The Wellington Enterprise, 1899-08-23

Number of idle men, none, except from sickness. Number of mills and factories un able to run full time by reason of scarcity of labor. 60. Railroads unable to move freight promptly because the traffic Is 30 per cent larger than all the freight cars in service. Gross dally value of trade In Indus trial Klondike, $6,000,000. The extraordinary increase in de posits In the banks, the tremendous expansion in bank clearings and the evidences that appear on all sides of the prosperous condition of the nation ought to cause the free trade and free silver contingent to hide themselves In shame. They have largely disap disappeared - peared disappeared from public view, and it Is to be hoped, for the country's wlelfare, that they have gone for good. Phila Philadelphia - delphia Philadelphia Press. HEALTH OF OTIS' ARMY Better Than That of llrltl.h Troopa In India A Fine Showing. The official reports of the casualties of the American army in the Philip pines are the best possible proof of the good generalship of General Otis. at least in one exceedingly Important respect. Good generalship Is quite as severely tested In guarding the health of the troops as in winning battles. There has been a Democratic fusillade against Otis because he has not accomplished more and because he has forbidden newspaper correspondents to send matter relating to the military opera tions witnout it passing through tha hands of a censor. One of these ac complished critics wrote from London, England, under a pretense of having been to Manilla and his criticism had all the earmarks of an artistic fake. But whatever grievances the newspa newspaper - per newspaper correspondents may have against Otis, the plain figures sustain him to a remarkable rdegree. In an army which has varied In number from 25,000 to 30.000. there has been a total loss of but 41 officers and 684 men. This includes those killed In battle and dying of wounds as well as deaths from disease. Eleven officers and 369 men a total of 380 have died of disease lna period of many months. It Is doubtful if an army from any temperate climate eve-r enter ed the tropics and conducted an active campaign with as good a showing. In fact, it may well be doubted If anv tropical campaign has ever been lought by unaccllmated troops from temperate clline where the percent age of loss from disease was not least double that which has been sustained by the forces under General Otis. Assuming that General Otis has averaged 25,000 men under his com manu lor six montns, wnich Is very conservative, the death rate from dis disease - ease disease has been but 30 to the 1,000 per year. Compare this with the exper ience of Europeans in other tropical climates and it demonstrates the su periority of the American soldier and the good control which Otis has main tained over his men. In the earlier days of British occu pation of India the loss from disease ran as high as '80 to the 1,000, and in Cochin China It reached the tremen dous rate of 115 to the 1,000 In 1861 in isss, ine last year lor wnloh w have been able to secure figures on the British army In India, the average lor a much larger force than Otis hat had was 50 to the 1,000. In Senegal today the loss from disease among .the troops averages 73 to the 1,000. Yet these figures are for troops who have rarely been called Into action and who were not compelled to under go the excessive fatigue and exhaus tion that is entailed In making an ac tive campaign, such as the army un der Otis has been called upon to carry on almost continuously for the last six months. When due allowance is mad for this fact, it may well be doubted, as we have said, whether any other army ever made a vigorous campaign In the tropics without suffering a death rfate from disease that was double tbat of the American tropps in the Philip pines. When It is considered that both Otis and his aubordlnate officers were with out experience in tropical campaign ing, it a high tribute to the discipline and character of the American troops and the generalship of Otis that he has been able to conduct active warfare with a death rate from dUeate 40 per cent lower than attends the expert enced British troops In India, whose officers have spent years studying tropical conditions, and whose service is light and easy compared with that which OtlB' army has seen. These facts deserve some careful consideration from the anti-expansion lets who are Just now so learnedly discussing whether or not the white race can live In the tropics. An ounce of such experience as Otis bat given us lr worth many pounds of their academic fol-de-rol. Ohio State Jour nal. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure cures dyspep sia' because its increments are such that It can't help doing so. "The pub lic can rely upon it as a master remedy for all disorders arising from an imper fect digestion." James M. Thomas, M. D., In Amerioan Journal of Health, N.Y. J.W.Houghton.

FROM FRANK II. JOHNSON, FORM ERLY OF HUNTINOTON, O. An Intereittlng Account of Happening Near the Front. A Few I'olntera About tne Natives Bad their Hablta What the Drink "Reno" la. Candaba, P. I., June 15. Dear siBter : We are more comfort able and easy than when I last wrote you, Our company is doing the pro provost - vost provost guard in this city, there being no armed force near here. There are six companies here and and valuable sup plies. ,It is intended to make Candabu base of supplies for further opera tions after the rainy season is over. Our rations are towed' across the river by an armored gunboat which makes daily trips. We are getting soft bread and freeh meat. At daybreak we heard terrifllc firing in the direction of San Fernando where the rest of the 22nd, 17th and Borne of the 9th regiments are. Rains a good shower every night and each time longer and harder than be fore. The river is very muddy and we have to drink it as our well was con demned, many of the boys were having terrible cramps. Boiled river water was nearly as bad. I have been on the sick report four days, but am on duty again. Orders just came for a day's rations for every man. That means the na natives - tives natives have gathered somewhere near and we are needed. "Hold yourselves in readiness to go, at a moment's notice ;" v. hen a fellow is writing and thinking of home, these orders knock it all to the 'four winds. If we go 1 will probably lose all my writing ma terials and 1 hnte that, it's so hard to get. Later Only an attack expected ; will sleep with our shoes on, in readi readiness; - ness; readiness; it's good news to remain here and rest and let them attack. The beno drink is a curse. I have never yet seen a native the worse for it, but our buys, if they drink it, it nearly kills lliem. It is made from the refuse of cane sugar and flavored with something like caraway seeds. There were barrels and barrels of the poisonous si ii IT in every town and city we took, but only a few drank it. A harp lookout is kept for beno venders nkdlif ennght'are tumbled into the guard house. It tastes like mild wine and a greenhorn will drink it as such but only once. It's effects are wretch ed. One man at Balinag nearly died and since recovery is not the same, When on one of our long marches the native guide led General Lawton four miles out of the way, the general threatened to shoot him, but every soldier inwardly thanked him. We were in the foothills of the mountains and Btopped fur dinner and a wash-up at a swift, clear little stream. It seemed a pity to dirty it up. We had started at daylight with a canteen of warm water to a man and it was after 2 p. m. when our part of the long line struck the stream. I believe our men will carry the memory of that stream many years from now. For two days the whole command marched in file with Hankers away out, going in the direction of a large mountain. There were rumors that it was fortified. We called it Aggie's mountain. One morning our part of the com mand reached the top of a high foot foothill. - hill. foothill. We could see the long line for miles and miles in front and rear. It looked like a rope winding around at the extreme front and rear, only an occasional flash from a new tin cup, as the sun struck it just right, would in dicate that the long line was anything alive. General Lawton is every inch a soldier and can put confidence and courage into men, makng them willing to follow him to certain death. He is very tall, wore a white helmet and was mounted on a fine large horse. He looked commanding. Whenever dan danger - ger danger was reported from the front, by telegraph, or the human telegraph, the mounted orderlies, it would not be a very short time till Lawton would come out in front of his staff and mounted escort. Later One of the pleasant things here are ants, three oi four kinds. A large, lazy, black kind; smaller black oneB that travel in lines in such number that the; make a trail like a rope dragged through the dust. They carry grains of rice. The third kind are on wood fences, -in the houses, and scamper all over a fellow at night in bed. After awhile one does not mind them. I prefer them to graybacks, the latter thus far are not here. A fourth kind is found around manufactured stone a little red ant, and when one gets on a fellow the little villian will stand on his head and wade right in, It poisons like a bee sting. They are scarce. , Many of our boys are black as tha natives.

aovAi UKma aowof June 23. We are still here, well fortified. There is little or no danger of attack. When marching we would halt, lay down, send sharpshooters ahead, and as your clippings said, a good thing that the Filipinos could not shoot or we would have lost ten men where we only lost one, as they flght under cov er. The pleasant times jn old Hunting ton came too vividly while wading water to our armpits, on outpost duty, half dead for sleep, passing nigh,ts without shelter and in the rain, march marching - ing marching in the torrid heat, our feet feeling as if in scalding water; but this is the life of a oldier, and Uncle Sam does his best for us. Will close, as it is af ter 9 p. m., and tumble into my bam boo bunk. I haven't had my shoes off for two days. Our chaplain holds mats every Sun day; natives and soldiers attend, women in their best clothes, a few in silks, and others without clothing, above the waist. Poorly or well dressed their clothes are spotlessly clean. This seems true of the whole race. The sanitary condition of their homes is another affair. Wealth ajid education make rank and position. Only the higher class have seats in church, the others sit on the floor their clothes not touching. The lower class es are slaves to the higher for some obligation they owe them, such as ad advancing - vancing advancing money to build the poor native shack, the use of the ground, etc. One class owes another for periods of time. in th iir graveyards all the bones of the human body are dug up and ex exposed - posed exposed if rent is not paid and room is made for a paying body. Girls mar marry - ry marry at 12 years. It la a common thing to Bee children running around per fectly nude. Women are the better workers. Soldiers went all over the city giving orders to cleanup, out came the brooms and rakes and now the city is remarkably clean. Natives rise eariy'ti') their work, eat one meal and sleep in the middle of the day, then eat and more work until dark. All the shacks are four feet from the ground to the bottom floor. The ingenuity of these natives is surprising to any one who thinks them a lot of savages. They make crockery and use it altogether for cooking. The poorer classes have no dishes, but use cocoanut shells to eat and drink out of. When our commissary fl.st opened and began selling canned goods, that was a harvest for them, they would lay for an old can of any kind. All their water is carried in a jar on their head. No wonder they are such straight, squarely built fellows. Native boys watch us drill, then get sticks and go through the same move ments and do it better than some of the recruits we have drilled for weeks. But the funniest thing happened the other day when our band came out. The snare drum was a wonder to them, and Boon after I came across a native boy who had made one from a cast-off D. M. oil-can. I stopped and exam ined it and he said in Filipino: "Bad no good ; will soon make a good one." They take to new ideas very quickly, Must close. When I get an oppor tunity to write I use it, not knowing what will come next. Brother Frank, . NO RIGHT TO UGLINESS. The woman who is lovely in face, form and tamper will always have friends, but one who would be attract ive must keep her health. , If she i weak, slickly and all run-down, ehe will be nervous and irritable. If she has constipation or kidney trouble, her im pure blood -will cause pimples, blotches, skin eruptions and a wretched com plexion, Electric Bitters la the best medicine in the world to regulate stom ach, liver and kidneys and to purify the blood. It gives strong -nerves, bright eyes, smooth, velvety skin, riah com plexion. It will make a good-looking, charming woman of a. run-down inva lid. Only 80 cents, at Near & Wells' drug store. AGENTS WANTED For "The Life and Achievements of Admiral Dewey,' the world's greatest naval, here. By Murat Halstead, the life-long friend and admirer of the nation'! idol. Big gest and beat book; over 500 pages, 8x 10 inches; nearly 100 pages halftone illustrations. Only $1.50. Enormous demand. Big commissions. Outfit free. Chance of a lifetime. Write quick. The Dominion Company, 3rd floor Uaxton Sidgn Chicago.

a oo., ara voaa. AUNTY SEAT NEWS. OFFICIAL TRANSACTIONS AT THE BEAT OF JUSTICE. Exchange of Seal Eatata Lift of Karrlaga Llconaea DlToroaa Wanted and Granted Doing In the Different CourU Daring th Paet Week. Real Estate Transfer. Michael Buckley to Lawrence Ma- tella, part lot 8, LaGrange township, $1400. Ella G. Cross to Hattie G. Standen, part lot 24, Brownhelm township. Anne S. Griswold and husband to Edward E. Critz, undivided onehalf of part lot 74, block 75, Elyria, $9,000. Lawrence Matella to Miohael Buck ley, lot 128, block 1, Grafton, 1800. Frank Rosatti and wife to Wm. Shackleford, lot U, block 21, allot ment made by Selah Chamberlain, Lorain, $2,200. Lizzie I. Hogan and Carrie H. and Harry M. Davies to James Brattin, lots 2 and 4, block 7, Geo. E. Brown Brown-ell's - ell's Brown-ell's addition to Lorain, $600. C. A. Fisher to Marcy A. Robinson, lot 5, block 2, Wellington, $700. Parks Foster to Gertrude E. Nufer. subdivision 44, outlot 8. Parks Fos ter's addition to Elyria. Christopher and Frances E. Wash burn to Ella A. Danforth, lot 42, Bra Bra-man - man Bra-man Land Co.'s iddition to ElyJia, $1,200. Marriage Llceuaea. Chas. M. Hobart, 28, Streator. 111.. and Alice D. Bebout, 28, Oberlin. Geo. Eiden. 27, Sheffield, and Anna ShuBter, 21, Eaton. Probata Co art. Will of John H. Boynton, late of Elyria, filed for probate. J. H. Boyn Boynton, - ton, Boynton, Elyria, John F. Boynton, Saginaw, Mich., ex. cu tors. D. G. Probert, of Oberlin. annotated administrator of the' estate of Geo. W. Probert, late of Pittsfleld. Wm. Beran appointed administrator of the estate of John Reese, late of Elyria. Will of Levi Morse, late of Elyria. filed for prabate. Plenty of Quail. State Game Warden Routineer lava that quail will be plentiful thii year. tie is pleased to note an increased in terest among the farmers in caring for wild game. They take pains now to leave fodder and straw in such a way as to form shelter for the birds. Contract Awarded. The county commissioners awarded contract last week to John Stang for tne construction of the protection pier for the Lorain bridge. The contract price is Wateh tha Label on Tour Paper. If it reads "Uan98" it indicate that your subscription expired Jan. 1, 1898, and that you are in arrears. Look at the label on this week's paper and if your subscription has expired will you ob lige us by giving it your prompt at attention. - tention. attention. Obituary. Joseph Parker Fenwick was born May 15, 1840 at Bardney, Lincolnshire, England. On April 25, 1885 he wag joined in marriage to Lucy Kent of the same place, to them were born three tens and two daughters, all of whom are still living. A short time before his marriage he was converted to God, and united with the Weslyan Methodist church, which churjh called him to the work of a local preacher, which duties he per performed - formed performed with more than ordinary abil ability. - ity. ability. His place in prayer meeting, inn- day-school . and church service was never vacant, without good cause, and hii prayers and exhortations will long be remembered by many for their earnestness and power. "Verily, He being dead yet speaketh." In June 1872 he with his wife and three children came to Cardington, O., after residing there about a year mov moved - ed moved his family to Wellington and lived there and within five miles of that place until his death, which occured August 5, 1899. On coming to this country he brought his letter from the Weslyan M. E. Church to the M. E. Church, of which he remained a faithful member until hii death. He leaves a wife, five children and iix grand children to mourn their lota.

a new lot of ties, including Band-bows and Club-house a decided improvement over ings, a very great part of this went to the wage earners. In the case of the Ohio Central nearly one-half of the Increase In gross earnings was paid out in Increased operating expenses, and the Incret jo in operating expenses was more than three-fourths labor. In the case of the Kanawha and Michigan over $60,000 of the $75,000 increase in gross earnings went into Increased op operating - erating operating expenses; in other words, cap ital got only one-fifth and labor four' fifths of the total gain. A Change of Tunea These are trying times for free trad' era. Once In a while there Is beard tomb-like utterance in which the words "tarifl reform" seem to be strug gling to reach the surface. But it Is seldom repeated. For the most part the free traders are kept busy trying to explain how every one of their dire direful - ful direful prophecies concerning the Repub lican tariff legislation has proved false. Some of the most prominent of them, like Mr. William R. Grace, have bowed to the teachings of experience and joined the protectionist ranks, Others content themselves with bear ing testimony to the wonderful pros perity of the nation under that "high protective tariff which they formerly denounced in unmeasured terms. For Instance, Mr. Horace White joint editor of the New York Evening Post, the most rabid of the free trade organs, has seen a new light, though it does not shine in the columns of bis newspaper. When the OIngley bill was pending before congress The Post declared that It would ruin our grow ing export trade In manufactured goods, and bring distress on our peo ple. But our exports of manufactured goods have increased enormously, and prosperity reigns over all the land. This Mr. White admits In an Inter view with him printed in the New York Herald, from which the foHow ing Is an extract: "How do you regard the business outlook at the present time?" Very good, Indeed. I have never known It to be In such a healthy con' dltion In my time as it Is now." What about the prospects of Its permanency?" "The prospects of permanency are, I think for two or three years. I don'l think any body looks further ahead than that The best index of the con dltion of business is the Iron trade always. That is now in first-rate con dltion, and It Is likely to continue so for two or three years, If not longer. The New York World was perhaps, the most reckless among the newspa pers that denounced the tariff. No city in the. country Is more dependent an a protective tariff than is Pittsburg, The World has been investigating bus iness conditions at Pittsburg under Reoubltcan legislation which It de nounced, and this is th result a sunt' marlsed in its own columns: Area ot Pttsburg's Industrial Klon dike, 180 square miles. Number ot industries being operated on full time, 118. Number of men employed la these,

RAILWAY EARNINGS. EFFECT OF PROSPERITY ON GREAT TRANSPORTATION LINES. larger Groat Receipt! Than Ever Before and Terr Urn Par Cant of the Inereaaa Ooei the Payment ot Labor There If nothing that more surely Indicates the general activity of Indus Industries - tries Industries than the great rush of business on the railroads. The railroads constitute the arterial system of the Industrial and mercan mercantile - tile mercantile world. These means of transporta transportation - tion transportation u-e entirely dependent on the ac activity - tivity activity of the producing classes for the territory tributary to them, and their prosperity Is proportionate to the pros prosperity - perity prosperity of the farmers and wage earners. For example: Exports and through ih'pments of flour, grain and provis provisions - ions provisions from Chicago to Atlantic sea seaboard - board seaboard points by the all-rail lines the first week In August amounted to 125,697 tons, against 29,129 tons for the corresponding week last year. Flour shipments were 6,161 tons, against 8,007 tons last year; grain, 100,540 tons, against 12,006 last year; provis provisions, - ions, provisions, 19,896 tons, against 14,117. Here we see a vast Increase in th passage from the producer to the con consumer - sumer consumer of the most common necessaries ot life. Money had to change hands In favor of the producer In so doing. Those producers in turn become con consumers - sumers consumers when in possession of money to purchase manufactured articles, which money again finds its way into the pockets of the wage earners who manufactured the articles. Hence It is that the activity ot the great systems of transportation indicate the activity of all classes In this country. Industrial activity in the United States Is synonymous with industrial prosperity and happiness, for men, as a rule, are never happier than when legitimately engaged in making money. The increased, and still Increasing earnings of the railroads very elo- auentlr testify to the warm rays ot prosperity that are beaming upon all classes throughout the country. Two elected at random are illustrative rf all. The Ohio Central has Just completed a statement for the fiscal year ending June 30 that makes a very gratifying showing. The gross earnings were $1,897,867, an Increase of $118,252; op- crating expenses were $1,296,453, an In Increase - crease Increase ot $50,757; net earnings were $601,414, an Increase ot $67,495. The Increase in gross earnings was on both freight and passenger trafflce. The Kanawha and Michigan division made a corresponding good showing for the year. Gross earning were $634,064, an Increase of $76,722; oper ating expenses were $466,188, an In crease of $60,099; net earnings $167,' 876, an increase of $15,623. It U to be noted that while thera

UP-TO-DATE FASHIONS IN FALL AND WINTER SUITS. The materials are fancy Wosteds and English Tweeds, in up and down stripes prescribed by fashion. With either single or double breasted coats; vests single breasted with notched collar; double breasted with plain or silk faced lapels. The cut of these suits is jaunty, and You must see them to realize all thegoodness that they em body in tailoring and finish. NEW NECKWEAR.