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THE WELLINGTON ENTERPRISE PCBLI9HKD EVERT WEDNESDAY. E. IM FRENCH. EDITOR. THE FRENCH PRINTING COMPANY, O. I COUCH. RECEIVER. SUBSCRIPTION. One Tear ., SU Months The name of the writer mint acmmpanj all letters for publication or requests for Inlorma tlon In order to aecure attention. The nume ia not required for publication ueceaaarllT, but for the Information of the editor. Unalifueil articles no Into the waste nssket. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1899. WHICH CAN WE TRUST? The record of the United States dur ing the past three years has been in many respects the moat wonderful in the history of the world. The revival of industry and the flood-tide of prosperity that followed bas been without precedent in the his tory ofthls or any other country. Three years ago when the presiden tlal campaign was on two great parties contested for the honor of administer ing the government of this country, The one, headed by William Jennings Bryan, protested that unless free silver coinage at an obsolete ratio was In augurated immediately the distress and disaster which bad hung like a pall over the nation for nearly four years would be increased, and the great mass of the American people would become paupers. The other party proclaimed William McKlnley, its candidate for the presl dency, to be "The advance agent ol prosperity." They, tord the people that the mismanagement of govern' mental affairs and mistaken govern' mental policies had created a lack of confidence in the business world and had so injured many interests that the effect had been generally disas trous. They promised that a revision of the tariff along protection lines and the guarantee of a sound currency would bring a return of good times. The people will soon be called upon to stop long enough from their busy vocations to consider which of these parties was correct three years ago, and which has kept Its word with the public. Is the administration of William McKlnley the period of Idleness and poverty and misery which William Jennings Bryan and his fellow Dem ocrats predicted It would be? Has the failure to restore free sllvei coinage at the obsolete ratio of 16 to 1 caused business depression or pro duced business collapse and catastro phes? Has not the Republican party done just what it promised in the restora tion of prosperity? If Bryan and his fellow advocates were mistaken In 1896, Is it likely they have learned any wisdom in three years? The people have found the ex act reverse of what the Democrats pre dicted in 1896 has come to pass. It has come as steadily as the current of a mighty river in Increasing volume from the day of the election of William McKlnley to the present. If Mr. Bryan and the Democratic party were so gravely mistaken in re gard to the effect of the defeat of free silver and the election of McKlnley, ran the people trust them to be right now when they are opposing national expansion and fretting about othei matters which have created more or less public concern? Which party will the people trust this year and next the one that baa kept faith with them or the one which has proved itself a false prophet? Robbed of all false and misleading political claptrap, that Is the question the people of Ohio will be compelled to answer at the polls in November, A leading Havana merchant, a Cuban having business relations with most of the cities of the island, says that uni versiii aunrage in liuua woum mean a negro republic in the near future, and that the only means of preventing it would be the incorporation of the is land as a possession of the United States, as a state, territory or colony, leading to American immigration, in termarriages, the enrichment of insu lar blood and the improvement of the population. In his judgment Cuba is otherwise doomed to become another Haiti. The schedules for the cuban census, which is to be taken this fall, are be ing prepared by the assistant director of the census with the hope that it may be completed before the congress meets in December. This not a part of the work belonging to the census bureau, but the bureau will give gen eral supervision to it at the request of the war department. Railroad men express the belief that before long all the prominent roads of the land will have adopted the pension scheme recently taken up by the Penn sylvania system and now being worked out. Employes who have attained the age of 70 years and all persons on the pay rolls for thirty years are benefit ted. France has her eye on the Alaskan dispute between the United States and Canada. While France hits no direct interest in the matter, yet she is in sympathy with ths United States, as are also several other foreign countries, PERKINS REUNION. THE FIRST EVKK HELD IN THIS SEC TION OF THE COUNTRY, Over Eighty Guests Assembled at the Home of Truman Baker, on South Main Street, Last Thursday. The Reunion a Permanent Thing. The first annual reunion of the Perkins family was held at the home of Truman D. Baker on South Main street, Thursday, August 31. This be ing the date of the birthday of two of the Perkins family and the wedding anniversary of another, it was thought fitting to celebrato this day. Four generations were represented, making a company of over eighty people pres ent to participate in this joyous ecca sion. The Perkins family can boast of be ing represented in nearly all the trades and professions of life, farmers, trades men, doctors, lawyers, ministers, etc , representatives of these being present. It was interesting to hear the rela tionship of those present traced, sev eral of whom were strangers to each other until this meeting. It was stated that a history of the family is being written and will soon be pub lislied, the record showing that the ancestors came from Scotland. After the renewing of old acquaint ances and the forming of new ones, the guests were invited to the south side of the lawn, where, under a large tent, tables were loaded with such viands as the Perkins family alone can set forth. After dinner the guests were called to order by E. H. Perkins, toastmaster, who after stating thnt this was the first meeting of the Perkins family and that it was hoped not the last, but that each one would endeavor to be present at future gatherings, called .upon Mr Truman Baker to make the address of welcome. Mr. Baker gave to all a hearty wel come, dwelling long on the "Wei cine," to him one of the sweetest words in the English language. He gave to all free use of his home, to do with as they pleased, asking them that If they thought of erecting any telephone poles, that they would not trim the shade trees but to please put them on the other side of the street the trees being the pride of the ladies on this side of the street. T. D. Phelon was called upon to make the response, but said he very much objected to making after-dinner speeches had this gathering been a political meeting, he could do full jus tice. We all know Mr. Phelon's abil ity in this line. "The Ancestral Tree"' was the first toast by Mr. George Perkins. "Then here's to the oak. the brave old oak, Who stands in his pride alone, nrt still flourUh here, hale old tree. When a buudred years are Konu." Mr. Perkins being unable to be pres ent, a letter from him was read by Mrs. Wells. "Hotel Touraine, Boston, August 27, 1899. Mrs. W. W. Wells, My dear cousin : Your letter of the 21st reached me in the White mount ains on Friday last, and last evening I wired you to that effect, saying it would be impossible for me to be pres ent at your reunion. "It would be a pleasure for me to be present and bo far as I could would be pleased to say a few words in honor of the occasion and to the "Glory of the brave old oak." I hope there may be some one present who will do justice to that ancestral tree, and I presume a stenographer will be present and a full account published in your local paper. In which case I shall depend on you to Bend me one. "Of course I have no time to com municate with anyone and I doubt if there be anyone east who could go. As to our family I am not as well post ed as I would like to be, and this gathering will prompt me to try and gain fuller information. Of my grand father, George Perkin's family, Aunt Bell can tell you as much or more than I. Then there was Brother Chester and John. I am not sure whether more or not, and all had large families and all tillers of the soil. Having lost my mother when I was 5 years old, I and my sister, Lucy, then a babe, found a good home with Grandma Perkins in Andover, Conn., where I was born, but my sister was born in Lee, Mass. But I shall ever remember the good old times at Grandfather Perkins, more familiarly known as "Uncle George," not only as a boy, but as a young man, and of more mature years. Everybody was welcome, everybody had a good time, which seems to be the disposition of all the tribe of Perkins so far as my knowl edge goes. And it seems to be on tap in all branches. Note the clipping cut from to-day's Boston Herald : It would be hard to find a house in the mountains where more real fun is on tap than at Perkins Cottage. Some thing in the shape of amusement is oc curring constantly,- from little im promptu musicales to jolly games of all sorts. Not an evening but what passes in joy and goodfellowship. "That old ancestral tree must be loaded with luscious fruit and its roots down deep In Mother Earth and its branches spreading over our vast terri tory. How I should like to be with you and help to make a hot time in the old town the night of the 81st, making new and renewing old acqnaintances till the wee hours in the morning. , "I shbuld weary you to continue!, as new thoughts of boyish days come flowing into one's mind. But I would like to say more of that ancestral tree which would require more research than I have at my command here, hence you will excuse me, and with remembrances to you all I am Most cordially and sincerely yours, George Fitch Perkins." We see by Mr. Perkins's letter the good disposition and kind hospitality thas is a trait of this Perkins family. The next toast was responded to by the oldest member of the Perkins fam ily present, Mrs. Truman Baker. "The Tree Transplanted." , "Ours Is no snpling, chance-sown by the fount ain, Blooming lu Beltane, In winter to fade. When the whirlwind has stripped every leaf from the mountain, The more shall Clan-Alpine exuult In nor shade." "It is very little we know for a cer tainty of the ancestry of the Perkins family. But not long ago I was told by a man who said his mother was a Perkins, from New London, Conn., that she was related not far buck to my father. He said a history was be ing written of the family and would soon be published. Also, that the rec ord had been traced to Scotland and that we were descendants of the Scot tish chief, Terhopothis, is true and perhaps not, but I am confident we are of Scotch descent. "One of the branches from the old Connecticut tree dropped off and found his way up the Connecticut valley un til he reached the foothills of the Green mountains, near Mount Tom, and planted himself on t. e rocky soil of Becket, Mass. In the natural course of events he made an alliance with a limb of another tree called Dewey. Hence we have what we call the Dewey-Perkins branch of the old Con necticut ancestral tree. "It grew and thrived on those bleak hills for nearly twenty-five years, then undertook to uproot and transplant to the Eldorado of the then far west, the new Connecticut. This was no small undertaking. Only thirty miles of railroad then in existence in this country. It must be y canal from Albany to Buffalo and Lake Erie from Buffalo to Cleveland or overland by team. We took the latter. We left Becket in 1833, nine persons in all (Milton, the oldest, had emigrated the year previous), Louisa, Miss Austin, who was accompanying us. Orrin, Lydia, Abet, John, Jane, father and mother. I well remember the last night w spent in the old town. It was with Uncle Allen Dewey's family, our Cousin Bell's father. In the morning while the last good-byes were being said and the last hand-shakes given, I found my cousin, Charlotte, my most intimate play-mate, crying behind a door. I, child-like, was too delighted over the trip to think of cry ing She said, "If you care anything for me, you would cry, too. "At last we were all loaded into a large spring wagon with oil-cloth cover and three seats, one made so as to be converted into two. The spaces under the seats were filled with boxes and baggage and several trunks were strapped on behind ; drawn by one span of horses. "It proved to be a Ion and tedious journey. We boarded ourselves most of the time and spent the nights where we could find accomodations for so many. The country through which we passed was often sparsely settled. The boys often slept in the wagon and the girls often on the floor of some log hotel. "I recollect our stopping one night at a log houso, and the family were eating their supper of 'honey clapper! and mush. We had very little supper that night and started in the morning before we had our breakfast. "Our route lay along the Erie canal sometimes for a long distance. The boys would often get a ride on a boat or on the canal horse and often we would all walk in the tow-path. "Near Syracuse our horses gave out and we were put aboard a scow boat, horses, wagon and all, save the two young ladies, who took a faster boat and went on ahead. At Rochester we unloaded and started with horses and wagon again. "At Meadville, Pa., we rested nearly a week and visited mother's uncle, Jim Burchard and family. We did some baking and washing and started on again, till we reached Windham, Port age county, then took another rest with old Becket friends and cousins of father (Conunt byname), after which we made the final start fur the prom ised land, not a land flowing with milk and honey, but with mud and frog ponds. We waded through the great swamp of Harrisville, then renowned for its pigeon roost, but now the cele brated onion and celery farm of Wean, Horr, Warner A Co. From there our journey was through an almost unin habited dismal country. "We spent our last night in Sullivan arriving at Huntington the next day, four weeks after leaving Becket. Then and there we transplanted our ances tral tree, sixty-six years ago. It took deep root and has grown luxuriantly. It bat withstood the storms and adver sities of nearly a century. The fifth gen', ration is on the stage and are with us to-day. It has assumed magnificent proportions and a great variety of fruits. May it.i shadow never grow less nor its fruit less abundant." Next was a recitation given by one of the youngest iu the Perkins family Maria Eglin, the little daughter of Mr and Mrs. A. D. Eglin. This young lady represented the fourth genera tion. Kev. Uri Rochards was called upon to give the Memorial Address, for the Perkins family has been called upon, like all of ub, to bear its sorrows. "The mossy marbles rest, o'er the Hps that he bus pressed In their bloom, And the names he lovud to hear have been carved for many a year On tho tomb." "The Family Jewels." The children were nut forgotten on this occasion as this toast was responded to by Mrs. A. D. Eglin. "They are Idols of hearts and of households. They are anftels of God in disguise ; Bis sunlight still sleeps in their ta-Sses, His glory still gleams In their eyes." "The Tribal Ode;" "I would rather have written those lines than take Ojieliec to-morrow." Miss Anna Perkins. In Mi'sb Perkins we found the poet of the family. This ended the toasts, but a few were present who could not claim relationship to the Perkins family and upon some of these the toastmaster called to express their regret at their misfortune at not being related to the Perkinses. Revs. H. D. Sheldon and A. G. Wall responded in well-chosen words which pleased their hearers. The literary program being over, resolutions were passed to have a per manent reunion organization. The last Thursday of August, 1900, was selected as the time for the next meet ing. The following officers were elect ed for the coming year: Presidnt T. D. Phelon, of Hunt ington ; vice president E. H. Perkins, of Wellington ; sectretary Fay Chap man, of Cleveland; treasurer Darius Wells, of Huntington ; toastmaster, 0. P. Chapman, of Wellington. The remaining part of the day was given to renewing old acquaintances and recalling childhood days. Long the Perkins family and may they enjoy many more pleasant reunions. PITTSFIELD. Messrs. Howard Sheffield, Mark Whitney, Ford Crosier and their wives are attending the State Fair at Colum bus this week. Mrs. J. S. Baldwin entertained the Benevolent'Society last Wednesday. The finance committee for the re pair of the Congregational church re port $800, the am unt asked for al ready subscribed, the different com mittees met at the church Saturday evening to make final arrangements. Rev. and Mrs. Baker entertained the Missionary Society last Thursday. About thirty of the friends of Rev. and Mrs. Baker met at the M. E. par sonage last Tuesday evening and gave them a pleasant surprise and donation, all enjoyed the occasion, even the pas tor and wife. A. J. Wilson took his herd of York shers to Columbus fair this week. Messrs. Wm. Avery, F. A. Gifford, F. C. Rowell and their families and Mrs. Carlos Avery and Gardner Sher burne went to Randall's grove last Wednesday for a days outing. Born to Mr. and Mrs. C. O. Sheffield,. Saturday, September 2, a son. A trolly party of about twelve young ladies went to Randall's grove last week Thursday. H. Betts is attending the Medina Fair thin week. ' AN ORDINANCE. An ordinance providing for the use of the streets of the village of Roch ester, Lorain county, Ohio, by the Cen tral Union Telephone Co., its success ors and aligns, for its lines of tele phone and telegraph. Be it ordained by the council of the village of Rochester, 0., that, Section 1. The Central Union Tele phone Co., its successors and assigns be and the same is hereby granted the right, privilege and authority to erect, operate and maintain its lines of tele graph and telephone, including the necessary poles, wires and fixtures up on, along or over the streets and alleys of the village of Rochester, 0. Section 2. In case of any pole or poles erected by virtue of this ordin ance shall interfere with the public use of the streets, the council may re quire said company to change the loca tion of said pole or poles and the said Central Union Telephone Co., shall make such changes at its own ex pense. Section 8. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force 10 days after its passage and legal publication. Passed August 12, 1899. hkai.. Wm Bennet, Mayor. C. J. Dimick, Clerk. CASTOR I A lor Infants and Children. The Kind You Hava Always Bought Bears the Signature of ITEMS OF INTEREST. The greatest welcome ever given to any huro by any city is what New Yu k proposes to give Admiral George Dew ey, the winner of the first great victory of the .Spanish-American war, and a truly great figure which that conflict developed. Maj. Gen. Nelson A. Miles, com manding-general nf the army, is going to the Phillippines in October. He will not take command of the forces in the livid, nor will he supersede Gen Otis, but he will act in his capacity of general of thu army and will have stir ervision over field operations. The manifestation by Gen. Weyler's friends at Barcelona was an utter fail ure, but while the former governor general of Cuba got more hisses than vivas, the star of the federal republi cans everywhere in Spain is rising. This revolutionary party is gaining ad herents in all 'he provinces and the enthusiasm is raised to a white heat by the approach of the day for the great federal mnss meeting to be held in Madrid. A "Dewey jug" is the latest porce lain novelty. On one side of the pitch er is a portrait of the admiral sur rounded by an olive wreath joined to a broken cable ; on the other side is a picture of the rWship Olympia The head of the American eagle forms the spout, under which are the United States' flag and the admiral's flag. The handle is made in the form of a cable with a twisted knot, to show that Dewey cut the cable. DISCOVERED BY A WOMAN. Another great discovery has been mode, and flint, too, by a lady in this country. "Disease fastened its clutches upon her and for seven years she withstood its sevorest tests, but her viml organs were undermined ond (Icjiilh seemed imminent. For three months she coughed incessantly and could not sleep. She finally discovered a way to recovery by purchasing of us a lwttle of Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, nnd was so much re lieved on biking first dose thnt sflie slept nil night; atid with two bottles litis been absolutely cured. Her name is Mrs. Luther Lutz." Thus writes W. C. 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Address. E. G. SIGGER8, Pslsnt Lawyer. Wsihington, 0. C. Iff PEOPLES fc"0LUMN.f j Young- Hncfca for Sale. I have about 20 head of thorough bred and high grade Oxford and Shropshire bucka, which I offer for ale. Enquire of S. K. Warner, one half mile aouth of Wellington. 87 For Sale. The Halftemier property on Union atreet can be purchased very reason able. Inquire of R. N. GOODWIN. Farm for Kale One of the beat in the townihip. 112 acres. Near town. Address O. L. Blinn, Wellington, O. K llreedlng- Kvree'for IHale. One hundred and fifty stock ewes for sale in bunches to suit purchaser. Sutliff & Gott, Wellington, O. Houm fur Kent. Small house on Taylor street. In quire of John Boser. Furnished Rooms to Kent. On Kelly street near the depot. Mrs. L. J. Underhill. Conk Stove for Sale. A second hand cooking range for either wood or coal. Also a gasoline oven. Both are in good condition and will be sold at a great bargain. In quire at KodhouBe's Grocery store. For Kent. 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