the folds of his vol uminous sheepskin coat a little wooden bowl and with a satisfaction which' must be seen to be appreciated fills his private dish with the liquid All this however is by way of prelimina ry rom a skin full of butter placed within convenient range each person takes a piece of oleaginous compound: and lets it melt into his bowl nf steam ing tea Then oh joy! Oh rapture! with furtive grasp he draws the nectar' to his lips and "heaven is opened unto The bowl is again filled into the steaming liquid he throws a hand ful of tsambo (parched barley meal) and drawing foith the sodden lump works it into a ball of brown dough with a deft movement of his left hand and successively bites off pieces of this delicacy and drinks his buttered tea until the visible supply has vanished when in order that his table etiquette may not be impugned he licks his bowl clean wipes what superfluous fat he has not got on his face on his boots and eagerly looks forward to the mo ment when gods and the fate shall again become propitious Major Powell Cotton amused an au dience the other day by his informa tion concerning the warriors of a cer tain tribe with whom he came in con tact In the course of his travels in East Africa It was the custom of these untutored soldiers to place a tattoo tally mark on their bodies for each man who fell a victim at their hands and added the lecturer when the warrior had nd more space on his own skin he would continue his records on the bod ies of his wives.