Van Wert Republican, The (Newspaper) - May 12, 1887, Van Wert, Ohio VAN WERT REPUBLICAN x PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY E L V Facilities FINE JOB PRINTING Are claw and we solicit a share of your patronage OFFICE Korth Washington public square and railroad THE VAN REPUBLICAN TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION IN ADVANCE 11 VOL V VAN WERT OHIO THURSDAY MAY 12 1887 NO 5 One copy one Mix No subscription lor OF One square first insertion 51.00 subsequent insertion W constitute a square Executors Assignees and Notices each In advance 2.00 One column OUB year One column six One column three months 30 00 Local notices per Hue cuch MUM Invite their you to call and see Brown Riding Cultivator Western Walking Cultivator Double Plow Garden Tools of all kinds Lowe Bros Mixed Paints Carpenter Tools Refrigeratory Washing Machines Screen Doors Wire Cloth and Spring at LOW PRICES REMEMBER THE PLACE Opposite court house OHIO What Our Neighbors are EDUCATIONAL T communications should be addressed to the editor of this Stute Education in America lias a new Sunday paper The Defiance Call lias changed hands Lima crude oil has dropped lo cents per barrel Ada officials have declared war against the poker joints There are fourteen religious nations in The 0 V 1 will hold a reunion at Bloomdale in September The stone man story is once more circulating in the Lima papers A prospective gas well will be put down at Coldwater Mercer county The Fostoria has issued a very fine paper advertising the re- sources of that city I contract for horing a hole for oil or gas ftt Paulding has been let and work will commence soon A cyclone swooped down on Fulton county last week with disastrous effect A school house was destroyed one of the pupils killed and several wounded Many other buildings were unroofed and damaged NEWSPAPER LAW II subscribers wish their papers discontinued publishers may continue lo send them until nil arrearages arc Any person who receives a newspaper and makes use of it whether he lias ordered it or not will be held in the law to he i subscriber It subscribers refuse or to take their paper from the or place to where they are sent they are held responsible until they settle bills and give notice to discontinue If subscribers places without informing the publisher and the imper is sent to the former direction they are held ble Notice should always be given of removal A colored man named Jones passed a confederate note on a merchant at Paulding The merchant discovered his mistake and had Jones arrested when ho disgorged the good money he had re- for the bad The Pittsburg Chicago railroad one mile in length from the P Ft W C track north to the corporation line was sold at Master sale last Saturday Messrs Semple and ery purchased it for Herald It was reported about a year ago that Frauk St Clair the harness man who located at this place in the Fall of 1885 coining from Van Wort although from Fowlerville Mich was being prosecuted at his old home on the There is strictly speaking no national system of education in the United States The work of viding instruction for its youth is undertaken by each State for itself and managed without the least in- from the Central ment The Bureau of in Washington lias no other task save that of collecting from the various Stages such information respecting education as may enable it tb j orate statistics and publish circulars of instruction Thus we have not one but many systems to examine if we would form a correct estimate of the condition of American education these systems it is true possess im- portant features in common but they also possess a sufficient number of differences to give a certain degree of individuality to each It is obviously not within the scope of the present article to deal separately with each of these systems We shall content ourselves with tracing distinctly those main features common to each system filling in the outlines by examples elected with a view of showing the general mode of working The chief distinguishing feature of public education in United States s that it is free Tuition in all public chools whether elementary or high s entirely gratuitous In other tries such as Switzerland Sweden and recently in France elementary education is substantially free but n no other country has it been so clearly recognized that it is the duty of the State to provide free instruction for all the children of its people The takes up the work as if nothing had gone before and ends it us if nothing were to follow The teacher may be a person of excellent education wise conscientious firm loving and such there are and their works do praise but a school may be favored in this respect one term and the next pass into the charge of a callow youth a crude girl or a man or woman of inferior mind and harsh unsympathetic nature who for a consideration makes a confusion worse confused in juvenile intellects Of supervision there is little of inspection less and of standards of scholarship and tests of work none but thoso the teachers have not enough to WASHINGTON A Live A Political An era of Prosperity to be Tlie tivo C's The National Drill Picas James H Dai ley Prosecuting Attorney A TJ Sweet Clerk of Courts C F Manship Auditor Treasurer Corbett Recorder Wolcott Surveyor M Roller j o Commissioners Frank Carlo A Lybolt Alspach T C Kensler C I Directors Dr G W McGavren OFFICER J O Browser Henry Robinson Fox Cl if Solicitor Gco.E Dennis Welsh Mullen W fW 11 Cook Marvin H Fronefield I A Jacobs charge of forgery It was known by a number of persons that an officer came here and arrested him and that he was away for some time attending to the matter which resulted in a postpone meat of the trial until about two weeks ago when he again went back for tha purpose and on the advice of his at torney he plead guilty and received a sentence of two years in the Michigan penitentiary which he is now serving Tlie news of his guilt ami sentence ha been a great surprise his tances in this vicinity We are informed by Geo L Young of Howell Mich who has been sen here with power of attorney to take charge Mr St Clair's business affairs that the amount of notes forged was and they were sold to a dealer in such paper Although St Clair has since he came to this place the whole amount up as wall as all other claims against him this money lender who purchased the forged notes was to satisfy his is that of providing stationery This ab- only expense which falls immediately on the parent textbooks and solute of instruction is the more noticeable inasmuch as it is due to the separate action of each State and thus illustrates a common de- velopment of democratic sentiment The current expenses of the State public schools are defrayed almost entirely by State and local taxes To take California for an example we learn that there The public schools y thus punishing the ling Report or the Ohio Slate Board of Agriculture on Crop ami Slock Estimates May I PHYSICIANS G 31 D AX AND SURGEON Office over So L i Korth street Diseases of women mid nose and throat Special office and from 9 a 5 p in D PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Special a lion iven to the of all chr at lion given to the of all chronic Onice days for the it diseases Wednesdays and Saturdays Office over Hill 4 store Main street Van Vert Ohio CHRISTOPHER PHYSICIANS SURGEONS Office over Kahn's new opposite Court House Prompt attention Tuesdays Ington street near E X AND Office over Shoe Store Main Street Kcs on South Washington street CHARLES H HEIR 71 AND a f A 11 u are sustained by a State poll tax Section 2 on each male inhabitant over twenty-one and under sixty years of age except paupers etc to be used for paying teachers a county tax not to exceed 50 cents on every 100 dollars and a district tax not to exceed cents on 100 dollars WASHINGTON D C May 0 Mil Under ordinary this would be considered the dull season the time when the newspaper correspondent must scratch his head and gently stroke his perspiring temples to evolve items of interest from the end of his pencil This is the lime too when he like other is subject to Spring fevers and when lie finds it in the very midst often of his grandest linguistic rhapsodies to keep his weather eye open and to refrain from gently sliding into the land of dreams with the point of his pencil safely lodged in the dot of his last i Hut the circumstances are extraordinary in which we live A genuine live queen is here and doing the city Queen of and her suite are at the Arlington Hotel in royal splendor She visited the White louse accompanied by her dis suite where she was cordially received by tho President and Mrs Cleveland also Secretary Bayard The queen is said to be blooded her skin is a clean brown and her dark hair crisps closely to her head She remained about 15 minutes at the House she returned to her quarters at the Arlington and precisely at two she received Mrs Cleveland and the ladies of the Cabinet and after 10 minutes the whole took u drive through the city to the Deaf and Dumb College at Kendall Green The Queen was much pleased with what she saw at the Col and wished she could embrace all the children In the evening a dinner the military company and their broad and well-paved streets of the capital city allord opportunities for marching and maneuvering large bodies of troops not equaled perhaps by any other city on the globe The city promises to be with visitors on that occasion From the stalely court paper the we learn that Al the New York dog show Whitney purchased a Si Her nard puppy out of the champion Apolo for io and a Si bitch for This is very important in- formation and vaguely suggests that our gallant sea captain with the naval section of the administration perhaps intends to an exploring ex to go in search of North Pole or the Sir John Franklin and to convey the navy over the vasl plains of ice he intends to use a crack team of dogs instead of the common canine employed by the unlettered and vulgar Esquimaux for such purposes This is a brilliant idea by our Secretary who is said to be a good judge of canine llesh and knows what he is about when he plunks down for dogs Hence we rest curely and feel that the American navy is safe in his hands The ways of true reform are sometimes past finding out and we who attempt to chronicle its mighty strides with the thermometer in the must beg pardon if we times fail to measure its full extent or to comprehend its grand designs Arc now with selected of WALL PAPER ANE CEILING DECORATIONS Ever put on exhibition in the city at Rock Bottom Prices Also a full line of plain and figured That will certainly please you WINDOW Prices same as above Don't miss the boom F P HILL CO And tin Dove ol Hovers Ovor the Ant- for building and other In other States From the Last evening Fleck of werp and Hon W Shook of county had a consultation with the Governor in reference to the of from the vicinity of the county reservoir The Jov having received assurances that no further molestation of the State properly would he thought of ed to order the troops home and cordingly gave orders to Adjutant General who immediately tele graphed the recall It is now understood that the best of the troublesome county have resolved to protect the public works from further vandalism Their appeal to the Legislature for the abandonment of what they term a nui sauce will be rone wed when the al Assembly convenes In the Van Wert Foundry and Machine Works R MILLER CO Proprietors Manufacturers of and Dealers in Boilers Engines Saw Mills and Hoop Also deal in Second-Hand Machinery Steam and Gas Fittings kept in stock Repair All Kinds Given Prompt Attention tended All mils at- JAHES O AT LAW Van Office in City Hall specialty up stairs Ohio The following estimates are based on returns from about 700 township received up to May Condition compared with a full average 70 percent Drilled Compared with n full average So of drilled com- with a full Average Ti broadcast compared with n full of broadcast com- pared with a full average 59 by Hessian lly compared with full 2 u by other insects Compared full average compared with a T3 compared with a full average So compared with compared with a full iverage 02 date or March compared with full 91 percent during Winter md Spring 1 during Winter nud Spring i during Winter ami Spring during Winter und Spring 4 Fruit 17 Berry compared with a full average The wheat crop of 1886 was bushels which was about a full average crop The present prospect for crop of 1887 is bushels a shortage of 30 per cent compared with a fair average crop Favorable weather may increase the estimate counties estimate the con- dition below Go per cent and only five counties above 00 per cent On level clay lands especially in Ihc boulder clay or drift wheat is the poorest In counties of rolling land higher averages arc reported while the best wheat is found in the well drained fertile bottom lands However in some of those districts there is danger yet of the wheat lodging so ns to cut down the aver a ire some what school a fixed tion of the entire State revenue is devoted to education in addition to local taxes In some few States there are endowments but in no case does the income derived from these latter form an important element in the tatal revenue The public schools of the United States are supported most entirely by direct taxation The American school system is founded on the idea of local com- in the management of Everything on the character of the School Board As one would expect the most tent men are by no means always on these Boards There are in fact few Boards which do not con- tain some persons unqualified for the post The office is not unfrequently used by aspiring politicians as a to coveted It is difficult to Conceive that the most satisfactory results can be obtained by a system which places so much power in the hands of persons elected by so wide a suffrage for so short a term of office In some of the largest cities the evils arising from this system be- came so serious that the election popular suffrage has had to be Nevertheless election by ular suffrage is the and though there may be occasionally abuses of power the undoubted success of the city schools in America must be in large measure placed to the credit of these bodies The City Schools of America have many excellencies and much thought and energy have been devoted to the elaboration of a system by which much has been achieved already and which was given in honor of Her Majesty by the Hawaiian Minister at which the members of the Cabinet and many distinguished persons were present Many of tbo upper circles of the colored people here scout the idea of her being superior to them It must have been a pleasant sight to sec the royal Democratic chiefs in loving social accord seated around the festal board with the sable sons and daughters of the torrid land The tender skin and the thick skull were both forgotten and from forth these things will cease to be the staple of Democratic song and oratory From the recent movements on the Democratic chess board managed and manipulated by Daniel in Ihc ante room it appears that Ihc Democratic managers have decided upon a case of alliteration lo checkmate Republican progress in The third letter in the alphabet lius been chosen md two C's arc to do the business Cleveland and Carlisle An extra session of the next Congress is to be railed to convene about Oct I Mr Carlisle is in lie Speaker All committees are to be selected beforehand and promptly pointed a few hours after organization and the great reform measures the re- duction of the revenues clc promised by the Democracy four years ago and further back when they first got con- trol of the lower House of Congress arc lo be passed inside of thirty days and signed by President The Labor Reformers arc to have special and distinguished consideration and en- by administration from this lime and a few months after Congress shall have done its work such an era of prosperity as the world never saw before in Everybody is to be happy and prosperous business time Gov Foraker according to a ise made will visit Paulding county and will investigate the situation so he present the matter lo the Legislature in its true light This visit will he made during the summer or full The mutter of the prosecution of the men known to have been implicated in the riot will lie dropped and nothing in that line will be done Tbe Attorney hud the papers all ready for fil- ing Adjutant Axline says the mi- litia wil be heartily glad 10 get from the place They have been engaged of late in catching small catfish by the and even this amusement has grown tame A more uncanny place for a camp at this time of the year could not have been found and company that stand it without murmuring are led lo a The Paulding county reservoir and ils adjacent surroundings in the minds of the militia ia an un- promising and unproductive mud hole at its best AGAIN A OF Groceries Provisions Green Canned and Dried Fruits Tobaccos gars Fresh Oysters Etc AS An ANY OTHER IS AM GOODS TKI Art CALL AXI AVD XO II VAX WERT O tlie ol u In Mum OH I'lcld Sunday morning the Lima oil field was scene of another disastrous fire About o'clock in the morning ning struck one of ihc Standard OH tanks which rels of oil and in a few the en- tire lank was ablaze A tire of this na Hire cannot be extinguished and il therefore was to shoot Hie tank several limes with a pound cannon ball allowing the oil to and flow inlo which had been hastily thrown up Tin's plan was no more strides no more and saved the remaining boycotts no more thing to be so lovely so serene that by time the wo arc fairly on the track will nn walk over ALEXANDER AT LAi Van Ohio Office in County Bank building floor attention to ir over H V ing Store A A Van 0 A A pertaining to the practice of law n court or office promptly Office opposite Court over A P Booming Probably no one thing has caused such a general revival of trade at L F Drug Store as their giving away lo their customers so many free trial bottles of Dr King's New Discovery for Consumption Their trade is simply enormous in this very valuable article from the fact that ft always cures and never disappoints Coughs Colds Asthma Bronchitis Croup and Jill lung diseases quickly cured You can test it before buying by getting trial bottle free affords bright hopes for the future rr a the course The will do in The same cannot be sau of the con- hvs dition ol Rural Schools throughout for This Oi I tanks which wen in close proximity to Ihc burning ono This is the second disaster has overtaken Ihc Limn field from the Slates The following account ui i the ordinary country school appears I n cnrs and looks cheering on paper but who that Knows in a circular printed by the Bureau of I lhc nf lnc Education at the close of The type is familiar to us all parly You arc Brace feeling depressed your appetite is poor you arc bothered with Headache you arc and ally out of sorte and want lo brace up Braco up but not with school composed of scholars of both i sexes ranging in study anywhere i i dare for a moment believe Did spring or bitters which fl i ever do what they Let have for their cheap bad Thc reat i whiskey and which stimulates you for hour and then leaves you in from the primer to Euclid housed in anybody can be found willing to j than before What you want a school house of but one room and provided with one teacher upon whom devolves all the instruction and discipline Possibly changes every term the teacher probably no believe their party managers promise Extensive preparations for the com- ing national drill arc being made b systematic record of studies classes or resident companies and citizens and a large Every bottle warranted progress is kept and each teacher time of interest is anticipated by FOE GO TO THE STAR Rice Beans Hominy Prunes Raisins Dried Beef Salid Dressing Cataba Grapes California Canned Fruits Queen Olives FARMERS is an alterative that will purify your blood start healthy action of the Liver and Kidneys restore your vitality and pive renewed health and strength Such a medicine you will find in Elec trie Bitters and only 50 cents a bottle at L F drug store This is the best place in town to get your dinner Hot Coffee at all hours
